iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The vibes on here have been kind of dire lately; going to take a break for a while. See you guys in a few megaseconds?

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why does he post like an undertale character on here actually, has he ever explained it

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Also very funny to read something where the world at the end of the twenty-first century is ruled by the eternal immortal hand of the zillennials, with sketched accounts of the future-past 2020s having like an eternal eighties-style cultural permanence as a result.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finished Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire"! Between this, Heavy Weather, and Taklamakan, I've found that I quite like Sterling's prose and vividly sketched nineties imaginings of future tech. Kind of wonder whether this particular queasy future was Gibson's inspiration for the Jackpot in The Peripheral?

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Of course, LLMs sit in a weird middle ground - they’re not the darwinian descendants of digital protists, but they are grown systems with somewhat opaque workings rather than hardcoded GOFAI rulesets. I think Gregan’s just sort of ossified on what he thought would work in the nineties, is the thing.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think Egan sincerely believes that only uploaded human brains or minds from alife ecologies shaped under Darwinian selection can ever count as sentient software - with, strangely, abstracted accounts of human neurology still counting. Strange in retrospect.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

baru cormorant book 2 mood board

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the official art typhlosion in car of good luck

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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 10/09/2026

globe showing windborne weathermesh6 outputs from sept 1-9, about 2GB of VRAM to load it all. layers are precip, 10m wind, and mean sea level pressure

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can see atproto sticking around a good long time even if it dwindles to mastodonian levels of activity

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 09/09/2026

Lots of devil in the details of course but this seems like a very reasonable way to drive demand for clean power, putting the cost on entities that can certainly bear it.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think the thing that makes me grumpy about this is that the cosmology of game-shattering bugs in the gen1 Pokémon games really *is* very interesting, but every piece of media that attempts to leverage this runs headlong into ‘and then hyperrealistic eyes started growing out of my game boy’

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the way people post about it really had me expecting more!

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

> looking for new indie horror game > ask forum if it's twin peaks or sonic.exe > they don't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is twin peaks and what is sonic.exe > they laugh and say it's an innovative deltarune inspired take on the pokemon canon > play game > it's sonic.exe

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Very Sane AI Newsletter @verysane.ai · 12/02/2026

My take on Searle's Chinese Room, which is terminally engineer brained in that my entire argument is "okay, how would you actually build it, though" www.verysane.ai/p/building-t...

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Building the Chinese Room

Suppose also that after a while I get so good at following the instructions for manipulating the Chinese symbols and the programmers get so good at writing the programs that from the external point of...

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fee Carmichael was based on a true story

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this neural network has accidentally been trained to naruto run

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In this scenario I am motoko and the bullet I am shooting out of the air is early morning heartburn

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex!

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But also I don’t think we are going to converge ever, because you continue to try and smuggle the assumption that the tech is inherently useless and evil into the argument as a foregone conclusion.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The national grid needs to be several times larger for decarbonization, there is simply no getting around the need for a lot more clean watts. It’s not a zero-sum question of slicing up an existing pie differently, the current pie is simply insufficient - you can’t solve that by nixing compute.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Leaving aside the fact that you seem to think automation is cheating and not the engine that built the modern world, pennies make dollars is not a license to treat a penny like a $100 bill. Scale matters.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There certainly have been new data centers built in WA, this is plainly false. New-build natgas is bad, but neither inevitable or universal.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I mean sure, it’d be better not to emit that carbon - but these things are extremely low hanging fruit to decarbonize anyway. Ideally they get built in places with clean grids - like my home state of WA - in the first place, but all you gotta do is change the wallplug power source after the fact.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don’t see how shuffling the units changes the core thing I am saying here, which is that less than one percent of global emissions is not in fact ‘quite significant’.

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dame @dame.is · 20/08/2026

the difference between slop and not slop is usually just care

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Do you sincerely believe that AI is a major driver of anthropogenic global warming? This is a misconception I see in the wild all the time and it’s kind of baffling; it’s a rounding error, less than one percent of human CO2 emissions!

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

behold, a suspension bridge

"Bernal Sphere Construction", Don Davis, 197X?

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the stuff the future's made of :3

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

truss-of-truss structural elements

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I feel like a lot of people have inexplicably decided to convince themselves that ‘economies of scale do not exist’ is the ecological position to take, which is kind of crazymaking.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Finished Sheri S. Tepper’s “Grass” (1989) today. Fun stuff! Kind of can see it as an anti-Dune, or at least in conversation with it. Does a very good job of braiding many strands of intrigue and mystery together - with a nicely satisfying denouement to it all.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

society if I never had to see a post from the tim onion cinematic universe ever again

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the current version of the firefox mascot is so cutes

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

September's Object of the Month from the #ESAarchives stays with our recent run of 1980s nostalgia! Find out more about this ESA ESOC staff ID card and its fantastic late-80s branding 👇 historicalarchives.esa.int#oom @esa.int @operations.esa.int @de.esa.int

ESA ESOC Main Control Room, 1986 (pic: ESA)

Aerial view of ESA ESOC, Darmstadt, 1991 (pic: ESA)

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