iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gilbert Wooferson @gilbertwooferson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To whom it may concern: T Burks was with me at Denny’s at approximately 10 pm the night of the incident. After slipping in grease, I drove him to the ER. There’s no way he committed the crime you’re accusing him of.

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Tim Burks @babu.dev · 21/09/2026

Your friendly neighborhood did:web:babu.dev is back!

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 21/09/2026

An excellent expansion of "There are two ways to pass the Turing Test"

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 20/09/2026

Benjamin Skuse wrote this nice article about technology in mathematics for @spectrum.ieee.org and while he did a great job talking to mathematicians, I was deeply disappointed that he referred to all the tech as "AI" without discussing who made it or how it was made spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathem...

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What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math

Researchers debate motivation, purpose, and the field’s future

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 20/09/2026

Here's why I am getting into did:web for self-hosting: four instances of my PDS, each serving on a different domain and hosting a family of did:web accounts with no off-server dependencies.

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 19/09/2026

Gus and Joel were wasted today on this Ohio State Kent State game

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 19/09/2026

Whoops! My new did web account got suspended

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Tim Burks @babu.dev · 18/09/2026

I wrote a PDS for self-hosting. Since my host needs a name, it seems natural to use a did:web for my identity, and did:web:babu.dev is a lot more legible than a did:plc. So I'm going to try using this for a while.

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 18/09/2026

Couldn't work anywhere that calls it "golang"

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Tony Zhou @tyzhou.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Despite Bluesky's open architecture, we find significant power asymmetries. The platform retains privileged access to granular user interaction data, and only a handful of creators hold the technical expertise to build powerful algorithms without relying on third-party tools.

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Michael Orr @michael-orr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I hate that to be happy Ohio State lost we have to endure fucking Texas winning

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 13/09/2026

I would never root for Texas unless they were playing the one team I hated moTHE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 12/09/2026

Michigan fans are dying of laughter now

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 11/09/2026

It's 9/11, the date of the second most commemorated public event in my lifetime

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 09/09/2026

Debate me at #kexp www.kexp.org/read/2026/9/...

my top ten songs from the 90s:
1. sabotage (beastie boys)
2. flagpole sitta (harvey danger)
3. human behavior (bjork)
4. dreams (the cranberries)
5. smells like teen spirit (nirvana)
6. cannonball (the breeders)
7. know your chicken (cibo matto)
8. fight the power (public enemy)
9. killing in the name (ratm)
10. basket case (green day)

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Fibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I thought the most annoying AI evangelism was "use AI or die" but it's actually "it's fine if you don't want to use AI on your little coding hobby buddy, just know you won't be coding with us enterprise big dogs".

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 08/09/2026

The latest debate is a real snoozer

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 08/09/2026

I'm increasingly convinced that this is a debate between two kinds of people: people who have made beanie babies a part of their daily lives and understand how impactful this is and people who haven't tried beanie babies since the 90s and these groups will forever be talking past each other

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 07/09/2026

This is a #kexp video that I will be replaying often

A death cab for cutie live session on KEXP

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Big Mommy Drix 🏳️‍⚧️ @bddrix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Michigan fans have gotten off easy for way too long simply because the only more annoying fanbase happens to be their biggest rival

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Larrson @larrson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Biggest bailout Michigan has seen since General Motors

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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 06/09/2026

people were worried that kyle whittingnham might be too old to relate to today’s youth after really working with some older rosters in the past, but here he is at michigan and after one half the scoreboard says “6-7”

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 05/09/2026

Happy to say I don't know and don't care about whatever it is that everyone is fussing about

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 04/09/2026

Here's my #gRPConf talk about how to write gRPC applications that increase your happiness.

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 03/09/2026

#grpConf is on! These are the crazy people who decided to let me speak

A slide showing the program committee members

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 02/09/2026

I am singlehandedly responsible for Sabotage being number 101.

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 02/09/2026

On Thursday I'll be at gRPConf. They're gonna let me talk about Sidecar and IO! events.linuxfoundation.org/grpconf/prog...

events.linuxfoundation.org

Schedule | LF Events

View the gRPC Conf 2020 Schedule & Directory.

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 31/08/2026

I'm a No on reactionary anti growth initiatives, especially ones that are pro-cars mandarin-orange-7p38.squarespace.com

mandarin-orange-7p38.squarespace.com

For Downtown Los Altos

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 31/08/2026

AI presentations at hackathons: "Look at this beautiful gumball that I made by putting a coin in the candy machine... It's a tool, you should learn how to use it... Sometimes it makes red ones."

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 31/08/2026

I got this from @daviddark.bsky.social, but it was created fifty years ago by Sister Corita Kent might-could.com/essays/10-ru...

“Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules

RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile.

RULE TWO: General duties of a student — pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.

RULE THREE: General duties of a teacher — pull everything out of your students.

RULE FOUR: Consider everything an experiment.

RULE FIVE: Be self-disciplined — this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.

RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.

RULE SEVEN: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.

RULE EIGHT: Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.

RULE NINE: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.

RULE TEN: “We’re breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.” (John Cage)

HINTS: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything — it might come in handy later.”
–Sister Corita Kent

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 28/08/2026

Just what I needed to launch a torrential loop this morning

Bad Bara by Chloe Caillet in the KEXP app

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 27/08/2026

Optimist:The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Child: Try to realize the truth. Pessimist: What truth? Child: There is no cup. Optimist: There is no cup? Child: It is not the cup that empties, it is only yourself.

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 24/08/2026

Let's build it and not sell it to them

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Howie Cohen @howiecohen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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Angine De Poitrine live at the KEXP BBQ in Seattle

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 21/08/2026

I'm in Seattle! KEXP BBQ here we come!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 16/08/2026

We went to see the Six pro shot and our theater had a poster for this, now it's my most anticipated film of the summer youtu.be/0yGrVVFNKF4?...

youtu.be

Coyote vs. Acme - Official Final Trailer (2026) Will Forte, Lana Condor, John Cena

YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers

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Tim Burks (legacy did:plc) @timburks.me · 13/08/2026

This year I've been bouncing back and forth between working on a network proxy and a PDS, what looks like a lack of focus might just be a different focal length

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