iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🌱 As part of my fellowship research, I built a tiny experiment called Prune. It’s like journaling, but with branches.

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

more expiration options on teamsort.world

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Which tool (or mcp) have people had the most luck with in terms of adding knowledge/memory? I rolled my own a while ago but I often have to remind my app to remember something, which totally defeats the purpose.

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tldraw @tldraw.com · 21/03/2025

you can just draw things

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If one guy holds most of the tech people rely on, it is a vulnerability, but also it's one guy: as a global population we should be able to easily just take it from him, so it seems to me the real vulnerability is an internalized belief that private ownership is more sacrosanct than human thriving.

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Techno Feudalism is incredible. Still working my way through it and will probably reread it too, but it has made me surer than ever that you can't put your energy (be it creativity, cultural artifacts or problem-solving/engineering) into systems you don't want to see reproduce

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Taylor Poindexter @engineeringbae.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Other than boycotting businesses and calling representatives, have you found solid ways to resist the regime? I want to do more but I’m struggling on deciding what that “what” should be.

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 12/02/2025

bsky.app/profile/drgo...

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Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The ideal Platonic Borges vs Borges the corporeal human (ht @dabacon.bsky.social ):

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eugene, dramatically @eugenekudashev.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

the intersection of art and technology is an empty set

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

What are some good things you can do on the internet?

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I feel like it's time for the wordpress equivalent of what replit is trying to do. Community-built, easily-installable custom apps

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 04/02/2025

Structurally disciplined collective sense-making for civics is everyone’s problem because it’s been no one’s problem. News orgs can only make things that they can own and get credit for. Great people + small orgs work on pieces of it all the time, but the info environment…is what it is.

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 05/02/2025

“Kill the ‘User’: Musings of a disillusioned technologist” www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-th...

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Working on a new project that investigates Community Notes on X. It's incredible when you look closely just how many bots there are. Bots on bots

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swyx @swyx.io · 31/01/2025

hey hi hello how are you holding up

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Haven't bought books in an embarrassingly long time. Big day!

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Dorothy ashby mafia | exoticism mafia

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I've always wanted to build tech for good. More and more it feels like the amount of harm done just by paying into things like AWS, G Suite, OpenAI, kind of outweighs any potential good a tool could do. Where to go? What to build?

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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How the United States Learned to Love Internet Censorship

America was once seen as the home of the free internet. That era is now over.

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Building a recipe clipper with a focus-mode that allows navigating between steps with gestures so I can avoid touching my laptop while cooking :)

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 12/12/2024

design is feeling more and more like an MLM

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I have wanted to see same-style thumbnail images for user-created content for so long. I finally had time to get it working on my spaced-repetition project and it turned out to be way more overwhelming than I expected 😅 Got to find a way to tone it down!

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

most exciting thing I've written in a while, state-machine based controller over the OpenAI Realtime API

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⏧ @syntacrobat.xyz · 20/11/2024

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Things are starting to take a weird turn for me and chat

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Why are we making "MyComponent" and putting in a file named my-component.tsx? I'll never understand...

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Messing around with a voice controlled spaced repetition flashcard app this weekend 😄

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Lost more subscribers in one day than ever before (5! 😱) and I strangely don't mind. It's really hard not to tie your ego to the things you build and I've been working on separating the two for a while. Glad I've made some progress on that front 😅

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jordan @jdan.me · 11/11/2024

The very concept of a “notification” is wild to me, like don’t talk to me

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Sunil Pai @threepointone.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Quick spike: Durable Objects/PartyServers are the _perfect_ container for long running processes. So I ported vercel’s experimental typescript port of swarm (openai’s agent library), to run on them. Works great. github.com/threepointon... Thank you @lgrammel.bsky.social!

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 08/05/2023

Man the technical debt is real. I identified every piece of interface across my entire app. So much design drift. Time to course correct.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 24/04/2023

"Intuitive design" is less about designing something that is intuitive and more about designing something that builds intuition through feedback loops. This distinction is especially important if you're building an innovative product, where prior intuition does not exist.

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Tone Row / Rob G @tonerow.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

New Flowchart Fun Feature~ Import from CSV! It complements the export to CSV added a few weeks back

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