iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 13/10/2026

I’ve been helping Wikimedia Enterprise get familiar with geospatial data this year, including OpenStreetMap. We just released a static dataset on Huggingface & Kaggle joining Wiki* and OSM concepts globally, check it out: enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/geospat...

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New dataset connects OpenStreetMap to Wikimedia data

Wikimedia Enterprise releases an open Parquet dataset on Kaggle and Hugging Face linking OpenStreetMap with Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikivoyage.

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The Irish Politics Newsletter @irishpolitics.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

According to Cloudflare Data Explorer, Russian bot traffic dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a Yandex data centre.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 29/09/2026

Some heavy rain is expected for some of us overnight and early on Wednesday 🌧️ Especially in the west. But the areas which need the rain most, will again not see as much.

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Chunks of data that LLMs use to pre-process content, split in such a way that maximizes efficiency of processing. Also the smallest unit of generated content that an LLM produces

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s what the Sermon on the Mount gets wrong.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 18/08/2026

New #gameassets! City Kit: Roads has been updated and now includes traffic lights, road signs, electrical wiring and more. Expect more City Kit updates coming weeks! 💖 As always, this pack is completely free to use by anyone for anything! kenney.nl/assets/city-...

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 17/08/2026

I just want to say this: @liberalcurrents.com unites both of these groups, understands that both concerns are interconnected, and in addition to our usual articles on the topics, has published a collection aimed at all of it www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

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The Reconstruction Papers

The Reconstruction Papers is ready to order in the US. US Readers Order Here For nearly a century, the conservative movement's white whale was the government the New Deal and the Great So...

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A few well placed orbital gas used to be able to do that. I can’t imagine shooting so little though

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Who needs watermarks when you’ve got Claudish?

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s a fun feeling! Just don’t take the comments too seriously

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"★★That reframes it★★" 1st time - oh cool! A new way to think about <thing>! Nth time - oh for *fucks* sake what is it now?

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Personal software is not a bad thing to have! What did you build?

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Drew Breunig @dbreunig.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hosting an SF DSPy meetup Wed, August 26th. Come chat Flex, GEPA, DSPy at frontier labs, and more. Great slate of practical AI system lightning talks: luma.com/61qrnbs7

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Bay Area DSPy Meetup · Luma

The Bay Area DSPy Meetup is back, this quarter focusing on lightning talks touching on DSPy features, tips, and tricks. We're optimizing for socializing this…

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 10/08/2026

So many good points in this post by @nsaphra.bsky.social: only quoting a couple, to encourage you to read the others. "My colleagues and students adopt the writing quirks they read throughout the day, and their own writing becomes more like an LLM’s." nsaphra.net/post/uncanny/

To find a nugget of meaning, the user must sift through mounds of slop—and some simply won’t bother. They’ll serve the slop unfiltered to another party, who performs this interpretive labor themselves, only to discover that the underlying meaning does not exist. When someone expects me to perform their share of this interpretive labor, I get angry. Grice’s rules are, in essence, rules of etiquette—their unwarranted violation is rude.

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The most terrifying part is the infectious, all encompassing nature of the uncertainty around it. Your awareness rewires, and you no longer perceive like you used to. You can't "unsee" it, even when you aren't sure you're seeing it.

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oof I felt this one. I was not familiar with Paul Grice's cooperative principle, "the speaker is conveying some intent as well as they can". i.e. we used to count on there being some intent behind fluent language. What if we no longer can? Another level of norms collapse beyond social media?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Blogpost! Evolving my personal agent memory system. Somehow referencing Kierkegaard. tonyhschu.ca/blog/arcs-as...

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Arcs as a new Memory Layer

Managing context, and understanding the story in the rear view mirror

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 28/07/2026

Hello sir I write to you today as the representative of Singularity and to inform you that you are due infinite wealth and leisure. In order to share this bounty please respond to this message and I will tell you where to wire the small amount of one billion dollars which will unlock your riches

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Eames Archive tour! So excited for it to start!

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Now we need Lamine Yamal to baptize the next international soccer superstar and continue the chain

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

On a #datavis note… what’s the sorting criteria you think? mostly finals score?

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My modest hope in life, and my hope for my children, is to be like student 22.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A neighborhood in Phoenix did some guerilla permaculture by cutting curbs and capturing rainwater instead of letting the water flow into a sewer. Now the streets are thiving with local plant life. Very solarpunk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ-j...

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FREE Water was ILLEGAL…He Changed That…

YouTube video by Andrew Millison

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

As usual, it's either “we need this to protect you against the dangerous terrorists” or “will someone please think of the children?”. (This cartoon is at least 20 years old, by the way. Some things just don't change. People fall for it every time.)

Cartoon drawing by John Jonik depicting Uncle Sam having bought a box labeled “control of Internet Speech”; a salesman wearing a “corporate media” label asks him “how would you like this wrapped?”; behind him, two gift wrappers, one labeled “anti-terrorism” and the other, “protect kids”

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Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 24/06/2026

After thinking about this question all weekend, I think my favorite candidate is the alchemical symbol for air: 🜁 It’s connotes both atmosphere and “transfer”. It’s a standard Unicode character. It references a capital “A.” And it’s very simple, which feels appropriate for a protocol, like 🌐 or 🛜.

The alchemical symbol for air, a triangle pointing up crossed by a horizontal line.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 17/06/2026

I’ve been enjoying @kyla.bsky.social’s analysis lately, especially on the stock market.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 16/06/2026

This is really promising. If you've ever looked for a map online that you could tweak, @willchase.bsky.social is building the vector map creator of your dreams (beta mode). 📊 🗺️ For me at least (a non-expert at GIS who needs quick maps), this fills an important gap. graticule.org

graticule.org

Graticule

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is hilarious, but the first use came that came to mind is real time video game agents. Imagine NPCs that talk, act and process in real time!

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This graph from Australia shows how quickly the tide is turning.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/06/2026

Has one single, solitary, lonely pundit at any respectable(™️) outlet suggested that the answer to The Platner Question is that he should commit to being more like Zohran Mamdani, the wildly-popular, ethically-immaculate, standard-bearer of modern politics?

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Apparently I can only context switch between two-ish things. tonyhschu.ca/blog/two-con... - also @infowetrust.com taking another crack at the papervis again.

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Two Concurrent Burners

It seems the idle number of concurrent projects is two.

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p(Dulany) @dulanyw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This image is obviously wrong (highest drag should be right in front, not across the top) And obviously AI Which I found disappointing Because instead of just asking ChatGPT or Gemini to make a (wrong) fake picture You can just ask Codex or CC to rig you up an actual aerodynamics sim

Aerodynamics sim of a guinea pig, but unfortunately butt-first (high drag)

Proper aerodynamics sim of a guinea pig, correctly showing that the nose area is high drag, the face area medium drag, and generally aerodynamic thereafter. Unfortunately, the space directly behind the guinea pig is a dead-air zone, making it look like animal is propelled by fart rainbows

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 07/06/2026

A bike planner died on his community’s streets, and I wish that this was a unifying moment for the transpo practitioner community to come together to demand networks of all-ages facilities for people on bikes. Not ITS or robocars or bulbouts. All-ages bike facilities. RIP Riley O’Neil.

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After driver doored CDOT planner Riley O'Neil, 35, on bike in Bridgeport, causing his death, advocates demand City install protected lanes to prevent such killings - Streetsblog Chicago

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

What’s the source of this quote?! It’s really good!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Unable to fully mobilize your country's resources for conflict because you failed to buy-in the public? Will issue.

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Trying to blog once a week during my sabbatical. Already failed last week. Not going to let perfect be the enemy of good this week. tonyhschu.ca/blog/current...

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Currently: Dissecting a Coding Model

Week 4 of the sabbatical

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Tony Chu @tonyhschu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If I ever start a company/institution/whatever, I'd try to use these as a logo: kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squa...

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Squares in Squares

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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 22/05/2026

We launched Atlas, a new experience that lets anyone with an idea for a story world make it a playable narrative RPG in as little as 5-15 minutes. Are you a daydreamer, forever DM, writer, or just full of weird ideas? Atlas is for you! Check it out today at hiddendoor.co/create

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 20/05/2026

Me: Doctor, I feel like I'm trapped in some kind of eternal maze, constantly rolling from place to place, but at any moment I could just roll over a cliff and die. Doctor: That's called Marble Madness.

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