iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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Didrik Søderlind (Tailored Version) @didriksoderlind.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This solid interview with Marc Almond transcends music and culture journalism when Almond points out that the assault on trans people is just homophobia in a new form. www.advocate.com/news/culture...

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Soft Cell's gay frontman: Homophobia has 'taken other faces' since '80s prejudice

"Tainted Love" singer Marc Almond reflects on bandmate Dave Ball’s legacy, the golden era of NYC nightlife, and Soft Cell's final album, Danceteria.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it's important to consider toast's little mittens

toast (the cat) loafed in bed with his little mitten paws sticking out

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm not saying the term "agent" was chosen as a means to diminish the importance of understanding and protecting our own human agency but I'm also not /not/ saying it.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/09/2026

I can never remember which one is price elasticity and which one is price inelasticity.

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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mcc @dryad.technology · 24/09/2026

I do think it's funny how transhumanist and trans humanist have such different meanings

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mcc @dryad.technology · 24/09/2026

We are like, 15 or 18 years into a movement in software UI design that was originally called "flat design" and is now so normalized it has no name at all. You now have to invent and use a special adjective to describe a design that is *not* flat. I still hate "flat design".

A screenshot showing "Classic", a little triangle pointing downward, a little blank space, a triangle pointing downward, an icon of a pencil, and a third triangle pointing downward, all in a blank white space next to each other

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, the water I'm hoping to lead people to here is "if you're worried about electronics making a car less reliable, like for instance electronics controlling electric motors, you're probably not that aware of just how electronic your car already is"

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we don't talk enough about the total cultural victory of functional programming nerds honestly. big monad was really cooking with promises, even awful Enterprise Software SaaS sludgeware is monadic now

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 22/09/2026

“I said no and Apple said yes – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)” dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intel… > AI bros keep telling me “just turn it off” and when I do they remove the choice.

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I said no and Apple said yes

The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22/09/2026

A short guide on how to use the EMDASH, my favorite punctuation mark 1. MacOS — this is easiest, hold "option" and press - 2. iOS, Android, (some MacOS?) — hold the - key down, — appears as an option 3. Windows, Linux: Enable "Compose", ⎄--- (SEE NEXT POST) 4. [Desperation mode] Visit emdash.fan

emdash.fan

Get an Emdash

If you can't remember the key command for an emdash you can copy one here

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 19/09/2026

It's important to remember that if a human *voluntarily attaches* a statistical text generation AI, to a command prompt that can create biomolecules or launch nukes, and a disaster happens, it wasn't because of "intelligence" or malice. It was because statistical models are *fundamentally random*.

"Like other biotech companies, Anthropic is embracing physical automation, said the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The startup wants to push how its Claude AI can direct robotic units to carry out science experiments with limited human intervention, one of the people said."

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mcc @dryad.technology · 19/09/2026

I guess a better, more compact way to have phrased my thread yesterday is I think you actually should trust Anthropic when they tell you they are dangerous fools who could get us all killed. You just shouldn't believe them about *how* that is going to go down. After all, they are dangerous fools.

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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab — or place for physical experiments — in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look, my intention is not to rub it in here, but I've been interested in electric cars for a very long time because I have been blessed with a memory longer than that of a goldfish. My flavor of Midwestern cheap is about stability in costs, not just what's cheap today.

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Torb @torb.no · 20/09/2026

I hope the US becomes safe to visit in my lifetime.

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hayleigh @hayleigh.dev · 19/09/2026

ux friends, does anyone have any resources (papers, studies, blog posts, talks, ...) exploring canvas interfaces, node base uis, that kind of thing... there's a wealth for visual programming but im struggling to find the same interest in other kinds of canvas apps/interfaces.

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

JRPGs, "junior RPGs", are so-named because they are significantly shorter and less complicated, both narratively and mechanically, than traditional RPGs, making them excellent introductions to the broader genre for young children

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mcc @dryad.technology · 18/09/2026

Why does nobody ever ask if corporations are aligned with the interests of humanity

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Explain how that happens" is a legitimate request! And critique! I am happy to explain all sorts of ways LLMs could hurt humanity, but all of those explanation involve careless people doing careless things. Not rogue software. I do not like this moment in time where nobody cares how things work.

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Arnfinn Pettersen @arnfinnp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Prinsipper er latmannstenkning. De er tankemessige heuristikker, som er praktiske i hverdagen fordi du ikke må gå gjennom en full tankerekke hver gang. Men ingenting blir sant eller riktig, kun fordi det følger av prinsippet ditt. (Dedikert til en lang rekke aktører i ytringsfrihetsdebatten.)

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026

bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars

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Arnfinn Pettersen @arnfinnp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mad Professor is playing in Oslo late on Saturday. But there is a Norwegian stoner band playing earlier that evening that I really want to see. And though there IS an obvious connection, I'm not sure if I'm up to a night of stoner rock AND dub.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gonna go out on a limb and suggest the loudest voices in the tech industry have very little grasp of the variety and complexity of the world outside their own industry, with a side dish of not understanding that to most people step one in furniture shopping is not "buy a CNC router and lathe"

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At #EADH2026 "We all believe in open source and open access, but a school bully has come along and all the things we spent years making have just been taken from us"

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the great unappreciated authorial decisions in sci-fi history is when Westwood Games had their Mysterious All-Powerful Alien antagonists be revealed, in their own campaign, as a bunch of hillbilly bluecollar miners working for an exploitative mega corporation and way in over their skis.

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Arnfinn Pettersen @arnfinnp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ser folk er på "må ikke kaste Document ut av Redaktørforeningen, men heller møte dem med motargumenter"-kjøret, så: Jevnlig påminnelse om at "vi kan ikke forby alt vi ikke liker, vi må heller møte det med motargumenter," bare er et laudabelt argument hvis du FAKTISK MØTER DET MED MOTARGUMENTER.

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

regret to report that the computer is actually possessed by something far worse than a demon: it's possessed by the ghosts of decades' worth of decisions, shortcuts, and mistakes made by humans

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

if you're one of those coders who haphazardly shoves AI code into your projects, I will not hear a single word from you about the supposed inherent dangers of syntactic sugar or side effects or operator overloads or goto ever again just say you don't like the syntax! or that you don't like coding

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

if js had operator overloading, a proper type system, and value types, I would probably be using js for WAY more of my projects but alas

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Тsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The disdain of contemporary Tech towards Art is baffling. "Techne" means "Art" in Greek. Technologist is an Artist.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 14/09/2026

Somewhere at 1Password, a project manager thought "I know the web sign-in experience is a little janky at times. But I bet I can make it entirely nonfunctional."

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Torb @torb.no · 14/09/2026

While, I haven't been using Gleam that much lately, but I just want to mention how incredibly nice the Gleam discord server is. It's the most welcoming programming community I've ever interacted with, bar none. Absolutely wonderful.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 14/09/2026

Experiments in film emulation (and a few old photos): www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photo…

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mcc @dryad.technology · 14/09/2026

Bluesky should give us an unlimited edit feature and remove the quote tweet

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sometimes I think we are too concerned with «picking a perfect candidate», instead of thinking of it as «choosing our opponent».

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 13/09/2026

“DHH Omarchy Doctrine: Fascism Stage One by Definition | flyingpenguin” www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-omarchy-... There's a good chance that this is a major turning point for open source toward fascism.

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DHH Omarchy Doctrine: Fascism Stage One by Definition | flyingpenguin

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Dea-Renate @dea-renate.no · 13/09/2026

Eg skjønner fortsatt ikkje kvifor me lar maskinen som lagar seksualiserte bilete av BARN (og alle andre) FORTSETTE å gjere det - og no påstår folka bak avansert autocomplete at den tydelegvis er dommedagsmaskin i tillegg?

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