iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is your brain This is your brain on pumpkin spice

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 30/09/2026

Strong mayor powers are a thing she can use, sure. The issue is she's not dumb, and the moment she uses them for anything Drug Ford doesn't like, he'll just pass legislation to overrule it.

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 30/09/2026

It's very very difficult to compare NYC to Toronto. 1. I agree we could and should do more faster. 2. We can't do nearly as much as Mamdani does because he has way more power than a Toronto Mayor ever could. It would require constitutional change at a level that there will never happen in Canada.

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 30/09/2026

Just like AI is squeezing out software developers, it will now squeeze out a lot of artists. Sure, good artists will still find a market, but it will shrink and it will be harder to make money as one. Most people just don't care once the technology gets good enough. I hate this timeline. 4/4

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 30/09/2026

I only want to listen to novel, unique music written and performed by actual humans (OK, EDM uses computer sequencing, but setup by humans). AI is none of that. However, I don't know how many people who actually just listen to music will actually care. 3/4

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 30/09/2026

The reason I even noticed is because once I like one song, Google kept recommending me more of the same music but from different "artists". Same vocals, same underlying composition. It triggered something in me that made me look into it. 2/4

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 30/09/2026

Recently, I've been bombarded with recommendations on #YouTubeMusic that are #AI Generated. It was a bit shocking. Fundamentally though, I don't think the person I'm reposting here has it right. 1/4

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The not-that-surprising skeleton key for Toronto politics.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our premier is such a piece of shit.

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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 21/09/2026

Damn, Camille does not mince words 🔥

Finally, we come to people. This one is just depressing. Has AI made anything easier about the people management/people skills era? If it has, it has been swamped by all of the new interpersonal challenges we’re hitting thanks to AI.

To start, there’s the increased expectations. Many companies think that that increased visibility and waves hands AI productivity means managers can start to manage far larger teams, with no help coming as we reduce managers and don’t hire new ones. And of course, some companies are also expecting managers to write code because that is apparently the only individual contribution that matters (the idea that managers don’t make valuable individual contributions to companies is so mind-boggling I could write a whole additional piece on it). And while you’re doing this, you have to manage the AI transition: make sure your team is using AI enough, not too much, and soothe their anxiety, and deal with their impatience, and you too have to use it but no one is bothering to teach you how to use it well or soothe your anxiety, you are just expected to figure it the f* out.

So is it any wonder 1 in 3 managers are considering going back to individual contribution roles? Hell, if you’re going to ask me to write code and manage a huge team of people, I might just prefer to say, thanks, writing code is enough for me so I’ll go back to doing that.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem have now withdrawn from the Ed Sheeran tour.

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sheeran and Macklemore are this year's hottest Halloween costumes.

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This section of Jim Stanford’s recent article is particularly important for Canadians to keep in mind. #CanadaStrong #Never51 #cdnpoli #CdnEcon

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‘Canada can't survive without the U.S.’

This is Trump's biggest, and most dangerous, lie, and getting us to believe it is central to his intimidation strategy.
Despite reduced U.S.-bound exports, Canada's economy has continued growing. Two-thirds of those lost merchandise exports have been offset by new exports to other countries. And almost 80 per cent of our GDP is produced and consumed right here, by Canadians, for Canadians. Trump can't touch that.
Yes, it will be a bumpy ride to disentangle our economy from overreliance on what is now a failed democracy next door. But as the 10th largest economy in the world, with a wealth of natural and human resources, and a stronger capacity to solve problems together, we will most definitely survive without Trump's America.

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 13/09/2026

This is a legit problem. Yeah, you have to have the discipline to bag them after otherwise it's a lost cause.

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 13/09/2026

“it’ll be easy” insists the architect genius to the low level IC who will actually have to implement the plan

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 12/09/2026

Canada’s global rankings have fallen across democracy, transparency, press freedom, and living standards. Writer and lawyer Matt Malone argues that reversing the decline requires rebuilding the institutions meant to hold government accountable. ow.ly/bAlL50ZMOIr

On the left: an image of the Canadian flag torn at the top in a jagged, declining pattern that mimics a downward-trending graph. On the right: text that reads “Canada was the ‘best country in the world to live.’ What happened? I went looking for answers in the nations that surpassed us.”

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 12/09/2026

I'm curious if these defections are staged for marketing? These AI companies are desperate for relevance and attention. Anyone with a cursory understanding of what modern #AI is knew these headlines were bullshit, but here we are.

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 12/09/2026

Happens to me all the time. I report and block. It's become a reflex action.

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 11/09/2026

A fascinating read into the deep dark whole we're heading down. Nothing good can come of this. #ai

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Related, if you bought a Sodastream and didn't realize the CO2 containers are sourced from illegal settlements, there's a Canadian company that offers local replacements that are interchangeable (avail nationwide). www.indigosoda.ca/en/

indigosoda.ca

Indigo Soda | Sparkling Water Machines and CO₂ Cylinders

Sparkling water machines, bottles, and reusable CO₂ cylinders. An eco-friendly and cost-effective way to make sparkling water at home.

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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Recognize beauty around you. Realize you can’t control everything. Reflect on how choices can make change. Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided.

Photo of sign against a dark green wall which reads:
REFUSE
TO BE STORED IN
BLACK PLASTIC SACKS
AND PLACED IN THE
CONTAINERS PROVIDED

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Vote #Micallef2026 & the #BlizzardsNow platform. You’ll be able to ski the city every day, solving gridlock. A platform & power over nature approved by the Mulroney family brain trust.

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 02/09/2026

Isn't it against liberal policy to be a member of another party?

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 02/09/2026

A year ago, Star cartoonist Theo Moudakis predicted Trump would rename Lake Ontario.

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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Ontario government is forcing public school teachers to buy classroom supplies through Staples, a major U.S. corporation. This won't fix what ails schools, not by a long shot, argues Nigel Bariffe of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto.

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Ontario’s Schools Don’t Need a Staples Card, They Need to Be Properly Funded

With the new school year about to begin, Nigel Bariffe, President of the Elementary Teachers of Ontario, argues that the province’s recent changes are taking education in the wrong direction…

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Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All curb lanes are parking lanes whether legal or illegal. Every block in Toronto thet is purportedly 2 vehicle lanes each way has at least 1 illegally parked vehicle on it, making it functionally 1 lane but worse because of weaving. These streets were ALWAYS functionally one lane in each direction.

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🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Environment Canada's Pancake Bay Weather Station. Classic dad joke, but accurate.

Pancake Bay Weather Station, showing how you can accurately check the weather using the attached rock

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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There’s a better app for that. bsky.app/profile/mapq...

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Don’t be making us read about how you ordered Christmas gifts for your friends yesterday. Take those bells off, you pathologically organized elf, and let us enjoy the last days of August FFS.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 29/08/2026

since today is Skynet day, it's a good time to remind everyone 1. what companies call "AI" is not actually artificial intelligence 2. self-aware AI may not be possible, and almost certainly is not ethical or desirable to create 3. fuck Sam Altman

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 29/08/2026

I appreciate our air force is primed and ready.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I suspect this will result in tech companies trying to sell 8GB ram laptops as chromebook style "portals to AI" and it will backfire disastrously www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399

Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Everyday I wonder how things can get stupider and everyday I am informed how, against my will.

Truth social post where Trump threatens to call Lake Ontario, Lake America

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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 25/08/2026

And the people speeding will vote for him as their hero.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had no idea CBC had an app for learning French that uses real shows and stuff to help with learning it. One way to ensure Canada protects French is if we all make an effort to truly be bilingual — and we can make Quebec feel like we understand their struggle too. “Mauril” app from CBC:

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