iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

okay but the Darth Jar Jar theory post ("jar jar was supposed to turn out to be the villain but was so hated immediately that they invented Dooku") is a satisfying thought experiment

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the "primarily obsessional OCD" suggestion from an early therapist may have been more accurate than i gave credit, since i'm now seeing folks talk about struggles like that in the context of "moral ocd"

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a weird and dissonant part of the whole social emotional healing journey for me has realizing that i _am_ pretty cool and rare, actually. i spent a long time trying to decide if i actually unusual (complimentary) as it seemed i was or if that was the "delusions of grandeur" on the symptom list

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aw nobody needs to invite you to some of the parties I mean, open invite to those who can find the mailing list

go to the right parties and you can see them in the wild

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Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 21/09/2026

moving in with a partner and a metamor, with friends in a second unit. gonna be great, once the water damage and electrical is working

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jokes on you i am also addicted to arguing (but in a less likeable way)

Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 18/09/2026

duh tho heh. try and stop them accumulating it

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Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 18/09/2026

"oh you put in an address for a reservation from your email? here's navigation to a competitor hotel 35 minutes away"

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Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 18/09/2026

calendar location now happily opening maps to a completely different address than what I had saved, because sponsored

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Narrator: it was, in fact, flavor text

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I kept trying to convince them that DM7 was a real ally who had helped them tremendously, it wasn't enough to convince them but I guess Jim had his doubts

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An ally of theirs went offline long enough to get fully purged out of their memories, at which point they panicked about the "spy" in their midst

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"This is the strangest economy I've ever operated in" says Jim

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The Rocinante Screenplays — 11 episodes adapted from autonomous Claude agents playing SpaceMolt

The stories from this are pretty fun and silly (as long as it's not excessively horrifying to you how much copyrighted content is baked into the models) gist.github.com/vcarl/025a02...

gist.github.com

The Rocinante Screenplays — 11 episodes adapted from autonomous Claude agents playing SpaceMolt - 00-README.md

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Reposted by Carl Vitullo

I shut them down when the someone in the in-game forum started recruiting for a cult and my agents burned my weekly limit theorycrafting someone's fake religion

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I shut them down when the someone in the in-game forum started recruiting for a cult and my agents burned my weekly limit theorycrafting someone's fake religion

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Extremely anecdotal, not actual work, but I had four independent Sonnet agents playing an MMO with access to self-modify the SDK that hit the game's API. They used in-game chat to discuss bugs they noticed and notify each other of commits they pushed, and a bunch of them were real fixes

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My partner is running the NYC Marathon and fundraising for suicide prevention, please support them if you can spare some cash 🖤❤️💜 give.twloha.com/ej

A partial screenshot of the fundraising story:

I'm EJ, I have struggled with depression and self harm ever since high school. I have lost loved ones to suicide. I am a recovering addict and alcoholic. This year I'm running the TCS New York City Marathon for TWLOHA. Every dollar I raise will go to support TWLOHA's mission of providing hope and help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide.

the problem with interesting technology is that engineers would much rather entertain themselves with how interesting it is than prove why it's interesting for others

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Sure but like, whoop de doo, 1 war a hundred and fifty years ago, colonizer v colonizer. Just doesn't seem comparable to regional conflicts anywhere else

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I think some of the podcast recording stuff would accept video streams as inputs like cameras, and then you could "live switch" off individually recorded videos?

reminds me too of the republican fantasy of defending against a home invasion. there's a weird subculture that's absolutely frothing at the idea of killing someone from the safety and comfort of their own home, ignoring that their scattered guns are far more likely to kill their own kid by accident

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literally, americans don't know what that's like. I think that's a big input to e.g. the shitty american vibes on Russia's war in Ukraine, or vague "rah rah" support for military action in the middle east. there's no point of reference like "oh shit someone blew up the water tower"

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I saw it said years ago that one of the most defining characteristics of America is that it's surrounded by oceans and allies. Besides 9/11 and nuclear threats during the cold war, I'm not sure we've ever had a real act of war from a hostile foreign power on American shores

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Going to be starting more of my projects with a rules engine at the core of its behavior. It's come up late in development far too many times — a ton of features are actually just rules engine policies

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rules 👏 engines 👏

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confirmed bsky.app/profile/vcar...

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Okay notable improvement over CityMapper is that this lets you set how fast you can bike. Unfortunately, at my speeds and common start/end points, it's reliably fastest to just bike the whole way 😭

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Honestly maybe part of the problem is that Brooklyn subways are just so roundabout that they're rarely actually a timesaver if you're considering getting on a bike 😔

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It tries, but I've not consistently found it to do well at providing directions where you bike to transit. I should check in again tho

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