iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

this is one thing where it's gonna be hard for people doing this by hand to continue to derive meaning from AI is just automatically "solving" problems people have been working on in teams for years in a matter of hours + barging into open source repositories & stealing / "helping" their work

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

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Ukraine’s Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates

A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 14/10/2026

Probably making enemies here but: (1) Journals should not publish scale development or validation papers that don't disclose the actual items or make the scale freely available (2) Anyone who requires payment to some little rent-seeking shop for the use of their scales deserve to be ridiculed

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Would love to see this idea in the hands of Wakaliwood.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Pop or rock concert” is weird framing to me. Other genres have grown big time since 1995.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks Gavin Newsom!!!

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If they’re not including something that the posting asked for, that’s on them, and I can’t imagine fishing for a website to fill it in. If you’re looking for something that isn’t in their materials, that’s on you. I’m still of the position that websites are unnecessary.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think people tend to underestimate how much the people high up in Anthropic, and other AI companies to various extents, appear to genuinely believe this stuff. Not saying their beliefs are correct, just that they are likely sincerely held.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a college professor, I hate when people preface their argument with “I’m a college professor” in an attempt to add unwarranted authority to it. I also happen to think writing is important.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really surprised by Girls ranking so highly. Didn’t think it had aged that well.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Definitely a great list. Twin Peaks: The Return and The Rehearsal are incredible. Glad to see The Leftovers getting lasting attention.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Norman Rockwell Museum (which kicks ass) would likely take issue with this.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I asked the producer about this aspect of it during QNA once! Definitely a big part of their influences for the film, Zelda in particular.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seconded! I’m 200 pages in and it’s been fantastic. Dark and likely to be difficult for some folks, absolutely, but the storytelling and character writing are excellent.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

heartbreaking to find a new restaurant and be impressed when you order delivery, then you do a pickup the next time and when you trot over you discover a menu full of AI FOOD PHOTOS. buckaroo your food was good i was about to be a long time customer and now im not coming back

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Probably the scariest and also most intellectually rigorous uncanny novel I have ever read. My review for the NYT. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...

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Book Review: ‘The Rouse,’ by China Miéville (Gift Article)

“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to raise and weaponize the dead.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m immediately sold on it. Can’t wait to crack in.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Even among the titles that are PC-playable, only Death Stranding 2 is a standout for me. Happily, plenty of great games have been releasing for PC, and indie developers have been doing great this gen.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This generation has been rough for the PS5. At least Astro Bot was good, and it plays UHD movies. Otherwise, it wouldn’t offer much my PC couldn’t do. In contrast, I’m quite happy with my Switch 2 and have plenty to look forward to.

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely..." This is the way forward @tcddublin.bsky.social

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Somewhat different answer, but the specific de-centering of animals in Blade Runner is interesting. Animals become a valuable novelty good. Robotic animals are more accessible but still expensive, with the real deal being extremely rare. Not the focus of the film, but a great piece of it.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Microsoft and Sony in a race to see who can demolish their playerbase’s goodwill first.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Found North is fantastic, though hard to come by.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Found North is significantly better than the very best American whiskeys.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

90’s big swords have clearly had more staying power, what with the Dragonslayer from Berserk and Buster Sword from FF7

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It was (and still is) a big misconception. A weird one, too, since thinking about it for a minute tears it down.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"She lived on rice, lentils and chickpeas, river fish, and gourds and leafy greens, with mango and jackfruit in season." This sounds great tbh.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For 1330 BCE, I think I got a real winner: "She was born, lost her mother at 8, married at 16, had 4 children, was orphaned at 26, was widowed at 51, and died at 66 of tuberculosis, with 1 surviving child and 2 grandchildren." Not terrible!

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hasbro being on board makes a lot of sense, since the first one was great advertising for DnD.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was told to not choose a PhD adviser until the end of my first year, which was awful advice in retrospect.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sounds tasty! Saved to try once I get back home.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I recently got over the initial hump for Karamazov after a couple earlier attempts and it’s amazing. Easily worth the effort.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Going to double down and say Leone sucks all together. TGTBATU is okay. Otherwise, his stuff is horribly written, his style is boring, the soundtracks are good, but everything else is a meaningless drag.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I hated it, too. One star. Wretched mess of a script with nothing worthwhile about it. Everything is well-executed, but the core is rotten and the story is not worth telling. I can absolutely get behind fills about loathsome, evil characters, but not when they’re so dull and pointless.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RFK Jr.’s new drive to get us off anti-depressants brings home the vast number of death’s he’s already been personally responsible for, and the sheer amount of suffering. I believe that he alone, even among the crew he’s a part of, will be remembered as something other than, worse than, a villain.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The upside is that there are far more good people than bad, so the deaths of good people tend to greatly outweigh the bad.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I recall my mother watching the OJ Simpson chase while I was in the hospital.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Babycat Love on Leash A Talking Cat?! The President Goes to Heaven The Paradise Motel Tough Guys Don’t Dance Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000 Star Crash Fateful Findings The Miami Connection Hell Comes To Frogtown New York Ninja Mac and Me Decker: Port of Call - Hawaii

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Utterly horrifying.. any high school and college must reconsider its role in this horror www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...

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At Least 1 in 4 NFL Players Gets CTE, Major New Study Finds

The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.

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Warren Cook @warrencook.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That’s not really what it shows, though. Google has 59% at least somewhat favorable, 16% at least somewhat unfavorable, with a neutral portion. That’s quite good; better than I’d have expected, given that I strongly dislike Google myself.

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Sarah Cook @trisarahtomps.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A Year In Color: Wisconsin edition. 365 (+1 since I technically finished this today) days of being a Wisconsinite deserves a big ol' painting full of all the color feelings that come along with it. #abstractart #watercolor #synesthesia

Abstract watercolor painting featuring diagonal bands of greens, browns, oranges, reds, blues, and purples. Flowing and layered colors throughout.

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