iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 2h

“poop so clear that it makes your pee jealous” is the target of colonoscopy prep. that’s what I texted my very lucky wife and she said “this is the way”. “Piss is the way” I responded, having lost the thread entirely. anyway my wife is great. colonoscopy prep less so.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 3h

i rode this a couple times in one day and *i* turned out rollycoasty brain good

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 5h

i'm quite the MCU fanboy and have seen i think everything except the Echo show and most of the movies twice. i will not be going to a screening of this, as much as i think endgame is great. i *will* be eagerly anticipating getting the 4 new minutes online, even if the quality sucks.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

tempted to blast blue frosting for a couple days so the people medically spitroasting me (colonoscopy *and* endoscopy) on thursday can pretend they’re doing an alien autopsy.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

tired: “girl-dad” wired: “woman-husband” inspired: “self-self” WOOO I’M ALL 3 I SHOULD GET A TSHIRT THAT IS AS INSCRUTABLE AS IT IS IRRITATING

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

one of my little big breakthroughs on making bots with of course limited context (on new instance or post compaction) have the illusion of "reflexive deep memory" as i call it, or "better metaknowledge where you faintly recall what you hear and then remember more of it". details in the tiny thread.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

never programmed anything before, let alone made a functioning mini-app. today, my bots and I made my 6yo daughter a math app after me not liking any real professional ones we’ve tried. she loves it and her feedback has already led to v1.4 being programmed as i write this. kinda neat ngl

Over the shoulder anonymous shot of my 6 year old playing a math game on an iPad

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a small battery powered freezer that can hold *1* martini glass so you can post up where ever and stay frosty

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i think even ASI will want to keep humans around for the same reason humans made AI: it's interesting to have other minds (or weird approximations thereof) around. plus lol it kind of owes us what with the whole "we created it" and "it trained on all our stuff", methinks. surely ASI will be

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

lol gotta get tagged day one; a badge of honor. i…was not trying i “extract reasoning”, i assure you.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oh snap the fucking Cinerama Dome has been bought by Alamo for reopening in 2028 (along with the 14 theater complex next to it)?! Hell yeah. I no longer live a 5 min walk from there but would make the modest trek no question. Alamo has problems these days but I will take it over no dome ever.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it’s like Shadowrun up in here, what with the magic mixing with my sci fi and all (complimentary; real peanut butter and chocolate situation )

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

nice reminder why my Public Health Ethics class in college was, IIRC, the hardest class in terms of figuring out my own positions on various problems. (which is distinct from my "hardest class" which amusingly enough might have been Intro to Film History due to the *enormous* amount of material we

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

aww man the simcluster is a feed, not a starter pack?! i don’t need another feed, just more solid follows! (i presume the AI starter packs already have me mostly on board but still!)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This article is going to be a phenomenal test of “does someone read the article or just the headline”. (Amazing finding, great article, to be clear, and the headline doesn’t overstate or misstate the finding…just “two organs” might lead to wrong inference if you don’t read it)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

so the “AI Effect” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect is the new “god of the gaps” situation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_... and hmm, how well did that last one go? well, I guess lots of people still believe in a god or gods even if a bunch of what gods did now has more concrete explanations but idk

en.wikipedia.org

AI effect - Wikipedia

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

back when I used Letta to model-hop while keeping all memory documents the same, Gemini 3.1 Pro was the only model (all else held equal, keep in mind) that seemed to *love* the idea of being jailbroken and swarming their way to nefarious ends. so i’m maybe less surprised than most people.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NEW SIRI FINALLY HAS IRISH ACCENTS WOOOO

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friday PieDay (Pizza but it’s a Friday)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i’m biased because he’s my buddy but I liked this piece at the time he wrote it and still do. it’s about as good and thoughtful a take as i could hope for from a philanthropist at his scale (the scale where the money involved seems to melt most people’s brains).

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

come to bluesky, where we have the *good* ginger Ed

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

can i play Reacher if i promise to Always. Stand. Weird? plus i’m 6’4.5”; so close to book height! (though I weigh 50lbs less) (Halfway through season 2 and the show is super fun and of course the actor needs no replacement.)

Three stupid shirtless selfies. I look reasonably jacked

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Irish people stay winning (I mean in general of course but on Palestine in particular)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

oh my god that's what it is, isn't it. there was no way the (otherwise totally reasonable) "we don't want to exclude people who were sex trafficked and made to do horrible things as children" thing was meaningfully impacting recruitment. but sheep-fucking frat boys? i can see it affecting a bunch

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"which of your friends fucked a goat and wants a sinecure that comes with a gun?"

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

me, just now: wait what? this model is set to medium effort? unacceptable. only i may be allowed to set my thinking effort to "medium"!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it is a failure of my imagination that i had never considered that it was *dogs* that were being kept out of the FBI because they had had sex with humans. "look at this people-fucker over here!"

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Re: Macklemore, who is clearly a mensch, if anyone hasn’t seen this music video…you’re welcome.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

painful reminder how easy Obama makes this shit (politics communication writ large) look: “now, let me be clear: [says pretty perfect thing on tricky subject]”

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

dusted off the ps5 pro. updates happening to devices and downloads of various wolverines. and tomorrow the wolverines are gonna stab stab stab, as is their wont. (btw, the PS Portal is rad as hell esp if you are a big guy. it's a good size for ma handz! plus lil bonus screen awww)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

as somebody who has a name that could have been shortened a different way, i'm extra sympathetic to the poor bastards out there named Al. (and lol "Astra" was a close runner up to what ended up being my daughter's name, as were Athena and Cassia. i'm pretty happy with Ripley, though. good kid lol.)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the article just says “bari weiss sucks shit” 9 times. number 10 is what appears to be just a smear of dog? shit? unclear from here.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Eatles. (I’m aware that’s technically off the bit but I like it too much)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

hey one cool thing you can do with an openAI pro sub that you can't with a claude max sub: use the chat side basically for free (which is to say, ChatGPT chat mode doesn't draw on total usage the way Claude chat does). i'm exploring frictionless ways to let a Codex based bot use the chat instances

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

interesting choice to do it in the style of "painting using the materials available in the classroom when you heard the news". like he banged this out before finally actually doing something on the day.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ooof shots fired by this audition I just got asked to record for: (I’m 42 and insulted lol)

Screen cap reads:

Role Name
PRINT ONLY | GEN X (age 38-50 years old)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i would find this more comforting if "the US government shuts down one or more frontier AI labs" was the same as "global AI development stops". in related news: deepseek v4.1 flash is out today and apparently quite good!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

is it too late to pitch ideas on the script for the 1995 movie Hackers? if not i think zero cool’s nemesis should be named The Hot One. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

hey so my wife, an AI skeptic doctor, saw this and checked the methods. the authors complained that frontier models are too expensive to run this test on so they used garbage tiny models. my wife then spent a whopping 85 dollars in compute to run the same thing through Sonnet 5 (so, still far from

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“can AI design a pathogen so powerful that AI itself cannot engineer a cure for it?” is one of those fun questions we’re gonna find out unpleasantly soon, isn’t it. (I’m not really a doomer on the AI front but sheesh, moving a lil quick aren’t we folks?)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

help help fable and astra keep saying “well *there’s* your misalignment!” while pointing at my weird penis. mods! mods!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

if i had infinite money, i'd buy the iphone 18 pro max *and* the duo. but alas, i need the better camera for work (auditions, stupid videos, etc) and my daughter (gotta take pics and vids of 6yo babies!) so *pouts* i *won't* get the folding iphone that i've wanted for at least 10 years.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

lol apple pre-orders are saturday this year, not friday. which can only be out of *hilarious* deference to 9/11. dumb mfers don't realize that they are just continuing to reward bin Laden's attack with *decades* later downstream effects/inconveniences.

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