Ava Aum

People in the '60s were so politically charged, angry, and revolting against the systems that divide people. The mid-late '60s and '70s brought about such a shift in consciousness with the peace and love movement. We are living in similar times. Energy flows where attention goes. Awareness of a thing is much different than being consumed by it. We must not allow ourselves to be distracted from what truly matters; what we want to see in the world. The more we give attention to what we don't want, the more we feed it, the more we empower it—and the more we give up our creative power to bring about change. We need another peace and love movement; an elevation in consciousness. This is where I'll be spending my time and energy. I encourage you to join me. — Ava Aum #IKITAO

Had nearly 10TB of important backups sitting on Amazon Drive when they killed it in 2023 and migrated everyone to Amazon Photos. Browser downloads are capped at 5GB or 1,000 files at a time. Amazon Photos has no Linux app. And they want $600/year to keep it there—back when I started, Amazon Drive had an unlimited era. Glad they kept my files on the server this long after the shutdown—but it was time to get them out. Fired up Claude Code in my terminal, had it build a Python script with a terminal file explorer, plugged in my session cookies, and I'm pulling everything down right now—no official app needed. There's always a way. #IKITAO

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@derekmross Good morning, Derek 😆

Good morning and pura vida, legacy social media! It's time to be spoofed content and use rage algorithms. 🫂🤙🏻💜

Google just showed where computing is heading. youtube.com/live/dXCCleAdd… Android is evolving from an operating system into an intelligence system. Gemini Intelligence is being woven across Android, Chrome, Android Auto, Wear OS, Googlebooks, and the broader ecosystem. Not just chatbots. A system-level intelligence layer that can understand context, reason across apps, organize information, manage workflows, and increasingly help handle the small frictions of everyday digital life. The new updates coming to Android and Gemini include: • Understanding texts, emails, screenshots, and app context • Reorganizing schedules around incoming information • Handling multi-step workflows across apps • Making bookings and reservations • Browsing and navigating the web for you • Managing tasks in the background with confirmation layers • Smarter Autofill powered by personal context • AI-generated widgets from plain language • More proactive cross-device assistance Android Auto is also getting major upgrades: • Widgets • Immersive 3D Maps • Full-bleed adaptive interfaces • YouTube/video while parked • Gemini-powered contextual assistance • Voice-driven workflows and actions And then there’s Googlebook: an AI-first laptop category built around Gemini Intelligence and contextual interaction. Magic Pointer activates contextual Gemini actions directly from what’s on screen with a simple wiggle of the cursor. This is what a new generation of computing looks like: Less friction. Less micromanagement. Less time fighting interfaces. More flow. More assistance. More intelligence woven into the experience itself. #IKITAO #Google #AI

LazyVim configured. Neovim, Git, Ripgrep, fd, fzf, Lazygit, Tmux, Node, Python, Starship—and Hack Nerd Font, of course. Every tool has a defined role. Every workflow has a home. Specialized agents—each with their own role, context, memory, and dedicated workspace on my local machine... Works with any model. Capturing inputs, organizing knowledge, mapping projects, coordinating workflows. Managing operations, surfacing context, connecting ideas, tracking processes. Maintaining continuity across the stack. Personal knowledge. Personal projects. Business knowledge. Business operations. Notes, journaling, research, writing, automation, planning, analytics, design, development, and execution. Parallel systems. Compartmentalized workflows. Connected through MCP. Less friction. Less entropy. More signal. Quietly building the future-facing stack. #IKITAO

Today, the Fitbit app is leveling up to become the new @GoogleHealth app. It combines the Fitbit features you know and love with new advanced capabilities and insights. It’s compatible with Fitbit and Pixel Watch, and integrates with hundreds of your favorite apps and devices, like your meal tracker or Peloton.

Anthropic just doubled Claude Code's 5-hour limits for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users. Peak-hour cutbacks for Pro and Max accounts are gone. Opus API limits also got a major increase. Anthropic leased capacity from Colossus 1—a massive AI supercomputer with more than 300 megawatts of power and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, operated by SpaceX and powered by advanced GPUs like H100s, H200s, and GB200s. This is a big deal for Claude users. anthropic.com/news/higher-li… #IKITAO #AI

Picked up these Gannet UV gloves from Coolibar. UPF 50+ with silicone grip palms and touchscreen-compatible fingertips—everything I wanted in a driving glove. Light, breathable, cooling, grippy. The touchscreen response works surprisingly well, and they feel great. #IKITAO

Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat. — James Clear #IKITAO

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden #IKITAO

The palest ink is better than the best memory. — Chinese Proverb #IKITAO

Fedora Linux 44 just dropped fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fed… #IKITAO #Fedora #Linux

Back to daily driving Fedora KDE Plasma 😎 Looking forward to the final 44 release on the 28th. #IKITAO

It is your choice. You are free to do as you please— but you are not free from the consequences of your actions. Quitting alcohol altogether is a very good idea for health, wellness, longevity, and mental clarity. #IKITAO

Rereading The Bhagavad Gita. I’ve been looking forward to this masterful bilingual translation by Bibek Debroy. This new hardcover edition includes his own introduction, written at the end of his life. The translation has been left intact, with minor corrections to the Sanskrit text. --- Invocation Om! O Bhagavadgita, which Bhagavan (Lord) Narayana (Krishna's name) himself used to enlighten Partha (Arjuna) and which was incorporated into the Mahabharata by the ancient sage Vyasa (Vyasadeva or Vedavyasa)! O you, of eighteen chapters, who showers down the immortal knowledge of advaita! O divine mother! I meditate on you, O Bhagavadgita, that frees me from worldly existence! I bow before you, Vyasa, with the great intellect and eyes that are as large as the petals of a lotus in bloom! You lit the lamp of knowledge in which the Mahabharata provides the oil! O you, who made the parijata (a divine flower) bloom and who holds the rod for driving cows! I bow before Krishna the giver of knowledge, who milked the ambrosia of the Gita! All the Upanishads are like cows, Partha is the calf and the learned drink the milk that is the great ambrosia of the Gita. I bow before Krishna, the Lord of the Universe! God, the son of Vasudeva (Krishna's father), the destroyer of Kansa (Krishna's evil uncle) and Chanura (a wrestler sent by Kansa), the supreme bliss of Devaki (Krishna's mother)! Bhishma and Drona were the banks (this is a description of the Kurukshetra war), Jayadratha was the water, the king of Gandhara was the blue lotus, Shalya was the shark (or crocodile), Kripa was the current and Karna was the waves on the banks. Ashvatthama and Vikarna were the terrible crocodiles, and Duryodhana was the whirlpool. With Keshava (Krishna) as the boatman, the Pandavas indeed crossed the river that was the war. The words of Parashara's son (Vyasa) are the immortal lotus, its stamens are the different stories therein, bloomed by Hari's (Krishna) discourse, and its powerful fragrance the essence of the Gita. The good and pure bees of this world drink this, every day and every night. May this produce great good in him who wishes to destroy the taint of kali yuga! I bow before Madhava (Krishna), provider of supreme bliss! His compassion provides the dumb with speech and enables the crippled to traverse mountains. Brahma, Varuna, Indra, Rudra and the Maruts praise him through divine hymns and the singers of the Sama Veda sing to him with their hymns and the consecutive parts of the Upanishads. When established in meditation, the yogis see him, whose limits are unknown to even the gods and the demons, in their minds. I bow before that great God! — The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Bibek Debroy #IKITAO #IKITAOReads

Two schoolchildren were having a conversation. One little girl said, "If you tell me the place where God is, I’ll give you this mango." The other one smiled at her and said, "I’ll give you two mangoes if you can tell me where God is not." — Sri Swami Satchidananda, The Living Gita #IKITAO

New 2600 just dropped #IKITAO #2600

Just heard about the passing of Chuck Norris. There was a time when you could type “find Chuck Norris” into Google, hit “I’m Feeling Lucky”… and the first thing you’d see was a fake Google page: Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you. Early internet magic. RIP legend 💜 #IKITAO