iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 20/09/2026

I'm passionately against AI slop. I also use LLMs constantly to make tools and workflows art. To me, there is no contradiction because 'using AI' isn't one activity. Writing a prompt and building tools are different acts, with a fundamentally different relationship to conceptualisation and creation.

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, the score was 10-5, but Lázaro Montes hit a ball very, very far, so who really won tonight?

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 05/09/2026

Code Review these days 😩 Formalize Fermat's Last Theorem 29,500 files changed +13,000,000 −0 ⚠️ This diff is too large to display.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 31/08/2026

This seems like a privacy disaster. On top of any existing ORCA tracking that currently exists this ADDS exit tapping and forces youth to use identifiable cards even when they owe no fare. Hello, I'm a federal judge, tell me all the kids that went to pride please. 🤬 I hope I'm wrong about this.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 25/08/2026

I just symlink...kinda annoying but this seems like a dramatic response 🤷

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 25/08/2026

Thanks Doll for organizing this! I would be honored to be included 🙏

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 24/08/2026

Is "official sanctions" the only difference here? The U.S. Government also has a positive position on automation for growth that incorporates LLMs even if they don't use words like cybernetics and are perhaps less unified as a whole than the CCP.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Thinking on "high integrity" research, we push students to do slow science, to be upfront about limitations, to balance learning with exploiting. While obviously moral, it must also be the case that by doing this students eventually "win", else you're just creating a generation where... 1/2

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

congrats to her on finding an activity where she can make even fewer points

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026

Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 03/07/2026

I got a thinking trace the other day that said "in their timeline". 😱

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 02/07/2026

Me to Claude, exasperated: "Claude, we don't need to put my misunderstanding on blast in the comments. Please be normal."

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Thomas Iannone @tviannone.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It’s not hard to be a decent person and do the right thing. Let these kids be kids.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 29/06/2026

I definitely do this especially if I feel I haven't articulated everything I need to and don't want it to wander too far without a steering opportunity.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 29/06/2026

"What if we applied LinkedIn recruiter culture to everything" 🫠

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ghosty @ghostytheeghost.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

you’ve heard of canada geese, now get ready for

scoreboard showing #3 canada and #5 reese.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I know I write a post like this every month, but the degree to which the refusal to believe that maybe this is not just a fake bubble thing is getting weirder all the time. And the belief that it is fake removes important perspectives from AI policy making as people just wait for it to go away.

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Alice I Cecile @alice-i-cecile.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

AI: virtually no subject provokes such vitriol in my communities. I can grant the haters many of its harms, but their solutions leave much to be desired. I fear for the future even as I wonder at the future we are living. And so, dear hater, I must write: shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck...

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AI sucks. Hating it is not enough.

A jeremiad on uninvention and bitter hope

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 24/06/2026

I think the security first mindset is yours lol. Absent instructions it will also "Oopsie I put the key in the transcript you should rotate that" 💀

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 19/06/2026

Implicit in all of these is consumer accessibility, ownership, and physical proximity. Under $10K and a standard tradesman. No specialty install team or unusual permitting required.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 19/06/2026

I think "local" probably splits into three tiers: 1. Edge - potentially battery powered. Phones, cameras, laptops, speakers. 2. Desktop - Like a KitchenAid. Headless or not. Runs fine on 120v in a warm room. 3. Major Appliance - like an oven or water heater. Needs 240V and good cooling/ventilation

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 19/06/2026

I think I would call this self-hosted but not local, personally.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The slop, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

we do super appreciate it when our friends who don’t have kids build a relationship with ours though. ersatz aunts/uncles are great, it takes a village, fractional parenthood, all that good stuff

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 23/05/2026

I'm not making this distinction in bad faith and don't mean to present myself as authoritative. I am thinking aloud. Let's say an author has ideas and writes a book. I read it and have new ideas building on what the author wrote. Is there a relationship between the author's intelligence and my own?

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 23/05/2026

And I'm not saying nobody has explored this! I'm sure I have reading to do. I am grateful for these conversations bringing these questions to my attention.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 23/05/2026

Sorry, I may have been imprecise. I just don't think "if it's intelligent it has rights" is a useful step if nobody agrees on the first part. There are interesting questions (to me) I believe are lost in this. e.g. Is there a difference between something being intelligent versus having intelligence?

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 23/05/2026

My reading of Tommaso's post was that it challenged the "intelligence = rights" framing and responded to the "tantamount to slavery" claim by providing an example where we expect rights regardless of intelligence.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 23/05/2026

Because you agree with him?

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 23/05/2026

"has intelligence of any sort, then it has rights" This is not a widely accepted equivalence and also...not really relevant to the discussion of how intelligence is defined. I suppose we can all agree to disagree about what should get to use that term, fine. Plenty of things have bad names.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 23/05/2026

Scalzi is the one moralizing here 🤷

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 23/05/2026

we are surrounded by cool androids and interesting computers

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 22/05/2026

Vindictive Taint has entered the lexicon

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Seattle Social Housing Developer @seasocialhousing.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Here's our Blog post about the first Social Housing building in Seattle -- Elara at the Market!! There you will also find a link to our Housing Lottery!!! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! seattlesocialhousing.org/seattles-fir...

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Seattle's first social housing building - Seattle Social Housing Developer

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 22/05/2026

Sure. Same goes for Trump himself. It's AN explanation not an excuse.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 21/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: System of a Down Cavetown The Mountain Goats Janelle Monét The Linda Lindas Stars Jukebox the Ghost MGMT Carsie Blanton Paramore

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 13/05/2026

And now you're telling me Claude made this???

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 07/05/2026

“AI is a bubble because I don’t want the consumer AI garbage being shoved my way” that intuition makes sense but the business value of AI isn’t in these moronic consumer applications the business value of AI is in business applications. and Anthropic is seeing a serious revenue ramp to prove it

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 06/05/2026

I will never understand the outrage over this. Oh no! I need to spend 30 minutes this YEAR learning about unconscious bias and maybe being a little vulnerable with the people I interact with all day every day. HR needs to do work that isn't plotting layoffs. Catastrophe!

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 04/05/2026

Do you have evidence for this outside of Elon? My understanding is that most of them are paying Wikipedia and Elon is just...a unique dumpster fire. Genuinely curious.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 02/05/2026

I think @timkellogg.me did something like this if I recall correctly

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Alex @aladenrex.eldritch.buzz · 25/04/2026

The pandemic also brought a significant cohort of holdouts online and intensified everyone's digital consumption. That's partially responsible for the datacenter boom even without AI. Though the increase in power demand per datacenter is definitely AI.

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 24/04/2026

yeah The reactionary, anti-knowledge posture to AI is an invitation to progressives to adopt the same paranoia as 5G tower truthers and vaccine microchip nutbars it metastasizes to a distrust of technology broadly and we’re going to need technology to get where we are going

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