iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/10/2026

Failing up ..."Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare. A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare

A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Learning how to pirate music was evidence of how much we cared about that music. It sucked, but I just can’t fucking relate to people willing to pay a subscription to listen to AI slop. Loser behaviour.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When I transferred those playlists from Spotify to Tidal, there were over 10k songs and I could tell you something about all of them, because I chose them. Why the fuck have people deprived themselves of enjoying music as anything more than background noise? The antidote is giving a shit.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t even understand people willing to let an algorithm pick out music for them. The whole entire appeal of streaming was discovering the hyper specific bands that inspired the music I listened to, the internet made that suddenly easy. I have never relinquished making my own playlists.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t think of myself as “cool” anymore, just “cool for my age”, but MAN, is it abundantly clear that nobody young and cool is going to listen to your slop album, when Iggy Pop is right there waiting to be new again to a bunch of eighteen year olds willing to cancel Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If you listen to AI generated music by choice, you are an incurable loser.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most design opinions I see on the internet suck, they’re rarely expressed by anyone with credible industry experience as a designer, and they’re not as deep, informed or interesting as they could be. For more than just quippy memes about notorious fonts, there’s Design Theory:

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How Companies Use Design to Spy on You

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

It turns out you can’t actually base an entire economy on skull measuring

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using ChatGPT.

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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal

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Princess Weekes @princesmweekes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Initially, I didn't plan to do a Star Trek video, but while I was in the shower, an idea popped into my head, and here we are. New Video: youtu.be/wmraygqDEx0

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How Star Trek: DS9 Saw 2024 Coming 30 Years Ago

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, I know between Epstein, the Cornell 7, and pervert glasses, it can feel like a really scary time to be a woman. But let’s not also forget the online rape academy, I think we forgot about that shit too quickly.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot don’t, in my opinion. They fall in love with him, they like having sex with them. But LIKE them? Want to spend time with them? Appreciate the things they like and the way they think and their perspectives? Nope.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was in college, I had to chase dudes away from a girl who passed out on our dorm room sofa. They were just standing over her giggling, it was one of the most sinister things I’ve ever seen. I know it’s not just one girl.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is no way it was just one girl. It is never, never ever just one girl.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So because the government pays social workers insufficient wages, getting a degree in social work will be a luxury exclusively for those wealthy enough to pay for a degree in cash. What could go fucking wrong.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Story after story right now about OpenAI models failing on safety, but it’s all been in the context of cybersecurity. What about ChatGPT fueling school shooters? We just published a major investigation exposing that further and the details are beyond disturbing www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

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Exclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns

The model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Lot of people saying “can’t believe QAnon was right” instead of “can’t believe the feminists were right about rape culture”, which feels suspicious tbqh.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m still of the opinion that AI is particularly attractive to people who struggle with toxic perfectionism. The tech industry is promising, first and foremost, to help people avoid social faux pas, people who are afraid of embarrassment, people who desire the appearance of control and competence.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of the geopolitics will seem silly, but its wild that Russell imagined in 1996 that workers would view AI companies and their employees as “vultures”, that much of that programming work would be done by vulnerable people, and that it could not replace humans at tasks requiring intuition.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Idk, I’m trying to spend more time with my sketchbook

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Cadu Rodrigues @sotosendocadu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tbh, I think we need to kill the concept of being the idea guy by this point People really misunderstand art making and even working professionally in creative fields because of how people over appreciate "the idea" part of the process

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The PT debacle feels like the poster child for everything that’s happened to the game industry since: just a series of inscrutable corporate decisions that seem like a form of gleeful self sabotage.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m reading Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow, and it feels like a good indicator of quality how often I have to put it down to digest and contemplate the story, even though I want to plow ahead. It is so uneasy, exuberant and cruel.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Widow’s Bay is Great. Fantastic even. But is it as good as Midnight Mass? No, nothing is as good as Midnight Mass.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hate it when people make robots look cute to fool you into thinking they're good.

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I Quit My Job Because of JK Rowling"

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Jules @ds9official.singles · 23/09/2026

one thing about newsom is that once you notice his gul dukat vibe you can't unsee it

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People have the gall to ask “what do you mean ‘rape culture?’” Meanwhile, sorry the cops can’t investigate the gang rape at an Ivy League school, they’re too busy stalking women with Flock cameras, the school administration would rather they didn’t. We mean the “law and order” president is a rapist.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t drink coffee, and it’s rare that I meet an adult who doesn’t give me a hard time about it. Like people think I’m being a strange and contrarian show off or something, when in reality I just don’t like shitting myself inside out at 9:00am

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Jesus thank god for Cory, because yes: “AI is going to detect cancer” is a pitch for a future where your radiologist is deskilled and underpaid to rubber stamp the output of an unaccountable machine…we should be suspicious of that pitch.

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Why AI Can’t Replace You with Cory Doctorow

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jesus Christ, he’s a fucking fetus.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tech oligarchs wants to blot out the sky with satellites and data centres and orbital sun-reflecting mirrored platforms. It’s such a deeply profane transgression against the planet and all life that I can barely articulate the grief I feel, I don’t know how I’m the same species as these people.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The more the AI industry pleads “stop us!” the more I hear “we are not profitable, please force us out of business so we don’t have to pay back any of our investors!”

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The end is nigh! The AI is too powerful!” “But also here’s your new Muse assistant, it’s amazing!” “We regret to inform you that Muse is actually just an underpaid worker in the global south who watches you sleep and makes dinner reservations on your behalf.” Fucking cool.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Insane that we’re going to spend our fourth anniversary on the Amalfi Coast 💀 The most fancy vacation we’ve taken together before now was four nights camping on Lake Ontario lol

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it's easier to imagine the computer ending the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism

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WIRED @wired.com · 26/09/2026

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shocked this blew up the way it did, thank you ❤️

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