iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/05/2025

This may genuinely be one of the most devastating things I've seen about a tech CEO in the mainstream media. Amazing.

Backers are asked to believe that OpenAI is the most responsible guardian of The Dangerous Majick, while also understanding that the urgency of Al's arms race frees it from all obligation to act responsibly. Burning cash is foundational to its business. There's no time to sandbox new products or abide by laws when liquidity is only ever measured in months. The looming threat of insolvency is what propels OpenAI forward.
Does value-for-money get a look in? We know very little about OpenAI's day-to-day operating costs, but we've learned a little more about the day-to-day operating costs of the CEO.

Maybe it's useful to know that Altman uses a knife that's showy but incohesive and wrong for the job; he wastes huge amounts of money on olive oil that he uses recklessly; and he has an automated coffee machine that claims to save
labour while doing the exact opposite because it can't be trusted. His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste. If that's any indication of how he runs the company, insolvency cannot be considered too unrealistic a threat.

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 05/03/2025

SHOW ME TO ME PLEASE SEND IT TO ME RACHEL

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/02/2025

Boss Thinks Female Employee Might Be Ready To Handle Job She’s Been Doing For Past 2 Years theonion.com/boss-th...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Canadians on here actually being like "I can't believe how bad things are getting in the US" without acknowledging Alberta just passed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws and are about to vote Doug Ford back into power. Wakeup because the far right are in inside the building

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

this man is a predator running a cult please don't even bother arguing with me you can't convince me otherwise lol. really sick behavior

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Maggie 🇨🇦 @magsster.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Well, Doug, if you want to revert to archaic forms of punishment such as the death penalty, what should the punishment be for fraud, corruption, and theft? We know you (Jack & Jill) and Steve Clark were involved. RCMP investigation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca

Lawsuit alleges former Ford staffers promised to use 'backchannel contacts' to get land rezoned | CBC News

Two former Ford government staffers — including one at the centre of the Greenbelt scandal — are being sued by a property developer who alleges they promised to use their influence at Queen's Park to ...

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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 14/02/2025

The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

404media.co

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Federal employee with a data role told me that a document was removed from employee access because it had the word "inclusion" in it. As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."

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Amanda M @amandamcodes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

My partner did not want to taste my banana bread batter because he knows it's not safe to have raw flour or eggs but I had some anyway because I figured a small amount was fine but then ended up with the 💩 so love that for myself

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).

For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.

Thank you for your service”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/02/2025

elon musk is the shadow president and making up what he deems legal. he genuinely wants it to be a crime to know who is working for him

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NY Post article headline says immigrants are being "coached to fight back" by leftist groups and in the article what they're talking about is making sure that they know their constitutional rights

New York Post
@nypost

Chicago raids expose how leftist groups help
criminals evade ICE: 'Coached to fight back'
trib.al/RBqWpsO
2:48 PM • Jan 31, 2025

“I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or
hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under
the United States Constitution.
I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th
Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you
have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my
name on it that you slide under the door.
I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on
my 4th Amendment nights.
I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.”

Leftist groups have been coaching migrants on their constiutional rights and
what to say if they are approached by a federal officer.

Dana Kennedy for NY Post

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/02/2025

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

X post:

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/02/2025

Worth reading.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private. Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene. / more for Canadians

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/02/2025

On top of all of this truly horrifying and terrifying shit we also have to suffer the indignity of saying "DOGE" every time we find out about which 22-year-old that wears a bowtie is currently deleting people from social security based on how "based their vibe is"

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 03/02/2025

every time i read about musk and his young turd engineers i think of chang taking over greendale www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

image of chang in napoleonic costume walking the halls of greendale community with his middle-school deputies, from the tv show “community”

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I think it’s been interesting to see that the Right is not even arguing this stuff is good anymore. It’s just “wow look the libs are mad! Yep no more DEI!” They are pretending half of this stuff isn’t happening at all.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.
The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.
OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Elon Musk's anti-remote work crusade is so funny to me this is the guy with the vision for the future? he wants to go to Mars, why? so you can sit in an office cubicle from 9 to 5 but you're doing it on the Red Planet? lol

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/01/2025

everything trump is doing is indistinguishable from the tactics a foreign adversary would use to dismantle any semblance of coherent governance and expedite collapse

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Amanda M @amandamcodes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My therapist says she looks forward to our sessions and that she's impressed by me I'm claiming this as a flex

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Amanda M @amandamcodes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/11/2024

i’ve been seeing people joining bluesky saying their feeds are dull or slow and want more people to follow, i put together a startpack of people i think are very funny, smart, i’m friends with, and people we had on western kabuki!

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

THE INVENTOR OF THE EULOGY: read 'em and weep

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

They are now admitting they literally don't know what they're yelling about.

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Hexcraft (goth bf era) @hexcraft.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

btw new skeeters there are NO dms if you wanna shoot your shot you do it publicly in the town square 🫵

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

the old hellsite is dying. the new hellsite struggles to be born. this is the time of posts.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 01/07/2023

AI is melting all these guys brains because now they’re convinced that all their user generated content is a goldmine but that have zero idea how to actually make money off it. Instead of solving that problem they’re going apeshit trying to keep people from getting it.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

App developers now pay as much as $42,000 per month for access to Twitter's API Yet the API keeps breaking, Twitter keeps reducing its features, & support is non existent I spoke to dozens of devs & the sentiment is "everything worked before Elon Musk"

mashable.com

Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000

Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.

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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

So "skeet" is neat because in icelandic "skíta" [skeet-ah] is "to shit" and therefore it's the shitposting platform

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 16/06/2023

scroll break for a moment in nature ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡ ⋆｡ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡ ⋆ ﾟ｡ ⋆ 𓋼𓍊 𓆏 𓍊𓋼𓍊 𓇢𓆸𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 𓆝 𓆟 𓀐𓂸 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2023

I find utopian science fiction (which, despite the conflicts in Star Trek I’d still say is more utopian than not) to be way more fascinating than dystopian. It can be easy to whip up stories of a bad future. It takes real imagination & effort to imagine how an advanced ethical society could succeed

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🦋Jenny Q Ta @jennyqta.bsky.social · 09/06/2023

Omg, there are pics released 😳 These are boxes of classified documents stored at Mar-A-Lago

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

Anti-trans group realizes their quest to stop trans women from using the women's bathroom is forcing trans men to use the women's bathroom, so instead of claiming to be a trans woman any cis man could simply claim to be a trans man

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/06/2023

Four great ways to protect your lungs from wildfire smoke: *Wear a mask *Stay indoors *Use an air purifier *Demolish a fossil fuel company and wear its teeth as a necklace

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