iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

88 years old and still got it

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What a sentence. What. A. Sentence.

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The previous book I read in this style was Nina Allan's A Granite Silence, where again a woman travels in quiet isolation, moving through a closed world (in this case during lockdown), staying in hotels, making no permanent connections. Maybe I am extrapolating a movement from two striking instances

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It reminds me a bit of Flann O'Brien's story that from birth we are given a diaphanous gown each day, putting each one on above the previous, and the almost imperceptable colour builds up in fine sheets each day until it takes form, then darkens, and eventually becomes black and we die.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am reading On The Calculation of Volume. I am on part two. It is written in a distinctive contemporary literary style where small details of journeys, purchases, and food (in particular) are meticulously reported. I think the SF trope (a time loop) was chosen to provide a context for the style.

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I never watched it but it couldn't be more dreary seventies

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Those are all great. Get Carter. The Third Man. I'd like to include Alien but it was US funded I think.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026

A good point made in Carissa Véliz’s Prophecy is how this kind of “consensual non-consent” is justified as a consequence of the warped utilitarian philosophy underlying Effective Altruism, and this carries over into the way that AI products are being forced on to the rest of society.

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sadly Terry and June were (just Google searched). But not Margo and Jerry! Give the public what they want.

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Small Prophets | tv Looking forward to the British BBC series — Apple with the quality IMDb 8.2 Rotten Tomatoes 100%

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I read an extract yesterday which was very bad

You may have heard of it, but if you are like me did not realise the massive recruitment and influencing impact it had on a number of young people, some of whom are now embedded in the perhaps not entirely healthy ecology of the AI love/hate world

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Bizarrely it is absolutely central, in a way that would be hard to credit except it's real life. Basically Eliezer Yudkowsky who is key Rationalist guru, progenitor of Less Wrong etc, promulgated his ideas during 2010-2015 through a 660K fanfic novel called 'HP and the Methods of Rationality'

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I am not sure it's healthy but I have been glued to the unfolding AI doomer/ HP fanfic/ polyamorous sex cult/ Aella orgy / Effective Altruism train wreck. Man. Wish they weren't in charge of the world right now.

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Yes I know exacly what you mean

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very sorry you are having to go through this

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have noticed this comes as shocking news to a lot of 'non-young' people: the youth don't like AI, It gives them the ick. Olders think because they have learned a new thing they must be aligning with the young, but it doesn't work like that.

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In children's publishing, this has been like VE Day.

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So clever and saying things I wish I had framed so clearly

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I also think women's preferences to space out children, or have no children, are natural and appropriate. People like Musk and Thiel say that threatens our species, but you can't just project a trend line into the future until it hits zero. This is intellectual nonsense top to bottom.

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A morality metric based on (happiness * number of future humans) can't be right. We are an apex predator. I don't think there should be uncountable billions of us, any more than billions of lions, or billions of orcas, or billions of condors.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

> future generations unavailable for comment

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I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm thinking of that TS Eliot line 'The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless'. A bit of humility would break this hyper-rationalist spiral of consequentialism. We don't know the consequences. The further we get from the present the less we know.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can't tell any more if they believe it or affect to believe it. There was a sympathetic interview with one of the gang, saying 'AI is a superintelligence that surpasses humanity' - on ITV News last night! I think the interviewer and newsreader were a bit out of their depth.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Running a webinar from 8am today, so I've got an hour to get this hair into some kind of order

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rhea Seehorn finally gets an Emmy - so overdue

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If the rationalist dweebs developing Ai think there's a good chance that it's going to wipe out humanity then basic game theory dictates that the logical course of action for the rest of us would be to [manuscript breaks off]

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Home river - The Blythe - I thought it went into the Avon, but wikipedia says the Trent, it must be right on the watershed

reposting with actor's name: A central character in Furious is disabled. He is played by an actor called Steve Way who is amazing. Possibly they wrote the part for him. A real masterclass iin both the writing and acting of the role.

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The female experience is centred. There are a lot of scenes around social provisions such as domestic violence shelters. Law enforcement is shown as severely compromised and misogynist. Male roles more complex and vulnerable than this quick sketch might imply. Altogether a great watch I would say.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I strongly recommend Furious (which is on Disney in the UK), though be aware it deals with traumatic issues. It is about a woman who was trafficked as a child, and is taking bloody revenge on the men previously involved in the abusive situation. And the female FBI agent who is assigned the case.

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Fabulous Ice Age spear thrower handle carved in the form of an animal. Known as the ‘Creeping Hyena’ it was carved from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago. The shaft is missing, but the hook to propel the spear is still visible. From La Madeleine rock shelter, France. 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Starting my read-along of EMMA with (well, trailing behind) @trungles.com this fine Sunday morning! Here’s what I know going in: * CLUELESS * Austen called Emma a heroine whom no-one but her would much like * Margaret Morgenroth Gullette thinks Mr Woodhouse has dementia

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a slightly mystical Sufi he spent most of the time meditating, but I have to say such prolonged solitude would test my mental fortitude. He said the hardest part was listening to some highly disturbed inmates screaming day and night. Anyway, they ended up fining him a few thousand quid.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My friend who was arrested spent several weeks in remand for 'walking slowly in the road for 15 minutes'. He said that every official person he had to interact with said 'you shouldn't be here' (ie in solitary confinement 23 hours a day with no books, paper, contact with outside world).