iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did Congrats, you cut the cord. Now you have six more cords. Streaming prices are rising three times as fast as inflation, making escaping cable company greed now seem quaint. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did

Congrats, you cut the cord. Now you have six more cords. Streaming prices are rising three times as fast as inflation, making escaping cable company greed now seem quaint.

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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 11/09/2026

"An ambient recording device changes the dynamics of human interaction: How open or candid can people truly be if every conversation might be transcribed and analyzed? While the technology is impressive, the potential shift in how we communicate with one another is what concerns me most."

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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 02/09/2026

Apple joined Google in deciding to kiss the ring, but Microsoft is continuing to hold out on Lake Ontario — even though it went along with Trump's Gulf of America idiocy.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cover. 💔 @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

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Frode #Fella @frodehommedal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

– Google’s own description of the “fun feature” is that Nano Banana “creates concepts grounded in the real world.” The purpose of disinformation and propaganda isn't to convince you of one lie, it is to convince you nothing can be trusted so that you not believe anything and not do anything. 1/5+🧵

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Patrick George @patrickgeorge.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“If I get hot in my car and want some air conditioning, I just want to turn a knob and have cold air come out." Meet the drivers who are rebelling against the tech revolution in cars: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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These Drivers Are Taking Extreme Measures to Avoid New Car Technology

They scour dealerships for models with the fewest bells and whistles. Then they disable alarms and reconfigure dashboards in search of low-tech bliss.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The next time someone wants to debate you about the actual cost of building utility scale solar or wind generation versus fossil fuels, please refer them to this annual and definitive report: Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ www.lazard.com/research-ins...

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Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ (LCOE+)

Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ is a widely cited report that analyzes the cost competitiveness of renewables, energy storage, and system considerations.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Elon Musk's xAI has installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee than it has publicly acknowledged, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest, a Reuters analysis found. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities

Exploding electricity demand from AI data centers is driving companies to build off-grid power plants at a pace outstripping environmental oversight, with potentially big risks to public health.

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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 10/07/2026

Gag had been deeply involved in the advocacy and action behind Boston's “Vision Zero” policy – the international roadway safety initiative that aims to reduce and eliminate the risks of death and injury on city streets. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/10/l...

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Louisa Gag, Longtime Street Safety Advocate, Identified as Thursday's Crash Victim - Streetsblog Massachusetts

Family members have identified the victim of Thursday morning's homicide crash near Roxbury Crossing as Louisa Gag, a longtime street safety advocate and transportation planner at Boston's City Hall.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Fascinating. The free market does not optimize for human happiness.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A draft Treasury Department report warns risks posed by the artificial intelligence market, likening key aspects to the dotcom bubble that upended the US economy when it burst in the early 2000s... a significant departure from the Trump administration’s public tone. www.notus.org/economy/trea...

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Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble

Publicly, the Trump administration is bullish about AI. Privately, some of its analysts are weighing AI against the dotcom bust.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Such a big loss and a reminder that life short.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Vox sold @theverge.com to Penske Media, which owns titles like The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Billboard, WWD, and Variety. That sounds like a good outcome... www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The truthiness is out there...

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tesla’s Robotaxi Falls Short With Long Waits and Stalled Rides The carmaker has just 59 vehicles in its fleet and is limited to three Texas cities, nowhere close to Elon Musk’s big promises. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tesla’s Robotaxi Falls Short With Long Waits and Stalled Rides

The carmaker has just 59 vehicles in its fleet and is limited to three Texas cities, nowhere close to Elon Musk’s big promises.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Claude Fable 5 kicked me out when I asked about a sick tree in my yard, I guess for being a question about biology...but Opus 4.8 gave a pretty good, if depressing, answer.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Apple updated Watch OS 27 eligibility. Phew. bsky.app/profile/vicm...

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This should've been the lede to WSJ story on AI stockpicker superstar Leopold Aschenbrenner: In each market mania, new celebrity stock pickers get anointed, from Ryan Jacob and his Internet Fund during the dot-com era to Cathie Wood and her ARK Innovation ETF during the pandemic rally of 2020.

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Ben West @westbywest.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's really important to see pushback from the markets against super massive trillion dollar IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI. They don't want AI companies with comically inflated market cap forcing prompt purchase of their shares through index funds / 401ks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P

S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep its existing eligibility requirements for main benchmarks like the S&P 500 Index, rejecting proposals that would have made it faster for mega-cap companies such...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 02/06/2026

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Woman held by ICE for 25 days, despite U.S. citizenship claim, gets a passport

Attorneys for Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales had presented a Maryland birth certificate and other documents as proof of her U.S. citizenship.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Enjoyed getting back on the radio to talk Boston tech, and Whoop specifically, with Jeff Bussgang and host Edgar Herwick on @wgbh.org's Curiosity Desk show today. www.youtube.com/live/qapDRuY...

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Monday, June 1, 2026

YouTube video by GBH News

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Alexa Gagosz @alexagagosz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Getting to work on “Magic: The Gathering Arena,” a digital game modeled after the popular card game at toy giant Hasbro Inc., is a dream for many developers. But after mounting frustrations, they’re now unionizing. My latest, via @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/28/b...

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‘Dream job for any gamer’: The wizards behind popular Magic game are trying to unionize - The Boston Globe

More than 100 employees, many of whom are lifelong fans of the game, are now trying to unionize — hoping to push back against what they describe as a series of aggressive and unnecessary measures by M...

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Greetings Professor Falken. Shall we play a game? Kinda chilling anecdote, if you think about it, from @stevenlevy.bsky.social’s great feature on AI agents and the birth of OpenClaw. www.wired.com/story/how-ai...

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Worried about @theverge.com now: Murdoch made off with the crown jewels of the Vox Media empire…The remaining titles… do not throw off cash and are rooted quite firmly to the open web, which itself is cratering due to the disruption posed by artificial intelligence. www.adweek.com/media/vox-me...

adweek.com

Vox Media’s Unsold Brands Field Penske Interest, Exec Exits

As the portfolio is parceled up, a key revenue leader plots his exit

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

SpaceX IPO filing shows the company makes a ton of profit and cash flow from its Starlink internet service. Operating profit of $4.4 billion and adjusted cash flow of $7.2 billion last year. Meanwhile, space loses money on an operating basis (lots of spending for new rockets), and AI? Oh boy…

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Buy, buy, buy — is there enough demand for a 2-sided market? A new futures market for semiconductors will let traders hedge their artificial intelligence investments with bets on the increasingly expensive price of computing power. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/n...

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Traders will soon be able to bet on computer chip prices as AI drives costs skyward

Contracts can be used to hedge against rising GPU rental rates and other operational costs

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What about the folded paper over top lip from "You must pay the rent..." bit? #Zoom www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lKe... Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache www.theregister.com/security/202...

theregister.com

Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

: 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Valuable tallying of the history and all the ways you've lost privacy in your own car: The Car That Watches You Back The automobile spent a century as a machine you owned. Somewhere between the touchscreen and the cellular modem, that changed. nobodyaskedforthis.lol/posts/connec...

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The Car That Watches You Back — Nobody Asked for This

How the connected car became an advertising surface. From Stellantis startup pop-ups to GSTV pumps to Gulp Radio aisles, and the consent infrastructure the automobile never developed.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Little nugget via Goldman Sachs research: there have been no IPOs YTD in the Information Technology sector despite the sector representing 25% of IPOs since 1995.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The weird science of training, restricting and testing AI chatbots: The goblins were funny at first, but the increasing number of employee reports became concerning. openai.com/index/where-...

openai.com

Where the goblins came from

How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Musk asked to explain who former OpenAI board member Shivon Zilis was. “Shivon was the, um, my chief of staff and, uh, you know,” Musk said. One person — presumably familiar with the fact that Zilis is the mother of a few of Musk’s kids — burst out in loud laughter. But the jury looked puzzled.

theverge.com

Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared

“Larry Page refused to speak to me ever again.”

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you? While we don’t have time machines yet, we can simulate this experience by training ‘vintage’ language models trained only on historical text.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 27/04/2026

Jury selection in the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman/OpenAI case is complicated by the fact that potential jurors have a negative view of AI and Elon Musk:

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

from jurors' questionnaires: "Elon Musk is a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage." "Elon Musk is a world-class jerk." "I very much dislike Tesla. As a woman of color, I am very aware of the damaging statements and actions Elon Musk has enacted and been a part of."

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Solid piece by @gruber.foo on Apple’s CEO change but this line strikes an odd note: “If he’s made mistakes, they’re errors in taste, not mistaken priorities.” The biggest possible mistake, depending on China, depending on Google for AI, getting cozy with Trump, would be due to mistaken priorities.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Key point from Snell: “Every time a new person takes over, whether it’s in the role of CEO or even just a middle manager, there’s an opportunity for change. Even if you worked for the old boss, once you’re the new boss, you have the opportunity to turn the page.” App Store and developer relations?

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Can someone remind me of the rumor reporting on Cook retiring? Didn’t someone, the FT?, report he would retire this year and someone else, Bloomberg maybe, say no?

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Rest assured that Tim will still be around to hand out gold statues to authoritarians around the world in exchange for tariff relief

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A few years overdue, at least.

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