iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 4h

These guys should be forced to wear the hot dog costume when they "warn" us of this stuff

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8h

I implore all cis people to read this.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Dee Evelyn @deeboom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Talyn is a wonderful woman, and an incredible friend. She started the fundraiser for me that led to me being able to get my VFS, something I may never have done alone Please donate if you can, or share if you can't and let's try and get her the help she needs, because she deserves it so much ❤️🙏🏻

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Help Talyn Fund Her Gender Affirming Treatments

Hey there! So Talyn has been transition for a few years now and needs a bit of help for the next stage of treatment and surgery.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last weekend I was a referee at the tryouts for Team Scotland Roller Derby. It was very fun! A lot of quite tricky reffing, and I got to help the national team! Mark Harris took some great photos (hard to do in a sports hall) Also: it's hard to be neutral when some of your best pals are trying out!

Amy, a tall woman, is roller skating indoors and wearing a striped referee top. She’s pointing to a skater on her right, who’s slight shorter, wearing a black top, and a helmet cover with a star. Both are smiling and having a great time!

Amy, a tall woman, is roller skating indoors wearing a striped referee top in the foreground. She’s pointing to another skater in the background, who’s wearing a black top and a helmet cover.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is no skill these people don't consider a means to an end they want the experience machine they're begging for their AI models to create it, to hook them up to the machine

excerpt from Wikipedia's "Experience Machine":
The thought experiment: Nozick describes a machine that could provide whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences a subject could want. In this thought experiment, psychologists have figured out a way to stimulate a person's brain to induce pleasurable experiences that the subject could not distinguish from those they would have apart from the machine. He then asks, if given the choice, would the subject prefer the machine to real life?

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm reaching some kind of breaking point re: AI. At this point there are maybe a couple of us still not using it at one of my clients, but it feels like everyone is just "hey Claude said this! Gemini recommends you do this! What? You're not using AI? That's a waste of time" all the fucking time.

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: Scotland's train drivers are threatening a boycott over a firm shortlisted to build new vehicles having links to illegal Israeli settlements 5 firms are shortlisted to build the new fleet for Scotland's publicly owned rail company, including Spain's CAF

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emma (toys) @freeuse.toys · 16/09/2026

this shit is awesome and i don't wanna risk some sort of bullshit international terrorism charges so i won't do anything this info and i am absolutely not encouraging anyone to do anything with this information but i think it is very important information to have

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/09/2026

The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID. Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...

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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people

Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Aleen @aleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

J wrote a great post about Apple Watch's upcoming Live Rewind and Siri Recap capabilities. "The existence of these features helps normalize persistent surveillance at exactly the point in our history when we should be doing the exact opposite."

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👂 Features that Shouldn't Exist: Live Rewind and Siri Recap • VioletPixel

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there are no words I'm allowed to say on this website that adequately describe what I think should happen to the "whistleblowers" who got people fired (and in some cases deported) for exercising their legal right to unionise :)

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Category Is Books is an incredible queer bookshop in Glasgow. They've created such a safe space for queer folks, and now they've been targeted because their front window says "trans liberation". They're running a fundraiser to be able to install roller shutters so this doesn't happen again

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh no! I love Category Is. Got some great books and stickers from there - would also love to see them meet their goal

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And listening to the @theincomparable.com Rocky Horror episode the day after made me smile a whole bunch, what a great episode! Like a lot of the episodes, it made me love and appreciate the movie even more 🥰 www.theincomparable.com/thein...

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Day number 5 of having just about the entire Rocky Horror soundtrack stuck in my head. Isn't ADHD neat? (I'm not complaining cause it's a bunch of bops, but I would also appreciate even a minute of not having my brain scream the two same lines of a song at me)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 06/09/2026

Bad Vibes Coding Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

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Bad Vibes Coding

Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Logging on

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This also goes for referencing HP in pop culture works. I really wish people would stop using the characters as shortcuts in scripts to describe something, or writing jokes about HP that don't acknowledge the massive harm JKR is doing (looking at you, Ted Lasso)

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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In addition to the calls to not watch the new Potter show, I wanna also add that I know a lot of folks will think that pirating it is fine as it's not financially supporting it, but I wouldn't even do that. Make the show and JKR culturally irrelevant There are so many other things to watch instead

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Find yourself the fanfic authors that write 25k+ word chapters full of beautiful prose once every other month for your fandom. You get great stories, and it's always delightful getting an email along the lines of "here are a lot of gay words for you to enjoy" out of nowhere

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

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Robin June @celestialrobin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If they're a Tory ask them how this fits with the fucking freedom of the individual. There's not even anything in this about age of consent, it's adult provision

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Robin June @celestialrobin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Useful points Of course Wales is referring people faster than average, because lots of GICs have life-long waiting lists. People who've waited years for proven procedures have had them cancelled on short notice. It's come from a bloody blog post.

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Robin June @celestialrobin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yep, if your MP is anything better than a raging bigot then email them wherever you are. You can say "I know health is devolved but you need to know about this, we must oppose this ban itself and guard against it spreading." Even just send them the QueerAF article.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ted didn’t notice the name of the account who posted this Dolly clip he retweeted until it was much too late. He finally deleted it after he was made aware.

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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This article is frustrating. The problem isn't mostly due to Donald Trump. The British media has been key in fuelling racist and transphobic narratives. Labour and Tory parties have enacted policies first floated by the fascists of the National Front, BNP, UKIP and Reform. The problems start here.

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Edinburgh Festivals Diary: How transphobia and racism has become a theme of this year's Fringe

Multiple performers have told their story of racist, transphobic or homophobic abuse

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Moisés Chiullán @moiseschiu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

18 months ago, my mom almost died. When I went to do a wellness check on her, a reckless driver almost killed me. We’re both alive and safe, but also both in danger of eviction. Anything helps, including just sharing the story. buttondown.com/officehours/...

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Avoiding (Currently) Certain Doom

You’ve seen this photo before, but I’m short on time and needed to break up all the text. This is another big long one, but I’m keeping the urgent/immediate...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/08/2026

Every dollar billionaire JK Rowling makes is a dollar she will spend on destroying the lives of trans people - a scapegoating driven by Epstein-class billionaires to distract us from the ultra-rich draining our wealth, killing our planet, sabotaging social cohesion, and destroying dissent.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

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A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just saying, the trans community told everyone that once The Guardian had successfully dragged trans rights into the mud they'd move on to the nuerodivergent. And they were right.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans

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IWGB @iwgbunion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Don’t boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it: youtube.com/shorts/hhIES... T-shirt preorders open now! All proceeds from the t-shirts, which are ethically made and designed by us, will go towards the fired Rockstar workers’ legal funds. bit.ly/4xLc4IP

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Don't Boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026

I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam

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Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

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