iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Axel Gelfert @agelfert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I asked ChatGPT to create a cover for a course catalogue of a "university for people who have given up thinking due to AI over-reliance". To be fair, this is a pretty good take -- and more subtle than I expected... #aislop #criticalthinking #deskillling #chatGPT #philsky

ChatGPT-created fictitious cover of a course catalogue of a university for people who have give up thinking: android leaning back with a mug "AI does thinking for you" in front of him, and advertised degree programmes "BA in Artificial Thought" and "PhD in Epistemic Delegation".

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i cheered on the timeless prophecy and sage advice to "be nice to nerds, they'll rule the world". but not like this.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 07/10/2026

Can any of these AI leaders give a straightforward answer about the future of jobs?

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

mOaR sPenDiNg Is a GoOd SIgn fOr THe EcONomY

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i've been trying to grapple with "the race against China"--like, *what do you win*?

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i believe your candidacy would seamlessly emerge from the structure of the candidate pool

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

for me, the recapture had less to do with the ending and more to do with the burnout of being "forced" to give my sunday evening to it. i feel confident i wouldn't be caught in another GoT series even if the ending was cinema.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

forbes.com

Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"visits heaven" yo, is inducing a coma cheaper than a round trip to Thailand? when's the best time to visit heaven? is 18 days enough or should i hop between spiritual planes?

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA [inhales in he's a 5'11 man] HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

same. fwiw, conservative talk radio (please don't ask me how i know) spends most of their air time these days rallying the troops. they know it's dire, so much so that their lazy, over-used casting of an apocalyptic reality is being supplanted by a cautionary tone of "don't forget your blood pact"

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

my man looks like a grok prompt for making the windows '10 wallpaper more vulgar

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

package this and let me buy it in bulk as my caffeine replacement

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"treat healthcare like everything else" no comment

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i suppose his follow up was going to be if he purgered(sp) himself about not being there, that was enough "evidence" that he was obviously conspiring with the ATL office who was running another "politically charged" prosecution. they're so brain rotted.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i think about my maga'ed grandmother who told me nothing would make her change her vote, even if she knew it would cause her beloved grandchildren suffering. it's propaganda and it's hurtful. go to hell mike.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is absolutely insane, what tf are we even doing here

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you should be jailed for no less than 1yr if you willingly go on record saying "politician told me X but i thought they'd do Y"

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i believe it was lisa demuth (GOP candidate for MN gov.) who acknowledged on a recent talk show that trump is a "boogeyman" (even tried to not name him!)

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

if we win the mid terms, we'll build wall rose, maria, and sina

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh my gosh, the best political video on YouTube just got updated after a decade and a half and it's still just perfect! It visualizes something that I've talked about a lot since the first video came out: The real problem is the billionaire class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxl...

youtube.com

Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)

YouTube video by politizane

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

less about a point in time and more about their interest. i'll keep a completely defeated toy as long as they continue to use it. i'll throw away the stuffing as it comes out as that's the biggest annoyance in keeping the house clean(ish)

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026

Today's @xkcd.com

It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

anecdotal evidence: was tuned into a conservative AM radio show one morning (for curiosity sake), and a woman from tx called in opened up with "hey, did you know there are 3 types of Muslims?" why can't these people just be fucking normal...

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

imagine my reaction when adults tell me AI helps them learn new stuff

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

great, but these are nothing more than meaningless sentiments without a connection to their behavior--that is to say how would they vote?

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCKING FUCK FUCKING FUCK

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

lol at people calling for the cancelation of the world cup because fifa is corrupt lololol

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

it's crazy how birthright citizenship keeps winning

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

with any sport, fouls, penalties, etc. exist to prevent competitors from creating unfair advantages. regardless of whether one knows what offside is, any neutral observer could see clearly that that call did nothing of the sort.

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I tried to order a Mpasi jersey but it was blocked

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

or a parent, or the family pet, or the crew of artemis behind the moon, etc.

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

people returning from half always slow

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apoyo89.bsky.social @apoyo89.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social you're the only one in my feed who's on top of world cup and i was wondering with friends who has the most goals so far outside the box. it feels like France, no?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/06/2026

“restoring faith that better is possible” is maybe the most important thing in politics right now outside of imposing consequences on the bad people (and imposing consequences would help restore faith) we have seen what cynical, “lol nothing matters” politics leads to and it leads to Donald Trump

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