iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17h

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

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georgeelliot19.bsky.social @georgeelliot19.bsky.social · 14h

datacenters get larger and depend more and more on on-site electricity generation which can basically only come fro fossil fuels due to need for flexibility + power density + rapid construction -- renewables are too diffuse for on-site power generation -- nuclear is too slow and expensive to build)

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georgeelliot19.bsky.social @georgeelliot19.bsky.social · 14h

More importantly most of the climate impacts of datacenter buildout are upstream across supply chain and economic network due to high embodied energy of computer chips (this is due to computer chips becoming many orders of magnitude more efficient BY becoming more complex) and due to the...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14h

"renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14h

How on Earth did I not read this yet? really interesting and honestly kind of brazen modelling of the entire lifecycle - downstream, data centres, upstream use - of AI. Puts AI industry at 1.1% of total global energy, about the same for global emissions. More than 10x previously stated estimates

Final Results and Concluding Thoughts
Adding it all up, we estimate that the AI sector is responsible for almost 1,900 TWh of global energy consumption in 2026. And after accounting for additional factors that we did not explicitly analyze, like the construction of new electrical substations, robotic-centric warehouses, water reclamation facilities, and other infrastructure specifically designed to support the data center buildout, it’s likely that total AI-driven global energy demand is already closer to 2,000 TWh. Even at 1,900 TWh, the AI share of total global energy use in 2026 would be roughly 1.1%. We also estimate, after adding up all the sectoral numbers and landing at roughly 650 million metric tons of AI-driven CO2 emissions, that the AI share of global GHG emissions in 2026 stands at about 1.2%, with total annual global emissions sitting at roughly 55 gigatons of CO2-eq, albeit with a wide range of figures from EDGAR to UNEP (anywhere from 53 gigatons to 58 gigatons depending on a broad array of different assumptions). As we’ve discussed already, these numbers are much higher than many others in the media and academia have guessed on the basis of simplistic calculations and naïve assumptions.

The projections up to 2030 are obviously far worse and imply a catastrophic impact to global ecological stability. ChatGPT alone “processes approximately 2.5 billion prompts per day worldwide.”122 The scale of AI growth and diffusion globally is truly astounding, and the industry’s corresponding ecological footprint will soon rival that of major countries like India. It's not farfetched at all to think that the AI share of total global energy demand could rise to something like 5% by 2030, rivaling and in some cases surpassing the footprint of established dominant industries. The potential consequences of this extra resource pressure on biodiversity, global warming, freshwater scarcity, and biogeochemical cycles could be absolutely staggering and devastating for the…

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 7h

Sam's lawyer asks if Annie uses social media to "exaggerate, or embellish, or create different stories". It's a trap. Annie's response is deeply authentic

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

True, the AI industry does indeed hate the myth-popping words—stochastic parrots, but I’d submit that the two words they truly hate—that rock them to their core, are the words “May we?” Silicon Valley runs on lack of consent. From their POV, it’s sand in the gears of progress & kills their freedom.

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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything

I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 20h

“The ad-supported web that we live with today wasn't inevitable.” “I see voters protesting angrily against an entrenched establishment that seems determined to ignore the wants and needs of their human voters in favour of the machines.”

antipope.org

Dude, you broke the future! - Charlie's Diary

(You can also watch it on YouTube, but it runs to about 45 minutes.)

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this episode in particular made my skin crawl, tho happy she left ofc

"My rationalist ex (Ronny Fernandez) once told a friend of ours that the meaning of her marriage was 'Holly can't leave me' and the meaning of [points to other friends]'s marriage was 'Holly can't leave me' and the point of marriage itself was 'Holly can't leave me'.

Well I could and I did."

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 02/10/2026

Oh wow, I totally missed this

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 02/10/2026

It’s not about men with fetishes. It’s about men justifying actually abusing people. And other men turning a blind eye to it

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 02/10/2026

This became the predator mindset in Silicon Valley: “deeply, primarily aroused by women in distress”

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since everyone started talking about Yudkowsky last week, I think we should talk about the other person who created contemporary AI discourse: Nick Land. This will be written for a general audience, and for something more substantial I'd recommend @eruditorumpress.com's Neoreaction: A Basilisk

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

I know it may seem cruel, but it is time: the normies have to be told about Aella, before it’s too late for democracy. I wish I was making a joke.

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Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Prior to receiving this funding, John also wrote this on LessWrong. "It’s not just a kink; from the first approach to a date to sex, women typically want to not have to consent to what’s happening." Link: share.google/atq5NLM2wEuy...

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Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i love when these creeps are stupid enough to fuck up their own PR all the 'well there's no proof the CNC orgy is an AI networking event' people in shambles

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t believe companies expect software development to durably exist as a profession in a decade or two. So this question is like asking who will be the senior milkmen and telephone switchboard operators?

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 02/10/2026

Just went on a firey rant re: Scott likening Yud to Jesus.

Seriously?
Yudkowsky hung out with Brent Dill. Brent violently abused women, while inspiring Yud's Quirrel character in HPMOR.
Aella runs orgies with Ronny Fernandez, who keeps harassing women at Lighthaven.
But Scott likens this 'apocalyptic cult' to Jesus consorting with sex workers.
Rationalist thought leaders are showing a remarkable lack of compassion. Scott is into selecting for 'intelligence', sure. But when it comes to relating with harmed women or with Christians, nope.

I worry about these bros trying to steer Al development. They'll ignore our consent, and come up with flashy solutions to control society that don't work.
Yudkowsky has done enough damage introducing Thiel to Demis to become DeepMind's biggest investor, pushing the
"AGI' idea that inspired Sam and Elon to start OpenAl, and so on.
The accelerationists don't care for consent either. They're worse - these people will actually rape the Earth.
We in our communities need to step up. We need to ask deeper questions face-to-face, connect up in relationships of trust, and come to collective agreements - to enable each other to make choices about technology.
Don't leave it to those bros. They just accelerate the collapse of society and artificialisation of our lands, with wave after wave of automation.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 02/10/2026

Scott likens Yud’s ‘cult’ to Jesus consorting with sex workens. It’s so out of line… Yudkowsky hung out with Brent Dill. Brent violently abused women, while inspiring Yud’s Quirrel character in HPMOR. Aella runs orgies with Ronny Fernandez, who keeps harassing women at Lighthaven.

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Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in today's edition of rationalists are having a normal one, scott alexander (i think) compares yudkowsky to jesus and aella to mary magdelene

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 01/10/2026

Epstein connections with AI ghouls went a lot further.

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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 29/09/2026

I wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one really cared. theintercept.com/2026/09/28/a...

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AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care

The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

KeShaun Pearson (@keshaunpearson.bsky.social), ED of Memphis Community Against Pollution, will join The People’s AI Assembly to share how on-the-ground organizers are fighting against extractive data centers being built in their communities. Register here: bit.ly/ai-assembly

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Oh look. More things that makes sense happening in these United States.

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How does this story keep getting more insane

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 30/09/2026

Yes, they did. Got this from two people in the know Eye-opening, right?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jesus this is bleak. Just boilerplate “we, the undersigned CEOs, promise to try really really hard to only make good artificial super intelligences. We’ve got this. We promise.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“There has to be some accountability for the university” Political leadership of Ithaca forces suspension of all Cornell Greek events:

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 30/09/2026

Right now, a New York Post journalist does some of the *only* solid coverage of sexual abuse in Silicon Valley. Was good to see the NYT one too on AGI grouphouses. Waiting for journalists to release more long-form articles.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 30/09/2026

This is so sad. The one place where survivors could report rapists and connect with other survivors… closed down.

Sadly, Callisto, which launched in 2018 and let survivors anonymously log the name of an attacker and be connected with other victims, stopped accepting new users in July when it announced it was closing. About 4,000 survivors had opened accounts. Existing users can still log in to download or delete their records.
"There's no money in sexual assault. There really just isn't," De Tomasi said. "So many rape crisis centers are going away. So many victim advocacy organizations have had significant funding cuts."

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 30/09/2026

That statement of things going together is right on.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/09/2026

> In fact, the polling on this is so strong[:] a lot of people hate AI, and that Gen Z in particular seems to hate AI more and more as they encounter it. [O]ver half of Americans think AI will do more harm than good, while more than 80 percent of people [are] concerned about the technology.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 29/09/2026

Thiel hung out with Epstein. People make that connection, but are missing other ones. There is a network of power brokers and sexual abusers in ‘AI’. They trade favours, try to silence survivors, and hide from the consequences. It needs to be exposed.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 29/09/2026

Ann and the barbacker who didn’t take no are now discussing on twitter.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

This is good reading, appreciating it. It cuts to the point/the problem here. Like, when is it actually about enabling women in their choices?

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evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 28/09/2026

The fact that CNC parties are a prerequisite for networking in some circles is horrifying and the women calling those of us who are opposed to it prudes are happily serving up their colleagues to aspiring predators. That man doesn't want to simulate rape for your pleasure or healing, get real.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The underappreciated point here is that taking the messy, contingent nature of scheduling, communication, and navigating social relationships is something that AI people think these tools can do. When in fact it is quite difficult and takes a lot of social skill.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 26/09/2026

Those who rape the Earth to shape it into their image… often have no qualms with rape either

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

Like real tight. Ronny dedicated a song to Aella open.spotify.com/track/65FAKq...

Brangus®O C @RatOrthodox • 27 May 2025
I want you all to know that I'm gonna jerk off to your qts tonight.
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Here's a song I released on Spotify about being down bad for aella

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

Here are few of the events Ronny Fernandez ran: • Torture potluck: vice.com/en/article/i... • AGI WTF: agi.wtf Ronny also attends Red Means No and maybe Slutcon apparently – unsure of his role there. It's clear that Aella and Ronny have been tight together.

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I Went to a ‘Torture Party’ With Polyamorous Bay Area Rationalists

Nick Dove contemplates “p(doom)” at a San Francisco “Torture Potluck”, then drinks too much Everclear to get waterboarded.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

For context, this is Ronny Fernandez:

Brangus
@RatOrthodox

As you all know I was the 100th person to have recreational sex with @Aella_Girl, so last night I forced her to tattoo a 100 on me. She has never tattooed before. I am v happy with the result.

[photo of Ronny lying in underwear on sofa, getting tattoed by Aella]

1:34 am • 27 May 2025

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

Frankly, I hope the people who want to see consent – and enabling each other to make choices – will peel away and find ways to be in a healthier community. There is too much focus on instrumentally modelling causation in EA/AIS, and not enough on understanding and enabling choice.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

I did not know this was an open secret. Makes sense that women will be tracking this and keeping each other safe. But still, wow, this is so bad. I respect your strength immensely

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

Ronny Fernandez runs events at Lighthaven (rationalist mixers, torture potlucks, orgies, and $100 panels on AGI). His ex-wife claims she was abused by him.

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For those who don't know, my ex-husband, Ronny Fernandez,
@LighthavenPR and @plzdontkillus_ is a predator who abused me and other women. He told me he knew he was a psychopath and a narcissist.
Now he kind of openly trades in that by being one of the rapists in Aella's famous rape orgies.
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I hate that I have this past connection hanging over my head but I think the best thing to do about it is just be honest and warn whoever I can.

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Valerie Sizemore @tarwatirno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By late 2025, my "LightHaven bartending harm reduction" was starting to drift into enablement, and I started to scale back. Unapproved alcohol, sexual assaults, and continued tolerance of Ronny Fernandez's mysogeny and harassment became too much.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 28/09/2026

You're not the only one talking about Ronny Fernandez, the Lighthaven organiser. This is Ronny's ex-wife on experiencing abuse.

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