iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 03/10/2026

But remember, these people also want everyone to use these alleged 'possibly-future-consciousness' things to be their email agent.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 01/10/2026

Advertising ruins *everything*.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 30/09/2026

Couch it in terms of saving money. Less bandwidth used = money saved. Fewer malware incidents = money saved. Workers seeing less distractions during work? = money saved.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 30/09/2026

I love how this in now way matches the technical reality of their implementation. The big static matrix isn’t changing with casual uses, so under the theory they’re working with… is running context compaction forcing dementia onto the “conscious” LLM? lol.

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Data centres in the Netherlands used 4.6% of all electricity in 2024, and transmission system operator TenneT expects this to double or triple to 10-15% by 2030! That means that the next 6-11 TWh/year of renewables that will be completed, will go straight to the growth of data centres.

Front page of newspaper Trouw, with headline "Three quarter of datacentres is completely untransparent on energy and water use"

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus.icculus.org · 29/09/2026

Read another article where OpenAI put out a press release to the extent of, "whoopsie, we hacked into government computers by accident this time, we're exploring how to prevent that in the future," and everyone treats this as part of doing business instead of a literal admission of a crime.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

really hope that the message people take away from all the EA sex parties stuff is "don't import inherently coercive real life employer/employee or mentor/mentee dynamics into your edgeplay kink spaces" and not "THEY DO THE IMMORAL KIND OF SEX DISGUSTING"

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 28/09/2026

Feels more likely they’ll just pretend that it failed solely because trump and hegseth was involved

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 28/09/2026

(Which isn’t to say that gamers can’t also be marks)

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 28/09/2026

Yeah a lot of them jumped straight to “sell something now so I can build a game around it later” which only worked on marks, not gamers.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 27/09/2026

"Hey, get back here, we aren't done yelling at you about how you destroyed another arbitrary industry we made too expensive for you to enjoy, you damn millennials!"

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

All of the broader things that we're losing thanks to AI—from being able to trust others to cheap GPUs—are a much bigger issue but what really gets to me personally is just losing respect for people I used to like. Ah it turns out that a shiny toy and flattery overrides your moral compass. Okay.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized

We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 26/09/2026

"Can a magazine editor be gullible? They at least behave as if they do."

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 24/09/2026

This kind of blithering is just corporate propaganda, designed to juice stock prices.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 24/09/2026

If only this was a realistic threat, and not all of the regular ass threats posed, like mass production of propaganda, environmental damage, theft and economy destruction when the entire thing topples because it’s not cost effective.

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it is easier to imagine death by autocomplete than death by capitalism

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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 21/09/2026

Once again: the "concerned parents of a transed child" is an abuser rights movement

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 21/09/2026

The kids who were behind were acting out due to fear and boredom. When they got focused, tiny class sized attention, they responded really positively and improved quickly, but the school actually needs to invest in resources to do it, a single teacher can't do it alone.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 21/09/2026

My mother was teaching highschool english classes and noticed the same thing: classes brought down by kids who tended to act out. She realized in her rural school that most of them were severely behind on reading and writing, pulled them out into remedial classes, and both groups improved quickly.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 21/09/2026

Ironically, people who apply for green cards in the US have to get their titers tested and boosted as needed. But that process comes after years of being present in the US as a work permit visa holder 🫠

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

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orithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

The dismissal of COVID’s effect on our brains may be the most frustrating part of all of it. To me.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Janet Ghoulcia (on Vacation 🇯🇵) @gameonysus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As much as I try to avoid games with AI I know I have and am playing games made with AI for this very reason unfortunately.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 17/09/2026

Same with its use in any job. Anyone saying they’re getting huge savings from LLM output is really just offloading a significant amount of verification burden onto someone else. Either colleagues, or customers.

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tools allegedly used to reduce administrative burden for doctors (the evidence for which is pretty mixed) end up displacing the admin burden on to the patients who now need to read their charts in detail to check and correct the record.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here

the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.

I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

And they certainly aren't asking for regulation to stop this 🙄

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 16/09/2026

(This is on top of the spike after the war shut the straight)

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 16/09/2026

Here in Australia, unleaded jumped 20c over night, and have been increasing constantly for the past two months. Not looking forward to the next few months. Tell that orange piece of crap in charge over there I said “fuck you”, will you?

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 14/09/2026

“Our comedy went rogue and defamed a person, it’s definitely not the fault of our script writers”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 08/09/2026

Like, I know journalists are allergic to actually learning anything about science, but come the fuck on.

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Ash @ashteranic.mycronite.net · 07/09/2026

I consider myself incredibly lucky that I don’t appear to have caught COVID at any point, considering I lived in the US for a good chunk of it. (Not that COVID is over, but being in Australia makes things feel really different)

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

"another sandbox escape" "sandbox escape or you didn't really box the sand to begin with?" "... they were restricted to contacting specific domain names but had write access to their own /etc/hosts"

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 04/09/2026

Here’s what I make of it: Whether it’s Ds investing in private space to route around Rs’ fed funding cuts or Rs investing in it to enable said cuts, the outcome is the same: It gives the fed gov’t a disillusioned reason to gut budgets & kill long-term research aka the backbone of science.

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