iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

1/ US regulators were ordered by a Trump Administration political appointee to stop investigating suspected insider trading relating to Donald Trump's March 23 announcement that he wouldn't bomb Iranian power plants. The move is said to be "unheard of". ⬇️

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet some people still refuse to see fascism when it's a farce of itself.

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 27/09/2026

Drones airdropping UGVs, the latest development in Ukraine’s defence, and current counter-offensive. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Revealed: Secret robot offensive that ‘killed 3,000 Russians’

Carrier drones deploy explosive unmanned vehicles behind enemy lines, recovering 48 square miles of occupied Ukraine

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 24/09/2026

this is my standard response to anyone who is using an unlabeled bot that is replying as them. it's from the Anthropic universal jailbreak bug bounty specification.

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Somewhere out there is a Danish staffer who should never again have to buy his own drinks

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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For #bivisibility day (23.09.) I'd like to acknowledge the economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) who apart from being one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, was a person uniquely driven by care and compassion for other people.

Painter Duncan Grant (left) with absolute baller John Maynard Keynes. Grant and Keynes were a long term item before Keynes marriage (to a woman, to everyone's surprise)

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AI is ruining cute animals for me

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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Please stop shaking negronis! Just build them on the rocks, they're perfect that way. They don't need the air for texture.

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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is this about AI safety being underwritten by the philosophy/"religion" of that sex cult?

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

weird i have completely opposite takes than sam here

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026

Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English

@60Minutes on X:
Bravo, the U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer who was stranded behind enemy lines in Iran for two days, tells 60 Minutes about the first message he was able to send to the U.S.: “God is good.” cbsn.ws/4gOIzjI
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Sicherheitspod @sicherheitspod.de · 14/09/2026

Das… das Hyperschallbaguette ist real?!?! 😳

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What he doesn't realize is if the yuri writers get replaced, their backup plan is to finish their papers on probabilistic approaches to nonlinear dynamics. So, it should all even out.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I miss Old Internet a lot, but admittedly a major part of that is that the early internet had a very weird opt-in procedure that you can't recreate, the result of which is that the default user was a curious dorkwad. Plus, there was no money to be made, so no branding/positioning all the time.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026

>the houthis were trying to use claude to build their rocket guidance system just get me off the fucking ride www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...

GTG-87001: Disrupting a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software
Summary

We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant.

The actors used Claude Code in place of human software engineers to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle. For example, they used Claude to integrate an open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing the control and position estimation software, tuning the control settings, running a firmware build pipeline, and performing a flight simulation. The actors managed several Claude instances at once, assigning each one a role, much as a lead would delegate work on a small engineering team: the actors tasked one instance with writing the code, another with research, and a third with reviewing the code the first instance produced.

Our safeguards blocked many of their requests, but not all of them. The actors used a variety of tactics to evade our safeguards, including hiding their goals and the products the software was meant for, and they split their work across multiple sessions so no single session revealed their full intent.

These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, including using Claude to design guidance software. We do not have evidence the actors succeeded in fielding an operational device; but they did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed.

We identified this activity as part of our internal investigations into suspected weapons development. We banne…

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before

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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

okay hear me out

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/09/2026

So, we’re in a race between AI and climate change to see what destroys the world faster?

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Community: Darkest Timeline

ALT: Community: Darkest Timeline

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’re delighted to announce we’ve created the Blackshorts from P.G. Wodehouse’s humorous short story “Please, Dear Chap, Don’t Create The Blackshorts”

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ok, this is a very clever illustration

The Norman Rockwell Freedom of Soeech illustration but all the heads are the tops of wine bottles, by Luke Wohlgemuth.

Text: Standing Up for Cabernet Sauvignon
It's the most widely planted red grape in the world and the most popular red varietal wine in the U.S., so why has it fallen out of favor?

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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The big question is rather whether there are millennium problems we're fundamentally unable to solve.

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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we are already there that AI can solve one (still an IF at this point imho) - then I would guess it's only a matter of time till another company throws the alleged 20 million bucks in computational power on a problem

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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I said half a year, and honestly I'd still wait for more substantial results.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It would be wrong to speculate about the political leanings of those men in black shirts.

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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Entre les deux, où est Max Kaltenmark, et comment s'appelle l'autre type ? ( :

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Remember five years ago talking about how the Internet was maybe getting a little bad?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One thing I haven't seen talked about with AI is the way platformization has, by accident, paved the way for ai to replace more of us. Meaning, in response to algorithms, creators have already started to behave more like content machines, meaning their work hands off to AI more easily.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Say what you want about Trump but his disruption of oil supplies goes far far far beyond the wildest dreams of Extinction Rebellion.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught me it's ok to be hot and know how to read

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

This year's admirals are *always* last year's pirates, and they insist that what *they* did to their predecessors was progress, while anyone who tries to do the same thing to *them* is a thief. 18/

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Proust on AI, 1918. “He imagines a sort of composite of all the good books that he has read, whereas a good book is something special, something unforeseeable…”

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