iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

More fuel for the thesis "coders think AI can do everything because AI can code and they can't imagine anything being more difficult than coding"

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.” —Haruki Murakami

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The young people of the nation…must remember that freedom is not a static acquisition; it is an unending task in which each generation must ensure its continuous re-creation.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938. Image: Public domain.

This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing a suit coat and tie. He looks up and just to the right of the camera.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t mean this to be cruel, but there’s just too much air being taken up by people with media or tech backgrounds who think their hot take on consciousness with LLMs is new, and lord it has all been done before and we’re past that. Christ, half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book.

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Kraken @korpspropaganda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

there is a secret universe within all of us, and the lens with which we view it, and transform it into creative work, lends it its ultimate humanity; this is something AI can never truly mimic

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Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah, I'm particularly fond of how Vonnegut put it. That any creative work is a conversation, that the creator had something to say and when you view it or read it or listen to it, something in you answers.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Finally, FINALLY, a democrat with BALLS

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 29/08/2026

“Hyperscaler depreciation expense is set to jump to over $500 billion by 2030, equal to the expected operating profits of all five companies in 2026. But don't worry, EBITDA margins are going to soar, so the ratio of depreciation to EBITDA will barely rise.” - @peterberezin.bsky.social

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

CNBC’s Liesman: “I’m going to say this at risk of my job, Kelly. But what President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane. It is about the eighth reason we’ve had for the tariffs. And now he’s saying he’s putting 50% tariffs on Canada unless they agree to become the 51st state.”

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

From @evgrieve.bsky.social over on the bad place: The former McDonald’s on west 3rd in Greenwich Village has an interesting new look Apparently this is where they age the barrels of comedy

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Latin expression for the benefits of taking a hike: solvitur ambulando, “it is solved by walking”

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

A town sign seen through a train window.

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

James Talarico: “Judaism is Season 1 of the show, Christianity is Season 2, and Islam is Season 3. I'm Season 2— the most violent season. My religion has done more damage to both of those religions than they've done to each other"

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Who's laughing now? Gaming skills will be very important in the drone-based militaries of the future. And you don't need high testosterone to acquire them.

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just took a walk along the beach with Mitch Mcconnell but when I looked back I only saw one set of footprints. When I asked him why, he said "That was when you carried me" and then he took away my health insurance.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

the two outfits for men

A photo of a dog peeking out of a car window. The placement of the dog and the person taking the photo — where the lower half of the person's outfit is reflecting off the car door — makes it look like the dog is wearing a button-up shirt and tan pants.

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Anything can be insider trading with prediction markets.....

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

POV your monastery is cooked

Erling haaland photoshopped to be carrying a double bladed axe

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“.. The Florida for-sale market is flashing warning signs: 45% of listings have taken a price cut (6.6 pts above the national rate) “.. 1 in 10 homes are selling for less than the original owner paid.” - Parcl Labs

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Finally, bluesky reaches its apotheosis: ONLY alt text

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Read the whole thread 👇🏼

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@propublica.org kills it with a first-class piece of data journalism. Puts one in the mind of Twain: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on." — George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

“If the passage of time is a feature of human consciousness, past and future are functions of the mind.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In short: I used AI to write a book about AI making shit up and the AI made shit up about making shit up, and now I'm in shit up to my neck thanks to AI

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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Kinda like a newspaper front page…. It’s almost as if the dead tree people were onto something….

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Nikolai Kuznetsov, Joe Liebkind, Luis Martim Aureliano and Reuben Jackson: These four writers have published more than 1,000 crypto articles at sites like Forbes and Investopedia. But none of the four men appear to exist, and the outlets that published their work cannot verify their existence.

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Prolific finance journalists facing questions over identities

Authors behind more than 1,000 articles decline to share evidence they are real.

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.” ― David Hume

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Tell the kids we use to go days, weeks even, without thinking about the president.

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A Wall Street analyst has coined a new acronym mocking Trump’s handling of the Iran war: #NACHO: “Not A Chance Hormuz Opens”

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." — Aesop

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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Kash Patel scrambling around the WHCA ballroom, downing abandoned drinks as fast as he can

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I mean, who among us hasn't fallen asleep of an afternoon with the nuclear codes stuck under our desks?

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Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

@markhertling.bsky.social: War is not an accounting exercise, and power is best understood not as a static inventory, but as a relationship. Power = Will × Resources.

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