iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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That’s what “never again” means btw

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In the same interview he says something like “the struggle means to me that not only would we get the boot off our necks, but we would destroy the boot so that this would not happen to other people”

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John Breen @breen.tech · 10h

Man, this answer from Ta-Nehisi Coates about how he felt about Kamala Harris saying that she wants to have “the most lethal fighting force in the world” is really good. He talks about why she might feel like she has to say that, but gives most of his response to the victims of that lethality

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its borb @itsborb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

humanity's oldest storage technology is the humble yet practical Heap

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So a few folks asking why OAI is releasing this at all. And I think that's probably worth a thread in its own right

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A propos of nothing: my grandfather was a politician who spent the last stretch of his career during the Berlusconi ascendance years. he'd say you can lose and lose again, but the most important act for anyone involved in politics is to preserve the seeds of anti-fascism for the next generation.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What can be made can be made again

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No one actually gives a shit about policy. No one actually cares about their taxes. They care about the shit they see and have to deal with. So just stop making them have to deal with shit.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I fucking love people who become more themselves with age. Stranger taste. Clearer boundaries. Louder laugh. Less interest in impressing random people. Watching somebody slowly stop auditioning for the world is fucking beautiful.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A now-retired Phil twitter legend once said to me ‘arguments are just to give people an excuse to agree with your view. The thing that actually *motivates* them to agree is showing them how things look nice from your view’

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joe ⧉ 🍷🌊 @joetforhire.com · 01/10/2026

you👏haven't👏done👏enough👏drugs👏to👏weigh👏in👏on👏ai👏consciousness

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s disempowering but I’ll take it

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Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is really worth a read to better understand how AI chatbots (LLMs) work so that you can dispense with all the ridiculousness about them being sentient, making scientific discoveries, or taking over the world. blog.prompt20.com/posts/how-ai...

blog.prompt20.com

How AI Chatbots Actually Work, Without the Math

A plain-English guide to how AI chatbots work: what a token is, how they 'know' things, why they make things

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Six elements of disinformation campaigns: 1) opportunist messenger(s) 2) incentives 3) intentionally misleading narrative(s) 4) targeted dissemination channel(s) 5) targeted vulnerable audience 6) exploitation to reward incentives www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhAz...

youtube.com

Disinformation Campaigns: how are they structured, what are the incentives, and when are they used?

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The problem of social care is largely one of a missing insurance market. The obvious solution is to pay for care via general taxes, treating these as if they were insurance premia. Cutting benefits or the triple lock are bad alternatives.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep having discussions with mathematicians, artists, etc., where they insist that we should make sure people are valued for being humans, not just their maximum economic contribution or whatever, and I keep wanting to shout... come visit any get-together of the special needs parent community.

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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

...let this, one of the hundred things worth thinking about in the firehose-flood of my feed this morning, take over my brain and attention for a while? And what would be the best durable product if I do let this command my attention for a while?: **Did a Fat, Laughing Barbarian General... 2/

braddelong.substack.com

Did a Fat, Laughing Barbarian General Divert the Industrial Revolution Away from China a Thousand Years After His Death?

& the firehose-flood of “content” that is my feed these days...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What transhumanists want to do with computers, advancing the species by melding with machine, gerbils did long ago with hang gliders.

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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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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026

Part II in @kkomaitis.bsky.social epic 10 part series about how and where big tech went wrong. I promise you, you're going to want to read the whole thing...

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026

i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay

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Melissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like yeah emotions and drives and appetites and embracing radical perspectivalism and might be very sexy but at the end of the day you are gonna need to have principle to point to in order to resolve disagreements and like… that has to be truth or rationality right? lol

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't think I'd describe them as failson/faildaughter/failtheys but they're overwhelmingly likely to come from a background where the most stressful situation they've ever been in is the final circle in a Fortnite game

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The analogy I always think of is soccer: soccer is really hard, so difficult that even the best strikers regularly miss shots on goal. But they miss a lot *less* - and under more difficult circumstances - than a regular person or an amateur player. Humanities is a 'miss less' practical field.

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Bunny is Looking for a Job 🔞🏳️‍⚧️ 5HS Mercury Year @emrosedeleon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Living in cyberpunk is exactly as morally complicated and unsatisfying as I was promised. Kudos to those authors, I guess.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At the risk of sounding like a hose drinker, I don’t want a washing machine that requires connection to WiFi. I want one of those workhorses that keep going for like 30 years that I can fix myself.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The mounting money and time citizens are forced to spend navigating an ever-widening set of digital demands, funneled through mediocre interfaces and bureaucracies that remain impervious to pressures to truly serve citizens"

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xatharine @xatharine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This whole AI is going to kill humanity discourse is frustrating to see because measles and ectopic pregnancies and carbon-driven heat waves ARE killing us and we don't need super intelligence to save us. We just need to remove from power the people responsible for these unnecessary deaths.

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 14/09/2026

In my view, this is bad. Authors share a common budget with their readers. You either work to make your writing clear or you shift the burden onto the reader to work out what the hell you meant. I think most would agree that you do your reader a disservice by expecting them to do most of the work.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

14 September, Holy Cross Day, was traditionally a day for “nutting”, when people went into woods and hedgerows to gather ripe hazelnuts. Folklore warned that the best must be gathered before Devil’s Nutting Day on 21 September, when the Devil roamed the woods to claim his share!

Collage of four close-up photographs of ripening hazelnuts on their branches, showing the nuts at different stages from pale green and pink-flushed to rich brown, surrounded by their leafy, frilled husks.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just a little reminder, once again, that there’s plenty of straw available in Europe to flip things around from climate evil to neutral in the construction sector. An ignored climate solution. If you need a study, here you go: www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/pub... #strawbuilding

Kids explore a farm on the left side is a giant stack of round straw bales bhind a mesh, on the right is a metal barn

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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Michael Moorcock is of course a world-class Tolkien-Adams hater. In a more famous article he described British fantasy as "written by and for rabbits." I don't share his views on JRRT as harmful, although I accept the texts absolutely have fascistic elements.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 10/09/2026

Fourth grader was saying how in class they were learning about how you know where you are; they said their answer was "well first I think about all the places I'm not, and then I subtract that from everywhere" and hi have you met my kid

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy. It has no trade secrets. Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.” Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:

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Knowledge Collapse

AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Six weeks after Alvarez died, his son Walter was at a conference in Utah when a presenter suggested two minutes of silence to honor him. Walter stood and said "My father would have been mortified. He'd much rather have a good fight in his memory." (Alvarez called paleontologists stamp collectors)

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Quite. The risk averse who only consider the short-run, attempt nothing - it's a justification for conservatism. The irony is that over the last 20 odd years inaction was the reckless high-risk option.

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