iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

well good news ... you only have to wait until the week of October 19! (unless you want to listen on the radio in which case you do have to wait to January)

unfortunately I did not understand one word of this

Going live on Instagram at noon ET with Kevin to discuss OpenAI Dots and take your questions!

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it would be a lot different if people wore smartphones on their faces disguised as something else

It’s proactive — it looks for stuff to do and does it without you asking

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meta glasses: too perverted for Amsterdam

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For sure — I’m reviewing all the outputs before I send for that reason

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I spent some time with OpenAI's new agent, Dots, and it's ... pretty good??? www.platformer.news/openai-dots-...

I'm cognizant that any person's account of how they used an AI tool can sound suspiciously close to bragging. Look how impossibly busy I am! Look how desperately I need the aid of an AI tool to have even a remote chance of taming my inbox! It is perfectly reasonable to read a list of tasks like this and think: who cares.

But as someone in the trying-software business, I try to recognize the difference between tools that simply make me feel more productive and those that actually save me time. And given all the searching and typing Kicker did on my behalf this afternoon, I estimate that it did about two hours of work for me with only about 15 minutes of effort on my part. By that I mean it would have taken me two hours to do all that, and now I don't have to, and it feels great.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well I imagine I may write about it next week! And we’re doing Instagram Lives every Friday til then as well

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

However skeptical I am about Muse as a consumer product, I have to admit that the VR Glasses are a real achievement. Some thoughts on Meta Connect www.platformer.news/meta-connect...

platformer.news

Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?

Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though)

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How did you find this post 18 months later

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm skeptical about Muse www.platformer.news/meta-muse-co...

I hesitate to make too sweeping of a judgment in a world where capabilities are rapidly advancing. For now, though, I suspect that most people do not actually crave the experience of managing an intern. In particular, they do not crave the experience of dreaming up new tasks for the intern and helping the intern to improve. When I talk to the people in my life who have become managers, many will admit to having done so only under duress — and yearn for the day they no longer have to monitor others’ performance.

Perhaps someday an AI system will become so attuned to my needs that it anticipates my every desire and fulfills it perfectly without me so much as having to ask. In the meantime, Muse and its rivals too often feel like to-do lists that generate additional to-do lists, recursively until the end of time. The “typing into a box” era of AI design left much to be desired. But at least I knew when I was done with it.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Getting my associate’s degree in regulatory arbitrage from Horowitz Andreessen Academy

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Probably the worst job in a video game is being the henchman in the stealth tutorial whose job is it to stand motionless looking over a railing, waiting for someone to sneak up behind you so they can knock you out with one button. I don't envy that guy

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unfortunately there really are people who just respond with “stochastic parrots” and “ed zitron” to feel savvy and contrarian themselves. I meet them every day on this website

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

since you went out of your way to tag me I'll point out that Kevin is completely right here!

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ehhh I don’t really see the logic tbh

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I actually don’t know that one!

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On the eve of our final episode, wrote a farewell to Hard Fork and a few thoughts about what we're doing with Machine Gods www.platformer.news/hard-fork-ma...

platformer.news

What was Hard Fork?

Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it's about fucking time that someone inverted the binocular labeling approach

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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It’ll be a lot like Hard Fork I think. We go where the news is

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😆 a risk we were willing to take

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our tote bags are going to be the stuff of legends

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Machine Gods — the official podcast of the singularity

This is Machine Gods! A new podcast from Kevin and me, in partnership with the legends at NPR. New episodes in October! Links to follow the show here — the trailer is already up machinegods.fm

machinegods.fm

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hacked by a moth.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wrote about the AI safety vibe shift. It's been a long time in coming: www.platformer.news/ai-safety-vi...

Now, excited public conversation (and in particular, public conversation on X) is no
substitute for actual regulation. Congress has a long history of introducing tech regulations
that go nowhere — and of launching probes that go nowhere. And if Christiano's best
efforts at getting OpenAl to self-regulate fall short — well, he won't be the first board
member to have that experience.
Still, I can't help but be heartened by the vibe shift in Al safety. Last month, in the wake of
Mark Zuckerberg's glad-handing treatise on "personal superintelligence," | argued that true
superintelligence is a dragon. And while I remain hopeful that it can be tamed, I believe the
researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it — and are quitting, in protest,
jobs that would make them rich. The right people are now listening to them, and here's
hoping they take action.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

next Friday! we're off this week