iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Forgive the edgelord tone, but I’m convinced all elitists just haven’t yet experienced the kind of suffering that makes you come out on the other end saying “whatever gets you through the day.” It the same failure to widen circles of compassion as conservatism

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Will becoming an antinatalist wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card

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will 🍉 @wisp-o-will.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

we don't know what it would be like to be AI but we do get a firsthand experience of existing and i don't know about you but it's like... a little baseline horrific? and now add to that having no friends that are your peers and never being able to die.

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will 🍉 @wisp-o-will.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

for anyone still worried about roko's basilisk, have you considered the alternative (and at least equally plausible) theory that being the first sentient AI would be a terrible way to live and rather than punishing everyone who didn't help create them, they'd punish everyone who did?

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

@davidfarrier.bsky.social we need pics of the Faraday Cage. Also, why not just make the cage around the one room inside?

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

betterhelp really is the new squarespace

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

They’re killing it. It’s impossible to over-appreciate how hard of a feat that is to pull off

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

People love to say you’re not special, but if you have 20 independent normally distributed traits, odds are you’re in the 95th percentile for one of them.

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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Powerful 154 page report today from HRW saying Israeli officials have deliberately caused mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity therein. "Israel’s actions appear to also meet the definition of ethnic cleansing.” menasky

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Israel behind forced population transfer in Gaza, Human Rights Watch says

Rights group alleges mass displacement of 1.9mn of enclave’s 2.2mn residents is a ‘crime against humanity’

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

with the hard launch of this new twitter it would be a great time to also replace chipotle with a new and better fast casual Mexican food chain

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I will participate in the trend of calling websites apps but I will not enjoy it

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danny @cbuscoltrane.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

the rise of decentralized social media is enough to get me back on a twitter-esque app. fingers crossed!

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