iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Not "by design" in the abstract sense of 'deliberately', but "by design" in the very concrete sense of "by the designs designers designed" – designers who are and should feel complicit.

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 19/07/2026

One of the worst games of football I’ve ever seen, and I was at France 0–0 Denmark in 2018, where the fans booed both teams off.

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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yes, Argentina the first ever World Cup finalist to not have a shot in the 90 minutes.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 27/01/2026

"i just do math" is something a cs phd student studying AI at stanford said to me once. i think about him a lot.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/08/2025

Guy In Philosophy Class Needs To Shut The Fuck Up theonion.com/guy-in-philosophy-clas…

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Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Very sad to learn of the death on 18th July of Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a titan of cognitive science and AI. I met her many times, and respected her greatly. www.theargus.co.uk/memorials/de...

Maggie Boden and Murray Shanahan on a panel in 2018

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 20/07/2025

Our sweet, silly cat Beemo died yesterday. One of those slowly-then-quickly illnesses turned out to be an irreversible kidney problem. She was loving, easygoing and vocal, and a dear companion to us both. We’re in bits – but this is the price of love. Hug your nonhuman friends, all.

A black and white cat faces the camera on a wooden deck. Her paws are stretched out in front of her.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/05/2025

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

A four panel meme, featuring John Connor talking to The Terminator, from Terminator 2

John: Wait a second, you’re saying you’re from the future?

Terminator: Great question! Thanks so much for asking. Let’s think about the answer…hmm! The current year is 1983. Working backwards logically, I’m from the year 1965, which is 300 years in the future. Anything else you’d like to know?

John - stares blankly

Terminator: I’m sorry, I can see that was not the right answer. I actually came from the year 829392 AD, which is 10 years in the past from this year, which is 3

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 23/05/2025

Only now noticed that Aftersun is on iPlayer for the rest of the year. It broke my heart at a parentally significant time of my life. Deeply recommended. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Two - Aftersun

Sophie is beginning to remember a formative holiday she took as a child.

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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Anywhere you can get to on a Transport for Wales train is a part of Greater Wales

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 15/05/2025

This Boer/Grok fiasco is funny, but it previews how AI chatbots will be used more subtly to manipulate public opinion. They present decontextualized authority: unsourced, unauthored, always confident. And we are being trained to trust them as objective or as the Wisdom of Crowds.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/05/2025

During a recent interview with Theo Von, Zuckerberg admitted a startling revelation. While talking to his daughter about the news, he realized understanding politics and law is important to fully understanding technology. What a discovery! www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-zucke...

At one point in the interview, Zuckerberg spoke about the time he spends with his children. When he got to his oldest, a nine-year-old daughter, he explained how they discuss the news together — hopefully from a reputable publication, not the false information that looks like news proliferating on Facebook. While it’s nice that he tries to engage with the interests of his kids, he also made a striking comment that illustrated the depth of his ignorance.

“It hadn't occurred to me before how much in order to understand technology, you need to really understand government and civics and politics and law and like all of these different things,” said the man who has been running one of the most influential technology companies in the world for more than two decades. Somehow, it had taken explaining current events to his child to realize this quite obvious fact — but it doesn’t seem to have given him much humility.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

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'Bizarro World' - The Boston Globe

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 02/05/2025

I posted this on twitter ~3y ago and it struck a chord. Still relevant?

A chart titled the realities of UX design

The x axis: bad for the business to good for the business
The y axis: bad for the user to good for the user

so the 4 segments are:

good for user/bad for business - it's empty

good for user/good for business - has three coloured portions

1. good for user but neutral/middling for business - "You can do it if you do it on your own time, expect extreme implementation resistance"
2. good for user but middling to good for business - "rare but likelihood of implementation can improve with examples of edge-case marketing potential"
3. neutral to good for user and neutral to good for business - "majority of projects you propose but have to rigorously justify with business metrics"

bad for user/good for business - has two coloured portions

1. neutral to mid-bad for user but good for business - "majority of your assigned work"
2. mid-bad to bad for user but good for business - "occasional work that may trigger career contemplation (aka dark patterns)"

bad for user/bad for business - it's empty

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Babe are you ok? You've hardly touched your actions willed in such a way that they could become a universal law

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 28/04/2025

‘How much Weltschmerz is too much? We ask five people who’ve scrolled so much that they’ve cast aside any prospect of personal happiness and instead wallow in the pits of other-directed despair.’

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 28/04/2025

I gave some thoughts on skeuomorphism for Digital Frontier, a new magazine on humanity & technology. Kudos to the writer and mag for engaging with the term’s actual meaning (a once-functional feature retained ornamentally), not just parroting the false equivalence with physical metaphor.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It might seem madly decadent just now, but planting seedlings, reading, walking, birdwatching, getting into some kind of exercise or craft, making models from a kit, perfecting the world's best tomato sauce, making music, sketching are all actually extremely important, joyful things to do

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 16/04/2025

Good news guys

The WHITE HOUSE
But we are capable of so much more.
Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 16/04/2025

One reason to write: it forces even the most terminally hypertextual thinker to form linear, coherent opinions. Sometimes that’s enough to justify the effort.

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 14/04/2025

Someone please pay me $1/word to write a weird and earnest piece on Rory McIlroy as moral archetype, proof of the banishment of evil etc

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 04/04/2025

Opening day of the cricket season. Usually I’m quad-layered, shivering, clutching an outsized hot chocolate. Today, 21 °C, sunburn. Hasn’t rained in a month. Early April. Probably fine.

View from the Compton stand at Lord’s cricket ground, looking towards the pavilion. The sun is beating down on an early April day. Middlesex are playing Lancashire.

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 04/04/2025

Married ten years today. Life tip: marry the kindest person you know.

Cennydd (wearing a red beanie) and Anna (blue beanie) in Nottingham’s Market Square, Christmas Day 2021.

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 24/03/2025

Alright dorks, it’s official—I’m doing this. wil.to/megamanathon/

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GET EQUIPPED WITH CHARITY STREAM

GET YOUR WALLETS READY!

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Do you hate your job as a designer or do you hate capitalism

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Trying to min/max your degree for employability will just potentially make you miserable and ruin what could have been one of the best times of your life, and there’s no guarantee it will even work. But otoh you should pick up some basic skills that will be useful while your mind is malleable.

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ryan @cybreco.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

they made an ai game where you can talk to the patients but forgot to add in prompt safety controls

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 11/03/2025

Glad to receive a copy of Universal Methods of Ethical Design, feat. 100 methods and frameworks to help designers consider ethical impacts. Obviously, responsible design needs policies, processes & infrastructure too, but IMO this is now your best resource for versatile tools. Recommended.

Cover of universal methods of ethical design, in dark grey with hot pink and white writing

Table of contents page for universal methods of ethical design featuring 50 design tool

Page of universal method of ethical design, featuring Spotify ethics assessment to

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 05/03/2025

Rewatching Twin Peaks S1 and here’s my controversial claim: this deserves to be watched with motion smoothing well and truly ON.

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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 05/03/2025

20k a month for a bot that's frequently paralyzed by anxiety and gets completely sidetracked by disciplinary minutiae seems quite expensive

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

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Yosha Iglesias @yoshaiglesias.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As an out trans sportswoman, I can no longer get a visa to travel to the USA, because Republicans think I have an unfair biological advantage. My sport? Chess.

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 20/02/2025

The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the *US* ... shocking.

The 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (#ICA25), set for 12-16 June in Denver Colorado, USA, is shaping up to be ICA’s largest conference yet, tracking with Toronto and Paris in terms of preregistration numbers. At the same time, we are closely monitoring the evolving situation in the United States which has raised concerns for some members of the ICA community intending to participate. We recognize your concerns regarding the uncertain environment and appreciate your feedback and perspectives.

We affirm ICA’s dedication to a global exchange of knowledge and perspectives and protecting the free exchange of ideas among our members and attendees. Current rhetoric and actions in some US communities run counter to ICA’s commitment to ensuring the full and equal participation of all members of our global academic community and conflict directly with ICA's IDEA principles.

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 17/02/2025

My read on Severance: the moral separation modern capitalism urges us to adopt – i.e. that we can & should accept different ethical standards in business life vs. personal life – is actually a splintering of the self. Integrity doesn’t just mean honesty: it means wholeness.

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The UK had a really good thing going being the grown-up in the room on AI. It played perfectly to UK soft power and diplomacy skills tied to a solid tradition of AI ethics and responsibility. This sudden switch to AI growth, growth, growth is like putting all their eggs in a disintegrating basket.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 10/02/2025

I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Afternoon talks @ IASEAI in Paris really taking off, starting with Maria Ressa’s brutal, necessary truths about the tech-aided murder of journalism & democracy, then @mmitchell.bsky.social giving us a lolsob slide about the fantasy AI data grinder that magically churns out global prosperity

Slide titled ‘input-output relationships unclear’ showing a magical internet data grinder churning out global prosperity rainbow

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 28/01/2025

My Fulbright group chat is aflame, speculating whether this spells the end of the programme. Certainly plausible, if this article is accurate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Alarm as Trump administration pauses all federal spending on grants and loans

Memo says social security and Medicare are excluded but congressional Democrats express ‘extreme alarm’

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 28/01/2025

One of my favourite stats is that there are at least a dozen UK universities with bigger revenues than the entire British fishing industry

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Yes; it’s very much “there’s no monopoly on powerful AI.” Not “AI is overhyped/useless.” The bubble is deflating because there is no moat.

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 27/01/2025

Punxsutawney Phil vibes today. Did you think the tech sector (and job market) was about to recover? Looks like six more weeks/months/etc of winter from here.

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