iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 30/09/2026

A great thread of brilliant resources.

Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 30/09/2026

This book's been eyeing me from my to-read shelf for months; I'm looking forward to finally reading it. (As usual, I'll be joining in spirit as I can't join the meetings due to timezone.)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/09/2026

They get it! > How do you enforce this? > You [can't]. People will still send LLM generated code. This policy makes it explicit that we do not welcome these careless submissions. We have a Code of Conduct that is 80% about [...] what our values are, and 20% about handling unwanted behavior 💯

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United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech · 24/09/2026

Everyone’s talking about AI, but no one’s actually asking workers how it’s affecting us. So we’ve done it ourselves. Today we are launching the AI Workers’ Inquiry, a new study led by workers themselves, into the way AI is changing work. Read it at go.utaw.tech/ai

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AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 | Tech Workers Inquiry

How AI is changing work in the tech sector, from the workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. A Tech Workers' Inquiry from UTAW.

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 23/09/2026

I watched Resident Evil today. A great film, highly recommended!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · 21/09/2026

“Generative AI can seem astonishingly real, but like the spoon in The Matrix, it’s just an illusion.” Léonie Watson (@tink.uk), beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025. beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse... #btconf #mondayMixtape

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 17/07/2026

“Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026” www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2… > We can point out all of the harms being done by the technology right now, and we can speak to the additional harms that will be done if things continue like this, but our concerns are spurned or ignored.

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Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026

Being anti-AI feels like being anti-war

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Saber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What are you doing Saturday, October 17. It's a good day for creative coding. Learn more and register at ccfest.rocks/register/ #virtualCCFest

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 19/09/2026

This looks amazing! I'd do it myself if I could, but other nature / art / data vis nerds should definitely take a look.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"We know what to do: incubate open-access A.I. models, regulate technologies before they go rogue, hold the people who allow them to go rogue accountable if they do and protect the most vulnerable when we, the people, sometimes get it wrong." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will. (Gift Article)

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Paul M. Barrett reviews two new books on Silicon Valley's ideological bent — Gil Durán's The Nerd Reich and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism — and asks whether people are now willing to do what is necessary to resist technofascism.

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Thinking About the ‘Tech Fascists’ and What to Do About Them

Paul Barrett reviews Gil Durán’s The Nerd Reich (Avid Reader Press, 2026) and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism (HarperCollins, 2026).

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 18/09/2026

I'm looking forward to starting @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social's new book, End Times Fascism.

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 17/09/2026

I received a panicked message from a family member this week asking if "AI" will really cause the extinction of the human race. I did my best to dispel these fears in simple terms, but my anger at the industry leaked through. Perhaps I should have sent them this very accessible article instead.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 24/07/2026

Really important to understand that AI has not become *more* AI, *real* AI, or *good* AI since the late 70s. It's still a parlour trick. The parlour has just got a lot bigger and the trick a lot more tricksy.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 15/09/2026

This is a great thread that highlights what we need to do about "AI".

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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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Forward Democracy @fwddem.com · 13/09/2026

It costs roughly £200K to show an ad to every adult in the UK on Insta, Facebook, X & Google. With £72m in crypto donations, Reform now has enough money to repeat this every week until 2029. Dodgy ads already shaped Brexit, we can't afford to let it happen again. We need to scale up our fight.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 04/09/2026

📝💝 but what a privilege it is to read your code kayserifserif.place/posts/2026/h...

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Handwritten code | Katherine Yang

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Very much this. Holding space for refusal of this tech is a key resistance strategy. That means advocating for that option in e.g. school policies (if we can't get a full ban) but also simply being visible in our own refusal, so that others see it as possible.

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 30/08/2026

"…when I hear a tech person say that something's 'just a tool', I can't help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves." An excellent read by @iris-meredith.bsky.social. deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such...

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There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech

Heidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. ...

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 08/06/2026

A shocking number of publications and professional accounts I enjoy fail to add alt text to their media on Bluesky. I remember the backlash for asking for inclusion on early Twitter which makes me hesitant to do it again here.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 27/05/2026

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

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Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.

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The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People

Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.

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Matt Hobbs (he/him) @therealnooshu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Open-Source needs your help! The NHS are looking to make their code private 😭 @edent.tel wrote a blog post here: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05... please sign here is you disagree with this change, making things open makes them better: keepthingsopen.com

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NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to doze...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy International Worker's Day everyone. Let's all smash the machinery hurtful to commonality together.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 10/04/2026

This was a really great read. Highly recommended! gbbns.co/journal/acce... The EAA has made it difficult to ignore #a11y issues. But the fix hasn't been what it needs to be. The solution is treating frontend as a speciality again. AI still can't replace human knowledge, and can break things faster.

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The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering. | gbbns.co

Accessibility failures aren't design oversights — they're engineering failures. The full-stack hiring trend, AI-generated code with no context, and a compliance-first mentality have combined to create a crisis hiding in plain sight. Here's what's actually going wrong, and what fixing it actually looks like.

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 17/03/2026

Switched my active domains over to Mythic Beasts and I couldn't be happier.

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Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 11/03/2026

Apparently my monitor is pretty good. Or is it my eyes? What's My JND? 0.0025 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

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What's My JND?

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

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