iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 5h

Not in India at the moment, but ✊ Queasy to watch the massive and all-encompassing state repression, but all strength to everyone pouring out onto the streets right now.

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🚨 Breaking: Fresh protests erupt at a flyover near Safdarjung Airport in Delhi.

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Chris 🧠 talk with humans @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1h

a secondary benefit of bulk deleting my posts is I get to repost this again to ensure more people check it out sound up 🔊 real highlight among stuff on the internet 👇

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22h

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I am not the one making the extraordinary claim, so it is not my job to specify what the evidence should be. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22h

3. Okay, so what would convince you that a piece of software (often phrased here as "an AI", gah) is conscious/can feel pain/etc? Honestly, I'm really tired of this extremely silly question, but here is my answer: >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22h

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22h

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22h

1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22h

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

Yes. Your chatbot is not a real boy.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 19h

Ohhh. I’m gonna try something like this.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 21h

Give Luna your apples. (The thing on her waist is a worn out dog sweater that is being used to cover her surgery site)

Luna, a longhair mini dachshund, looking up at my mom as she skins apples.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 21h

Yes. But they also will eat anything given the chance.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 21h

The typical project currently awaiting federal transit capital funding faces: —15 months (or more!) in delays to actually getting a signed agreement from the federal government —an 18% increase in cost as the delays mount Track all transit projects nationwide seeking federal funding:

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US Federal Project Tracker | Open Lines | The Transport Politic

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 21h

Mom picked all the apples in our garden and is now peeling them while watching Traitors. The Weens have been staring at her for a good ten minutes.

My mom sitting in a lounge chair next to a large silver bowl and bag of apples as she peels the apples. Three mini dachshunds surround her as she works.

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Wolfy D. Lucca 🌑🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 22h

🙅🏻‍♀️: my pronouns are 💁🏻‍♀️: my callsign is

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve known how to crochet and knit for decades, but I’d never made anything in either craft more complex than a pot holder, it was just something to keep my hands busy. Then a year ago I picked up amigurumi, and now: bsky.app/profile/fold...

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm gonna give up my cursed Tiamat pin to get one if I have to god dammit

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Idk if the crane is even obtainable. But I can pay for both our pins.

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They successfully identified that their target market was people with no imagination.

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what the fuck what the FUCK

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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 29/08/2025

KUOW’s board of directors is considering appointing former State Senator Joe Fain, CEO of the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce – who was accused in 2018 of raping a woman 11 years earlier.

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KUOW board considers appointing former Washington state senator accused of rape

KUOW’s board of directors is considering appointing former State Senator Joe Fain, CEO of the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce — who was accused in 2018 of raping a woman 11 years earlier.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

An open letter to the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce: When you build a bike lane on a street, it doesn't "replace" the street...it remains part of it, moving people more safely and efficiently!

Survey question: do voters support increased taxed to fund transportation investments in... "bike lanes replacing roads" at 31%

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Like Holy Shit) bsky.app/profile/mrth...

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It will surprise no one that the AI bro who did this is just trying to sell a big pay-for AI game remix platform bullshit thing He posted this big I Regret Doing This followed literally an hour with this massive doubling down (it's waaaaaaay longer than shown here too)

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Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

County Road 402 (East), 10/7/2026, 2:04:16 PM

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you’re looking for 2 hour plus long videos about just a specific topic you can’t go wrong with the Napoleon Blownapart videos. I know not much about contact sports but I know a lot more thanks to them videos.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It opened up a whole new world to me.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Everything I know about Tate’s fake ass boxing career I learned from Napoleon Blownapart. youtu.be/ivGZRQK6-LE?...

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PAUL AND TATES BOGUS JOURNEY

YouTube video by Napoleon Blownapart

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You do NOT want the flu. It is not just a cold, it is way, WAY worse. Get vaxxed.

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 07/10/2026

Easily recognizable as AI because everyone pictured here is way fatter and older IRL, including Grimace

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

heads up twin cities — we are seeing a spike in ICU admissions for medetomidine withdrawal; at least 4-5 in the past week for minnesotans, if you use drugs at any rate, please consider getting medetomidine testing strips (which you can get for free here steverummlerhopenetwork.org/test-strips/)

Medetomidine
WTHORAM
Symptoms to look out for:
Fast heart rate (>100 beats per minute)
Dangerously high blood pressure (>180/100)
Uncontrollable nausea and vomiting
Tremors
Excessive sweating
Changing levels of alertness
Severe anxiety
If you or someone you know is experiencing these severe withdrawal symptoms it is highly encouraged to seek hospitalization. Medetomidine withdrawal often requires intensive care in a hospital setting to manage the uncomfortable and potentially life threatening symptoms.

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Sleepaway Champ @sleepawaychamp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Turn on your cameras so I can see your smiling faces," says the insecure person with nothing compelling to say.

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Holiest Mallard @holiestmallard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not exactly the same, but for the USS Durendal, I tried to emulate a more vertical configuration for the bridge similar to early concepts for Voyager's bridge. I am conflicted between a more vertical design and accessibility however...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 07/10/2026

"Direct your dream game" says Unity Y'all game direction is many things but I can guarantee you that "genre + setting" is not game direction for anyone who has been a game director even just for 5 minutes Which should tell you enough about who made this, and whether you should trust them with this

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Those are hit and miss with me. But I should try to wear them more consistently.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i’m sorry… eel? www.tmz.com/2026/10/06/a...

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BESTIALITY PORN CLAIMS INVOLVE HORSE AND EEL

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DaveDisaster @davedisasterman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People treating ML as some pure, unsullied tech is something wildly frustrating. Check out Shotspotter for an instructive case study. Whether armed cops are sent into a neighborhood based on a car backfiring is heavily weighted by the demographic of the local populace. Yeah, you know what I mean…

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DaveDisaster @davedisasterman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can't emphasise enough that we were already fucking up ML before LLMs came along, with dodgy datasets entrenching pre-existing biases...

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"it's been an honor to decimate this institution and make a shitload of money i don't deserve"

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Getting yelled at by a sentient pierogi.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today’s Baseball Name is Bill Dingus

Bill Dingus
Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right • Throws: Right
6-1, 170lb (185cm, 77 kg)

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