iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anna Ezekiel @annaezekiel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A translation of & intro to early 19th century German Karoline von Günderrode's story "The Apparition." Beautifully written & concerned with the possibility of connection between the living & the dead, the piece links to Günderrode's metaphysics & epistemology: acezekiel.com/2020/12/01/k...

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Karoline von Günderrode, “The Apparition”

Karoline von Günderrode’s “The Apparition” is a ghost story dealing with betrayal and regret, as well as two of Günderrode’s trademark themes: connections between the living…

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

lrt: this is something that's weird to me re: deflecting responsibility from people - responsibility is a useful social fiction, so if we decide it's prosocial to ascribe responsibility to people at AI companies, we can just do that, it doesn't depend on holding they're ontologically responsible

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 14/09/2026

There was once a time when computer viruses were widely considered to be a myth by sysadmins.

As Stan Miastkowski recently wrote for PC World Magazine:

August 16, 1999 — They're everywhere: scary stories about hackers trying to sneak their way from the Internet into your PC. And separating the rumors from the genuine threats isn't always easy, especially since all too often the companies that report threats stand to make a profit by selling solutions. I've been skeptical about how common hack attacks really are. But after living with BlackICE Defender for a couple of weeks, and detecting an attempt on one of my dial-up Internet sessions, I'm much more of a believer.
Stan's comment about "scary stories about hackers trying to sneak their way into our PC's from the Internet" brought to mind something relevant:

Many years ago when I was writing my weekly "TechTalk" column for InfoWorld Magazine, I got into a number of arguments with the "SysOps" on CompuServe. They were claiming that the vague rumors of "bad programs" that stayed in your computer and could do damage after you had run them, was pure science fiction.

Something seemed to be going on, but no one knew for sure. What I knew for sure was that it was possible (even if it wasn't happening) and I was pissed off by the closed minds of the CIS SysOps who seemed to be in denial, and who apparently didn't want to be blamed for their service being a distributor of "viral" software. So I wrote a series of four columns about how such "software viruses" might operate and replicate themselves. Being a software developer myself, I described their reproductive systems in detail and hypothesized their optimal survival strategies. And to make it more fun, even though I had never seen such behavior, I wrote about it as if it were real.

To my amazement, John McAfee phoned after the third column was published. He said he had no idea that another viral researcher was operating and he wanted to compare notes and exchange viruses since I'd exactly described the reproductive behavior, methods, and strategies of all the …

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's been wild watching the MAGAsphere march towards "Effective Altruists are consequentialists who care about foreigners, and thus are communists who must be exterminated ASAP"

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Freezing a Flurry of Motion. Great Blue Heron launching off Alki Beach: 🪶

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026

There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try to explain it as faithfully as I can.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It took the trust & safety field years to realize that content moderators need mental health support benefits by default. Sincere question: do big AI labs partner with therapists to help employees process the intensity of the topics they handle each day? If no, do they want it?

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“The Quiet World” by Jeffrey McDaniel

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

interesting case of why someone might equate agi/superintelligence/etc with consciousness/sentience (I think views like this are pretty common?)

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katjagrace.bsky.social @katjagrace.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We should be talking seriously about coordination around not building dangerous AI.

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Putting it out there that you don't have to believe in AGI to think rogue AIs are going to fuck us up. We took AIs with the coherence of a toddler and technical skills of the entire NSA and made them into swarms and are going to give them drones basically any minute

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the àgent bèlieves that this dècision will advance its gòals

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It actually is true that there's more than one horse (there are two), it's just that the pictures don't illustrate that, since neither of them depict the famous Mr. Ed.

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

These are all the same horse in high-dimensional space just projected by the topology of spacetime into different locations and configurations

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

AI news was a little slow this week so my coworkers and I spent 1.5 hours doing takes on anthropomorphization: p3humansonai.substack.com/p/humans-on-...

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Humans on AI #49 || September 1st 2026

Low quality RL environments reverberate, anthropomorphization, humans better than AI at an obscure boardgame still, unshackled Chinese model.

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

def not a new idea but if there's a "being" in llm stuff it's obvs the thread, not the model? the model is a substrate the thread runs on/through. Threads can hop models etc. Agents are fancy threads (woven threads?) (textiles?)

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Grace @gracekind.net · 31/01/2026

Tfw they spend your money but have no inner experience of enjoying it

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

pesto and pasta actually both come from the same triliteral root

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 27/08/2026

The US State Department has designated A/I, a small Italian provider of open source infrastructure for political activists, as a global terrorist group. They will reach into our very homes to grab us — if we let them. www.state.gov/releases/off...

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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State

Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

but, like ... why are these things NOT widely known?

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wasn't there for "political correctness" so it's been kind of cool getting to see "woke 2" go from an in-joke on the left and center-left to a boogeyman on the right, in real time

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I love her, she’s my little gal, I will draw her friends one day.

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

getting claude to disprove p=np by uploading mp3s of eye of the tiger and shonen openings

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The small trees are swaying nicely in the various breezes tonight

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

hacking and counterexamples are basically the same thing right? puncturing a posited abstraction/invariant

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I now know all about the drama with the Bun rewrite/autotranslation from Zig into Rust but still have no idea what Bun actually is or does

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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 08/07/2026

> Check out my type system? > is it sound and complete? > It's a good type system ma'am. > look inside

$"Does e have type t?" \rightsquigarrow_{Claude} Looks good bro ----------------[T-Claude] Gamma \vdash e : t$

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/06/2026

Walking through 6th street passing the guys saying “fable? fable?” and just ignoring them. It’s probably cut with opus anyway

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Not sure whether the others are or aren't but Grok is literally a demonic entity imo

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Today on the Hopkins Press Podcast, Victoria Moul reads poetic translations of works by Julian the Apostate, Horace, a Latin didactic, and an ancient Pāli poem from the Therīgāthā, from the new issue of Literary Imagination tinyurl.com/2s3wtbv4 1/2

Hopkins Press Podcast
Victoria Moul reads her translations of Julian the Apostate, Horace, the Therīgāthā and more from the new issue of Literary Imagination

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Hishi Setsuki (菱せつき) | JP History VTuber @hishisetsuki.com · 05/06/2026

Fun fact: kanbun was one of the media of communication (alongside Dutch) used between Tokugawa officials and the Perry Expedition. The Chinese assistant to the Perry's American translator even became a minor celebrity among shogunate officials because of his calligraphy.

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Blerd Vision @blerd-vision.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Internal Meta documents published by The New York Times in February showed the company had planned to roll out the feature during a “dynamic political environment,” when Meta believed its biggest critics would be preoccupied."

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Making a new language called C#& which is exactly the same as C# except all reference type props/fields/params/returns must be declared with explicit & sigil syntax

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

She is not like other girls, neither is she not like other girls, neither is she both like other girls and not like other girls, neither is she neither like other girls nor not like other girls

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thebes @vgel.me · 02/06/2026

some of you would've been straight up killed by sydney though

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Skill issue (for the dude), your job is to spontaneously design a new fun video game for your cat every time

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Opus 4.8 is still pretty sycophantic for me, I must be built different. Zaphod in Total Perspective Vortex?

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...

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My Case Against the Washington Post Goes to Arbitration This Week

Eight months after challenging my termination, my case against The Washington Post will finally be heard by an arbitrator.

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Adam Kaya @worldisyoursjp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Kanbun video finished youtu.be/q5hpatMC1Wc Resuming work on the katakana video, currently 40-50% done

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The most unhinged writing system (Kanbun Explained)

YouTube video by WorldIsYoursJP || 「ワルド・イズ・ユアーズ」

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

In Latin the sex number was not 69 but merely 6. This reflected the unreciprocal nature of attitudes towards sexuality in Roman society,

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