iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 29/09/2026

does anyone have any insight into the Pacifica Foundation elections. getting confusing emails from like 4 different factions

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

One could also loop the tools for thought/secondary brain/zettlekasten movement into this as well by way of the "LLM wiki" and the increasing automation of knowing.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

Incidentally this is the same radical transformation of self that everything from the quantified self movement to the getting things done system were driving

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 28/09/2026

“Survivor voices must be centered alongside satellite analysis, so that the images of destroyed homes, schools, and farms are tied to the people whose lives have been uprooted. [Earth observation] should amplify…not erase them.” by @palestinespace.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1744...

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Earth Observation for Justice in Gaza: Ethical and Legal Implications

Earth Observation (EO) has the potential to play a transformative role in documenting genocide in Gaza, supporting accountability efforts, and advancing justice. However, access to satellite imagery a...

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A systematic, critical understanding of history, especially the long history of technically skilled people either being used by elites or being blinded by their own high modernist ideology to do incredible harm, should in my opinion be a requirement of any technocratic profession

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 26/09/2026

it really is so annoying that doing a basic amount of walking yesterday means no book fair for me today

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

genocide is not disturbing ‘content’ from which the spectator needs healthy boundaries. these are human beings making claims upon the rest of humanity. turning away may soothe the witness, but it does absolutely nothing for the person who cannot turn away from the bomb.

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I want a theory of suffering that says: you are witnessing a genocide and it wounded you because it SHOULD wound you. the answer cannot always be to create enough distance that you can live normally again. sometimes the answer is to let that wound bind you to an obligation to act

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 18/09/2026

I've set up this link so folks can support all the survival funds I host in one place. As we head steadily to zero, I’m distributing what you give to least-supported families. This brings help to everyone; if you make it recurring, you can sustains it. Simple yet powerful math. tiny.cc/divyafunds

A colorful graphic decorated with an illustration of an Arabic coffee cup and paint streaks. Text: today’s most stagnant fund. Filling each cup gradually builds stable help, especially if you click “weekly/monthly” on a coffee. Build solidarity. tiny.cc/divyafunds

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Lindsay Dusard @lindsaydusard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

three called 911 for help.

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join neno! @ann.neno.social · 19/09/2026

The slave machines we call bots do not act of their own will. They are programmed, or "prompted", by masters and owners to do work. It is a deliberate destruction of the decades of networks we've built trust into, and our language must reflect this when we talk about it.

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Darkroom Denizen @germfree.ser.gl · 19/09/2026

It is really funny talking to my colleagues in computational biology who’ve had to rebrand their existing approaches as “Ai” to appease higher level management. Machine learning has been a part of biotech for over a decade and has its uses, LLMs have not really proven themselves.

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 19/09/2026

you influenced me. infinite uses for the food bazaar beanie

old fashioned doll wearing a pink food bazaar beanie

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 17/09/2026

does anyone have a good article for laypeople explaining why the hugging face thing wasn't "rogue (autonomous) ai"

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 18/09/2026

when the more realistic and social approach is that every group of people needs some computer freaks, in the same way every friend group has the person with the plex server. you can have more computer people by making the tools better, but they still have to know how it works

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 18/09/2026

it feels similar to how the really ideological linux/indieweb/homelab people view how the masses should be using their technology of choice: individually. every person must become a sysadmin

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is eugenics

Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 17/09/2026

does anyone have a good article for laypeople explaining why the hugging face thing wasn't "rogue (autonomous) ai"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 17/09/2026

midnight in a perfect world gift of gab mix always gives me chills youtu.be/R8MOzOKmDSA

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Midnight In A Perfect World (Gab Mix)

YouTube video by DJ Shadow - Topic

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 17/09/2026

i gotta start bringing my cane on my morning commute

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/09/2026

"Heinselman said the units can detect smoking and warn users, while repeat misuse can result in someone’s access being restricted." i don't want a cop i want a bathroom. i don't want another techno-solutionist outsourced pilot project with data collection and toilet surveillance

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 16/09/2026

Help is dwindling, but hope remains our militant duty. This is a one-stop way to help all the survival campaigns I host for dozens of families, starting with the least-supported. It's still survival. Pledge a weekly/monthly five: tiny.cc/divyafunds

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Death toll is now at least 21, 25 injured with around 100 still missing after the collapse in Gaza City today. 14 people have been rescued from the ruins of the building that had previously suffered structual damage in a bombing by Israel. english.palinfo.com/news/2026/09...

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13 Palestinians killed, 100 missing after Gaza apartment building collapses

Twelve Palestinians, including children, were killed and 13 others injured after a six-story residential building collapsed early on Wednesday in the Al-Sina’a Street area of western Gaza City, accord...

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 16/09/2026

crying about Cat Frazier again

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I appreciate how @troywolv.bsky.social locates expertise in this article --- but note that whoever wrote the headline still wants to frame the story as about "AI skeptics". www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

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AI skeptics dubious of proposed slowdown

Fears of existential risk of AI overblown, they say.

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026

Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham

Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 15/09/2026

sometimes i feel like the only one who remembers Barf Troop

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Akram Abdulwahed @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We’re just trying to find food, water, continue our education, basic rights that have become daily struggles. I watch what’s happening and cry, knowing we’ll never forget what we’ve lived through. If you can support us, even by sharing, it means more than you know. 🫂❤️ chuffed.org/project/help...

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Help the Abdelwahed family survive

I'm helping my friend, Akram Abdelwahed, raise funds to help his family survive.

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divshelp @divshelp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Recurring donations ensure that Palestinians get help without the humiliating labor of asking or being visible online. They provide assurance of housing and recurring needs, such as medications. They also ensure reliability as the situation on the ground remains extremely fragile and volatile.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

I'm going to sleep now & someone wake me up when LessWrong isn't being cited in the mainstream. Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.

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@NateSilver538
The AI risk people actually do show their work! There are hundreds of working papers, thousands of LessWrong posts, literally entire best-selling books about this.
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a frustrating thing about all the "TK percent chance we die" headlines is that researchers can say any number and non-technical people will just be like "damn well that guy's in tech, im worried"

show your work! is this about scaling laws or some arxiv file ive yet to read?

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 12/09/2026

ahhh why is circuit breakers always the same weekend as roguelike celebration

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

im just better than you. smarter, wealthier. of course what i believe matters more than what you believe. of course it is only right that my ideas take precedence over your ideas. also i got all my ideas from this guy on the internet who called himself mencius moldbug. and also bronze age pervert

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 09/09/2026

you lot have got to stop getting "news" from anonymous aggregators that don't source anything and use the word "breaking" incorrectly

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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tante @tante.cc · 08/09/2026

The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 08/09/2026

praying i hear back from them 🕯️🕯️🕯️ also i'm p sure you can apply as a nonresident

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

my dream is that my code becomes so baroque and divorced from industry practices that it is considered an act of outsider art

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

*subskeeting* it's not about what AI does or doesn't do or trusting programmers. it's about the material and monetary provenance of these products. if you are ok with the harm that has been and is being done so that you can code or do whatever with AI, that says a lot about you.

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 07/09/2026

This book from 2002 is an incredible time capsule of Y2K graphic/web design. Absolute goldmine if you're into that aesthetic, and also a kind of mausoleum for a visually interesting internet that no longer exists. 🔗 archive.org/details/tasc...

The cover of the book TASCHEN'S 1000 FAVORITE WEBSITES. The title is printed in a square font in foil on a yellow background.

Another spread showing various websites.

The title page featuring an illustration of a hyperlink hand cursor made out of large coloured pixels.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if it does: >>

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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It seems like there's a new round of "stochastic parrots has been proven wrong" discourse going on, so I'm going to re-up this: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>

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Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

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alex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 06/09/2026

might need to disassemble my air conditioner

runescape guy crying with face in hands with context menu "choose option: 1. cry 2. cancel"

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