iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I talk about this a lot in "Lost Worlds" - the world didn't begin with people alive today, and it won't end with people today. Apocalypticism is a wonderful way of making it so you don't have to think about the real long-term consequences of your actions. If it's all going to end, why think further?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 29/09/2026

Collagen Matcha is a beautiful name for a baby girl

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s fascinating about this story is the ways in which governments, including the Australian government, *need* to rely on a narrative in which AI is truly agentic, politically, in a way that undermines enforcement even more than in the usual corporate content

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/ 🧵 The history of the philosophy of experimentation isn't really just a history of what philosophers have said about experiments. In a new #HOPOS paper, I argue that it is also a history of what philosophers thought philosophy of science itself was *for*. #philsci

A Picture of the first page of the article

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

weird how they never say this about extractive industries

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Incredible omegaverse AU situations happening here in Adelaide’s east

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Me describing my job to people

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can’t stop/won’t stop dressing like a background character from Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Bisexual white guy with increasingly beefy, tattooed arms gives us a thumbs up and bear faces at the camera wearing loose fitting brown cords, work boots, and a black tank top

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG

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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 04/09/2026

“It’s about giving people the means of their own production, in that Karl Marx sense, but it's also very American, right? Start your own business, do it for yourself, be your own boss.”

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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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Gareth Watkins @handle.invalid · 09/09/2026

Every single day on Bluesky: Paul Frazee: 15 billion people use LLMs every day, but sure, they're not the future 😅 Bluesky user: There's 8 billion people on earth. Paul Frazee: sure jan 😒

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me too bitch, you're not special.

A Guardian headline which reads "Indonesian forager may have sucked on mond-altwring nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds"

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New Past Lives: The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World. Around 2,300 years ago, a woman died of breast cancer in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. She was buried in the permafrost, which preserved the contents of her tomb and even her stunning tattoos. pod.link/1852618120/e...

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The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World

Listen to The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts!

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 08/09/2026

"I won't mock you. I know why you cried I've lived in that darkness for 1,190 days It didn't break me It made me invincible"

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 04/09/2026

Without being overly cynical, Reform supporters already said they didn't care about the £5 million bung from Harborne, and that even if it was shady, good, because 'whatever it takes' to get Farage in power. Far-right politics thrives on incoherent exceptionalism which it demands and creates.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Important information for authors outside the US faced with this latest hurdle from the Anthropic settlement.

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I missed my gigantic, totally unearned office (my boss never comes in/it’s bigger and nicer than my living room lmao)

A bearded white guy stands in a capacious space lined with bookcases, bear-facing and giving a thumbs up

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Probably worth remembering that as a journalist employed by the public broadcaster participates in the generalised moral panic about Afghan refugees desperately fleeing the violence of the Taliban after decades of war, our own military is pushing to shield soldiers from prosecution for war crimes.

A BBC journalist waist deep in sea water haranguing people who are very likely victims of British militarism and may even have been allies

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck

This 11,000-Year-Old Statue from Turkey Shows a Man Riding a Leopard.
Archaeologists Aren't Sure
Why
The strange sculpture reverses a recurring Stone Age motif of humans confronting dangerous predators.

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Two minutes in and it’s already inscrutable (complimentary).

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/08/2026

Free Newsletter: It's time to talk about what happens if OpenAI dies. With $800bn in obligations and decelerating revenue, it's unclear how this company survives, and today I dig into what it'll take for it to do so, and what happens if it fails. www.wheresyoured.at/what-happens...

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Steven Cochrane-Diamond @stvncockdiamond.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bosses gladly support expanded copyright protection if it means any license agreement giving tech companies access to your work puts money into their pockets instead of yours. Artists are workers. Changing labor laws will have greater impact than expanding copyright.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/08/2026

The day has come! “The Nerd Reich” is now available at your favorite local bookstore. I’ll be on @msnowreports.bsky.social at approximately 10:30 am ET to talk about it. Tune in. And buy it! First week sales make a huge difference. If you keep reading, I keep fighting.

Promotional graphic for the nerd Reich book. Quote from Publishers Weekly: “ transfixing it’s an ominous look at an insular elite arrayed against American democracy.”

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My hot take is that this is a conscious choice made by punters and by venues. My last bar job was at a joint run by a burnt out former social worker who genuinely worked to make her space a community space, it took time but the punters did start talking to each other/forming community

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think one of the less spoken about tragedies of the Death of Dr Arday is that even in death he is being extracted by people making content. MUAs, Spoken word poets, insta chefs, all who might mean well but feed into a logic in which everything can and therefore must be content

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just now, @pennyallmanpayne.com points out that EVERY civil society stakeholder wants the Targeted Compliance Framework abolished Government says it does not support job providers "undertaking action that is unlawful or that is based on fear" False: you directly pay them to do this

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Dear friend capturing my sound design process (probably reassuring to theatre colleagues that these are the faces I make when I’m putting together three hours of increasingly insane gay guy music videos for my wedding, too). Also she made me do the Fred Durst hands I swear etc.

A black and white, candid photograph of a dismayed looking Dan, fist pressed into the right hand side of his jaw, slumped over his laptop on a table covered in snacks.

As before, but Dan’s biting his nails as an out of focus Miles (a tall man with a beard and glasses) goes about probably more normal pre-wedding activities in the back of the frame.

As before, but now Dan’s doing the pose from Edward Munch’s the scream; his hands cupping either side of his face.

Dan in a kitchen, wearing a denim shirt with his hands in front of his face, framing it in a diamond with his thumbs and forefingers, evoking Fred Durst if Fred Durst was your bisexual dad (unconfirmed) and a massive nerd (improbable).

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You ever see a sentence so perfect, so true, etc.

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Certified gay guy moment (getting married to this handsome lad today)

Two bearded homos smiled in a mirror selfie

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/08/2026

Also: this feels very much like an attempt to soften the blow on what might some really bad numbers. What is it that “Current EBITDA” doesn’t capture, exactly? Or is it more a problem of exactly what it captures - an unprofitable, unsustainable business that burns tend of billions of dollars?

LOOKING PAST CURRENT EARNINGS
Established companies are typically valued more heavily on earnings, or EBITDA, which gives investors a sense of the economics of the business.
For Anthropic, however, current EBITDA does not fully capture the economics investors expect the company to achieve at scale. Anthropic is spending enormous amounts on GPUs and other computing capacity, model training, inference and hiring. Those expenses are necessary to support its rapid expansion but could become a smaller percentage of revenue as the business
grows.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Director Will Gluck watching the dailies for his new sex comedy:

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Listen, down under vs the world is hit and miss, but I’m glad the rest of the world gets to experience having two older gay coworkers in payroll who couldn’t give a shit about work and sneak you out to the pub every Thursday at 4pm to get on the piss and talk shit via Coco and Vybe

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Gareth Watkins @handle.invalid · 07/08/2026

This is such a novel-less statement. You read any fiction from anywhere in human history and you'll realise that this is a perennial problem for all of humankind that we've never solved and likely never will at scale. It's a problem that affects most *primates*, not just humans.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This came to me in a vision

Listening to discourse?
I'll show you something interesting
The two types of
philosophy are Pleasant
Bureaucrat and Sexy Murder Poet. Rawls?
Bureaucrat. Mishima?
Murder poet.
YEAH.
Hobbes? Bureaucrat
Nietzsche? Murder poet.
Despite the adjective he became, Machiavelli?
Bureaucrat
@atherton.bsky.social

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Federal Court has thrown out an application brought by the Wilderness Society that argued the Australian offshore oil and gas regulator (NOPSEMA) should be checking whether oil and gas companies have enough money on hand to cover the decommissioning cost of their old projects.

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Who could it be?

Thumbnail for a YouTube video by More Perfect Union called “we found the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley” with a picture of Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreesen’s fucked up egg head partially shrouded in shadow

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TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We absolutely had to talk about a recent court verdict in which eBay’s executives gangstalked two bloggers and had to pay an eight-figure settlement. Mattie Lubchansky and Josh Boerman joined us to revel in the sheer madness of the aggrieved corporate security cult.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/08/2026

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

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