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

Additionally, if AI isn’t uniquely powerful and uncontrollable, what does this say about the state of our security infrastructure?

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

If Chat-GPT’s “decision making” (heavy scare quotes) is something for which a corporation, person, or state is deemed responsible, what does this mean for drones/AI-backed welfare cut-offs/AI-redundancies/other shit for which the state is using “agency” as a cover for its ethical responsibilities?

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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

TFW you’re installing a roof and your apprentice forgot to take his heat suppressants etc.

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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

Anyway, not particularly well to be honest is roughly the summary

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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

Local bi guy preparing for the transition in seasons (small shirt big pants to small pants big shirt)

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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 @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 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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Listen to The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts!

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

I exclaimed "crikey moses!" the other day, which isn't even something *my* dad would say, but like, spiritually y'know it really felt like I was communing with the Ur Dad Spirit or whatever

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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

My mate still has some brownies in the back of their freezer that more than one cubic centimetre thereof will zoot you off the face of the planet and, listen, there is a certain charm

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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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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*Interior Motives, solid work dan. Youtube gameshow where queer people try to guess your gender/sexuality/location based on photos of your room you send in. Courtney Love saying "people love him for his mind" lives in my head rent free. youtu.be/lcObY4QQKNM?...

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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 · 01/09/2026

I knew five/the Interior Delusions guy was robbed

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Misread this at first and had a moment of really reevaluating Alien

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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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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Cruising Utopia. Never gonna stop coming back to it.

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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 · 18/08/2026

Legit! 55ml was a bit like this, there were genuine friendships but also there was an ability to just actually be in space with one another and enjoy shit collectively without that pressure

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

Anyway, I don’t miss bar work but I miss Seira and I hope she’s well

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

I think what this poster gets right is that a lot of the reactionary ways pubs are talked about miss this/can’t imagine the concept of social cohesion being an active choice, rather than something inherent to race or whatever

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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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