iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the heart of the AI industry is taking without asking, taking what you want, taking because you don't care, ignoring what others think and say and just doing it because it's good for you

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Esoteric Ebb is a good game, had a lot of fun with it

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The living standards are measuring the wrong things. Modern medicine is awesome. Indoor plumbing, sanitation, electricity are all awesome. Fractured social contracts and loneliness are not. Yes, material goods are cheaper and more widely available; meanwhile, our "spirits" wither and rot.

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Requiring scientists to be political neutral is to require scientists to shut up when the facts are inconvenient.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These sound like non-trivial problems.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it might be take a few election cycles to find someone who can rally everyone like trump did but it doesn't really matter, there's no "fever" to "break," this is just who the party is now. it's why you can't simply "turn the page" on trump or whatever dumb bullshit the losers are pushing now

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is imperative that Republicans lose control of both chambers of congress

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Feels like the tech industry is producing T-100 terminators and instead of shutting down the T-100 production line the response is putting bubble wrap on the T-100s

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Am I the only old (over 35) that still listens to the radio?

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is why it's important to know that AI does not understand. Thinking that i.g. "no mistakes" is a real safeguard that an agent actually understands will just get you into trouble.

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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really would love it if Democrats would spend more time saying “if Trump tells you to do a crime it is still a crime and we will do our best to have you punished for it”

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is an extremely interesting thread, documenting this I mean if you're surprised that AI, which is foundationally about stealing the labour of people without their permission and creating a fake simulacra who never refuses their demands, has consent issues, I dunno what to tell you

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hailey @hailey.at · 25/09/2026

lol.

After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites.

Fifty-three “user-provided images” were “posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said for the first time; the images could still be discovered even if the links were not publicly listed.

“This is not an appropriate use of this data,” the company said, stating the obvious. While the company’s privacy policy lists many uses of personal data collected from users, this kind of activity isn’t one of them.

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh, but I was assured that LLM's being too sycophantic was such a 2024 problem and people needed to update their priors. These tools should still be in laboratories, not force fed to the population at large and the AI companies need to be held responsible.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This wouldn't have happened if police departments didn't engage in state-sponsored animal cruelty and abuse by forcing dogs to hurt people. Worse, they treat the animals like shit. 35% of police dogs shot are shot by cops and the #1 cause of death for police dogs is being left in a hot car.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He deserves to be removed from office. He deserves to die in prison. They are only nervous about him in as much as their own necks seem to be at risk. They dont actually think he should be punished, which is why they all deserve to lose their seats too.

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I went with the games I can remember spending the most time in as a kid my9games.com/en/s/667964d...

3x3 grid of game box art. 1. Transport Tycoon Deluxe 2. Duke Nukem 3D 3. Final Fantasy VII 4. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion 5. Roller Coaster Tycoon 6. The Sims 7. Sim City 3000 Unlimited 8. Command and Conquer Red Alert 9. Goldeneye 007

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Darjeeling Tea Ltd @darjeelingltd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I waited for so long for these stories of people finally waking up to Trump's con, of finally dropping him, and I thought I would feel gleeful and victorious. But after the past 12 years, I just really fucking hate these people. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

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‘I Was Sold a Bill of Goods’: Americans and the Distrust Election (Gift Article)

Americans have a pervasive sense they are being lied to. That has created an unpredictability in politics unseen since Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters.

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Arguing AI understands is like saying someone who knows the formula for buoyancy and has read step by step instructions for a breast stroke understands what it is to swim

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The CW idea impeachment backfires isn't true. Nor is there any value in surrendering in advance on conviction. But there's a more important long-term consideration. Looking at all this and saying nope, we're not even going to say he should be removed, is locking in a message for future presidents.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The same point applies for members of the Cabinet. The secretary of defense has proudly and openly murdered hundreds of people as official policy. Leave the official record on that as an indifferent shrug and you're not doing anything to tell future secretaries not to do the same or worse.

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Person: I believe Republicans are mere months away from systematically murdering me and everyone I care about. Me: Well, vote for Democrats then. Person: HOW DARE YOU, I HATE THEM, I HATE YOU, YOU BOOTLICKING SHITLIB, AAAAAAAAAAUGH (pees self in anger)

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

...deep red jurisdictions. 3) the time to punish Dems for being bad on trans rights is over. We're in the general election now. Every Dem is much better than every Republican for trans people. Yes, all of them. Yes, even that one. 4) Dems losing to R's in the general will not help trans people.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cards on the table because we keep litigating this. 1) trans rights are human rights and trans people are being horribly persecuted across the country. Defending them needs to be part of the Dem platform 2) moderates selling them out is bad policy and bad politics, with limited exceptions for...

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 19/09/2026

My takeaway is that without a real measurement, they would have gone their whole lives thinking this. It's crazy how much just being given any kind of fair evaluation helps women.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cautionary tale: I "checked" important fact w two AI systems: Name of political figure in a photo. —Gemini was absolutely 100% certain in its answer, on triple-check. And was 100% wrong. —Claude said it couldn't be sure. I checked w event organizers and got the name. Mistrust. And verify.

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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand he fucking bulldozed our collective property

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Rain In Newcastle" - my oil painting

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A sitting US Senator is openly calling for our country to be ethnically cleansed of all people of Mexican origin or ancestry, and yet no one will care because Republicans are allowed to be openly racist.

Americans. The United States is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world (24% of the entire Mexican-origin population of the world), behind only Mexico.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every day just more and more irrefutable evidence that the conservative culture is absolutely and 100% rotten to the core. To the marrow. To the point where there is not a single solitary redeeming quality to any of it anywhere at all.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He's really good at talking shit and the Democrats need so much more of this

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Pumpactionmusket @pumpactionmusket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Holy shit. All of the submission videos are just being uploaded immediately at the bottom of the webpage without any moderation whatsoever. Somebody is getting fired for this. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Farm Beast Inseminators is this anything

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So the rationalist community is both a figurative and literal circle jerk.

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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is hilarious.

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Digital Soma @digitalsoma.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's a good thing we're funding election securi *touches earpiece* Oh, oh no.

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Skeets McGee @emmreef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alito and Thomas have brain worms

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's even worse. It's not just that Alito presumes that large-scale fraud exists to be "detected," but he operates under that assumption despite countless recounts, audits, and now federal search warrants, having providing no evidence. Trump has controlled the federal government for nearly 2 years.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lmao. Get rekt losers. You're literally spilling your guts to a bunch of OpenAI workers

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