iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 4h

There's a truth to this, but I think collapsing it to "Bossism" is wrong. It's just really hard to understand illegible tasks and tacit knowledge in general - that's what those adjectives *mean*.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 8h

"Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne!" chanted the Secretary of War, after presenting his memo.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 20h

I would ban all polling. The questions are meaningless, the answers inaccurate and they generate all sorts of unhelpful feedback effects.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 21h

Ways to achieve eternal (3000+ years) renown: - Sulk in your tent, then kill a bunch of guys, then die. - Get lost. Like, real bad.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope can’t resist his pizza.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 29/09/2026

No reason both of these can't be simultaneously true, unfortunately.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026

How is this from 2014

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this poor model looks so bummed out by this stupid level 1 rpg dress

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 28/09/2026

This is maybe once every ten minutes?

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 28/09/2026

radio? what is this, 1940?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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turtle meat @turtleme.at · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, but if you bring turtle meat - or any damn meat at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cuth pube

A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 26/09/2026

A number of people I know have been rather rude about my championing of this splendid dish.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean if you are a philosopher worth your salt you know the thinking/consciousness question is just a deflection that tries to frame a political question of personhood as a metaphysical question of the philosophy of mind

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the business of TRYING TO MAKE THEM EXIST so that they can remediate them.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 26/09/2026

All of whom were policing the most insane etiquette rules they'd invented.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 25/09/2026

Ah, they are genuinely good citizens I see. Bravo.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 25/09/2026

I've interviewed hundreds of people in my career and I wouldn't even notice this

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tbh the clown school person might be the only one I’d actually hang out with. Ditching that shitshow to pursue learning an interesting art form (really!) seems like the best life choice anybody in that article made. Also, I know a guy who was in a clown troupe after college for a while and he’s rad.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly I think it's a bit of a fools' errand to try and get people to stop anthropomorphising LLMs. I say my computer is angry at me if it beeps too loud.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

plenty of people run llm based agents with powerful models and do not end up hacking anyone. this is not an ai alignment problem, it is an openai being routinely criminally negligent as a company problem

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 23/09/2026

Episode one of the new marvel series dropped

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 23/09/2026

is literally everyone insane now? is this a thing?

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 23/09/2026

Country is another country

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way I explain it is that the best bits of 40k fiction are about surviving and finding meaning in a universe that is deeply stupid and horrible and this is very relatable in these very stupid and horrible times.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 22/09/2026

if _I_ were an about-to-IPO frontier lab, things like really serious professional dev heavy power users talking about how new model releases are irrelevant because basically any of them are good enough and it's all about cost and efficiency would give me fits, but machine god, ma! machine god!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the culmination of the warhammer books' signature storyline is a three-volume experimental novel.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 22/09/2026

This would be implausible in a dystopian movie. Do not like.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 22/09/2026

I would never try to explain the appeal of wh40k because nobody would believe how genuinely good the good bits are - and the bad bits are really, really quite bad.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A small part of me worries that the government has been told it could not count on the loyalty of the police or armed forces if they were told to deal forcefully with the far right.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 22/09/2026

Something so guiltily satisfying about schadenfreude

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 22/09/2026

Meeting Donald Trump, absolutely the most excruciating experience currently available in the world.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago

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hailey @hailey.at · 21/09/2026

strongly disagree with it being a minor thing. its actually a major advancement in cost and capability for a not insignificant portion of what people are doing with LLMs today. the hype is there for a reason.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 21/09/2026

If anything is going to make me start cancelling my subs for all these streaming services, it is this.

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Siobhan Mitchell, PhD @esiobhanmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Brilliat new paper : The brain is two separate organs that develop in parallel One organ is for controlling breathing, temperature, heart function, and the other organ is for thinking. They form separately and then join together during development 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain - Nature Neuroscience

This study shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors: one forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. These insights enable the generation of human hin...

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Dr. Jess Hebert @jesshebert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm watching The Most Parasocial Behavior happen on an FB group. I think nerdy-type celebrities get it the worst because you get excited folks with a common interest who are already inclined towards neurodivergence so you get the Geek Social Fallacies. plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-so...

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Five Geek Social Fallacies

Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interp

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 15/10/2025

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 21/09/2026

This is the bristlemouths' planet. We only live here.

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Doug Winter @doug.winter.cx · 20/09/2026

I've got a knee that would benefit from these

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