iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I'm going to miss keyword search when it's gone. If I know what I'm looking for, I just want to find it. I want to search "O In Theatro Sumus", I don't want to search "Computer, find information about the MST3k credits song titled 'O In Theatro Sumus' and show me a summary of the various articles"

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

been reading regime change and I had either forgotten or not realized that the initial justification for the ongoing national guard occupation of DC was that big balls got beat up by teenagers.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump’s “Super Intelligence Force” puts AI, intelligence, trade and defence officials under his control while giving tech companies direct access to policy decisions they could profit from, creating fertile ground for corporate profiteering, regulatory capture and corruption.

The White House Verified Account
@WhiteHouse
“I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.” - President DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸
[Embedded post/screenshot from Donald J. Trump]:
Donald J. Trump Verified Account
@realDonaldTrump
Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World's most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their responsibilities to the American People, I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans. The Super Intelligence Force will coordinate the Federal Government's engagement with Consumers, Public Interest Groups, Religious Organizations, Critical Infrastructure Providers, and Super Intelligence Companies, and will be led by Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael, and Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Scott Kupor, and will report to the President of the United States (ME!), and the Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this *is* very cool but imagine telling Otto von Bismarck that this is how his descendants spend their time. you would die from collateral damage after his exploding head sent dozens of extremely sharp moustache hairs through your own skull at lethal velocity

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great reporting and honest language here from Bob Smietana. No "racially tinged" mush mouth talk. No caviling with "critics say" hedging. Self-evident evils are discussed as such, not as "controversies." He gives words and sinners the dignity of meaning what they mean.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We need to just aerosolize shame and do an Operation Condor situation

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

Dairy farms in Kansas? Raided. Barton County? Texts about entire hotel blocks rented out by feds for the next weeks. It is a pogrom. This is called a pogrom.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Like frogs in a pot.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026

This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Masterful. Backderf marshals his considerable skills as both a storyteller and an historian to fully immerse readers in a bygone era with an unflinching eye for detail and a complete absence of sentimentality and gloss." Wow. #graphicnovels #comicbooks #indiecomics

forbes.com

Derf Backderf’s ‘The Dissidents’ Takes Us Back 110 Years To Find Today’s America

Imagine a time of anti-immigrant fervor, unpopular wars and official intolerance of dissent. It's easy if you try, as Derf Backderf shows in his new graphic novel.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The rapture happened and only Dolly ascended.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Imagine an administration so evil it *intentionally* makes citizens worry about where their next meal is coming from. Well, guess what? You don’t have to imagine. That evil is our reality.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is a helpful piece -- that convinces me that AI's use in K-12 should be extremely limited. A key irony is that what my high school students did best was think deeply when they had done the reading, discussed with other humans, and wrote multiple drafts -- things tech can never replace.

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.

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Terry Godier @terrygodier.com · 05/05/2026

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

terrygodier.com

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Trump's Treasury permanently ended beneficial ownership reporting for U.S. companies, eliminating records investigators use to trace hidden money and organized crime networks, including Epstein-style trafficking networks and Russian money laundering.

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💙Beebs @blue-rosary52.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 05/08/2026

The same New Jersey department also tried an officer standing on a bench in a t-shirt reading "NOT A COP." No word on that day's numbers. New Jersey fines now reach nearly $800 for repeat offenders in the leafy town of Dunellen, population 7,637.

boingboing.net

Cop dressed as shrub catches 74 texting drivers in 6 hours

A cop in suburban New Jersey stood in a ghillie suit against foliage to catch unwary drivers fooling around on their phones. They found a perfectly leafy tree on the…

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 15/07/2026

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

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💙Beebs @blue-rosary52.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

❗️Important…pls share

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★Maichi★ @yummymaichi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

These have been saving my wrist and arm from hurting or helping it hurt less Ever since I got sick over the weekend, my body just... kind of brooooke?? I guess

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🔥 Ronny Chieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”

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Gale Galligan @handle.invalid · 27/05/2026

jon (2017) (1/3)

Warm yellow fancomic cover. A gray toned comic panel of Jon Arbuckle from Garfield lies, as though on a table, in the center of the cover.

JON: a fancomic by gale galligan

PANEL 1
Exterior of a suburban house.
LIZ (off): I promise, you'll have a great time. We've known each other since undergrad, they're all really nice.
JON: But do any of them like polka?

PANEL 2
Liz and Jon prep snacks in the kitchen.
LIZ: Sweetie, nobody likes polka.
JON: Tell that to the international polka association.

PANEL 3
They carry party snacks out of the kitchen.
JON: Remind me: Jody and Evan, Ravi and Dan, Anna?
LIZ: Emma and Cameron.

PANEL 4
Liz sets down a party tray. She glares at a cat in the foreground. The cat yawns. It's Garfield.
LIZ: These are for the guests.

PANEL 1
Garfield eyes the snacks from a couch; a dog, Odie, is drooling over them.
JON (off): So Jody, Ravi, and Emma are vets, Evan's a lawyer, Dan's...
LIZ (off): A social worker, and Cam's an editor. For a science mag, I think.
JON (off): Hoo boy.

PANEL 2
Jon tries to bail; Liz grabs his arm.
JON: I'm gonna go pick out a tie.
LIZ: Come on! They're regular people.

PANEL 3
Liz hugs Jon tight.
JON: I dunno, Liz, it's just -- / it's my first time meeting your friends, and they're all... / I don't want to embarrass you.
LIZ: Jon.

PANEL 4
She takes his face in her hand.
LIZ: They're going to be our friends now.

PANEL 5
They kiss.
SFX: ding dong

PANEL 1
Liz opens the door to reveal Ravi (holding wine and wearing a tie) and Dan (in a snappy turtleneck).
LIZ: Ravi! Dan!
RAVI AND DAN: Liz!

PANEL 2
Ravi hugs Liz.
RAVI: You haven't changed a bit! How's work?
LIZ: Oh, the usual. Tiny dogs everywhere.
RAVI: Don't I know it.

PANEL 3
Ravi shakes hands with Jon; Dan has a hand on Ravi's shoulder.
RAVI: And this must be Jon!
DAN: We've heard so much about you.

PANEL 4
Dan thumps Jon's back; Jon stiffens nervously. Liz walks Ravi into the living room.
LIZ: Come on in! We've got cheese, snacks, a few bottles...

PANEL 5
Liz waves sheepishly over her shoulder at Jon; Jon is gesturing to the place at his collar where a tie WOULD be. We can see Ravi's tie very clearly in the foreground.

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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

@asavage.bsky.social was an amazing commencement speaker blending science technology and art

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/05/2026

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

So, for the uninitiated, the vast majority of AI startups — from search engines like Perplexity to legal software like Harvey to even Anthropic’s Claude subscriptions — do not bill users based on their actual token burn.

When you search a query on Perplexity, Perplexity itself pays the per-million-token rate — for example, Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3 per million input tokens (about four characters) and $15 per-million output tokens (both the stuff it creates and the plans it makes to execute an output using chain-of-thought reasoning, which I explained here). You, the customer, pay a simple flat fee each month.

As a result, you’re shielded from the actual cost of the prompt. You’re also shielded from the knowledge of the prompt’s cost.

Another good example is Microsoft’s AI coding tool GitHub Copilot, where users would get a certain amount of “premium requests” per month, with newer and more-powerful models costing more requests, and users able to buy more “premium requests” for a fee. As of June 1, 2026, Microsoft will move every GitHub Copilot subscriber to token-based billing, leading to users paying what their actual costs might be.

To ease the transition — if you can call it that — Microsoft has created a calculator to show how much your current GitHub Copilot usage would cost if you were actually paying for tokens, and the results are brutal:

One user paying $10-a-month burned around $46.70 of tokens, and this is one of the least-gratuitous examples I could find.
This guy spending $10-a-month burned $54.26 in tokens, and this one spent $23.81 in tokens. This guy spent $81 in tokens.
One user paying around $39-a-month burned $1357.16 of tokens.
One user who paid around $54.43 in a month burned $1,196.55 in tokens.
One user spending $39-a-month burned $204.55 in tokens.
One user spending $39-a-month burned $5,851.77 in tokens.
One user spending $39-a-month burned $595.83 in tokens.
One user spending $39-a-month burned $1,063.52.

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Randy Milholland @choochoobear.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Today would have been Bela Zaboly's birthday. Zaboly drew Popeye from late 1939 to August of 1959. Sadly, a lot of his work's forgotten as none of it's been reprinted out of sparse floppy comics from decades ago or outside the United States. I love these backgrounds.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 21/04/2026

we all know I have no life, so:

WHAT IF COLUMBO COULD REGENERATE LIKE THE DOCTOR?

1st Columbo: Groucho Marx
2nd Columbo: Danny Kaye
3rd Columbo: Sid Caesar
4th Columbo: Peter Falk (obviously he's the fourth, I mean come on, both in terms of iconicism and timing)
5th Columbo: Jamie Farr
6th Columbo: Judd Hirsch
7th Columbo: Howard Hesseman
8th Columbo: Mandy Patinkin
9th Columbo: Eugene Levy
10th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo
11th Columbo: Adam Brody
12th Columbo: Jason Alexander
13th Columbo: Natasha Lyonne
14th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo again
15th Columbo: Omar Epps

NOT PICTURED: Alan Arkin ("War Columbo"), Whoopi Goldberg ("Fugitive Columbo"), Laura Linney (possible 16th Columbo), Don Adams/Warren Christopher (played first and second Columbos, respectively, in "The Five Columbos" TV special)

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Wow. Donald Knuth on Ai for math: www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
@micarosenberg
et al for ProPublica:

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Theoria @theoriajournal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/07/2025

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

THIS! Over 1000 marched in protest in Sackets Harbor, NY on Sat after a mother & 3 children were snatched by ICE & sent to a detention center in Texas. The 3 children were dragged out of beds at 6am put into a van in handcuffs. 1000 protesting in a town of only 1363 residents👏 (🎥 7 News)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Where is our humanity?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I’m the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped. I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky.

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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 20/03/2025

Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—a risk to Earthlings everywhere. An illustrated essay by @weinersmith.bsky.social and @zachweinersmith.bsky.social, based on their Hugo Award-winning book, "A City on Mars."

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Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth

Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—it's a risk to Earthlings everywhere.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 08/02/2025

People have been trying to sound the alarm about this deranged Nazi incel for a long time ... we paying attention now?

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