iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

11. But the economics are clear, allowing people to continue to suffer without treatment and support is expensive and unconscionable. According to NHS England, not treating ADHD costs the UK economy ~£17 billion in lost tax, benefits, unemployment, health/social care/justice costs

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9. Neurodivergent people who hack the gates and succeed differently, undermine the authority of those who guard orthodox ways of learning and succeeding. “How dare you challenge our house now we’ve let you in.”

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7. Here's what makes certain people uneasy: To accept reality of ADHD is to accept the system itself is disabling, which means the structures must change, & that threatens those who benefit most from them. Easier to deny ADHD than to accept structural change

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ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

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Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women.

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dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 09/10/2026

Perhaps even the field that the software will be deployed in. Here’s an essay on that, touching on e14n and the void at the heart of “tech” that causes trouble deadsimpletech.com/blog/poor-en...

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Poor enshittified souls | deadSimpleTech

Doctorow, after all, is a techie and tech writer from a union background (of which, of course, I highly approve), which means that he wrote a very particular kind of book. As I read it, though, I noti...

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dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 08/10/2026

“Humans in love are terrible.”

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Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here.

The image is a six panel black and white comic.

Panel 1 - a girl sits at her desk in front of a computer, looking disheartened. She says, "I dont know if I should post this art, who would even want to see it?"

Panel 2- A new person bursts through the door in the background with a loud BAM

Panel 3- The new person pushes the girl out of the way, smushing her face in the process, while slamming their fist down on the keyboard.

Panel 4- The computer shows that the art has been posted

Panel 5- The person makes direct eye contact with the girl while pushing their finger against their own phone screen

Panel 6- A motion blur is added to the last panel, enhancing the impact of the new notifications on the new post. It reads, "(Friend) Liked Post just now" Followed by "(Friend) commented 'I FUCKING LOVE THIS AND I LOVE U'"

Underneath the last panel is a watermark that reads, Shubbabang

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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

any time i see the “ai model escapes containment” headlines i think “they should lose their engineering licenses, that shit’s out of spec”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 03/10/2026

I’m assured that Netherlands summers often come and end later than one would expect, after the balmy October day just had in Amsterdam, but my informant is exactly the same age as me. Which means: she too as a child had a climate that wasn’t the same after 1987, skies that got only more dramatic.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Transphobia is genuinely an elite fixation that is much less popular than most politicians and media outlets would have you believe.

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dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 27/09/2026

So happy to hear about Germany’s decarbonisation plan agreement. I worry about politics sabotaging it, but it does seem to be real.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of the lobbying has talked about how important it is for Heathrow to be a hub aiport, and it has never been adequately explained to me why this should matter to anyone who does not own Heathrow

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This whole issue is framed wrongly. As I've written: "Worrying that some migrants won’t pay their way is a displacement activity - an attempt to blame migrants for the failings of British capitalism." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-the-fis...

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On the fiscal costs of immigration

Are immigrants a drain on the tax-payer? It's a silly question.

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I Took Not Just Bikes Cycling in London

The public realm design guidelines that Dutch municipalities and other stakeholders have developed is a spectacular success, but there's an important point about liability: the owner/designer of the road is held liable for accidents due to poor design. Do watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHcZ...

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every night a salon hosted?

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See also: normal linux, pervert linux

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yakhu @gremble.xyz · 17/09/2026

_Any_ apps, in my experience :( The network is somehow always perfect and always available.

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As a professional computer toucher and as someone that knows the field, it is crimes as marketing.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As the opposite of a computer toucher, I sometimes worry that I'm not keeping up with the development of things. Luckily, I'm smart enough to realize that if the "most dangerous" LLMs need warehouses full of GPUs to function, they can't just "break out" and start running on random PCs.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"AI" might; an LLM certainly won't unless it's told to. It's a bit like "the algorithm" as metonym for an ineffable process, when these things are human-made artifacts, to serve human ends, which should be treated as the tools they are, and the owners as the owners they are.

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Which means 6 in 7 do not and many of them are more progressive than previous generations. Also, “white nationalism” might be a “phase” for some/many in this generation in the sense that “skinhead” was in a previous generation. Obviously, 1 in 7 is a concern. But it is no reason for moral panic.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The more you insist that cars equal “freedom,” the more likely it is that you live in car dependency, which is the opposite of freedom.

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Going the other way, from Britain to the Netherlands in 2019, has been like going to heaven without having to die first.

Also the second time in as many days to post this

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Images that should be album covers twitter dot com

dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 12/09/2026

Couldn’t happen to a nicer former empire. (Many Britons did not deserve Brexit. Britain? Britain deserved it.)

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Why is IT in Creative Industries? There’s a specific part which is creative and a lot that isn’t.

dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 12/09/2026

How many counties would you like?

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dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 07/09/2026

This time it’s mercury

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My main two general takeaways as a GDR historian on this election (which will probably be painfully familiar to anyone who has followed me for a while) 1. Equating the AfD with a residual mass authoritarian personality is an oversimplification that obscures effects of post-89 social collapse...

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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

lrt: what absolutely kills me is at the beginning merz (through the adenauer stiftung) took a hard, systematic look at how centre right parties lose to far right parties, concluded (correctly!) that co-opting only sabotages yourself, said, "we won't do that then" and then immediately did that!!

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dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 06/09/2026

Cordon sanitaire is important symbolically. Turnout seems to have been key: more did not vote for them than did. I don’t understand how all the others are so bad at this given Merz’ incompetence.

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dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 05/09/2026

What was that anecdote from someone’s grandmother, “after you’re finished punching, the nazi is still alive?”

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dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 05/09/2026

I adore my VISO-1 but NAD are not software people and in this Bluetooth stack you can tell. Guessing everyone else is using the cheap stacks too, _and_ the cheap hardware.

dubious blur @dubiousblur.wtf · 05/09/2026

Thing I don’t understand is why they are not installing their own batteries and enough solar to charge it wholly during daylight hours such that they can in fact run 24/7 off the daytime charge. Especially for afterward, when they’re trying desperately to salvage something of value.