iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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"the people who made openai tried to hack wikipedia tools and flooded it w traffic" fixed it

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2h

While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 42m

these are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22h

A dive into the Epstein Files reveals the oligarchy's panic over #MeToo and the possibility that the private sins of the wealthy and powerful could become a matter of public knowledge.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22h

It's tempting to see this all as mere hypocrisy, but I think it's something far weirder and more disturbing. These men understand completely that scrutiny is antithetical to living as your authentic self.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

Of COURSE THEY WOULD COME FOR WIKIPEDIA .. “It’s just the scraping” No you utter miscreants. AI as designed by the current closed models CAN NOT ALLOW OPEN SOURCE KNOWLEDGE it needs your methods, it needs best performers out of the frame

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Mardoch @mardoch.bsky.social · 2h

bro i need amazon to fuck off straight to hell with their delivery drones if you've never heard one before, imagine someone is flying a leaf blower over your house. now imagine there are multiple leafblowers flying over your house routinely welcome to hell. your fast deliveries are not worth it

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21h

Holy shit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast

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Roko's Basilisk is Computer Pascal's Wager (thus, dumb) @eldritchtouched.bsky.social · 16h

Ex. 39 of Terminal Computer Brainworms [Case #2933] TCB results in the infected having atrophied historical comprehension. They are seemingly unaware of the entirety of the histories of branches like philosophy, psychology, and theology, framing long-standing discussions as novel, to spread TCB.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

“we can fantasize about raping people on livestream but if anyone thinks anything bad should happen to us as a result we will try to get them fired” sums up the state of right wing “intellectualism” pretty well

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As someone mentioned a few months ago, a child needs to see and interact with 1–3 cats to know what cats are. An algorithm needs thousands and thousands of images of multiple cats to be able to identify a cat. Those aren’t the same process.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026

Bruno on what happened: azhdarchid.com/bsky-suspens...

azhdarchid.com

I've been temporarily suspended from Bluesky

Bruno Dias' personal blog.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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風空 @purintama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

黄金🌳への道91話モーグ様のシルエット可愛すぎた

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let me stipulate that Meta should not be doing this, it’s bigoted & bullshit. But. WHY DID EVERY BUSINESS SWITCH TO HAVING ONLY AN FB/IG ACCT INSTEAD OF A WEBSITE?!? You can use an acct to POINT to a website but SO MANY businesses just abandoned having 1 & Meta can EASILY hold them hostage!!!

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the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagining a guy who signed up for the CIA thinking he would do cool espionage shit only to be told to kickstart an art trend for terminally online people where they draw the nazi youth kid from Harry Potter as a smug anime girl and how hard he's trying not to blow his brains out at home

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Me: "Hey, look, the local theater is going to put on a 'whimsical Macbeth with shadow puppets!'" My 13yrold: "All Shakespeare-stuff-but-different is bad." 99% true

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Taran Fiddler @tfiddlerart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Weretober2026 Day 3 - Boar 🐗

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Capacities are not tasks" -- van Rooij & Guest (2026) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

be ruled out, it may seem that AI systems that can
(be made to) perform like humans on cognitive tasks
provide at least possible theories of how cognition could
work. However, this inference is not licensed either.
Computational models of tasks, and task performance,
are not yet theories of cognition (Guest & Martin, 2021;
Morrison & Morgan, 1999). Theories of cognition should
at a minimum provide possible explanations of one or
more substantive human cognitive capacities, such as
vision, decision-making, reasoning, concept formation,
learning, or communication (Cummins, 2000; Egan, 2018;
van Rooij & Baggio, 2021). “A capacity is a more or less
reliable ability (or disposition or tendency) to transform
some initial state (or ‘input’) into a resulting state (‘out-
put’)” (van Rooij & Baggio, 2021, p. 684). A cognitive
capacity is thus the ability to transform cognitive states
(e.g., percepts, preferences, beliefs) into other cognitive
states (e.g., beliefs, plans, decisions, actions). Although it
is true that in (hyperempiricist) psychology cognitive
capacities are typically studied by having people perform
various tasks, computationally (or, more often, statisti-
cally) modeling task performance does not yield explan-
atory theories of the full-blown capacities. This is no

only because tasks do not map one-to-one, or in any
other straightforward way, to substantive cognitive capac-
ities, but also because even if they could, the models
would not be able to scale up to situations of real-world
complexity.
AI systems cannot scale. For computational models of
cognition to be able to scale up from toy scenarios (such
as studied in the psychological labs or such as form the
bases of training AI systems through machine learning),
these models should minimally be computationally trac-
table (van Rooij, 2008). That is, the input-output map-
pings hypothesized by the computational models should
in principle be computable using a realistic amount of
resources (Box 1). However, when existing computa-
tional models are mathematically analyzed for their
resource demands it turns out that such models are either
tractable but limited in their input domains, or they are
domain-general but then the models are intractable (for
a textbook introduction to this methodology, see van
Rooij et al., 2019). Consequently, no computationally
tractable account exists to date for substantive and
domain-general cognitive capacities, such as reasoning,
communication, decision-making, planning, analogizing,
categorization, and concept formation (van Rooij et al.,
2019). Moreover, there is no good reason to believe that
such tractable accounts will be forthcoming via machine
learning (van Rooij, Guest, et al., 2024) or otherwise
(Rich et al., 2021). Hence, if someone claims their con-
crete AI system is a “theory” of human cognition, they are
more likely than not overstating the scope and capacities
of the system (van Rooij et al., 2019) and obfuscating the
system’s limits, including the human in the loop needed
to make such systems “work” (Guest & Martin, 2025

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We should stop indulging the weird god complex at the heart of the "broken culture" at the AI companies, and start treating them like the mundane criminally negligent narcissists they are

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

CSP being pressed to take even just /kissing/ off their asset store and FA being told that plus sized characters are considered adult should be a giant waving red flag to folks. Sex workers have /always/ been right to say these policies never stop with 1 type of content. They always wanna ban more.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Progressives' position on this shit is perfectly consistent: it is built on theft, destroys the mind, and exists only to swindle the unwary and replace the unwilling. It a hamfisted attempt to replace labor with capital, from people who cannot or will not consider who buys their shit. Smash it.

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Okay so there is DEFINITELY some mailing list shit happening because a bunch of journos are all saying the exact same shit at the exact same time

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/10/2026

Tips For Increasing Your Fiber Intake theonion.com/tips-for-increasing-yo…

Toast white bread to convert it to brown, fiber-packed wheat bread.

Incorporate eating a can of beans into your shower routine.

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ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every single thing is The Producers now. Nobody actually trying to do something, just trying to buy companies and ruin them as a stock market scam.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guarantee you AI won’t kill us all. The claim’s a projection of reckless rich buffoons who can’t wait to be the only humans alive, openly fantasizing about a cull. Again. I’ve never been scared of AI, but the megalomaniacs forcing it on us are terrifying. I can’t guarantee they won’t kill us all.

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a magical little moment today

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It undercuts the entire project, both from narrative and marketing perspective—and injures the egos of men who imagine themselves to be playing a key role in the most important project in history in the process.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My theory: More than critiques of circular financing, or of dubious product functionality, "stochastic parrots" undermines the foundation that the entire AI boom is built on: The story that the AI industry is building an unfathomably powerful machine god.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's weird that Epstein, Elon, and Thiel all were proven to have done weird Boys From Brazil shit with fertility clinics but no one has gone through the effort of looking into the output of those clinics and tracking their freak offspring.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Irony is already dead. This is just overkill.

What I did find in Dracula, though, was the newly launched Character Guide feature, which tracks the speaking character in real time and offers an information card with details about the performer playing the role. It’s all on the player page, minimizing distractions.

The character guide feature is now available for George Orwell’s 1984 and will be part of Audible’s upcoming original audiobook Exoplanet, written by Benjamin Percy and executive-produced by Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir. Audible plans to expand this feature to let listeners interact with the guide and ask questions as the story progresses.

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𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

good heavens look at the time

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 02/10/2026

happy october

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 02/10/2026

X Files screencap from Bad Blood. Blurry screencap of Mulder quickly rising from his seat and loudly proclaiming "I was drugged!"

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Types of Ghosts II

a series of crude drawings of ghosts.
At the top is the words "the world is full of ghosts
here are some you may recognize or learn to spot"
a tiny one labeled "single celled"
a long one labeled "snake"
a round one labeled "round"
one with a monitor on its head labeled "computer"
one with big teeth labeled "teeth"
a big one making a vacant expression labeled "boring"
one with a smaller one inside of it labeled "double ghost"
One with a cowboy hat and mustache labeled "cowboy"
a wide one labeled "wide"
one hiding behind a bush labeled "shy"
one wearing a trenchcoat and hat, labeled "secret"
one that is dripping a lot, labeled "wet"
one stuck in a can ring labeled "trapped"

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 01/10/2026

good god what would Joseph Weizenbaum say about this supercharged ELIZA-effect delusion

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i can't believe this is a legit and not-vandalized page

President (also commonly called Asshole,[1] Scum,[1] or Capitalism[1])

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s October 1st

David Lynch. Next to him is a graphic with a Halloween jack-o-lantern and the text, “Devil’s Night.”

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My reaction to the Meta creatures was very Fluffy Soft youtube.com/shorts/dAjDK...

youtube.com

Fluffy Soft

YouTube video by dadoctah

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 01/10/2026

Careless companies doing careless things with half-baked tech products, resulting in real world harm - absolutely a thing. That is not “x-risk.” In the cult of AI, “x-risk” = a more-powerful-than-people synthetic entity autonomously decides to do something that wipes out humanity.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 01/10/2026

I absolutely know who needs to hear this, though I won’t name names. Progressive orgs need to stop pretending that “AGI” and “x-risk” are ideas to take seriously. No one is building a computer god that could go rogue and turn us into paper clips.

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