iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A thread in 20 photographs, telling the story of the long and fraught road of a novel that came back from the dead...

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Hughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hard to put into words just how angry I am that, even now, with far right neo-racism on the march and establishment transphobia doing victory laps, a major Left party has chosen now to allow the same minority of Hard Left cranks to derail it yet again

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Eleanor Baker @eleanorb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'd say it can't be valid to run any older material through it anyway because it will almost certainly be part of its training data so will be assumed to be included in anything that AI produces 😢

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Eleanor Baker @eleanorb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In light of all the pernicious hard right nonsense going on I've just donated to the RNLI and you can too by following this link if you like rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Chief Rabbi speaks for Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and their apologists in this country. Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 06/09/2026

If you want me, I'll be over in my own shop gailmyerscough.co.uk

A photo of Gail with the text ‘Goodbye Etsy. Hello to doing things my own way.’

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Eleanor Baker @eleanorb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They have them on trains and my grandmother used to have them on her sitting room furniture

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Eleanor Baker @eleanorb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But as I'm 58 I'm not sure I count as 'these days' 😕

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

fwiw, one reason young people are more attracted to egalitarian philosophies is that no young person is actually rich. children don't own any property in their own name. this is not just a tecnicality; it's a material reality that has realy material consequences. 1

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chefs kiss

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The BBC have gone too far employing Sith weather presenters.

A bbc weather presenter Chris Fawkes stands in front of the forecast screen which is showing a photo of lightning over a field. His hands are outstretched and it looks like the lightning is coming out of his fingers

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Eleanor Baker @eleanorb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My son is eighteen. In a few short weeks he's off to university. Every time he spends time talking with me about anything is precious. This woman is an absolute moron and parenthood is wasted on her.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The teeny-tiny germ of insight in Richard Tice's argument that we should just enjoy the heat is that we ought to demolish and build enough on our coasts that everyone who lives in a British city can afford to decamp to their holiday apartment in August.

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Eleanor Baker @eleanorb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Watched it in hospital and found myself almost too emotionally fragile to bear it.

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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Lot of people younger than me lately. What are we doing about this.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Once they tell you about confirmation bias, you start seeing it everywhere.

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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Today's Ben finds out a factoid while researching stuff... The University of London awarded full degrees to women from 1878 - 60 years before Cambridge 42 years before Oxford. 15 years before Edinburgh. 😀

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Farage got 63% of 44% of Clacton voters in an election he called and that he was the only MP standing. And he's calling it a win.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/08/2026

Yea you see, the problem here is that what historians actually do is construct the ‘well structured large historical dataset’.What you’re saying is that Claude can write an elementary school level paper on like the civil war

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Brains turning to mush... As I recall, my father told me to read Russian novels even if I didn't understand them because striving was good for the brain. 'Last of the Mohicans' isn't even that hard. AI isn't the Axios writer's reading buddy. It's a worm, and it's feeding on [their] cognition.

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the Simpson episode, this clip is from, is 32 years old.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze

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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"US defence companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin fear that, if granted a licence, Ukraine could improve Patriot interceptor missiles and produce them faster and at a significantly lower cost than the United States."

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Patriot makers fear Ukraine could improve and produce their missiles more cheaply – The Atlantic

Raytheon and Lockheed Martin fear that licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine could allow Kyiv to improve the weapons and manufacture them faster and at a much lower cost.

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on

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Eleanor Baker @eleanorb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have just ordered this - really looking forward to reading it while I convalesce from my current hospital stay

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