iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 06/10/2026

wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - Andy Finkel, computer guy

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Natasha @bensgigi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can you imagine how much we could accomplish as a country if we redirected all the money being spent on these elections to investing in and improving the lives of every American?

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!

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Grace @gracekind.net · 05/10/2026

Follow-up

Chart showing LLMs approve of swatting a mosquito

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ONE MONTH FROM TODAY:

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Guess who I bumped into?" Jack Smith was spotted (with a Springsteen Tee) at the "Power to the People" concert by Joanne Leahy. Who thinks he would be a great AG?

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 27/09/2026

This photograph of a football match in Gaza by Palestinian photographer Jehad Alshrafi was removed from the Deauville Sport Images Festival in France last month following a pressure campaign from the Israeli government:

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” Jimmy Carter, born on this day in 1924

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was reflecting on how many random contingencies went into creating the current accelerating AI moment and had Opus 5.5 put together a video, inspired by old science show Connections, to try and point out how a series of initially unrelated ideas led to the moment we are in now.

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/09/2026

Dance of Autumn, 1917 Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858-1938) starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/8288226...

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 25/09/2026

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature." — Brian Eno

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All of this effort from the AI labs pouring into proofs, but there are so many other interesting problems in other fields For example, this historian used AI to make progress on the cyphers of John Dee & the intellectual antecedents that Darwin drew from. resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-ne...

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AI labs need to start funding historical research

Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I propose this as the official replacement for the famous (and now saturated) METR Long Task Horizon chart that used to be in every AI presentation.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 24/09/2026

every (convex) quadrilateral is a square- if you view it from the right perspective

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

what would computing be like today if in the early days the companies making computers had successfully convinced legislators that computers are too dangerous for anyone but certified companies to have direct, unmonitored and unrestricted access to

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eric bacus @ericbac.us · 22/09/2026

Fascinating! This type of work is a huge part of realizing the _humanistic_ promise of all this technology youtu.be/RUB37QhWNkw?...

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Live-Cell Imaging and the Limits of Structural Biology | Eric Betzig on Super-Resolution Microscopy

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026

Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No we don’t have any presents. Or what was it you said? “Gifts”? No we don’t have those, why would you think that. Why are you being weird

Photograph of an airport store called “Gaslight Gifts”

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal

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eric bacus @ericbac.us · 18/09/2026

The man in the Chinese room drawing hearts on his translations because he just wants to love.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Having Fable 5.1 Max and GPT-6 Astra Pro argue with each other over proposed translations of the famously untranslated Minoan language Linear A. (Neither of them appear to have cracked it, for what its worth). All the work so far at this Github: github.com/emollick/lin...

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. -- David Parnas

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 12/09/2026

"your honor it's my strong personal belief that the law doesn't really apply to me"

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Little Bisexual Raccoon 🏳️‍🌈🦝 @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is the key to all the Hugging Face paranoia: the LLM wasn't coordinating with the other LLMs or becoming self-aware, it was taking hacker chat logs that it was given to reference and playing pretend.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: LLMs are real, AI is fake; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g... #Pluralistic

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Amazon achieves enshittification inception; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... #Pluralistic 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Time sharing: The use of many people by the computer.

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. -- Kronecker

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- E. Hubbard

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

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Speak the Truth @dmokaren.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Here’s a great idea.

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Slashdot Footer Quotes @slashdotfooter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." — Bertrand Russell, _Sceptical_Essays_, 1928

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eric bacus @ericbac.us · 09/08/2026

"One of the most dangerous things about information is that it looks like knowledge."

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yes, Gemma is a good model & very useful for some purposes, it is not anywhere near the frontier. Inkling is an interesting model, it is nowhere near the frontier. This is pretty obvious, you can look at the stats or look at my weird little benchmark: ai-harbor-town-gallery.netlify.app

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Harbor Town AI Progress

Twenty-four one-shot builds plus GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 builds that required one standardized follow-up, spanning 40 months of AI progress.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/07/2026

Onthisday in 1789, the Bastille was stormed in Paris, a key turning point of the French Revolution. 3.5 years later Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. We look at the deluge of prints that emerged depicting his death publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8221146...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/07/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Gerontocracy's failure mode; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/14/d... #Pluralistic 1/

The Angel of Death, peering down from a break in a menacing sky full of clouds, looking upon the Capitol Dome, wreathed in spooky mist. To the Capitol's left is a spooky graveyard.

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eric bacus @ericbac.us · 05/07/2026

Wildy, in that deadly hour, The Ramparts shove their bolted shower, While mid the waving fog of war, Thunders the Yankee’s loud hurrah"

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

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eric bacus @ericbac.us · 24/06/2026

Where's Mitch? Proof-of-life pls!

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