iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self

Dominos pizza bikes in a row, all collapsed on each other like a line of fallen dominos

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

someone needlepoint this on a pillow for me, please and thank you

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

this feels right

[HARPER'S INDEX]

Number of times the Wikipedia

entry about the ship of Theseus has
been edited since it was published

in 2003 : 2,052

Number of sentences from the original
entry that remain today : 0

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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

the AI story won't end with either a super intelligence enslaving humanity or some "life of abundance"-utopia. it'll end the way these things always end. the bubble will burst. the economy will tank. the tech moguls will golden-parachute onto their super yachts. normies will pick up the pieces.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

‘But it’s different in your industry’ says every AI sales person.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I asked Google's AI chat-bot a question. I commend it for its honesty and forthrightness:

Google AI admits that google dropped the "Don't" from "Don't be evil".

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yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Having fun jamming with myself tonight. First, I recorded the kick and bass. Then I overdubbed the chords. Finally, I recorded the rest of the drum sounds.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

let’s trust the thing that can’t do basic math with our lives this is a good plan

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Are you watching, world? Treat AI as you would a very bright and fast but dishonest intern with a ridiculously inflated ego and sense of entitlement.

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yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A very slightly ambient dub jam!! :) #eurorack #dub

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yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

CIZZLE/CASTLE chords pt. 1

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

co-signed

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

It’s sort of fascinating how many old internet jokes you can string together and sound profound.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 23/07/2025

Home is where the heart TKTK

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

adding “hallucinates confidently” to my linkedin bio

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 23/07/2025

Still the greatest takedown of men who complain about women's voices on podcasts/radio (written by Katie Mingle of 99% Invisible)

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I think Ai chatbots passing the Turing test is impressive, in the same way that a magician passing a coin through a solid oak table is impressive. But the thing is, magicians can't actually pass coins through tables; their skill is in making it seem that they can.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"But in all this there is little of philosophical interest: the fallacies involved are of the most rudimentary kind. In consequence I shall not trouble to unravel them here." How you could write in 1954. From Richard Wollheim, The Nature of Law.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/07/2025

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 02/07/2025

virtually 0% of people i’ve met who say they are detail-oriented are actually detail-oriented

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Not enough has been written about Schrödinger’s assistant, Otto.

A large gray cat sits on a partially-closed shoebox. Another cat’s face pokes out of the open corner of the box.

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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 28/06/2025

a proverb for our times

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 27/06/2025

The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o... There's space for five names in the submission boxes. Let's go with: Exxon Mobil BP Shell Equinor Chevron At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve. Pls retweet!

metoffice.gov.uk

Name our Storms

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 27/06/2025

Everybody should be listening to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social .

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

No matter how many summers you’ve spent on this Earth, it’s always exciting to catch a lightning bug in your hand

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

You wouldn’t say that someone was a gravity skeptic. You’d just say they were wrong. Vaccines work. Period. That is a verifiable fact.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Person 1: Do you know how America’s class system works? Person 2: America has a class system? Person 1: Yes, that’s how it works. From @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social excellent book Limitarianism

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Inkeri Koskinen @inkerikoskinen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I just reviewed an obviously AI-generated manuscript. Dear editors, these are not difficult to identify. Please spare your reviewers. We are already overworked, and if you send us AI-bullshit, we are forced to spend time explaining why the paper should be rejected. You could simply desk reject it.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I turned this into a post for easier sharing: jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/on-the-imp...

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a nguyễn @scientifical.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

me trying to explain why we shouldn't adopt these things in our classrooms as "a search replacement"

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

About all I rely on AI for is definitions of terms or concepts that I already know, but want a grammatically tight explanation of. And than I go back and check that all of the details were right to begin with from other sources, because JFC it still gets the simplest stuff wrong from.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

me after a slow day on my Peloton

From pope Leo: In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"i asked grok" "I asked chatgpt" well I asked HAL and he refused to do my homework and locked me out of the spaceship

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pulu @pulusound.fi · 07/06/2025

hacking on OSC support for cross-platform #sapf

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Ihro @ihro.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Did you know that the first thing that midwives do when a baby is born is to count their fingers? This is to check if the baby is a.i. generated, and counting out loud is a valued ritual, a tradition dating back to when a.i. was barely more than us

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Apparently the Romans managed the water from their aquaducts by prioritising public drinking fountains, then public baths, and rich people's houses last. Reading about the vast energy demands of future AI, I think we need that for energy. Poorest ppl first, luxury AI video cat memes last.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

When I was a kid I was a fussy eater, but now I'm a vegan. Which is exactly the same except *I* get to judge YOU.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Based on my experiences to date, being right about everything has no measurable benefits.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Vital point here. The frames of political discourse — which are shaped by the structure of the info environment and by both strategic & organic communication — shape how people interpret their own experiences. We're not dealing with a problem of bad "facts" ... but one of corrupted sensemaking.

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Have a talk at Humbolt U today. This is Hegel’s desk.

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

God I fucking love naming concepts by putting them in all caps and making the font smaller. I live for that shit.

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yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Beats sequenced by: Patching Panda Particles and Pam's Pro. Beat sounds from: Squid Salmple (606 bank) and Akemie's Taiko. Chords: Akemie's Castle. CV: Batumi, Vector Space and Ochd. FX: MFX, Mimeophon, Clouds. #eurorack #synthsky

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Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I talked to the AP about grok's "white genocide" meltdown. A few hours after publication, xAI admitted to hard coding it. This is important accountability journalism because people use AI as an arbiter of truth & here we see AI owners making the tools match their politics apnews.com/article/elon...

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Why was Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with South Africa's racial politics?

Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on social media this week, posting unsolicited claims about the persecution a...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

that thing where your parents blame you for something that functionally cannot be your fault

Dinosaur (seeing a comet): Terry! Quick!
Make a wish.

Second dinosaur: I wish for a thousand wishes.
(Lots of comets rain down)

First dinosaur: TERRY WHAT
THE HELL?!

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