iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Honest J

Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I honestly wonder how much of this is just about Trump having political power. Like regardless of numbers, I’m never going to feel *great* about things while he’s around because of insane tail risk.

2241

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Imagine if investors spent half a trillion dollars on something people wanted.

020

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again with the people who watch dystopian sci-fi like it's an instructional manual.

010

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cowboys losing like that was sweet.

000

Reposted by Honest J

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

222257518

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's not what it m— oh wait, no, that works. Yeah, that's good, too.

0103

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's impossible to understate how profoundly and blatantly evil it is to say that last sentence in a speech at the UN. Objective journalism will name this as cartoon villian stuff.

010

Reposted by Honest J

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

188136402889

Reposted by Honest J

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."

681997365

Reposted by Honest J

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the rare Russian election observers that hasn't yet been banned from entry explains one of the many methods she watched the regime use to blatantly rig the ongoing Duma elections.

04815

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The decision is to take on AI and have massive amounts of capital try to destroy us, or not take on AI and still have massive amounts of capital try to destroy us."

000

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain" is a nice, succint statement of fact. And we are their supply chain.

010

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of people, many of them smart, seem to really want to hang onto there being a metaphysical difference between humans and machines, and I just don't think that's going to remain tenable going forward. I think it's enough to say 'them ain't us' and focus on the practical consequences.

100

Reposted by Honest J

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why would reasoning endow something with rights

251

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As a GenX parent, I want to know how my parents got me through high school graduation without reading 15 million emails from my teachers and principals.

000

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I wonder if the superintelligence will be embodied enough to realize that the easiest way of destroying industrial civilization would likely involve ending itself as well.

000

Reposted by Honest J

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly

221496305

Reposted by Honest J

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This attempt to construct a narrative of persecution around being a white guy in America is at base, an expression of profound jealousy and insecurity towards people who have to overcome challenges they will never face

281401196

Reposted by Honest J

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/09/2026

Probably fine that economic growth is largely dependent on two companies that make computer viruses that speak English

421922

Reposted by Honest J

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And (wearying as it is to keep saying this day after day, issue after issue, but it's the only constitutional language we have for it) it is an impeachable offense to attempt such a circumvention of Congress. I think it would be fair to impeache just for trial-ballooning it. 6/6

291252199

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What if they build the aligned superintelligence and ask it what to do to help humanity and it says 'shut me off'?

010

Reposted by Honest J

Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wish more people understood what is laid out below, the head of the regime is engaged in a mass murder suicide at the scale of a nation and entire other countries, with the backing of techno apocalypse billionaires who believe in their bunkers and people who want Christian apocalyptic end times.

37228

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've been ready for this take for a while.

010

Reposted by Honest J

scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

4590011878

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The guy *you* elected Aaron.

000

Reposted by Honest J

okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(learning philosophy of language chronologically and stopped at 1952 voice) As we know, the sole use of language is to inform another of the content of one's assertion.

2131

Reposted by Honest J

Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 10/09/2026

Don't print lies in the newspaper.

0426

Reposted by Honest J

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i'm gonna say one more thing about this. one other aspect of this particular knot of anti-intellectualism is innumeracy. if I told you flooding was a problem in some neighborhood and we needed to figure out how to redistribute water, you probably wouldn't say "oh you mean like a cup?!"

1474193

Reposted by Honest J

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1/ "Every fraction of a degree of warming matters." True, and a dangerous platitude. It quietly suggests warming is a smooth dial, where each tenth of a degree costs about the same as the last. It doesn't. The later ones cost far more. Here's why. 🧵

516992

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In light of today's discourse I'm grateful to have been reading A.J. Ayer lately. Helps keep my head screwed on straight. Just because you can ask whether machines think does not mean it's a sensible question to ask.

ship to one another. `The metaphysician fails to see this because he is misled by a superficial grammatical feature of his language.

A simpler and clearer instance of the way in which a considertion of grammar leads to metaphysics is the case of the metaphysical concept of Being. The origin of our temptation to raise questions about Being, which no conceivable experience would enable us to answer, lies in the fact that, in our language, sentences which express existential propositions and sentences which express attributive propositions may be of the same grammatical form. For instance. the sentences Martyrs exist' and "Martyrs suffer" both consist of a noun followed by an intransitive verb.

010

Reposted by Honest J

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The president is plainly illegimate according to the text of the 14th Amendment and his pardons are null and void. (Start saying it now, so a reformed SCOTUS can put it to paper in 2029.)

213746

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Am I the only one who discovered my actual nature, like, in college? Everyone else still believing superstitions in very old books?

020

Reposted by Honest J

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was going to vote for Republicans and then 18 Democrats supported Brooke Rollins for the Trump Cabinet, showing their commitment to bipartisanship a full 18 months before the election and I respect that so I’m a Democratic voter now

0224

Reposted by Honest J

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Israel is still killing children every day in Gaza. Five-year-old Wafaa was murdered today by an Israeli drone strike on her family’s car on the way back from her first day at school.

Beautiful little girl in a blue shirt doing a thumbs up sign

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
X.com
• BREAKING: Five-year-old Wafaa
Yusuf Akilah went to school on Sunday.
It was her first day of the year. Israel killed her before she made it home.
An Israeli drone struck the vehicle carrying Wafaa and her father, Yusuf, near Hamid Junction in western Gaza City, killing them both without warning, witnesses told Drop Site.
In photographs, Wafaa smiles in her blue school uniform and gives a thumbs-up. At the site of the strike, her school books lay open atop the burned wreckage. Her small body lay face down in the street.

Footage captured by Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah shows two men holding pieces of her hair.
"This is all that's left, world," one says.
"What truce are you talking about?"
"There has been no ceasefire," another says. "Every day there are massacres.
Every day there is killing. Every day children are dying."
"Enough of this abandonment."
* Abdel Qader Sabbah

1189119

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Republicans stand for two things: Cutting rich people's taxes and protecting pedophiles.

000

Reposted by Honest J

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

1275207233993

Reposted by Honest J

isaac @sevier.io · 06/09/2026

Listen if you don't think it's a good idea to organize to block the construction of data centers - which are literally building out fleets of fossil gas power plants - then you are clueless about what the organizing is going to look like to stop the use of fossil fuels.

415033

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nobody on here needs to here this but if you stop exporting $350b to a country because of a $90b trade deficit then, roughly, you've lost $350b in revenue and $440b in stuff you no longer have, so you've lost $700 billion. That's actually a lot of money.

000

Reposted by Honest J

Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I find the view that philosophy is supposed to just pump out the maximum number of true propositions (and that LLMs can help with this) completely anathema. This is a humanistic field where we engage in collective inquiry together. LLMs destroy the collective trust at the base of that

213117

Reposted by Honest J

Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I do just, in fact, think that if you are jumping at the opportunity to make it easier for LLMs to write philosophy papers or teach philosophy classes, you hate everything I love about this discipline and want to destroy it. I get you might not agree, but that also doesn't mean I have to like you

410011

Reposted by Honest J

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

653134939

Reposted by Honest J

Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The senators and chiefs of staff who reflexively post stuff like this are not sitting around figuring out how to fund and implement Nuremberg 2.0.

721932

Reposted by Honest J

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the entire NYT opinion section, with the exception of @jamellebouie.net and maybe @dwallacewells.bsky.social, are also committed to this retconning, just as they are committed to only running pieces that reflect the view that Trump's 2024 win represented a seismic cultural shift on immigration too

635440

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great now we're going to have political polarization over car keys because Sean Duffy is an idiot. (I personally much prefer a mechanical key to a fob and button, but this is no help.)

000

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It wasn't exactly democracy that defeated the Nazis. Calling it liberalism would be a bit more accurate.

0192

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not the most important thing right now but another complaint I have about late stage capitalism is that you can't buy small band-aids anymore.

000

Reposted by Honest J

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m not even kidding it should be @jamellebouie.net

1982