iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/08/2025

Fuck yeah whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-europe...

It’s a basic idea, and one I don’t have to explain in depth: Any social media platform that uses algorithmic recommendations in newsfeeds and timelines must ensure that a certain percentage of the posts displayed are from accounts or profiles that the user follows.

What’s the ideal percentage? I’d set it high. Around 90%. And I’d also require that social media companies provide, by default, a newsfeed that exclusively shows posts from the user’s network. In short, I’d make the algorithmic timeline something that you have to actively opt into.

I’d even go further and demand a level of oversight. After Microsoft’s anti-trust losses in the 90s and the early 2000s, Redmond was forced to allow the Department of Justice to audit its code to ensure it complied with their settlement.

I see no reason why social platforms shouldn’t similarly be forced to allow regulators to audit their timeline algorithms to ensure they’re behaving fairly

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Shihab S Joi @shihabsjoi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A handy guide to genocide...

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Made a TB-303 style opening slide for my presentation at the CNCF meetup. Nobody commented on it, but I thought it was cool.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Our new family member has arrived.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A little rain brought the green back to the forest. Starting to feel some positive vibes.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

angela lansbury in famous works of art: thread

Angela Lansbury in The birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.

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God @thegodshow.com · 05/04/2025

He’s skipping funerals for soldiers to golf with the Saudis.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

DO NOT PAY FOR NEWS PAPERS ,TELEVISION, MOVIE'S, SPOTTIFY ,AMAZON - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELATON LAYEN DOWN ON A ENORMOUS FIELD OF TIRE'S THAT ARE ON FIRE ,AS THE EARTH HEATS MORE AND MORE EVREY DAY, THE RULING CLASS LAUGHS AT US AND TELLS US TO "RETURN TO OFFICE" ,DO NOT PAY FOR THIS, IT WAS SET UP WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT AND DOES NOT BENEFIT YOU!!!! THEY THINK THEY ARE ENTITLED TO OUR MONEY SO THEY CAN SIT ON IT LIKE A DRAGON WHILE WE SUFFER!!!!!!!! DA TEXT SAY'S " NETFLIX PRICE WENT UP AGAIN • EVERY YEAR IS THE HOTTEST YEAR IN HISTORY • THEY ONLY GOT ONE INSURANCE CEO • TV MAKES YOU ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AD’S TO KEEP WATCHING YOUR SHOW’S • NEWSPAPERS ARE PRETENDING EVERYTHING IS NORMAL • WORLDS RICHEST GUYS LAUGHING AS COPS SWARM SCHOOL BUS STOP’S • THEY ADMITED THEY LISTEN TO YOUR PHONE MICROPHONE TO SERVE AD’S AND NOBODY CARED • IM BETTER AT FINDING STAIRS AND CROSSWALKS THAN CAPCHA IS AND ITS GAS LIGHTING ME • THERE SAYING “AI” IS WORTH TRILLION’S OF DOLLERS BUT ITS STILL WORSE AT EVERYTHING THAN ANY REAL HUMAN • ITS ACTUALLY INSANE THAT ALIEN’S ARE REAL - DEPARTMENT OF DA ADMIN, EVERYTHINGS FUCKED, PIRACY IS COOL, 'DAMB IT'S TRUE' STEALLING SHIT ROCK'S" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN ANY WAY THATS WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH MOVIE'S FOR FREE

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I just came to the realization that I might have built an elaborate home network just to have a network to obsess over again.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

There is this illusion of understanding that is shattered every time a relative wants to buy me a Christmas present. All I want for Christmas is to live in that illusion.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It feels like I have to buy a record player so I can buy a band’s records from their merch table or there won’t be any more live shows to see.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Post you from a different era!

20 something Freekittens holding a Molotov cocktail.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Xitter account deactivated. Good riddance.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 16/11/2024

Oho. That blocklist is bsky.app/profile/numb... for the record, and sure enough, half the grifters I'd want to block are on there so subscribing to the list. Easier to promote a blocklist than to have to give the people on that list individual oxygen to say "block them!!!"

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

"You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie." --Rosie O'Donnell, "Sleepless in Seattle" "You don't want to have a government. You want to have a government on a TV show." --me, right now

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Imagine the disappointment when we overestimate our influence over others. Best not to think about it.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

I will tell my grandkids that we invented AI so stupid people would have someone else to argue with.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

i like how movies and TV series don't write satisfying endings anymore. it's a nice little push to stop wasting our time watching them and spend more time in real life, which, like film and television, also got way worse in the past ten years

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

So the OpenDyslexic typeface works well for my kid. I was able to install it on his PC and his school chrome book without much effort. He says it makes him less tired when reading and he seems to actively enjoy reading for a change. #dyslexia

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Can’t open Grafana without quoting Dr Octagon: “3000!”

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Get rich selling the carbon that is accelerating the greenhouse effect and use your wealth to buy chunks of the receding glaciers to ship to the middle of the desert to put in your cocktail. People are horrible monsters.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

I wish I had known about the Open Dyslexic typeface sooner.

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Tim Mahoney @freekittens.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Today’s entertainment: Agile coaches meet Bartleby, the Scrivener.

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