iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 12h

The only thing they care about is staying in government, that's all!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

GenAI docs, project plans, spreadsheets, Jira comments... Are driving me fucking crazy! If I see one more Google site with the same shitty layout and colours I'm out of here...

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Literally no way to stop this. Also hey let's further subsidise fossil fuels.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He is the complete footballer, I keep saying it!

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Again, let's just stop & remember that age-based legal restrictions on access to social media/online services are a bad idea & infringe the rights of young people to speak, access information and arts & culture, find community and play. Then look at the madness involved in trying to make them work.

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My hot take, I'd love to see him score a bag of goals for Arsenal now!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Imagine being a journalist and your job is to have sam Altman spew absolute fucking nonsense at you and you never once, ever, ask a followup like "what the fuck are you even talking about?" And then you have to write up the interview where you also never once, ever, analyze his nonsense.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Oh my gosh, this is real. I’ve already been a DDG user (mostly avoiding Google) for years. But this is now set as my home page. noai.duckduckgo.com

Screenshot of the no AI version of DuckDuckGo. The search dialogue box reads search privately without AI. Underneath to text boxes read: we’ve turned off AI assisted answers, we removed AI generated images.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Each square represents the death of ten children in Palestine. Unfurled today on the Garvaghy Road. Created by a diverse group of people across Ireland.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Like Stochastic Parrots, TESCREAL is also an acronym they hate and are talking about. In the comments agreeing with a poster about TESCREAL, was Joscha Bach saying that the acronym basically accuses everyone we disagree with of being Hitler. Funny he brings up hitler. "Very blue eyed" indeed.

Joscha Bach to Jeffrey Epstein

Glad that you had some fun Together!

Michael Vassar

Michele Reilly:

Very blue eyed indeed.

Cheers!

Joscha

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Narrator's voice: It wasn't.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026

Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat

Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026

According to United Nations data, about 82 percent of the structures in Gaza are damaged, with two -thirds of them destroyed. With international journalists still widely unable to enter Gaza freely, satellite imagery remains one of the only ways to assess the true scale of destruction.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

its because bringing in people from outside the cult turns it into a normal systems safety problem

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I did often wonder this, pretty neat!

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John Andersen @johnandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I spotted a black & white photograph of what appears to be a SEGA factory that may date back to 1979, workers are assembling cocktail cabinets. The interior matches photos on the 1979 SEGA/Sovoda flyer from France. It's via a 1991 Mega Drive feature discussing 1979: archive.org/details/mega...

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Been thinking a lot about the boss this week!

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I cannot believe I'm agreeing with the Catholic church

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 01/10/2026

"if you are reading this online, you are using a data centre" is a really poor excuse to make Ireland such a hub for data centres that they're threatening the stability of our power grid, driving up fossil gas use and greenhouse gas emissions. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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Debate: Should we put a pause on data centre development? Lynn Boylan vs Malcolm Byrne

Our electricity grid is under pressure, leading to calls for a moratorium on data centres

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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

quite the anti-child position to state with pride in public

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw this with Robotic Process Automation like 10 years ago! We're always just a flowchart away from automating people's jobs away...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the UK, Prince William has launched an anti-suicide campaign with the Premier League, whose every other ad is for gambling. Hey prince: how about you dust off some old dungeons & fill them with every gambling CEO & the celebs who endorse them & watch suicides plummet? EASY PEASY MATE

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The Communist Party organized the resistance, the Labour Party refused to do anything, and the police protected the clot of nazis on horseback. Time is a flat circle.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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gavsteed @gavsteed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jokes on them my fridge is empty!

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There has been a recent rash of "baby's in his find out era". 🤣🤣🤣

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remember this shit next time some billionaire or billionaire's lickspittle warns about class war. There's never not been one, and they wage it openly against us.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 25/09/2026

The media in the UK is broken at all levels. This is Sky Sports reporting Manchester City, owned by Abu Dhabi, being found guilty in 114 of 115 charges of financial cheating that robbed many other clubs of trophies and players. bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spoke to the BBC yesterday (7min25) about the FBI hack: if confirmed, one of the worst data breaches in history (And then ranted about why so few are paying attention to this because they’re worrying about an AI agent reading a website because y’know, AI) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

bbc.co.uk

World at One - Hackers claim to have details of all FBI agents - BBC Sounds

The Agency says it is "aggressively investigating" the apparent breach of its system

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

STRENGTH CRUSHES ENEMIES! CAN YOU TOUCH SOMETHING SOFT?

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