iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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JoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 4h

RAAH I WANNA LIVE IN SEATTLE SO BAD I WANT TO BE ABLE TO WALK TO PLACES AND VISIT BUSINESSES WITH PERSONALITY AND USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND BE AROUND INTERSTING AND DIVERSE CULTURES AND NOT MILES OF EMPTY STROADS AND PARKING LOTS I WANT TO LIVE IN A PLACE BUILT FOR HUMANS AND NOT FOR CARS

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8h

I take the opposite lesson: if AI is bad at things I personally know a lot about (growing plants, managing communities, photography, design), imagine how bad it is about things I know nothing about. That's why I don't trust it for anything!

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william_ leonard @williamleonard.net · 9h

gura gawr, virtual pizzaiolo #gawrt #ameliaRT

AMELIA: "i declare the inaugural meeting of the WATSON DETECTIVE CLUB... in SESSION!!"
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AMELIA: "as soon as luncheon is ready, of course."
GURA: "wait, what lunch"
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GURA: "oh SHIT."
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GURA: "the pizza the pizza the pizza the only FUCKING PIZZA WE HAVE"
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GURA: (phew.)
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AMELIA: "man, gura, you cook the BEST frozen pizzas!"
GURA: "it's all in the technique."
AMELIA: "can i have a slice..."
GURA: "no."

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026

seriously: every western regime should deny any and all relief and sabotage this administration as hard as possible

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026

the thing I’m realizing is that Anthropic capex is bonkers and also between Gemini Pro and the Chinese open models, we’re on the cusp of a price war. so they’re spending enormous quantities of money they don’t *have* while the thing they’re selling is getting cheaper.

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i think a better way to say this is "the law shall be such that you can destroy them"

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 29/09/2026

I love this. (and the people following the #linguistics tag need to see it too)

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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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miss fern 🏳️‍⚧️😘 @miss-fern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i should be able to spin around like an animal crossing villager and instantly be in whatever outfit i pick out

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

also, fwiw, trump wouldn't be bothering with this if he actually believed he had some sort of strategy for cancelling or rigging the midterms. 1

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

I think Trump should keep bringing politicians from red states that are suddenly in play to the oval office and forcing them to talk about how great he is let's get Ken Paxton in here

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 28/09/2026

He says this with a straight face as gas reaches $4.50/gal, diesel reaches $6.50/gal, mortgage rates soar over 7%, grocery costs are rising, and Americans’ sentiments towards the economy are the lowest they’ve been since the Great Recession.

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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Question: Why are you, BlueSky's head of Trust and Safety, treating your userbase like a carnival side-show?

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

Video games where the title screen progressively changes as the story goes are great.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

Trump is sort of the bizarre apotheosis of this dynamic, because he needs to simultaneously assert at all times that he is an immortal, all-powerful god emperor and also that he is being sabotaged by the evil deep state which he can never fully defeat

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026

in the age of AI, making art is a radical act

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philpax @philpax.me · 28/09/2026

good post captures the wonderfully flexible nature of (not just, but easily primarily) English and the ways in which one can wield it to communicate in specific ways, and how terribly boring it is that so many have opted out of trying to play with it at all

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

isn't it a little embarrassing running the caravan playbook at this point isn't even the base kinda rolling their eyes by now

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djoyce @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we’re bringing this all the way back

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The bringing a coffee to the interview discourse is just more proof that we're all so fucking angry and looking for places to put it.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 26/09/2026

Not being Yudkowsky is a conscious choice I have to continually make and sometimes slip up on. As I often say "if you're the smartest person in the room, it's because anyone smarter knows not to be in the same room as you".

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Turns out building a conservative judicial culture that doesn't respect precedent or stare decisis gives everyone involved a headache!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some day, I hope to sleep the restful sleep of a cat that was once neglected and abused and abandoned to the elements, but now knows that she will always be warm and dry, even when a nor’easter is raging outside.

A dilute tortoiseshell cat sleeping on a yellow wingback chair. The sky is grey and stormy outside the window behind her

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wind @windort.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fear not my friend. In battle, we all shed our fair share of blood.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#FreeSpeech News Hollywood Reporter reporting that YouTube, TikTok and Meta platforms are refusing to take even paid ads for Alex Gibney's documentary which takes a, let's say, sceptical and questioning view of Elon Musk's career, personality and alleged achievements. "Musk" opens on 9 October.

hollywoodreporter.com

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cool to see the leadership of basically the entire social media ecosystem close ranks around a literal mass-murdering Nazi

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail

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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

you know its kind of hilarious in a fucked up way when you pissed off a community so hard, they just make flat out imagery of your platforms mascot getting violently killed in quite gruesomely gorey ways

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do not think it is much of an exaggeration to say that British media is one of the least trustworthy institutions on the planet.

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can confirm ;-;

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Kara Corvis @karacorvis.vtubers.social · 26/09/2026

TLDR: Game is made by nazis

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MARCY BONES! ☠️ @marcybones64.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i don't need therapy, i need radical societal change

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026

i do think shit starts to get very weird if dems take like 56 or 57 senate seats

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