iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

The NY Fed examines how tariffs affected inflation and finds that, without them, goods prices would have declined as of last February. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/10/how-...

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 22h

I’m not a stoner, it’s just my existential despair

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23h

Outsourcing your hobby or pasttime is the ultimate sad person behavior. That's a level of depression I can't comprehend. You can't find joy in any damn thing at that point.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 05/10/2026

AS I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE, mister dracula, face ID isn’t going to work for you, you are going to need to memorize a passcode. do you need me to help you set it up again? no, i definitely can’t come over there to help. no, remember, we tried video chat before, i just see the back of your chair.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What, no? Ok, well I can put together my rebuttal in half the time it used to take, suckers

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Found a new AI use case at work: telling people how and why they are wrong about something in excruciating detail. What used to be an hour-long ADHD rabbit hole researching something can be done in half that time or less! Surely the C-Suite will appreciate this capability and reward me, right?

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tech bros who named their company after yet another Lord of the Rings reference 😒

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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 30/09/2026

there's this new trend with furnishing retailers where they're referring to all-foam furniture without internal beam structures as "boneless" and I think that's so.... fucked up isn't the word.... you know, I don't have any words that feel right for the feeling it gives me

Boneless 119" Modern Curved Sectional Sofa Compression Modular Sofa Couch (photo: modern looking very smooth couch that sits right on the floor. $920)

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That’s a genuinely terrifying thought… but yeah, you might be right

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my case, pretty much… but I’m also blessed with ADHD so I may not be representative of the broader population

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We have to use AI more!” The chatbot that I asked a simple question of and that told me to look it up in Workday, an HR system that we do not use now nor have ever used?

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Our printer is broken AGAIN! We need a new one!” Ma’am, someone unplugged something important while trying to find the waste toner container and here’s the event logs to prove it. “You gave me a broken laptop!” The privacy shutter over the camera is closed, just slide it open.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The contextless screenshot is truly the feral grunting noises of our time

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s far too early for people to be making me send “please phrase your question in the form of a question” emails. Screenshots without further explanation don’t constitute a question, barely even a statement.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

happy birthday to the best to ever do it

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 27/09/2026

Guys I don’t think the president of the United States knows what he’s doing.

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Tarlton @tarlton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Paul McCartney in the shining: woke up got outta bed, hugged a ghoul and bonked me head

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Sorry bro, this is a Red Bull shop”

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As some wise person once said, “If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, YOU are the asshole.”

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is how we end up with Tech Priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus needing to perform the Ritual of Ignition to appease the Machine Spirits.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Things fall apart.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the Pope is immune to psychic damage until you take out the Orb. the Orb respawns 45 seconds after you kill it, so there's only a brief window; frontload your infohazards

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

realtimetechpocalypse.com

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fucking economics, how do they work

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That’s… not how any of that works. This isn’t merely wrong, it’s a non-sequitur.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Despite pledges by foreign companies and nations to invest in the United States — in many cases to curry favor with the White House — capital is starting to seek alternative destinations." 😯 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“.. J.B. Hunt doesn’t typically provide explicit financial guidance. But the company is experiencing ‘some of the most radical and abnormal swings in fuel prices’ ever.” @barrons.com $JBHT www.barrons.com/articles/jb-...

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026

“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

important to note that the prospect of human extinction makes them Horny

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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"moderator of r/doordash by the reddit username u/i_love_femboys6969 attempts to commit an act of terror on behalf of ISIS" is the most 21st century headline I've ever read.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, every time somebody posts this, me & my drummer get tagged, so, preemptively: mountain goats are wild, majestic animals. The Mountain Goats are a band. Out of respect to our namesake, we do lick pee from rocks when we’re in a national park, but nobody ever airlifts us anywhere. We walk home

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

Busta Rhymes popping an entire bubble with one line has to be added to his resume

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For parents who tolerate their kids' existence.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As an elder millennial myself, history ended at WW2, at the most recent, in all of my formal schooling. Conveniently leaving out things like the Civil Rights movement, for example.

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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

all you fucks with giant ass ungodly trucks how you going to feel about $7 a gallon bitches

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