iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

kat @hiiiikat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

realizing this morning that i've only ever seen Tom Cruise in a movie in the context of his cameo in Austin Powers: Goldmember. no other Tom Cruise. married to a film school grad (@taboulehfan.bsky.social said i should post this), i watch a lot of movies, nevertheless still batting zero TC.

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"wow, everyone knew this already" is such a cynical, annoying and unfortunately extremely common response to tech news. assuming your privacy is being violated and proving that it is are two very different things, and the latter is the result of hard work and rigorous reporting

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Maybe 10 years ago: Technology is great and makes my life easier in many ways Now (holding a big caveman club): We must destroy machine

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

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Mike of the Living Dead 🧟‍♂️ @mikecook82.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I think the carney government may go down in history as the biggest con ever pulled on the Canadian people. A literal wolf in sheep’s clothing, taking advantage of a terrified nation to get around the deranged far right and instal a conservative corporate first government. He’s dooming us.

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intracranial aneurysm (spooky, scary) @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

elon musk was and is a historical fraud and the sooner we realize this the sooner we can correct

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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s cute to me that anyone believes they can engage with *any* piece of the world without carrying some assumptions into that engagement.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

'In the Oumi analysis, Gemini 2 provided answers that were “ungrounded” 37 percent of the time, meaning the AI Overviews cited websites that didn’t support the information they provided. But with Gemini 3, this jumped to 56 percent.' futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Read the fucking papers Take the fucking notes Synthesize the fucking data Write the fucking book Do the fucking work Or fuck off

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

has anyone ever failed to understand what human beings want out of their lives more completely than the undead abominations in charge of making all the stuff!!!!!!

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

An academic reports on multiple AI-generated papers being submitted to various journals in her name, and some science guy’s response is: NBD, as long as you don’t get blacklisted by the publishers. People’s selfish responses to these ecological crises continue to floor me.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I'm sorry but I think it's kind of funny that we've all reached "Yeah I guess someone tried to get him again whatever"

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Bitch, you went from a wanting a souped up camper van to feeling you deserve a private plane. Show us your damn phone records, bitch. And your mandate letters. Also, you need more scrutiny. Much more. Clinical scrutiny. A catheter of scrutiny. A colonoscopy of scrutiny. An IV drip of scrutiny.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 13/04/2026

Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already being squeezed by the untenable cost of living. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2026

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is a very important and disturbing story. So it seems the Carney gvt will allow new AI data centers to generate their own electricity by burning gas. If this is the future, our climate goals are f-cked.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 25/03/2026

there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. what that means is, i can do whatever i want and anyone who implicitly makes me feel bad by abstaining from consumption should in fact be the one who is ashamed

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/03/2026

yes, renewable energy is woke and soy. it's gay and feminine to not have to pay the electric company every month. it's unmanly to drive a sedan that handles like a sports car. you're not an alpha if you don't owe your life and livelihood to the CEO of exxon

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Andressen’s thinking here demonstrates the failure to resolve Erickson’s generativity vs stagnation phase. the profound loneliness and isolation on the other side of this failure is intense and per usual guys like this will make everybody else pay for it

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list: - pornslop - academic fraud - eroding our collective sense of truth - cyberpsychosis - dementia acceleration - fucking a jagged hole through the arts - search engine enshittification - fascist panopticon - anti-intellectualism - war crimes

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kat @hiiiikat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

1. Phantom Thread 2. There Will Be Blood 3. One Battle After Another 4. Punch Drunk Love 5. Inherent Vice (still haven't seen Magnolia, actively disliked Licorice Pizza)

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 14/03/2026

If you find yourself following someone who is called woke ginger or pissed off nurse or whatever, they’re not your ally. Your ally is someone with an obscure Pokémon avatar called like ant piss aficionado

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kat @hiiiikat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

one was a land surveyor and then a carpenter, employed by the city; the other drove very large trucks used to transport other very large machinery for logging

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 03/03/2026

hey guys quick question. does anyone know what’s going on. with anything

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

In their book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn argue society is over-fixated on disruptive innovation and needs to adopt an “upgrader’s mindset,” which should be applied whenever “disruptive changes would pose the greatest social risk.”

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In Age of Disruption, a Defense of Incrementalism

Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn are the authors of Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

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kat @hiiiikat.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I was a double STEM major but I'm only one credit short of an unofficial english lit minor. I find myself thinking about things from the english classes way more often than I would've guessed at the time, they've brought tremendous value to my inner life.

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kat @hiiiikat.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

these anniversary posts are starting to feel like personal attacks (i love this album)

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

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kat @hiiiikat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

nirvana the baaaaa-aaaand, hell yeah

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