iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

mods are asleep, post bean hole

diagram of method to cook pork & beans in a pot covered in embers and buried in a bean hole

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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 21h

Examination of @planet.com satellite imagery before the 26 August 2026 Langtang Lirung landslide in Nepal, which initiated the massive debris flow and flood, suggests that there were surprisingly few signs of incipient failure:- eos.org/thelandslide...

Satellite image draped onto the Google Earth DEM for the Langtung Lirung landslide. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 25 August 2026.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Agentic Software as a surveilance doxxing service:

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized

We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I had a realisation Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So I didn’t do a shit job, earlier this year I went down to 4 days a week from my regular job. The idea of writing this and scoping figures during evenings and weekends did *not* appeal 😅 Kudos to people who write actual books and do that alongside the rest of their professional/personal lives 👏🏾

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“It is ironic, to say the least, that if Jordan Williams had not publicised the non-existent book, these inside sources would most likely never have contacted me and the book we are here to launch today would not have been written.”

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

Can confirm ;-;

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Who are the voters Labour thinks they're marketing themselves to? And where does if think it's going to get the revenue for the services it has promised them? I'm genuinely confused.

thepost.co.nz

Labour will not reverse what it called a ‘landlord tax cut’

Chris Hipkins says his party will not remove interest deductibility for residential landlords.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 20/09/2026

This take would fail any undergraduate intro to philosophy of mind course. Also a textbook example of a false dichotomy!

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The NZ First "Health" policy contains what I, in my personal opinion, would describe as cloning the US Administration Wellness Anti-Vax program of work. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Fund New Zealand scientists to assess nutritional interventions for preventing and treating mental illness
Remove Medsafe and Pharmac barriers to "recognised safe nutrients"
Invest in hospital trials to assess the effectiveness of intravenous vitamin C pre- and post-surgery for preventing and treating infections
Fund a review of vitamin D and determine optimal levels for maintaining health
Invest in agriculture to improve productivity, soil health, sustainability and resilience while researching practical alternatives to potentially harmful agricultural sprays
Provide more support for organic food producers.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Funny part? The hacked via the exact library mentioned in the xkcd comic. The prophecy is fulfilled!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 02/11/2025

> The Rationalist subculture and its spin-offs are an often racist cult. Sam Altman is a fraud; Peter Thiel is play-acting as a supervillain. [...] I can’t tell you if AI will one day kill us all, but Eliezer Yudkowsky was never writing about that... www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

newstatesman.com

The guru of the AI apocalypse

Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

More destruction of science by the fash:

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I saw a post earlier saying I need to integrate AI into my workflow as an artist or I'll be left behind. Sure I've seen dozens of posts like this before, but I'm really seriously thinking about it now and I am at a total loss as to what it would possibly do to improve my work.

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me too bitch, you're not special.

A Guardian headline which reads "Indonesian forager may have sucked on mond-altwring nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds"

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm just fundamentally surprised that these people think that even if they get a runaway AI (hah!), it can get out of the box it's in. Off switches exist. Wires can be cut. Doesn't matter what it hacks, it can't actually bootstrap itself out of the substrate it's in, because physics says no.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/09/2026

Even after four years of technological development, AI slop posts on social media still *feel* fundamentally mushy and soulless. They only generate returns for the poster when they're used as a sort of stressful firehose of vaguely thought-shaped spam.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm getting around this by learning to cobble and repairing old boots, usually full welt construction workboots or army boots made in older styles that are repairable:

A full welt construction workboot that has had the heel replaced, and replacement sole is about to be glued on.

A full welt construction workboot with the heel repaired, sole replaced, and new hobnails being added.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A note left on the grave of General Ross in Halifax:

A photograph of a note and Bic lighter left at the grave of General Ross in Halifax: The note reads 'General Ross, thankyou for your service. You are needed again, RIP.'
Major General Ross was the British officer who burned the White House in 1814.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It seems like there's a new round of "stochastic parrots has been proven wrong" discourse going on, so I'm going to re-up this: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>

medium.com

Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Almost certainly bollocks/scam, but if not, and the chimp isn't drugged, muzzled and otherwise nobbled, the MMA guy is just going to get any or all, of his face, arm(s), leg(s) and dick, torn off, and then beaten to death with the soggy end:

Screenshot of a Polymarket post reading 'Just in, MMA fighter, Cole Johnson, announces he will be fighting an adult chimpanzee on 9/11'

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Automated content moderation, how it's going on Tumblr: I do a handcrafts post about the various shoe and boot repairs I'm learning how to do (Vimes Boots Theory!) and the moderation bots decide that it's mature content and slap a 'Potentially Mature Content' label on it...

A tumblr post about repairing shoes and boots, which the automoderation function has labeled as mature content, and added a banner reading: "We reviewed your post and determined it needed a Content Label."

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Tess,, agreeable grunt @brandysaurian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

may you heal so hard you do your hobbies again

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is also the dominant problem facing electoral democracies through most of the anglophone world.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And now that they're going hell for leather buying up and scanning much older, out of copyright mid C20th and C19th books, even older, more patriarchal social and racial bullshit will be baked into the models...

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

When the centre to right of NZ pol pushes private charter schools/bootcamps, it's not about helping children, but to loot state money without oversight. The Boot Camps endangered youth carried out by the prior Nat govt could have had much better, cheaper, outcomes, if they'd just sent them to Eton:

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Imagery of the source area coming out showing significant subglacial rock slope involvement. A complex failure.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is a very excellent explainer of the scientific reconstruction of the Nepal debris flow. Lots of interactive data and visuals in the report. 23 minutes between the glacial collapse/landslide before it reached the border station.⚒️

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Before and after imagery of the site of the Rasuwagadhi border crossing building, showing how the glacial collapse and outburst debris flow has cleaned the site down to bedrock

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't mind if you follow me, but if you're an engagement farmer/astroturfer with a 10 to 1 or more following:follower ratio, and only half a dozen actual posts, rather than thousands of shares on your profile, I'll just block you. If you have generative AI profile pics, thats also insta-block

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Reminder: If you have an AI generative profile pic, or visible AI generated images in your posts, I'll probably just block you.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm just still annoyed they won't let you have it if you're over 40! - There's now plenty of research out that it massively reduces cancer incidence even if you've already been exposed to HPV, and many of us won't have been exposed to all 8 or 9 varieties that the current vaccine protects against.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The scary thing to note about these glacial collapse outbursts is that it isn't just the chunk that fell off, as terrifying as that is, but that the loss of the glacier snout unloads the front of the glacier, allowing meltwater to float the ice and burst out, providing ~30 hours of sustained flow

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Glacial lake outburst floods are terrifying rock and water physics on an amazing scale, and are going to be a thing for the next few decades as the warming ramps up.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It was lovely to work on this article with @meghansmiller.bsky.social and @ahusker.bsky.social. Hopefully it will help answer some of the ongoing questions about the recent destructive earthquakes. theconversation.com/are-earthqua...

theconversation.com

Are earthquakes becoming more common? Here’s what the numbers say

Scientists have been able to catalogue the largest earthquakes for a very long time.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026

I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A classification tree showing the breakdown of climate denial arguments.

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spotted on Molesworth St. Hopfully the PM can't get to work easier now.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

law.berkeley.edu

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Terrible time to have eyes and be literate...

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