iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:

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ASP @itsasp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"AI is conscious"... ...also, this just made it through Gmail's spam filter.

Ridiculous spam email address full of punctuation

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ASP @itsasp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The reason no AI company can provide appealing use cases to normal humans for personal agents is because the only ones that make sense financially are simply ways to automate spending more of your money on bullshit.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026

much respect to the work 404 does, but plenty of real people with real problems are using AI as a force multiplier in their jobs already. like try telling boko haram members to their face that chatGPT doesn't save them hours every week planning attacks, designing IEDs, and repairing weapons

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...

After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.”
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics.
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.

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ASP @itsasp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I gave a poorly trained monkey a magic 8 ball and the nuclear codes. Here's why I think it may destroy humanity.

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

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lmao zionists on Threads leaving their ChatGPT response headers in their slop revealing they asked it to make them sound like Andrew Tate, scum attracts scum

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I can make it more swagger-heavy, cutting, and confrontational without copying Tate's exact voice.
Ed Sheeran didn't build a $400 million career by hijacking somebody else's stage.
He is the headliner.
His tour.
His audience.
His crew.
His production.
His risk.
Macklemore was invited into a machine Ed spent years building.
That invitation was not ownership.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026

Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is really well done, great tour of recent history for those who might not understand the rights trans people have lost or the devastation in learning some Democrats want to entrench those losses rather than reverse them.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i wonder if its a coincidence that every AI ceo is calling for a development slow down right as their capabilities are plateauing

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

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ASP @itsasp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A lot of people questioning Rudy's opinion on 9/11 seem to be forgetting his expertise. He's experienced at least 3 personal 9/11's since the actual one.

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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am not the sportiest person in the world, but until I was exposed to this reporting by @ggarciaroberts.bsky.social, I didn't realize how badly I misunderstood the world of modern baseball. I had a very naive and Americana-coded idea of how the future superstars of the sport come up. Not anymore.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.

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ASP @itsasp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We all know that AI psychosis is a problem, but AI psychosis specifically within the community of people who actually own and build AI may be our biggest problem.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As a millennial the Iraq war was when I learned America felt no responsibility for human life abroad and hurricane Katrina was when I learned it felt no responsibility for American lives either

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