iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Burning books is historically a real bad sign and is never okay. But what if it wasn’t even written by a human? Asking for a parent who just had an in-law feed their child’s face into an LLM to spit out a bedtime story with their name and likeness, signifying the first of many lifetime betrayals.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 14h

We like to think ourselves civilized and more evolved than our ancestors but here we are still sacrificing humans, potable water, forests, and our own minds in order to breathe life into a new god so we may bind it to our will and us to it.

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can just name the next AI bot “monkeys paw” and be done with it.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Vale @vale.rocks · 28/09/2026

My hammer went rogue and started smashing people's heads in! There was nothing I could do. I tried to stop it, but my arm kept swinging it at people. It isn't my fault! It is the hammer's. This is very dangerous. Someone should regulate hammers. (This is a post about AI safety and liability.)

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 25/09/2026

Now that hosting is done and I've got a night's sleep and the adrenaline past me, a little love letter to Inclusive Design 24: The goal of the conference isn't profit or advertising, it's access, education, and enablement. #a11y #id24 inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/

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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026

a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm

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Vale @vale.rocks · 19/09/2026

The man with motor neurone disease I mentioned in this article died today. As someone whose independance and agency was a huge part of his identity, assistive technologies made the final chapter of his life that little bit more bearable. Once again, accessibility matters.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...

popsci.com

The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever

Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?

AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I preordered this book, and cannot wait for its release next Tuesday. Klein has always managed to channel both rage and hope, a tough and vital balancing act these days.

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

Man being an "AI Safety" person seems like a great con if you can get in on it. Getting paid to write posts with a fucking flashlight under your chin saying "ooh computers could be scary in the future maybe possibly"

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 11/09/2026

Graphic design is no longer my passion. Hit the wrong key in MS Paint this morning and the AI no one asked for started doing something, so now I need to throw my whole computer in the trash.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

torment nexus tweet except they've synthesized 3 or 4 separate, unrelated dystopias for some reason. Literally didn't even have space in the meme for the universal surveillance system

Vince McMahon reaction meme with him gradually escalating his reaction to

1. Predictive policing
2. Run by a private corporation
3. For thought crimes
4. Of opposing their business model

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026

Microsoft pumped a mind-blowing amount of money into carbon removal. This is how it went for them:

a graphic showing targets vs emisisons for microsoft, with a failure for both emissions reductions and carbon removals

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026

One of the single most maddening things in this whole charade is journalists persistently failing to ask "why don't they then decide to stop doing it" It is just such a fundamentally, ground-level basic thought to have in response to this, and none of them have ever had it

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 08/09/2026

Now I can finally sympathize with modern boats, who must feel this same sort of despair when they learn about battleship steel 🫠

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting the :/ in https://

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/09/2026

A friend sent this to me.

man in a flat cap
In those days, the Internet was in black and white.
It was only on for three hours a day.
We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log onto it.

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I love the concrete examples of how to avoid anthropomorphism in this article: artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation image recognition → image labeling speech recognition → automatic transcription shows bias → reflects bias hallucination → undesirable output goal → success condition

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Pretzelcoatl @slinkingflorist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think what strikes me about this is the way they've given up on the pretense that labor has any corrective power or moral value. Just nakedly about extracting economic value.

A telegraph headline reading "How having a disability became cool" with the subheading "Young women, nicknamed 'sickfluencers' are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity"

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes we all think this is stupid but we, the ppl brushing our teeth, are not the customers The customers are the investors who in ~1yr will be enticed to fund Dyson's smart dental AI spinoff, featuring models trained on "the world's largest real time floss dataset" gizmodo.com/dysons-smart...

gizmodo.com

Dyson’s Smart Toothbrush Uses a Camera to Floss Your Teeth

Yes, you can watch the camera feed from an app.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026

feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post

alilleybrinker.com

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker

1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.

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Vale @vale.rocks · 29/08/2026

On occasion one must find an outlet to vent their accessibility overlay frustrations. #Accessibility #a11y

Anthony Bourdain quote originally about Henry Kissinger and Cambodia edited to read 'Once you’ve been a web developer, you’ll never stop wanting to beat "accessibility" overlay companies to death with your bare hands.'

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

therapist: have you ever considered that you might have perfectionist tendencies me: no therapist: why is that me: because if I were a perfectionist I'd be the best at it

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 22/08/2026

Another reminder of how important it is to Own Your Content. And always have backups of content your post outside of your blog for good measure.

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Kat is ✨phenomena✨ @kathryndeplume.com · 09/08/2026

Paywall free: archive.is/202607291851...

archive.is

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026

"But there is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...

ft.com

Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 09/08/2026

”Instead, he took out two long knitting needles. Between them dangled a mound of pink yarn. He explained to me that he was making a winter hat for a niece. And for the first time that morning, I noticed a glint of pride and excitement in his eyes.”

noemamag.com

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMA

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Behind every link is one of two possible truths, and we must take each out as the moment demands: "For this, the internet was created" "This is why we're all about to be dust and ashes."

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 29/07/2026

I made an app! What Can't I Press helps you discover what keyboard shortcuts are already claimed by running apps, with a focus on screen readers. This helps prevent you from overriding something someone might rely on to get what they want or need. #a11y github.com/ericwbailey/...

github.com

GitHub - ericwbailey/what-cant-i-press: ⌨️ Lists what keyboard shortcuts are claimed

⌨️ Lists what keyboard shortcuts are claimed. Contribute to ericwbailey/what-cant-i-press development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 23/07/2026

I had to tap the sign again today.

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 22/07/2026

Incredible report at a devastating time.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 21/07/2026

About time. Some folks will never join in person. Some folks genuinely can not risk getting sick or potentially becoming even more disabled. There’s no good reason to force attendees to be in person, especially when they did it perfectly well in past years.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you live in California and you want to take advantage of the state-run portal that tells all registered data brokers to delete your data instead of having to send an individual request to every single one, here is what you need to know: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

eff.org

Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool

Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. ...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A generation of managers made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this a hundred times faster than any of them. The only problem is that doing this was always pointless.

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Thoughtless features never add up to a thoughtful product

Your first idea for how to solve a problem is most likely to be a low-impact hack. Delightful user experiences require a higher level of thinking.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Devastated to find out that no amount of non-writing activities has reduced the amount of writing I need to do

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 14/07/2026

I use virtual debit cards to restrict transactions to specific vendors. This prevents someone using a stolen CC and the fun little tricks Adobe and Figma like using to bill the next month/year of your subscription almost a week early in order to lock you in when you might have cancelled.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Everyone is one bad day away from permanent disability.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Designers talk a big game about "empathy" for users. But empathy without respect is nothing more than pity. As Big Tech goes all-in on AI to accelerate its feature pipelines, the disrespect for users that's baked into these systems naturally scales up with it. Now it has reached the breaking point.

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Empathy and delight mean nothing when the software is disrespectful

Software is now something we do TO users, instead of something that we make FOR them.

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Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com · 12/07/2026

How might we: open an app and get a Flock camera to pull up and give us a ride straight to jail So glad to see these being tested on the roads up here in Bellevue

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"

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The ChatGPT browser is already dead

ChatGPT Atlas didn’t even last a year.

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