iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On 6 milj. € aika kallis hinta siitä, että n. 3 000 pyöräilijää/vrk säästää n. ½ minuuttia matka-ajassa. Mutta jos vertailukohdaksi otetaan Satamatunneli, jonka kustannusarvio on 300 milj. ja ajansäästö n. 3 min × 5 000 ajoneuvoa/vrk, se tuntuu suorastaan edulliselta! www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

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Pyöräily | Helsingin uusi miljoonatie oikaisee 100 metriä, hinta 6 miljoonaa euroa

Itäbaanan vieressä kulkee vanha pyörätie. Uusi pätkä lyhentää pyöräilijöiden matkaa 100 metriä ja on kaupungin mukaan vanhaa turvallisempi ja suorempi.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

- hieno baanaverkostosuunnitelma ei ole lisännyt pyöräilyä Helsingissä! - hienosta baanaverkostosta on valmistunut vasta neljännes, kun tavoiteajankohtaan on enää 4 vuotta www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

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Pyöräily | Helsingin uusi pyörätie oikaisee 100 metriä, hinta 6 miljoonaa euroa

Itäbaanan vieressä kulkee vanha pyörätie. Uusi pätkä lyhentää pyöräilijöiden matkaa 100 metriä ja on kaupungin mukaan vanhaa turvallisempi ja suorempi.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 8h

Pew tested AI synthetic surveys against actual survey data. Conclusion: “This experiment taught us that, at this time, AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance.” This is an all time bad idea. No need to hedge with “at this time.”

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Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 14h

similarly, I think that the fact that LLMs do not experience time is rather important, and means that if they are conscious in any meaningful sense, the nature of that consciousness is extremely unlike whatever living things experience. People do not have a "regenerate response" button.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

Greg Egan’s ”Permutation City” - or not. I’m also in the sceptical camp. I think it is compelling until proven otherwise. I guess the obvious caveat is ”consciousness, but unlike ours”.

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 17h

One thing that's been itching in the back of my brain about the Rationalist crowd is that they have a real tendency to ignore old, known problems of empirical reasoning and induction by just throwing a dropcloth that says "Rev. Bayes" over them and pretending they don't exist.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Americas Top Academics Discuss

A drawing of a youtube video of two guys, one wearing a big suit and the other wearing a sweater.
One says excitedly "think about how cool it would be- giant robots show up and they're all like 'you are obsolete' and then they start shooting lasers. And I unload my gun like 'nooooooo'"
the other says "no way, it's gotta be some sort of weird disease and everyone's body gets really freaky like hands coming out of heads and shit"
the video is titled "americas top academics discuss their ideas for the coolest way for the world to end"
in the comments a user named HermanMerman85 says "two words: nuclear snakes"
in reply to him, MrPiss33227 says "grow up, it's gotta be a giant asteroid made of teeth."

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Gumby screens that feel like Elden Ring @gumbyscreens.bsky.social

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 21h

This hadn’t even occurred to me. The absolute audacity of this man.

Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names

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squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 21h

brb going to protect outside a rationalist meetup with a big sign reading “information theory forbids your metaphysics”

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21h

There is no counterargument that satisfies his followers because his argument is elaborate question-begging and him and his followers don’t know enough about the real world to see this. There is no counterargument to “a malevolent supernatural entity would be very scary and dangerous”. It would!

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ylekov @ylekov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BBC: Yksi ihminen kuoli kyseenalaisessa operaatiossa – näin salmiakkimaksalaatikko maistui

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 22h

finnish lunch places often have a system where you return your dishes & leftovers sorted by kind. now, i dumped my cutlery in a tray filled with water, then read the sign: liquids here! aw hell, dunking my hand to retrieve the cutlery from the dirty water, discovering others made the same mistake

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

since palindromes are trending, here’s the occasional reminder that finnish has an inordinate amount of them. clearly the structure of the language and the orthography are enabling factors fi.wikiquote.org/wiki/Palindr...

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this was a good read and got me interested in looking up John McPhee. don't think i've read anything by him.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

broke: killing baby hitler woke: going back in time to teach hitler how to draw NSFW doujinshi

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

was thinking about hedgehogs and then at that very moment we saw one on the bike ride home

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what struck me thinking about this is how there is a fundamental trust problem: perhaps agents like this may be useful, but the user must be able to trust that they behave consistently, learn to know their quirks, and also that they won't change randomly with some update. Meta does not earn this.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sure, go ahead, post about a relatively important distinction that matters, I say to myself. People can handle it without being too weird, I reassure myself.

Me: think we need to differentiate between "Al uses a lot of water!" (not necessarily bad on its own) and "Al stresses local water supplies" (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even "modest" use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers

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ylekov @ylekov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kiitos 1991–2026: Tämä arkiruoka nostaa riskiä eniten

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2026

between the metaverse, the pervert glasses, and now this fuzzy avatar mess, Meta is on a generational run of real-world Black Mirror episodes

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finished Proof by @adamjkucharski.bsky.social , would recommend! ”A simplistic view of scientific evidence risks a path of too much faith followed by too much disillusionment” is well put.

Adam Kucharski: Proof, the uncertain science of certainty

Even if we can accumulate sutlicient evidence to answer a particular question, and convince ourselves that it is correct, we next have the issue of how to convince other people. This means working to understand the ladders of true and false information, targeting action at the appropriate step. It is not just about data or research; it is a matter of psychology, politics and prior beliefs.
Faced with random events and elusive causes, it is easy to turn to stories and soundbites. That is why exposure to the underlying methods of science matters so much. A simplistic view of scientific evidence risks a path of too much faith followed by too much disillusionment. From researchers to journalists, societies must get better at communicating how the process works, monsters and all. I often talk about science as like building a house on a swamp, as Ewan Birney put it.
'You have to lay these foundations, and you build bigger struc-tures, but sometimes you just don't get your foundations right and a whole wall collapses.'6

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Liikenneköyhyyteen ei bensa-ale auta ”Jos hallitus onnistuu jollain konstilla laskemaan pumppuhintoja, tuki kohdistuu erityisesti paljon polttoaineita käyttäville. Jos taas haluamme tukea erityisesti vähävaraisia, kannattaa pohtia muita keinoja.”

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

someone should really write some fun scifi stories about getting ai to trip with weird manipulations. one thing that LLMs seem to have (which people in general do not) is a vulnerability to what one might term word or sequence magic. From Kucharski’s ”Proof”

So they continued searching until they found a second strategy, which they called a 'cyclic attack'. This sequence of moves lured KataGo into sacrificing a large loop of stones, costing it the game. It was an absurd strategy; even an amateur human Go player would see it coming and beat the adversary. But for some reason, KataGo couldn't spot the problem, despite Go Al supposedly mimicking human intu-ition. Worse, KataGo remained highly confident it was going to win, right up to the move before it lost.
This suggests that removing Al vulnerabilities isn't just a matter of having more reflective algorithms or superhuman performance. Like a human sharing funny or surprising misinformation because their attention is misplaced, Al can get distracted, or have its perception of the world distorted.
Weaknesses may well be inevitable, no matter how good Al seems to be. Just because you see your Al system behaving well in scenarios A, B,C, D, this does not necessarily imply that it will behave well in scenario E, Wang said. "There's an
act of faith you have to take.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The unemployment rate of Finnish graphic designers may perhaps be as high as 50%. (The total number is rather tiny as well, small country and all that)

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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hesarin ”Hakukone näyttää, montako työtöntä on ammatissasi” -jutun hakukoneesta (www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...) paljastuu järkyttävä lukema graafisten suunnittelijoiden työllisyystilanteesta.

Ruutukaappaus, jossa lukee: ”Graafiset ja multimediasuunnittelijat. Työttömien määrä ammatissa on aikavälillä 2023–2026 muuttunut 1702 työttömällä. Vuoden 2023 elokuussa työttömien työnhakijoiden lukumäärä oli 1390. Tämän vuoden elokuussa työttömiä oli 3092.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

an interesting example of false memory here because I *absolutely* have a memory of reading this in a Cambridge computer lab in the late 1990s but cannot possibly have done so. this is why you have to factcheck *yourself*.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

somewhat off topic, but funny how this art style has anime levels or higher of sexual dimorphism in the characters. bo is like a different species

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026

How is this from 2014

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

almost overslept, somehow managed to swipe the alarm off on the phone instead of snoozing it, but then i got this feeling that the snooze was too long and woke up at 7:03. also the strap on my watch broke during the night.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't know to whom the credit goes for this! It appears sans ™ on another platform. Brilliant. Students of #ashwell26... This was the soil matrix drawing you deserved, not my poor dry erase board scribbles 😂 #archaeology #geology Please shout if you are the clever originator!

A soil matrix triangle showing percentages of sand, clay and silt, but with regions identified using punny song names like Clay Jude and Only the Loamy

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

Noting that this isn't definitively confirmed but very likely Jacob Coxon's former Twitter account, here's what he has to say about climate change. The world's media hung off every single word uttered by this one guy for two weeks

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one sign that everybody worried about climate change is rabidly meme-ridden and beyond reason is that NO-ONE I speak to will concede that there might be *positive consequences* if the planet gets hotter. why it all gotta be bad? unlivable areas -> habitable? massive insects? idk
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it's literally 2020 already. look at climate change headlines from the 1970s then look around. nothing is happening. use your eyes twitter.com/punishedhilbert/status/1521997402005295109
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one sign that everybody worried about climate change is rabidly meme-ridden and beyond reason is that NO-ONE I speak to will concede that there might be *positive consequences* if the planet gets hotter. why it all gotta be bad? unlivable areas -> habitable? massive insects? idk
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you shouldn't even want to save the rainforest. the rainforest is a festering pit. nature is constantly screaming. animals are being tortured and eaten alive. there is more beauty and compassion in an abandoned McDonalds. the rainforest is gay twitter.com/punishedhilbert/status/1521998660636221444
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it's literally 2020 already. look at climate change headlines from the 1970s then look around. nothing is happening. use your eyes twitter.com/punishedhilbert/status/1521997402005295109
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all the decent climate change papers say something like "rising Co2 will lead to an unknown rainfall increase over the next century with mean 30% and high variance".

maybe this will reduce the ant population from 10 to 7, but the humans have 100 years to buil…

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i don't want to single out climate change unfairly.

"dark matter" is fraud and the Large Hadron Collider is a money-laundering scheme. string theory is bullshit.

the entire discipline of 'geography' is made-up.

six million is a palpable taunt. Charlemagne didn't exist. twitter.com/punishedhilbert/status/1522006292449087488
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having unrestricted access to TikTok before the age of 16 immolates the soul. the algorithm is optimised to render users reptilian. the pituitary starts releasing Chinese hormones, all that's left is a hypothalamus, deformed spinal cord and goo-goo phrases like "climate change" twitter.com/punishedhilbert/status/1522004172144615427
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Today, on the last day of 2021, 3 more nuclear reactors will be shut down in 🇩🇪 Germany & in 12 months the last 3

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like, man, I have been meeting with mathematician friends experiencing genuine soul-strife over recent AI developments and I still have people telling me it can't add or spell words. I have never experienced anything like this!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

is there some inherent connection between using a mangled form of Bayesianism to run your life and reinforcement learning? no, not really. is there actual procedural knowledge tangled up with rationalist ideas? yes, in exactly the same sense that medieval herbology identified actual remedies.

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Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy to finally build and release the color ramp creator I’ve always wanted to use. Phosphor generates perceptually linear gradients and lets you edit, share, and export them for use in ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, GDAL, and other formats. I hope you find it helpful. www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/

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Phosphor

Multi-hue color gradients with perceptually linear lightness. Export to CSS, Python, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro or GDAL.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

even MORE perceptual color scale tools 📊

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m still puzzled when this halcyon era of third spaces you didn’t have to pay for was

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