iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.

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jliew.bsky.social @jliew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Working code wins” was a useful mantra for a long time; if someone wrote code to solve a problem, it was a sign they were really willing to put in some elbow grease and effort, they cared a lot, they had a strong opinion. skamille.medium.com/the-managers...

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The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI

This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…

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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ppl who celebrate the unfairness and inequality in society want you to think they care about fairness in girls' sports.

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/09/2026

I keep repeating this fun fact to people while they stare at me with feigned interest: “helicopter” is a compound word, but probably not in the way you think! it’s made up of “helico” as in, “spiral,” from the Greek “helix” and “pter” as in “wing,” like in pterodactyl!!

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John E Warren 🤠🐝♿️ @floppyadult.com · 29/08/2026

It is a very big problem that the WNBA isn’t kicking these assholes to the curb on sight

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 22/08/2026

Ask a capitalist for a list of traitors, and they'll give you a list of people on the left. Ask a leftist for a list of traitors, and they will also give you a list of people on the left.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

This is ... horrific

lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them usina industrial- grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors' books to train its Al
This process took advantage of a egal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder's say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physicak texts into digital ones - rather than redistributing them as new copies a iudqe found this to be "transformative." and therefore
protected by fair use

One small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds. and he's almost certain that the customers are Al labs. noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books. meaning that an Al company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tim Swindle cryarsing about AI disclosure being a scarlet letter lets slip something significant here, because if AI was all that slop jockeys claim it was, then surely such a disclosure would be a mark of pride, even a selling point! Surely people would be clamouring for AI games. But they're not.

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jliew.bsky.social @jliew.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I think this is a good argument of why leaning too hard on AI to help code might reduce efficiency in the long run: www.benkuhn.net/blub/

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In defense of blub studies

Why it’s worth it to deeply understand the fiddly, boring-seeming details of the computer systems you use every day.

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Vancouver Goldeneyes @pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

SOPHIE JAQUES MY GOODNESS 🔥

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 07/04/2026

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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IGN @ign.com · 27/03/2026

John and Brenda Romero have reflected on the state of gaming, saying, "We were there in the 80s for the crash, and this is definitely crashier." This, after having to dramatically downsize their studio since the money dried up. bit.ly/4thtivg

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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 27/03/2026

This one weird trick frees you from being dominated by demented dictators and their oil! 🧵

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Laura Maguire @lumagoo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Somebody tell the pro-car, anti-park folks on Nextdoor that car-heavy cities are actually more dangerous for people with disabilities! Not that they'll care. Their avowed concern about disability access runs about as deep as transphobes' interest in women's sports.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/03/2026

"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle." I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

An emergency

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City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected mobility lane?
City: No, we'll lose parking spots

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 11/03/2026

Major investment in renewable energy is a national security imperative.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

sick of the "kids are always on screens" narrative while we continually steal all their public space and ability to exist outside thanks to our car first at all costs approach to our cities.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

the thing about traffic congestion is that it doesn’t cost money to solve it, but rather the opposite: solving it with congestion pricing *raises* money that’s because a critical mass of car trips are very low value and it’s essentially a coordination problem to get them off the road at scale

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 05/02/2026

I feel like those figures get one to start worrying that your years of assuming easy access to gas stations are numbered

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 29/01/2026

If you are an HTTP proxy server, and a client sends you `Connection: content-length`, what should you do? Cite your reasoning.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

There is far more outrage from tech leaders over a wealth tax than masked ICE agents terrorizing communities and executing civilians in the streets.

Tells you what you need to know about the values of our industry.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 04/03/2025

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Trudeau: We’re probably going to keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans, we're not booing you. We're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us. But we're Canadian. We're going to fight. And we're going to win.

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jliew.bsky.social @jliew.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Taylor's acoustic secret songs give me the same feeling of going to a Phish show - nobody knows what you're going to get and there's no filter between the artist and audience. That's peak live music IMO.

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jliew.bsky.social @jliew.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I'm finally going to try using this as my primary feed, there's enough of a network effect between hockey and tech folks here and that's mostly what I used that site for.

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