iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/10/2026

I am not being hyperbolic: the current financial condition of Oracle is entirely untenable. It cannot afford its obligations with regard to these data centers. If it stopped here it would merely have a really bad few years. If it continues much further it will die soon. If not, it will eventually.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i would rather remove my eyeballs than witness an AI tingler cover

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 02/10/2026

Don't get fooled by the "cheaper and more efficient models" here. When you're in a gigantic debt hole, switching from roast beef to bologna sandwiches isn't going to suddenly fix your budget.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A lot of people react to this with visible confusion, which I get. In short, it all comes around again to Roko's Basilisk, aka the most smooth-brained thought experiment ever conceived, in which an AI turned machine god makes digital copies of all humans and tortures those copies for eternity.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The USA renaming AI to superintelligence is the toddler's ultimate move taken to the extreme. They said AI will become a superintelligence, a machine god that can reshape the universe. There's no way that can really happen of course, so now they're just renaming it to SI. See, SI exists.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026

Been there

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hint for companies: If you call me, and I hear an AI voice, I will think you're scammers and block your ass before you finish your second sentence.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026

AI has not made us better, more productive, more successful or grown the economy outside of GPU sales and data center construction. It has also made the price of every single device of every kind more expensive, depressed the housing market, and increased literally everybody’s cost of debt.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 24/09/2026

It definitely could, because again: resolution affects model complexity, which can reduce aliasing and jagged lines. VR would be a good place for it. It's a damn shame then that Nvidia and AMD went all in on machine learning tricks instead of making GPUs powerful enough to handle 8K, huh?

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Austin James @underwhelmed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"

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Kawaii Hulud @bsviggy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m an AI denier. The LLM products currently sold as artificial intelligence are not intelligent, and could never be intelligent

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We'd be happy to have you over here in the EU. Stronger together!

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026

"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i need folks who are passionately against ai writing and art/sharing ai writing and art to ALSO be passionately against ai music. like it's gotta be the same energy, you understand? don't share a post from someone saying they won't use ai art for promo while ai music plays.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 03/09/2026

Having rights reversion in writing can be important in ways you don’t expect

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 02/09/2026

The replies are like "I'll just pirate it!" and I'm sure all your trans friends and associates are happy to know you're still a fan of the woman who's made it her life goal to ruin their lives, you just don't want to pay her for it.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh nothing just one of the cornerstone papers about “grind set” of the last five years found false by someone connected to Epstein and Is also one of the base papers of hustle and what a lot of platform design/ “future of work” is based on dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sending mean email replies to businesses trying to sell me A.I. services in publishing is my new favorite hobby. It refills the well.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There are only two stories that won a Hugo whose screen adaptation also won a Hugo. “All Systems Red” is the second one. The other is “Dune” Congratulations @marthawells.com.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't and will never use AI. Neither should you. No one should. Even if you don't care about the planet, (you should though, you live there), there are real health risks associated that harm you, yes, you yourself, and your loved ones directly and indirectly.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If opinion writers are just AI now, maybe we can finally do away with the entire field.

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Sarah Nicolas @sarahnfisk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This has been extended! A lot of critiques here that are practically a steal!!

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sorry, Nioh 3 DLC is out. That's going to set me back a couple of days in delays at the very least.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 19/08/2026

Finally! You have no idea how long I’ve had to pretend I didn’t know all this! #murderbot #murderbotseason2 #booksky

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sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

some novelists are like what if there was a girl kinda like me and she was amazing. and some novelists are like what if there was a girl kinda like me and she absolutely sucked shit

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I feel this one resonate in my bones.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm behind on compared to where I planned to be in this rewrite by today, but it's coming together quite nicely. Even if I take an extra month by the end, it'll have been worth it.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

No evil too depraved. No bridge too far.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I've had half a dozen. DO NOT enter any password in order to open an evite. That's the simple scam. Real evites don't require you to enter a password.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I thought I was heading into an easy rewrite for this manuscript, but we're one month in and it's already time to break out the whiteboard.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 22/07/2026

I've come to realize I feel the same amount of dismay and anger at seeing techbros treated as though they're credible as I did watching the whole of American society treat televangelists as paragons, and it's for the exact same reason: They tricked everyone out of their money.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sometimes, I think a lot of people are good at identifying the crisis of trust gripping the world and somehow bad at realising the complete erosion of the internet's utility is also a crisis.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Can we also talk about the absolute batshitness of having to do workarounds for embedded generative AI because it makes so many errors and yet the *de facto* position of these major corporations seems to be that it is logical and sensible to inflict *incorrect functioning* on the world?

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And every card is just a reference. Where's the insight? What's your take on the story? Do you have anything to say as creatives? No? Just references? Its a hollow imitation of the game I once loved. A well-selling one, for sure, but bereft of the actual magic that could move culture all the same.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 16/07/2026

Folks, be aware we are entering the phase of the scam where people put "No AI" in their profiles while slopping all over their timeline. Trust but verify.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When a character says the title of a book in the novel, that’s the author looking right at the camera like in The Office.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 15/07/2026

I resent the term "RAM crisis." This was not some random act of god. This was greedy, selfish, broken people conspiring to take a vital commodity off the public market. This is RAM theft.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The world would be a better place if more people read books

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In my experience with AI bros, this tracks.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/07/2026

Still a little puzzled by “I didn’t like that the characters thought in italics.” My friend, that ship sailed so long ago that it was owned by the East India Company.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Reminder: Check those email addresses if you hear from an agent or editor out of nowhere. A friend of mine nearly hired an “editor” that an “agent” referred them to. It was close. You might be tired of hearing book people talk about these scams but scammers wouldn’t keep at it if they didn’t work.

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

An update for Centralfiction in 2026? Oh fuck, I'm going to get dragged back in, aren't it?

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I figured out my @romancingthevote.com item! I always get asked about copyediting. Here's your chance to see how the sausage is made. One hour, your words, and I'll show you how to set up a workflow that'll make your life - and your future CE's life - easier. www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Auction item '1-Hour Copyedit Ride Along' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

not to sound radical or anything, but have you considered a government that fulfils campaign promises

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 24/06/2026

Deltarune Chapter 5 came out IDK if you saw

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Johan Lenaerts @johanlenaerts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I ask myself the same question every day. Some people just like to get fucked over, I guess?

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