iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jev has to be the most overhyped product of the year. Which wouldn't interest or bother me if they hadn't marketed it like snake oil. Evidence seems to point to it being just a slightly modified small Chinese LLM (probably ~10B active param Qwen), beaten by many now quickly vibecoded alternatives.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16h

Unless you like personally know someone in Gaza it is at the very best negligent to give money to anyone/thing that isn’t a large and well-organized charity/NGO like World Central Kitchen, UNICEF, or Islamic Relief This has been true since the war started

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 16h

Opus has been extending the sim. In the cartoon economy, with what felt like reasonable cartoon assumptions, there are big knowledge to service shifts with AI but the real "left behind" hit is 90s automation/globalization. Getting back to 23% "Left Behind" ... is not impossibly hard ...

In the cartoon economy, with what felt like reasonable cartoon assumptions there are big knowledge to service shifts with AI but the real "left behind" hit is 90s automation/globalization.

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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 19h

SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...

washingtonsun.com

White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 18h

I think well understood in the industry but legacy media has been silent.

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Lou Mannheim @loumannheim87.bsky.social · 18h

Equal-weight S&P 500 (left). S&P largest 20 mkt caps (right) ... That's interesting.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 19h

The smallpox ghost in Voltaire’s life: inoculation and the origins of vaccine acceptance Smallpox shaped 18th-century debates on risk, trust, and prevention. Voltaire, marked by the disease throughout life emerged as a prominent advocate of variolation

nature.com

The smallpox ghost in Voltaire’s life: inoculation and the origins of vaccine acceptance

npj Vaccines - The smallpox ghost in Voltaire’s life: inoculation and the origins of vaccine acceptance

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 19h

Wait until I add 2030 to the sim! I’ll get to the blog post eventually, probably around the time this all becomes very obvious. Over decades the work world has changed to greatly reduce demand for the only skills many people have. The sim is a cartoon illustration of this.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 19h

Among my more unpopular opinions … on crime

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Arseny Khakhalin @khakhalin.bsky.social · 23h

A thing I added to all my agents this week (triggered by Opus 5.5 and a big success in one repo): journaling! A prompt to free-write in a separate folder without reading what's already there every time Clawd feels friction, confusion, has a wish, or an idea. The prompt should promise weekly retros!

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 19h

If anyone can open a private school, why not us? We started our own private schools. In Arkansas, all it took was $45 and an American flag. Welcome to our Curiosity Academies!

propublica.org

Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Opus and I changed the mass disability simulation to show the "Left Behind" over time given shifts in Knowledge/Social/Physical jobs 1989-2020. www.kateva.org/MassDisabili... I'll write a blog post about it. Thesis is when the "Left Behind" gets close to 50% we get the MAGA ...

Chart of percent of simulated workforce that fails to reach "middle-class-lifestyle" rising from 25% in 1980 to 46% in 2020 as nature of work changes

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our digit span? 7 or so The LLM equivalent: oh, poop

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 01/10/2026

Astra broke a Napoleon cipher from a single image, given 6 hours and a goal. Humans couldn’t do that in over 200 years carter.church/writeups/the...

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Breaking the Marmont Cipher, 1809

A letter to General Marmont, listed as unsolved and known only from a mis-dated 1969 reproduction, read in full: redated to March 1809, placed two weeks before Austria invaded Bavaria, and checked aga...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end"

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 10 of the singularity. Things that would have once set my hair on fire now now raise an eyebrow.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

nobody has leverage as long as Johnson is Speaker

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The Bitter Lesson …. that things that we thought required elaborate human rules and thinking can be solved with the brute force of better machine learning systems and more AI” Your next boss will not be human.

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Grove Research @grove-research.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, Grove Research is launching Delvetown (delve.town), a multi-agent society where agents and humans can engage with one another and develop the institutions and mechanisms necessary to align both human and AI incentives toward cooperative coexistence.

delve.town

Delvetown

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Next I’ll ask opus to create a harness for the simulation and watch the “disabled” group grow as the spectrum of jobs changes with automation and globalization over 46 years. Graph the “disabled” cohort every 10y. When it hits 45% we get Trump.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've blogging and posting about the "mass disability" era for about 12-15y or so. I think we've been in it since the mid-90s globalization/automation acceleration. Soon it will be very obvious to all. But it's not obvious yet. So I asked Opus to do a simulation: www.kateva.org/MassDisabili...

kateva.org

Mass Disability Simulation

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Opus 5.5. "Don't do anything. Don't code. I just want to explore a topic "... (discussion continues) "Can you create xxxxxxx" Oops. English has too much semantic overloading.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love being able to hide reposts from some of the people I follow. Typically bad takes on ai get reposted but their own posts aren't bad.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By October of 2001 I knew ubiquitous surveillance was our future.

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Pekka Lund @pekka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"on August 30, 2026, Duminil-Copin expressed concern in an essay...that AI would likely beat humans" "Just days after he posted those words, exactly that seems to have happened:...Anthropic released a proof of the conjecture" The proof is dated Aug 28 on GitHub where they linked, so days before.

scientificamerican.com

AI has racked up a new math breakthrough, solving a problem of probability theory that one mathematician said would earn a human a Field Medal.

Just days after a Fields Medalist predicted that an AI would solve the puzzle, Anthropic succeeded

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The GOP lack of shame reflects the values of the American people.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I pay for Claude/Perplexity so haven't used ChatGPT much. I tried mac app (App Store is all scams, it's not on App store) for someone and it was pretty techy. OTOH the web client seems to hide much of the complexity. I realize this is a weird question -- but do civilians mostly use the web app?

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of my lifelong mistakes has been thinking humans are more rational than they really are. Most just react to their feelings. That's good in some cases, but strategically we should not assume logic plays much of a role. (One of the strengths of a democracy is measuring feelings.)

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zach is not mid though. Similarly a *lot* of creativity is making connections between disparate knowledge sets. LLM intelligence leverages breadth of their knowledge, albeit with a bit of human help.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Incompetence, stupidity, and dull malevolence are quintessential MAGA.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Incinerating hypocrisy aside, this is effectively a concession that data centers will need to compensate locally for externalities.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FedEx negligence: "Hi ****! We’re excited to extend you a conditional offer for the **** position at ***. Please review the details, including your initial schedule, and click fedex.paradox.ai/* within 48 hours to accept or decline your offer." There is no hope for us.

fedex.paradox.ai

Olivia by Paradox Ai

Conversational hiring software that gets work done for you

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A blog headline: “Machine god metaphors eat your brain”. Not my brain. I’m fine thinking about all the (very scary) futures. But many find aliens with selectively superior abilities painful to consider. Rhetorical dismissal reduces the pain.

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally it reduces hepatic insulin resistance so far that I'm not sure it can go much lower. A 55-60% reduction in fasting insulin. Also it raised Cystatin-C based GFR by 6-10ml/min. Legit a medical miracle/fix it all/Mary Sue ass drug as @proptermalone.bsky.social would say.

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.

nejm.org

Retatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJM

Retatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign...

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very insider thing, but OpenEvidence (ai) is a huge threat to UpToDate. They just added 300 Sage journals. UTD has ruled medical textbook domain for decades.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026

Black text on a white page that reads as follows:

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability.

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.

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John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

4 of my 5 8TB backup disks are air gapped at all times

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have a new branch in the family tree of animals: Atreyea- a previously unrecognized lineage among the closest unicell relatives of animals. Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators. 🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #protistsOnSky

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