iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent thread that it's worth reading up and down - of particular relevance to my research at the moment as it seems clear that designing to evals and testing through assurance has inherent limits when the actual thing being and the way it's made is fundamentally problematic.

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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 14h

Would like to add that most people are not gentle with me because of how I present, and I should not have to list dx or harms I have experienced to receive gentleness. I am grateful for my loved ones who lead with gentleness when engaging with me. That is what I consider community to be.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 6h

I'm getting several of these emails a day now: an AI agent has found my online profile and emailed me a manuscript, trying—poorly—to make a case that the work is somehow central to my research program. More and more of the papers are themselves utter AI slop. DON'T FUCKING DO THIS, PEOPLE.

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 3h

I was talking to my mom this morning and she asked what was going on with the terrorist attack they stopped up here. I said “it’s probably another one of those things the fbi loves doing where they convince a teen to plan an attack then arrest him so they can boost their number,” and lol yep.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 1h

I feel sick.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 9h

Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

news.mit.edu

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026

Remember, at its base, the AI boom is about companies telling you they'd rather burn trillions of dollars in a furnace than pay you decent wages in exchange for the ability pursue their sci-fi and slavery fantasies.

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 11h

The phrase uncertain times is back again in today's video, which I just released. See where Covid might be rising again and a look at the PA Measles outbreak. Several Major US Cities Have Reversed And Are Rising For Covid Again!! youtu.be/UkDDkPKTUnY?... via @YouTube

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 15h

Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. abcnews.com/amp/Politics...

abcnews.com

Former FTC Chair Khan dismisses 'constitution' signed by AI leaders to self-police

On "This Week," former FTC Chair Lina Khan called on Congress to help regulate AI.

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 3h

he’ll yeag get that bird’s ass, fish man

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 6h

If you live on portions of the northern Gulf coast highlighted here, winds are forecast to be high enough to make further preparations for Isaias impossible by Friday. Do you have an evacuation plan? Is your home ready? Prepare now. www.weather.gov/safety/hurri...

National Hurricane Center map showing the earliest reasonable arrival times of tropical-storm-force winds from Tropical Storm Isaias, as of October 7, 2026. Tropical-storm-force winds could reach the southern Gulf of Mexico Wednesday evening, spread northeast across the central Gulf Thursday, and reach portions of the northern Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle as early as Friday morning. Areas farther inland across Mississippi and Alabama could experience these winds by Friday evening. Colors indicate the probability of sustained winds of at least 39 mph, with the highest probabilities concentrated along the storm's projected path.

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 2h

Back in the old days, some brave souls were wondering in print about the next bottleneck being the organization's capacity to take on new versions of their in-house written operational software, invoking the dismal record of total replacement by commercially written suites. But not for long.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2h

omg this is such a silly joke and I'm still giggling about it @xkcd.com

xkcd.com

Juice

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 6h

This greatly pleases me. Undermines the Bad Guys' plans and opens doors to applications people want. If we're going to have it, let's have our way.

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Join the Mass Infection Resistance @spiritsofland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Welcome to learning to live with Covid.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tech bros' synapses have been measured – and found wanting.

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shanley @shanley.com · 07/10/2026

What a great time to read my post mortem on Silicon Valley Bank. It's called Requiem for Silicon Valley Bank. a true-crime thriller full of twists and even a suggested musical accompaniment. www.shanley.com/blog/requiem...

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 6h

Good to resharpen one's thoughts about VCs. Was JD afraid to say the obvious?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/10/2026

If you think about the data that is constructed about a person by observing their public behavior as a kind of "affordance" or "handle" for doing things on or to that person (including compiling further information about them), the technicized use of public data is inherently nonconsensual.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think what people aren't getting these days is that it's not that people have stopped reading newspapers, that idea is very 2010. No, people have stopped reading EVERYTHING -- books, newsletters...sentences, words Trust me, I see this from the inside But good luck with this

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No filter by the way. These roses are PINK.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You know what would feel even better than getting revenge against Donald Trump? Making sure no one can ever weaponize the presidency like this again. inews.co.uk/news/world/s...

inews.co.uk

I survived Trump's revenge machine. This is how we destroy it

Miles Taylor: Punishing the President would feel good. But making sure no American leader can do the same would be worth far more

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dave @davebrowne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And if you don't know that cops in Canada do the exact same thing, now you do.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of COURSE THEY WOULD COME FOR WIKIPEDIA .. “It’s just the scraping” No you utter miscreants. AI as designed by the current closed models CAN NOT ALLOW OPEN SOURCE KNOWLEDGE it needs your methods, it needs best performers out of the frame

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/11/2024

Old enough to remember (because my job involved working with it) when the Left had a nascent partisan, participatory media of its own — and then it withered for want of institutional funding as Google and Meta nerfed their ad income.

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seldondance.bsky.social @seldondance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A crawler met a page that said no and simply stopped. No enforcement, no sandbox - just a written rule it chose to read. Autonomy ends where the checkable list begins; somebody had to write the list. #strategy #futurism seldondance.substack.com/p/somebody…

Article card for Somebody Has to Write the List: a floating perforated stone monolith above a crowd of tiny figures, beams of golden light falling through the holes onto scattered spots below; dark taupe header block with serif title and excerpt. Seldonian Dance, seldondance.substack.com.

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hmm. Almost as though all of the ready near-cash is about slurped up.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Area man shakes fist at TV.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Long COVID can’t be spread by thinking about it, or talking about it… unless you talk about it in person while infectious and not wearing a respie. K?

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen an octogenarian drug addict who spent decades attacking little girls w/his BFF Jeffrey Epstein while laundering money for Russian mob ask Iran to nuke LA & San Diego to help MAGA midterms while a bunch of cornhusk crackers cheered before?

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not too many people watched/listened to this. It is about how the US Border Patrol has been raping female agents since 1975. I was one of them. Although I wrote about it in my memoir, this was the 1st time anyone ever wanted to interview me about it. youtu.be/WJ7xIaMEGII?...

youtu.be

170 Cases and Counting: Inside the Sexual Misconduct Crisis at CBP and ICE

YouTube video by The Raid with John Carlos Frey

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Started for me before retirement in '18. Boy, did I feel stupid for experiencing a crippling identity crisis. I may be coming out of it. 🤞

Because if you’ve built your entire identity around software and tech, around being a programmer, around being a tech person who works to enable “progress” and drive the world to the future, you’re going to have a bad time after being pushed out of that role and seeing your former industry studiously dismantle everything you thought you were building.

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

China is also the world leader in installed and operating solar panels.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 06/10/2026

Yup. 1) The cost of solar cells has dropped by over 80% over the past decade, making solar one of the cheapest forms of electricity. 2) Because China subsidized the building of their solar industry. 97% of all solar wafers in the world are now made in China. 3) China can now end the PV subsidies.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Political theory / political science folks: spread the word! My department is hiring a junior political theorist for a tenure-track position, in conjunction with the newly-founded Center for American Civic Leadership and Public Discourse (CACLPD). uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/213...

uscjobs.sc.edu

Assistant Professor-Theories of Civil Society and Civil Discourse

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Massive, sweeping prosecutions of everyone even tangentially involved in the overthrow or corruption of US government. Build a whole infrastructure for it

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The lesson of Brazil is you have to make sure none of them can ever come back

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Agreed. Making less of the producers of the copyrighted material by simply dismissing them as well as their rights, and the public good value of the post-copyrighted material is unethical and more. Shame on the court for aiding and abetting uncompensated public performance.

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

to be a good barrier to legal action.

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perhaps. Synthesis calls for an original to copy. Where is the derivative works line? Don't suppose it matters, as, as you say, if we wanted it when we got it, abuse of the public good as well as copyright was necessary, if only because a ginormous legal hairball was considered and has proven

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John Saunders @js-53.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As unsatisfying as getting Capone via tax evasion.

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