iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ai is inevitable so you're just risking being left behind, that is why we desperately need you to stop fighting back against it and start embracing it, otherwise the inevitable thing wont happen. also it needs to have a lot of tax exemptions and special permits because without those it will die.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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jesslyn @squishybelle.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

online privacy is a thing of the past, our data is being collected and sold by everything, massive data centres are everywhere.. all for the advertising algorithm to hit so close and yet so far

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 16/05/2026

Empathy is free, in case you weren't aware.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 21/04/2026

"it’s now common for a handful of requests to incur costs that exceed the plan price!" They're just straight up saying it now, huh. github.blog/news-insight...

github.blog

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans

We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 21/04/2026

> it’s now common for a handful of requests to incur costs that exceed the plan price! A hell of a thing to read in a GitHub public blog post where they're pausing subscriptions.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Current status: Tired but locked in.

Image of a cat sitting in front of a computer.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 21/03/2026

My conspiracy theory is that Google is deliberately tanking search results in order to encourage Gemini usage instead.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 10/03/2026

They're just catering to their users with a shame kink

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 09/03/2026

Ah, but it took the attention away from the Epstein files.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 09/03/2026

It's been a long decade since 2024

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 05/03/2026

I thought Black Mirror was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 27/02/2026

Yeah, my understanding is that licences nowadays tend to write less on them because it exposes less irrelevant information to, say, a bouncer, but it's definitely still in the database and accessible to a cop.

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Simon Harris @harukizaemon.com · 16/02/2026

OH (re current corporate culture trends): "Just yoga harder!"

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Simon Harris @harukizaemon.com · 15/02/2026

Execs find LLMs can mostly do their jobs. By extension, they conclude, it should be able to do anyone's job. The only people who ought to be thoroughly worried about LLMs are execs. Sadly, the system isn't setup to accept that particular reality.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 15/02/2026

And that's before we get into manipulated training data sets (like the one behind the bot on the hell site)

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

irishtimes.com

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 29/11/2025

I hope you have a wonderful day together ❤️

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emma celeste @emmaceleste.gay · 29/11/2025

everyone forgets the full phrase “fuck around, find out, write it down” it’s only the scientific method if you write it down, otherwise it’s just sparkling curiosity

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 01/11/2025

> All six defendants were charged with interfering with a federal agent and conspiring with one another to interfere with an agent. Allegedly blocked/slowed down/interfered with and vandalized an agent's vehicle while yelling mean things. The horror.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 21/10/2025

It is, just in reverse.

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fuckface "squeaky" from:me @skeet.best · 11/10/2025

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 13/09/2025

Clearsky won't include indicators that it's a second account created by someone whose first account was banned, unlike their mod tools. That's what I would call "ban evasion".

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 10/09/2025

Google just stopped giving me a choice 😶

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Simon Harris @harukizaemon.com · 17/08/2025

"Glyph proposes that many LLM-assisted programmers who speak highly of the reliability and value of AI tools are falling prey to two cognitive biases: availability heuristic; and salience heuristic." /ht @benjaminbirnbaum

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/08/2025

Sam Altman has got to the point where he doesn't even bother to describe stuff anymore. "Uhh yeah sometime you'll have a thingy that will do stuff. And wow will it be good!"

Sam Altman
@sama
someday soon something smarter than the smartest person you know will be running on a device in your pocket, helping you with whatever you want.
this is a very remarkable thing.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 07/08/2025

Chef's kiss (so to speak)

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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 22/07/2025

From the "rational arguments" away to the emotional ones, Alex put this beautifully succinct:

It hurts my feelings that I specifically have asked you, my friend, to not use this thing that you do not need by any measure, because it is actively harming me, the planet, and society in very real ways, and seeing you using it anyway.

I need you to understand that when you do that, you are telling me, “I hear you, I understand, but also, I don’t care.“

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 17/05/2025

you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”

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Sarah Rainsberger @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca · 12/07/2025

If your docs are shit (outdated, unclear, poorly organized), an LLM won't understand them any more than you do. If your docs are *good* (written by knowledgeable people, with care to get it just right, maintained), an LLM gives you a subpar recap. Invest in docs. Demand better docs. Read docs.

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 22/06/2025

Given some of the tradcaths I've known... they're the same picture

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localthunk @localthunk.com · 03/06/2025

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 15/05/2025

That's me when I accidentally take 2x my normal dose. Then the next day, my eyes feel like sandpaper because I didn't blink.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 09/05/2025

Congrats! I really like the greater Brunswick area, hope you enjoy it too.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 06/05/2025

Honestly, I'm less concerned about the energy use of each individual query, and more about the resources spent on training and fine-tuning these models ad-nauseum. Each MAU "legitimises" that investment, IMO.

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