iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Yeah. It’s very concerning And I feel like many are caught up in the “it’s all hype” narrative and aren’t aware of the realities of what is actually playing out in terms of the technology and the decisions being made. It’s all happening very fast and began accelerating in the past six months.

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The trajectory seems quite dangerous to me. YMMV.

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The assertions above about coding and code review are based on Anthropic reports, but I assume something similar is happening at other AI companies with perhaps a lag effect in terms of actual stats. IF—and it’s still if—the chain-of-thought architecture is removed, the already opaque will go dark.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 3h

The no-humans-in-the-loop AI trajectory: The majority of AI code is now being written by AI—AND the majority of the code written by AI is being reviewed by AI, not humans. There is also reportedly consideration of removing chain-of-thought transcripts from AI architecture because it affects speed.

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A fraction of $30K is a security deposit for safe housing $5000 is the amount cited in interviews with people who relinquished their children for adoption that would have allowed them to keep and raise them.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

THIS is an example of the pressures facing the AI companies themselves:

Investing
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Investing.com @Investingcom
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*ANTHROPIC OFFERED BLACKSTONE A DOUBLE-DIGIT YIELD EXCEEDING 10% FOR A $60B CHIP DEBT PACKAGE
- FT
*BLACKSTONE FUNDS TO INVEST $9
BILLION, BACKED BY FIVE-YEAR LEASE PAYMENTS FROM ANTHROPIC FOR CHIPS — FT
9:48 AM • 10/17/26 • 35K Views

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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(nodding along and appreciating the civil discourse)

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Mathematicians and coders aren’t only mourning the future of work in their fields. The most talented mathematicians and coders I’ve known (including my late mother) often enter flow states in which they think in their respective languages, so the shifts happening affect their very sense of self.

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The hostility from the AI accelerationists toward Tao and mathematicians in general seems to be a reflection of their overall anti-humanist perspective. They’re being openly aggressive toward people in grief (similarly so with computer programmers). It’s awful to witness—and does NOT instill trust.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5h

It’s possible the “AI bubble” won’t pop but will deflate. The market is showing signs of that possibly beginning to happen with AI-related stocks, so we’ll see how it plays out. However, the AI companies themselves are all still private, so the pressures they face are related more to financing.

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A beautiful and related interview:

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent piece on the article in the OP—and a gift link:

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20h

Drone photographer Theresa Graham (tgraham.photography on IG) captured this Ornate Eagle Ray (Aetomylaeus vespertilio) off Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. These rays are called the "unicorn of the sea": fewer than 100 sighting have been documented. We suspect they're critically endangered.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

“HUMXN said it will subsidize plumbing, electrical, HVAC, air-duct cleaning, and carpet cleaning, allowing people who need these services to get them for free in exchange for letting someone in with ‘wearable capture technology’ work inside their home.”

tomshardware.com

AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots — wearable sensors record video of repair work for robotics training, free services also include electrical work, ai...

Is AI coming for blue-collar jobs, too?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 6h

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, he didn’t stab himself, lol.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h

I’ll be interested to see the scientific reaction to this research and whether or not it passes peer review. (It has me rethinking my belief about the nature of consciousness, which I had conceptualized as more of a continuous property.)

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h

ZELENSKYY: “Yesterday, the Russians carried out one of their largest attacks on Ukraine's energy sector… A U.S. sanctions blackout, easing pressure on the aggressor, financial rewards for Putin - all of this only encourages him to keep attacking.” (Full post: x.com/zelenskyyua/...)

Volodymyr Zelensky...
@ZelenskyyUa
X.com
Yesterday, the Russians carried out one of their largest attacks on Ukraine's energy sector - more than 15 critical power generation and transmission facilities were targeted across different regions of Ukraine. Restoration work is ongoing, with all necessary services and all available resources of Ukrainian energy companies involved. I thank everyone working practically nonstop to restore power.

Russia is trying to cause a blackout in Ukraine - right before winter. Russia is trying to leave millions of our people without electricity and heating.
Pressure is needed to stop this. A U.S. sanctions blackout, easing pressure on the aggressor, financial rewards for Putin - all of this only encourages him to keep attacking. We must not give up ground. We must keep trying to end the war. To end it, not give Putin every reason to continue it indefinitely. I thank everyone who is truly fighting for peace and helping Ukraine!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10h

POPE LEO has been deemed fit for discharge from the hospital following a lobectomy for lung cancer.

POPE HEALTH UPDATE
HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE
"In light of the blood tests and chest X-ray performed this morning, and following an assessment of his clinical condition, the Holy Father has been deemed fit for discharge."
17 October 2026
VATICAN NEWS

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10h

One incredibly cool thing about octopuses is they possess distributed intelligence aka embodied cognition. They have a highly decentralized nervous system in which a large share of processing occurs outside the central brain and in the tentacles.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10h

According to this research, neural activity alternates between a conscious mode and an unconscious mode ≈15 times every second. This suggests that conscious awareness is the result of an active process in which the brain selects one interpretation to reach awareness out of all possible ones.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18h

Google is creating an AI-integrated wet lab with AI-controlled robotics. The goal is to establish “autonomous wet labs.” Surely nothing could go wrong.

research.google

Grounding AI agents in biological reality: Building blocks for autonomous wet labs

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Tbf, he wrote his article in the context of a specialized discourse. I don’t think he anticipated it would be so relatively widely read by normies, lol.

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The article is quite long and dense, and the thread below is a pretty good summary:

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I enjoyed it, but, yeah, it’s dense. The visualizations helped.

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