iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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DT Cochrane @dtcochrane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When the federal government says, “We can’t afford it” they actually mean, “We don’t want to do it.” Anything we can physically do—like put everyone in a home—we can afford.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/09/2026

Teaching Neuromancer this semester, and I'm proud to say that a CS undergrad in my class invented this joke independently

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Funny how we never actually consider a fair deal for workers, it's all about "minimizing disruption" aka removing the little power from workers that they have. I wish many wildcat strikes upon capital.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 13/09/2026

We feed them, brush them, protect them from all harm, provide them with medical care, give them treats and toys, let them live in our nice houses with millions of soft cat beds why then do they still wish to eat our toes

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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Poor guy has no idea

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2026

it comes off as Guys Building The Doom Machines standing around and going "the doom machines could quite likely kill us all, and we should coordinate on stopping them from killing us all, although I *personally* am going to keep focusing on becoming ultra-rich from building the Doom Machines"

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NEW: Saddle Lake Cree Nation calls Alberta trans health-care laws a violation of Treaty rights, announces path to work around the legislation

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Cops are fascists. We see this over and over again. They will happily defend (at best ignore) right wing violence and white supremacists. Institutionally, there is nothing salvageable there.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm tired and I don't give a fuck about AI. If we put this much money into solving actual issues, we'd have a better society, but a better society doesn't concentrate money and power in the hands of a few.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Because if we talked about it, we'd have to acknowledge that transmission is a problem that should be mitigated and boy we sure ain't doing shit for that.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a bureaucrat, normally when we're making agreements with organizations, it involves a signed contract with clauses for yanking back money if the desired results and procedures are not followed. Perhaps we should consider doing that with oil and gas companies?

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 28/08/2026

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is frustrating trying to be an honest, considerate, hardworking person, when many signs indicate it is much more lucrative right now to be a liar and a grifter with no moral core or ethical framework for daily life. I just hope these people eventually get what they deserve.

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you're lonely, get into gardening. Community garden, front garden-- I have never talked to so many people in my life. Seeds are much cheaper than smokes, and you make our world a little less shit. Can't lose.

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Jim Zub @jimzub.com · 20/08/2026

Same here, baby. Same.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What Carney and Goodale and others stubbornly refuse to understand (or don't care) is that trade agreements with the United States today are no longer about negotiating potentially mutually beneficial economic advantages They're tools of domination designed to guarantee subservience.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As a federal analyst I can't imagine talking freely on the record, assuming anyone could find me in the first place-- which is the other problem. Our public directories are so out of date, they're structured from 3 re-orgs ago. You look me up, you'd never know what I actually do.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That is STACKED.

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PeculiarAmelia @theartfulldodger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think bluesky is for those of us who crave Interaction but don't have the energy or bandwidth to hold up a conversation

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I am team "sensitivity readers are an excellent investment" but beyond that I do not think authors owe me/the gen public anything. I can stop reading books I don't like. I could write fix-it fiction if so inclined. I am not convinced that art criticism is unskilled labour and...

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can't we do this as our nation-building projects instead of more fucking pipelines?

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The idea that accessibility is a limited and non-renewable resource consistently keeps people from imagining a better world where we've designed things so everyone can actually get what they need and be comfortable. It also keeps people from demanding changes for the better from those with power.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I love it. Crip time in practice.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 10/08/2026

Wake me when an ai “breaks containment”, gets into HR, finds 7500 employees illegally misclassified as contractors and files their paperwork with the local departments of labour and/or employment for years of backpay.

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ande91.bsky.social @ande91.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is an international art magazine based in Australia. National anti AI campaign.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026

"We should organize our country in a way that giant assholes aren't able to constantly wreck shit for everyone else and then shrug and walk away"

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I can say that senior management is remarkably uninterested in the concept of externalities or doing any rigorous gba+ analysis. Part of me wants a journalist to atip gba+ assessments to see if any groups are actually marked down as being disadvantaged by a policy or program. I'd be surprised.

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Pumpkin Spice Amateur Historian @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sorry, if you believe in broken windows policing, that has to apply to white collar crime. If you let anti-social behavior go unpunished in finance, congrats, you have created a completely unaccountable environment.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is also true for bureaucratic senior management. There is something about implicit and explicit hierarchy that is apparently quite difficult to resist.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is heartbreaking. I cannot imagine having something like this stolen from you. I have been out of lifting for half a decade plus, but the undercurrents of right wing eugenics felt like they were getting stronger even back then.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

People like "a billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke", but ignoring specific dollar amounts, it's *very bad* that we have established a system of community rule-making and enforcement, and then allowed a tiny percentage a way to not just opt out, but attempt to destroy it.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If he's doing this shit to his colleagues, he is likely doing worse to other women.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

God, fuck off with this shit already. What is wrong with our priorities?

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This will definitely not adversely affect disabled people who have been kicked off of aish onto adap in any way. Fuckers.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Boy I am sure glad I am not a DG+ at NRCan. What nonsense. On top of job cuts, you get to deal with the US pissing about with this bs.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We could run my tiny social program for a century with this much money (straight costs. We could do so much more if we invested this my god)

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WeirwoodTreeHugger @weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is why we all need feminism. If we took misogyny and violence against women seriously, if it was considered disqualifying and not something we should overlook to protect men's future or current careers, this wouldn't have happened.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wonder if this is why departments are suddenly being regressive on duty to accommodate

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Swimming lessons in school need to be mandatory, starting in grade 1, and need to happen every year. No one should be coming out of the Canadian school system unable to swim. Cost and accessibility of lessons are prohibitive.

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leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social @leavingsaidwoods.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is hilarious and is why I just tell people that I would like to do whatever with them if they are interested in that. I know so many people like this (including me at times!)

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Canuckamok @canuckamock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy,” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Premier says no to massive AI data centre proposed for south of Winnipeg | CBC News

A large AI data centre pitched for a 141-hectare tract of farmland south of Winnipeg will not go ahead, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says.

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