iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 21h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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used @usedpizza.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not that long ago seeing a new game recomp or translation released every single day would have been exciting, now it’s just deflating. stupid internet

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

just another day in a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law, regulate data brokers, or adequately fund its regulators things are going to get wild

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures

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feef @feefal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Inspired by a recent interaction

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/09/2026

Transphobia is a losing strategy. If you’re telling trans people to eat shit for the cause you either know this and want cover for your own transphobia or you don’t know this and think it’s morally acceptable to mark some bodies and lives for death in the name of expediency. Fix your hearts or die.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12/09/2026

you may think i am joking but i am not. they’re talking about AI the way protestant zealots talked about the end times. in both cases we are hearing people talk about themselves — their desires, their lust for destruction, their yearning to trample their rivals underfoot.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The contempt of AI from insurance adjusters gets at a serious problem with AI: it still constantly makes up stuff and it can't be trusted with data. Here's state of the art LLMs (including just-released Astra & Fable 5.1) still confidently barfing up wrong answers a third of the time.

AA-Omniscience Accuracy vs. AA-Omniscience Index
AA-Omniscience Accuracy (higher is better) measures the proportion of correctly answered questions out of all questions, regardless of whether the model chooses to answer · AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience
Description: AA-Omniscience is a knowledge and hallucination benchmark that measures factual reliability, rewards precise knowledge, and penalizes incorrect guesses or hallucinations. It provides a detailed assessment of a model’s ability to distinguish known from unknowns across diverse knowledge domains.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13029
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ArtificialAnalysis/AA-Omniscience-Public
Implementation:
The benchmark consists of 6,000 questions covering 42 topics, including Business, Humanities and Social Sciences, Health, Law, Software Engineering, and Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Models are scored using the AA-Omniscience Index, which assigns points for correct answers, subtracts points for hallucinated responses, and keeps abstentions neutral, rewarding abstentions over incorrect guesses
Each answer is graded as either CORRECT, INCORRECT, PARTIAL_ANSWER, or NOT_ATTEMPTED based on the model's response and the ground truth answer. GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) is used as the grading model
Intelligence Index Integration: AA-Omniscience contributes two components to the Intelligence Index: (1) Accuracy - the proportion of correct answers, weighted at 8% of the overall Index, and (2) Non-Hallucination Rate - calculated as 1 minus the hallucination rate, weighted at 4% of the overall Index (a 2:1 split of AA-Omniscience's 12% share).

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 31/08/2026

All of the big retail comeback stories are basically this “after multiple MBA-bro dipshit CEOs drove this business into the ground, the new CEO who’s spent their life in the industry and is a product expert has turned things around”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"I am pro-trans generally, but anti-trans when it comes to sports and I think the concerns about trans athletes are legitimate, but sometimes they go too far" is not a tenable position. People are getting their news in sound bites on TikTok and third-order pundit "analysis" in the WSJ and NYT.

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 21/08/2026

Doggust day 20: Some things lost to AI. 📝 #doggust2026

A yellow dog is amazed looking at a poster on a pillar that says "graphic design". Below is a close up of the poster. There's a yellow dog on it at an old computer an the text above says either "graphic design is my passion" or "graphic design my is passion." It's unclear, due to the graphic design. There are several pull tabs below that just say "help."

Text reads: "I like every weird handmade poster."

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 17/08/2026

I went to Barnes and Noble today and overheard some youth inspecting and discussing the blu-ray display, which was also in a prominent position in the store (a place they haven't been displayed in at least 5 years or so near me). Physical is cool now. If you're not doing physical, you're not cool.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 08/08/2026

Always good to clarify with your partner whether you're having sex gratuitously or for plot reasons

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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I would absolutely eat shit in the Criterion Closet and pick Speed 2: Cruise Control. That is a promise.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t do an SDCC panel

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heaumeau e. rotacism @vashwood.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One animator put it plainly: “You have no idea how frustrating it is to see press release after press release touting how much money our animated film made and how many nominations we got; then [the studio] turns to people who have worked here forever and says, ‘We don’t need you anymore.’” Heh.

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Hollywood Can’t Survive Without Animation. So Why Won’t the Industry Respect It?

Animated films made billions in 2026 while Pixar and Netflix cut jobs. Inside animation's paradox and its long shut-out from the best picture race.

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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Favourite Ayo Edebiri picture just dropped.

Ayo Edebiri Masking with Shirt “DO NOT TALK TO KR ABOUT AI I WILL KILL MYSELF”.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/07/2026

There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.

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cj 🔜 LBX 716 @ceeejus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

turnabout corner!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Winstar @winstar.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ai companies had been so annoying and kept saying shit like Adapt or PERISH!" "Ai is the future there is no stopping it!" Wearing it like a badge of honor. Now Steam is all like. We need to disclose what devs are using Ai in their games. "HEY! That's not COOL BRO! We don't want people to know!"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/01/2026

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

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Amy PJ 🌺 @ Melb Games Week @hellomisspotter.com · 29/05/2026

Buying Steam games and playing Steam games really are 2 different hobbies

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 20/05/2026

I once talked to the head of a small animation studio who told me AI was the future. When I asked "Why would someone pay you to type in words and generate something when they can type it themselves into the same software and get the same result for free?" He looked baffled and said "They just will"

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 26/04/2026

Happy Independent Bookstores Day!! Thank you for your important work bookstores (and bookstore cats.) 📖🐱

Ink painting of the sunny arched window of a bookstore on a white background with stone bricks framing the top. An orange cat with white belly is curled up napping comfortably on a display of books. Behind the display a parent and child peek over to appreciate the cat employee. Behind them is a student carrying a book to the register walks to the right, while two girls with glasses look through a book together happily.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

no i'm not bc i don't use that shit. skill issue

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 15/04/2026

Everything is bad now because kids get their taste in music from algorithms instead of from trying to impress the older girl you know who looks like the Bombchu Bowling Alley Operator

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

branding my "America should have snap elections" policy as "Don't you think you have the right to speak to the manager whenever you want?"

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

you consider the few things that have pushed these guys into action, and the many things that haven't, and increasingly coming to the conclusion that no matter what the issue you care about is, you need to jam up airports

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/04/2026

i will vote for dems who say this stuff and act on this stuff! i will give them money! i will tell my friends to do the same! it is what i want from government more than anything else right now!

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