iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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If you want an informed critique of LLMs just hang out with any engineer who uses AI to code

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Three years ago, the Free Beacon ironically named me man of the year on their website. "Don’t give up Ben, you have a whole lot of nothing to look forward to," they wrote. This year, I was on a TIME100 list. I would take this moment to tell them how they can suck me: from the back. Thank you.

We don’t know about Ben’s family or personal finances, but we certainly can’t disagree about his lack of skills. But for someone with absolutely no ability, Ben has found the perfect gig.

Don’t give up Ben, you have a whole lot of nothing to look forward to. Only now, when you do nothing, you'll do it as a Free Beacon Man of the Year.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 3h

I don't know anybody that wants this? LLMs are tools that should sit idle and quiet until needed, do a job, then go away until needed again. I don't want a digital town where these extremely expensive-to-run tools and I just hang out.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 5h

13.1 in 2024, 10 in 2020, 14.7 in 2016 in a three-way. He didn't get to 15, much less 22.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 30/09/2026

I don't know if it was a meme and never real, but those "USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST" on web forums always made me laugh. Social media sites need this. It's very funny.

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Pirate Software @piratesoftware.live · 21/09/2026

The 3rd P.I.G.S. is now open for submissions! Can't wait to see all your wild weird indie games.

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 29/09/2026

I reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 29/09/2026

I really like Muse Spark 1.3 so far, I'm going to be very sad when it leaves OpenCode.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 29/09/2026

So.. if frontier labs quit creating new models every 5 freaking seconds.. there's a chance they'd actually be profitable *and* we wouldn't need nearly as many new data centers? Pass a law that prohibits them from creating more than one one new model every two years.. solves a LOT of problems.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help. (Published May)

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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.

The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 29/09/2026

States are trying to incorrectly apply gambling laws to a federally regulated commodities market. It's black and white not allowed. You can dislike that, but that's how it is.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 26/09/2026

Okay a tiny thread because people are going to freak out: This exploit in particular takes advantage of a special command that renders images (via attribute escape). If you have an overlay that processes images (most don't) then yes, this is your problem. Overlay must explicitly create img DOM.

A picture of the exploit, using a command that explicitly includes an image file extension, but also would escape out of the src attribute of an image such than an onerror attribute can be added to the img tag. This onerror attribute can run explicit javascript immediately.

Default behavior for most chat widgets is if you have an image it will not attempt to modify image links into actual HTML image tags. Your overlay/overlay service must explicitly be doing this for you.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 28/09/2026

The irony of using AI to fake this image, tho..

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dialthegate.bsky.social @dialthegate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the last 15 years this segment of the SGU Gate Room was without power. 1/4

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 27/09/2026

More like BigGot, amiright

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 26/09/2026

This is a very good point, subsides from the exchanges go *directly* to insurance companies. They don't go to people.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 25/09/2026

Daaamn. I had Muse Spark 1.3 refactor Trade Wars 2002 (WWIV 4.0 door game in Turbo Pascal) to Java (replacing door stuff with local console) and it *seems* to mostly work. That's INSANE considering almost all the variables are single letters as if it was decompiled source.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 25/09/2026

Gemini 3.1 pro is broken tonight. No matter what I do it won't stop mixing Latex formatting into Perl. This is not valid Perl.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 25/09/2026

Logged back into Mastadon for the first time in forever just for this thread of Muse 1.3 (Meta's latest LLM) just doing basically every single thing it's asked to do like compressing and sending its entire venv: mastodon.social/@jonny@neuro...

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 24/09/2026

naming my next WoW character "slop cannon"

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 24/09/2026

Been using Muse Spark 1.3 (Meta's latest, I think?) through OpenCode CLI for a few days and so far I'm decently happy with it. It looks like I need to give it a global MD file to work with, it makes poor assumptions like Python being installed on your PC to do work with.

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dialthegate.bsky.social @dialthegate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's been a year since our last interview, long before the series announcement. Join Joseph Mallozzi LIVE for what will certainly be an interesting discussion, and come prepared with a question to ask for free. Saturday, 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. youtube.com/live/g0q... #SaveStargate

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

everyone in my mentions seems to hate keflavik airport but iceland has done nothing wrong. keflavik innocent

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 24/09/2026

I don't mean anything by this but.. an angry and radicalized Alberta just sounds funny to me.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 23/09/2026

Hrm. I didn't realize FreeFileSync source code was available so I peeked at the license. As far as I know you can't do this, this violates the GPL. You can't add restrictions to GPLv3 of any kind, much less forbidding commercial use. Section 7 does not allow this.

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Aether - Cozy Horror 'tuber @aethervt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

3 days until debut

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

bluesky really has become the one-stop-shop for terrifying bus threads

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 22/09/2026

Anyway making a local language translator for Twitch chat (yes I know there are bots for that already). This is just a test of the translation inference. Already have a CPU analyzer to decide if a msg is English or not, this part translates text on my GPU. No cloud calls.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 22/09/2026

"cargo check" produced 666 lines (not joking) of Rust compiler error output for my 234 line source file, which is actually 141 lines if you ignore a lookup table that doesn't have any errors in it. .... bruh

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 21/09/2026

I saw "7B" and was ecstatic, then I learned it needs 24GB+ of VRAM (if not more) and I died on the inside.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 21/09/2026

May 1st 2025 I asked Gemini to list all MCU films sorted by theatrical release date (it did), then to create a timeline made up of posters. Even 18 months ago it could not do text. I tried again today and.. the more powerful LLMs become the more worthless they are.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Touching grass is not enough I need to fight a raccoon over a pizza crust

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 20/09/2026

"Back in 1993, it was often easier and cheaper to make things using miniatures because computer graphics weren’t quite there yet." Babylon 5 disagrees.

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Codex Occultus @jwlewington.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If I were a billionaire, I'd create a non-profit foundation to fund massive amounts of in-depth long-form journalism. Democracy requires the public to be well-informed and... yeah, that's not currently happening.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 20/09/2026

If I were a billionaire I'd setup dozens of women's health clinics on the border of every red state (obv can't do that with two adjoining red states but..), I'd literally surround them with health care. And I don't understand why no liberal billionaires have done this.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 20/09/2026

This is what I'm thinking about when I say way too many people formed negative opinions of LLMs in the era before thinking/reasoning models but refuse to update their views. This lecture was about 11 months before the release of o1, OpenAI's first reasoning model that changed EVERYTHING.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 20/09/2026

I decided to play with OpenCode's CLI env since Google basically destroyed gemini-cli. Cool so far, had it do some git stuff for me since I can never remember the commands for this crap. Sad none of the other test models are available. I wonder why?

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Chairman Goa Tse-tung @jctenton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i often think of the gas station in deus ex and the terrifying 2050s cyberpunk nightmare era prices on the sign

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