iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apparently you can plumb an LLM into a malware wrapper now, and then you get to just go “whoopsiedo!” when it compromises government sites.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell.

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We Must Pace The Marketing Frontier

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A good ol fashion #rstats keyboard war? On MY birthday? You shouldn’t have! ❤️ you all.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Geez LLMs are a gatekeeper’s dream. If you want to block something, you can instantly create reams of plausible looking risks, security concerns, attack vectors etc.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Internet promise 1996: "The rise of the world wide web means your writing could be sold to everyone on the planet without needing a publisher" AI promise 2026: "The rise of AI means your writing will be stolen by everyone on the planet and regurgitated in a lesser form without any recourse."

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

1. AI bots are hacking services 2. It's not hacking, the front end guys just put a curtain over an open safe and called it security. Any idiot could do it 3. That's what hacking actually is and now any idiot can do it.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026

The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.

blog.djnavarro.net

Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch

Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My LLM Dad would fuken smash the puny cybersecurity systems of your LLM Dad.

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I predict at some point when someone goes to melt all this down they’re going to find it’s only minimally gold and cut with tin or something. Paid for on the books at gold market prices of course. Just another facet of the omnigrift.

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Interesting observation today reading something from someone I followed pre-LLM who has gone deep down the LLM rabbit hole. I can no longer *hear* their voice when I read their stuff. Normally I auralise people’s writing in my ‘inner ear’ in their voices if I’ve ever heard them speak.

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Hannah Frick @frick.ws · 16/07/2026

> “Our findings frame AI slop as a tragedy of the commons,” the researchers concluded, “where individual productivity gains externalise costs on to reviewers, maintainers and the broader community.” The newer gift link: as.ft.com/r/cb395b74-8...

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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 15/07/2026

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing half the population that the "manly" way to get around is on a giant rolling couch controlled by gently depressing your toe.

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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 25/05/2026

I loathe the cult of the car.

Image Text:
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europeans will ride a train going 200 mph through the alps while drinking wine and americans will sit in traffic on 1-95 for three hours eating a gas station sandwich and say "at least i have my freedom" brother you are imprisoned by a honda accord

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Robin @jesusurbanist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you think e-bikes are a hazard for teenagers, wait until you hear about cars.

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Mr Andersen, your LinkedIn posts have recently fallen below the standard 100% positive sentiment score to 98.3%. We believe you have bypassed your LLM, and are writing posts by hand. Please reset your LLM to the standard configuration to continue to enjoy the benefits of existence. Have a great day!

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Joshua Byrd 🐀 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

New from our team: For decades Australian house prices have grown. This is what a fall could mean --- Over the last six years, house prices have more than doubled in Brisbane. “It feels like the game’s rigged against us,” he says. “Houses need to fall for it to be a reasonable thing for […]

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

A search bar with the question "will GTA be on antikyth..." And an AI summary reply saying "no. Grand theft auto will not be playable on the antikythera mechanism. The device is a 2000 year old ancient greek analogy computer and orrery used exclusively to calculate the positions of celestial bodies like the sun, moon and...". There is a picture of a bronze machine made of circular parts

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 29/06/2026

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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rufus⁷ @rufuss.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In case you, too, needed this today:

Op is novelconcepts: Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic / want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again.
You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I’ve watched that same Socceroos game at least half a dozen times. Big match. Strategy is field an AFL team, and dominate with a physical defensive game. Undone early by a fast passing game. Panic sub the attackers in the second. Flashes brilliance in the chase, teasing what could have been. 🤦‍♂️

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We gave you land, we gave you greens, you owe us some submarines #auspol

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I am deeply honoured to be a laureate of the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize, which has been awarded to the R Project. I have been on the R Core Team for almost 30 years, We built and maintained R with a vision to make statistical tools freely available and extendable. Congratulations to entire team!

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Took some time to slow down and write some good documentation and tests for a little side project, and as usual this process highlighted several areas for improvement. I can't think of a time this *hasn't* happened.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

with a trillion dollars, elon can pay one million people one million dollars to pretend they are him playing a video game

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

To management, I say "I use AI techniques to ___". It's just my shell scripts from 2001 that still run perfectly everyday. I don't tell them that AI in that sentence actually stands for already implemented.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Are we sleepwalking into the AI era? 🤖📱 We unpack the hidden costs of Big Tech, from addictive algorithms to the environmental toll of new AI data centres. Links below: Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/6yFm... YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I94... Apple - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

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Are we sleepwalking into the AI era? Data Centres, Scams, and the Fight for Digital Rights - with Lizzie O’Shea

With David Pocock · Episode

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Pat Leslie @palesl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hello. Are you (🫵) an High Court of Australia watcher, and also an R user? If so, please check out ✨hcdb✨ !!! It's an R Package, with tonnes of High Court data in it. Check it out! (tell me what's wrong) github.com/palesl/hcdb

github.com

GitHub - palesl/hcdb: The High Court of Australia Database (RPackage)

The High Court of Australia Database (RPackage). Contribute to palesl/hcdb development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There is no way to design a administrable support system that gives everyone precisely the support they need. The barriers for entry you establish must result in either: - an accessible system which sometimes gives more than needed - an inaccessible system which sometimes gives less than entitled.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/06/2026

Had a great time talking to @chrislhayes.bsky.social for his AI End Game series on MSNow, covering the AI bubble, the SaaSpocalypse, the end of tech's era of hypergrowth, and the underlying economic fragility of data centers and the greater AI industry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mn-...

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Is the AI Boom About to COLLAPSE?

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/06/2026

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

In my own personal Black Mirror episode I halted table conversation at a small gathering last night when I mentioned I don’t use AI. “Not even in your personal life?”

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 02/06/2026

New post on the R-hub blog! "Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat" ✨ By @frick.ws + myself, reviewed by @etiennebacher.bsky.social blog.r-hub.io/2026/06/02/j... #RStats

Meme of a kitten attacked by monsters. The text says "Everytime you use Claude for something a CLI can do, a kitten dies"

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 27/05/2026

look how they massacred my boy

A google search for "how many ps are in google", and the AI Overview says 2.

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