iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 19/04/2026

new sticker design soon, still need to decide a quantity and place order

"DESTROY AI" written in scribbled handwriting

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My experience of AI is seeing stories such as this one and crying out, quite literally, "oh no god no," and then sobbing. What are we doing? Why is this not stirring moral outrage? These tools fuel delusions and suicidal ideation and we are just going to...watch it keep happening?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/03/2026

The vulgar dishonesty of Altman and Amodei puts blood on both of their hands, and it’s the duty of every single member of the media to remind people of this whenever you discuss their software. They both love - and monetize! - war. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubble-is-an-information-war/

Generative AI isn’t intelligent, but it allows people to pretend that it is, especially when the people selling the software — Altman and Amodei — so regularly overstate what it can do.

By giving warmongers and jingoists the cover to “trust” this “authoritative” service — whether or not that’s the case, they can simply point to the specious press — the ethical concern of whether or not an attack was ethical or not is now, whenever any western democracy needs it to be, something that can be handed off to Claude, and justified with the cold, logical framing of “intelligence” and “data.”

None of this would be possible without the consistent repetition of the falsehoods peddled by OpenAI and Anthropic. Without this endless puffery and overstatements about the “power of AI,” we wouldn’t have armed conflicts dictated by what a chatbot can burp up from the files it’s fed. The deaths that follow will be a direct result of those who choose to continue to lie about what an LLM does.

Make no mistake, LLMs are still incapable of unique ideas and are still, outside of coding (which requires massive subsidies to even be kind of useful), questionable in their efficacy and untrustworthy in their outputs. Nothing about the military’s use of Claude makes it more useful or powerful than it was before — they’re probably just loading files into it and asking it long questions about things and going “huh” at the end.

The vulgar dishonesty of Altman and Amodei puts blood on both of their hands, and it’s the duty of every single member of the media to remind people of this whenever you discuss their software.

I get that you probably think I’m being dramatic, but tell me — do you think that the US military would’ve trusted LLMs had they not been marketed as capable of basically anything? Do you think any of this would’ve happened had there been an honest, realistic discussion of what AI can do today, and what it might do tomorrow?

I guess we’ll never know, and the people blown …

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Begging Libsky to not oppositional defiance their way into stanning Anthropic. It’s still a GenAI company that you should not in any way support.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 27/02/2026

Economists: you know I love you, but I think it's time you gave it a rest with all these "which jobs are most exposed to AI?" analyses. www.ft.com/content/8d3b...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/02/2026

The AI economy has become a grifter economy, with dodginess and chicanery at every level, where CEOs lie, and their lies are solidified into plausible-looking analyslop. And the institutions that should be challenging them are nowhere to be seen. www.wheresyoured.at/on-nvidia-an...

So, despite all of this being very obvious, it’s clear that the markets and an alarming number of people in the media simply do not know what they are talking about or are intentionally avoiding thinking about it. The “AI replaces software” story is literally “Anthropic has released a product and now the resulting industry is selling off,” such as when it launched a cybersecurity tool that could check for vulnerabilities (a product that has existed in some form for nearly a decade) causing a sell-off in cybersecurity stocks like Crowdstrike — you know, the one that had a faulty bit of code cause a global cybersecurity incident that lost the Fortune 500 billions, and resulted in Delta Airlines having to cancel over 1,200 flights over a period of several days.

There is no rational basis for anything about this sell-off other than that our financial media and markets do not appear to understand the very basic things about the stuff they invest in. Software may seem complex, but (especially in these cases) it’s really quite simple: investors are conflating “an AI model can spit out code” with “an AI model can create the entire experience of what we know as ‘software,’ or is close enough that we have to start freaking out.”

This is thanks to the intentionally-deceptive marketing pedalled by Anthropic and validated by the media. In a piece from September 2025, Bloomberg reported that Claude Sonnet 4.5 could “code on its own for up to 30 hours straight,” a statement directly from Anthropic repeated by other outlets that added that it did so “on complex, multi-step tasks,” none of which were explained. The Verge, however, added that apparently Anthropic “coded a chat app akin to Slack or Teams,” and no, you can’t see it, or know anything about how much it costs or its functionality. Does it run? Is it useful? Does it work in any way? What does it look like? We have absolutely no proof this happened other than Anthropic saying it, but because the media repeated it it’s n…

As I said earlier, the “wow, Claude Code!” articles are mostly from captured boosters and people that do not actually build software being amazed that it can burp up its training data and make an impression of software engineering.

And even if we believe the idea that Spotify’s best engineers are not writing any code, I have to ask: to what end? Is Spotify shipping more software? Is the software better? Are there more features? Are there less bugs? What are the engineers doing with the time they’re saving? A study from last year from METR said that despite thinking they were 24% faster, LLM coding tools made engineers 19% slower.

I also think we need to really think deeply about how, for the second time in a month, the markets and the media have had a miniature shitfit based on blogs that tell lies using fan fiction. As I covered in my annotations of Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Happening,” the people that are meant to tell the general public what’s happening in the world appear to be falling for ghost stories that confirm their biases or investment strategies, even if said stories are full of half-truths and outright lies.

I am despairing a little. When I see Matt Shumer on CNN or hear from the head of a PE firm about Citrini Research, I begin to wonder whether everybody got where they were not through any actual work but by making the right noises.

This is the grifter economy, and the people that should be stopping them are asleep at the wheel.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/02/2026

This is an important thing to understand about the behavior that gets described as "AI psychosis"; people are using tools they were told would be helpful or useful, but the companies run by folks with the most experience in the world at manipulating billions of users have designed an addictive app.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/02/2026

One of the things that's most frustrating about the hype cycle around OpenClaw is that so much of what people are excited about is just... software? You can automate doing lots of cool stuff with your inbox with deterministic software that's been around for decades, and it won't delete your inbox!

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Alicia Stoller @aliciastoller.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“Human beings have evolved to learn from each other in the context of our relationships. This is the superpower of our species, and the kids who’ve grown up in the past 20 years are increasingly disgusted by what tech has done to them personally, and society more broadly.”

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

'Briggs and his Goldman Sachs colleagues recently said that investment spending on AI made “basically zero” difference in U.S. economic growth last year.' You don't say.

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Prominent economists, including from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero.
“It was a very intuitive story,” said Joseph Briggs, who jointly leads global economics investment research at Goldman Sachs. “That maybe prevented or limited the need to actually dig deeper into what was happening.”
Briggs and his Goldman Sachs colleagues recently said that investment spending on AI made “basically zero” difference in U.S. economic growth last year.
It’s clear that the huge spending on AI is adding to the U.S. economy, but the available economic data doesn’t neatly capture its effects. The debating economists and the slippery data suggest that if the technology does start to reshape the economy, it may be challenging to detect and clearly measure. That may leave political and corporate leaders to choose the numbers that fit their preferred narratives on how AI is changing American life and work.
The struggle to even measure what is happening today suggests there may be years of bickering ahead over whether AI is creating a golden age of prosperity or a path to mass unemployment and impoverishment.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/02/2026

Literally

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american: i can't afford the doctor

european: Ö you don't hjåve hjëalthcare for frëe? Very fjünny because here in EU we are riding trølley or mjötorbike to djöctor at no cjøst, in fact is considered rüde not to

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

1/5 I am getting more and more emails from individuals directly to me expressing fear for their children from possibly physical actions from AI. They mention that my views seem balanced and ask me to respond to their words. The attached four skeets are a response to one such that I wrote today.

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NecroKuma @necrokuma.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

They try to tell regulators "we are not medical providers", while more than half of the advertising is "we will replace doctors" AI companies keep saying "we don't need regulations" while violating every existing law

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

“It's bad fucking news. It's bad for thinking. It's bad for learning. It's bad for teaching. It's bad for research. It's bad for knowledge. It's bad for justice. It’s bad for democracy. It's bad for humanity.” - @audreywatters.bsky.social , and you know what she means by “it”, don’t you?

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Days Gone By

What a terrible year. Good riddance to today being the very last of it. Way back when I used to publish things on Hack Education, I was always proud of my end-of-year stories -- the series of article...

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Bernie Sanders keeps saying the most wrong headed about AI and paling around with Geoffery Hinton. We write more about it here -- buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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Bernie Sanders Falls for Mathy-Maths and Doomer Gloom

Bernie Sanders published an op-ed in The Guardian this week, warning of the existential dangers posed to civilization by AI.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Interesting and erudite essay exploring the varied medieval forms of learning through dialogue and using that lens to explore AI. (Of course human interlocutors have minds and AI tools do not, that always should be remembered as well.)

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Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I've written a short comment regarding this new MIT study that is being passed around and why it is horseshit. "11.7% of US workforce is being replaced by AI" my ass. Thought that might be of interest. Also - thanks for all your work, you are one of the best resources out there.

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AI isn't coming for your job: Melting the Iceberg

Why the new MIT Study speaking of 11.7% automation is horseshit and why the way it's being reported is even worse

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/11/2025

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Aparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A better world is not just possible, it’s within reach. If we’re willing to organize and fight for it.

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New awareness campaign

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mj-interpretations.bsky.social @mj-interpretations.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

So, according to their ads, with MS Copilot, I can go into my big important business negotiation and be told by AI what the basic monetary value of my goods or services. And people say its a solution without a problem? Its horseshit without a stable floor to land on.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/10/2025

standing on the turnbuckle with my hand cupped around my ear as the crowd screams "IS! THAT! GOOD???"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/10/2025

Another great product launch from OpenAI!

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Stephanie Brown ✨ Artist on Patreon @offbeatworlds.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Stephanie, a freelance illustrator for both ttrpgs and books. I've worked with bestselling authors, book boxes, and notable ttrpg actual plays! Check out my portfolio: offbeatworlds.com/portfolio Support my work on Patreon: patreon.com/offbeatworlds

Digital artwork of a witch standing waist deep on a Bog, dead hands reaching out of the water. She wears brown clothing that's clinging to her, and smudges of mud on her skin. A heron stands in the tall grass in the background, and mushrooms grow on a fallen log in the foreground

Digital artwork of two characters. The man has on a leather vest over a flannel shirt, a compass rose tattoo on his arm, his brown hair blowing in the wind. He's leaning close to the woman, who has cherry pink hair in a twisting braid, wearing green overalls over a yellow tank top. She leans against a metallic wall covered in vines. A tornado rages in the background

Digital fanart of Vax and Keyleth from Critical Role, wrapped in a tight embrace

Fanart of Dark Deet from Dark Crystal Age of Resistance, with her wings spread and the corrupted crystal behind her

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 02/10/2025

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @ughbunnii.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Front cover of Leah Leneman's 'The Scottish Suffragettes' featuring an image of an Ewardian woman in front of a 'Womens Freedom League' banner, and a second image of a busy suffrage march with banners that read 'Votes for Women'.

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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