iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Which of the handful of companies involved in this will abandon their current planned investments because interest rates rose? If they would, how high would their borrowing costs have to go? I think you'd have to raise rates until lenders simply deny them further credit. Incredibly painful

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The thing nobody wants to say yet is addressing inflation would mean actually slowing down AI capex. If you’re not impacting capex you’re not doing enough.

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't wanna say any more. 😉 Except, if you do play, 1) you've gotta read the manual, and 2) avoid spoilers online before you can read the manual. Reading the Tunic manual spoiler-free was one of my most personal rewarding gameplay experiences in recent years. And I've already said too much!

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just started Mina the Hollower, but it comes with a full manual just tucked away in the settings menu from the very beginning. And, although it explains some game mechanics in-game, the manual explains much more. Of course, to some extent, both of these games are aiming for a retro aesthetic.

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tunic is a recent favorite game that immediately comes to my mind with a very "in game" manual (IYKYK). And it starts less with a "tutorial level", more like a "difficulty ramp" which is considerably easier if you can read the manual. OTOH, you don't start with the *full* manual.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the global hallmarks of the anti-trans movement is that it's pushing people to reject levels of gender integration that were completely uncontroversial as recently as a few years ago.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am going to regret asking this but who or what is DHH

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Of course, the "market" is just a contrived symbol in this dance; what we're really talking about is shaping themselves to the needs of power. First A16Z, and now OpenAI."

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

as worded, I doubt it's even a correct question.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It is pretty funny that the main thing Abundance contributed to was creating bottlenecks in various input industries and raising electricity prices without restructuring electricity market governance to facilitate... abundance

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

AI (LLM) will not help combat climate change on any time horizon

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Chris K @thekensta.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Enjoyed this. As a layperson it was really educational on technical mechanisms of economic fallout, things I wouldn’t think about if not for this intersection. I feel it nicely says “these bits are wrong” without extrapolating to “your diagnosis is off - AI funding is secure - and EZ is an idiot”

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Matatoes Lasagna @matatoeslasagna.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If we understand fascism as the deliberate attempt by capital to destroy labor while annihilating dissenting ideas prevalent in art and culture, we can view AI and LLMs as the existential threat to democracy that it is

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We need to get to 100% renewable energy, and the only way we're going to do that is by taking the Chevrons and the Exxons of the world out of our politics.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The plan to put half of AI company's equity into a "sovereign wealth fund" is like a parody I would unfairly make up to criticize socialists enamored with sovereign wealth funds in 2016.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is exactly what they intended when they forced this onto trans Kansans and this is exactly what we all should've anticipated.

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Although kilobyte was originally used ambiguously to mean either 1024 or 1000 bytes (and that ambiguous usage does still persist), the modern IEC standardized terms have been (since 1998): kB = kilobyte = 1000 bytes MB = megabyte = 1000² bytes KiB = kibibyte = 1024 bytes MiB = mebibyte = 1024² bytes

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Coming out when they did, I think it's fair to say they played a huge role in "defining" what the millennial generation would be (thus: definitive). Although I think other movies have got to be better picks for what movie best "capture" or "describe" millennials.

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

As a borderline xennial / elder millenial myself, I think both of those movies capture the *transition* between generations very well. And I first saw both of them at a time that was very transitional for me (17-18 years old). Very Xennial coded movies, IMO.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

So the public first creates and stabilizes the banking system, then treats that system as an external market institution into which public money must be placed.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/05/2026

i would have rather america accelerated global electrification by building an unparalleled domestic green manufacturing industry but i'll take petrostate gangsterism scaring everyone into going green if that's the only option on the table

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 16/05/2026

This is another reason why the only path forward is for Dems to bite the bullet and implement proportional representation via increasing the size of the House and mandating single multi-member districts. You can't have a constitutional democracy in a two-party system if one party is authoritarian.

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Maybe they're using outdated info? Dishwashers have become dramatically more energy and water efficient over the last 30 years. They've also much quieter and *much* slower. The primary reason to wash dishes by hand today is because you're in a hurry (or your dishwasher is broken).

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jlindy.bsky.social @jlindy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Very easy to submit a response, takes 90 seconds.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 09/05/2026

Anti-Black racism has created "fact resistant Americans." I said what I said about people that complained that right-wing news or social media had *suddenly* brainwashed their parents into refusing to mask or get vaccinated. No. Nothing was sudden. They cooked their own brains slowly over decades

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I once wound up in deep trouble for the last several miles of a 50k in 85-90°F weather. And I'd been taking salt! But I miscalculated and it wasn't nearly enough. I walked through the finish line, puked a bunch of water, and people carried me to sit down under a hose with a bag of ice on my head.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A way to be an ally to Jews is to relentlessly point out that there are more Christian Zionists in the US alone then there are Jews in the entire world (many of whom are not even Zionists). The conversation about Zionism should be dominated by that rather than laying all blame at the feet of Jews.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/05/2026

The Nuremberg Caucus could even set dates for the trials of officials, with judicial calendars for each federal courtroom, starting on January 21, 2029. 15/

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I mean, if you know a software team that *doesn't* use the bs generators, do you know if they're hiring? I'm at my breaking point, and deeply regretting the career choices I made 25 years ago.

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

if you're programming in any collaborative environment, open source or proprietary, you're going to be forced to read some slop, whether or not you use it yourself. For reported security vulnerabilities in particular, you're definitely going to get LLM generated submissions from outside your team.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 25/04/2026

I don't write too often, so when I published this, I expected a few friends to read it and share their feelings. I've been blown away by how many people have commented, DMed, and emailed. Knowing how many people feel in their bones that *something needs to change* gives me hope.

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patak @patak.cat · 26/04/2026

ky is the voice of so many of us here. After reading their post (please read it), check the replies and quotes: "Never related to a post more in my life", "I feel this in my bones", "thank you for showing i'm not alone". There are wonderful folks in tech. Our communities need them more than ever.

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david celis @davidcel.is · 26/04/2026

i’ve been wanting to write something like this for quite some time… but now i’m not sure i need to, because @ky.fyi put it to words so much better than i ever could. i’m right there mourning with you, Ky 😔

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

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Renee Dudley @reneedudley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

8) Yet my investigation — drawn from internal memos, logs, emails, meeting minutes, and interviews with 7 former/current gov employees & contractors — found breakdowns at every juncture of that process, as well as a remarkable deference to Microsoft. www.propublica.org/article/micr...

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Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.

A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive dat...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026

Congrats to all the assholes who shit on Starfleet Academy, which had the best first season of a Star Trek show in franchise history, white supremacist homophobic Paramount has cancelled the show and you won and now there is no Trek in production Do you feel like winners? You assholes

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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 03/03/2026

I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Since primaries are iterative, you almost kinda get a very very poorly implemented form of instant run-off. Which is why I wanted to see them come closer together before *any* voting started.

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nick @nick-evans.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

That's true. But what I was witnessing was a lot of Warren supporters getting pushed away from Sanders (who would otherwise have been their second choice) and voting Biden instead, and a lot of Sanders supporters getting burned on Warren and just skipping the primary! And primaries are iterative!

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