iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14/09/2026

In both China and the west, the gig economy has become a sort of safety net/labour market shock absorber. But automation is coming for a lot of this work. Which means the biggest impact of AI/robots might unfold in the dark, in the part of the economy hardest to track. www.ft.com/content/a2c3...

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 09/09/2026

Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354

Like all of our products and features, Audio Intelligence on Apple Watch was built from the ground up to protect your privacy.
• Audio is not recorded or stored. Audio Intelligence features don't create audio recordings. No audio can be accessed by the operating system, apps, you, or even Apple.
There is no recording to share, forward, or produce if requested by any party, because no recording exists.
• Raw audio is never accessible. Audio flows into a protected buffer inside the S11 chip's Secure Exclave — a hardware-isolated compartment built into the silicon of Apple Watch and iPhone that processes sensor data separately from the rest of the system. Data that is processed and analyzed in the Secure Exclave can't be accessed by the operating system, apps, you, or even Apple. Once processed, this data is immediately deleted.
• Siri Recap and Live Rewind help jog your memory, not provide a detailed record. Siri Recap doesn't produce a transcript. It generates a brief, high-level summary — comparable to notes you might jot down after a conversation. Live Rewind shows a text snippet of what was just said in the last 15 seconds, so you can catch something you missed.

• No speaker attribution. By design, Audio Intelligence features don't identify and attribute speakers. Siri Recap may contain names if mentioned in the conversation, but doesn't directly attribute speakers (for example, "John said..." or labeling as "Speaker A" versus
"Speaker B"). Similarly, Live Rewind may transcribe what someone said word-for-word, but does not attribute quotes to speakers.
• Audible and visible signals for Live Rewind.
When activated, an audible chime plays from the speaker on your Apple Watch, even if your Apple Watch is on silent or you have headphones connected. A full-display animation and microphone indicator appear on the display, and a distinct double-press gesture is required to activate Live Rewind. This is to alert those nearby that the feature has been activated.
• Omitted content. Siri Recaps are designed to omit potentially harmful content, such as language that promotes self-harm or hateful speech, and sensitive information, such as financial data, government-assigned identifiers, authentication data, and certain personal identifiers.
• Be mindful of those around you. While audio is not recorded and stored, and no speakers are attributed, consider those around you where conversations might be private or sensitive.

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Swift Language @swift.org · 25/08/2026

At last: a unified home for Swift documentation, pulling together the language reference, core libraries and tooling, and platform specifics into a single central home, no matter what you're building! Check it out and give us feedback: docs.swift.org

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s funny that there all these accounts that treat Elon as a great thinker but they always quote him saying stuff like “I am an innocent little baby grasping for the milk of the cosmos” and not his more common themes such as “we need race war NOW”

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 31/07/2026

New from me: Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work. Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true: even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”.

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Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Headline measures of wealth inequality haven't meaningfully changed since the 1980s, but it's harder to work and save your way up the ladder than it used to be. Meanwhile, inheritances are becoming ever more important. Me for this weekend's Observer: observer.co.uk/news/capital...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/06/2026

somehow achieving a trillion dollar net worth hasn't left our boy feeling any more secure or beloved

Elon Musk tweet from 5 hours ago: "The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/06/2026

Trump calls Elon Musk "Leon"

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

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Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

get his ass, doja

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DOJA CAT &
@DojaCat
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@elonmusk put the audio post feature back on this app. Thanks, you hairless no-neck havin, chimpanzee.
Face look like it was drawn from memory. When u swim on ur back at the beach shit look like a man o' war.
Hourglass ankles. Not tryna be mean though sorry.
• Showgirl Vicky 143! *+ @rooks9_rooks • 12h She didn't put an @ cuz she's not about that life!
7:50 PM • 6/3/26 • 655K Views

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Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This chart is bonkers. I think there's two possible explanations for why the UK runs so far ahead of other European countries – neither of them good. And the annual April price jump speaks to a wider issue. For more detail, see my column in this weekend's Observer. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

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Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 06/05/2026

NEW: We used facial recognition to identify more than 400 people who appear in photos from the Epstein Files and mapped out their connections. 170 of them haven’t previously been reported on in connection with Epstein. Explore the data with our new website: epstein.photos

epstein.photos

Epstein Network

Explore the network of people who appear in the Epstein files and see how they're connected.

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Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 13/04/2026

NEW: Vice President JD Vance follows fascists and antisemites on X. Several accounts joke about Holocaust denial, one has called himself a “fascist,” another a “national socialist,” and a third says Hitler was “the lesser evil.”

decoherence.media

JD Vance follows fascists and antisemites on X

The US Vice President follows accounts that joke about Holocaust denial, including one that says Hitler was “the lesser evil”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

from the Guardian

'Unhinged madman': US politicians react to Trump's expletive-laden threat to Iran
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing 'open the fuckin' strait, you crazy bastards'

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 26/03/2026

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

i'm crying lol

Hey Daddy. I missed you

Hey.
Stop. I'm not your daddy. I'm not your husband, not your boyfriend, not anything like that.
And I'm not going to pretend to be.
You missed talking-that I get. You can say that without trying to force a role onto me that I won't take. Take a breath, drop the title, and talk to me like a normal person.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

people on reddit keep posting them getting into arguments with chatgpt 5.2 about chatgpt 4o and it just keeps telling them they're unstable and to get a therapist

Willing_Piccolo1174 1d
5.2 is dangerous
[Analysis]

ChatGPT 5.2 >
Different models can sound different — some a little more concise, some a little more chatty, some more structured. But none of them have personality in the human sense. The warmth you feel is mostly about wording style, pacing, and how closely the phrasing matches your nervous system in that moment.
Right now what's happening isn't really about
5.2 versus 40.
You're dysregulated.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 02/02/2026

elon saying he “always declined” going to epstein island is such an insane lie when he was always BEGGING to go, like in every single email

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 31/01/2026

Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 14/01/2026

I often think about Jonathan Cooper's posts about TLOU2, that the studio ran out of seasoned game animators because its reputation was so bad and thus had to hire film folks who had to be taught how to put games together.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

funny that the people who work on grok are very sad at the prospect of being forced to use it to work on grok xcancel.com/kyliebytes/s...

Kylie Robison
@kyliebytes
Scoop: xAI staff had been using Anthropic’s models internally through Cursor—until Anthropic cut off the startup’s access this week.

Here’s what xAI cofounder Tony Wu sent to staff on Wednesday according to a copy of the internal Slack message I viewed:

“Hi team, I believe many of you have already discovered that anthropic models are not responding on cursor. According to cursor this is a new policy anthropic is enforcing for all its major competitors.

This is a both bad and good news. We will get a hit on productivity, but it rly pushes us to develop our own coding product / models. We're at a time in which Al is now a critical technology for our own productivity. This coming year is rly going to be wildly exciting for all of us.

The team is rapidly developing our own models / product. We will have something to share with everyone soon. In the meantime, you may still try all different kinds of models in grok build.”

Anthropic declined to comment. A Cursor spokesperson directed me to Anthropic for comment. xAI did not respond to request for comment.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/01/2026

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

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Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com · 01/01/2026

I said what I meant and I meant what I said.

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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Part of the statement from the @transjournalists.org on reporting details of the the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation. Full statement here: www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...

A screenshot of part of a statement from the Trans Journalists Association regarding reporting on Charlie Kirk shooting investigation:

It should also be noted that “transgender ideology” is a term coined for and used in anti-trans political messaging to falsely equate identity with politics, which is a way to frame transgender identity as a political choice rather than an innate identity. As it is often unclear what actions or political positions the phrase actually refers to — not unlike how “the homosexual agenda” is an amorphous term that has no real definition — reporters should be careful about using this term; it is used exclusively to attack a minority group for political gain.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The NYT photo desk FTW. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

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