iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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This is a thing I think about a lot, that your data (privacy, texts, DNA, voiceprint, image, all of it) are only as safe as your most credulous, least thoughtful contact makes them. Seems suboptimal!

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Totally true, and it was a major flaw (or feature from their POV) in Facebook right from the beginning.

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That will be the real Singularity.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Birthday, John ! Keep up the good work on Generals and Napoleon. 🎂

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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 13/10/2026

Biologist @cbo.bsky.social is our guest this week! @adambecker.bsky.social and Brandon talk about eugenics and how culture shapes science. LISTEN NOW! #datmpodcast #science #noai #biology #scifi #eugenics #darwin #genetics @multitudeshows.com

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Grrrrr. I loathe Winnie-the-Pooh. The twee sentimentalisation of childhood by the English middle-class. A degenerate end of a great tradition of children's literature.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Call me a masochist, but I'm returning to this issue, as I feel it has been poorly understood. Please read the whole thread before responding. First, I hope we can agree that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza and horrific crimes in the West Bank and the wider region.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

386. Nobody is more often wrong than someone who cannot bear to be wrong.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

because they're so bad. This is based on why Anthropic keeps shifting its IPO, and Open AI is postponing theirs: because their figures are so bad and they are very nervous about disclosing them.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wonder if something will go wrong between the Anthropic IPO and the Open AI one. I mean that perhaps Anthropic will just make it through their IPO, but doubts will be increasing, and when Open AI either reveal or are due to reveal their figures, that's the moment the bubble pops, >>

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod - @meganekenyon.bsky.social back from Green Party conference takes us through the Zionism is racism motion row, and talks more widely about where the Greens are at:

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The Green Party’s Zionism reckoning | The Politics Show

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A free 2000 word post on the sad irrelevant history of the 'Zionism is racism' debate davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-anti-z...

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The anti-Zionism of fools

On the Corbynising of the Green party

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks for making this free, David, because I wanted to read what you had to say on this matter. As you allude to in the title, and as it can't be repeated often enough - Anti-semitism is the socialism of fools.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Be worth reading that, Andrew Roberts' life of Napoleon is brilliant.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss

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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything

I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

because they're so bad. This is based on why Anthropic keeps shifting its IPO, and Open AI is postponing theirs: because their figures are so bad and they are very nervous about disclosing them.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I encountered Denis Healey once, recalled in this very short piece written just after he died: mattsbulletins.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-e...

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An Encounter with Denis Healey

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

383. The wish to talk about ourselves, and to show our faults from the angle we ourselves would choose, makes up a large part of our sincerity.

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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 28/09/2026

Is there a way to save human writing from AI slop? Author Meghan O'Gieblyn is our guest this week, listen tomorrow morning starting at 5am est. #ai #datmpodcast #slop #writing #author #aislop #noai #books #literature #humanity @adambecker.bsky.social @multitudeshows.com

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Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is really underappreciated to what degree the rogue agents discourse is about prefabricating an excuse for releasing predictably unreliable and unsafe products. We don't need "AI alignment", we need enforcement of consumer protection and felony hacking laws.

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ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Was the Trump-Xi summit a success? Despite all the pomp and circumstance, the deliverables announced by the two sides were partial and circumscribed. How much that matters depends on what you think is the point of meetings between the two presidents." writes @neilthomas123.bsky.social

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What Actually Happened at the Xi-Trump Summit

On September 24, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House for their second summit of the year. The meeting advanced new mechanisms on trade and investment, and l...

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My interview with The Philosopher is now up! We discuss the ideologies behind the race to build ASI and the history of thinking about human extinction, among other topics! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Are We Living in End Times? w/ Émile P. Torres

YouTube video by The Philosopher

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Those are good points. Related to point one, I would say - don't misrepresent your opponent's position in order to attack it. Because what have you really achieved ? A very common fault, including among heavyweight thinkers e.g. Augustine of Hippo.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Misaligned behaviour" is a deliberate euphemism for Open AI's negligence.

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 24/09/2026

The bond market is flashing red. The yield on the 30-year Treasury note reached 5.44% on Wednesday, its highest level since 2004, before slipping slightly on Thursday morning.

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Why the bond market is freaking out, and what it means for your money

Investors are increasingly nervous about rising inflation, which could require the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates.

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love clothes so the first thing I do with new relevant AI tools is try to use it to shop better. I played around with Muse for ~an hour and it finally hit me that these use cases — shopping, party planning, travel etc — only make sense if you hate doing the thing to begin with.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The whole thread & particularly the last sentence apply exactly AI-generated writing.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All the endless far-right propaganda on X is another example of the same incapacity to address obvious harms.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why do police, regulators and politicians just accept this ? Isn't knowingly facilitating crimes an offence ? It mystifies me why such a common response is essentially, that's just the way it is & we can't do anything about it. What are they there for if not to deal with things like this ?

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(To those elsewhere, Martin Lewis is a very well-known and trusted consumer champion in the UK.) It's unbelievable how they have got away with this for years. They are quite simply making money from enabling scams on a massive scale.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Versions of this have been a problem for years with Meta. I remember at the time of the Cambridge Analytica scandal (2018), Martin Lewis testifying to Parliament about how the then Facebook did nothing themselves to take down the hundreds of scams involving his stolen identity.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/09/2026

So @dwillner.bsky.social & I took some of our discussion thread from Bluesky last week regarding the "sexy apocalypse" predictions from the EA-aligned "AI Safety" folks, and wrote an article from the perspective (Dave's) of those who do *real* risk mitigation work. The apocalypse will not be sexy.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 22/09/2026

Today is the paperback release, with a new afterword, of GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY. It's my look at the rise of the tech right, the 2024 election, and the bankrupt ideologies animating tech oligarchs. www.bloomsbury.com/us/gilded-ra...

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also like Stonehenge in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/09/2026

Here's astrophysicist and journalist @adambecker.bsky.social debunking billionaire fantasies like godlike AI, Mars colonization, and eternal life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NrD...

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Here’s Why Elon Musk’s Mars Fantasy Is BS | Scientist Destroys Billionaire AI, AGI and Space Hype

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dear Emily, great piece. I recently watched 'Antigone' for the first time, & it made me wonder was Shakespeare influenced by Sophocles directly or only via Seneca or other Latin authors. Do you have any thoughts on this ?

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 20/09/2026