iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tim Berners-Lee: we've come up with this useful tool that helps researchers better communicate and collaborate with one another. Sam Altman: get onboard with what we're doing or DIE. Actually some of you may die anyway.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Though I still don't fully believe it was made before 1970 (stupid ape costumes aside).

Doctors Bowman and Poole attempt to have a secret discussion in a pod in order to determine how to tackle the Hal 9000 computer, from the move 2001: a Space Odyssey.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Blue ticks spuriously defending fellow blue ticks because a non blue tick was mean to them is proper shitty hegemonic behaviour on here that seems to have been carried over from the bird place.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A scathing court ruling decrying the overcrowded and "inhumane" conditions at NYC's notorious ICE detention facility included diagrams that are eerily reminiscent of slave ships. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Behold, the Tamagotchi wank observer.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only an Uncompromised Left Can Defeat the Fascists. The ‘Radical Centre’ has lost control of the crisis it helped inflame and, so, the far right is on the march across Europe. The only anti-fascist economics that can stop it is an unambiguously socialist economics. zeteo.uk/p/when-the-l...

zeteo.uk

Here’s How the Left Can Defeat the Fascists

The ‘Radical Centre’ has lost control of the capitalist crisis it helped create and the far right is on the march across Europe. Only anti-fascist economics, writes Yanis Varoufakis, can stop it.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans."

technologyreview.com

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And just to add on that front, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK, could everyone please stop taking AI industry claims at face value?? That very much includes fucking Charles hosting an "AI summit" today. Remember when he was obsessed with nanotech and "grey goo"?

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Baldness AND phimosis Barry.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really need to learn not to stay on here after America wakes up for the day.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just nice to be reminded of the time when I finally realised centrism is utterly fucking evil.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tbf sooner the better, but not sure we can do it THAT quickly.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

Have we discussed what Ben Goertzel, the man who popularized the term Artificial General Intelligence (the thing all these doomsday cults need to build and also stop from becoming evil 🙄) said that when he builds his super brain there won't be the types of girls who accused Epstein of rape?

“According to my understanding, the girls you were involved with were old enough to know what they were doing, so society really has no ‘moral right’ to lock you up,” Goertzel wrote to Epstein. “This is a fucked-up society we live in. But past ones have really been no better — the fault is really w/ the human brain architecture, which is precisely what I’m aiming to supercede in my AGI work.”

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

This man objected to my warning that apocalyptic "AI extinction" talk is corporate ploy for regulatory capture, marketing, and side stepping accountability. He said he left DeepMind, like the Anthropic "whistleblower." So lets have a brief history lesson about DeepMind's origins in doomer cults🧵

Alex Turner
@Turn_Trout
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1. I literally quit my Google DeepMind job & lost >>$300k to call out harms regarding autonomous weapons... and extinction risk is still more important, which is why I'm speaking out + working to solve it

2. GDM does NOT want to stoke fears about extinction risks lol

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Josh Owen Morris @joshowenmorris.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Chester Zoo are offering guided tours looking at their predator animals. At least, that's what I hope it is...

a screenshot of a chester zoo ticket purchase screen, dark greens and tan colours.

Text says "discover the iconic predators of the animal kingdom, and their prey in our very unique guided tour."

Tickets on offer for adult predator tour, child predator tour...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

It seems like its always the"ethics" departments that have the highest density of eugenicists of every variety.

David_Osland @David_Osland

James Orr has been forced to step down from Reform UK for his unethical behavior. Fortunately he still has his other job, which is teaching ethics at Cambridge University.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

some things age considerably better than others

letter from newspaper titled "hubby won't make love to me anymore" in "ask alex" section where salmond responds jokingly that the woman should vote yes to independence as a response

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you're not aware, Kurzweil developed the pseudo-sci theory of the "technological singularity", paralleling the idea of the black hole singularity, beyond which information cannot be known. Yet in his theory information is known.... or it's not, or it is. Depends which mood you catch him in.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is so insane it reads like it could have come from an Instagram bot, but no...

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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The polling company JL Partners featured in tonights Channel 4 News Exposé on Reform is the same one used by Sex Matters and LGB Alliance . JLP are linked to American Christian investors that hope to shape UK policy.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Robert Patrick had to work in his pants just so you could have pathetic AI fantasies stroked by Sam Altman 35 years later.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 03/09/2026

Join @ross-greer.bsky.social in demanding that the First Minister implement a moratorium now. Sign the campaign greens.scot/datacentres

greens.scot

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Drone war is little different to conventional air or naval war. If you can't look your enemy in the eye then morality goes out the window. Whereas ground troops in studies in and since WWII show a consistent hesitancy to pull the trigger when it's face-to-face.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Further to my previous post...

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This will probably come as no surprise to most of you. I've known about it for a few years. An extremely loathsome group of people who reckoned we should be dead by now from real Skynet (but nevertheless seek to continue profiteering regardless) just also happen to be big HP fans.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In much more sad fast food outlet news, the Wimpy in Dingwall is closing. Apparently the last surviving one in Scotland.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tbf the one in Inverness has looked exactly like this since it opened in 1987. The Gaelic signage is a lot more recent though.

McDonald's branch in Inverness, Scotland

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It must be nice to be so cool that watching books with irreplaceable human knowledge is being sucked into a tool owned by Amazon doesn’t worry you in the slightest. Alas, I am not that cool and I also have studied history.

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“Why didn’t the Gaiman story break inside of comics journalism first?” All of this but DRAMATICALLY decrease that freelance rate to zeroish. And as you might expect, “zeroish” also means no one has money for legal council if a millionaire author, for example, wants you to shut up.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Absolute idiot so-called friend of the decade: perfectly aware of my stance on Palestine, yet goes on an influencer rampage holiday in Israel, and has the audacity to send me a postcard "from the holy land". Fuck off forever, idiot.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's absolutely relentlessly pissing down in the west highlands, much as climate models predicted - most of the British Isles will get drier, our little corner will get wetter. It's pretty much impossible to maintain the land now because it's so wet. Hoping for a couple of dry days to do stuff.

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shirk hard gay hard @riotstarz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

rod liddle was instrumental in the rise of fascism in the uk, and a danger to those close to him. he did and wrote things that almost every person alive would consider irredeemably heinous. that he got where he did, and is being eulogised, says all you need to know about our media & political class.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Water nationalisation for our water security? End north sea oil & gas - invest in renewables for our energy security? A maximum workplace temperature for worker security? No. A request not to sell BBQs. This is dire from Andy Burnham. Spectacularly mishandling the crisis.

Burnham had faced calls from the green party to chair a cobra meeting on the heatwaves with leader Zack Polanski accusing the pm of inaction amid threats to public health and food supplies

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Only just occurred to me that Triffids look rather like very big chanterelles. Wonder if they're as tasty.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yes, "you're not keeping an open mind" now equates to your failure to embrace bad cultural hegemonist ideas. You simply haven't lived unless you've absorbed and embraced at least a few Roganist lessons.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Benfica is an anagram of Binface. They're currently beating Hearts 5-1, the latter having issues with right-wing casuals.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As mad as this is, "lab theories" of dangerous viruses are culturally highly persistent. Not least HIV/AIDS, which can be traced back decades beyond it's "initial" outbreak in the late 70s/80s, and with further research centuries to cross-species infections in central Africa.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 04/08/2026

Can we please stop pretending we live in a democracy? No majority or people would choose/vote for that And yet, that's where we are and it's very much because of the people supposed to represent us Call me a populist, I think it's basic democracy... www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...