iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great news guys! Your mission here on Earth is complete!

Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Possibly for the same reason that UFO cults believed they were proponents of the factual. The AI cult is far more dangerous though, in that it has enormous capital and mainstream media backing behind it.

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

LessWrong sometimes give out the vibes that they're not too far away from going full-on Heaven's Gate.

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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 · 04/10/2026

Lol did Kamala sponsor your post?

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

Tell you what. You do you, and the rest of us can ignore you.

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

You appear to have missed the countless occasions up til now where complaints about data centre plans have fallen on wilfully deaf ears. Try not to be so naive.

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

Yeah sure, because the one thing about AI and data centres is they're leaving plenty room for the people who will suffer to be reasonable. We're dealing with absolute fucking monsters here and you want to file a complaint. Utterly pathetic.

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

The Major era was little different to Thatcher's other than in his presentation as a more affable character. Major sold off more to the private sector in a shorter space of time than even she managed.

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

It absolutely pisses down in my part of the world, to the point where I'm surprised there aren't a ton AI-orientated VCs already looking for territory here. We're not water scare, but they can still absolutely fuck off.

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

Nevertheless the OP is being pretty stupid in that he thinks he's making a clever distinction without asking why data centres should be necessary at all, and thus why anyone should have to live with any environmental threat in the first place. And water is only part of the problem.

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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 · 25/09/2026

And they're doing it without some twat wealthy benefactor, ala Gretna, which is encouraging.

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

Very serious and not at all utterly credulous tech journalists reporting on this as we speak.

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

Spotted on a woodland trail near the Dornoch Firth.

Plaque on a bench, reads "In Memory of Bill Ross, 1944-2020. He was never good at finishing projects but this was taking it a bit far."

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fundamentally, whether it's Pinker, Peterson, Harris, or whoever else you could mention in the IDW, they are all exceptionally thin skinned, and will pivot to the audience that accepts them with less criticism, so long as there's £$£$ involved. Which is inevitably the right.

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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 · 20/09/2026

Chat GPT, what is the opposite of phimosis?

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

Doing a philosophy and social psychology degree would've been utterly alien to 20 y/o me. He'd be angry I didn't further my computing diploma. He can go fuck himself.

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

Would this perchance be the same entity that Nate Silver thinks is an academic resource?

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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

The Nazi's civilian ground troops were the petit bourgeoisie - paranoid small business owners, lower middle class and the like who thought a perceived lower class were out to get them. If you want to combat fascism, learn where it came from.

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

There was nothing socialist beyond the name... their first objective was to eliminate the communist party.

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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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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tbf he has a formal ADHD diagnosis, which might lead to him being hyper on the latest thing in politics. I don't think though he's ever reneged on his core principles. He clearly has a strong sense for injustice, but maybe doesn't always know how to ground it.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He's been on Joe Rogan's podcast now, being incredibly wet and sycophantic to the host. Recently discovered he did a similar humanities degree to mine, but came out of it with the worst conclusions, e.g. cultural hegemony is good actually.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

To be a good group you need a great Drummer.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Did he actually have any other hits other than Obama winning 2012 and a No vote in the 2014 Scottish indy referendum? Both as I recall were comfortably outside the margin of error, and thus fairly easy for even a layperson to predict (albeit the IndyRef polls tightened in the final week or so).

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That octopus that was claimed to be successfully predicting the outcome of world cup matches actually had a vastly superior strike rate to Silver's. "thousands of LessWrong posts" 🫣

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The IndyRef seemed to send him over a mental cliff.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

University Challenge is made by an independent production company, and so I guess wouldn't be part of his BBC contract. Sadly.

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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
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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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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ah I see, you're a fantasist. Kindly take your sea lioning shite elsewhere. Cheers.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes I'm perfectly aware who doomers are. They're full of shit too.

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It intersects closely with such ideas (really quite peculiar that you claim it doesn't) as detailed in the TESCREAL bundle firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

firstmonday.org

View of The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday

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Iain Òg @ogoftheskye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is contradictory to talk of not knowing whilst simultaneously claiming knowledge of the behaviour of speculated machine entities. Entities which incidentally cannot be achieved in our current technological paradigm. Singulatarianism is total woo btw.

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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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