iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Richard Chirgwin @rchirgwin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Journalists: please jettison the bullshit notion peddled by governments and lobbyists, that having Anthropic etc in Australia somehow "places this country further up the AI supply chain". It's utter bollocks designed to make us feel important, so we say say "yes" to AI carpetbaggers.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is your general reminder that the technology behind this bullshit homunculus is what the worst among the elites and most zealous people on the planet want to filter your medical records, tax records, all entertainment, social media, and your children's education through.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

“Once you understand that the broligarchs are eugenicists who care more about hypothetical, future AI-enhanced lives than about today’s population…a lot of things start making sense.”

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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It appears that plagiarism only matters to The Times if it’s done by black professors

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For anyone else to be nominated is a passive aggressive threat.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

That is beautiful. Thank you so much.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We had to say goodbye to Bruiser this weekend 💔

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s one thing to be a loss leader, quite another to incinerate cash at the rate these companies do. The major frontier model companies just haemorrhage cash with no path to profitability. Google search is irrelevant, you’re the product in that example, and it’s always been profitable.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And can you name one that is turning a consistent profit, or even demonstrating a believable path to profitability? (Nvidia doesn’t count, I’m talking about frontier model companies.)

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"... Altman and Amodei do a pretty good job when they’re directly communicating with the public. They do exactly what Zuckerberg resists here: acknowledging the dangers of AI" Bzzzt. No, those bozos are just AI Doomers. Amodei left OpenAI to start Anthropic because it wasn't Doomer enough for him.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The mashup we didn’t know we needed. I can’t decide whether I want the Seuss-illustrated RHCP lyrics, or the Seuss’ poetry put to music and performed by RHCP. Porque no los dos..

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Chestbursty @chestrovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

But what if Hobbes was imagining all of it, a friendship with a boy dreamed by a tiger sleeping in the sun. What if we're all just the dreams of a big cat

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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My eyes are playing games.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Things don't go well for the goat in Jurassic Park, though.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just to be the man who didn't give four shits to fall down at your door.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026

OpenAI is doing this because Mythos got airtime thanks to the media that does press-release-as-aservice. So now, as one security engineer put it, “something which would have been an embarrassment ten years ago is now repackaged as a capability demo, a heroic AI-vs-AI story and a marketing pitch"

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 22/07/2026

It's totally unprecedented, nothing like the same marketing hype cycle Anthropic did around their model "going rogue" and "breaching containment" recently. Not like that at all

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I fucked around and found out.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20/07/2026

"My next book project is a trans-species manifesto-cum-collage assembled from excised first editions of Hemingway novels, decaying roadkill gathered over the course of a summer spent barefoot in Michigan, and a series of scatological limericks generated by my AI companion, Judith."

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My Next Book Project

“My next book project is a trans-species manifesto-cum-collage assembled from excised first editions of Ernest Hemingway novels, decaying roadkill gathered o...

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This data centre is described as being "AI ready", in a year. What's missing from that article is any discussion of the client cashed up with a stack of power-hungry GPUs to install in it. So is there are contracted tenant, or is all this a Field of Dreams style plan?

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yes, it’s always couched in terms of what it might do in the future, not what it actually does now. This future is not preordained, but it’s a handy threat you can use to discipline labour.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Describe your favourite movie in the most boring way possible. Orphanage fundraisers indicted.

Promotional poster for the movie “The Blues Brothers”, featuring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi standing in front of the ex-police car

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The idea that this sort of capacity can be built and operational before these charlatans go broke is laughable. The economics of frontier models make no sense, and the rate they incinerate money is not sustainable.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Someone is asking to have a rocket put up them…

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Science: “this post checks out!”

Post by @shutupmikeginn that reads: “its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further”

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

MISSED CONNECTION: You were leaving the dog park, I was arriving. Our eyes met... There were sparks. I need to see you again. My chip # is 148A27J98614Z. Have your person track me.

Two dogs stare at each other through the open windows of passing cars.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

And people say everything is clickbait these days. This video is exactly what it says on the tin.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Paging Mr Goodhart to the white courtesy phone..

New Yorker style cartoon: Museum of Meaningless Metrics, with displays showing
- Lines of Code
- Story Points
- Pull Requests
- Tokens Spent

Original cartoonist unknown, or would give attribution.

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Esprit de l'escalier @jeofree.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Vandals also attacked Iran, imposed illegal tarrifs, created a global oil shortage endangering the world economy and made the US a laughing stock that doesn't honor its agreements, according to Trump.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

*whispers* “sir a second algae has hit the reflecting pool”

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