iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's something perverse about this article's framing asking us to sympathize with the billionaires who, we're being shown, are actively trying to hide their money overseas to avoid having to contribute to the economy that made them wealthy.

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 10/09/2026

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-…

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror
Image Calls VP ‘Loser’ Right To His Face

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

It really can’t be stressed enough that the freaky AI doom cult stuff that is so influential in Silicon Valley is an AMERICAN phenomenon. The AI industry in Europe and in Asia is not, from all I’ve heard, taking this weird millenarian stuff seriously. But much of US Big AI? It very much is.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 24/09/2026

Spot on: "Instead of real conversations about what meaningful ground-up reform looks like in a country too corrupt to function, the press helps industry submerge the discourse in science fiction fables and clickbait misdirection."

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 24/09/2026

People willingly paid into highways and trains and even canals in lots of ways: taxes, tickets, increased commerce, etc. Right now the only pay in for "AI" is circular financing fueled by speculative investment and massive debt, and there is no profit in sight.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Open and shut case of crimes against humanity and countless other species.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's really that succinct. You can elaborate on it further, but none of them ever really believe their bullshit, and it's either they enjoy cruelty for the sake of it or extremists using transphobia as a wedge like all those fundamentalist Christian orgs, but they're always lying sacks of shit.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Tora @goldenaura.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don’t use pronouns for AI. It is not a person nor ever will. Sam Altman isn’t making the god computer of his wet dream nightmares. They’ve made a shitty tool built on theft thats destroying the planet & is meant to lower human critical thinking while given military weapons by rich idiots.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the UK is in such a dire situation because for decades every government we've had has blamed the failings of neoliberalism & austerity on migrants, & the entirety of the mainstream press is happy to play along

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If tech bros really feared that AI would end the world, rather than it all just being marketing bullshit, THIS is the shit they'd be focused on, rather than their Skynet fantasies. The wealthy truly are happy to burn down the world just to add a few more zeros to their bank accounts.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

they're going to "scale back" because AI is bottoming out, and then say they did it out of the goodness of their hearts and interest in humankind

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 12/09/2026

The "safety concerns" are how investors will literally tear Altman to pieces once they actually learn how much money has been set on fire with no return in sight.

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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If non-rich people violate Hasbro's copyright, they send the Pinkertons to ruin their lives. If rich people do it, they wag a finger politely.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

its funny how ai boosters call the rest of us ignorant luddites fighting the inevitable tide of progress while theyre raving about how the child-killing plagiarism chatbot is so dangerous and powerful we simply have to invest even more before the chinese create a child-killing plagiarism chatbot gap

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you want a rational conversation about tradeoffs you should start by demanding honesty from the industry that has been lying about this technology since its inception, not to mention one of the common talking points being "You're getting this whether you like it or not"

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🦎Galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

artists. writers. creatives of all kinds. when this is all over, never underestimate how important you are in the eyes of those who hate you. they want what you have, they need what you have, and will do anything to take it from you. anything.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

this, more than anything, is why the elite have continued to back him even as he plunges into historical levels of unpopularity “we can be complete assholes without consequence” is the best thing that ever happened to them and they will fight to the death to protect that right

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 02/09/2026

The replies are like "I'll just pirate it!" and I'm sure all your trans friends and associates are happy to know you're still a fan of the woman who's made it her life goal to ruin their lives, you just don't want to pay her for it.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just saw a video that censored the word “shooting” in a conversation about filming a movie. We really are just offering up our entire language to the God Algorithm, huh?

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is DEEPLY suspicious, in a world that is rapidly turning against the rich, that someone would finance a version of this film that tries to get us to empathize with a wealthy oppressor.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this takes an incredible amount of character, not just to give it up, but to admit all of this. This guy has more guts than any AI fuck by a mile, and maybe more than us too. People who've managed to escape AI usage are invaluable towards convincing others to do the same.

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 31/08/2026

i think twitch did something like this recently as well and somebody asked the guy in charge of it "why couldn't yall make it opt-in, instead of having it on by default" and he was like "well if we did that then people wouldn't use it" and I think that should be illegal actually

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 18/08/2026

Quick PSA. Looking at you, local orgs and small businesses.

Crudely drawn bunny character holding a pencil, messy hand lettering surrounds them in orange to green gradient color. It says in all caps:

Stop using AI for your flyers & logos! They look like shit, everybody thinks so! Seriously, you’re losing business. Just make it yourself or hire a real artist.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026

“abuser argues that actually rich assholes are misunderstood and should not change their ways” is tailor-made in a lab to make me hate it so thank you for saving me the trouble I guess

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 01/09/2026

Everybody's rightfully shitting on this project but it just blows my mind how the richest people on earth are also some of the least cultured. Some executive at Paramount was presented with "be kind to the less fortunate lest you leave a trail of misery" and went NOW HANG ON A MINUTE

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 29/08/2026

Nope. There is no animus. You're playing with an automated algorithm that's being assigned too many privileges with outcomes based on probability. That's like "shit I lost control of this giant bolder I was rolling down a crowded street, it must be magic."

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 22/08/2026

Maybe you think you are invulnerable to this (you are not), but the people who stay in Twitter because you are still sharing there are definitely being dragged to the right. I have so many mutuals who are still posting regularly there, and it's so disheartening to see. Please stop.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

October 2018 tweet from @ndrew_lawrence:
“Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views
Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
Con: LOL no...no not those views
Me: So....deregulation?
Con: Haha no not those views either
Me: Which views, exactly?
Con: Oh, you know the ones”

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