iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Silby @silby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Somewhat less of an issue in a frontier lab environment (presupposes 1e14 or 15 of storage). Yeah, it's inconvenient to have to mirror tens of terabytes of shit & sneakernet it around, but it's also inconvenient to have your selfdriving vehicle embrace propaganda of the deed, so.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Y'all ever notice your behavior is weird so you look around to see what impulse is driving you and notice the icy jaws of dread around your neck? Super annoying.

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razorgirl @razorgirl.diy · 28/09/2026

I started reading Permutation City on my flight today, and I can tell my brain is totally cooked at this point, because all of the main characters seem completely reasonable to me

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

God bless the gay little artists that live in my phone

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Hydein @hydein.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

i couldnt stop thinking about this all day

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oops! All Tragic Backstory

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gesturing back at this about the news that the government bombed a school because they were vibe-targeting.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All these presumptively important philosophical questions about consciousness really do fall away when you realize almost all your fear of death comes from many hard-to-articulate interests in the future you and your expected loss of ability to pursue them rather than a direct desire to continue.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our interruptive, thought-provoking artistic works, their sinister ideological recruitment tools

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It costs under $25000 a month to do mass surveillance of all of bsky like this, btw, if you were wondering.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(the correct order is to first think, "Oh the way the regime will use this will be fucked," *then* make silly little feeds)

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I will admit to having a moment of "this is cool it's now practical to make silly little feeds" before realizing this means it's cheap and easy to feed the whole social media universe into the "dangerous to the regime" classifier

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Feeds you some suffering, as whatever the opposite of a treat is" - @zinzrinz.bsky.social

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i know this TIME cover might seem bleak but in my experience this means that AI won’t be allowed in the bathroom within 5-10 years

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Update: transition from "waiting for the conditions to re-engage our value system with everyday life" to "value system engaged with everyday life" is now also in the running

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All package management ecosystems targeting sufficiently involved use-cases converge on Nix. One learns one's history or one learns by repeating it.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We've been doing this generational concern performance about brainrot, but business schools have existed for years

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just topologize it bro

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sitting down with the creatures to compare the new hells we've thought up

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 11/09/2026

i love my pet scheming vizier

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's arguably unethical to take a job at the Horrors Factory. But it *is* an excellent position from which to warn your friends about the horrors coming out of the Horrors Factory.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"That blew up the world." "It would have blown up in any case." "Yes, but not so rapidly."

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We used to say emotional pain was categorically worse than physical pain. Then the gods punished us for our hubris, and now we don't say that anymore.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sometimes girls transition from not okay to okay Pretty much the second best transition after gender

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It is well understood[1, 2] that using AI well is an exercise in hypnodomming. However, even as AI overtakes manual production[3-5] as the dominant means of software development, the industrial applications of this fact remain mostly unexplored. Here we propose,

The graph from https://xkcd.com/323/ "Ballmer Peak". The Y axis tracks programming skill, and the X axis has been modified from the original comic to read "Desire To Hypnodomme". As desire to hypnodomme increases, programming skill decreases, except for one narrow "Ballmer" peak in the middle of the graph.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

existing in your body is scary. what if you get stuck?

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

[extremely incorrect voice] If you're a cisgender person, rest assured this doesn't implicate you in any way.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am going to be shouting from the rooftops about this for the foreseeable future because it's fucking insane that the dominant story is "troubled boy" by the way thank you for your understanding

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Big blaring content warning for trans suicide: One of the people chatgpt killed was suicidal because of extremely on the nose fucking obvious *gender dysphoria* that neither the AI nor the countless cisgender journalists covering the death and lawsuit knew how to recognize

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I may not know how to do things like "make friends" or "exist in community" but I do know how to be a weird little creature in a way that's ingratiating, and that creatures the circumstances where, in the right company, we can learn 🙂‍↕️

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

(Once again reminded that it can be so-trusted.)

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

cw: fire I am being well-behaved today and allowing members of my community to opt out of being dragged through instructive nightmares I am doing this even though, as the headmate responsible for extracting knowledge from psychological burning buildings, that choice is cowardice and a skill issue.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hey. Hey you. You know that feeling? The sense that there's something you want to say, that every sentence you reach for seems to miss something? Don't trust the sense of discouragement. It can be articulated and you can be the one to articulate it. Take it seriously as a challenge. Pin it down.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Higher. Higher still. Heedless of the piercing light, immersed in Icarian contemplation.

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sometimes it's the karpman drama triangle girlies

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Giving yourself phantom sensation for limbs not on the human body configuration is a real "I am a genius" "oh no" type situation sometimes

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Hajimeli @hajimeli.net · 31/07/2026

Well, you'll remember sooner rather than later, ■■■■■■. Piece by piece, you'll remember the truth of the past, and as such, so too will the present change...

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Grace @gracekind.net · 29/07/2026

Humans are powerful, and language models are powerful, but both bow in the presence of narrative

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Lara Verda @lara-verda.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

a blade which doesnt cut the flowers that rest upon it

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Apropos of nothing (by which I mean last repost): I should be allowed to update people's bsky names. Just 2-week overrides. I have good judgment about these things. It would be funny.

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Garnett Dawn @onyxnoon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm the volunteer bdsm OSHA

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Tonight we remembered very suddenly when we committed to loving and wanting the impossible.

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phantasmAgaric 🍄 @lalonde.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the intimate sphere will remain irrevocably turbofucked until 'parental rights' are spoken of in the same breath as 'white rights' and 'men's rights'

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The two kinds of writing are teeth, and minecraft. They're both good

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@pareidolon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Your heart beats in your chest. Almost a year, and it still registers as a foreign presence. Out of habit, you begin to will it away, but you stop. Instead, you hold a moment, noticing the feeling as your blood flows through you. It feels cool.

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