iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Margaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@patrickfreyne.bsky.social I've just reached the God chapter of Experts in a Dying Field and it's so good. It's hard work being omnipotent but he handles it with humour. Love it.

God stays in Jimmy's head for some time, marvelling at His creation.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m glad you like it Margaret :)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm glad we're finally outsourcing the horrible bits of life like making plans with friends so we can have more time to consume ads.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new hot take: clinical psychologists should assess for "comedy" as a matter of course. So should recruiters, colleges & workplaces. "I'm afraid while this person is by most metrics a genius, we can't take them on because they're just not funny" (unintentionally funny counts)

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's really good. And optimistic. So many of those anti-tech billionaire books are a bit of a shrugged "What can we do?"

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you pick up this book and read even just a page or two, you'll understand immediately why it's doing so well. It's phenomenal. A manual on the fightback for life on Earth.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I enjoyed this piece. People who are evangelical about A.I. really don’t seem to understand — or even appreciate — thinking, human creativity, or what’s important about, basically, everything.

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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It feels so obvious to me that this tech is stealing something from us at every step - process, understanding, useful frustration, engagement, epiphanies, catharsis, TIME - but I think some people had that stolen already by all the corporate bullshittery so don't see the difference.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

North America book tour dates for ‘This is Also a Love Story’ have been announced. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Please come or share this with anyone you know in these cities who might be interested. Links with more event info here: sallyhayden.net/2026/04/11/t... @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

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dearbhla @dearbhlala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok i've changed my mind and i would like more comics work, hire me please dearbhlala.com

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Dearbhla Kelly | Design and illustration

Portolio website of comic colourist Dearbhla Kelly.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I interviewed Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their terrifying diagnosis of and surprisingly optimistic prescription for a bad case of End Times Fascism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Naomi Klein: The super rich need to be abolished and ‘prescribed a middle-class life’

End Times Fascism by noted author and her collaborator Astra Taylor contains a hopeful prescription for neighbourly resistance

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The "chatbots might be actually sentient" discourse in the other place is, in fairness, causing me to question whether AI-pilled American elite types are sentient.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After you read the interview, read the book

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I interviewed Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their terrifying diagnosis of and surprisingly optimistic prescription for a bad case of End Times Fascism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

irishtimes.com

Naomi Klein: The super rich need to be abolished and ‘prescribed a middle-class life’

End Times Fascism by noted author and her collaborator Astra Taylor contains a hopeful prescription for neighbourly resistance

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think that feeling is probably why I LIKE coffee.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think this constitutes a song. And not just "a song" but a VERY GOOD song.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two kids persuaded the head teacher that they’d “written a song” and he let them perform it in assembly. The song was a keyboard ‘funk’ preset with them repeating the words “electro chicken” in vocoder voices for five minutes.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This better be a show about sleek barbering

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I founded Storyful, I sat down with @patrickfreyne.bsky.social to talk about my hopes for democratic technology. Many years later, we sat down again to chat about my book, The Last Good Day on the Internet. A welcome moment for reflection on what went wrong and what we can make right:

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm happy to get feedback. I was just clarifying what i was saying versus what you were saying. I agree with everything you say.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But you're not going to get more good journalism if that is also subject to bad faith critiques based on misreading or misunderstanding how newspapers work. Which is why I'm pointing out a bad faith trend based on, I believe, a misunderstanding of how newspapers work.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ah okay. You mean "some journalism is context free." I agree

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can decide if you want that I can't complain about my thing because your thing makes newspapers complicit in the whole thing and that's fine. But I disagree.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We're talking about different things Joe and both are true.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm also happy to be exposed directly to the reaction of people via social media btw (I just reserve the right to point out when a reaction is bullshit)

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I never wrote peoples issues with headlines off as "recreational outrage". I wrote some people's issues with headlines off as "recreational outrage" in a different part of the thread. Some people are spot on with their critiques of headlines.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Several things can be true at once & pretending several things can’t be true at once isn’t an answer either. Sometimes publications have misleading/ragebaiting titles & sometimes people are outraged for no good reason. Out informational ecosystem is poisoned by algorithms that hotwire our emotions

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have issues with click bait headlines too joe but as I said in that thread that’s genuinely not what I’m talking about here.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have a theory that we should be presenting heavy taxation and maximum wage limits as a form of medical intervention. "We're taxing you heavily FOR YOUR OWN GOOD"

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think an issue has also developed where the algorithms have trained people to be recreationally outraged. They don't realise it's recreational, they think it's political, but it's actually just a way to pass the time.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"We didn't get to AGI because we were so responsible and now the Chinese might win without a lot of government money!"

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My take on the AI slowdown is they now know internally their product will not lead to AGI & will lead to hacking slop chaos & hence, more worryingly for them, financial ruin. If they act like self-sacrificing "goodies" & slow down it justifies a coming gov bailout www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think that happens too. But what I'm talking about is a kind of rage that I think comes from a lack of understanding of what a headline is. It's new to me.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like lots of columnists like Una and Fintan and Kathy Sheridan and Justine McCarthy and Jen O'Connell and think analysis and opinion have a role but the nature of the internet mean it gets more focus than it should get

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