iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4h

"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h

The Pope comes out against AI art. As a Catholic, it makes me proud to see Pope Leo give more thought and have a more nuanced view of the impact of AI than most world or corporate leaders.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9h

Whether or not you think AI is unable to do your job doesn’t matter if your boss thinks it can.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anthropic estimates robots can already perform 75% of physical job tasks. However they are only cheaper or close to the cost of humans in just 0.3% of job tasks. The Jetsons completely misled us. Computers are more likely to replace doctors and lawyers before we get robot maids.

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Can we predict the jobs robots will do?

What work can robots do? Anthropic's robot exposure index finds robots can do 3/4 of US physical job tasks, but are cost-competitive for only 0.3%.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026

apnorc.org/wp-content/u...

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president?
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Would you say you approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president strongly or do
you approve just somewhat?
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So people are thinking the economy is awful, but buying more stuff.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fed's Goolsbee: record gap between consumer sentiment vibes and actual spending data

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

for obvious reasons, returned to caitlin flanagan's excellent 2014 piece on frat houses and had forgotten how much this lede sings. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole.

Also on the deck, and also in the thrall of the night’s pleasures, was one Louis Helmburg III, an education major and ace benchwarmer for the Thundering Herd baseball team. His response to the proposed launch was the obvious one: he reportedly whipped out his cellphone to record it on video, which would turn out to be yet another of the night’s seemingly excellent but ultimately misguided ideas. When the bottle rocket exploded in Hughes’s rectum, Helmburg was seized by the kind of battlefield panic that has claimed brave men from outfits far more illustrious than even the Thundering Herd. Terrified, he staggered away from the human bomb and fell off the deck.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Crude down on the week but diesel ripping back to fresh all-time highs. Now at ~$228/bbl in New York Harbor, outstripping the prior all-time set two weeks ago.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The rail line has been there since the 1880s, but in the last five years, there’s been no other time in history where we’ve had this much impact.” El Niño is accelerating the climate threat to SoCal's Pacific Surfliner: www.latimes.com/california/s... via @summerrlin.bsky.social

latimes.com

El Niño threatens the beloved Pacific Surfliner. Can the iconic train survive the winter?

A section of railway in San Clemente, as well as other portions in coastal Orange County, have repeatedly shut down for landslides, coastal erosion and rockfalls. Another stormy winter is coming.

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Jay Mallow @jaymallow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you find out your homeschooled kids are now Democrats

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We all need to work together to make sure that we can win, and we can win safely. If we do this right, we work with the President and everyone here, we can win safely” - Dario Amodei

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philtor @philtor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

America dot gov says...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 29/09/2026

Elon Musk is so "done with politics" that he's sitting next to the president while the speaker of the House is forced to stand.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 27/09/2026

Hahahahahahahahahahaha this is so good I’m dying

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saturday Night Live skit of an interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The US has successfully negotiated away a requirement that humans review any decisions that AI makes about who to kill in military strikes as part of a UN treaty. The real existential risk from AI is putting a fundamentally unreliable technology at the heart of critical decisions or infrastructure.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The word of the day: Zombified www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 23/09/2026

AI companies are delaying their IPO's for a very specific reason. Author Cal Newport and @adambecker.bsky.social discuss why they are delaying. #ai #datmpodcast #future #science #ipo #doomer #deepwork #calnewport #goodnews @multitudeshows.com

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A common mistake journalists make is writing news stories if the form “I asked a chatbot about itself and here’s what it said.” The problem is that this is Hallucination City. AI chatbots generally aren’t trained with information about themselves. They aren’t reading their own code to answer you.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Evil is actually good” — Peter Thiel youtube.com/shorts/8Idvw...

youtube.com

Peter Thiel Says Evil Is Okay

YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

buff.ly

“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

p̞̈͑̚͞ā̤̓̍͘ỉ͔͖̜͌ṇ̤͛̒̍ ā̤̓̍͘t̲̂̓ͩ̑ t̲̂̓ͩ̑ḣ̖̻͛̓ẹ̿͋̒̕ p̞̈͑̚͞ư̡͕̭̇ḿ̬̏ͤͅp̞̈͑̚͞

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

different way of looking at gasoline and diesel prices...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

$18B in loans tied to Oracle’s New Mexico AI data center are trading at 89-91¢ on the dollar as banks struggle to sell the debt. Now Oracle is invoking force majeure to protect itself from payments if the project is delayed. The cracks are starting to show in AI data center financing.

investing.com

Analysis-Oracle, Blue Owl project delay sends ripples through AI financing, sources say By Reuters

Analysis-Oracle, Blue Owl project delay sends ripples through AI financing, sources say

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 24/09/2026

10y yields top 5.20%, highest since 2007. Up almost a quarter percentage point in two days.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interacting with a flexible, accordion-like kinetic paper sculpture crafted by Chinese artist Li Hongbo using stacked paper sheets in a honeycomb structure. youtube.com/shorts/hLpe9...

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These ultra-energy dense batteries aren't likely to be cost-competitive for EVs yet. But when they are, that implies a 75kWh battery, typical for a mid-sized EV, would weigh only 150kg, less than a typical ICE drivetrain. So it's likely EVs will be lighter than comparable ICEs some day!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NYT focus group of Trump 2024 voters on the Texas Senate race:

OK, let's get into the specific candidates. When you hear the name Ken Paxton, what comes to mind?
Robert D., 63, independent, white, retired Crook.
Sebastian, 50, independent, white, utility manager Criminal, crook, all those. Yeah.
Lisa, 53, independent, white, technology consultant Crooked.
Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service Bad.
Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired
4 Amoral.
Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail Disgusting.
Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources Two words: morally corrupt.
Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work Disgusting.
Vince, 48, Democrat, Asian, auditor Corrupt.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 24/09/2026

*CNN, MS NOW SAY THEY WERE GRANTED ACCESS TO WHITE HOUSE

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026

Anthropic threw Claude at a DNA database. 21 hours, 950 agents, and 210mm tokens later, it emerged with a novel reverse transcriptase (similar to CRISPR). They're running a non-pathogenic (BSL-1/2) research lab in the Bay Area.

anthropic.com

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AND NOW, SOME GOOD NEWS FROM RUSSIA… Bears have started entering Russian cities en masse. At least 25 attacks have been recorded since June, with sightings and incidents reported across multiple regions. Nature is healing. 🐻

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

PRISENCOLINENSINAINCIUSOL (1972) by ADRIANO CELENTANO This insanely addictive song was intended to sound to its Italian audience as if sung in English, the lyrics however are complete gibberish - with the exception of the words "all right".

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

moving like a ninja

GOP rank and file hoped to turn Mamdani into the midterm boogeyman. Instead, as Mamdani's time to brief the press came, he asked Trump on the spot to join him, and the president agreed, according to a person familiar with the meeting. During the presser, Mamdani called on MS NOW, CNN and POLITICO — the three outlets Trump banned from the White House last week.

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