iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/10/2026

We have invented the mythical man month from classic software engineering book Don’t Invent the Mythical Man Month.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow, its so professional that the head of trust and safety is running away from the people trying to tell you they dont trust this site because it isnt safe. Youre a joke. Go get a different job so someone can actually do yours. I can get you in at a housekeeping job. Might be more your style

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 16/09/2026

the people crave bluesky social credit scores

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A big goal of mine is to have aggregate scores for account toxicity. Some folks drag down the quality of the conversation and drive users off this site. We'll get there by calculating how often someone is toxic, and eventually move to restricting their visibility to broader accounts.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

alas, we only measure velocity in terms of fast we fuck around and not how slowly we find out as a result and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The stability of many things, I believe, rest on the limited capabilities of idiots. But what if we made idiots much more capable.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026

P(annoying) through the roof

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/08/2026

stop showing me the horrid burrito, you demons

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/08/2026

there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Productivity," like "the economy," are totally disconnected from the lived reality of billions of people, and this is precisely the frame AI adopts to force itself into improving-society arguments: nobody liked losing their job to globalization, losing them to lobotomization is no more appealing.

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JS @cranksatori.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

woims

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Evelyn @kandake.africa · 12/06/2026

Chats aren't encrypted, Bluesky will turn them over if subpoenaed. Use @signal.org or @germnetwork.com instead

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Nancy 6/4/26

woims….. they yell it at him… he’s scared…

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

1. ICE will kill you. 2. Trumpists will lie to justify it. 3. Because they are all thug trash.

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Here’s to 2026

David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 08/12/2025

This is better than the thread, but the thread will still get posts first, I suspect.

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I'm Here to Stay Tuned

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 08/10/2025

lisa kudrow from friends. ("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")

an image of an alien head, attached to a skull.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 06/12/2024

this site decided to tackle moderation second and we are really gonna find out what that is like quite soon it seems

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 02/09/2025

happy curséd knowledge day to everyone who involuntarily participates

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Practice naming and shaming collaborators with the presumption of shared contempt. Be matter of fact. Do not anticipate or allow room for objection. Extend the courtesy and charity that your hearers are decent people and, therefore, agree that collaborators are understood to be beneath contempt.

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 17/07/2025

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Elim @elim871.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Intaglio print from William Blake’s series For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93). More from the series here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w…

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

You don’t win politically by winning over your opponents, but by building a political bloc that can defeat them.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Historian here slaveholders would hang or put the heads of slave rebels on sticks to line a road as a lesson to others. This performative propaganda by the Trump regime is an insult to the American republic, the rule of law, democratic governance, and human rights.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

don't most people want to eat, sleep, fuck, chat with a friend, do something fun? i just cannot believe people want to live in a police state run by the most ridiculous, shrill, smirking phonies you ever saw. not possible

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11/03/2025

the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Okay! The complete first chapter of Pipeburn is up in a collected PDF on Patreon and Itchio! 45 pages of cyberpunk biker romance thriller body horror complete with underground fight clubs and mutant abominations; www.patreon.com/posts/120152... coelasquid.itch.io/pipeburn-cha...

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Phew, it's been a long, long trip, but Caves of Qud 1.0 is finally out there. Hope you all, new and old, enjoy the ride! steamcommunity.com/games/333640...

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Steam :: Caves of Qud :: Caves of Qud 1.0 OUT NOW!

A monumental milestone, but more to come…

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 05/12/2024

six months ago I would have said I found this site's shitposters moderately annoying, though charming. the lesson I have learned in the last week is that is the people who were on twitter right up until now because they couldn't help it who are the real freaks. you goblins need to work on yourselves

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

fundamentally this is what Trump administrations are all about: the guys. there will be new guys every week. they will startle you, you'll be astounded by them, and then as quickly as they appeared they will fade into an indistinguishable mass, leaves on the forest floor.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I am seeing more and more opinions bubbling up about how throwing trans people to the wolves would be a winning strategy for Democrats, and I just want to quickly say: Fuck off with that absolute dog shit.

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