iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@pikkabird.bsky.social: Snoring gently between alarm snoozes Me: excited telling her about sleepy sheepies. Mox: “Face down, ass up, that’s the way I like to tuckmyselfintobed.” Me: giggles Mox: Snores

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The judge: I loved that AI. Thank you for that The appeals judges: It clearly impacted the sentencing judge, who said he ‘loved’ the video and felt it ‘was genuine,’ pointing to the AI victim’s ‘obvious forgiveness’ of Horcasitas, which he characterized as coming from the AI victim’s ‘heart'

globalnews.ca

Arizona court tosses sentence in road rage case over AI victim video - National | Globalnews.ca

A three-judge panel said that allowing the presentation of the AI victim video 'constituted fundamental error' and 'clearly impacted the sentencing judge.'

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ok i think this really needs to be said: zuckerberg is not a fan of high-end fashion, he is a fan of visibly expensive t-shirts

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 02/10/2026

TIL that this recurring TNG minor character was played by a stealth trans woman she’s in 43 episodes and several of the movies

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is correct and important. Shame is democratic - it's a horizontal sanction rather than a top-down one. The more we reduce the role of coercive authority in the world, the more we will depend on shame and mockery to enforce social norms.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you think that you should not say bad things about power people, you are not a journalist. You are a corporate public relations agent.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

when clearly it’s a shortened version of “hell no to whatever bullshit you’re about to bring me”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Also, when you don’t kill evil people, you get a chance to continue exposing how whiny and pathetic evil people actually are. My favorite example is the absolutely miserable sod, Anders Breivik:

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A question I sometimes ask students or workshop participants is... A commitment to prison and policing means you have to ignore many things…What do we have to ignore? I ask people to make a list... It's always a long one. You can make a similar list for the death penalty...

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But if the traffic is flowing you can absolutely call it a bulleted artery

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Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 29/09/2026

@friction.bsky.social I'm bringing it back

A picture of Princess Donut on Carl's shoulder, from the popular Dungeon Crawler Carl series of books. White text with a black outline (for readability) reads:

Carl, did you remember to complete the survey about morning beverage preferences among crawlers?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.

theintercept.com

The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

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trello @nicky.wiki · 29/09/2026

I wasn't sure if this was laudable (expose the rapists) or very derogatory (expose Jane Doe) and I'm happy to share that it's super laudable, he's the person behind thecornell7.org

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

watching diy haircut vids. I'm sure nothing bad will come of this.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's the end of the day and I just had to use my last fuck to business-speak "don't know don't care" in an email.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

men who were freshman initiates at the time are STILL THERE TODAY. They know shit and should get talking if they have any sense of decency.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Co-signed, someone who sits through Title IX training every year and sees the glaring holes in the system.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yup! Just went looking again after I posted and found it there, thanks!

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn’t turn it off right away when given the option in the initial changeover notification and now I can’t find how to turn it off 😆😭

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Apparently I’m developing the “no, you can’t sleep” form of perimenopause. Got up and cleaned house at 3am out of frustration. I want to go have a diner breakfast now, at 3:45 am, but I don’t want the breakfast available at any diner open at this hour.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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CyfyrX @cyfyr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A.I. shall henceforth be known as Artificial Super Slop or A.S.S. All a.s.s. files must now be clearly labeled "This is A.S.S." and any manipulated audio must also state "This is A.S.S. at the beginning and every 30 seconds in the file. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Sarcasmo Ultra BLAM! @sarcasmoultrablam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me and the local librarian have decreed that AI will now be known as, "assumed intellect." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a photography-ignorant pleb, I vote C330f bc it looks weirder.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(I was also a writing tutor throughout my degrees. I’ve had Thoughts regarding “ai” writing for the past few years but nothing that ever developed a thesis worth posting online. It might happen someday, but many people are already out there saying my thoughts and reposting them works for me) 4/end

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

and balk at how unlike-me it scans, if it is close to topic at all. So, yay, I am special. And I mourn the loss of the unique voices that will be undeveloped and subsequently silenced by these tools they’re growing up with. 3/?

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My various degrees are all in comms fields and I finished them all feeling like I didn’t have a particular “voice” when writing. But now that predictive text/“ai” models are filling in the average expected next several words, I see a phrase expectantly waiting to be tabbed from grey to black.. 2/?

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The longer a predictive text goes, the more “SHUT UP YOU DON’T KNOW ME” I get. But mostly because it truly doesn’t. It’s been an unexpected cleansing of a weird type of imposter syndrome. 1/?

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The other day @friction.bsky.social and I tried to leave the house, A True Story:

Illustration: A woman with purple hair in black sweat pants and flats having accidentally put on her grey hoodie backwards, says “This happens more than I care to admit.”

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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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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

yeah, I can't pinpoint when I went from "'being nice to computers so they don't kill me in the uprising' is cute, teehee" to "fuck you computer I will not succumb to the IOT and I will unplug you at first glitch" but...yeah...that happened.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🎶 there's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by dooooom🎶

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The obtrusive thoughts won and I couldn't decide which so you get both

George W. Bush whisper meme: “It’s a sankey, sir”

George W. Bush whisper meme: Came into a fluffer, sir.

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Moxster Mash @pikkabird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Occasionally I look into an IP I've been indifferent to, curious whether I missed anything. Today was Les Miserables. My review is: LOL what even is this. @friction.bsky.social got home from work. He's not into musicals, so I turned it off with 5 minutes left. It's officially a DNF.

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