iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15h

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 06/10/2026

There are just too many different ideologies that are all called "Zionism" to say "anything that calls itself Zionism is racism". And there are lots of people (Jewish people, antisemites, and neither) who conflate "Zionist" with "Jewish".

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James Graham @jamesgraham.theliberati.net · 06/10/2026

I never knew Polanski in the Lib Dems as I was leaving as he was getting involved. It is notable how few of them have a good word to say about him, which is almost unique of any former Lib Dem I know on the left. But then, when Polanski was a member, he was by all accounts on the party’s *right.*

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 06/10/2026

This is a really sharp point. I'd add to it that one of the sources that led into the modern idea of the nation-state was an attempt to copy the results of the French (and secondarily English) metropoles into other European nations (above all Italy and Germany).

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 06/10/2026

In the BC (Before Carlton) times, the BBC was a bunch of competing empires and ITV was a bunch of separate franchises all mostly happy to run their own little kingdom and not try to tell each other what to do. The upshot was both had lots of hidden niches where creatives could do what they wanted.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I used to feel like half my time as an orchestra musician was spent patiently explaining, over and over, that no, orchestras have never in history paid for themselves through ticket sales; no, cutting concerts or auxiliary trumpets won't balance the books; YOU JUST HAVE TO RAISE THE MONEY.

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Pete Woods @handle.invalid · 06/10/2026

The reason people love the Ea-nāṣir story is less the vitriol and more the fact that we couldn’t be more culturally different from a 4000 years dead Sumerian but we can totally relate. It shows us that no matter our superficial differences people are just people.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 06/10/2026

Why not gift 40K sets at diplomatic events? Or other UK cultural products, like computer games? Would change and modernise the national image in good ways.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 06/10/2026

I bet Bill Maher was screaming at his bookers after this. They let someone tell the truth on his show. Right on, @anandwrites.bsky.social

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 05/10/2026

HEARTWARMING: Local Man Assumed Stupid Instead Of Making Obvious Joke; Feminists Commend Ally For "Doing The Work"

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

look the thing about leftist infighting is that it is just objectively more fun than fighting the actual bad guys. it matters less and you can do it on your phone

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Nebula @nebula.tv · 01/10/2026

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of Nebula. Ongoing projects have been terminated effective immediately, and his content has been removed from our catalog.

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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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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 02/10/2026

Absolutely. Should be more along the lines of "we've been taking bets on whose tanks get to Moscow first".

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Chat I think we’re underestimating how much the GOP consultant class has been porn brained.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The reaction of most elections academics if you suggest introducing SV for any election is roughly similar to the reaction they would give if you proposed setting fire to their favourite pet

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 02/10/2026

Incidentally to another thread on my TL: if you have a PR list system with an electoral threshold, then you should have some sort of transfer of votes for parties that don't reach the threshold. That could be a ranked-choice ballot or it could be a party-directed transfer announced in advance.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 02/10/2026

There are two problems with extreme parties in power. One is that their ideas get adopted. The other is that they tend to be authoritarian and, if so, will try to cause some democratic backsliding. Whether their ideas are adopted depends on the mainstream parties, not the electoral system.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 01/10/2026

There is also a third question, which is 3) How much of the investment is in infrastructure that will still be useful after a correction? Can the models be operated for much less compute than is needed to train them? Will the GPUs wear out quickly, or will they still be useful in a few years?

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 30/09/2026

Fluminese can stop pretending that the Rio Cup was a real club world championship because they've now won 2023.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 30/09/2026

There is a reason why reaction channels are so popular. They offer a substitute for the shared experience of watching or listening to something together. Personalised anything means no shared experience at all.

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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember electoral reform being in the 1997 Labour manifesto, they then got a massive Parliamentary majority and promptly forgot about it.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 29/09/2026

Well, there's no danger of her going wide right. Just looked it up: she was one year old when that Super Bowl was played. I'm old.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 29/09/2026

Well, since the AI crash is coming, maybe computer science degrees will get added to this list.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026

Ill never forget the parent who told me in absolutely devastated tones that their kid (who was first in class) read comics for their leisure time and they should read real books Me: its leisure time. Let her be a kid, darn it.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 28/09/2026

Human apologies seem to work like this a lot of the time; I think we've all got to used to insincere human apologies that we don't remember what real apologies are like.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 28/09/2026

Because of the current GBP/USD exchange rate, £2/litre and $10/gallon (US gallon) are almost exactly the same price at the moment. ... and diesel is crossing both - in the UK, that's the national average; in the US, it's the most expensive filling stations.

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Steve Bullock @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

Some of the world’s very best drivers competing in a 100% sustainable electric-powered one-make motorsport series. youtu.be/dBP9hSoOPB8

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FULL HIGHLIGHTS: The European Tram Driver Championships 2026

YouTube video by The Tim Traveller

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

From my memory of Lib Dem procedure "although I am able to request a ballot of the membership" sounds like they're becoming a serious party and having behind-the-scenes shenanigans over reselection.

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Christine Jardine to stand down as MP at next election

Many of our readers will be very sad to see that Christine Jardine MP will not fight the next election. In a statement tongiht she said: “I have written to my local party to let them know I shall not ...

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026

Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.

Screenshot reads as follows:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 24/09/2026

I wonder whether he doesn't know his address because he has so many houses he can't keep track of them all, or if it's because he's moved around so much with buying ever bigger ones that he's lost track.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pascal was seen putting a bet on Roko’s basilisk in the underground creature fight. He’s gonna win for sure.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If I had 10p for every viral story about a lesbian bar being run by someone who didn't want to run a bar but got left with it after their business partners flaked, I'd have 20p, but it's weird there have been two in the last week.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 23/09/2026

Not wanting a fight with people which is why this isn't a reply, but Jacob Rees-Mogg is too aristofetishist to be a fascist.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @handle.invalid · 23/09/2026

“Please learn to read or forget how to write” is a new canonical insult

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 23/09/2026

The point isn't "wow, Jacob Rees-Mogg is 'woke' now!" and nobody is handing it to him. The point is "fucking hell, the fash are so far gone that even *Jacob Rees-Mogg* wants to distance himself from their noxious rhetoric!"

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My first choice is "zero billionaires," but if I can't have that I'll take "billionaires with night terrors of guillotines trying to buy off the public."

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not Fucking Sorry but i actually do not plan to narrow the tent on who is allowed to loudly say that the neofascists are wrong in their definition of national identity at this juncture and if you are then quite frankly you are a wrecker

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 22/09/2026

Democracy doesn't ever get rid of the assholes. But nothing else does either. And democracy makes it a *lot* easier to get them out of power again and limit the damage.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 21/09/2026

This is exactly the opposite of the point: if Parliament doesn't like a law, they can change it. Note that they swear an oath of loyalty to the King "and his successors according to law", a rather more pointed qualification than most people realise.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Migration is humanity's oldest, most reliable, and most effective tool when dealing with climate change, full stop. Can't find food here? Don't like the weather? Babies dying of diseases? Move somewhere else. There are always intermediate steps and causal factors, but it's almost that simple.

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 21/09/2026

There are lots of very successful people in history where if you switched them out with another very succesful person, you'd get two disasters: for instance, switch John Churchill before Blenheim and Winston Churchill in 1940. Anyway, challenge in the next skeet:

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