iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 17h

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh baby we are having a good day today "Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has issued an ultimatum, saying he will not return to the national team while Jorge Jesus is the coach, sources have told ESPN." www.espn.com/soccer/story...

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Cristiano Ronaldo won't return to Portugal team while Jesus remains coach - sources

Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has issued an ultimatum, saying he will not return to the national team while Jorge Jesus is the coach, sources have told ESPN.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Playing Titanfall 2 again and it just fills you with sadness, that specific strain of narrative first person shooter that Half-life wrought basically does not exist any more in that same way. We barely get a confusing single player campaign stapled to a multiplayer game any more.

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m *dying* to know: which of the professors hit the furthest drive?

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026

I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings

The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scam

The cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.

A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026

If you have a little tamagotchi thing that is allowed to use your credit card, you are an insane person

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the maddening part — if someone made the claims being made about the future destructive + uncontrollable potential of AI about *virtually any other thing* that was being used worldwide, surely we’d act to stop allowing that thing to continue to grow and spread… right?

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I always love how Olivia can give everyday common sense examples to illustrate how our scientific reasoning could be improved if it were *more* like common sense, not less.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me and the fellas were about to get together and select one of three potential starting weapons, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses.

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It seems almost inevitable that the “free -to-play gambling simulator games” like Grow-A-Garden have the potential to be used to collect data across multiple years about personalized vulnerabilities that could be VERY valuable to gambling app makers.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

plausible deniability machine goes whirrrrrrr

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026

this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Death by a thousand funding cuts….

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/09/2026

"We have not been this EXCITED about SHIT-BASED TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS since the advent of the SHITAVERSE, which we all LOVED and DEFINITELY NEEDED and CONTINUE NOT TO BE ABLE TO GET ENOUGH OF and should NEVER SPEAK ANOTHER WORD OF AGAIN." buff.ly/K5t1rGh

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We Must Create the Shit Machine

“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A...

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anecdotal but I wonder how this hasn’t already completely nuked US merchants on Etsy with the huge shipping markups.

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“why do you refuse to respect right wing scholarship?!” i demand, waving around the chart i made up

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is stripes their thing, and I just didn’t know this before now? Feels like a lot of horizontal stripe shirt guys to have in one victory picture if it wasn’t planned in advance…

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

💯 "The tech savvy know all too well that using AI effectively is not a substitute for expertise, but requires it. A researcher unfamiliar with a field’s latest developments or incapable of evaluating the AI’s output at the crucial junctures is useless..."

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Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane

When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ed Sheeran wanting to remain neutral is sending me lol. Dudes worth £200m+. My brother in Christ if you cannot speak freely who the fuck can lol

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 11/06/2026

This graphic illustrates Canada's new "AI for all" policy. The inner circle that says "ADOPTION > ADOPTION > ADOPTION" is literal insanity and summarizes everything wrong with this policy. ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

A circular diagram illustrating the six pillars of Canada's National AI Strategy surrounding the central theme “AI for All.”

The six segments are:

Pillar 1 (Protecting Canadians and Safeguarding Democracy)
Pillar 2 (Empowering Canadians)
Pillar 3 (Powering Shared Prosperity)
Pillar 4 (Building the Canadian Sovereign AI Foundation)
Pillar 5 (Scaling Canadian Champions)
Pillar 6 (Building Trusted Partnerships and Global Alliances).

One inner circle includes the words trust, opportunity and sovereignty. The other just says adoption adoption adoption.

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Undertaker’s entrance music gets stuck on repeat while the JCOS are pleading with him to decide whether or not to pre-emptively strike foreign adversaries in response to ICBM of unknown origin…. And then “Fernando” drops….

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh I see what the problem is. This is actually a faithful transcription of Trump’s attempt to read from his teleprompter after 5pm

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026

WARNING: Self harm/suicide After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a masterpiece 💯 👌🏻 👨‍🍳 💋

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unbelievable, even for this clown administration.

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As president I will dismantle OpenAI and Anthropic, nationalize one pre-owned RTX 5090, and give every US resident one data center.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 11/09/2026

Someone on Reddit filmed an aerial drone advertisement in the night sky in Toronto and if this is real, it needs to be banned immediately. #TOpoli

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They need to invent new ways to publicly shame the people coming up with these ideas.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 11/09/2026

So to summarize: One of the largest private corporations in Canada that’s been found guilty of fixing prices, is using drones to pollute the night sky, to promote the use of an AI chatbot to disclose sensitive personal information, and is part of the privatization of the Ontario health care system.

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Andrew Cooper @pocooperose.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If a guy said: “I resigned from a team making a *giant planetkiller tool* - which is already contributing possibly irreparable planetary harm - AND may rapidly wipe out the human race” but instead of AI it was a virus or bomb or black box … wouldn’t we, like, try stop them with all possible haste?

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Are you reviewing applications for a PhD in clinical or counseling psychology this fall? If yes, please consider adding your name to this list. We're hoping to make it easier for applicants to find you! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Accepting Clinical or Counseling Psychology Grad Student?

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