iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We would all have better conversations about Zionism if we viewed it as a nationalism like all others, akin to diaspora Serbian nationalism from Canadian Serbs. Not a civil rights or social justice cause, but also not a way Jewish people are abnormal or ontologically evil.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hello little one. 😍

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yes, which is why these people are fucking morons, no one is doing more to undermine the ideological hegemony of Zionism among American Jews than Zohran and his Jewish allies

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fundamentally this is also an argument against caring about anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination, because it's not as bad as anti-Black racism. Which is a stupid fucking argument.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is also something that North American Muslims have to worry about, it's kind of sickening to watch people dismiss the importance of ideologically driven violence against a community as a basis to be concerned for their safety and welfare.

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Hannah Thomasy @hannahthomasy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The best image caption I have seen so far on Wikipedia. (To be fair, it's in the section about sending the newts to space but I still love the clarification.) 🧪

Two newts floating in water. The image caption reads "Iberian ribbed newts in an aquarium (on Earth)."

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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My impression of a shark stepping on a piece of Lego.

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New York State of Good Repair @ludmirdevotee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The more Mamdani faces the accusations of antisemitism with "I like Jews, I think they're cool and that's why New York is so cool, greatest city in the world baby let's go Knicks, I'm gonna just do normal mayor things around Jews I just don't like Israel doing genocide" the more I respect him

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾

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Jonathan Katz-Ouziel (PossumRabbi) @possumrabbi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I still can't believe that we are so lucky to get to share a planet with Joyce Carol Oates

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The underappreciated point here is that taking the messy, contingent nature of scheduling, communication, and navigating social relationships is something that AI people think these tools can do. When in fact it is quite difficult and takes a lot of social skill.

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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

so many issues here, but among them: they are SO CONCERNED about neurodivergent men supposedly being unable to navigate asking women out while respecting consent, and not at all concerned about neurodivergent women having to thread the needle of saying no clearly but not in a "shaming" way

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 27/09/2026

“‘Don’t feed the trolls’ really is good advice – here’s the evidence” theconversation.com/dont-feed-the-t… > what really influences trolling behaviour is the social pleasure derived from knowing that others are annoyed by it

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‘Don’t feed the trolls’ really is good advice – here’s the evidence

A new study suggests that the pleasure of getting an angry reaction is the biggest predictor of online trolling behaviour – meaning that the best way to fight back is just to ignore them.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not being a mark is praxis

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Jonathan Katz-Ouziel (PossumRabbi) @possumrabbi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More contracts with consultants because they can't afford to hire a full-time person

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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Sayj 🤘🏼❤️🖤 @sayj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exactly what I'd say lmao 🤣 😂 😆 💜💜🦇 #dnd #dungeonsanddragons

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

"Hard limits are in view and true believers, with no vision for the future beyond whatever they think ‘AI’ or ‘AGI’ are (usually whatever they’re told by the corporates), dimly aware of these limits but unable to accept what it means, are lashing out." -- @cloudquistador.eurosky.social

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All we can expect when trying to scale up AI systems is diminishing returns and devastating environmental damage. Calls for `slowing down’ can conveniently hide the diminishing returns, while still convincing people that the tech is “all powerful”.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 15/09/2026

If the pope released a statement that the world was ending next Tuesday with the rebirth of the Messiah, the job of a reporter isn't to schedule an interview with Jesus H. Christ reborn but to figure out what's wrong with the pope Media accepting "AI" millenarianism as fact is genuinely disturbing

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >>

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/09/2026

Don't let them distract you with scare stories of "A.i." becoming sentient and autonomous. The REAL danger is that it's literally controlled by very human, very right wing creeps who hate democracy.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Even stronger: there is at present no reason to believe "AI" can even functionally approach anything close to human-level cognition before the sun dies out. Can it fool us? Yes! But it isn't anything other than a bunch of scams in a trechcoat

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I was particularly struck by two people who, independently, said they were actively looking for the benefits of AI at work and I feel like, if you have to look, there's probably not a benefit? I mean, I'm absolutely a fan of appropriate automation, but why are we doing big tech's product-market fit?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

The fact that this guy who quit anthropic “for ethical reasons” had an exclusive about it in the Wall Street journal should have been the big warning. Instead it was the sign to take it seriously! Good stuff everyone

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Just to note, fucking YUDKOWSKY's coauthor is on market place today, I guess I do need to do a thread on him because I have nothing better to do than write about OPEN EUGENICISTS being interviewed by NPR and advising BERNIE SANDERS.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026

the media’s reaction to this anthropic guy’s tweets are a great demonstration of how they don’t want to inform the public, they’re just happy to go along with a sensationalist narrative handed to them by deluded and self-interested tech people

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I cannot describe the brokenness I felt reading this from the Haaretz piece. The hostages were betrayed by everyone; Israeli leaders, the diaspora leaders & their orgs, the entire pro-Israel industrial complex, and by far and away the millions of people who cried "hostages" to support a genocide.

"He told me that in the first stage, they had no problem releasing all civilians without anything in return," Mashharawi recounts. "I swear, those were his exact words: all civilians, without anything in return. They had only one condition: They wanted us to bring in an agreed-upon mediator as quickly as possible, so that negotiations could immediately begin over everything else – the release of soldiers and officers in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and then the issue of the blockade on Gaza."

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Seems like a good time to post quote from Stewart & Norvig (3rd edition) of events in 1997. "Kasparov said that he felt a “new kind of intelligence” across the board from him. Newsweek magazine described the match as “The brain’s last stand.” The value of IBM’s stock increased by $18 billion."

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026

One of the single most maddening things in this whole charade is journalists persistently failing to ask "why don't they then decide to stop doing it" It is just such a fundamentally, ground-level basic thought to have in response to this, and none of them have ever had it

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel like Bluesky is the place where people will appreciate how envious I still am of my sister, around 35 years after she achieved her (and my) top bucket list item of being locked in the bookshop when it closed, and having the place to entirely to herself.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Created this for a reply on LinkedIn, but it applies pretty generally, so posting it here, too:

Simpsons "Don't make me tap the sign" meme with the text "Just because you've identified a problem doesn't mean an LLM is the solution" on the sign.

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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We enjoyed absolutely amazing views of a small pod of Risso's Dolphins from the cliffs at Sumburgh Head, Shetland on Sunday afternoon. Here's one of them. #MarineLife #MarineMammals #UKWildlife

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments as to why the Cookie Monster isn't real.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/09/2026

1. So, at the Worldcon this year there was a person who was going from panel to panel, bothering panelists by trying to get them to "collaborate" with them on a project and sliding the proposed project to them on a piece of paper. Folks, I cannot stress to you how obnoxious this sort of thing is.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 01/09/2026

Picking a side and supporting your people is arguably more important than trying to attain some Edenic no-“AI” purity. Are you on the side of the fascists, polluters, and tech CEOs? Or are you on the side of the rest of humanity? Avoiding “AI” fabrications is a way to show whose side you’re on

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 25/08/2026

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

not sure how to express this without sounding like a chair-turned-around youth pastor, but there's something so radical about having your most well-known lyric be "i will always love you" and then sincerely embodying it whenever possible

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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026

“You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.” My goodness.

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