iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 4h

one of the wildest runs I've ever seen

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4h

Hey there, hi there! One of the things people "know" about silent movies is that they are simply packed with women tied to the tracks! Happened all the time. In every film! Right? Right?

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Nate is waking up @nf1nk.bsky.social · 15h

Where we're going, we won't need eyes.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 16h

elon musk on: stealth aircraft (for the record: everyone involved with low-observable aircraft is acutely aware that they are not "invisible," they just have an rcs so small they can't be effectively detected until they are close enough to have already launched weapons and that is super useful.)

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 15h

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Andrew Parsonson @andrewparsonson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday, DLR successfully launched the suborbital MAPHEUS-17 mission from Esrange, carrying several small experiments and technology demonstrators.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have my great great great grandfathers diary in my possession - he drew this in 1845. There were no photos so he drew what he saw. I am sharing Henry T Whinfield’s art for the first time ever to the world. This is a world debut.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 17h

Not joking about the Kalshi bit, to be clear:

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 17h

Elon Musk has broken up with baby mommy 9/10/12/14, announced via Twitter unfollow alert post sponsored by Kalshi

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 17h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Yo FireFox, I've got 2 lines for you today: about:config browser.nova.enabled false

static.klipy.com

Robert Downey Jr. Rolling Eyes

ALT: Robert Downey Jr. Rolling Eyes

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Raging Spirit @ragingspirit.bsky.social · 22h

My alternative solution for FF styling. www.userchrome.org/firefox-89-s...

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Firefox 89+ – Styling the New Proton UI

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also works pretty well if I take a standard deviation of the stack rather than a simple mean. flic.kr/p/2sDX3C6

Same stuff as before, but a little brighter and more dramatic.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Anil Menon/Kevin M. Gill

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

150 Seconds of City Light - A stack of 10 images, 15 seconds each, taken by Anil Menon aboard the International Space Station on September 20th. flic.kr/p/2sDNZ95

Streaks of light from stars (above) and city lights (below). Steaks are interrupted periodically during breaks in the exposures. The atmosphere appears green. Some components of the ISS are seen at the edges.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Anil Menon/Kevin M. Gill

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the problem is primarily that you have to be up to your neck in pseudomathematics in order to even understand how they're mistaken. in order: (1) their "Bayesianism" is not Bayesianism; (2) even MIRI now admits that Hutterian AIXI is impossible; (3) information theory forbids their metaphysics

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The narrative: "Everyone who works for Bluesky hates the site's users! Either they don't use the site or they're constantly melting down at people!" The users:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

TRUMP: Did you see the story about my uncle? TIME: The one who taught at MIT? TRUMP: I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.

Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

8 Micron Spitzer View of the Galactic Core - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2jW97dA

The same mosaics from this view except using the 8 micron data for luminosity, and the other three channels for color. This significantly reduces the starlight signal, though not totally. Still makes it much easier to see the dust and emission nebulas.

Note that much of the nebulosity is in the foreground as we view the Milky Way's center through one of the arms of the Milky Way. It is difficult to discern or even measure the distance to each piece, but generally, the larger structures that extend far away from flat central plane are foreground objects, while thinner, smaller pieces that remain close to the plane are closer to the core. Many of these smaller objects are overlapped and obscured by mid and foreground objects.

Luminosity: 8.0 µm (IRAC4)
Red: 5.8 µm (IRAC3)
Green: 4.5 µm (IRAC2)
Blue: 3.6 µm (IRAC1)

The image is presented in galactic coordinates, with north up in that regard.

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phil @philjamesson.com · 30/09/2026

as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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scottmanley.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So that UAE 737 may have cracked the sound barrier in the dive, no wonder its tail was shredded

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Say what you like about Caitlin Flanagan's politics, but that woman knows how to write a lede. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Opening paragraphs of Caitlin Flanagan article:

One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole.

Also on the deck, and also in the thrall of the night’s pleasures, was one Louis Helmburg III, an education major and ace benchwarmer for the Thundering Herd baseball team. His response to the proposed launch was the obvious one: he reportedly whipped out his cellphone to record it on video, which would turn out to be yet another of the night’s seemingly excellent but ultimately misguided ideas. When the bottle rocket exploded in Hughes’s rectum, Helmburg was seized by the kind of battlefield panic that has claimed brave men from outfits far more illustrious than even the Thundering Herd. Terrified, he staggered away from the human bomb and fell off the deck.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amused by people replying to this who went down the inevitable wikihole and discovered this wasn't just my usual whimsical pony and (von) Trapp

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The co-pilot seems to have tried to crash it into the ground with a full cabin of (mostly Israeli) civilians. Was stopped by his pilot that got stabbed in the process passengers interfered and another crew on the flight landed it in Saudi Arabia. Israel’s treating it as a terror attack for now.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cometa McNaught y Antena 2 - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/zbEFo

Cometa McNaught junto a la Antena 2 del interferómetro ATCA (Narrabri, Australia), fotografiado la noche del 29 de enero de 2007 a las 10h TU. Combinación de 18 imágenes de 30 segundos de exposición a sensibilidad de 800 ASA. La combinación se realizó con el programa ImagesPlus y luego tratada con Photoshop para incluir la mejor imagen de primer plano de la secuencia.

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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you ever just think about how the DB Class 670 existed

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2026

where other AI companies have to keep insisting that they're sorta trying to destroy humanity, Meta Platforms knows that actions speak louder than words

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

So, Starship IFT-14: Impressive, yes, lots of pretty pics, check... Also: 2 engines out on the booster 1 engine out on Starship early de-orbit after just shy of 2 orbits instead of 6 So today its a nice non-reusable launcher for bigger starlinks, but fully & rapidly re-usable it aint just yet...

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

so BOTh of the two latest “ai” “breakthroughs” came from training on the user data of the people who actually did the work, themselves, and made the fatal error of putting novel research into their claude chats? amazing stuff. they invented auto-cannibalization of their users

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalist leader and AI advisor to Bernie Sanders (whose partner, Gretta Duleba, is mentioned as an instructor on the Slutcon 2026 program), wrote a rather notorious scifi story with some curious ideas about rape back in 2009: www.polemics.md/that-time-el...

In a conversation with the ship's leader Akon, the Confessor dispenses wisdom he's gained from witnessing the transformation of humanity into a space-faring race. During this conversation, he reveals that the act of rape is completely legal during Akon's time and had been legalized by humanity during a turbulent period in its past. Akon responds with shock, calling the ancient human civilization "prudish":
The Confessor held up a hand. "I mean it, my lord Akon. It is not polite idealism. We ancients can't steer. We remember too much disaster. We're too cautious to dare the bold path forward. Do you know there was a time when nonconsensual sex was illegal?" Akon wasn't sure whether to smile or grimace. "The Prohibition, right? During the first century pre-Net? I expect everyone was glad to have that law taken off the books. I can't imagine how boring your sex lives must have been up until then - flirting with a woman, teasing her, leading her on, knowing the whole time that you were perfectly safe because she couldn't take matters into her own hands if you went a little too far

"You need a history refresher, my Lord Administrator. At some suitably abstract level. What I'm trying to tell you - and this is not public knowledge - is that we nearly tried to overthrow your government."
"What?" said Akon. "The Confessors! '
"No, us. The ones who remembered the ancient world. Back then we still had our hands on a large share of the capital and tremendous influence in the grant committees.
When our children legalized rape, we thought that the Future had gone wrong."
Akon's mouth hung open. "You were that prude?"
I don't believe in condemning people solely off fiction, but this is the type of thing that one might find on the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own behind many tags and warnings.

Three Worlds Collide, however, isn't hosted on Archive of Our Own. It's hosted on Overcoming Bias, blog of George Mason University economist 1l Robin Hanson and the original home of LessWrong before it moved to its own website. Hanson is an economist at the notoriously libertarian George Mason university who has been repeatedly criticized for his views on women - one notorious blog post of his compared cuckoldry to "silent gentle rape" and he was dubbed
"America's creepiest economist" in a piece about his incel-adjacent takes.
Three Worlds Collide is over 15 years old, but it is relevant to current event. The Rationality community that developed around Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong has been marred with multiple allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct. These allegations were also the basis for a protest against a Rationalist organization by Ziz, the leader of the so-called
"death cult" that formed in the community and is currently suspected to be involved in several murders, including the recent killing of a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. I

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love whenever I mention this, someone always has this "oh my god, WHAT" reaction! Citations: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32324159/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42240520/ Screenshot is from second paper. Primary author on both (Afrin) is basically THE most knowledgeable person in the world about MCAS.

An alternative perspective, now called "consensus-2" [25, 50] (Table 1), emerged almost simultaneously but regards MCAS as prevalent (approximately 17-20% of the Western population) [15, 51] and commonly presenting with diverse manifestations stemming from diverse profiles of aberrant release of MC mediators with very diverse effects [52, 53].

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jupiter - Impact of comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 - NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2p29ViC

Credit:
Raw data: NASA/ESA/STScI/Alex Storrs
Image processing: Andrea Luck

Image created processing data from: mast.stsci.edu/

Hubble Space Telescope observations of the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy with the planet Jupiter.
Target Name: JUPITER-WF
Instrument: WFPC2/WFC
Proposal ID: 5642 Alex Storrs archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...
Time: 1994-07-17 17:06:16, 17:09:16, 17:12:16
Observation ID: u2fi0h04t, u2fi0h04t, u2fi0h06t
Filters used: F547M, F410M, F336W

Credits:
Raw Data: NASA/ESA/STScI/Alex Storrs
Image Processing: Andrea Luck

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

appleinsider.com

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