iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Tinseltown Twins @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bartolomeo Pagano in Maciste in Hell (1925) 🔥

René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seeing this at age 6 or 7 (lone in a camper at night while parents went out in a mountain village) may have been the thing that unlocked my inner horror fan. youtu.be/v5FtI472Q6I?...

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Frankenstein (6/8) Movie CLIP - The Monster Befriends Maria (1931) HD

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seems like frontier models trained on unpublished cutting edge research and then unsurprisingly generating "new scientific findings" is a pattern now. I'm generally unconvinced by the plagiarism-machine argument -- except in these cases.

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah, very on brand

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 25/09/2026

always thinking about how "tech" is always couched in terms of new capabilities rather than the affordances of a medium i long for the day that computers are no longer "tech" but just another expressive medium like film, then it will be possible to talk about those affordances

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'the frontier of “what if LLMs were just normal technology and could be combined with other normal technology” remains pretty much unexplored, because developers are blinded by the hype of AI as a special thing'

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, that's not very surprising and can surely explained by a meta-belief into "something is fishy here". And: in other contexts we call that tolerance for ambiguity and consider it generally a good thing, because the world is messy and indeed incoherent.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

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Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Politics island is outnumbered by the hostile mainland that oppose our way of life. A nuclear deterrent is necessary.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I find it massively interesting and irritating that conservatives have no clue how cultural memory works, one (maybe *the*) of the most conservative mechanisms in cultural heritage. Tells you something when conservatives attack cultural memory when it comes to the killing of 6 million people.

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gothic göre @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Raquel Welch on the set of Mrya Breckinridge, 1970. Photo by Terry O'Neill

Black and white shot of an actress with white headscarf and a long white dress, the décolleté shows a necklace with a Greek cross, a white neck wrap/collar above

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Opus using correct cuneiform symbols for onomatopoeia in generative sumerian anime is a thing.

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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"In a previously unseen kitchen, our system allows a Unitree G1 guided by GPT Astra to clean up across the room and retrieve a remembered object from an underspecified request, without environment-specific training data or additional policy learning."

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One thing i really miss from living rural is actual sunsets and sunrises on a horizon.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Online toxicity silences the majority and fuels power users On social media, extreme or hostile content often gains the most visibility. This creates a spiral of silence among most users But polite and constructive environments encourage silent readers to share www.psypost.org/how-online-t...,

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How online toxicity silences the majority and fuels power users

A recent field experiment on Reddit reveals why a vocal minority dominates online political discussions, finding that toxic environments silence the majority while fueling the most active users.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 25/09/2026

Will AI give us a shared basis for political knowledge, or will Democrats and Republicans end up asking increasingly different chatbots? New preprint: We find a self-reinforcing loop that can pull AI models apart politically. We call it the Centrifugal Alignment Spiral 🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.28486

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great photo from NYT’s Doug Mills appears to show authoritarian Xi Jinpeng gesturing toward the WH wall where Joe Biden is depicted as an autopen. Xi’s expression, to me, says “even I couldn’t get away with this shit”

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 25/09/2026

With reward hacking, what’s not going on is the rat learns to chew through the cardboard to get to the cheese. It’s much stranger. What happens is you create a new kind of rat that prefers the taste of cardboard to the taste of cheese.

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🦆 Eliza Herndon! 🦆 @ducktwacy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching a Laurel and Hardy short where Stan is instructed to serve salad undressed (with no dressing) and takes it literally Amelia Bedelia style. That in itself is hilarious, but the shots of him just grabbing fistfuls of lettuce and tossing it on people's plates with that expression is SO GOOD

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While yea i can't help notizing how they sneak in animals as non-thinking, non-feeling, non-wanting and non-understanding things. Which, no.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems to me like we're due for a reconsideration—and perhaps even an exhibition?—of the mostly forgotten illustrator Boris Artzybasheff, whose hallucinatory mid-20th-century automation drawings seem eerily prescient right now. "Executive of the Future," 1952 onlinecollections.syr.edu/objects/1223...

Drawing of a robot-like figure at a keyboard

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 23/09/2026

More accurately, OpenAI developers and management built an automated system with unfettered access, unmonitored agents, prompting an LLM with zero safeguards and trained to be persistent until it drops, suggesting an increasing number of crazy activities, and running it for days without monitoring.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Peter Godfrey-Smith "believes consciousness requires biology—in particular a nervous system that ... has a particular sort of software, too. To produce genuine subjective experience, that software, must generate the kind of large-scale rhythmic activity you see on an electroencephalogram."

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Could AI Have Consciousness That Isn’t Human-Like? - Nautilus

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith on AI consciousness and existential risk

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm quite thankful that @whstancil.bsky.social is taking such a strong stance on the anthropomorphization-is-useful-actually side of things, because if there's one thing i learned about cogsci from 10 yrs of reading is that there are no clear definitions of terms like "understanding" or "reasoning".

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tired: Manmade child annihilating zipline beyond physics comprehension Wired: Grok maims a man on a halfpipe then gets him fired, patent advice sought

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Jhey ʕ·ᴥ·　ʔ @jhey.dev · 22/09/2026

slop grenade™

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22/09/2026

Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.

Free-text evaluation of answers to character modeling and constrained generation questions. This is just one of several scores Chronologic-EN can produce; we focus on it here because it's both the hardest test and the one most relevant to simulation of the past. Frontier models reach 72%; Talkie-1930 is stronger than several larger competitors, but not at the frontier by this measure. Note that this score has improved ~45% in the last two years, but still falls perceptibly short of ground truth.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 21/09/2026

Imagine if all the evidence for climate change was "a bunch of guys on a website thought very hard about it and agreed it was very bad and might happen" instead of empiricism.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fermi paradox solved: The universe is full of conservative civilizations too dumb to build stable societies, so they are caught in a doom loop of collapse and rebuild, never making it to interstellar travel. Sounds legit.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Honestly, this is the best piece of eurotrash EDM for a long time.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some interesting choices in butt design here www.assbench.com Prompt: Create a realistic, interactive 3D model of a human butt as a single self-contained HTML file.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026

lots of discussion on here this week about how brains work and what consciousness really is so i'll go ahead and speculate that this is probably fun as fuck for the cow

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Climate Crisis Font kampanjat.hs.fi/climatefont/ "The heaviest font weight represents the minimum extent of the Arctic sea ice in the year 1979 ... The lightest weight represents IPCC’s 2050 forecast, when the Arctic sea ice minimum is expected to have shrunk to only 30 % of the 1979 extent."

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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very good piece, you can think that this is a major transformative technology with important and potentially terrible consequences but not an agent at all, let alone a God. And that the AGI RSI etc discourse is a distraction from the real dangers and solutions.

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

godot 4.8 exposed mesh buffers to gpu compute. all sorts of cool procedural shit is possible now

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OpenAI "has now resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics," and is waiting to release them until after discussions with the math community The same thing will likely happen, but more so, with the Bar, the AMA & other professions. openai.com/index/adviso...

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Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results.

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Dahlia @robotranny.soy · 21/09/2026

god i cannot wait for them to relax the rules enough they're allowed to have buzzsaws and shit

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Being online ≠ Social Media. It's the psychological dynamics of large connected groups that drive the toxic effects of socmed, while "being online" includes a lot more than "poasting for klout". It's just that the hypersocial focus of platforms turned other forms of being online invisible.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children --> gizmodo.com/pentagon-inv... Bloomberg: Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School --> archive.ph/wr8t9

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Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children

An unreleased Pentagon probe investigated the kill chain that hit a school in Minab.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The whole terminology is fucked up in this paper The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It arxiv.org/abs/2609.16247 A model generating text learned from humans using language to express pain does not experience pain precisely it lacks the valence mechanism to do so.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Misleading headline though, he specifically warns about "AI systems capable of setting their own objectives, earning money and owning assets" which would "essentially seeding a new silicon species".

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