iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/10/2026

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One thing people aren't taking into account about the wave of AI assisted decompiling of games to mod them is that these same techniques can be used on all commercial software to use its source code to create open source alternatives. There's already projects to do so with the Adobe creative suite.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 22h

"We built an artificial baby model that learns language directly from raw sound and trained it to imitate whale speech. Then we looked inside." Vowels in whale language discovered with baby LLM <3

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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wrote an article about the possibility of dreaming in cephalopods. It has been published by @pioneerwork.bsky.social in an extremely beautiful way. Watch the videos through a layer of water. Become the tiny scuba-diving trackpad-pointer. Open access. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ce...

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The Dreams of Octopus and Cuttlefish | Broadcast

How the skin reveals a world within.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No wonder the paranoid style is having it's moment. Socmed increases the perception of (false) threats by those mechanisms of overconnection creating a general atmosphere of suspicion. Thing is, perceived threats create social identities in crowds, and then you get the tribalism we see everywhere.

René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elvis knew: We can′t go on together With suspicious minds And we can′t build our dreams On suspicious minds

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"create the ultimate brutalist city builder. you should have lots of controls over buildings in ways that are delightful and intuitive to people..." Here is Fable 5.1, a little over a year since GPT-5 below & a single shot (compared with many rounds with GPT-5.6) Quite good: brut-city.netlify.app

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yup --> bsky.app/profile/rawx...

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 02/10/2026

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers, they can't be "hot" because— wait actually yes they can.

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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)

If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Lens Flare effects in this short are a direct reference to their musicvideo for Maps from 2003 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIx...

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (Official Music Video)

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Hidden in Pieces Short Film, directed by Barnaby Clay. Nothing but love for this band <3

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hidden in Pieces (Short Film)

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

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Bartolomeo Pagano in Maciste in Hell (1925) 🔥

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My body is ready for spooky season.

The Burning - 1981 (Infamous Raft Massacre Scene) HD

Seeing this at age 8 may have been the thing that finally turned me into a splatter fan at a way too young age, and when my father came home from work right when the guy cuts off several bodyparts, he wasn't excited about it & it took 10 years for me to find that film again and watch it to the end.

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DerAutovampir aka Der Vampir aus dem Ferat CSSR Horror Fantasie Drama

Seeing this at age 7 or 8 (lone in the same camper at night while parents went out the same mountain village) may have been the thing that unlocked my inner horror fan somewhat obsessed with "things come alive"-monsters (and it laid the groundwork for my later Mad Max obsession)

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

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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Yes, my tolerance for ambiguity allows incoherent takes on the world which do not crystalize into beliefs, while the need for closure in conspiracy folks does turn those incoherent takes into hard beliefs. Something like that.

Yes, the 100% thing would be need for closure...

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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.

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

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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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'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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Other studies found conspiracy believers have a very strong need for closure, so they likely crystalize their ambiguities into strong beliefs due to closure.

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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Other studies found conspiracy believers have a very strong need for closure, so they likely crystalize their ambiguities into strong beliefs due to closure.

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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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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

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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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(Ofcourse, #noAFD are not conservatives but rightwing extremists.)

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.

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

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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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Yes, in a strong philosophical frame, likely not, as any subjectivity is a singularity by principle. But pragmatically, it might be.

My bet is that the midi-chlorians are found in synchronizations and the electromagnetic field, actually testable.

Oh yes, sky full of stars. Yearn.

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

This is in line with theories that proto-consciousness evolved from early organisms ability to move, which needs you to differentiate between self and not-self, thus: subjectivity.

"The earliest precursors of consciousness helped define biological boundaries, which likely protected early cellular life from eating itself ... the engineering hype that digital minds are just around the corner, both rest on conflating intelligence with consciousness."