iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 20h

USWNT down 2-0 to Spain again

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Character.AI, which was valued at more than $1b in 2023, is bankrupt. CAI's founders once argued that they were building superintelligence. The startup went on to face wrongful death lawsuits, safety concerns, financial struggles, and user-hated platform changes: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Character.AI is a fascinating case study of the early AI era. It was the first company to face allegations of psychological harm and wrongful death to users, claims that other major players in the industry are now battling too. Yet in attempting, eventually, to make its freewheeling platform safer, it also made it unusable and deeply frustrating for much of its userbase — suggesting that the qualities that allegedly made its platform so dangerous to some young users were the same features that made it compelling.

At the same time, despite immense investments, it struggled to do something that, from a business perspective, is pretty important: make money. And unfortunately for the broader AI industry — and the American economy — that specific issue isn’t unique to Character.AI.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 13/10/2026

"Apple HomeView is designed to bring more joy and convenience to everyone in your household" I'm sorry but you'll have to be more specific

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

let ms. rachel run dem strategy and actually i am so serious

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

to me, a layup sensible AI regulation is "do not allow the AI agent to make phone calls for any reason"

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

AI Execs are lyke "do not saye meane thinges to the part of the stucco that doth look lyke a face"

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He has Hollywood leading man looks and he speaks with moral clarity. That's it, really.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here?

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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Folks, we’re awfully close to losing the plot entirely, and that’s being generous. The consciousness debate is a silly dead end distraction from the very real danger of AI’s destruction of institutions and degradation of our own humanity.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

maybe the animaniacs can drop a large anvil on david ellison

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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

has it occurred to you that other people are not collateral damage for your personal hero's journey

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 02/10/2026

Some people apparently have deep reservations about AI and are very reluctant to use it. So now the AI looks like a Beanie Baby

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

of COURSE newsom is pro pervert glasses lol like please be less predictable sir

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This would be the equivalent of sports coverage devoting itself to reporting on gambling markets instead of the game. Because real reporting on real stories is hard.

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Rach @readbyrach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I live 2 hours from Atlanta in TN so of course I immediately became a founding member last year. I don’t hate Atlanta City FC. I don’t get it, but I don’t hate it. I expect we’ll be known as Atlanta or ATL anyway. Wish there was more focus on the dogwood over a Phoenix, but the colors are 🔥❤️

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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 28/09/2026

We’re so ATL 🫰 Today, the NWSL’s 17th club unveiled it’s name and crest: Atlanta City FC. Sound off for ATL, coming in 2028!

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We simply cannot survive with governments that are for sale.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

THE COUNCIL OF ELROND Elrond: "Speake nowe, who will carrye the ring to Mordor?" Frodo [lookinge for place on the table to putte hys iced coffee]

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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 26/09/2026

#️⃣5️⃣2️⃣ Jess Fishlock is now the Seattle Reign's all-time leading goal scorer 👏

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Keeper Notes @keepernotes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fishlock becomes OLDEST player to record a brace at age 39, besting Sinclair's record (age 38 when she had her last Thorns brace) And BOTH goals came from outside the box!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So legally, what’s the difference between this stuff and creating and releasing a computer virus?

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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mivven @ghostsghouls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It cannot be overstated how much Bret does not make an argument in this column. He does not list a single worthy book he thinks was excluded. He clearly has not read the vast majority of the books. His entire critique is just “these books are written by women and minorities, which is bad”.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this relationship does not get less funny to me i’m sorry like i know there are real stakes i KNOW that but it’s so perfectly overbearing racist grandpa / grandchild who can barely muster basic manners

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm over calls to "normalize" behaviors. Who wants to be normal? AI's "not going anywhere?" Until you drop kick it outta your life with no regrets. Be weird. Hang out with librarians. #EduSky #AIRefusal www.librarian.net/notoai/

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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. ...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Banning "superintelligent" 🤢 AI plays right into industry rhetoric and keeps the focus off immediate, real world harms such as privacy, bias, and labor. Literally the same name of the silly Bostrom book everyone was reading 12 years ago.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“I think adults bullying and demanding to see children’s’ genitals on command is bad.” Look at that. It’s that easy.

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/09/2026

this is a damn good post from a U.S. Senator and I wish all of them could figure out how to talk like this

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Driving me crazy that a lot of very smart people aren't entertaining the idea that the **AI might kill us all** narrative is kabuki theater -- orchestrated by some of the world's richest people, whose net worth is tied up in people believing their technology is just on the cusp of super intelligence

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