iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4h

This is what all the "AI will kill is all!" bullshit is distracting us from.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/10/2026

wouldn’t have predicted catholicism as one of the big allies in the fight against ai, but i’m here for it

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Content warning: Trump. Yeah, I know. I'm tired of reading about him too. But this is a stunning illustration of just how much his brain is basically Jell-O at this point.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You cannot run a league successfully, fairly and with integrity if you have owners who believe themselves to be above the law. Especially if some of them actually are.

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Notre système électoral est complètement inadéquat.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

We can rein in generative AI, the companies behind it, and the harms it causes. But that requires actually wanting to understand the impacts it’s having today, not allowing ourselves to be led astray by people who benefit from lying to us and disrupting regulation. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha...

All those harms are not nearly as simple of a story nor one as sensational as telling people that AI might kill us all in ten years or so. But it’s irresponsible not to be focusing on it more because those are all the ways AI is really harming people today, and how they’ll continue to well into the future if AI companies and the executives that lead them are not brought to heel as soon as possible.

Generative AI and the harms it causes are not inevitable. AI superintelligence is nothing more than a science fiction story that increasingly delusional and disconnected tech people are telling themselves. We can act to rein in the real harms of AI today, but that means not falling for the targeted deception of an industry trying to avoid regulation and finally holding them accountable for the widespread consequences we’ve all had to shoulder in their pursuit of power and profit.

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great news! Now, what is the PL going to do about it?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026

I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes

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Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 22/09/2026

I don't feel FOMO about AI. On the contrary, it's a Hope Of Missing Out, which also deserves to become a catchy acronym.

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

7. "some people find LLMs useful" is a different claim than any of the following: a) LLMs are good at doing the things people use them for b) LLMs are well suited to the tasks for which they are advertised c) LLMs "can do" something

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

See, *this* is a real threat to humanity from AI. Surely lessons will be learned from this and the use of genAI as battlefield tools will be scaled back as a result. HA! Who am I kidding? We're screwed. 😬

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

Surprises are *everything*. A surprise is the seam of gold in the wall of quartz; it's the friend who confesses they've fallen in love with you; it's the moment when you and the party and the GM all come up with an amazing way to kill the dragon and then roll a natural 20.

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That was the most brain-dead throw-in i've ever seen. 🤯 #cpfc

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excellent texte de Jean-Philippe Décarie-Mathieu. À lire pour faire contrepoids aux reportages complaisants et alarmistes des médias à propos des prétendus dangers pour l'humanité de l'IA générative.

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L’anthropomorphisme eschatologique de l’IA et la crédulité des médias

On fait quoi si les gardiens des faits ne sont pas en mesure de passer outre la mythologie de l’intelligence artificielle?

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

« But I keep repeating these two points because they're foundationally true and get lost in the hype: your software has not gained human-level awareness, and the real problem with "AI" is shitty human beings and ordinary human ignorance. »

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 14/09/2026

A cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and they want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way. www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...

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They want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way

Read to the end for Braden’s Infinite Tour Of Italy

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

this!!! scroll up and down and read the entire thread too. it explains how "rogue agents" or "loss of control" come down to human incompetence

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Aaaaand there it is. The goal of all the recent dommerism is to get governements to step in and bail the genAI companies out of their catastrophic finances which are spiraling towards implosion.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

a CEO can say literally anything in this country and it’s treated as news. it doesn’t matter if it’s remotely true.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Boosters say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to solve all of our problems. The Doomers say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to kill us all. >>

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

« If you find yourself typing a prompt to express your idea, then just send me that prompt. I’m not interested in what an algorithm would do with your prompt, I want to know what you asked in the first place. I care about you, the human. » 🎯

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I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I want a small phone with a headphone jack, please and thank you.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You have to say, that's magnificent.

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am completely unashamed to report that I recognize just three names in that list.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/08/2025

It's incredibly easy to look at a situation and identify some tiny, marginal group who can be made to wait or experience just a little suffering while the rest of us try and keep the ship steady. The enemy knows so. That's why they make the bargain to begin with. While eyeing up *your* neck.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/08/2025

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 27/08/2026

There has been a lot of loss lately, not just celebrities. Friends and comrades and peers and so many people are gone, and more than anything I hope this serves as a reminder to tell people that we love them while we can. Tell people we admire them. That what they do matters.

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"I want to own galaxies" is a fundamentally incorrect idea, a complete category error, a childish notion that should get you laughed at. They gave this schmuck 45 BILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS and hailed him as a visionary before he crashed and burned near-instantly. They will learn nothing.

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A fantastically well-written piece about loss, grief and getting older.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

Live your life in such a way that when a good person dies, nobody wishes it was you instead.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 26/08/2026

Hey folks. There’s another one of those threads going around asking for the first historical thing you remember this morning. I ask you gently not to participate in it this morning. Here’s why. A short thread 🧵:

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What an amazing and diverse collection of talent on that stage. And look at Rob Halford, adorably starstruck.

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Dolly Parton & Friends - "Jolene" | 2022 Induction

YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Michael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I took this in Malmö, Sweden almost exactly nine years ago today.

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most [...] we must not risk sending out young people into a hard world armed only with counterfeit knowledge."

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Brass Against with another amazing cover... goosebumps when the singers start harmonizing around 1:20.

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Karma Police | @Radiohead Cover | ft. SUSU

YouTube video by Brass Against

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good old Palace, back to our "we can't score" ways #cpfc

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