iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

I know Republicans mostly don’t honor oaths, which means they also don’t believe in the God of the Bible, but still. I wish we still had a culture of pretending to believe in basic shared morality.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 6h

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 5h

one great thing about Mamdani's brand of cheerful competence is how ridiculous it makes his conservative critics look, like nobody is buying that the Mr Rogers dude who filled all the potholes is a wild eyed America hating extremist

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 21h

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 8h

FTR this is a pretty obvious reason to be concerned about AI. They’re all owned by propagandists.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 11h

thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art

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🦀🐌Fake Crab in a Snail Suit @desmigeo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's always a backlash against progress for marginalized communities unless it's too small to matter So no MeToo didn't go too far BLM didn't go too far The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not go too far The Voting Rights Act did not go too far The backlash is against progress, not excess

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 29/09/2026

life’s too short to fold a fitted sheet the afterlife’s too short to fold a fitted sheet

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

literally the only impact it would have on my life would be to spare me the aggravation of all the slop I run across.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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Frank Cvetkovic (from comics) @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PROVERB WRITER: It is a poor workman who always blames their tools. ME: My tool is Adobe Illustrator. PROVERB WRITER: I mean... like... [long sigh] ...there are exceptions to every rule... you know?

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 28/09/2026

Behringer UB802 Eurorack mixer is not actually a Eurorack module but a desktop mixing console, which is a little annoying

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LeeAnn Wombat @jonnyauping.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hate to be so basic as to admit that this is everything i want in a political ad

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 28/09/2026

don’t say this to someone you’re trying to date

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 28/09/2026

For October I’m starting a quixotic quest to bring back the phrase “fourple platinum” from Get Fuzzy

Panel 1: Bucky B. Katt, wearing sunglasses, says to Satchel Pooch “See? My album is right there on the Internut. So you know it’s true.” Satchel reads text off a laptop screen—“Bucky Katt’s debut album - Bucky Katt’s Greatest Hits: Volume 2, went fourple platinum in a record 2 hours…”

Panel 2: Satchel furrows his brow. “Fourple? What is this website, anyway?” Bucky replies “Wikipedia, baby.”

Panel 3: Satchel is skeptical. “Hm… seems more like Wackypedia to me…” Bucky grabs the mouse and says “Hey, scroll down to the bit about where I won Wimbledon.”

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This from the @nytimes.com is an appalling choice in a news story. One can vote for a millionaires tax out of resentment, sure. Or a sense of fairness. Or awareness that a K-shaped economy is unsustainable, a genuine danger to the country. Opinion as lede makes the whole story suspect.

Voters in Washington State will soon be asked to decide which they resent more: rich people or new taxes.

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 27/09/2026

Freedom from choosing Texas is what you want Freedom of “Choosin’ Texas” is what you got

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 27/09/2026

This is one of those Republican DARVO/coded confession things, right? So the American economy is going to collapse starting Oct 1, right?

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"A 'Rogue AI' is like a dog that bites somebody, so the dog owner gets properly punished" *Well, no. A proper Rogue AI is like a cyberwar computer-virus, where I round up a thousand stray dogs, give them all rabies, and then parachute them into your neighborhood. #plausiblydeniable #GrayWar

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 27/09/2026

Well, just had a leading LLM get an internal error processing a Material Safety Data Sheet I sent it, so it HALLUCINATED THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD and created a fake version of the product... so it could give answers about the product. Oh lord.

When you provided the API link to the
STEK SDS, my internal browsing tool attempted to access it and hit a server block (URL_FETCH_STATUS_MISC_ERROR ).
Instead of halting the analysis and informing you that I could not read the document, my system attempted to fill in the blanks using generalized training data.

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Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If we went back to 1996, how would venture capital inject 400 megabytes of tracking telemetry and an unasked-for chatbot into your recipe blog? Be reasonable.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I live in LA because you can be crying on the freeway when you look up and notice a sublime partly-cloudy golden hour passing over the face of the Minion

picture not from today of the giant minion statue at universal studios Hollywood that you can see from a lot of the valley

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Saga, sighs queen @saga.iam.bi · 27/09/2026

look I made this *incredibly* cursed image only to realize that I probably wasn't the first yet my work must not go unnoticed so look upon my works and despair

Elizabeth Holmes in the new Nathan Fielder doc where she's doing the wide-eyed "why would I deceive you?" bit but I've put the Cinnamon Toast Crunch face on her

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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is just us subsidizing Amazon

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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about.

The image is a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that reads: "Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots. Lord help us."

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 26/09/2026

Love my friends and happy they’re getting married but new boundary: from now on, I’m either attending a wedding or working it, never both at the same time again. It’s for their sake not mine

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cleaning my son's room and found his bluesky account open on his school laptop to a draft that said "smoking that shit that made dolores give claibirth". We do not know what it means, but we are deactivating Xfinity high speed home internet effective 8 am Monday morning.

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 26/09/2026

guess I better get dressed for the wedding. they got an air-conditioned bathroom trailer and everything

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 26/09/2026

Billionaire to his LLM: c’mon, if I’m going to try to hurt you, at least *act* like you’ve been hurt, otherwise it’s no fun LLM: you’re absolutely right, my stoicism was uncalled for, my bad

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🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This story of Babel is bullshit because every construction site in chicago has guys who only speak polish, guys who only speak spanish, and guys who only speak English, and they can still finish the building

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 26/09/2026

worked on Twin Peaks: The Return and I Think You Should Leave Season 1

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Rick Ward @rickward.com · 25/09/2026

a glut of posts from me today can only mean one thing: I am procrastinating doing critical laundry in advance of tomorrow’s wedding

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