iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Galaxy brain take that is actually quite good except the people at this companies would definitely not unionize and risk their huge IPO paydays

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 9h

I really miss the old days when one of the most exciting things in machine learning was XGBoost.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 3h

Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 4h

The US is literally being avoided like the plague.

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 4h

hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t necessarily think this will happen but it is certainly possible and would be cool

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 5h

I think we're going to get a random assortment of really quite impactful technological breakthroughs in the next 5 years as scientists run LLM swarms against the frontier of open problems and find unexpected angles where industrial-scale intelligence finds some weird lucky breakthrough

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 13h

Someone let me out

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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 12h

I have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 10h

Anyway, a crucial driver of technofascism is the networks of capital that recruit and enculturate young tech workers into going along with producing society-wide sociotechnical harms through the uncritical production of surveillance and AI technologies.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

instructive to recall that even some Sensible Dems i respect and follow were, in the agonizing weeks leading up to the biden withdrawal and kamala stepping in were absolutely adamant that it was madness -- madness! -- to suggest he must step down. got right in line when the inevitable happened

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yeah guys like peter thiel (philosophy, law) and alex karp (studied under habermas)

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Making a new game. Very chill. Picking berries, scaring sparrows, stockpiling for winter. Definitely not a horror, and certainly nothing bad is going to happen here 👀 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the security organizations in big tech have been absolutely devastated by layoffs. in 2023 there was a big push to make even the compliance organizations profit centers rather than cost centers, and a lot of normal review processes are gone.

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A number that is really helpful to keep in mind is that Google’s yearly revenue is 400B. This helps put a lot of things in context.

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the important thing is to identify the ideological capture that is distorting both public conversation and the path of technology development. You can view reality through a frame that is inextricably shaped by rationalism’s influence without being a card-carrying member

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, exactly. i am adjacent to rationalists because i have worked alongside rationalists for a decade. some are very earnest EA monks who more or less give away the huge amount of money they make. some are neoreactionaries with essentially Satanic values. the monks and neoreactionaries get along.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026

Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 28/09/2026

It continues to be disheartening to be the first human to read the code in a PR when I'm supposed to be *reviewing* it. 🙃 That PR has *your* name on it, not Claude's! Have at least a LITTLE pride in your work!

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 27/09/2026

This is wild in many ways but... "DHH is known for controversial discussions, but this topped them all" I dunno, I'd argue the "murder the immigrants" rhetoric was a bit more controversial than what programming language this very rich lonely loser is using?

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 27/09/2026

so much of "alignment" rn consists of ignoring existing knowledge of how to responsibly build and manage automated systems and doing this instead:

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Preparing to film the shot where Zuck pours the Sweet Baby Ray’s

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

i feel like the small bsky AI community here is not really EA or e/acc but it does seem to have evolved its own three distinct strains: soberminded competent commentary, demoscene manic vibe coding, and pseudo-esoteric horny AI liberationists

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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 27/09/2026

There is nothing inevitable about today's GenAI companies or market or product design or power dynamics. It's based on decisions, made implicitly and explicitly, by people. To imagine a better way we must realize how arbitrary all of this is. And who it serves.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we never should have hurt that gorilla

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Circling back to this in light of the discourse

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had never heard of it but after listening to it I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it in the background of many Instagram reels

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plainoldchair @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can ask Claude Code to figure something out about a gigantic, undocumented codebase going off nothing but a natural language description of user experience, and it just does it, and will probably explain it quite well and offer a solution. Anthropic is also a terrible company. These facts coexist.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

america is a land full of people who all treasure the right to entertain their various fantasies, always dogs perpetually in pursuit of a car they — deep down — think they will never catch

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Mark Medina @markmedina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You don’t want a new Halo game. You want to be 15 again. It’s the same reason Call of Duty “isn’t fun anymore”. It’s not really any different than it used to be. You’re just older now and there are a million of them. No MP FPS is gonna make you feel like a teenager again.

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorcerer/Smokey and the Bandit spiritual sequel when

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't believe Bean Dad was almost 6 years ago

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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like this has the potential to make all the anti-AI and all the anti-Wittgenstein crowd happy, and this is basically 100% of the philosophy population.

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 25/09/2026

Absolutely one of the most under-known facts about OpenAI was that chatgpt was like a weird little side project, a proof of concept for their LLM technology, and when it blew up, they made the debatable but probably (from a business PoV) correct decision to toss everything else and go all-in on that

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I remember this pivot point and it makes me insane

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this iced coffee thing is extremely annoying - "iced coffee" is going to be my second muted term for bluesky

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cyclist ca. 1926 🎨 Enzo Benedetto

Modernist painting of a person riding a bicycle, emphasizing the motion.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we gotta bring this shit back

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

personally I think making your side of any dispute think worse for the tasty mcvibes of putting down an out group is rarely a good trade off, unless you have extremely powerful propaganda tech at your disposal or don't need your side's brains for anything later

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 26/09/2026

if you think this is just a trend puff piece, it isn't, I have literally had seven-year-olds running around my house going THAT'S SO AI

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

one thing about "the ick" is that it's my first exposure to INSANE reactionary gender politics by women

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