iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

populism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are any number of facile quips you can make about archvillain and wannabe-Thanos Peter Thiel, but this violent and cruel philosophy is not uncommon in SV: that you cannot be competent/successful without hurting and destroying people. See ‘move fast and break things.’

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But the show I want to single out—the one on my personal 10-shows ballot that did not make the list at all—is this beautiful, and apparently now largely forgotten, creation. Do yourself a favor and seek it out. (86 Ted Lasso to make room for it.) www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/a...

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In ‘Rectify,’ Life After Prison and the Chance to Be Reborn (Gift Article)

The final season of the SundanceTV series uses deep Christian themes in telling the story of an ex-convict who is unequipped for freedom.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jesus Christ, these pathetic bastards, genuinely proud of outsourcing their intelligence and unable to articulate what, if anything, we are supposed to be gaining in exchange

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The shoehorning of ads into every square millimeter of real life and every pixel of online life is a scourge and should be regulated out of existence

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 19/09/2026

Fascinating and sad. Tech capital enables the type of self-actualization and cultural knowledge for elites at the very same time as it destroys the possibility of achieving any of that for the masses. www.wsj.com/business/spa...

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The SpaceX IPO Gave This Couple License to Chase Their Dreams

They quit their jobs and budgeted $25,000 a month for a year of fun.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics

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'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways

The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Alan Moore knew where all of this was headed back when Thatcher and Reagan were running things!

The seven panel layout in the 1985 V for Vendetta comic where the fascist leader Adam Susan confesses his love to the supercomputer Fate. He confesses that "I worship her, I am her slave. No freedom ever was so sweet."

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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bluesky head of trust and safety, folks.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All the horrors people ascribe to violent and disturbing art are in fact true of reality TV, maybe the greatest "artistic" evil of our time.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 15/09/2026

The way the press is just treating OpenAI/Anthropic x-risk goons as somehow being the experts on things that are risks to humanity despite a half-century plus of climate scientists being ignored on climate risks and over-industrialization leading to runaway emissions is just fucking bleak man

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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The logic of outsourcing writing to AI is that people don't need to engage in the process of developing complex thoughts. The logic of outsourcing reading to AI is that people don't need to engage in the process of understanding them.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is the culture Sam Altman has talked openly about creating. It seems entirely likely that it’s the only kind of culture tech billionaires is really capable of envisaging, because it’s the only medium in which they can exist. Why other people are still interested is for them to explain

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A. Das @rohandas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s something very jarring and depressing about hearing the word ‘Sinestro’ come out of Laura Linney’s mouth. We’re not going in a good direction.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/09/2026

Could the relentless demonization of the humanities as woke, useless, and esoteric; systemic underfunding of humanities disciplines; and the STEM & AP-ification of high school have anything to do with this?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's my birthday. The best birthday present you can give a writer is buying/reading their books. This one's a mythic realist tale of a family belonging to a fading extradimensional diaspora set in 90s/00s Calcutta. British Fantasy & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winner, Locus nominee:

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The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar eBook

Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I speak often about the moral weight of disgust. In this instance of censorship, the president of the university offers no rationale for his decision beyond his revulsion at the story in question. Adults who act this way cannot be permitted to participate in guiding society.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It seems like a minor thing but this is actually THE thing.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm just gonna keep doing it the old fashioned way and try to stay healthy. In the future, when almost nobody knows how to write or edit without help from machines, I'll make good money again.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Every so often I hear a cast member from The Office or SNL say "oh, you couldn't do that joke today" and It's Always Sunny has being doing that joke for more than 20 years

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

if you let yourself become reliant on LLMs to the point that you're asking them to do things like "summarize text messages" and "communicate with your loved ones," you suffer from a profound weakness of character.

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Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"No amount of spin can sugarcoat the utter disaster of layoffs, creative consolidation, and sheer mediocrity that awaits if Richie Rich runs roughshod over the industry he claims to love so much." Get 'im, @mcastimovies.bsky.social!

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Not only is David Ellison lying about his film plan, it's not even a good lie

Paramount Skydance CEO and heir apparent David Ellison is very upset that the media landscape can see right through him.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/08/2026

Would suggest it also depends on newsmakers deciding to value facts and thus have to evaluate claims in their coverage, or if they persist in arguing their job is to just capture the discourse in which case facts and officials lying won’t matter. So far, the “nothing matters” movement is winning.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

RIP Vincent Pastore Pussy’s death was one of the most poignantly desperate scenes in tv or film because of his bewildered attempt to come to terms with the inevitable. Pastore played it all beautifully. ‘Is that ok, Tony? That I sit?’ youtu.be/6LKtXzma3bw?...

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The Sopranos - Pussy Gets Whacked

YouTube video by Clip Catcher

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

You don't think you really have a storming the winter palace and shooting the damn Romanov kids switch in you and then you read an anecdote like this. Jesus Christ.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had a visceral physical reaction to this story that is hard to describe. Just destruction of everything I hold dear. Monstrous garbage oligarchies.

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A. Das @rohandas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Between Blue Heron and this movie (which Walter’s review really gets to the heart of), I had quite the dizzying cinema-going weekend and hope people attempt that very same pairing.

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A. Das @rohandas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Finally got around to this and it's as moving as advertised. Very likely to be one of my favorites of the year too.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 27/07/2026

Welcome to the party, pals

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My take on today's Odyssey controversy is, with all respect to everyone involved, that plumbers generally shouldn't review movies about plumbing.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think it’s nice that The Odyssey has brought back not only middlebrow blockbusters but old-fashioned literary snobbery

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts

HEADLINE: Taylor Farms pulls iceberg lettuce linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak (CBS News)

IMAGE: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

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A. Das @rohandas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This brought down my blood pressure from its usual noon 'the day's bad news is accumulating' heights.

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A. Das @rohandas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thus making him the Multiple Miggs to that cannibal's Hannibal Lecter.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 21/07/2026

I'm going to go on the record and say that even if you enjoy the final result, this is a dogshit way to make movies. If your actors don't know anything about the scene they're in, how can they make choices that might surprise or delight you? This is barely acting by any definition.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

WELL WELL WELL thank you @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-companies...

screenshot of a 404 media article with the headline "AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop"

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I was having a similar thought the other day about why AI gets the "it's the future and we all have to embrace it" line whereas renewable energy, which obviously IS the future and we're well on the way there already, is subject to "are we going too fast on Net Zero" nonsense.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/10/2025

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

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GENERAL JOHN MACARTHUR

If you were to commit a murder,

how would you do it?

It's got to be big! No slipping

something into someones drink, that's just

pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a

stain on the road. There's probably a couple

of people I'd put under a steamroller,

but I won't say who they are, otherwise

when they see a steamroller coming

their way they'll be on full alert. And

steamrollers don't go very fast...

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I have increasingly realized that finance people have quite literally lost their minds to AI. Logic, reason, knowledge, critical thinking, all gone like tears in rain. The next you think "why is that financial thing happening?" remember that these people literally believe we'll have infinite robots

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

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