iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/09/2026

I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so far simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/...

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2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 29/09/2026

I'm at OpenAI's DevDay event in San Francisco today - as I have for the past three DevDay events, I'm running a live blog where I'll be posting updates during the keynote, which starts in five minutes simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/...

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OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog

I’m at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I’ll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me …

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 02/10/2026

More information here, but I cannot emphasize enough how worthwhile it is to see this in person www.mcny.org/exhibition/h... There's currently no news on if and where it might be displayed to the public again

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He Built This City

Explore Joe Macken’s monumental model and discover the extraordinary vision behind one of the most ambitious handmade representations of New York City ever created.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 02/10/2026

If you have not yet been to see the scale model of NYC built by Joe Macken out of cardboard and balsa wood over a period of 21 years you only have until the 12th of October to see it! It's at the Museum of the City of New York, by the north east end of Central Park

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After he’s dead, we’re gonna find out that the man who ruined our country was never actually elected, aren’t we?

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“conservatives” are evil. 😡

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Simply caring about victims can change everything.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026

So fucking glad we don't have to listen to Charlie Kirk's opinion on the Cornell story

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gerrymandering is cheating and election-stealing. The massive money advantage is corruption in action. Neither of these represents “an upset.” The media really needs to stop normalizing and enabling cheating, election-stealing and corruption.

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

America is fucked because “conservatives” are monsters.

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

Journalism went bankrupt gradually, then suddenly. The rebuilding of sustainable journalism will be invisible, then gradual, then sudden.

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party! 😡

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

an utterly evil cult · · · 👀 🇺🇸🔥💀

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God @thegodshow.com · 03/10/2026

The reason that all this happened is because too many Americans thinks it’s cool and funny to be ignorant assholes. It’s not funny.

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

…goose-stepping into your future . . .

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Lindsay Anne Black @linanneblack2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have only a couple of maquettes left in my possession, from my previous career as a production designer, and I recently gave this little one a new spot on some new shelving. Related: I finally found the perfect place to put the cicada exoskeleton I had been saving since the summer.

A half-inch scale model of a set design for a play that was produced almost twenty years ago in Toronto. It is hand-built and hand-painted. The design elements include: a weathered hardwood floor with an irregular jagged edge, as if it has been smashed away. Under the floor boards, we can see pages from diaries, books, and magazines, as if they have been hidden away and then discovered like a time capsule. The back wall is partial, and suggests the small bay window of a terrace house on one side, and a cramped stairwell on the other side, as if the house has been broken into even smaller units. There are large packing boxes, a half-moon table, a stained mid-century settee, and at downstage centre, there is a cicada exoskeleton sitting backwards on a wooden kitchen chair, like a youth pastor.

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

your billionaire masters thank you (no they don’t.)

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

another Obergruppenführer in the GOP’s Brave New World 🤮

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AKA “the fourth reich”, Bob · · · 👀

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

…AKA “nazis” · · · 👀

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Khashoggi's assassination was in hindsight one of the highly salient norm-shattering moments of impunity that helped recalibrate contemporary expectations for outrageous crimes: if you're rich & powerful enough, in the words of the President of the United States, "they just let you do it"

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Catching measles does not make your immune system stronger… it does the exact opposite. It can wipe out your immunity (both natural and vaccine related) to all kinds of diseases. It’s a deadly and disabling disease that we know how to prevent. Get your vaccine. It saves lives.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We teach young girls to cover their drinks. Walk with their keys between their knuckles. Dress modestly. Have a buddy system. Yell “fire”. By the time we’re adults we have a novel length list of rules to follow to avoid being raped. Many of us are raped anyways. That’s why we’re enraged.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the evergreenest of posts:

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He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets. Dec 24, 2022, 11:32 PM • • • Web Last edited Dec 25, 07:44 AM 11K boosts • 0 quotes • 17K favorites

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also if you want to understand the real rewards and cost of a job look at salaries for 65 year olds and what kind of health problems they have, not entry level salaries for people who aren’t old enough to drink and can handle rigorous physical work for 8 hours a day (minimum)

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.” — Brian Barrett 🫤

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If a Dem loses a close race in one of those GOP-run states, I don’t wsnt to see thrm just concede. Bring on the lawyers and challenge it. You know they’re cheating.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🤣…. also, you are so fucked…

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heather Cox Richardson, October 01, 2026: “Although the outrageous chaos of the Trump years has numbed us, it is not acceptable for the president of the United States to threaten another nation with annihilation.” 🇺🇸 🔥 💀

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Q: What's the difference between rugged individualism and male loneliness? They’re both shit propaganda (just like the “Westerns”—TV & movies—that “conservatives” bankrolled) to delude and exclude dummies from understanding and taking meaningful political action…

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Ron Gillmore @ron-gillmore-1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pontificating is for pontiffs and shamans but twits do it every day. · · · 👀

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"We are losing our soul as a nation," warns Cardinal McElroy, as he urges us all to rise up against Trump’s "evil" immigration policies. www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-los... New on Heads Up News.

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‘We are losing our soul as a nation’

Catholic clergy call for action against Trump’s ‘evil’ immigration policies

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