iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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We built the Universal Translator It’s not all upside, it’s not fully implemented, it’s not freely available, it’s going to cause wars and worse I still think that function alone will do more good than any prior human invention (Maybe more bad, too! My optimistic takes come with caveats)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7h

In ideal situations, there are certain guardrails in place to protect students from exploitation by more senior academics. But there are no institutional policies or guardrails that can make it okay for a professor to become involved with a student in their own department.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7h

Of course, with the power dynamic that exists between a professor and a student, consent is a difficult issue. A student may feel they can't say no. They may feel they can't report. They may be unable to continue their studies if things go badly, even if no harm is intended. There's no equal footing

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7h

This is part of what makes student-faculty romantic/sexual relationships so incredibly damaging for students. Any perception (however unfair) of impropriety, lack of seriousness, "trying to get ahead with sex," "creating drama," etc, can end a career, even if both parties are willing participants.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7h

This creates absolute minefields for anyone who is a member of an underrepresented group: racism, sexism, and bigotry that you never even know about can absolutely tank your career. All it takes is for an influential senior person to say "I don't think they're very good" or "they're not serious."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7h

One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.

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Ben Paulos @paulosanalysis.com · 5h

Good to see my Midwest homies are suing the administration over their attempt to kill solar in the USDA Rural Energy For America Program (REAP). Kudos to @renewwisconsin.bsky.social and @elpcenter.bsky.social. www.renewwisconsin.org/why-renew-is...

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Why RENEW is Suing the USDA - RENEW Wisconsin

In response to the USDA’s decision to cut solar out of REAP. On behalf of our members, RENEW has joined a lawsuit against the Trump Administration.

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 22h

I admit my version of everyones love for the bouncing DVD logo id that I enjoy seeing the visual of the bios being built up in windows. You can hate windows as a OS but seeing the bios built up one by one makes you feel briefly right with the world

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 30/09/2026

What the heck none of you guys have STEM degrees?

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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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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

in general people have no idea how many people with non technical backgrounds FAANG companies employ, especially in research positions

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ganymede is incredible. The biggest moon on the solar system *bigger than Mercury*. Imagine what amazing things must be on its surface, which we haven't seen up close in toto.

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This reminds me of this graph and similar more nuaced ones that illustrate the likely correlation between when we where a child, teenager and adult versus what we feel most nostalgic for

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's very funny that while tech cos are deservedly getting the current guff for this, some of the first companies to use the dual structure were... newspapers going public in the 1960s, to preserve family control (this is why the Sulzbergers still control the NYT, and Grahams did the WaPo pre-Bezos)

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Politics island is outnumbered by the hostile mainland that oppose our way of life. A nuclear deterrent is necessary.

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I did my regular beard removal for this period. My hair is a bit long right now and my eyes super dry so i have to admit the result was that i look like a 90s rock artist or drug dealer lol xd

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 28/09/2026

What’s really interesting to me is whether it’s possible in principle to distinguish here between plagiarism and multiple discovery. Multiple discovery happens a *lot*; afaik it’s more the rule than the exception.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

This man, Eliezer Yudkowsky, is now taking meetings with Bernie Sanders on AI regulation. bsky.app/profile/fain...

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading this article on nuclear normalization, it is easy to make parallel between the reactions to nuclear situation and those surronding modern technologies especially the concepts of spliting apocalypse versus incidents anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents....

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This shows up occasionally in climate work, which is ironic since some strands of Doomerism are used to deprioritize environmental protection in favor of, say, space colonization fantasies.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Doomer can also substitute knowledge and wisdom with rhetoric, particularly the belief that the Secondary Problem is other people's failure to accept the Doomer's premises. If only the scales would fall from their eyes, they could be as harshly honest, rational and far-seeing as the Doomer.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The psychology of doomerism is that the Doomer is the smartest boy in class because he can see the Real Problem, which obviously negates the primacy of Other Problems. For totally mysterious reasons, the Real Problem is never poverty or discrimination.

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Though gemini may not be astra level, if the released benchmarks are correct and its arc ones then it has established a good base over Sol. This mean every frontier model has at least one model past sol points now arcprize.org/results/goog...

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Gemini 3.8 Flash - ARC-AGI Results

Gemini 3.8 Flash reasoning variants across ARC-AGI-1, ARC-AGI-2, and ARC-AGI-3.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking that only agents can be biased is a real obstacle to recognizing and addressing a lot of the ways that society is unfair, and I’d rather not reify that way of thinking in the language we use to talk about LLMs

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Doe versus Github one of the bigger and interesting cases with consequences when it comes to what has been discussed around ai and copyright law www.authorsalliance.org/2026/09/23/r... And storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... And www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

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Resolving an Interlocutory Appeal, Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Section 1202 DMCA Claims in ongoing Doe v. GitHub litigation

On September 16, 2026, the Ninth Circuit issued its published opinion in Doe v. GitHub, Inc., affirming the district court’s dismissal of programmers’ claims under Section 1202(b) of th…

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the big thing here. No matter if we think AI is or isn't thinking. It both opens questions for us simply because of what capabilities have been demonstrated. If we choose to say what we would expect to require reasoning isnt being done with reasoning, that has consequences, same for inverse

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Gunnar Björnsson @gbjorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Merely saying that they don't do it the way we do or that they lack qualia is dialectically inadequate. The challenge – really just the challenge from functionalism taking concrete and thus more vivid form – is to say something more. And many, including many philosophers, are struggling.

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Gunnar Björnsson @gbjorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Because the problem concerns our everyday intentional notions? There is considerable pressure towards using it in describing the processing of machines with capabilities mapping onto a rich set a human capabilities the exercise of which has been described in those terms.

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Gunnar Björnsson @gbjorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(And philosopher certainly struggle with it. Many I talk to start off trying to explain differences by citing capabilities that LLMs now pretty clearly have. And will is right that the tendency then goes toward either what he calls chauvinism or consciousness/qualia.)

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Gunnar Björnsson @gbjorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Isn’t that disagreeing with two things he explicitly didn’t say? But, in a way, the point IS about vibes. The more capabilities previously only found in humans that they display, the more vivid and pressing the question becomes of why remaining differences matter, and for what.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 23/09/2026

SIGNIFICANTLY faster than most experts believed possible!

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 22/09/2026

HAIKU LIVES!!!!!!!!! SHE LIVES!!!!

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Southern Alliance for Clean Energy @cleanenergy.org · 21/09/2026

Good news! A federal judge has struck down the Trump EPA's cancellation of Solar for All, a nationwide program designed to bring affordable solar power to families and communities. Read the full statement ➡️ ow.ly/lYzJ50ZPNey 🔌💡

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

more than anything, i think we’re all learning that people who spent their professional life unable to talk to computers are completely unprepared for a situation in which they can now also talk to computers

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Zenamis @zenamis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People still think hacking is hoodies and "im in" noises. Its phising pure and simple these discs are still "hackable" cause bob who carries the keys is still dumb enough to click a questionable link.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 18/09/2026

Consider this still a beta. It definitely won't mess up your PDS (it only requests access over Atcade records), but it honestly could use more QA. But you can challenge anyone to a game with just their Bluesky handle! atcade.com

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atcade

Chess, checkers, four in a row, backgammon and mancala with anyone on Bluesky. Sign in with your account and challenge a handle.

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“If we don’t like your politics you don’t get to be trans” is a disturbingly common viewpoint, especially On Here and in the various groups that orbit around Here.

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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 18/09/2026

This story centers on La Paz County, one of the driest corners of the United States, and the residents in the midst of a water crisis. We couldn’t be prouder to see this reporting, which the judges described as “accessible, engaging, and rich in detail,” recognized by Covering Climate Now.

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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 18/09/2026

Big news! 🚨 @ninaelkadi.com’s Sentient feature, “In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm,” is the recipient of the Food and Agriculture Multimedia Journalism Award from @coveringclimatenow.org.

A man stands in the Arizona desert. Text reads:
2026 CCNow Journalism Awards
In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm

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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 04/09/2026

Exciting news! 📢 Sentient is thrilled to announce the Food and Farming Storytelling Fund. To support storytellers covering food and agriculture, we will distribute $360,000 in direct grants over the next two years. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/ouzaPdk

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Investing $360,000 into the storytellers tackling factory farming

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watching a shows with your family members when one is a lawyer is interesting discussions undoubtedly come up. Tonight we were discussing how lawyer would realistically handle a supposed conflict of intrest. This turned into discussing the idea of chinese walls en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...

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Chinese wall - Wikipedia

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I admit one thing the internet has taught me that is good is to not be embarrassed about searching something up to remind myself of something I previousily knew. Sometimes people say stuff i both dont know or just cant remember and I need to clarify my interpretation of their refrence.

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is interesting to see Obama take a stance speak on AI. He definitely seems to be trying to get both liberals and the left be a bit more focused on both sides of AI as a serious topic youtu.be/Ask5wzUo9kQ?... And www.obama.org/stories/pres...

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President Obama calls for public oversight of AI, warns of disruption ahead

Two Obama Leaders asked President Obama questions about AI. His answers changed how they see their work and what they do next.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 20/09/2026

Do you think they will have news articles "ChatGPT Astra says democracy is inevitable" No. No they will not :) github.com/dollspace-ga...

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GitHub - dollspace-gay/polisci

Contribute to dollspace-gay/polisci development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 19/09/2026

I got people telling me I’m not really nonbinary and am still salty about that

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