iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Melissa BearTrix @melissabeartrix.gives.hugz.online.ap.brid.gy · 1h

"we are going to talk about how hard it is to keep AI in line" ... Fuckers you have problems 1. It is a human that tells the computer how to work 2. Refer to rule 1 Hugz & xXx

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 6h

"please don't give root to the text generator" shouldn't need to be on the rules list... but here we are.

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an actual bus @renardboy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025

I never understood why so many men associate with imagery of predatory animals. My idealized version of my own masculinity is best represented by a tree. Patient. Immensely endurant. Self-sufficient. Unbothered by trivial, ephemereal affairs. Innately kind to the world around it. I don't want […]

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Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Crow with knife meme, but it's a pukeko with a plastic spoon. Defying the soft bigotry of my low expectations for the intelligence of these birds, by the time I got my phone out, it had realised it wasn't edible.

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Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10h

No, booking.com, I am not missing Mississauga. #Toronto people, have I been too hasty judging your airport suburb?

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Peters Insult du Jour @salty.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I agree with Altman here. Altman should indeed accept some negative consequences for the sake of AI. Such as jail time for all the computer crimes he has openly admitted to committing or directing to be committed for the purposes of training and testing […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyve1…

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Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Talking politics at the pub the other night, and one of the group said "surely you don't want Chloe Swarbrick as Finance Minister?" "Of course not", I replied, and just as the smile was appearing on my interlocutor's face, I added, "I want her as Prime Minister". #NZPol

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White. She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And […]

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jesus Christ, serious people are falling for this narrative. How did they go from «everything is normal, calm down» to «the computer is plotting to kill us»? I want us to take these people seriously, not because they’re right (they’re nuts), but because they’re powerful.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I don't think that's what was meant in a post I just read about a SpaceX launch that includes a Canadian astronaut from Fort Saskatchewan, but anytime I see "Saskatchewan" and a SpaceX Crew Dragon in the same place, I think about the terrifyingly huge pieces of debris that SpaceX casually drops […]

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Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

AI, SI, LLM? No, what we need to call them is BatP. As in, "Bloke at the Pub told me ...". And now you have a reference frame for how much reliance you can put on the statement that follows.

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just heard on RNZ that polling showing 28% of Māori planning to vote Green for Party vote on Māori Roll, absolutely no wonder Christopher Luxon evacuating in his ill fitting trousers #NZPol

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Stephen @stephen.ephemera.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Packing up a big wooden drum to take on a plane tomorrow, and suddenly reminded of musician friends who for some years had a theory that there was a baggage handler at Wellington airport who opened cases and broke guitar necks, based on the frequency and implausibility of the breaks they saw […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

White supremacy does not necessarily have to look like a shaved head neo nazi waving a swastika around. It may simply be boring bureaucracy weaponised to quietly erase culture. When we say "decolonise everything", we mean look at these systems and ask who benefits, whose worldview is being […]

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Looking to move off Dropbox, recommendations welcome! My requirements: * 1-2 TB for about $15 CAD ($10 USD or €9 EUR) * supports Linux & Android * phone camera uploads * continuous/background sync (or at least automated) * CEO not fascist Nice-to-have: * not US-based * company […]

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Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

A belated apology to my late mother. It turns out that not only are my friends jumping off bridges, they're borrowing billions of dollars to build taller bridges that don't go anywhere just so they can jump off them and land head first on the concrete below, with the effect you'd expect in their […]

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ☠️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ☠️ Now it's all like oh no! the computer did an oopsie! no one is to blame, nothing can be done! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Fun fact: the U.S. Constitution does not require citizenship to vote. I'll repeat that: the U.S. Constitution does not say that only citizens can vote. It does not ban non-citizens from voting. A federal *statute* contains this requirement, as do many states' laws. But if the law was changed […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I have a suggestion about inviting people to speak at tech conferences. It's particularly focused on people who sometimes get described as "problematic". I don't mean self-identified white supremacists (like DHH), or people's whose behaviour is unambiguously abusive. I mean all the edge cases […]

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Ok Fedi there's a weird thing happening in my feed rn. I'm using Ivory. I'm seeing posts that appear to be from Lemmy instances (lemmy.ca and slrpnk.net) from people I don't follow, which don't appear to be boosted, nor appear to be using any hashtags. The accounts don't appear to have any […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-f…

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essjax @essjax.m.essjax.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Why is the US president being a dick the lead story on our NZ News sites? Literally not news. To anyone. It's embarrassing, stop it. Just stop reporting on the buffoon. Well, until his obituary. And even then, two words will do.

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

A couple of weeks back I was given a recently purchased Android/Linux device. Today I finally booted it up and tried to install F-Droid. The APK downloaded fine, and I found it in the file manager. When I tried to install it, I hit the usual need to turn on permission to install unfamiliar apps […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

i had missed meta's muse product and man the hype press is so funny. the nyt's puff piece that is actually titled "I gave my life over to meta's A.I. agent and was blown away" cites three good things that it can do without problems: find duplicate subscriptions when given full access to a bank […]

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Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I've actually been enjoying work this week. I've even started thinking about not retiring next year. When I noticed myself thinking this, I thought maybe I'd come back from holiday tanned*, rested and ready, but I think what it really is is that the Cursor credits have run out and my colleagues […]

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