iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you then asked AI for an etymology of "monter," IT WOULD GIVE YOU ONE. [Kyle Reese voice]: "That's what it does! That's all it does!"

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I wanted to fix all the "monters" in the e-book but our contracts with the publishers were to make an exact e-book, not a new edition of the work. So, maddeningly, I had to complete the ebook with lots of Gila monters. Cute little guys.

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's pretty impressive that 404's story put a stop to this pipeline to the wood chipper. As a former e-book production person, I just want to add some considerations about the *data* the AI companies were getting, and implications for the output.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/07/2026

Instead of forcing everyone who uses the Internet to cough up their sensitive personal data to private companies and to the federal government to “protect” kids, regulators and law COULD go way harder at rooting out the many freaks and creeps in high tech company leadership positions, like at Meta

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rgm @ryanmccuaig.net · 21/07/2026

so to greenlight an unbearably sad little popup plaza for a crony, a mayor's office can move mountains, but if for some decision a bureaucracy for its own mysterious reasons hides information, there's just no way such an office could intervene, my expectations are very unreasonable and naive

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Daniel Janus 💙💛 #StandWithUkraine @danieljanus.pl · 28/05/2026

Programming in #Clojure on the #reMarkable, the way God intended. (Better video and a writeup coming soon)

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

also it requires digital backdoors, which means not only do we lose secure private communication, but these backdoors are found and exploited by bad actors and/or abused by those with access cryptographic experts have repeatedly proven that there is no such thing as a secure encryption backdoor

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Padraig @padraig.org · 03/02/2025

They should sell $10 tickets where you just get to boo the us anthem and don't have to stay for the hockey

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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's totally clear: if you care about climate action, or even just want politicians to make decisions based on fact and evidence, ABC is not the party for you. This look at ABC's climate votes is particularly humiliating for Mike Klassen. We deserve better. thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-mi...

When I emailed Klassen to ask about the discrepancy between his claims and Statistics Norway data, in reply he sent a treatise about Norway’s electrification and how it has imperilled both affordability and emissions reductions. Klassen’s emailed statement asserted that recurring equipment maintenance costs can “push heating expenses to 12 to 18 per cent of household disposable income.” Statistics Norway data shows average house maintenance costs in 2022 made up only 0.2 per cent of household expenditures, while spending on the “repair, installation and hire of household appliances” didn’t even register statistically.
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By email, Klassen asserted, “Norway’s ban on residential natural gas hasn’t reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.” But this, too, appears to be unfounded. “It is wildly untrue to state Norway hasn’t reduced emissions from household heating,” Ketan Joshi, a communications consultant and energy analyst based in Oslo, Norway, emailed in response to my questions. “Since 2010, emissions from burning fossil gas for power and emissions related to household heating have both fallen significantly.” The electrification of heating in Norway has led to an 80 per cent drop in carbon dioxide emissions from heating over the past 30 years.

I responded to Klassen to confirm the source of his long email statement, asking whether the source was a human or artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT. He replied by email, “I often seek expert help on complex issues like energy.” When I pushed again to confirm the source, asking whether the research used to compile his emailed statement was compiled by a human, I did not receive a reply.

Why Klassen is citing such questionable statements from an unnamed source is a mystery. This is the same councillor who opened his question period to staff about the gas ban by saying, “I think we’re all determined to … having a rigorous fact-based decision here.”

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Jill Atkey @jfatkey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I have some thoughts 👇 Supportive housing exists because our systems sometimes fail people. It’s the solution, not the problem. And we need more of it. A lot more. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

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Jill Atkey: Mayor Sim's call for a pause on new supportive housing leaves Vancouverites with more questions than answers

Ken Sim's call for a pause on new supportive housing creates questions and panic — an announcement without a plan puts lives at risk

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