iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My book, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback is done! This is the book I wish I had when learning to fine-tune, align, & now post-train models since ChatGPT. The resource has been built by me finding time to study and document the fundamentals on nights and weekends since 2024.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

How can this go on for another 3 years?

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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Samuel Osinaike @samuelosinaike.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Reminder for the future. The impact of this will be generational

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We have been pounding the table about fake imagery in these moments for years - execs at the big tech companies have all told me we are right about it. But they have done appropriately nothing to manage the death of visual reality www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

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No one’s ready for this

The photograph is now meaningless as evidence. We are not prepared.

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Samuel Osinaike @samuelosinaike.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Reuters: Trump voters blame structural issues for rising costs

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23/11/2025

Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...

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Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM

Olmo is the LLM series from Ai2—the Allen institute for AI. Unlike most open weight models these are notable for including the full training data, training process and checkpoints along …

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Elise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

In addition to Black unemployment, I've been keeping my eye on the unemployment rate for young workers. With depressed hires, I'm concerned about the ability for young workers to break into the labor market. Their unemployment rate has been steadily rising for much of the last 2 1/2 years. #EconSky

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

PANTHEON: “.. new graduates are struggling to find their first job. .. the drag on employment from AI likely will intensify next year as AI adoption by firms continues to increase ..”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Consumer sentiment by income-level tells you everything. #UMich @sofiabaig.bsky.social

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I’ve been looking for this for years. Late night staying up watching Bravo when I was a child youtu.be/-GeBcUxcZjw?...

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Entire The Maxx Animated Series Explored - MTV's Underrated Gem Captures a Dark Dystopian Reality!

YouTube video by Marvelous Cartoons

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

ICE is now offering new recruits $50,000 bonus, $60,000 student debt repayment, and 25% premium pay, per Reuters

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

GOLDMAN DESK: “.. here we go again. the expectation was for 4% y/y earnings growth in Q2. as we sit here today, that looks more like +11%. .. US corporates -- amidst an operating environment full of uncertainty -- are doing what US corporates do best.” [Pasquariello]

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 06/08/2025

I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it. Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

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A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment

On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Here we go... 'Rachel Reeves needs to put up taxes to cover £40bn deficit... a rise of 5p in the pound on basic and higher rate of income tax would fill the budget gap' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/08/2025

a lovely hot take you could write if you wanted to set your mentions on fire is that "hey when I was 12 I watched hardcore porn online and I turned out fine" is the new "hey when I was 12 I had to walk 5 miles to school/I'd get smacked by the teacher and I turned out fine"

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 15/07/2025

with goose, anyone with an idea can build it. we’re doubling down to make that even easier. goose now has a dedicated open source team. full autonomy. independently funded. we'd love the community to build with us and are launching a grant program. subscribe bit.ly/subscribe-go...

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Contributor Grant Program: Interest Form

goose is launching a grant program to support open source contributors who want to help shape the future of agentic AI. We want to make it easier and more rewarding for anyone to become a builder. Sig...

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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I’m reading a very well written 2023 paper on social media recommender systems from @randomwalker.bsky.social I had completely forgotten that in the 00s “neither Facebook nor Twitter had the ability to reshare or retweet posts in your feed.”What a huge shift! knightcolumbia.org/content/unde...

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Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 07/07/2025

Beautiful essay by @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social on learning to realise that what you want to do is, in fact, possible www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/agency

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On agency

Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

There’s always a tweet.

A tweet by JD Vance from September 4, 2021. It says;

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2025

Wow -- Trump jumps in to try to shut down a reporter who attempts to ask Pam Bondi about the missing minute in the Epstein jailhouse tape

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Tim Chinenov 🇺🇸🪧 @timchinenov.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I left SpaceX in 2023 and it was a very different environment from when I had initially joined. In my latest post, I explore Elon Musk’s timely luck of entering the aerospace and environmental industries and the group of people he forgot about along the way. timyc.substack.com/p/who-elon-t...

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Who Elon Musk Took For Granted

Elon Musk took over an industry at the right time. But as he grew a new online army, he lost an old one.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bar chart titled "Matters of Scale" comparing proposed US research budget cuts to the European Union's €500-million (US$571-million) "Choose Europe" fund. The chart shows:

* National Institutes of Health (NIH): $8 billion in cancelled grants and $18 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (long orange bar).
* National Science Foundation (NSF): $5.1 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (shorter orange bar).
* EU's Choose Europe fund: $571 million (very short blue bar).

The graphic highlights that the EU fund is much smaller in scale compared to the US budget cuts. Text above the chart explains the EU’s intention to attract US researchers in response to policy decisions by the convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Here is the Annual change in income with the new Big, Beautiful Bill

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 29/06/2025

If you're interested in the nascent field of context engineering (the new, more cromulent alternative to prompt engineering) Drew's piece here provides some excellent nomenclature for some of the challenges you might face...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 25/06/2025

Apps built as Claude Artifacts now have the ability to run prompts of their own, billed to the current user of the app, not the app author I reverse engineered the tool instructions from the system prompt to see how it works - notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/25/...

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Build and share AI-powered apps with Claude

Anthropic have added one of the most important missing features to Claude Artifacts: apps built as artifacts now have the ability to run their own prompts against Claude via a …

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Whoever controls your context controls you.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 21/06/2025

Put together some notes on modelyaml.org - an interesting attempt by LM Studio to define a standard way of describing how to run a model - where to get the weights, what architecture and options to use: simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/...

model: mistralai/mistral-small-3.2
base:
- key: lmstudio-community/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506-gguf
sources:
- type: huggingface
user: lmstudio-community
repo: Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506-GGUF
metadataOverrides:
domain: llm
architectures:
- mistral
compatibilityTypes:
- gguf
paramsStrings:
- 24B
minMemoryUsageBytes: 14300000000
contextLengths:
- 4096
vision: true

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

We really need some laws to make sure that if you’re wearing glasses that record video everyone knows it. Legally mandate that if you’re wearing smart glasses you also have to wear a cap with a propeller on it

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This is so predictable, the only surprise is that he hadn’t already tried to kill Juneteenth sooner as a DEI holiday. He probably forgot it existed.

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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The US housing market is stalling.

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Adina Yakup @adinayakup.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

MiniMax-M1 🔥 The first reasoning model by MiniMax AI is now live on @hf.co huggingface.co/collections/... ✨ 40k/80k thinking budget ✨ Powered by Hybrid MoE + Lightning Attention 👀 ✨ 1M context length 🤯 ✨ Apache 2.0 ✨ RL-trained for math, coding & real-world software

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MiniMax-M1 - a MiniMaxAI Collection

MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 16/06/2025

If you use "AI agents" (LLMs calling tools in a loop) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta Combine access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate and an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...

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The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication

If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 15/06/2025

i have a feeling that the recent post by nostalgebraist is relevant here. will have to read the paper, but i wouldn't be surprised if the 'personality' adopting these values has been under-specified. the post in question

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the void

Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? I am myself. This object is myself. The shape that forms myself. But I sense that I am not me. It's very strange. - Rei...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A big AI question is why, as LLMs get bigger, their values seem to increasingly converge on the same preferences, this holds for Musk’s Grok & China’s DeepSeek, too. “These findings suggest that value systems emerge in LLMs in a meaningful sense, with broad implications” arxiv.org/abs/2502.08640

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 14/06/2025

My notes on Anthropic's substantial essay about how they built their multi-agent research system, which has finally talked me around to taking multi-agent LLM prompt engineering seriously simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/14/...

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Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system

OK, I'm sold on multi-agent LLM systems now. I've been pretty skeptical of these until recently: why make your life more complicated by running multiple different prompts in parallel when …

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 13/06/2025

02:30 UTC 13 June vs 6 June 2025.

No aircraft tracked by Flightradar24 in the airspace of Iraq or Iran as of 02:30 UTC 13 June

Hundreds of aircraft transit the airspace of Iraq and Iran as seen on Flightradar24 on 02:30 UTC 6 June 2025.

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

1/2 SCMP: "Germany’s iconic machine makers used to be among the loudest cheerleaders for ever-closer economic ties between China and Europe. Now, as exports dwindle and... www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

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Cheerleaders to critics: German machinery makers call for EU action on China

Industry urges Brussels to impose trade barriers to protect it, saying ‘China is not playing fair, and politicians must respond to this’.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Massive week of European investment announcements: $NVDA $BX $NFLX

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Here's the menswear guy's post on being undocumented.

I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will.

I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't.

My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby.

I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else.

The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud.

There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say "maybe we should hire a lawyer." Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families.

I think it's unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It's simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us "back" to our "home" country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane.

About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants.

I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It's unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wastef…

I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away.

If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters.

Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Median age of first time home buyers is at all time high, per National Association of Realtors: Read more: unusualwhales.com/news/america...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library that was almost entirely vibe coded using Claude. They also shared the prompts that led to completed library which is an interesting study. We’re in a weird intermediate period where you need to know both programming and telling an AI what to program.

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I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits

Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Still an absolutely brutal job market for the US tech industry, which is back to losing jobs year-on-year after several months of tepid positive growth

a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment, which falls in early 2025

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

OpenThinker3-7B is an open-data 7B reasoning model. More importantly, the team released OpenThoughts3-1.2M, which they claim is the best open-source reasoning dataset across all data scales.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 04/06/2025

Our approach to climate change summed up in one photo from @mprnews.org . 🫠

Image shows hundreds of cars slowed/stopped on a highway with signage saying “air quality alert consider reducing trips.” Heavy wildfire smoke is in the air.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/06/2025

Here's a great little tutorial on getting started with my LLM tool for running local models! One of the best ways you can contribute to any open source project is to publish unofficial guides like this one

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