iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You guys ever think about how unrelentingly stupid everything is all the time

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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The government is stealing trillions of your dollars per year to force you to own and drive a car everywhere you go so that autoworkers and Big Car executives can get rich.

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hey qq for product people is it good or bad when you develop a feature and it's so useful you have to disable hiding it.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

honestly most be dope to be so rich you don’t even need to know where you are

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Emma Grace (she/her) ♥️ @emma-grace1997.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Dumbass on dumbass violence”

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

in the immediate wake of 9/11, people talked about carpet bombing muslim countries with the same casualness as talking about a nominal tax hike.

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Customers don't care about clean code" in a software business is true in the same way "customers don't care how clean the kitchen is" in a restaurant business.

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404 Media @404media.co · 09/09/2026

‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals.

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Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras

‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals.

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today on our all hands the guy presenting about AI said the future of work would be managing your AI agents while you attend meetings and I was like "wow that sounds like hell!"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Working on a newsletter issue about the costs of hypervigilance in every software-mediated interaction nowadays, but this pretty much sums it up

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An incredible example of how institutionalized car culture is The parking lot, and the car they drove, are somehow naturally occurring and completely unseen as choices that engineered away physical activity Instead, it's the electric mobility devices that are threats to our way of life

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404 Media @404media.co · 01/09/2026

Artist Simon Weckert designed this digital camouflage shirt as a response to the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras. “Obviously people don’t like it because it means that AI is tracking the movements and behaviors of people."

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This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras

I watched Simon Weckert's 'digital camouflage' in action.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Absolutely incredible that all of this is being done under the narrative of "independent review of studies." The studies find significant benefits and no harms! Children are not being rushed into irreversible procedures! An entire government and media apparatus buying in an urban legend

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/08/2026

This is crazy lol. I’m slipping a piece of paper with Chinese written on it under a door and someone inside is responding in Chinese with another slip of paper. Whoever’s in there must be a native level Chinese speaker! Well, guess I’ll stop thinking about it now

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's true that *at an individual level* you should be kind. Don't scream at your anti-vaxx neighbors or whatever. But when it comes to *public discourse* the most important message is that vaccines save lives and anti-vaxx beliefs kill children. If they feel attacked by that, it's not my problem.

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Lea // CathGuac @delayedtrigger.scryfall.com · 18/08/2026

"Dear Scryfall, please keep your support of trans rights comfortably out of sight. Signed, Dumb Ass". Scryfall operates thanks to a gaggle of trannies and fags. The loud and obnoxious support for trans rights will continue until morale improves.

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Why do you feel it is necessary to inject politics into the front page of a CARD DATABASE?

I dont care if you are "community oriented", I play Magic to escape politics and all that bullshit. There is a time and place for discussing gender politics and this isnt it fam

As for a solution, perhaps link to another page saying "Support these causes we believe in" that way its not in your face, still accessible, and lets people decide the content they want to see

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this couldn't be a more clear, textbook, beat-by-beat example of how women who've been stalked are talked to and treated by police, versus how their harassers are treated and spoken to by cops. add to that: her stalker WAS THE POLICE www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shin...

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'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman

Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:

Symbol for Amazon’s VGT3 operation which depicts a T rex with its mouth open over an open booky

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The excesses of the left lead to performativity. The excesses of the right lead to death.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

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Julia Mariani @seedkeeper.juliamariani.com · 04/08/2026

The phantom limb of the old internet

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Adam K @rollthedice.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's raining IN gencon! #gencon

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026

After laying out his “plan” for the officials before him, he revealed that it was all satire in protest of Flock. “I would never do this to you,” he said to the council. “Could I? Probably. But I wouldn't because it's wrong.“ Read @samleecole.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/casa-grande-...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The New York Times wouldn't let me write about the Age of Diarrhea so I had to do it myself.

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Welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

The future is not knowing what ails you

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

extremely lucky to still make a living writing on the internet. we have many supporters/subscribers and i'm mostly an optimistic person. then i see something like this and i want to scream forever into a pillow. AI account ripping off our reporting about AI ripping off authors, goes viral, no link

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404 Media @404media.co · 23/07/2026

In an internal email shared with creators, CEO Jack Conte wrote that AI doesn’t replace human creativity — but it does affect how the company operates.

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Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce

In an internal email shared with creators, CEO Jack Conte wrote that AI doesn’t replace human creativity — but it does affect how the company operates.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.

A post from the Comal County (TX) Republican Party:

Democratic Socialists of America

The DSA's mission is to replace capitalism with democratic socialism by shifting economic and political power from corporations and wealthy owners to workers and the public.

Is this what you want for America?

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/07/2026

The AI industry is spending big to buy supportive candidates in the US midterms. But with public opinion turning against AI and data centers, will it make a difference? Always great to chat with @molly.wiki!

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Fairly certain just teaching every software developer how to use an interactive debugger would get 10x the productivity boost that people want from using an LLM.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

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Kane Brough @kanesthename.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Enter the Matrix PS2 icon is genius

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Amy the Amazonian @amytheamazonian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I made this post before all of the cards were fully revealed. It's actually 751 unique new cards, and just over half of them are Legendary. When everyone's Super, no one will be.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

KINGDOM HEARTS - Nintendo Switch Cloud Versions are delisting today. Players who own the versions can play until June 9, 2027. Players who own Cloud Versions can purchase Switch 2 versions at a discounted price support.na.square-enix.com/news.php?id=...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/06/2026

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

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Tech Influence Watch

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

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Valentine Powell @valentineirl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Alright, I'm going to talk about one of my biggest reasons for unionizing on the Arena team. Forced relocation, aka "RTO" (Return to Office), "WFH protections" (Work From Home protections), or more recently "Ways of Working." Buckle in for a thread.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/05/2026

AI companies currently subsidize their users $3 to $25 for every dollar of subscription. As a result, users are very sensitive to *any* price or rate limit changes, and have no idea what their actual token burn is. Token-based billing will be lethal at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

So, the current “value” of AI software is mostly driven by the deception of subsidized monthly subscriptions, and even those that have made changes to their business models to improve their margins are still losing money. For example, in October 2025, Augment Code moved everybody to a new “credits” based model from a requests-based one, citing one user that was approaching $15,000 in costs a month on its $250-a-month plan.

Even then, Augment Code still sold a money-losing product. Users get 40,000 “credits” that still obfuscate their actual value. Augment gives an example of one task on Claude Opus 4.6 taking up 488 credits, but a “task” could mean anything, and the credit-based system only exists to mask how much you’re actually spending. It turns out the reason is because, per Kilocode, Augment appears to be charging anywhere from 2x to 5x the cost of the actual tokens being burned.

The reason that somebody like Augment Code doesn’t want to charge the actual token rates — despite effectively choosing to do so! — is that the moment you go token-based, your users suddenly have to judge your product based on its actual merits. By obfuscating costs using “credits,” Augment Code is attempting to con users into believing they’re getting more for their money than they are.

The initial reaction was extremely negative, and now Augment’s Subreddit is a bit of a ghost town, with one user complaining about how arbitrarily Augment burns through credits and another complaining about how buggy the product is.

Right now, the vast majority of people’s experiences — I’d say 95% or more — are based on subscription-based AI services that deliberately hide the amount that they cost. As a result, most users are utterly prepared for the move to token-based billing. As I discussed a few weeks ago, users are already revolting when subsidized products are less-generous with their subsidies…how do you think they’ll react to paying the actual rates? Quoting myself:

If you’re about to say “well they’ll just raise the prices,” perhaps you should check Twitter or Reddit, and notice that Anthropic’s customers are screaming like they’re being stung to death by bees because of new rate limits that only let them burn $10 of compute in five hours. Do you think these people would be comfortable with a $130-a-month, $1,300-a-month or $2,500-a-month subscription? One that performs the same way (if not worse) as their $20, $100 or $200-a-month subscription did?

The first AI startups to move will be deep industrial ones like legal software companies Harvey and Legora, who charge anywhere from $399 to $1,200 a month while still losing money because the very nature of legal work is extremely document and text-heavy. Harvey has raised $960 million since February 2025, meaning that its services — which are already sold into a relatively cost-sensitive industry — already burn way too much capital to make sense.

These changes will be subtle. As I said above, it’ll be sold as “you pay $200 and get $220 worth of credits!” taking a small hit and Harvey likely working with Anthropic and OpenAI to buy discounted tokens at scale so that it doesn’t lose shit-tons of money.

The problem will be that even enterprise customers used to spending inordinate sums on software will notice if their costs increase from, say, $400 a month to $1000 a month per user. While a braindead Fortune 100 executive might be willing to burn 10% of headcount on LLM tokens, a named partner at a law firm will notice when AI starts costing the equivalent of a few hours of an associate’s pay a month. Or a day.

Honestly, if an associate is absolutely banging the shit out of Harvey’s services, they’re potentially burning $50 or $100 a day, and if anybody gets up to the $300 or $400 range, that will begin to legitimately eat into billable hours in a way that even the most braindead, disconnected partner will flinch at.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 11/05/2026

I truly can’t get over the fact that we chose YAML-interpolated shell scripts as the default CI programming language. It’s so bad that we forgot how to handle untrusted inputs! (pull_request_target and issue_comment triggers should not be that unsafe! It’s just attacker controlled input.)

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NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 10/05/2026

anyone else *super* irked when someone pastes to you what the AI said, as if it has any authority on anything?

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