iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

crockett more or less confirming that this post-primary tweet will be her sole gesture of support and she will not utter a single positive word about talarico (this has been obvious for so long that frankly continued silence would've been preferable to whatever the fuck this is)

Y’all are corny! I keep receipts. I’ll be happy when people either give a damn about FACTS or news media goes back to the news instead of deciding to ride the tabloid lane. NOW FOR THE 1000th time maybe write an article about KEN F*in PAXTON. Y’all all sound like corny groupie ass OPS!

Now do you know 5 of the other 103 races on the Harris County ballot?! DID Y’all even know they have the longest ballot in the COUNTRY?! Mind the business that pays you.

For the lazy journalists that you see, point them here 👇🏾

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 29/09/2026

"attempting lazy misandry and doing transphobia instead" is a failure mode i see from more and more big woke 1 accounts lately and i feel like there should be more learning happening

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is playing devil's advocate in the sense that it is the literal perspective of the devil during the temptation in the desert

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 29/09/2026

yeah, sure man, the most anti-corruption president ever, who rolled back obama's rules on scam colleges in 2017, and who ran a scam school himself for several years, is definitely going for those guys and not "the liberal arts as a concept."

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 28/09/2026

i should note that much of the time this is a feint. scott alexander is not a "high-decoupler" on race; he views flippant racism in the sailer/hanania style as such a positive epistemic signal that a schizophrenic nut permabanned from his own discord for slurs is liable to turn up on his links page

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026

as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 27/09/2026

honorable mentions to utopia and full tilt poker as they are edge cases i am not sure qualify in the same sense as the others here

The title screens from Starflight (1986), Wasteland (1988), Lemmings (1991), SkiFree (1991), Scorched Earth (1992), Dungeon Hack (1993), Age of Empires II (1999), EVE Online (2003), and Team Fortress 2 (2006)

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 27/09/2026

i don't really think highly of bernie's Yud Act bill (which would have the immediate effect of conferring vastly more power to trump), but this paragraph doesn't hang together much at all. if anything x-riskers are overshooting the "take AI seriously" target, certainly compared to the word police

Policymakers and political figures more generally have a perfect opportunity at this moment to pursue real, effective regulation of these companies. That regulation is not going to happen this year, but if Democrats win Congress, there’s a decent chance at some level of restriction.

Unfortunately, the public push against AI is being led, on the left, by Bernie Sanders. Despite being directionally correct in many ways, Bernie just doesn’t understand this technology or the importance of taking it seriously. He’s in the thrall of hucksters and conspiracy theorists who are feeding him preposterous warnings of AI power and autonomy that belong in the realm of science fiction, not tech policy.

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 24/09/2026

mfw anthropic hypes up another in silico bioinformatics result that would get a politely encouraging nod from your average PI

static.klipy.com

Cam Newton Super Cam

ALT: Cam Newton Super Cam

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joe ⧉ 🍷🌊 @joetforhire.com · 24/09/2026

it don't make no damn sense

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 24/09/2026

this is wholesome pet care, the slurs less so

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 24/09/2026

an incredibly :grimberk: unintended effect of oversold anti-AI art noisers is that, having persisted long past the models they had non-placebo effects on, you can by now straight-up improve the quality of some more modern AI outputs by negative prompting "adversarial noise"

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 23/09/2026

should be pretty easy to write a national security pretext for a law that says Congresspeople are only allowed to post with their own fingers

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 22/09/2026

confident in claude's ability to properly law, i approach the bench. "this is a verifiable reward just like math," i think to myself in a confident business professor voice as the judge slams their mallet directly into my skull

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nation-state and lone-actor misuse of LLMs really are serious threats, but that applies to the US state and to US billionaire lone actors too - if we're to seriously think about this problem, we can't pretend Elon Musk and Dept of War CTO AI lethalitymaxxing posts aren't in scope as concerns.

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 21/09/2026

story of the paramount settlement seems to be lazy state AGs deciding that the republican judiciary can be counted on to vindicate CNN's rights. throw out anyone who signed onto this in '28 (the failure will likely be obvious by then)

But terms of Monday’s agreement include what Bonta called “court enforceable” requirements for Skydance-owned Paramount to increase domestic production and establish monitoring of editorial independence of the company’s news operations.

The settlement still needs final court approval. Bonta maintained that Monday’s agreement “is not a vote of support for this merger” — but that he was always willing to come to the table and “find a strong solution that protects competition and consumers.”

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 20/09/2026

carbonara has eggs and cured pork and is therefore a breakfast pasta

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 18/09/2026

When I call it spicy autocomplete my affect is of awe rather than derision

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 18/09/2026

just remembered i made essentially the same post 3 years ago

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 17/09/2026

Putting all the magic phrases on my own mirror so I see them every day: “Start with ontology. Think step by step. Do a breakthrough. Adversarial review. Unreal Engine. HD!”

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 17/09/2026

legal AI wrappers keep pitching us patent search middleware and they all have the same biz plan: - prefab prompts that won't be as good as feeding a base model 3-4 of your existing reports - invisible, uncontrollable routing to sonnet/luna to save a buck here and there on inference

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 17/09/2026

people look for lots of sinister reasons for this but i don't think you can underrate boredom and contrarianism. givewell's solution to EA cashed out to "give poor africans money" and lots of brains just can't be satisfied with an answer identical to a 1990s sally struthers commercial

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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ed Sheeran, the Game of Thrones actor?

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 17/09/2026

after 6 months of max semaglutide and 6 months of max tirzepatide i am dolefully calling game and concluding i am among the non-responders (this is true for, roughly, half of all medication ever). rather than risk the RFK Specials i'll just put that $500 a month into the burgeoning bond market

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 16/09/2026

i give creatives a lot of rope when discussing AI, because their oxen have been gored the worst, especially in advertising. and it's not like uninformed opposition is always bad for mass politics. this is america, 80% of all opinions are uninformed. BUT!

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 16/09/2026

if you have a take about "bluesky" and you substantiate it with skeets shorn of engagement numbers, i will simply assume the worst, which is that you are one of many blue checks who shows up here mostly to start shit with nutpicked lowbies for your fragile self-esteem

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 15/09/2026

It seems like these labs are all saying “please regulate me” but I don’t see them pushing for the kind of regulation where you get in trouble for crimes, you know?

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 14/09/2026

If Anyone Assigns Agency To The Political Right, Everyone Dies

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 14/09/2026

so glad everyone has spent the last week having fun debating angels on the head of a pin (any regulatory regime other than squeezing percieved-as-liberal companies)

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 12/09/2026

i'm 100% on board with basically every proposal to keep AI out of schooling for the same reason i'm fine with the drinking age being 21 and, simultaneously, thinking mixology and cocktails are fun and delicious hobbies (that most people still have a hard time enjoying non-destructively)

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 11/09/2026

for the record, when they put the news feeds up on the channel one TVs, and me and my edgy AP english classmates were 100% cracking 9/11 jokes in real time. even our teacher got in a funny line about suspecting gary condit

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

for a banal example, the fact that anthropic will simultaneously publish long diatribes about the risks of AI surveillance and then contract out Claude for Palantir to resell to CBP is psychotic, and there is no reason why i should take any of their moral protests seriously while they do that.

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joe ⧉ 🍷🌊 @joetforhire.com · 04/09/2026

i consider slow takeoff fast takeoff your honor. i get fully destroyed off of half a hit of that normal technology shit

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

you missed the part where this meant 1) This problem was unsolvable, because this had to be a method of solving it, so 2) His power level just wasn't high enough yet, so you needed to 3) Do genetic engineering to raise people's power level, which mostly meant making them more like him

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 04/09/2026

32 Prompts About 16 Megans

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 03/09/2026

bernie sanders is writing a bill that will, in effect, turn over AI governance to the judicial branch, as it currently exists. this strikes me as... not a good idea. certainly not unless a democratic admin can forcefully resurrect humphrey's executor

• Banning Artificial Superintelligence so no person or entity may develop or deploy Superintelligent AI systems. “Artificial Superintelligence” means:
o An artificial intelligence system that exhibits or can easily be modified to exhibitcapabilities that match or exceed human cognitive performance and capabilities across a broad range of domains or tasks.
o Or AI systems that have sufficient capabilities to plan and execute the disempowerment of humanity, including by overthrowing or undermining the U.S. government.
• Pausing advanced AI development until a new, federal AI regulatory body is up and running and has established clear rules and model review processes to ensure safe and secure development and deployment of AI.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 31/08/2026

Day 1, bulldoze the supreme court building

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 30/08/2026

i'm gonna be sad once every other lab follows dalle/mj/flux in sunsetting negative prompts, its one of the quickest ways to orient yourself in a new latent space and you can push around goopy booby anime models a lot more with them without violating no-name bushido

four less goopy AI anime images in a sketchy marker-like style

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 28/08/2026

crockett endorsed talarico via tweet so at this point she's done as much as haley has; the real question is whether haley, in october, is still giving national interviews where she declines even to reiterate that and speculates loudly about WWC enthusiasm for el-sayed

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 27/08/2026

sam altman's tweets really lose something in the transcription to unicode these days

this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act. we are happy if you want to work with us or any of our competitors or partners, but please take this moment seriously.

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Xanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️ @satyrs.eu · 21/08/2026

I partly blame the evolution of the tech itself for this, though, especially on the consumer-facing side. This image still keeps me up at night.

“Even with the same prompt, DALL-E 3 significantly improves upon DALL-E 2.” The DALL-E 2 picture is a nice, sensible oil painting of a cookie being dunked in a glass of milk, with realistic brush strokes and muted colours. The DALL-E 3 picture is an oversaturated, hyper-detailed mess — the sort of thing that we typically think of as “AI slop” today.

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Greggles @grolby.standarddouble.com · 20/08/2026

lol I am surrounded by cancer scientists at all times in my professional life (you could say I’m a cancer scientist too I guess, though I would quibble) and this is just 1,000,000% wrong.

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