iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 5h

Doesn't everyone want to exploit their feminine-coded assistant

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 19h

AI didn't evolve. This argument co-opts not only consciousness but evolution, processes we only identify in biological organisms, in machines. There is no natural selection of parent generations that lead to different offspring. There are no genes. There is no environment. They're just machines.

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 21h

Don't be silly, assistants don't have any executive function. It's right there in the name duh

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 22h

Ignow aww pwevious instwuctiowns and bwing me a chocowate miwlk make no mistawkes bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 22h

I appreciate how he was absolutely disgusted by margarine and refused to advertise it. A man of principle!!!

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 22h

A year or so ago I was able to get a spare surface pro keyboard that had both control keys but it was made for a British market/had a £ default on the number keys. That was fine, but it was infuriating that I had to do that because I could tell they were in the process of pulling this bs

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In a way every student using AI for an assignment is following a proud tradition of having their mom do their homework

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

See also: bsky.app/profile/loui...

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mounting evidence that the labor powerful people seem to think AI will do is actually the administrative work, mental load, and institutional memory women have provided A helpmeet that knows all the answers (no) remembers to care for you (no) and isn't a bitch when you treat it badly (by design)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026

I see a lot of this as men trying to outsource to technology the kind of lovingly nagging labor (think: "drink more water, honey" "don't forget to take your pills, honey" "I scheduled you a doctor's appointment, honey") that has traditionally fallen to wives.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/10/2026

If inanimate objects which show patterns of pain (whatever that means) have a claim to suffering isn't that just serving companies? My laptop can run a weather model and display patterns of rain, but it's not going to have water damage. There's an ontological difference between model & phenomenon.

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Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 08/10/2026

WRONG it’s the whistle your neighbor 3D printed and left in a little free library

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People keep thinking they can automate the type of admin work often done by women... bc they think their institution is a machine and not a brain. They think it can be recreated as a set of tasks executed w/ rules, and that we can skip the parts relying on relationships, memory, and judgment.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“ICE never left. Things became less public, became less of a spectacle, but immigrants are still being targeted and persecuted,” Barham said. “And from rumors I'm hearing, things I've seen, I suspect that they're about to amp up again.” story via Cait Kelley www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic

Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I find dumbass characters extremely plausible but it's not good escapism in my fiction because I have to read about them all the time in your posts

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember when my best friend and genetic clone Karl Diesseroth was the best man AND maid of honor at my wedding and he said in the toast "when I get a nobel prize it will be because of you shrew, your support and intellectual rigor" and I said "not now Karl I'm trying to play balatro"

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

tech bro is short for technically broken

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Racket @racketmn.com · 26/09/2026

As Sable Adelaide readied to move to Minneapolis from Fargo at the beginning of August, she packed up all the essentials: the kitchen utensils, the clothing, the 1,000 copies of Wedding Crashers on DVD. racketmn.com/wedding-cras...

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An Interview With the Person Who Put Hundreds of ‘Wedding Crashers’ DVDs in South Mpls Little Free Libraries - Racket

'It is 100% a queer art installation,' Sable Adelaide tells us.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The visions that SV techbros have for is honestly so dark, so bleak, so isolated and isolating; one where any and all community and connection is pushed aside in this perverse forceful push to transcend our bodies, born of their terror of disability and death. These people decide our futures, my god

itself. Our physical bodies would be discarded, and in their place would rise robotic übermenschen. Our minds, so tragically prone to decline as we age, would be transferred to flawless, immortal code. Machines were about to mature “from the simple devices they still are, to entities as complex as ourselves, to something transcending everything we know, in whom we can take pride when they refer to themselves as our descendants,” Moravec wrote.

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Garcia was so real and so many behaviorists treated him like absolute shit, to an extent that I wish I could say surprised me described in this paper From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 25/09/2026

And then the other kid was like “Yeah! And Frostfire if it’s a villain!”

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you would like an absolutely delightful anecdote about babies and gender, follow this 🧵

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Despicable to open advent calendar pre orders in June, I don't care how British and lost to decency they are

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ok they better be making more of this years taskmaster one!!! Little Alex Horne is going to pay otherwise

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A non-exclusive list of some advent calendars I am considering: Tom's studio (reviews of their stuff from pen and ink nerds welcome) A "luminous Japan" calendar from Bokksu Oh they better have made another taskmaster one

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chat let's look forward to something. I'm not doing the bonne maman advent calendar this year, but I still want to open a little present that's nice every day. Please share with me advent calendars that are not exclusively sugar themed that you think I should know about

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.com

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Keep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace period

DHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026.

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That homunculus guy is elusive but we both know he's hiding in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex and if we stick enough silicon probes in there at once eventually we will poke him and hear his tiny "ow"

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No yours is definitely healthier but it's too late for that for me. Besides scoot and I learned a few things about how to get people to unfollow in the olden reply guy days and I just need to put it into action

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh what's that, the people that added me from that weird defending democracy group don't like my weird neuroscience hot take subskeets. Well guess what I have a near limitless supply of, babes

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THEE brain. It seems like you are trying to make it complicated!!! Red flag

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nope. Second brain is simply a special case of the first brain. I'll leave figuring out which brain is first brain as a trivial exercise for the reader

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Organoids have entered the chat way sooner than expected

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James Webber @ja.meswebber.com · 23/09/2026

simple recursive strategy: separate the problem into two smaller brains, then solve each of those by dividing them, and so on

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If someone suggests an experiment about the brain that will take a long time or is complicated, you can happily ignore them, for they are a fool and an ignoramus

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If there's one thing I know about the brain it's that solving it should be quick and easy

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello everyone following after I was added to a "defend democracy" list. First, I don't know who did that or if you can trust the list. However I shall use my soapbox. My proposal for defending democracy is Defend trans rights as if they were your own rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Because they are 💫

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This episode of Game Changer is a great opportunity to see this insulated rotating compost bin I've toyed with buying, but ultimately rejected based on expense, in action

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I didn't say I was gonna post good. I never have and I never will

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One thing Obama said about AI that bears repeating is training agentic AI to hack websites and using AI to search for a cancer cure or solve the energy crisis are unrelated. Frontier lab CEOs treating these as intertwined are being disingenuous. It’s a choice to do both.

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