iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 07/10/2026

Don’t worry, the overpowering smell clues you in before you even finish removing the cap ☠️

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Technologically very impressive but this stuff scares the crap out of me from a societal perspective. Just the sheer amount of fraud alone that these models will enable is chilling, let alone all the other harms.

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 03/10/2026

Small things, but that I appreciate how living in California grants me the right to a “Reject Non-essential Cookies” button

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 02/10/2026

My younger self most certainly didn't have "semi-regularly agreeing with the Catholic Church" on his Dystopian Sci-Fi Future Bingo Card. And yet here we are.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Christopher Quinn @christopherquinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eric Schmitt: "Did you or did you not sit on my porch last October with a wicked grin on your face, menacingly holding a lit candle, and then mysteriously disappear on November 1st?” Jack Smith: “That’s a Jack-o’-Lantern”

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 02/10/2026

The funniest thing about the quoted tweet here is that "Head On" was very famously a do-nothing homeopathic snake-oil product.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Higher velocity = more good" is a misunderstanding premised on the idea that every piece of work on your Jira board is there because it adds value in some way. Once you understand that the majority of developer tickets are actually negative-value, you will become enlightened.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anti trans hatred is the same as any other anti-gay, religious, or racial hatred we have ever known. This includes the efforts to dress it up, hide it, and make it about protecting women or children. That's exactly what bigots did to Black and gay people.

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 01/10/2026

Directly consuming the output of LLMs feels like the spiritual equivalent of chugging Soylent Green

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 01/10/2026

As I remember it, in about 1998 :)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

nothing they value or aspire to or revere about Masculinity™️ is the behavior of wise, mature, grounded adult men. it’s what little boys think is cool about being an adult man and they were allowed never to grow out of that

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

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@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 30/09/2026

What "significant new opportunities" though? I most want more opportunities to laugh with my friends; to dance in the rain; to gasp at an unexpected view, or to hear a stranger sing hauntingly of lost love in a sun-dappled city square. Can AI give me those, Mark? Can it? No. No it fucking can't.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 30/09/2026

America is doomed, in part, by its culturally-rooted inability to understand that efficiency is the enemy of both resilience and quality.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the thing about automation, as every automation Knower will tell you: you automate the repetitive tasks; the more variability and idiosyncracy there is (aka the real world) the fewer zeroes you get after the decimal on reliability, pretty soon the results are unacceptable

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 29/09/2026

I have a growing suspicion that, on balance, the inevitable outcome of AI artifacts inserted into mostly-human systems is breakdown and chaos. I think this effect is why LLMs are especially effective at code, and why most orgs aren't seeing outsize productivity gains the way some individuals have.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 29/09/2026

The majority of good leadership is firmly deciding what not to do -- and especially what to defer to later.

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 29/09/2026

If you were "wrong about Trump" that's great -- good for you for learning something and admitting you were wrong. Now, pledge to never vote again, and never speak in public again, and give us back all your money. It'll stop you making similar mistakes in future.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 26/09/2026

The good news here is that no-one *actually* wants to work for people who’d judge you for bringing a coffee to an interview. So it’s essentially a self-solving problem, and the coffee is a useful dimwit-filter.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026

Incredible scenes from Meta. Apparently you can prompt inject their Muse agent into giving you a root shell on the box it's running on by roleplaying that you are actually the Muse agent itself.

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 1 image Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026

The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.

Ewan McGregor looking a lot like Alec Guinness

Hayden CHristiansen looking a lot like Dave Prowse

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 22/09/2026

The popups and notifications are 90% malicious compliance, to make you "hate these privacy laws that caused all these popups". Because everything is evil.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The whole founding purpose of the White House Correspondents Association was that they'd all walk out if a president tried to do exactly this.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@adamconover.net just posted exactly what everybody needs to hear on this. youtu.be/pauBYSQ1K_c?...

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"AI Existential Risk" Was Invented to Distract Us

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 18/09/2026

What if we kissed at the AI rationalist sex cult initiation?

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John Van Citters @jvancitters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yep. Things like this are why I’m on the socials at all. 100% the content I am here for.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 17/09/2026

A good take (updating Sarah Miller's previous work) on the single-most astonishing thing about Miami: the lack of discussion of its major climate risks

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trans rights are human rights. Don’t fuck with my trans homies or you’re not a friend of mine.

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 16/09/2026

I guess I’m gonna finally get a foldable phone… next year, when the Razr gets official GrapheneOS support (the form factor of the iPhone Duo, like most present-day Apple design choices, baffles me)

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 15/09/2026

I think Little Tikes might be jumping onto the beige bandwagon just as it's coming to an end and fashion is starting to really embrace color again. But also there's just something really creepy about a Ghost Cozy Coupe

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Little Tikes Iconic Playtime Favorites Get a Modern Makeover with the new Cloud Collection

/PRNewswire/ -- The Little Tikes Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MGA Entertainment (MGA) and legacy brand building childhoods for nearly six decades, is...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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denise🌈 @overrrrrrr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

someone i know found this in their pre-genAI textbook. you can't read this normally any more

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 14/09/2026

What I can't tell yet is whether all the AI CEOs are band-wagoning on "we must pace the frontier" as an excuse to slash burn-rates, or because someone discovered something genuinely concerning enough to give them pause. In a better world I wouldn't have to be so cynical.

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 13/09/2026

Oh and then “Wildcard” for good measure

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 13/09/2026

Put another field next to it called “Star”, for more hilarious implosions

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Simon Batistoni @simon.batistoni.net · 13/09/2026

My sartorial interests are just off-base enough that the Insta algorithm has never confidently pegged my gender. Today it definitely thinks I’m a woman though.

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