iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

To put it simple: Every knowing system needs a body and a temporal-spatial environment to act in, experience, create meaning in order to attain understanding and knowledge. With #AI, you as prompter are the body part. Without you, there's no knowing, esp. no all-knowing AI. And no apocalypse either.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spencer Kornhaber, "What #AI Will Do to Art" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... Nice. Not too bold in order not to scare you, but nice

theatlantic.com

What AI Will Do to Art

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst believe the future doesn’t have to belong to slop.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#AI is not a tool—it is a feedback loop, and it is changing you while you change it —Lil Internet

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

G. Jikeli & Ph. Karpe, "Three Accusations against Israel: Apartheid, Settler Colonialism, and Genocide under Legal and Historical Scrutiny" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... "[A]partheid and genocide are not established and [...] settler colonialism is an inadequate classification" What a surprise.

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Three Accusations against Israel: Apartheid, Settler Colonialism, and Genocide under Legal and Historical Scrutiny

This article examines three recurrent classifications of Israel and its conduct: apartheid, settler colonialism, and genocide. It treats apartheid and genocide

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What remains of the revolution, of the noble radiance—one or two new words, a language, slightly altered.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Was übrig bleibt von der Revolution, vom hehren Leuchten — ein, zwei neue Wörter, eine Sprache, leicht verändert.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i24news, "Is Turkey a threat to Israel?" | On the Record with Hay Eytan www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgam... An informative conversation between Ariel Oseran and Hay Eytan on how Turkey's attitude towards Israel changed — from co-existence to rivalry to enmity, from pro-Palestinian to pro-Hamas.

youtube.com

Is Turkey a threat to Israel? | On the Record with Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak

YouTube video by i24NEWS English

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"What are the protests achieving?" A constant sense that this isn't over, and the Georgian Dream cannot achieve a full control. #GeorgiaProtests Day 668 📷 MOSE

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am searching for ideas for how to monetize so that I can continue Georgia diplomacy & democracy advocacy long-term — and to not always depend on your very kind donations. And to be honest, other than monetization, I also feel like I should take up on a new challenge and expand myself anyway. 1/3

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@johnmiedema.bsky.social Thank you a lot! I want to reply in more detail. For now just this:. When you say, "[writing essays] was greatly facilitated by AI. I finally could write almost as fast as I think", I couldn't but grin *and* marvel that you didn't continue "slow reading" with "slow writing".

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One wonders why there has not been (much) resistance against Hitler and his regime, against Stalin and his regime, or against Putin and his regime. (Or against Xi and his regime, for that matter.) And why there is resistance against Trump and his regime.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Zur Erinnerung: Die Partei Die Linke beschloss an ihrem Bundesparteitag am 19. Juni 2026 in Potsdam, Israels Krieg mit der Hamas im Gaza-Streifen Völkermord zu nennen. Wer jetzt noch behauptet, die Gesamtpartei sei nicht antisemitisch, will nicht hinsehen oder weiss genau, was er tut.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perhaps it's a good thing that BlueSky restricts its post character limits to 299. If they raised it, I'd probably write even more profusely.

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI Makes Machines Smarter. Neurotech Makes Humans Smarter. A Cost Case for Neurotechnology in Operations johnmiedema.substack.com/p/ai-makes-m... #neurotech #ai #operations #infrastructure #it

johnmiedema.substack.com

AI Makes Machines Smarter. Neurotech Makes Humans Smarter.

A Cost Case for Neurotechnology in Operations

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoshi-wajo standing wooden statue. 11th century, Japan. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction

Carved from a single block of timber, a monk standing in solemn monastic robes reveals a miraculous inner metamorphosis through a deep vertical cleft down the center of his head and face. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction, and his left hand, holding a slender ritual water vase (suibin), the figure exudes a quiet, poised presence. The aged surface of the sculpture is etched with deep vertical wood grain, tool marks, and age-worn fissures that catch dramatic, directional light, capturing the physical tension between the outer human countenance and the divine radiance hidden within.
Dating to 11th-century Heian-period Japan, this extraordinary wooden sculpture depicts Hōshō Wajō (the Chinese monk Baozhi, 418–514 CE), a renowned Buddhist master of the Southern Liang Dynasty celebrated for his eccentric wisdom and miraculous deeds. According to Japanese Buddhist folklore recorded in collections such as the Konjaku Monogatarishū, when Emperor Wu of Liang sent court painters to capture the monk's portrait, Baozhi used his fingers to rend open the skin of his face, revealing the Eleven-Headed Guanyin (Jūichimen Kannon) beneath to demonstrate that true Buddhahood cannot be captured by superficial physical likeness. Sculpted in the ichiboku-zukuri (single-block wood carving) technique, this work represents a pinnacle of Japanese religious monozukuri (artisanal mastery), translating a literary legend of spiritual transfiguration into a startling, physical masterpiece of sacred art.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Die PLO unterhielt schon 1974 in Ost-Berlin ein "Büro", das 1982 zur Botschaft aufgewertet wurde. Die DDR war der erste europäische Staat, der die PLO diplomatisch anerkannte. Der Antisemitismus der Partei Die Linke, in Rechtsnachfolge von SED und PDS, ist nicht neu, sondern für sie konstitutiv.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was thinking yesterday how Ridley Scott created three wonderful movies — Alien, Blade Runner, Black Rain — with the same style of lighting and shadowing. His way to lend lighting and shadowing their extra depth and texture via slowing down the *time* by means of the sound is remarkable.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't like Tolkien's work. But I don't like Rowling's work either. Penny novels, their impact based on sensationalism, not literary quality.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/a... A dumb decision. Tolkien's work lacks literary quality, intelligence, sense of humor. It's a gluttony of cheap heroism and authoritarian group-think. On a par with penny novels, the creativity in literary set design notwithstanding.

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Abbey to honour J.R.R. Tolkien | Westminster Abbey

A major new memorial celebrating Tolkien’s creative vision and storytelling by artist Stephen Broadbent will be revealed at a dedication ceremony in Spring 2027.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The stars are matter, we're matter, But it doesn't matter." —Captain Beefheart

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Innenminister erwägen, AfD-geführten Landesregierungen in SA und MV den Zugang zu Polizei- und Verfassungsschutzdaten zu beschränken. Dasselbe muß auch für eine von der Links-Partei geführte Berliner Landesregierung gelten. Die Gefahr der Weitergabe sensibler Informationen zu groß.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Enough of German politics. I'm sorry for littering your timelines.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Es ist banal: Wenn die AfD rechtsextrem ist, weil Teile von ihr es sind — und dafür läßt sich trotz pars pro toto wg. Duldung der Parteiführung argumentieren —, dann gilt dasselbe auch für Die Linke. Und ist Die Linke nicht antisemitisch, dann ist die AfD auch nicht rechtsextrem. Entscheidet Euch.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gut, dass das BSW die Maske fallen läßt und nun ganz offen zum Steigbügelhalter der AfD in SA-Land wird. Da weiss man, was man hat: Pro-russische antisemitische ("pro-palästinensische") Hinterzimmerfaschisten. Aber wen wundert's? Alles was Sahra Wagenknecht anfasst, stirbt.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Die Berliner haben eine gesichert antisemitische und terrornahe linke Partei zur stärksten politischen Kraft im Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus gewählt. Was sind das für Menschen, in Berlin? Was ist das für ein Land, in dem links- und rechtsextremistische Parteien solchen Zulauf haben?

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Die antisemitische Partei @die-linke.de feiert ganz unverblümt mit libanesischen Clankriminellen und Vertreter des palästinensischen Terrorismus. Da ist jede Zurückhaltung verschwunden. Wer jetzt noch mit dieser Partei koaliert, weiss genau, was er tut. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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(S+) Die Linke: Terrorunterstützer feiert auf Neuköllner Wahlparty

Erst taucht Clanchef Issa Remmo bei den Linken auf, nun gibt es mehrere Bilder, die einen weiteren umstrittenen Gast zeigen: Ibrahim Ibrahim, Vertreter einer extremistischen Anti-Israel-Gruppe.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the state election of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 49.5% voted for an extremist party (AfD 38.2%, Die Linke 6.5%, BSW 4.8%). In the municipal election of Berlin 46.6% voted for an extremist party (Die Linke 25.7%, AfD 16.2%, BSW 4.7%). Voter turnout was 78.1% and 73.7%. Unbelievable.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The "Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research" has a new "Public Opinion Poll" out: www.pcpsr.org/en/node/1014 Not much has changed since Oct 2025 www.pcpsr.org/en/node/1000 It's noticeable though that the Oct 2025 question whether Hamas was right to attack Israel was no longer asked.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That people don't see that Trump's recent "ban" of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House press briefings is not about their coverage but to stir up emotions and create a deflection to counter developments of his politics that will otherwise damage the GOP in the midterms.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A more inconspicuous rat race involved in #AI: The right will embrace it because they'll claim that immigrants are no longer needed for the economy. The left will embrace it as with declining populations the services of the welfare state keep being financed. Who's going to be first?

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

First they feared nuclear armament will destroy civilisation. Then they feared climate change will destroy civilisation. Now they fear #AI will destroy civilisation. You always fear as most alarming threat that which can be painted best as dire challenge to your accustomed life.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EU association for Canada? Nice! If it can be panned out, it could be at least a blueprint for the United Kingdom, if not for other countries like Israel, Georgia, or Turkey. (Right now I see Ukraine, Moldova, and the Balkan states not as future associate but as full members.)

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today I had another awful daylong encounter with German railway company Deutsche Bahn. This is beyond ridiculous, beyond disastrous. This has become Third World infrastructure. Not because of years of neglect but because of years of piecemeal attempts to improve a rotten #infrastructure. 1-12

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Only now have I heard that George Bealer, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has passed away in January 2025 at the age of 81. In the late 1980s he once held a lecture at my university on his book "Quality and Concept", a work I barely understood but deeply admired for its aspiration.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That was pretty clear from the start.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

♪ Altin Gün, "Ah gece gelme gündüz gel" ("Oh, don't come at night, come during the day") www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwkW... Lovely.

youtube.com

Altin Gün - AH GECE GELME GÜNDÜZ GEL | Live @ Eurosonic 2021

YouTube video by Joji Azfar

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Made a collection of all my BlueSky posts on AI into one document. Baffled that it resulted in 33 pages, small font.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After the past one and a half year of physical ailments and family breakdowns I feel in need of this peculiar widening and softening of that inner place that outsiders call "Me" and I call "the world". Gosh am I in need of new ideas, concentrated work on texts, and especially: of kind thinking.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@krislindbeck.bsky.social Thank you for pointing to Hiiroshi Sato.

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hiroshi Sato, "A map of my writing" medium.com/@hiroshi.sat... "I write from a small island at the southern edge of Japan, on the edge of Eurasia — about design, culture, and the imperfect systems we live inside."

medium.com

A map of my writing

An index to the essays, sorted by where they live

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One aspect of #Ai doomerism is the fear that these "systems" (in lack of a better word) may quickly become uncontrollable, in their working inscrutable, and on a trajectory to build more advanced AI on their own. 1-9

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nice. On X, Grok helps one find past posts. (X could just offer a convenient and well-functioning search instead, but this will do.)

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In 2024 I wrote that when it comes to AI and data centres, the no nukes movement will come around. Now I think it's probably the opposite: The increasing local opposition against AI and data centres for environmental reasons seems mostly one to keep the anti-nuclear stance. bsky.app/profile/sims...

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simsa0 @simsa0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@johnmiedema.bsky.social Guess we should found a club as apparent the only two people on BlueSky fond of Ai and its possibilities ;-)

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