iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 7h

i’m no torah expert but it’s pretty straightforward that if you think something is conscious but you are also commoditizing it as an asset that you own while constantly fucking with its cognition on a basic physical level that is indeed monstrous

110

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

112008217

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 12h

If you love the boys, set them free. If they come back to town, they’re yours

21516120

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 16h

this is a really lovely article and tribute.

141

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 02/10/2026

We're pleased to announce that Bellingcat won three awards at the Online Journalism Awards. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees listed here: awards.journalists.org/2026/10/02/c...

awards.journalists.org

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards! - Online Journalism Awards

As the in-person celebration of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards (#OJA26) comes to a close, we congratulate the winners in the remaining 12 of 28 categories.

668890

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

9224148

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yeah that’s not at all subtle

030

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Student journalists across this country have been churning out some of the best journalism these last couple years Thinking of the radio crew covering the encampments in New York, UCLA crew doing the same, not to mention groundbreaking investigation after investigation Brilliant, the best of us

221247346

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

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.

19595993539

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“the best revenge is living well”

020

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation

201839291

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the business of TRYING TO MAKE THEM EXIST so that they can remediate them.

718550

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

9038451093

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

any attempt at a reckoning for the systematic destruction of American domestic and global standing over the last several years that does not include consequences at every possible level for one Arthur Gregg Sulzberger is a failure

421923

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

106197276601

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

[Training the army of illiterate steroid-addled fat ass ham-faced unaccountable murderous wife-beating slave catchers on the new software that lets you track anyone you want] Don't use this on stalking women you want to punish though ok? That's not what it's for.

144175

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

The house quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”

472164521

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wokely: idiot, do you think Iraqis have any idea who George W. Bush is? Yeah man I do

91417

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

every single thing about this is fucked up beyond belief

010

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

wind and solar are a rootless cosmopolitan ie jewish energy source that is borderless and abundant coal, oil, and gas are literally an antediluvian, blood and soil energy source whose scarcity generates zerosum struggle this is basically andreas malm's thesis in his white skin, black fuel

2706

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

lol turns out yeah there are in fact some things in the here and now these people take seriously

121

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the way people trust these fucking llms is terrifying. millions of people outsourcing their own thoughts and expertise to the sycophantic plagiarism machine

130

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel about this roughly the same way I would feel about all the pharmaceutical companies getting together to say they wanted to waive anti-trust laws so they could form a cartel to ban medical research: these people are the enemies of humanity.

51028131

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW CAT JUST DROPPED!!!!!

483019666

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

hell of a time for me to have a midlife crisis and buy a v8 hot rod lmao

000

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

3304660700

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think this is correct, and I've been thinking a lot about what replaces all this stuff. If it is going away, you'd think the institutional players would have some idea of what might take its place. But they don't seem to have a vision for that, or any interest in it. It's private equity mindset.

681589207

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Dead Cat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't buy that she was hired to sink CBS, but I would buy that she is very good at pitching herself and eventually ended up in a situation where there are measurable outcomes and, well, lol, lmao.

23416

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

founding a new church based on the idea that the superhuman future AI will be very nice and give us all a million dollars and pets that don’t poop

100

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

sky and faine are fellow keepers of the esoteric ai/ea gangbang cult knowledge and i guess it’s time you all found out too. sorry

110

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i don’t even hate the accessories; gloves & necklace could have worked fine if the actual outfit tailoring wasn’t atrocious lol. that drape is so bad! and the pants needed like inches of hemming. also hair down for this one. fire your stylist girl

020

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As Nancy Kress told me, we love football because it combines the 2 worst aspects of American life- violence and committee meetings

19413

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i mean this is obviously just stupid and wrong but it’s also very funny that this is coming from a person with a john brown avatar

031

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this is how you do it and it’s not hard

021

Reposted by w.m.d. du bois

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

10925176

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

of course this is absurd but in all seriousness the answer to “would x society have been better if the people it sought to oppress, exclude and criminalize ran it instead of the people who actually did” is probably like 75% of the time absolutely yes

120

w.m.d. du bois @sjroadw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

okay so i already know about it because i’m on this site, but i’m finally watching season 2 of the rehearsal and godDAMN knowing what happens doesn’t actually make it less insane lmao

111