iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

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Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Big Tech wants us to confuse the surveillance and addiction machines around us with computation itself.

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 02/10/2026

Future? No Thanks! reviewed by The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/a...

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Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a great thread on the current AI hype cycle. Important for us to distinguish HEAVILY augmented LLMs from their so-called theoretical capabilities, esp regarding mathematics - these companies have a massive incentive to fudge and a history of doing so (see OpenAI’s Dota2 AI back in 2016!)

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 29/09/2026

re-reading some of IN THE AGE OF THE SMART MACHINE for class prep, and this is so much more useful than the surveillance capitalism book

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

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Surveillance Watch

This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is such an unbelievably, historically unserious bad take from Steven Levy, the light from bad takes would take a million billion years to reach it. www.wired.com/story/war-br...

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War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley

Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.

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Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This feels like power-scaling logics in video games, where you gain new abilities but the new foes are tuned to be the same relative difficulty level.

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Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Productivity growth is already decoupled from wages, so this is just a trillion-dollar bid for consolidation of worker control. AI will give you nothing you haven’t already lost.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now.

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Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“But he said that the incident was particularly concerning because the hack had happened in June but OpenAI did not inform the country until September. It follows a run of disclosures from OpenAI as well as rivals … that were only reported long after they had actually happened.” This is the headline

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And yeah, there are parts of my job I really don't enjoy (grading homework assignments, for one; reviewing piles of applications for another). But what if, instead of saying we should be free of such things, we asked: What do we gain by being present in this moment? >>

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

"Students are using it for everything, including cheating, and a recent report out of M.I.T. said it is triggering 'cognitive surrender.' Many university leaders are embracing A.I. with enthusiasm anyway." 🫠

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An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind.

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes, more like this please! www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Screen cap from linked article:

"regulation, maybe that’s a good result. But there is no reason to suppose that AI developers and their bosses are best placed to comment on either their dangers or their potential value. Indeed, quite the opposite: there’s reason to think that industry involvement erodes one’s judgement, not just ethically but technically.

We’d do better to take advice on the real benefits and risks of AI not from those who are making or selling it but from thoughtful commentators like Mitchell, Devlin, computational linguist Emily Bender (of “stochastic parrots” fame), and two astute AI ethicists formerly at Google, Shannon Vallor and Timnit Gebru. (If you notice something striking about that latter list, I don’t think it’s a coincidence either.)

More generally, to have a better standard of discourse both in the media and in policy we should recognise that, despite the prevailing attitude of many politicians towards academia, the humanities are an essential element in the discussions. Since its earliest days, those making AI have proved consistently bad forecasters of its prospects and capabilities. We must stop treating them all like gurus. "

Highlighted in blue: " Indeed, quite the opposite: there’s reason to think that industry involvement erodes one’s judgement, not just ethically but technically."

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Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I love sports but it is interesting to see the functional resemblance between contemporary team ownership and factory teams back in the day.

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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imagine if the @seattletimes.com and other news outlets were intellectually honest and published, i don't know, charts like this? Seattle is safer than almost all our peer cities, except the other one governed by a Democratic Socialist. Thanks @mayor.seattle.gov and @mayor.nyc.gov!

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

Have we discussed "AI" doomsday cults + Epstein? “parachuting humanity into a different evolutionary era...even obsoleting the human race as we know it...is a running theme in the Epstein files, and...tech evangelists...“It’s eugenics all the way down” www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

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"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story

The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.

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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The response of key Fields-medal winning figures in the mathematical community to the OpenAI 'result' of Navier-Stokes carefully navigates, in turbulent waters hard to model correctly, the Charybdis of facile technological determinism and the Scylla of accusations of luddism. mathandai.org

In recent months, the success of AI in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles. But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal. Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.

Often these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods and ideas, and citing relevant previous work of others. As in all creative professions, this raises severe attribution and plagiarism questions. Moreover, without the willing mathematicians who must take care of their development and integration into the mathematical canon, AI-conceived ideas would never become fully alive and the crucial human transmission chain between mathematicians would be lost.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Who funds political campaigns today? Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and about two dozen other tech bros.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It is kinda funny how the frontier labs people keep saying that they are making a machine that has a double digit percentage chance of killing everyone and we are doing ~zero about it while if someone wants to make a quadplex in a wealthy suburb….

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

The "AI" could XX & hack XXX, well that's called creating a virus, if you create a virus yes you can use your virus to hack XXX. That's not because its "super intelligent" its because you created a virus which you shouldn't be allowed to do.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

if a literature expert can learn to teach prompt engineering by farting around in their spare time, then a student can pick it up the same way without missing out on any English class

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 04/09/2026

So at what point do people let themselves admit this is a criminal conspiracy to engage in cybercrimes against other corporations?

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All Will Rise by Speculative Agency @allwillrise.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our Science & Impact Director, @joostvervoort.bsky.social, shares his thoughts on what we’re doing with All Will Rise. Have fun with activism! Enjoy all the different ways your actions can have a positive impact on the planet. #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

We are not interested in telling you the world is bad.
Instead, we hope our game will show you that being involved in making a better world can be fun, even when it's messy and hard.
Joost vervoort
Science & Impact Director

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"I agree there is a literacy crisis in this country, and it’s impt to acknwldg that plainly... It's not just ‘brain rot,’ it’s the intentional, predictable result of decades of divestment in public education, libraries, class warfare, attacks on books in general... and [the] attention economy..."

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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The AI Literacy we get: "Here's a piece of software founded on theft, labor exploitation, and environmental devastation. It consistently produces bias and falsehoods, so be sure to use it ethically and responsibly!" The AI Literacy we need:

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is inhumane and unacceptable. And how were these workers thanked for enduring these conditions? Many were laid off. This is why we're organizing. A better industry is both possible and must come to pass if our artform and dignity are to survive.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't agree with arsonists but firefighters are too aggressive for me. I wish there was a... third way

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