iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Might you have been dropped on your head repeatedly as a child?

Bizarre speculation from Isabel Oakeshott, speculating that UK national suspects re the RAF base somehow have diplomatic immunity

Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally got to see Chabrol’s last film, Bellamy, via a free trial subscription of the France Channel. It’s a little gem of a film, with all the twists and twistedness one would expect of late Chabrol. It’s impossible to pick up a reasonably priced DVD of the film, so catch it while you can

DVD cover for Claude Chabrol’s film Bellamy

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today I heard someone use the Human Centipede as a way to explain why large model AI is inevitably heading towards its own self destruction by tainting its future inputs, and honestly? It was a beautiful teaching metaphor.

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t find this surprising in the least. I mean, people who waste their time chatting to bots and reading text pushed out by bullshit machines seem ideally suited to drinking piss

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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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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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The head of the French delegation to the UN General Assembly goes missing Finally got to see Jean-Pierre Melville’s lesser film, ‘Deux hommes dans Manhattan’ (1959) Great nighttime shots of NYC with a Nouvelle Vague sensibility, but they don’t behave like gentlemen. They treat women abominably

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know this was in the previous number of Private Eye, but I keep coming back to it for a laugh. I find their podcast so annoying

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do these people not want to develop their own writing styles? Imagine publishing outputs expressed in dull median-English AI slop under your name. Any faculty member who cannot express arguments and ideas in writing is obviously in the wrong fucking job.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rare opportunity to invest in no future.

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“FedEx Panda Express” #pandadiplomacy #china www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t think the brunette in this scene from Claude Chabrol’s La Femme infidèle (1969) goes out much. I can’t believe I’ve missed most of his season at the BFI. Kicking myself

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Oh, how much there is to do here for my hands!” It’s reassuring that, in his Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti (op. 145a), composed the year before he died, Shostakovich could still ponder such things. But the song cycle soon gets around to the subject of death!

The text of Michelangelo’s poem ‘morning’, about the alluring garb of a young woman for whom he obviously had strong feelings (from the booklet in the Capriccio two CD set of Shostakovich’s “Russian Romances”, conducted by Michail Jurowski)

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You’ve got 20 days remaining to watch this wonderful film on the Channel 4 player app thingy

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To those fucking idiots in the Trump administration, glorified word-calculator bullshit machines probably seem super intelligent. “But look at the sentences come out!”

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As Ronan Farrow has demonstrated, Altman is a fucking liar

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Les Biches (dir. Claude Chabrol, 1968)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even Mark seems to know where he should shove that

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a wonderful disc. It’s been a while since vol. 3 and I was worried the series had been brought to a premature end

Ian Page conducts the Mozartists in vol. 4 of the Sturm und Drang series

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So a hugely unprofitable technology, which has yet to demonstrate return on investment in workplace applications, is distorting global trade and bond markets Listen to this and tell me there is nothing to worry about concerning the generative AI 'industry'

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The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · September 23 · 55m

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When it comes to AI recursive self-improvement, “there is a real gap between what has been demonstrated and what is being asserted”

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Like Sabine Hossenfelder, I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us

YouTube video by House of El: AI

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

According to Trump, Britain has been “too nasty” about the war criminal in the Kremlin

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

says ai is scary and dangerous for years founds company for making ai says ai hacking things is scary and dangerous makes hacker ai says ai bioweapons are scary and dangerous what do you think happens next?

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Various trees of Horsell Common

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tonight’s viewing. Thank goodness for the wonderful Arrow blu ray boxed sets of Chabrol’s films

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

England is greener again. A late afternoon meandering alongside the Bourne

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Such a great shot: the hitman glimpses Mitch in The Firm (dir. Sydney Pollack 1993)

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love that his first name is Vernon

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hard times when he can no longer call on his good buddy Viktor Orbán to bung him some cash

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I still think of this as one of my highest achievements, not so much for the bits we contributed (we later wrote better articles on the project), but for its chapters by students & practitioners, and esp. the important contributions by John Annette, David Woodman, Matthew Wyman & Sarah Longwell etc.

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The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics: Placement Learning, Citizenship and Employability (C-SAP Monograph 12)

The concern to develop opportunities for active learning and engagement of one form or another have become increasingly prevalent in higher education institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. In par...

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just to be clear: THERE IS NO ETHICAL USE OF GENERATIVE AI Universities should not be using the bullshit machines. Indeed, they should be empowering their students to think, read and write so that they don’t become dependent upon LLMs

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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 19/09/2026

> The most popular AI models from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Grok and Gemini provided wrong answers to financial queries 57 per cent of the time on average Glad we bet the entire economy on this technology, no notes 🥲

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It shows that Trump is serious about further enriching himself and his horrible fucking family, more than he is about bringing peace, let alone justice, to Ukraine

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To bang my drum once again: universities need to resist this process, not embrace the “promises” of “AI” (by which HE managers refer to rubbish bullshit machines) We need to empower students to reject the use of LLMs, not assist in young people becoming dependent on them for “thinking” & “writing”

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