iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump is a filthy bastard. His collusion with russia amounts to high treason. While Moscow continues to escalate its massacres of Ukrainians, Trump is offering criminals money. It's a strong incentive for the Ukrainians to bomb russian refineries even more—the Europeans must help them decisively.

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 23h

“acting on their own” How did the AI “agents” pay for the compute involved in these activities?

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 23h

Le meilleur reste à venir (dir. Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière, 2019)

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Elle Cordova on how we still have agency regarding the generative AI 'industry'

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This is not a runaway train

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

FFS. I am still grieving the loss of Saturday Review

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The peddlers of bullshit machines (which many of you call "generative AI" or just "AI") are FUCKING WEIRDOS and conmen (they are all men) Universities: we need to embed AI in our curricula and pedagogy! No, universities need to empower students to research, read, write and think critically

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Jon Stewart Unpacks AI’s Dubious Promise of a "Better Future" | The Daily Show

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And that, so-called journalists, is how to ask questions of generative AI con artists. Laughter has always been the appropriate response

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Jacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily Show

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kinda funny how YouTube videos criticising generative AI are interlarded with adverts for how "AI" "agents" can make you more "productive"

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chabrol reveals that the insurance scam and the singing lawyer were based on real events

Extract from an interview with Claude Chabrol following the release of his film Inspector Bellamy

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In many ways, Bellamy’s brother, Jacques, resembles Serge from Chabrol’s first film

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kraus's Symphony in C minor. which opens the disc, is a banger

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Does that include Jordan, which the British carved off as a separate territory?

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The kid has just explained to her what debt as a percentage of GDP means

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And all because you won’t write your own sentences and paragraphs, as you had to do only five fucking years ago. We could end all this tomorrow if everyone just searched, read, thought and wrote by themselves

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Resolutely pro rapist.

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had £5 on my Co-op loyalty card (earned from visits to the store and buying bread), so I blew it on a shitload of chocolate. I am 57

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the first time since April, I have trodden in some mud

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nathalie Baye and Isabelle Adjani in La Gifle (dir. Claude Pinoteau, 1974)

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is becoming really funny now. ‘Nobody’ 🤣

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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

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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

You could also ask them how they used to do things only four years ago

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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 · 28/09/2026

My dad was partial to what he called his “purple meanies” in the late ‘80s. But he’d been putting Ribena in his lager for as long as I can remember

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

Chabrol's philosophy was to have a good time when filming, fueled by fine dining. He argued: "Creativity is aided by happiness'; 'You never know if a film will work, nor if it will be a success. On the other hand, you can always make the filming work, & make it a success' (quoted in Austin 1999: 6)

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

I especially love the way Michel Bouquet's character (Charles) removes the body from the crime scene IN PARIS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT By contrast, Anthony Perkins took such care to avoid detection, and he was a fucking psycho

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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

If you haven’t read it already, I highly recommend his memoir (and everything else he has written). I lent it to my mum, who loved it and lent it to a friend

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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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