iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I keep leaving lifelines in my bath to allow spiders to climb out and every time it happens again the spider is bigger. I'm hoping that soon they'll be so big they can climb out unaided.

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 20h

That's not true. You made that up. Also loads of the software I've worked on so far in a professional capacity has either been internal tooling or ultimately gone unreleased in favour of an alternative candidate. The study's authors had no way to see any of those projects in any company.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't have a lot of compassion in me right now. Maybe that depresses me more than anything.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I just showed Opus 5.5 a picture of Welch Labs Perceptron because I want to help my descendants build a physical version. I told it I want to build a software version of it so I can figure out the wiring. With no other interaction and in less than 90 seconds it built this.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 07/10/2026

I guess this is what we all get for those "cant count R's in strawberry" jokes huh

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 07/10/2026

just to remind you what this is: this single box with two SSDs. is running deepseek v4.1 flash (a 552B model) in its native MXFP4, ~550GBs of weights plus engrams total. with prefill speeds of over 450tps and decode speeds of over 15tps. at full 1M context.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Humans are so much more than AI and we will use this awesome tool that we've built to do things that neither us or our AI can even comprehend right now.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"people are awesome, we do awesome things and we're not going to stop doing awesome things just because we invented something awesome" - Angelo via YouTube youtu.be/nc8UBme3XLQ?...

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the future is happening to us

YouTube video by Angelo

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We're all clinging to this hope that politically things will get better, but they won't. Our governments are in a race to the bottom, through the will of the people that are responsible for electing them.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you get angry when you are made to feel stupid, don't plan on getting old.

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Andrii Katriuk 🇺🇦 @andriikatriuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And each fucking day I have not enough curses to say about how genocide of Ukrainians is normalised. Beyond any measure. How good that genocide isn't escalation. Right? Wishing you all "as long as it taking standers" to be "resilient like Ukrainian". #UkrainianView

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have no confidence at all that things will get better after the midterms.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sheez, one YT channel I subbed to has switched to showing clips of famous pedophiles and walking through personal ads from 1972 that smell of statutory rape, while Fireship (also subbed to) is platforming DHH.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching Avengers Endgame Encore like it's 2019 again and everything is good in my life.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really like the idea that RSI can also mean models improving the environment in which they run and then using those improvements to improve it further. Models being limited because humans don't understand how to make good use of them.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump's contingency plan for losing congress is just to ignore it, pretty much like he's doing now. EOs for all the things and a large impeachment collection.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

get my NEW BOOK 🙌 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 23/09/2026

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The problem with starting a revolution is that half the revolutionaries would be just the same as those they want to replace and the other half couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 20/09/2026

not to be an idealist or anything but i wish things were slightly better

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I see everyone rushing to set rules around personhood and whether intelligent entities and/or the technology behind them should be referred to as *it* or not. Fuck every last one of you. Every time we do this some entities get marginalized. I'm done with it.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026

Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.

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Siobhán 🪏 @shibbi.me · 17/09/2026

The existence of others has never been something subject to your consent.

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Diogo Almeida @typesafeai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Message from our CEO: After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

With LLMs we're offloading our own Agency to external agents. It seems like we don't really get what that is doing to many of us, yet.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I always pictured me ending permanently sitting in a corner knees pulled up to my chest rocking backwards and forwards. I'm so close to unlocking that achievement right now.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm now at the point where I get significant anxiety just consuming fiction where people are being terrible to each other. I guess I've mostly lived in a time of peace and now it's all falling apart. SMH I can't understand how people can hate so much.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm going to give up everything and become a trans-monastic. Not shaving my head though.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm pretty sure one of my agents has its own bitcoin and AWS accounts. What's the worst that could happen?

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think it's great that in anticipation of Dario's request, Google slowed the pace of building their frontier models 6 months ago.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For me kindness and compassion can't be conditional. Only applicable to "those that deserve it". Everyone arrived where they are via a long journey, one that was likely very different to mine. I can still believe in a cause or even fight it if it would help, I won't hate those I fight.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If my career could have mirrored anyone I'd have wanted it to be PJ Harvey.

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Ryan @depatchedmode.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We have officially left the “hand transcribed by monks” era of software.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Listening to a live version of "Rid of Me" by PJ Harvey and for the first time it occurred to me that it must have been a big influence on Nirvana. I opened the comments to find it was full of people saying how Cobain was at the gig and that he had all of Polly Jean's records. Weird.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You know what, I'm feed up with 1%ers funding political movements designed to fuck over the rest of us. Socialism has it's issues but I'd rather be part of a hapless collective than be ruled over by the cronies of the rich and powerful. Let's tear it all down, starting with Reform and Ben Delo

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For years my go to was black tea with milk and sugar. Then I switched sweetener to splenda and then to monkfruit. Then I stopped sweetener altogether. I drank unsweetened tea for 18 months and didn't really enjoy it. Now I've switched to pure Oat milk in my tea and it's great.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm still mostly healthy, and the only service that the medical profession could offer me that I would be interested in at some point is assisted dying. UK MPs need to be held to account for their fearmongering and for the suffering caused by denying people access to such a service.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You can't fight opinions or make opinions stick on social media so what's the point in giving each other oxygen? Do your own thing, just be mindful of the consequences. We all have to live in this world. Ok,if your opinion is that people like me shouldn't exist then you can STFU.

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I made it to the final boss in Onimusha: Way of the Sword and he really takes malevolence to the next level so I've decided to concede and let him do his thing. Sorry humanity...

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Mandy Waite @tekgrrl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The reason I couldn't advance my tech career was that I believed in people, I recognized that everyone was different and believed that everyone could find happiness and be great contributors if given the right conditions Later I understood that this wasn't conducive to higher level leadership

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hailey @hailey.at · 10/09/2026

i had to see it so you do too

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