iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 4h

This is great from @adamsinger.bsky.social, about how using #AI agents is to cede our agency. I have noted the same mechanism, but it's particularly notable that it's being pushed by people who obsess over the precise key caps in their keyboards, but don't think anyone else should do the same

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A slow ceding of agency

AI definitely has uses, but no one talk about diminishing returns, tradeoffs or anything else during manias

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Jak @jaksays.bsky.social · 12h

LLMs make the typing bit easy But the typing bit is the simple part of development - the hard parts are requirements gathering, problem analysis and verification, and as per this study those are parts LLMs actually make harder Those are also the only parts that add business value

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 20h

Oh this is excellent: from misremembered (hallucinated?) quotations from “The Screwtape Letters”, to a tone-perfect riff by @timharford.ft.com on what Screwtape might have advised regarding #AI: “Let him enjoy his laziness and call it productivity” www.ft.com/content/f5d0...

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 21h

I find the argument that “Steve Jobs would have hated it” utterly unpersuasive. Steve changed his mind all the time; he was the epitome of “strong opinions, loosely held”. I love my iPad with a keyboard, I’m not sure about a touchscreen Mac, but I’ll wait and see. www.inc.com/kit-eaton/st...

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Google moved fast and logged 200 hectares down to sand before an environmental impact could be completed. It’s a real mystery why people are suddenly all up in arms against #AI datacenters…

theguardian.com

Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns

Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

I quite like the new Jaguar Type 01 EV. It’s more of a Jaaaaag than the Luce is a Ferrari. I’ll reserve final judgment until I see one in the real world, and I’m not remotely in the market for something like this, but it’s cool and new and different, and I like that attitude at least.

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2028 Jaguar Type 01 EV Revealed With 1,015 HP, A 400-Mile Range And Even Wilder Looks Than The Concept - Jalopnik

Is everybody ready to be calm and normal about the new Jaguar yet?

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

This is my pet peeve: I often ignore red lights when it is safer for me to do so, e.g. to avoid conflicts with turning traffic hurrying to make the light. But if cycling infrastructure is good enough to avoid the conflicts, I can relax instead of treating every bike trip across town like Hotline.

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Now there is an interesting concept: protecting the digital commons from #AI encroachment with legislation comparing it to an oil spill or “environmental claims of the past, tobacco litigation, pharma litigation.” www.ft.com/content/a5ca... www.ft.com/content/a5ca...

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey @kaiho.bsky.social I think I found something *even worse* than that horrendous PBJ-flavoured beer we sampled at #Monktoberfest:

"Mr. Beast's Feastables Liquid Death Peanut Butter Cup Soda-Flavored Sparkling Water", which are apparently a real product

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 06/10/2026

Just for comparison to OpenAI’s reported 80% TPR @ FPR = 1%, for SynthID-Image, Google reports 100% TPR @ 0.1% FPR. I think it’s worth remarking that these are not remotely in the same ballpark of reliability despite both being forms of “watermark”

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, this was a fun little game: pick the nine albums that made you who you are. Here are my picks: www.my9albums.com/s/bvN9iXlDAa Yeah yeah, tell me you're a 90s kid without telling me etc etc

my9albums.com

My 9 albums

Nevermind, California, So Jealous and 6 more. Pick yours on my9albums.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

This honestly sounds like a block I’d be happy to catch myself!

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

I am sitting at BOS airport, watching a 747 manoeuvre past an A380, while waiting for my own flight, operated by an A340. All of these types are out of production and proclaimed to be obsolete — and yet here they are, on revenue service. This is a post about enterprise IT.

A 747 is pulled by a tug past an A380 that is being turned around

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Seriously what is WRONG with you people. I wouldn’t drink raw cow juice myself, and I definitely would not give it to any of my children. You should get down on your knees and worship the name of Louis Pasteur.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Another name for C++ is “uncontained accidental complexity”, according to @bcantrill.bsky.social at #Monktoberfest 🤣 I would agree that using it in education is tantamount to abuse. I’m mostly fine now… *twitch* *twitch*

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Luke Kanies @luke.kanies.com · 30/09/2026

It’s us. Men are the problem, and it’s men who have to do the work. (I mean, others *can*. But we are the ones who *should*.) Don’t rape! Don’t sexually assault! Don’t harass!

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

“I want the technology to outlive the company itself” — @rude1.blacksky.team talking about his goal for #Blacksky at #Monktoberfest I wish more companies took this attitude to their services — especially, as Rudy also notes, when hardware devices will fail without those services.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't think we are facing "the death of apps" due to #AI. There will certainly be a transformation, especially on the enterprise side, but for discrete tasks in my life, a single-purpose app designed for the context of that task is always going to be quicker and better than a generalist tool.

findthethread.blog

Delegated Interfaces

We receive news. Apparently, The Death of Apps Has Already Begun. However, upon reading further, I have doubts about this author’s understanding of how humans live. This lack of understanding is…

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the problem with #Muse and all of the other #AI personal assistants: in order to use them, we would have to rearrange our whole lives to make them legible to the machines. The payoff is that then… we could pay Meta a commission for everything we do, forever? Sorry, no sale.

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Muse Is What Meta Means by ‘Personal Superintelligence’ – Pixel Envy

Casey Newton, Platformer: “The centerpiece of our vision for what we’re building is Muse,” Zuckerberg said, promoting the app to a central place in the company’s family of apps only a few days after…

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

I hate that the stupid chatbots a) pretend to be people, and b) hide out in previously-useful software making it worse. Look, if you want to indulge in a spot of cosplay with your plastic pal who’s fun to be with, go wild — just don’t get anything on me, mmmkay?

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When did Google get so f-ing weird?

I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Even when I determine to chill and wait to go to the gate until boarding actually commences, I still underestimate the amount of time I will spend standing around. I could have had another coffee and copy-edited a whole other doc! #travel

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Spending some quality time in Confluence, and the stupid Rovo #AI "assistant" is the most intrusive one I've had the misfortune to encounter. "Press space to Ask Rovo or / to insert elements", forsooth — just get out of my way. But no, Atlassian made sure there was no per-user opt-out.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Yet another reason to prefer #EVs, beyond avoiding high fuel costs and reducing pollution: electric cars turn out to be more durable than internal-combustion ones. Makes sense: there’s far less to go wrong in an EV, but battery degradation doesn’t seem to be as much of a factor as had been feared.

electrek.co

Massive UK study finds high-mileage electric cars more durable than petrol

Data on millions of cars in the UK shows electric cars last longer than petrol cars, and the reliability gap gets bigger at higher mileages.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

For #AI agents to be useful, they need data — and it seems that #Muse, the new agent from Meta (Facebook), will go to just about any lengths to get access to more of users’ data. It’s just as creepy as the pervert glasses, except it points the other way. www.inc.com/jason-aten/m...

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Guido Kühn @guido-kuehn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Die Welt brennt. Die menschengemachte Klimakatastrophe verursacht immenses Leid, unbezahlbare Schäden, Wirtschaftseinbrüche, droht den Lebensraum Erde für viele dauerhaft unbewohnbar zu machen. Und wir fördern nun ausgerechnet jene Industrie, deren Geschäftsmodell es ist, unsere Welt anzuzünden?

Illustration eines brennenden Menschen, der an einer brennenden Tankstelle sein brennendes Auto betankt und dabei auf die Anzeige der Zapfsäule schaut. Textzeile: Tankrabatt ist der besorgte Blick auf den Spritpreis, nachdem man seinen Lebensraum angezündet hat.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

“First, don’t interfere with user input”: this should be forcibly tattooed onto the eyeballs of #UX designers, too many of whom seem to love stealing focus, e.g. with dialog boxes, or conversely, not placing focus on the sole input that is displayed, like a search field in a pop-up. @aresluna.org

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“First, don’t interfere with user input.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

I very much wanted to buy an ID.buzz when it first came out, but three things killed it for me (before even getting to the price conversation): - the (lack of) range - non-opening rear windows - SWMBO threatening to divorce me www.theautopian.com/vw-is-delayi... #EV

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Well, the stream is still going, and they appear to have attached winches to the wreck. So far, so good?

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

People are making fun of the bricked #Samsung fridges — but the problem is not the idea of #IoT connected appliances, it's that the implementations are mostly incompetent and/or evil. The idea itself still has potential, though, like in my "smart" washing machine.

findthethread.blog

A Good Idea, Ruined

Everyone is sniggering at the plight of owners of “smart” fridges that have been bricked by a software update:

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

It seems #Meta employees are not big fans of the pervert goggles being turned on them! Check out the video embedded below to appreciate the full irony.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A tweet from @hagfail

It was removed from Tubu. Heebee sold the IP. Poodee won't play it in your region. It's not on Dippy. You can't find it on Weeno. Gumpy lost the rights to Pheebo. Poob was removed from the app store. The FBI have issued a warning to Poob. 3 Poob executives were arrested today.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm not saying that film execs who greenlight using AI versions of beloved dead stars in their films should have one of their close deceased relatives dug up and glove-puppeted in front of them via the decaying sphincter so they say "You shame me from beyond the grave". I'm *not* saying that.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

It turns out, companies don't like it when other companies try to access their user's data. It's almost like they consider it *their* data, and complain about not being asked for consent… It's all just a little *too* ironic, don't you think? #AI

findthethread.blog

Personal Data Silos

I have written before that the reason I have doubts about the potential of personal AI assistants is that what we still laughingly call our “private” lives are just not legible to machines in the way…

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/09/2026

IMPORTANT: You can use the word 'autumnal' today.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Please get splicing, people, I’m flying into BOS next week for Monktoberfest and would hate to miss it because of this! (I am quite certain frantic splicing and rerouting is occurring already)

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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perfect

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