iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 13m

A warehouse with no access road wouldn't fly; why would a datacenter without power be any different? And yes, much as you wouldn't get away with plowing a road through a village, power supply (and water, connectivity, etc etc) will also need to be negotiated and contracted for.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 13m

Some people are looking at Microsoft pulling out of the proposed Nscale #AI datacenter in the UK as a sign of something. Personally, I think it's a sign that companies are going to have to get much more serious about the mundane work of planning these builds.

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Microsoft pulls out of UK Nscale data centre deal over power delay

Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor a flagship data centre for Nvidia-backed Nscale after power connection delays pushed its expected supply date into the 2030s, highlighting a major ‌obstacle to Britain's AI ambitions.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 2h

Unclear — especially because just down the road from the one that closed is the still-vacant lot from one that closed ~10 years ago. As you say, remediation is not easy, although local government is trying to push brownfield development over eating up yet more greenfield sites.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 9h

Looking forward to the cyberpunk novels featuring Indian conglomerates, like we used to have Korean chaebols and Japanese zaibatsus before them. Actually, what is the name for one of those? That seems like a good first step!

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 13h

Technically yes, but being in town, there are better options literally across the road. Another petrol station (used to be my go-to car wash) just closed. Someone is presumably making plans to buy up lots of suddenly-distressed real estate over the next few years! Although cleanup will be a mess.

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

Weird and slightly post-apocalyptic experience today: pulled into a petrol station because my EV had a low tyre pressure warning, and they were coincidentally out of petrol. They charged me €1 to use the air compressor. I’m not sure that’s going to make up the shortfall in revenue, lads.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 23h

I remember reading about that landscape in Neal Stephenson’s books!

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

I've been saying for a while that one of the big problems for personal #AI agents is that providers are not going to be willing to disintermediate themselves. I foresee an arms race as websites block agents and agents attempt to evade blocks. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

Online roadblocks are undermining the narrative behind AI agents.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Obviously far less severe, but there also needs to be some suitable punishment for the people who do this exact same thing in supermarkets. Yes, idiot, I’m stopped here because there’s only room for one trolley up ahead and one is coming already. Maybe confiscate their shopping after they’ve paid?

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Meanwhile here in Italy, English lessons start in elementary school (very basic, but still), and then a second language is added from middle school (usually one of French, German, or Spanish, with occasional exceptions). Is it *good*? Eh — but it’s good enough as a base to work from.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

For a country with so many trains, they are INCOMPREHENSIBLY EXPENSIVE. I recently spent more on a train ticket from the Midlands to London than on the airfare to get to England in the first place; also more than it cost for the entire family to go from Milan to Naples and back by high-speed train.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

I wanted to say that this was further proof of @veryimportant.lawyer’s “everyone is twelve” theory, but the actual 12yo who lives in my house has more sense. AI bros: “Wah wah I don’t want to do homework” — shut up and grow up. And eat your vegetables, brush your teeth, no sugar before bedtime…

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

I will say, my local leaf-blower enthusiast has switched from internal-combustion to an electric model, and this has led to a sharp reduction in my fantasies of [redacted] them with a [redacted] right in the [redacted], before [redacted] them through the [redacted] until they are properly sorry.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Theory: the underlings mostly know better than to send untreated AI slop to their managers, so those managers have been insulated from the worst effects until the entire org was completely saturated in slop?

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

The local dialect here is dying in front of our eyes. The grandparents speak it, my generation understands it, and our kids have no idea. That’s in the city; up in the hills it hangs on a bit better, and there is a definite class divide too. Sad to see it happen.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Building a curriculum is an exercise in compromise, as I see with my own kids’ experiences in school: why do we do so much of this, should we not do more of that. My answer is that you don’t know what will be useful, and if you have a solid foundation, skill acquisition on top is quick and easy.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

In both cases, the value is in how they shaped my thinking. Meanwhile, the modern European languages I speak let me operate in contexts where machine translation is not (yet?) present, and also send the invaluable signal that I am making an effort rather than just tapping on an app.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Every time someone wants to rearrange education “for the future needs of students”, I start to worry. Day-to-day, I get about as much direct and practical use out of my Latin and Greek as I do the dozen programming languages I learned — that is to say, none whatsoever.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

I am reading this one very slowly, partly because a massive hardback is not exactly portable, and partly to savour it. I got through the harrowing first story, and as for the second, someone has been reading his Anthony Burgess — “Earthly Powers” specifically. This is a great compliment.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

LOVE DRIVING 🥰 Some recent work done with @wearehub.bsky.social Prioritizing safe routes for kids to walk, bike, roll saves parents and caregivers time, reduces traffic congestion, improves children’s health, and reduces serious transportation injuries.

two kids fighting in back seat of car

I love driving my kids everywhere for everything every time.
said no one ever.

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Aaron HM @aaronhm.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

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"The internet is a store but it used to be a library" holy shit truer words have never been spoken

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

At Microsoft, which rolled out Al widely internally, executive vice-president Ryan Roslansky recently publicly lamented the prevalence of Al slop in his day-to-day work. After receiving iwhat was clearly an Al-generated doc from a co-worker, he used his Al to summarize it and came away with no new thinking about the idea, he said. He warned his followers against falling into this potential "doom loop", where Al does the reading and writing and leaves behind an "ocean of sameness".

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Well yes, I participate in society. Curious! And yet I can also choose to minimise harm: if I have to drive, drive an EV; if I don’t, take public transport or a bike. Even that level of harm reduction is seen as too far by many, though — but maybe they’d listen to their plastic pal telling them so?

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Maybe more people will listen if the AI tells them what we already know needs to be done about climate change? 🤷‍♂️

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Oh no, I wanted more murdering of spammers! I mean, let's be real, I'll still *watch* it, probably in an aeroplane, but they had a chance to make something truly relatable: Jason Statham Murders Cold Callers. Instant Oscar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsJI...

youtube.com

The Beekeeper 2 - Official Teaser Trailer | Exclusively In Cinemas January 15

He’s been busy. #Beekeeper2 - only in cinemas January 2027. Join us…

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Powering NPCs' dialogue with LLMs seems like a good fit between #AI capabilities and ethics in video game development — but the problem is that just the playable demo is costing its creators $1k/day in tokens. How many games on Steam make >$1k in daily revenue, I wonder?

store.steampowered.com

Teach My Little Sister How To Drive - v1.2.9 Update and a Development Status Update - Steam News

New emotional expressions and hair options, plus an update on AI improvements and the future of the demo.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Love how all these guys are seeing the reaction to Apple putting an always-listening #AI on people’s wrists (tl;dr: “ewww, creepy”) and decided this was the best time to push out their own version of the same idea.

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Andy Jassy of Amazon:
“Excited about our new Bee devices launching today. They turn your conversations into summaries, to-dos, and reminders, so the details are there when you need them.
Bee Frontier goes on your wrist or clips to your clothing, and Bee Eclipse snaps to the back of your phone to catch what you'd otherwise forget throughout your day, whether it's notes from a class you're taking, the details of a trip you're planning, or an idea that comes to you in the car.
They connect to Alexa+ and Amazon.com, so the things you mention are easy to find later. And you're always in control... one button turns it on or off, a light shows when it's on, audio is never stored, and only you can see your data.
Think folks are gonna find this really handy.”

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Yes, #AI-assisted coding is definitely a thing; no, this is not the SaaSpocalypse, because the learning curve is still dang near vertical, and the terrain changes constantly under you.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I've been fighting with GitHub for half an hour just to get authenticated to the point that I can clone a repo, but sure, J. Random User is going to be vibe-coding all their apps tomorrow.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

EVs are a critical plank of energy security and resilience — as long as generation (and transmission) strategy also adapts. Solar and wind require inputs, sure, but not continuous ones: once the capacity is installed, it works for years or decades, powering clean(er) transportation.

ember-energy.org

Electric energy security꞉ how EVs are reducing oil import vulnerabilities | Ember

Electric car fleets have saved oil-importing countries $20bn since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran, according to new data released by Ember.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Now I’m wondering whether reading it in translation may actually for once be more faithful to the author’s intent…

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

My car has this (automated signpost recognition vs CarPlay and GPS) which is yet another reason to mistrust self-driving cars. But I leave the beep on because that way I don’t drift over the 30 km/h limits in town — and yes, I enjoy giving badly-behaved drivers behind me aneurysms!

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

True, but on the other hand sometimes I do want the specificity of SQL (or something like it) rather than the fighting my way through an endless parade of “did you mean…?”. The frustration is often with poorly-deployed or -designed AI, rather than the concept of AI itself.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

The best professional compliment[1] is stepping off stage after a presentation and immediately diving into follow-up conversations with audience members. On-topic and on target! 🎯 [1]: Well, after cash money

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I’d just follow your conference-specific alt as well, as I suspect most of your followers would — so the result would be the same, just with extra overhead for you.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I gave Elevation Labs a kicking when they launched their #AirTag silencer, and I was not the only one. Well, it seems they actually listened, and issued what I would call a pretty dang good apology — including specifically the line that they will prevent others from building anything like this. 👏👏👏

We launched an AirTag silencing tool recently. We’ve always made products we want for ourselves, and this was no different - we wanted it for AirTags on our bikes. (Some of us have bikes more valuable than our cars.)

In retrospect though, this also has the side effect of aiding someone with bad intentions to track someone that wouldn’t get phone notifications.

We have removed the product and will use our patent on it to prevent anyone else from making one in the future.

Sincerely,
Elevation Lab

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

The reason I’m not concerned about this scenario is that Anthropic would never allow its models to run anywhere they can’t charge for tokens. Offline AI is the one thing that actually threatens them, so they will make very very sure it cannot ever happen.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

That was my first thought: call me when my lightbulbs have several gigs of RAM… 🙄

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

When an #AI agent makes a shopping recommendation, what is that based on? It sucks to be reliant on affiliate revenue, but there’s also a new marketing channel targeting agents, not their users. Someone is working out right now how to shape those recommendations! www.fastcompany.com/91621388/i-l...

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

There is nothing that causes quite so much chaos, panic, and consternation at an event as a presenter blanking their screen. I know it’s a standard function, but if the event is big enough to have an AV crew in attendance, and this is something that you use, maybe have a word beforehand?

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