iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 13/10/2026

"Shut up and multiply," in the words of Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has his own very normal thoughts about infant deaths.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 06/09/2026

I actually followed through on my promise to become a soccer fan after the World Cup

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 02/09/2026

People on Letterboxd just be saying shit, huh?

Review of Koyaanisqatsi 1982: “In the top 10 movies to watch while on drugs.”

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 28/08/2026

As expected, @hypervisible.blacksky.app brought the smoke to the latest episode of Blood in the Machine. Btw, BITM is now on instagram (www.instagram.com/bloodinthema...) and TikTok (www.instagram.com/bloodinthema...)

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 22/06/2026

Also, this is a pretty rich quote. "These will definitely NOT be generative tools." Pay no attention to how we've already used AI for its generative features.

Scott Belsky, an A24 partner who oversees the studio's technology and innovation work, said the partnership would not produce the kind of AI tools that have made filmmakers uneasy. "We think there are better uses that preserve creative control and support risk-taking," he said. The new tools "won't look anything like the prompted generation type of AI that people feel uncomfortable with."

Eli Collins, a vice president of product for DeepMind, said in a statement: "We believe breakthroughs happen when you get technology into the hands of the best minds in the field."

One early project underway at A24 Labs, Belsky's 20-person tech team, involves using AI to generate storyboards — the rough visual sketches directors use to plan scenes before cameras roll. DeepMind and A24 have been in talks since before Scott Belsky joined the studio from Adobe $ADBE -1.41% last year.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 16/06/2026

Remembering my undergrad intro to microeconomics where I learned that consumers and investors will make rational decisions when given enough information.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 02/06/2026

today in cursed LinkedIn posts

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 27/05/2026

Chris Olah (Anthropic co-founder) has a remarkable talent for completely abdicating any responsibility for the harms of his company's technology This is from his speech in response to the Pope, which some in Silicon Valley say is "far more spiritual." x.com/ch402/status...

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 27/05/2026

oh brother, do I have news for you www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/t...

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 19/05/2026

Google's new pervert glasses

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 12/05/2026

AI is a eugenics project, pass it on. (full vid: youtu.be/4SSxfa3da58)

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 24/04/2026

Although, reading the actual messages, it seems like they more care about the optics of looking fascist rather than the fact that they actually are.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 11/04/2026

Honestly just let the fish take over man

WSJ headline: Humans are locked in an epic fight with flying fish. The humans are losing.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 08/04/2026

WSJ article that makes literally 0 mention of the actual reason for Iran re-closing the strait (Israel attacks on Lebanon, violating ceasefire). Portraying Iran as the irrational player here doesn’t work so well when everyone just saw Trump threaten genocide apple.news/AyDFTu3VQTZm...

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 07/04/2026

Just threw up in my mouth a little

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 03/04/2026

55% of the time, it works every time 😎

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 28/03/2026

There were a few people out in Chicago

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 28/03/2026

bonus points if you can guess what my next video is about

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 27/03/2026

Great piece. Read the whole thing. It’s pretty dispiriting how quickly many in Western countries have gone back to ignoring Palestine.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 25/03/2026

Jfc pritzker what is this🤦‍♂️ and for the love of god, stop with “comprehensive immigration reform.” This is a right wing project that Obama tried and spectacularly failed because nativists will never compromise, but they WILL take the deportations/border militarization that Dems love to give for free.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 24/03/2026

PS I'm running a title test and personally I hope this one wins

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 18/03/2026

My new congressperson (La Shawn Ford). Didn't vote for him and he's a pretty milquetoast lib, but thank god it's not AIPAC Conyears-Ervin. Also, please give us rank choice voting 😩 there were 4-5 really great progressive candidates and they all cannibalized each other.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 18/03/2026

yeah somehow it doesn't surprise me he thinks introspection is a modern construct

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 17/03/2026

I miss one week ago when I had never heard of this fucking loser

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 03/03/2026

Finally watched The Alabama Solution. Incredible film, but man the top review on Letterboxd pisses me off. How is this your takeaway? The whole point is that the dehumanization of prisoners is not unique to Alabama. Did they not see the last ten minutes with examples from other states?

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 02/03/2026

Jfc consent manufacturing at hyperspeed. This whole article is incoherent, but esp this part. Brother, you cannot cheer on the topping of Iran while also feigning concern about Netenyahu. Who exactly do you think stands to benefit from Iraeli-backed regime change—hint; it's not the people of Iran!

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 03/02/2026

Bryan Johnson—a transhumanist who wants to live forever and has a super weird relationship with his son (tracks his nighttime erections, does blood transfusions w him)—is currently running defense after appearing in the latest batch of the Epstein files.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 23/01/2026

Which came first, the chicken or Marc Andreessen's head?

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 15/01/2026

Instead of the promise of digital utopia for the rich, or annihilation by AI takeover, instead we should understand that, in the words of Ruha Benjamin, "the future is us."

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 15/01/2026

This series has framed the desire to merge with AI and colonize the cosmos as a religious conquest, one which worships AI as God, and eternal growth as the gospel. But it is an impoverished religion of domination, devoid of any deep thought about the less quantifiable aspects of existence.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 15/01/2026

Check out a sneak preview of my upcoming video essay on the TESCREAL bundle. See the first 8 minutes on Patreon :) www.patreon.com/posts/intro-...

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 08/01/2026

Not only is his analysis of problems facing humanity's future lazy and conspiratorial, his solutions are also unimaginably naive and dishonest.

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 08/01/2026

In this post I analyze William MacAskill's book 'What We Owe The Future,' which is full of vague fears of values being "locked in" via unaligned AGI. But he doesn't seem to grasp that billionaires like Elon Musk are ALREADY "locking in" their regressive and misogynistic values

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 31/12/2025

Passed 1M all time views and 30k subs in December. Thank you all! Maybe 2026 will bring a 1M video 🥳

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 10/12/2025

Imagine running a dating app, an already isolating and alienating place to find companionship, and thinking that what's missing is actually MORE isolation and alienation. Who is this for? "help people connect in a more thoughtful and personal way" by giving them canned automated openers. Come on now

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Ryan Hodes @thestorieswetell.co · 06/12/2025

gotta love taking 14 words for what can be said in 2.

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