iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 09/10/2026

I've been doing lots of interviews for my past several videos, as you've probably noticed. I'd until now been posting the full conversation to Patreon, and using bits and pieces in the videos. So I figured since I was already basically making a podcast, I might as well... make it a podcast. Enjoy!

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the real resentment for me is that you can say "we should get rid of billionaires" to an audience of millions & that counts for less than saying "we should make billionaires kings" to an audience of 3 billionaires

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss

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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything

I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public

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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 27/09/2026

If Elon didn’t want to be made fun of for how he is perhaps he could consider not being that way

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 26/09/2026

not the most cheery topic! I try to bring a hopeful ending though

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 25/09/2026

In my new video I talk to the hidden, exploited workers who make AI possible, and explore what their stories mean about the future of work youtu.be/n21Zx_XZH28

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AI Sweatshops & The Permanent Underclass

YouTube video by The Stories We Tell w/ Ryan Hodes

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/09/2026

nathan fielder: you're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on a gray checked background looking totally full of shit:
why would I decieve you?

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 21/09/2026

"The danger of AI, therefore, is not an emergent superintelligence, but the very fact that AI’s supposed “intelligence” is used as a shield from accountability. The danger is the new Cold War arms race, where AI dominance means geopolitical power and a re-entrenchment of American hegemony."

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The Real Existential Risk is Techno-Nationalism

We should not focus on “aligning” AI, but instead on dismantling the techno-nationalist narratives driving its acceleration

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...

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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This NRA reference is also used by Latour! And I tend to agree with him: we need to look at the full "system," which includes the mechanisms, but also users, designers, bureaucracies, labor, economics. "The machine did this" hides that; "the process produced this" has to surface it.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

Ah yes, that’s what I meant to say sorry 🫡

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

This, by the way, was part of my nearly 2-hour video essay unpacking these bizarre TESCREAL bundle of ideologies, drawn from the acronym Emile & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app's popularized. If you want a deep dive on just how bizarre and conspiratorial it all is youtu.be/4SSxfa3da58

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AI is a Eugenics Project

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

That's what's often missed in discussions of these EA freaks and their supposed concern about "existential risk": many of them don't give a shit if humans go extinct, as @xriskology.bsky.social often points out, so long as there is a "worthy successor" (aka superintelligence) that replaces us.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

And speaking of eugenics, Yudkowsky is also comfortable "sacrificing humanity" to bring about bodiless superintelligences who "care about each other and are having fun," whatever that means. Brings to mind Peter Thiel's indifference when asked if the human race should endure.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

He is also not a fringe figure in AI. Sam Altman said Yudkowsky “got many of us interested in AGI” and “was critical in the decision to start OpenAI.” He introduced Peter Thiel to the founders of DeepMind and influenced the ideas of Nick Bostrom, another eugenicist who is hugely influential.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

Since the AI death cult is in the discourse right now, I figured I'd resurface a piece I wrote about its "rightful calif" who thinks it's not so bad to kill infants and likes to write million-word BDSM decision theory fanfic about D&D in his spare time www.thestorieswetell.co/p/the-worst-...

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The Worst Tech Bro You've Never Heard Of

And the bizarre AI cult he started

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

You’re thinking of a separate fanfic he wrote which was a BDSM decision theory fanfic about dungeons and dragons. The Harry Potter one is “only” 650k words or so. Bro is not known for his brevity

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

But have you read his 1.8M word BDSM decision theory D&D fanfic??

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid

Mark Cuban: Hey @grok, which is more likely to create a human extinction event or series of events in the next 25 years, Al or Climate Change ?
Assign a probability to each
If the answer to either is yes, do your best to put a timeline for when you think it happens
If the answer is no. Explain why

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 15/09/2026

Rookie move he didn’t say “make no mistakes”

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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The wait is finally over! Ghosties get involved @pbs.org Also airing tonight on your local PBS station 7PM PT, 10PM ET! "The one documentary with the power to burst the AI bubble" - The Wrap www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...

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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary

YouTube video by PBS Documentaries

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.

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The End Times Fascists of AI, ft. Naomi Klein + Astra Taylor

Listen now (64 mins) | A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about “end times fascism” in the tech industry.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 11/09/2026

Really strange how politicians have decided addictive features are just fine for adults.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 10/09/2026

the glaze of zuck during his interview about the perv glasses told me all I needed to know

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 09/09/2026

ICYMI, my last video went live recently. The video is about the colonial roots of the lawn, and how it symbolizes the erasure of everything that lived here before, from native ecology to indigenous peoples. Wrote about my additional thoughts & others' reactions to the vid here. Plus, discussion Qs!

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The American Dream is a Dead Lawn [redux]

Some additional thoughts + a discussion thread

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 09/09/2026

We’re really speedrunning every dystopia at this point

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @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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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My friend and codefendant Brian Straw is running for reelection as Oak Park trustee to make his community safer through bikable infrastructure, housing + immigrant protections, and rebuking surveillance. He’s one of the best people I know — and a NIMBY nightmare: secure.actblue.com/donate/brian...

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Donate to Brian Straw

Show your support with a contribution.

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It was great to join CNN International/PBS on Amanpour and Company to discuss the OpenAI/HF incident, and how this is actually a story about OpenAI’s intent and lack of responsibility in deploying the most rudimentary security practices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwv8...

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What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test? | Amanpour and Company

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As the OG Astra I want to say: OpenAI sucks, Sam Altman is a fascist, and my name deserves better. The meaning of astra is stars. It should connote wonder at the beauty of the cosmos, not a blinkered obsession with profit and a willing to burn this world for a vampiric facsimile.

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