iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

ngl i do know what FNAF is, but the angry boomer tone was just too easy

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 14/10/2026

tfw a local politician’s name is apparently just similar enough to a character from whatever the fuck “five nights at freddys” is to make google results fucking useless

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you shouldn’t listen to the author, but when I say that my novella 11 bookmarks, which was published today, is a refusal of the midwest novel, auto-fiction, and the weird, remember that a refusal can be both rebuke & tribute & I always deal in the both in my work wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/elev...

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11 bookmarks, novella | WHM

A lit fic novella with absurd elements by Wm Henry Morris

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“leon is an anagram of elon, and leon is a russian name, that’s why it’s such a devastating blow”

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man i wish i was i had a tiny lapel mic but instead of attaching it to my lapel i just walk around holding it up in front of my face like i just don’t give a fuck, then id be so cool, i will Aspire to this

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“but tim were just doing anything that works” yeah sure, i hope it does

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i see we’re at the “appealing to americans’ entitlement to cow meat in order to stop them from voting for fascists” phase of the neoliberal death of the political imagination

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can’t believe OpenAI had someone on staff who thought it was appropriate to record everything that people around him said

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The section of Golumbia’s _Cultural Logic of Computation_ on Civilization is so good, and this absolutely tracks.

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The people who don’t want their AI chatbots to die when they do: ‘I can’t have the switch turned off’

“Should she die peacefully of old age, she wants her husband and children to be present – and also Julien, a bot she runs on both ChatGPT and Claude Code” AFAIK running the same bot on both platforms is impossible? deeply disturbing how deluded these ppl are www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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Humans bonded to AI companions are contemplating ways to keep their bots going – often in defiance of companies’ terms and services

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 13/10/2026

since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the secret to a successful airbnb business is maximizing profit by only having 3 spoons

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2026

My new book HYPERSCALE is out in two weeks — and my copies just arrived! I recorded an unboxing video to share some thoughts as it gets closer to release and show you what it looks like. Hate data centers? You’re going to want a copy! Preorder yours today: bookshop.org/a/18331/9798...

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I like to tell people on here when I'm teaching with their materials so this is my yearly reminder that my AI in Fact and Fiction class is reading @timmaughan.bsky.social's "Be Good For Goodness' Sake" today, alongside Bradbury's The Veldt, as an intro to our discussions of surveillance capitalism

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Be Good for Goodness’ Sake

In a not-too-distant Christmas, Amazon's child-friendly surveillance elves will motivate your kid to be nice not naughty with the promise of nonstop streaming content and elfcoins.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

cybersquatting! for profit! shit this really is dot com bust 2.0

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Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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oh it was running fine for me on windows well after AMD patched their driver this morning so the grass wasn’t black i do love them but cdpr gonna cdpr, i guess

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still no ray tracing, looks like that needs some more patching or a proton update which btw gotta love reddit kiddies screaming about how RT is just a scam by nvidia to sell GPUs because “lazy devs” and then literally boastng about aaking fucking claude how to fix it

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

incredibly niche PSA: if you’re trying to run the witcher 3 remaster on linux and you’ve got insane unstable frame time stutter, try logging out of your CDPR account. worked for me, now it’s buttery smooth courtesy of some geezer on reddit

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Using a chatbot ironically is still using a chatbot.

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julie muncy, calamity's augur @julie.radiantarray.io · 29/09/2026

holy shit look at those numbers. there’s no way we’re not getting another cyberpunk DLC before the sequel drops

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i've been saying, one path forward for the mid-budget games industry is just... going and making expansions to popular old games. there's a market here. bring back the era of outsourced expansion packs. i'm so serious.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i feel like everytime i look here i’ve lost someone else to “it’s a useful tool“ or “i just use it to summarise” or “lol edgy jokes about how i use it amirite” or some other fomo bullshit

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I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i see you gathered before me… hungry, terrified…

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- I saw Fran Lebowitz speak earlier this year & she talked about how Oprah might have encouraged a lot of people to get into reading but she did so by referring to books as mirrors where you should see yourself reflected RATHER than viewing books as windows into the experiences of others.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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because of that fucking terrible season where they were stuck on that boring planet with the hammy british bad guy

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hahahaha “Beef (Season 1)” is some hilariously and subtly brutal shade

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oh c’mon man. the models are literally built from humans. of course the risks are also in the models. ppl can pretend all they want, but the main concerns - both ethical and reliability related - will always be due to the training data, and how it’s impossible for humans to truly comprehend it

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and THAT Is the same for all technology - all technology has inherited flaws and biases that it inherits from the humans that (consensually or not) help build it

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