iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 15h

Conflating the two is neither necessary nor helpful, and we should not entertain for one second Anthropic's attempts to use the latter to justify putting in place a self-serving usage policy which operates to protect its training data

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 15h

It is one thing to want to watch your own behaviour in case it bleeds across contexts. It is another thing altogether to suggest that you can be cruel - implying the infliction of suffering - to an inanimate artefact.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 15h

I’m sorry — you’re absolutely right on that point. The implication of cruelty as you say is propaganda and serves the LLM corporation distract-from-the-real-harms agenda.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 16h

I generally have different modes of conversing with my wife, other adults, my child, LLMs, and the deer in the field… but good and bad habits can slip between those modes. So while we don’t owe anything to Claude, watching our own habits is probably a good thing.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 16h

Generally you are right, it’s a tool without intellect or feelings and does not need or deserve respect. However, you don’t interact with a spade or a pen the way you interact with people or animals. But the interface with LLMs is conversation.

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once again, the greyhound industry received more funding than domestic violence services. There is no clearer indication of this governments priorities. There is plenty of luxurious spending in this budget, but it is not going to the people who are hardest hit and most pressed to the bone.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It makes me feel mental, we're subsiding predatory gambling companies that destroy lives, and doing so in a way that forces thousands of dogs to be killed and dumped every year

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The gambling addiction and dead dog factory that is greyhound racing is the lifeblood of rural Ireland no doubt

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They love to hate that man. He’s going to be accused by some of causing what happens 😞

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Frog and Toad waited a long time.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Will this be part of Tubridys piece on @rteradio.bsky.social in the next hour?

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Elon's European headquarters is less than 15 minutes walk from Dáil Éireann. Government ministers and departments declined to shut down their accounts when he turned the company into a manufacturer of child sexual abuse images earlier this year

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was speaking about HK-1998’s comments, not Sarah’s

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You’re missing the bit where you realize you’re centering yourself and your desire to be clever and just apologize.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s pretty important to note that one of the few Persons of Colour on the Irish squad stood up for Palestine.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh oh! I have been a vegetarian since 1990 and eating well while traveling for work in the 90s was *difficult* - but Austin had this late night veggie/healthy place that perfectly suited my propensity to work too late and is one of the reasons I loved the place. I don’t remember the name tho…

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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pseudomorph @pseudomorph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Or, alternatively, your social media ban ain't gonna do squat.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ooh Debut as Death Metal— “it was Travis’ idea!” ☺️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The point isn't "people can't be harmed by LLMs." It's, "the harm it does was explicitly chosen by other people, who can and should be held accountable."

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We in the chipmunk community are increasingly concerned - we believe there is a 10% chance that rogue squirrels in disguise could wipe out humanity in the next decade.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"AI companies did not frontload this narrative" says @theverge.com chief AI reporter... who also failed to mention that the tweet that started it came from an otherwise idle account & was v likely amplified with coordination. *Please* talk to @timnitgebru.blacksky.app about real, current harms...

uk.finance.yahoo.com

Viral AI Dommer Tweet: Engineered Panic?

Potentially orchestrated headlines and regulatory capture attempts are clouding AI investor sentiment.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“That’s Captain Gaylor to you.”

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

and all the platforms get to keep copies of our IDs as compensation? They’ll pinky swear not to use or lose the data of course.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

The doomsday eugenicist cult has "highly specialized minds" that allows them to see these things he says. No matter how much documentation we provide journalists they choose not to see this.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can't resist saluting the absolute pitch perfect con that's been perpetrated on us last week or so. Net effect: Open AI and Anthropic get to delay their IPOs again cos they can't show their investors they're almost at AGI -- by - warning us they're almost at AGI. 💯 would con again.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11/09/2026

From the social media playbook. “Pleeeease, won’t you please regulate us?!” 😭😭😭

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

But guess what? THEY are the right guys to create the kind of "AI" that will bring us utopia, so you should regulate all the other ones out of existence but don't touch them. Also, data centers and all that? Well you should know that's not the REAL risk according to them.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

This man objected to my warning that apocalyptic "AI extinction" talk is corporate ploy for regulatory capture, marketing, and side stepping accountability. He said he left DeepMind, like the Anthropic "whistleblower." So lets have a brief history lesson about DeepMind's origins in doomer cults🧵

Alex Turner
@Turn_Trout
False

1. I literally quit my Google DeepMind job & lost >>$300k to call out harms regarding autonomous weapons... and extinction risk is still more important, which is why I'm speaking out + working to solve it

2. GDM does NOT want to stoke fears about extinction risks lol

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh no, say the commercial AI companies heavily in debt, I suppose you’ll have to limit any AI use to us licensed commercial entities. It’s just lucky for us that you won’t be able to use open weight models on your own hardware.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Age Verification = Identity Verification. This won't protect anyone, and will actually more harm than you think.

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Face/ID verification requirements for internet websites is just Flock cameras but for the internet. Take off your social media panic goggles and face it. #savespeech #censorship #masssurveillance #privacy

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Huge Bee Worries Wicklow

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I give it six months or less before a “special exemption” appears for affluent or highly corporate sponsored applicants. That is if it isn’t there already…

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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Literally the same government on the same day:

Collage of newspaper articles:
Government cannot 'fund everything together': Bus and rail fare hikes of up to 35% confirmed
Ryder Cup spectator transport ‘could cost €1m a day’

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I knew her peripherally from the blogger days and from the school yard … so sorry for her kids and family and you all.

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