iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Titus Blome @derlampenputzer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

the children yearn for butlerian jihad

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

An underrated genre of dudes rock entertainment are when medieval monks have to solve murders. Guys love investigating manuscripts and discovering dark secrets and wearing tunics.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Something everybody should do is give themselves permission to create shitty art

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I don't want to live in a meritocracy. I want to live in the world where you'll be ok even if you don't have an iota of talent in your body.

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Ihro @ihro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

being morally right doesn't necessarily make you more efficient

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

I’ve started a Substack, ‘All Old Strange Things’, should anyone want to subscribe: drfrancisyoung.substack.com

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lukas 'nein' diestel @eckdoktor.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

alle meine homies lesen homo faber/ also les ichs auch ich bin der fomo haber

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/12/2023

A cybertruck got stuck because it didn't have recovery/pickup points and because the software locked up the rear brakes for some reason. That and it had the wrong tires. Very funny stuff

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

i think for the rest of my life i'm going to play through a rotation of xcom 2, civ, rimworld, and rocket league. occasionally i'll buy a new game, play a couple hours, and then say wait nevermind, you're not xcom 2, civ, rimworld or rocket league

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Ihro @ihro.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

My reward for cleaning my kitchen

Bento box with fried soba noodles with cabbage, peas and cashews, egg, soy, marinated tofu, cilantro and chili, some tsukemono with daikon and carrots and a fruit salad with cocoa nibs on the side

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

The way Andrew Tate has only risen in prominence since being investigated and jailed for rape/human trafficking — in conversation with a presidential candidate and tech billionaire today — just goes to show how easy it is for alleged traffickers to achieve status and power in full public view

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Frank Herbert's "God Emperor of Dune, or My Own Private Duncan Idaho"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

I’m sorry it’s just so fucking funny that they built an entire AI just to give them the answer they wanted to this question and they couldn’t even do it

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DaveAnthony @daveanthony.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

So, to sum up, these children were terrorized by school shooter drills from the age of 5, made to never feel safe by shooter drills, some had nightmares and couldn’t sleep. Then they were killed by a shooter while cops sat around.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @wellactuarially.com · 06/12/2023

Last year a student said "Can I just give up on math? I can't do this." Fast forward to one week ago "Math is actually, low-key, kind of fun. And doing the work in class makes me feel so smart." 😀 I'll take low-key kind of fun!

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

people say the only reason Sun Tzu’s Art of War was important was because most leaders of his time were inbred failson nobles which to that I say, have you seen a typical boardroom today?

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

it's just so viscerally apparent that these people aren't very bright even by the standards of, like, sci-fi geeks who've read a few books but never really studied science past high school

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Ihro @ihro.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

[flirting] the movie we just saw together was definitely fascist war propaganda, right? (Pls hold my hand)

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fun time with friends @funtimewfriends.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

I simply cannot get enough of the hijinks of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer in the television show Seinfeld

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Titus Blome @derlampenputzer.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Straßenverkehrsordnung ausgedribbelt

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Ihro @ihro.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Was wir brauchen ist nicht weniger Glitzer und pink für Mädchen sondern gemütliche und praktische Kinderklamotten, die so viel Glitzer und pink haben können, wie das Kinderherzen begehren und die dann bitte für alle kiddos

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Ihro @ihro.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

"Genderneutral" heißt nicht beigebraungraumatschgrün imo

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Katja Berlin @katjaberlin.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Heute ist der internationale Aktionstag gegen Gewalt an Mädchen und Frauen und ein erster Schritt wäre es, die Dinge beim Namen zu nennen. Es sind keine "Familiendramen" oder "Liebestragödien" und Frauen haben auch keine Angst vor Tiefgaragen. Das Problem sind gewalttätige Männer.

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Jens Scholz @jensscholz.com · 25/11/2023

Man kann Gendersterne oder Schreibweisen gern doof finden und sie daher nicht benutzen. Wenn aber eine Regierung beginnt, Sprache zu verbieten, ist das ein Warnzeichen: es geht ihr ja nicht um Rechtschreibung, sondern sie will eine Ideologie erzwingen. Sowas hört nicht nach einem Schritt wieder auf.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

The idea the biggest names in tech could read too many blogs and end up developing two competing religions and could then be willing to blow up billion-dollar companies in defense of those religions was, honestly, too stupid to believe. And yet... www.garbageday.email/p/you-are-te...

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VBRG e.V. @rechtegewalt.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Heute ist Trans Day of Remembrance. Auch wir erinnern an trans*, nicht-binären und gender-nonkonformen Personen, die weltweit aufgrund von Trans*feindlichkeit sterben. 2022 starb Malte C. an den Folgen eines queer- und transfeindlich motivierten Angriffs auf dem CSD-Münster. 1/4

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