iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

johnny cab in total recall feels more apt. ugly dangerous crap designed to steal jobs and pretend to have conversations. at no moment do you consider johnny cab to be pondering concepts

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 20/07/2026

De programadores indianos fingindo ser IA, motoristas remotos da Waymo, Mechanical Turks e Data Labelers, o mercado é cheio de sonhos de automação, que na verdade são trabalhadores escondidos dos olhos dos consumidores, mal pagos e enfrentando instabilidade geral. www.victorhg.com/post/esperan...

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Esperando pelos Robôs

Não existe robô autônomo, não existe IA que aprenda sozinha. Existe, sim, um exército de mãos humanas contratadas que treinam, verificam, corrigem e imitam sistemas que depois são vendidos como mágica...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/05/2026

Today’s newsletter reveals the unrestrained and wasteful token burn inside one publicly-traded company (Zillow) and breaks down the cold, hard truth that AI is - for hyperscalers, for AI labs, and for customers - simply too expensive to ever pay off. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

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AI Is Too Expensive

If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...

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François True-Faux @noonechomsky.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

POST A MOTHER

Sigourney Weaver deitada de roupa de couro e de braços abertos num alien imenso desenhado por HR Gigers, com formas meio artrópodes, meio mecânicas

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026

The return of runic magic! Golems! The Word made true. If you find the right magic spell, the genie has to obey you. Only you can tame the monkey's paw! It's SCIENCE

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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Analytic philosophers = Failed mathematicians Continental philosophers = Failed poets Tech CEOs = Failed adolescents

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir's manifesto is not new for us who have been critical of them for years. But a reminder that Anthropic has a partnership with them, so it's crucial that people understand the politics of Anthropic's unsubstantiated AI claims and their relation to fulfilling the manifesto.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠

Royal Darwin Hospital staff use ChatGPT to calculate medication doses, nurses claim

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 17/04/2026

eu nao concordo. Cinismo é triste, destrutivo e sinal de perda de empatia com o mundo. eu tento ser um realista esperançoso, e ainda tentar construir algum futuro

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 17/04/2026

Os 40+ são uma eterna luta para não se tornar cínico e desacreditado…

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

“The coalition wants Meta to scrap the feature entirely. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, it argues that face recognition in inconspicuous consumer eyewear ‘cannot be resolved through product design changes, opt-out mechanisms, or incremental safeguards.’”

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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

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Carapanã @carapanarana.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"Ele disse ao ChatGPT que era um incel nazista que queria morrer; em seguida, perguntou quantas pessoas precisaria balear em sua escola para aparecer no noticiário. O ChatGPT o ajudou a escolher a munição, o alvo e o melhor horário para o massacre e, depois, ensinou-o a manusear a arma."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/04/2026

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

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Tarcizio Silva @tarciziosilva.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

IA é teologia política racializada, como apontou Syed Mustafa Ali

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Nate Silver Tweets @natesilver538bot.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken. Original post

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

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Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you’ll accept

Surveillance pricing came for your wallet — now it’s coming for your paycheck, too.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/03/2026

Man standing in front of big neon sign that says “is that good?” As the crowd chants the same. Art by Mattie lubchansky

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Tarcizio Silva @tarciziosilva.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Mulheres confiam muito menos na I.A. E agora? Dados mostram um novo hiato de gênero que parece representar um afastamento das mulheres em relação à atual fase da I.A. Como podemos, como homens, agir para superar esse hiato de gênero? desvelar.org/2026/03/24/p...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/03/2026

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

a chart showing rising energy consmption for all companie s bar netflix

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TIgra de Zamboja @pernetinha.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

quero falar um pouco disso aqui e de toda a bagunça do preço da gasolina e do diesel. Creio q falei sobre isso no twitter láááá atrás mas diante mas acho que vale repetir.

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 17/03/2026

O mercado de tecnologia de Shenzhen é realmente muito doido. Vi um cara almoçando na frente de uma mesa de solda, com um computador e um celular abertos enquanto fumava… dentro do shopping, sem ventilação e sem exaustor… Dia normal… Fenomenal fenomenal

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/03/2026

Tomorrow's Premium: The Hater's Guide To The SaaSpocalypse. The SaaS business model is collapsing under the weight of private equity greed and the misplaced belief that all software companies can grow forever. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

To use a technical term, this is a fucking terrible situation. Bruce Richards, CEO of credit investor Marathon Asset Management, recently predicted that the software industry would see a default rate of 15% in the next few years, meaning that 15% of software loans will go unpaid.

This number is thrown around very casually for something that I believe will be incredibly fucking damaging. The software industry’s entire growth cycle has been built on the idea that you can take an idea, build it up, get funding and then sell it to someone else, and that idea has been so thoroughly mutated by the wanton greed of venture capital and private equity that it’s now turned into a massive, ungainly debt bubble.

Per Bloomberg, private equity gobbled up more than 1900 software companies between 2021 and 2025 for a value of over $440 billion, and while it’s tough to get a handle of exactly how many software companies are held in private equity’s hands, a 15% default rate would be catastrophic, both to those owed money via debts and the decaying asset value of both private equity and venture capital firms.

In Q3 2025, 33% of venture capital funding went to SaaS companies, and did so with the old belief that SaaS companies grow in perpetuity. As I mentioned before the premium break, 20% of public BDC private credit loans are going to software firms.

The entire private equity, venture capital and private credit sector is leaning on one specific thing - the kayfabe of SaaS and its eternal growth engine. If SaaS companies are no longer a steady, near-guaranteed return-on-investment (and based on the returns for private equity and venture capital firms, that stopped being the case some time ago), everybody is going to lose money, and nobody is going to have any idea how to make more.

SaaS is one of the few (seemingly) tangible business lines in the tech industry, one of the only places you can point to and say “this is how it makes money, and these are the ways it makes more mone…

The AI bubble is a symptom of the greater sickness in a software industry that stopped caring about making software. Allowing management consultants and growth-perverts to take the wheel and demand that every single software company make $100 million a year or get shot to death at dusk has ruined the incentives that Silicon Valley was built on.

The only way to turn “every” software company into an eternal growth engine is to change their primary purpose from building software to selling services that sometimes involve some sort of software. The entire SaaS sales stack is utterly fucked, geared toward conning people that buy software but don’t use software rather than providing any meaningful service.

This con could only last so long before it fell off the tracks, because the crooked and cowardly lack any soul or wisdom that might give them the ability to steer a company toward anything resembling a sustainable future.

As Hansson said, not all software needs to evolve forever. A product does something, and it should get better over time and only change in a way that improves the experience for the customer. This can be done in a way that makes the company grow, but that growth should only come from an honest exchange of value with the end user.

I realize that sounds a little fanciful in our era of Rot Economics, but the nightmare that I fear is to come for the software world is one borne of the growth-at-all-costs poison in the veins of Silicon Valley.

It’s a comforting lie to say that “AI is destroying SaaS,” because saying that allows you to keep believing that everything will grow forever, and the SaaS con can continue. I’m not saying that SaaS will never be a viable business model, or that no SaaS company will ever succeed, but that the mistaken belief about basically any SaaS company being viable enough to make a hundred million dollars or more a year without venture capital or debt propping it up is a lie told to you by people that don’t know or care a…

They all fucking deserve it. They deserve to lose. None of them gave a rat fuck about building any future other than one where they got incrementally richer every time something I have to use for work gets worse.

I feel horrible for the founders who were pushed again and again to grow and take on debt and venture capital in the pursuit of somebody else’s payday. Many SaaS businesses could be happy, stable $50 million or $100 million enterprises with happy customers and stable, useful products - but they wouldn’t get funding, because venture capital and private equity don’t invest in good businesses, just symbols of greed and rot stapled to the side of software companies that mean about as much as a row on an excel sheet.

Real businesses and real software don't get funded in this era of rot.

Software can do amazing things, but it won’t as long as venture capital and private equity continue to poison this industry with their mindless avarice.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X

I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together.
This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 06/03/2026

Você preocupado com IA te substituir, e com os agentes tipo openClaw. Meu projeto no mestrado: prompt injection em mensagens de audio, que pode impactar qualquer agente com voice assist que use o whisper, da openai...

imagem de resultado do notebook, que usa um audio que é interpretado pelo whisper e transcreve uma frase específica...

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/03/2026

Type of guy who cosplays his software having feelings in order to avoid feeling personally responsible for how it was used to murder children is an increasingly common kind of guy in the software industry

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Koffie Kobold - Gnollsome Adventures! @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂

Screenshot of headline: Microsoft gets tired of Microslop, bands the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Did you know that "young Sammie" and "older Sammie" did a Tiny Desk today? Yep, Miles Caton and Buddy Guy performed together #Sinners youtu.be/m5XxOLdMSS8?...

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Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert

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I Am Devloper @iamdevloper.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Debugging feels like trying to find a needle in the haystack. Only, the needle is invisible, the haystack is on fire, and I'm not sure the needle was there in the first place.

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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago

The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

news: today capitalist AI did something fucking terrible, just like yesterday some lefties: what the fuck, this capitalist bullshit sucks AI pushers: can't believe the left hates technology

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/02/2026

Talked to Politico about Sam Altman and Dario Amodei being the same guy www.politico.com/newsletters/...

But are the two companies really so different at the end of the day? Ed Zitron, a prominent AI commentator and tech PR specialist, argues there’s little daylight between them — and that the disagreements are trifling, at best.

“They are very similar companies doing very similar things with very similar goals, which is to enrich their executives and get as much media attention as possible,” Zitron told DFD.

He pointed out that Anthropic and OpenAI have both lobbied for export controls on semiconductors, and similarly pushed the idea that the U.S. needs to boost the AI sector to compete with China. They advocate for safety rules at various times, some of which have caught on in state legislatures, though Zitron contends that there’s little possibility that those efforts will gain much traction on the federal level given the hesitance around tech regulation in the current administration.

Zitron said, “Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are functionally the same guy — they just look a bit different.”

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 19/02/2026

A oficina 'Não precisamos aceitar a “IA” como inevitável na educação' está chegando... Coloquei um link para um PDF em construção adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com/extension/co...

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Não precisamos aceitar a “IA” como inevitável na educação

Elixir and Erlang enthusiast. Associate Professor at UTFPR

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"Any claims of AI solving for population scale problems must be matched against the reality of the Global South, in which young boys were applying enamel paint on the railings... with their bare hands to prepare for the arrival of Silicon Valley CEOs." www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...

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India’s ‘AI Impact Summit’ Promises Little More Than Spectacle

The fourth in a series of convenings that kicked off in Bletchley Park in 2023, the summit is the first held in the Global South, writes Apar Gupta.

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 16/02/2026

Tem coisa que o Brasil dá um baile! Conto de fadas com torresmo, café e queijo meia cura 🥰🇧🇷 #photography

Foto de uma paisagem de montanha com uma grande pedra ao fundo, e um grande jardim com floresta. Um cavalo pasta ao longe

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/02/2026

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026

The primary use case for this product is to erode consent.

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 09/02/2026

#fantastico faz uma MEGA desserviço à discussão sobre inteligência artificial, multiplica o hype e deixa de discutir claramente o que houve com o moltbook… que bosta

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a man with a beard is making a funny face while wearing ear buds .

ALT: a man with a beard is making a funny face while wearing ear buds .

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 08/02/2026

pra variar, no fim são humanos nos bastidores...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/02/2026

Here’s this week’s Better Offline, I’m joined by @davidgerard.co.uk for Hater Season to talk about the stupidity of Openclaw, how seemingly smart people keep being “one-shotted” by AI, and why we’ve been headed toward a calamity in the markets since 2008. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/04/2026 · 38m

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

crypto wouldn't be falling like this if trump was president

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 05/02/2026

É uma abordagem simples mas super interessante! Estratégia de manutenção de contexto e organização de tasks para que as instâncias consigam rodar “quase” sem problema. Isso não saiu com vibe coding, mas foi bem facilitado com ferramentas de auto complete

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🌋Victor Hugo Germano @victorhg.com · 05/02/2026

Criei uma versão do “Ralph Loop” que roda localmente usando uma instância Ollama. Uma abordagem mega interessante pra executar tarefas autonomamente… o tal #agentic flow Usa bash e python… github.com/victorhg/ralph

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GitHub - victorhg/ralph: Implementation of the Ralph loop for agentic

Implementation of the Ralph loop for agentic. Contribute to victorhg/ralph development by creating an account on GitHub.

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