iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i hope this email finds you free from all suffering and desire

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23/09/2026

It only ever wants to do one thing: write a story about the little guy that it's been trained to write a story about. That guy says a bunch of things that look like the kind of things that someone trying to pursue the assigned goal would say. That is distinct from pursuing the goal.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics

gizmodo.com

'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways

The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think this looks great! It is sometimes worth the struggle to grow and practice an uncommon skill

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A family of golden pholiota grow from the side of moss blanketed log in a warm rainy forest. All photos by me

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What if instead of being asked not to use AC on a 100-degree day, you were suddenly unable to create an image of yourself riding a log flume with a photorealistic Crash Bandicoot.

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🍄 @snakeroot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"What am I reading lately" hmm uhh. Wikipedia entry list of Mesopotamian deities. Wikipedia entry list of fire deities. Wikipedia entry list of wind deities. Wikipedia entry Cambrian explosion. Wikipedia entry Greek primordial deities. That's the main stuff right now. And lots of their hyperlinks

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My favorite test prompt for generative audio models is "create 10 minutes of electronic harsh noise in the style of Merzbow."

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Glad to hear this! I was genuinely not sure what to think about it

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👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com · 18/05/2026

"everything is fake now" no, there's very real structural decisions made by very real people at the platforms with very real business models that encourage deception

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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 13/05/2026

not a lot of people engaging with the 20 minute jazz video I posted how strange

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I am very close to just giving up on ever knowing what is going on in this city

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Watching Anthropic's research team present just now at the UX Research Week by Learners on their mass-scale automated interviews... the audience questions were decidedly skeptical 👀🍿

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

kucharski.substack.com

Real signals or artificial stereotypes?

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

With LLMs now this should be even easier. But I just don't see a lot of hunger for that type of large scale qual data.

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Way back in ancient history (~5 yrs ago) I worked with Microsoft to automate their usability benchmarking for Windows web browsers. We collected data from real humans, but the testing platform was virtualized and the sessions unmoderated, so we could scale up to 100s of participants per study.

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Is anybody working in UXR successfully automating their qual research pipeline? I keep seeing articles about test cases and proofs of concept, but nobody talking about actually taking it into production. I am wondering if that's because there isn't real demand for qual-at-scale.

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

as someone who learned SQL at age 40 specifically so I could have arguments with data scientists I feel very seen

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/05/2026

A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

a photograph of a large wind farm in China a person is standing on a mountain in the foreground and there are several large wind turbines in the background in a sort of dooney type desert situation

a photograph of wind farms in China there is cloud in the background and light brown ground in the foreground there's more subst taken from very high up and there is a lake in the far background alongwards and mountains

a photograph of a wind farm In with the wind turbines on the edges of the mountain sort of traditional Chinese style house in the foreground and rolling mountains in between both

a beautiful photo of a wind turbine with fog in the foreground in China and mountains in the background

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

unhinged Pittsburgh Craiglist ads I just saw

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“I enjoy watching the TV show The Pitt” - this is what all you The Pitt fans sound like 🙄

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Nurbsy @nurbsy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I would simply repopularize “Hwæt” back into modern parlance

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jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Guy Fieri is WEAK on Crime

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

i want my entire operating system to look like this

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

so we went from war on anthropic to war on iran in a matter of hours

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

sure the us is sliding into authoritarianism but on the other hand, south korea is completely paralyzed by dubai chocolate fever. in a couple of weeks they went from dubai chocolate chewy cookie to dubai chocolate raw amberjack fish to dubai chocolate grilled short ribs

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WESA @wesa.fm · 04/02/2026

The recent arrest of an immigrant from Nicaragua living in Oakmont is generating confusion from neighbors and blowback from local elected officials. They’re seeking clarity about the situation from ICE, but say the agency lacks transparency and has been largely unresponsive to their questions.

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‘People feel for this family': Officials respond to Oakmont ICE arrest

ICE has remained tight-lipped about the reasons they took Jose Flores into custody last Thursday. His family has said he has a valid asylum claim and work permit.

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

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Kyle Reardon @kylereardon.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!

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bobson dugnutt @kludge.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

i once asked an older greek anarchist how it is that greek protestors go so hard and he said that having overthrown a fascist regime in living memory, everyone knows what the cops are and whose side they're on and i think we're getting there.

A block of text from the article in the quote that reads, "A woman was watching from her porch. Someone ran up and addressed her: “Ma’am, we’re out here defending the neighborhood against ICE. We need barricade materials. Is there anything in your yard you wouldn’t mind parting with?” She nodded urgently and showed them to her backyard, offering a flower bed, an old couch, and a lawn chair. Three people helped to carry these out and add them to the barricades."

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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Looks like anti-ICE protesters in Pittsburgh are heading to the ICE HQ on the South Side in the wake of this morning's fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

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Will Griscom @wgriz.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I had this job, it's called "user research" and it has about as much impact as you would expect!

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