iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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*people* make the design & engineering & business decisions that are behind every one of these types of stories…

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i took the piss out of @robarmstrong.bsky.social when he said this but in fairness, he was indeed making a good point. It just started weirdly. Proof that the pod is very much unscripted/unrehearsed/slightly chaotic www.ft.com/content/845a...

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21h

AN Wilson here, with the slightly mad claim that Jeffrey Archer arranged for a drug addict to crash a stolen Jag into Monica Coghlan’s car

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1/ Humiliating scenes of Russian surrendering en masse to Ukrainian forces in the Lyman salient are continuing to produce recriminations among Russian warbloggers. One lays the blame on a "rigged" military hierarchy dominated by incompetent "sycophants and lackeys". ⬇️

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean what were those speechwriters doing? They had all summer I'm also looking forward to the Conservatives' critique that the public services disasters that they spent 15 years creating haven't been fixed yet

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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 30/09/2026

🧵AI is already killing people by coaching children how to die by suicide, or how to best hide their suicidal ideations and self harm from their parents or other adults in their lives who could help them.

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AI won't kill us — At least not like that

Gen AI companies are laying the groundwork for escaping accountability. Don't let them.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lots of different euphemisms for “I can’t get the price I’m looking for” I guess

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Margaret Owen OBE 94 year old human rights barrister Arrested for "terrorism" for protesting against genocide

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A reasoned and ideologically coherent Lib Dem response to the fuel crisis would to be to urge the government to maintain Britain's EV mandate and to do all it can to hasten our exit from fossil fuel dependency. But clearly Ed has decided on petro-populist short-termism.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/ Ukraine has taken a reported 250 Russian prisoners and claims to have killed 2,000 more Russians in its ongoing Operation Vivaldi near Lyman. A Russian warblogger says that Ukraine has overturned Russian assumptions about its capabilities. ⬇️

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI is also going to force changes to anything where the friction is provided by a lengthy application process that can now be largely automated: employment tribunals, job applications, complaints procedures... As we're already seeing.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.

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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And obviously social media sites aren't taking action: bsky.app/profile/amrk...

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 20/09/2026

Fantastic weird little dude!

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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 19/09/2026

"While parking my car on a hill with the handbrake off it went rogue and autonomously rolled down the hill. We've informed the owners of the vehicles it crashed into. "We bear no responsibility for this incident which just highlights the need to teach cars the Highway Code."

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow... big story in the battle between news companies and AI model scraping... check out these quotes - from unsealed court docs. The action is against Microsoft and OpenAI. 😮

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anthropic is “building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.” prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...

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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 17/09/2026

One of the key problems with AI is that the AI bros and their behemoth companies have absolutely no governance or guardrails. It's not that the AI is conscious or going rogue or whatever. It's that it's run by feckless arseholes. www.ft.com/content/2c34...

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Lotte Hargrave @lottehargrave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨New paper🚨 Very pleased that “Using Gender to Choose: Voter Decision-Making in Low-Information Elections”, coauthored with Ellie Woodhouse, is now out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. In it, we ask: when voters know very little about candidates, how do they use gender when deciding who to vote for? 🧵👇

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s clear that a number of governments are going to try to force through laws that hand creatives’ work to AI companies, on the grounds of ‘national security’. But this is an abysmally weak justification for stripping away creatives’ rights. Two core reasons why: 🧵 1/5

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Literally hours later, although at least nobody was killed.

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On 13 September, an MSF bus carrying 10 humanitarian staff in Gaza City was damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a targeted vehicle just two metres away. One of our colleagues was injured in the strike.
The bus was clearly identified as an MSF vehicle, with a large MSF sticker visible on its roof. Once again, Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical personnel.
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Civilians, healthcare workers and humanitarian staff must be protected. Clearly marked medical and humanitarian vehicles must be spared from attacks.
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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Underrated aspect of the crypto billionaires buying our political system - our political class is too in thrall to Big Tech to actually say out loud that crypto currency basically exists for crime and very little else

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just received an email from Labour about the crypto-millions pouring into Reform. It’s a request for donations! YOU ARE IN GOVERNMENT FFS!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026

This is worth a read because it eviscerates the narration of "AI solved complex mathematical problems, we can now retire mathematicians" that's currently being pushed by the AI companies. (and in general please remain sceptical of any claims to independent thinking or intent by LLMs)

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why is Anthropic pressing ahead with AI, even though some of its staff think it could wipe out humanity? Wrote about this recently for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As Anthropic said in May: “Historically, the reach of authoritarian rule has been limited by its dependence on human enforcers...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Home Secretary's silence suggests either sympathy, indifference or ineffectiveness as regards the violent lawless thugs

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Reflector Lich 📡 🇵🇸 @eccentricks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To be clear, this is not the Raise the Colours founder who killed a man in Lichfield; nor is he the one who used to sell sex dolls of people's dead spouses; nor is he the member charged with making indecent images of children; nor is he the organiser convicted and jailed for human trafficking.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

FWIW I don’t think masked thugs on the street has anything to do with fiscal policy missteps. It’s the softpawing of the extreme right and the tacit acceptance of norm breaches around xenophobia that have emboldened people onto the street. This is why the “legitimate concerns” frame is so dangerous.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Try:We respect democ protest, properly expressed, but this was completely different+unacceptable. We will not tolerate uniformed militias intimidating public as well as disrupting normal life. We will back policing to ensure boundaries are clear & those who cross the line are deterred & sanctioned

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

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