iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 30/09/2026

This is why I find estimation so hard - I'm on failed attempt #9384 of trying to clock how long each portion of building the thing takes and my time-tracking data is polluted by all my flitting around

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 21/08/2026

I heard that song in a store this week too! My kid had no idea what it was

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 25/07/2026

To install a PWA on iOS, you have to: - Navigate to the site - Open the menu - Click "share" (wtf!?) - Click the SECOND "more" ellipsis icon (not the first!) - Click "add to home screen" - Click the "Add" button This is, to me, unacceptably byzantine. Just deliberately hostile on Apple's part.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just out there cutting everything down to their essence.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/07/2026

I haven't seen the new adaption, did Nolan keep Man of Constant Sorrow?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2026

uh...yes?

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The thing about someone ‘improperly receiving benefits’ is I don’t care. Oh no did someone get food or health care? Good!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law."

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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International

This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 19/05/2026

Personally, I like thinking

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Listen kids Your value as a knowledge producer is *not* that you can shit things out quickly It's not that you can whatever program to check a bajillion things and make a graph It is that folks can trust that you know what you're talking about and checked the tape You give that up, you're fucked

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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 16/05/2026

Are you a librarian and technologist who understands patron authentication systems?? Have you got half an hour, please, to talk with our crack tech team? Will be most grateful for your help as we prepare to sell ebooks, for keeps, to LIBRARIES. 🎉📚 DM here pls or email maria [at] flaminghydra.com

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Flaming Hydra

journalist owned and operated

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 15/05/2026

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached. When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?

Trump truth social post: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 02/04/2026

this point is everything like, large language models are structurally incapable of fact-checking; you have to assume everything they produce is bullshit (which is why they work with code, because code can be bullshit and still run)

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 17/03/2026

Every billionaire: “I literally don’t review my own thoughts or interrogate my ideas or premises” Median voter: “We should keep letting them spend infinite money on elected officials, if not run for office themselves”

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The amount of duplication that is done by AI on a daily basis is really mind boggling. People not looking up things that already exist, code that's already been written, communities they could have interacted with. It's profoundly wasteful and antisocial. It's just really such a shame.

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 04/03/2026

but look how many lines of code i can spit out whilst i sleep using the billionaire-owned suicide-inducing planet-killing war machine pls listen to yourself

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 25/02/2026

This. So much of the perceived value of "AI" has been possible with scripts for soooo long

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 24/02/2026

"It’s a statistical model of data connected to a mechanism for producing more data that resembles the data in the model."

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Our product can show you what's outside the window that's right next to you, perform a Google search slower than you can yourself, and misinform your surgeon mid-procedure, causing a catastrophic failure that will injure you for life. The entire economy is propped up on it

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/02/2026

This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body

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qntm @qntm.org · 23/01/2026

Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

“Productivity benefits may come at the cost of skills necessary to validate AI-written code if junior engineers’ skill development has been stunted by using AI in the first place.” Note that this warning comes from @anthropic.com themselves.

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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Republicans are in favor of having a gun to defend yourself from a tyrannical government unless you have a gun to defend yourself from a tyrannical government

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

the leaders of the civil rights era could not propose or veto legislation. they had no "power." but they had legitimacy because they were out there. Letter from a Birmingham Jail was written...FROM JAIL. But with these guys "Hey it's crazy right now and we can't do much, but give us money." LOL ok.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I get that this sounds like something from sci-fi. You talk into a device and it gives you what you want. But I don't want Google digging through my photos or all my personal files just to tell me about tires. I would rather ask the people whose job is to know about tires.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 10/01/2026

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 10/01/2026

Slightly diminish a band Boyz II Teenz

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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 09/01/2026

This tracks with my own usage of AI: it seems to work best when I don’t know enough to understand that it didn’t work very thoroughly.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 02/01/2026

grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 20/12/2025

it’s for exactly this reason that my library network’s catalog system does not retain patron borrowing data, or even permit the creation of linked “family” library accounts. the “free” in “free public library” means, among other things, “free from government interference.”

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17/12/2025

i remember someone telling me nonprofits are so much worse because they'll look you in the eyes and tell you that you're supposed to have it worse because you're involved in a ✨mission✨ or something. you're supposed to internalize and valorize shittier working conditions

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 10/12/2025

tbf, much of what's happening in the AI realm today qualifies as a waking nightmare...

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 06/12/2025

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

DC Public Library

No Library Wrapped from us — we don't track what you read. DCPL protects your privacy.

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 20/11/2025

Anyway, I'll take this brief connection as an opportunity to thank you for your contributions - I always enjoy your work and outlook

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 20/11/2025

I don't know you IRL, but you seem like someone who likes to go 100%, so I assume you're getting one now tho!

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Jeremy Keith @adactio.com · 06/11/2025

When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile. 🔗 adactio.com/notes/22233

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Zeth Lietzau @zethlietzau.com · 05/11/2025

it's one of my biggest struggles talking to other people that _work for a public library_

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 31/10/2025

❥ "I ask you, human to human, [..] leave the AI to your quantitative tasks if you have to use it at all. Face the world with your thoughts and enrich them through real-world experience. The best thoughts are the ones that have been felt, anyway."

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

"You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool."

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