iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I work at a long standing business that predates the ‘digital revolution’ whose core computer system still runs on DOS. The pentagon has nukes running on second generation computer systems that utilize giant floppy disks that hold maybe a few MB of information.

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I don’t think LLMs are or ever will be conscious. It’s thought animatronics. I think through their development we are projecting some reality about consciousness, so perceiving consciousness as not necessarily bound to a pinpoint location is more a function of our experience.

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 02/10/2026

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Trump can’t put his name on it, so he’s plundering what he can before bringing in the bulldozers.

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If Claude were conscious and thinking, we would need only feed it the dictionary and a few books on grammar and punctuation.

AI is basically just word animatronics. We’re building systems that are fundamentally just the Chuck E Cheese band.

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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The funding imbalance in American politics is just astounding. Running a homeless shelter? Sorry, your last 50k grant just ran out and now your lights are off. Want to start a podcast for racists who eat paint? Here's $50 million, no strings, go have fun.

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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026

U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs in September as the unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%. Job gains for July and August were revised down by a total of 60,000 jobs, extending a lackluster run for the job market. n.pr/4ARKWKD

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The U.S. added only 29,000 jobs in September as job market lacks spark

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This behemoth of a tech company probably still has some major system that runs on dos. The ‘digital revolution’ isn’t what people think it is.

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Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting debate raging here. I don’t think a definition is required to substantiate your position. Consciousness is an absolute mystery Claude is not. Claude is a construct built from our corollary measures of consciousness, which we can’t explicitly define. Therefore, Claude cannot be conscious.

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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On 7/3 James Talarico gave an interview on 93.7 The Beat saying he was grateful for Rep. Crockett’s endorsement from March & reminding people it’s not her job to win for him. x.com/MichaelKarli... On 7/19 at a town hall, he said if you claim to be a supporter, to keep her name out of your mouth.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding federal inquiries into the amount of taxpayer money used on Trump's propaganda ads — asking the GAO to investigate the "source, accounts, and total amount of taxpayer funds used by the Executive Office of the President to produce and distribute."

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Raskin leads calls for federal investigation into Trump PSA’s

The Maryland Democrat could lead the House Judiciary Committee in the next Congress.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The IDF has published files re 170 journalists killed in Gaza that they have cited as being operatives for Hamas, the PIJ, & other terrorist organizations. Names, military ID, what their positions were, photos, & documents detailing operative info with translations. www.idf.il/en/mini-site...

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Clearly one must be ‘more informed’ to be able to justify the fact that Hamas follows no conventions of warfare, and instead operates as a terrorist organization that exclusively targets civilians and sends teenagers on suicide missions in front of military checkpoints.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect our democracy. Right now, @wetheaction.bsky.social is recruiting lawyers who are willing to volunteer their time to defend voting rights. Join them: wetheaction.us/guide

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I’m getting old so I’m starting to see stuff that is perennial being treated as some new development. Every generation seems to think they’re the first to ‘really understand’ Marxism. That ‘the olds’ will be shocked to find it’s ’actually good.’ Likewise, antisemitism did just fine without twitter.

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Anyway, if the DSA wants to get serious about ‘religious socialism,’ I’m all ears. I just am having trouble envisioning The American Kibbutz taking off or being treated as anything other than a massive retreat from ‘the great revolution’ by the majority of those drawn to this organization.

It all occurred. The claim of genocide is nothing new, it’s been going on my whole life and as far as I can surmise ever since the Arab-Israeli war. Hamas does operations in ways that explicitly guarantee Palestinian civilian deaths, and explicitly the death of children. It’s part of their strategy.

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The most generous I can be about the DSA is they are quite clearly trying to backwards engineer a horse from a cart. The page was also rife with cobwebs with the last event being a month ago and the top article having a massive 34 views.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026

So I went to the DSA site and found their ‘religious socialism’ page. I will say I was surprised but I was not very convinced either. There is a list of members but they go on to list ‘public figures’ and ‘historical figures’ (such as MLK and Malcolm X) that were never explicitly socialist.

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It is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security.

Emily: I think about this as a journalist and a novelist: I cannot control how the reader takes what I write. Especially when reporting, I try to be as careful as I can, but somebody might read what I write and conclude, Well, we're all going to die. And there's such an incentive structure to walk right up to the edge of catastrophe or even stick a toe over the line, and even publications I think are terrific will get as close to that line as they can because they know that drives subscription dollars and clicks. That's not just true of trans media; it's true of the media writ large. How do you think about that incentive structure, especially as it relates to social media?

Me: There's two ways to generate clicks about trans issues. One is to sell panic about trans people; the other is to sell panic to trans people. The social media incentive structure there, as it is with so many issues, is the septic, perverted version of that old classic about local TV news: If it bleeds, it leads.

Selling people that sense of control is, as I noted, the same thing at the root of a lot of conspiracism: not to trust mainstream sources who tell you things aren't quite so bad or things could get better or don't panic. It's the cinematic logic of a disaster movie where the people who are saying, "Actually, you should panic!" are correct. Think about everything from the narrative structure of Independence Day or Mass Effect. The catastrophizer is actually correct against all the people saying, "I'll calm down. It won't be so bad." That story structure is very, very popular, and it gets you invested in the protagonist with a pleasing sense of dramatic irony for the audience. They know something many of the other characters don't or refuse to accept.

We are all reared on some version of this story, and it seeps into everyday life. There's an excellent piece from CBS News in 1967 by Eric Sevareid reporting on the findings of the Warren Commission [whi

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The model will be developed through trial and error and process of elimination. It can’t be analytically constructed. Folks will decide how much ‘online’ they can really stomach or emotionally afford, leaving the folks who think it’s a magic lever to social change lost in their own house of mirrors.

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Can anyone explain how and why the DSA has an ‘international committee?’

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Poast removed by author and the obligatory quote with immediate block that means I never saw your witty zinger or scathing insult anyway. These DSA clowns are full on cowards, man.

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The DSA used to be Zionist. The DSA was founded by a devout Catholic. You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. Every attempt to wrestle socialism away from Marxism is met by Marxist agitation, infiltration and ideological subjugation. Marxism is anti religious and antisemitic.

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During my recent apartment hunt I took entire days off poasting, sometimes even consecutively. Other days I was only here for maybe 20 minutes. I don’t think SM has changed things much, winds shifted about the same before. Being here isn’t any more effective than how you operate in everyday life.

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