iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2h

they look like rival casino owners in a straight-to-video movie where Eric Roberts plays both of them

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“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.” Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.

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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News

The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 8h

Carney doubles down on petroleum when Canada already faces massive danger from climate change & the North American oil sector is largely controlled by Trumpist billionaires who support subjugating Canadian sovereignty & law to the United States

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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 9h

1/ So it’s official. Faced with a choice between whales and oil, our Prime Minister chose oil. Faced with a choice between a safe climate and more fossil fuel expansion, he chose oil again. Today, Mark Carney announced yet another mammoth oilsands pipeline. #cdnpoli #bcpoli 🧵

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 9h

Unexpected insights from the streets of Toronto

Wedged into the biggest of several pieces of very gross dog poop abandoned on the sidewalk is a is a small and brutalized American flag

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14h

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 12h

Corporate capture of media & political parties are so bad in the United States that politicians across the spectrum are mostly terrified from advocating for the causes that are actually popular because their staff constantly whisper that they need to triangulate with extreme right-wing ideas

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 13h

68% of voters want the US to take ambitious action on climate change!

Respondents were asked to choose between two statements related to the U.S.’s role in global climate leadership, with a bipartisan majority (68%) selecting the following statement: “The United States should take ambitious action to address climate change, even if other countries do not. We should lead the world on this issue and set the example for other countries to follow suit.”

In contrast, just 25% of voters prefer the following statement: “If other countries do not take action to address climate change, the United States should not either. It is not fair for us to act while other countries contributing to the problem are sitting still.”

Despite political polarization reaching a historic high in recent years, Americans aren’t divided on ensuring clean air and water for every community. As the U.S. celebrates Earth Day, many Americans say the holiday holds personal importance and want the U.S. to prioritize clean air and water for all and take ambitious action on climate change.
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/4/22/this-earth-day-two-thirds-of-voters-say-ensuring-clean-air-and-water-for-all-should-be-a-top-priority

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 16h

A tornado is a tornado, but objectivity is a slippery concept. The Weather Network gets a pass because it mostly deals in raw facts. But even meteorologists mention climate change—which could explain the 12 percent of viewers who still don’t trust them. ow.ly/H0nV50ZSWMR

On the left: Image of a gradient weather map imposed over the logos and titles of various journalistic media outlets. On the right: text that reads “Why Canadians trust the Weather Network more than the CBC. Its success complicates everything we think we know about objectivity.”

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Will future generations think this era was insane? Or will they grow more tolerant & accepting of insanity from their leaders? Even growing disappointed when their leaders speak normally & respectfully

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Robert Mercer, the billionaire founder of Cambridge Analytica among other firms, was a computer science researcher developing essential technologies for how LLMs work, & has long supported a scientist whose work is the foundation of urine therapy Everything is connected in horrible ways

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think a serious problem with the tech industry today is that they're too behaviourist in their idea of people's minds & too reductionist. It's as if they only conceive of art & entertainment as producing stimuli to keep our brains active. So any old slop does the job

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My day consists in some decent professional progress, making contact with an old friend who has an intriguing new business idea, & getting nearly inundated with spam phone calls

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are Techbro billionaires discovering their established and tolerated business practice with hardware i.e. 'release the cool thing we developed without bothering to consider malfunction/abusive use, and mop up/hush up real world damage causing bad press later' really does not work with software?

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My last year needs a cathartic Deafheaven / Alcest / Mastodon show to power me through the next three months

George from Deafheaven bathed in red light and the glow of a loving audience

Neige and his bandmates from Alcest play beautiful guitar solos by their backdrop image of cranes and moonlight silhouetting a tenderness flute player

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is, strangely, an anti-patriarchy. No elders would ever choose these men to succeed them. They are a postmodern accident in ill-fitting suits

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A classic thread & essay from @doctorow.pluralistic.net on the real danger of the AI sector (Two months ago is the internet equivalent of the classic rock station; Adam turns on some new Lo Shimmy & Lucy Bedrocque)

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is probably a point in the bubble inflation where the fact that a lot of really key people involved in AI companies are, no exaggeration, in a cult centered around AI.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/09/2026

At Boston University, a cratering in demand for the master’s in economics program and a spike for the master’s in social work, early sign of people pivoting to AI-resilient fields.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In part, this is the story of how Spotify turned casual listening pop music into capital investment instead of art holidaykirk.substack.com/p/the-imperi...

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The Imperial Regime

How a Generation of Millennial Pop Artists Ruined Pop Music

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jury members go through so much that they deserve generous state compensation & post-trial therapy options

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nostikvvvibes.bsky.social @nostikvvvibes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sorry to add extra shit on something that is already Too Much but I feel it is necessary for you all to know this guy has a Harry Potter tattoo. That he got recently to impress his mistress.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who in the world thinks the best way to experience New York is in a car?

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Obsessed with this woman who came up on my TikTok algorithm, who is trying to sue the city for giving her parking tickets

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Sign the Petition

Stop NYC's Predatory Parking Practices

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The real question is why the Trump Administration keeps trying to stick his name on institutions associated with presidents who died in office

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the last week, I’ve been approached by two outright scams looking for my banking information & an MLM network. This is where I am as one of 10,000+ downsized college teachers in Ontario looking for work in a job market that doesn’t consider teaching to be valuable workplace experience

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Straight man who has dated multiple bi or pan women in my life, including my current wife & high school girlfriend who didn’t realize she was queer until she was damn near 40

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

not positive what it says about my expectations but of all the numbers here I actually find the 35% of straight men the most surprising

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On a walk to run some errands today, I passed along the pedestrian bridge overlooking the subway station construction near our house. It demolished a gas station & mini mall. I hope this is eventually worth losing the Little Caesar’s

An epic view of the construction site that will eventually become Gerrard Subway Station in East Toronto. Trucks, workers, and trailers are scattered around a dusty site, with trees lining the residential streets on the far side look on

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The cultish AI theories of Eliezer Yudkowski that have had so much hallucinatory influence on today’s Silicon Valley began on a forum dedicated to rationalism & clear argument. It shows you that the easiest person to fool or trip themselves up is the one who thinks they’re the smartest in the room

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Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Passing anti-environmental laws Donald Trump would agree with to fight Donald Trump. The political enablers of crisis capitalism never let a good crisis go to waste. ABD: Always be dismantling.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So I’m at one of my kids’ favourite restaurants & the soundtrack is expected generic 80s/90s. But the playlist had Foo Fighters Everlong before Leanne Rimes How Could I Breathe Without You & it’s remarkable how the strongest genre divisions collapse after a generation into background sound

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also, why is this the first time I’ve heard the slogan “Melt ICE”?

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More insights from my home office when I take the trash out: I think the easiest way to reduce raccoon vandalism of my complex’s garbage space is to teach our neighbourhood raccoons to build & use their own toilets

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

German leader tries the exact same strategy as Kier Starmer with equal success

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

some people replying and saying ed sheeran can’t take the same risks as an established legend like david byrne, but then you look at olivia rodrigo who is 12 years younger than sheeran and just organized an entire festival to support ABORTION. bravery has little to do with age/experience.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m a pretty big Dropout fan & I have to tell myself that the contestants from the “What’s the Catch” Game Changers episode regularly have videos sent to them of people singing karaoke of “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Depending on cars for everything blows through so much fuel & upkeep/repair costs, it’s insane. I also think about how I never go a day without hearing that someone has died in a car crash on their morning or evening commute on our highways to the suburbs

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great reminder that the ongoing and intensifying American affordability crisis cannot be solved without major land-use changes (ending sprawl, accelerating infill development at scale) that enable people to ditch their cars and access cheaper/more sustainable mobility modes

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The generative LLM is uniquely self-destructive in business: as OpenAI executives themselves say to each other when not marketing their products as Skynet & HAL9000, it's an end-product that destroys the source of material on which it relies to function

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The creature formerly known as "the wife" wishes it to be known that, from now on, this account will refer to her proper name as Empress Queen Honeybee

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