iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

especially since that in and of itself is an opinion intellectuals have had since 1800s

there are many books about the bizarre, racist, and sometimes just outright stupid beliefs that scientific and technical pioneers had during that period. so keep in mind this when you hear “all human labor will be automated and only option is UBI” and other similar ideas

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5m

other beliefs a lot of famous and venerable scientists had from mid-1800s to mid-20th century: * a world government was inevitable * eugenics (calipers galore) * all manner of weird spiritual shit beginning with mesmerism * totalitarianism and command and control economies obviously superior

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7m

i think this matters a lot in light of the tendency to say “if you don’t accept expansive metaphysical claims of computationalists, then you’re coping”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12m

and criticisms are not things like “Dems are bad as Republicans”

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 31m

for what it's worth, here's why libs hear my criticisms of dems: ▪️i never use or imply 'low agency' narratives that blame dems/libs for fascism ▪️i never threaten (ge) abstention, or imply there's no point voting ▪️i never express sympathy with abstention, say i understand, or kinda defend it

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21m

US: you need to stay in NATO, you can’t bandwagon with Russia, for god’s sake you can’t treat migrants like that European states:

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Donald Trump's Iconic YMCA Dance at Rally

ALT: Donald Trump's Iconic YMCA Dance at Rally

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 25m

in other words the outcome is basically a switcheroo

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 25m

there is a very real chance of a scenario that isn’t on cultural radar right now: US elects reformist liberal president that has to deal with a LePen’d Europe

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irgo @irgo-sum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

guy who walks out of the gig if he sees a guitarist with a delay pedal because it's technically not "live" music

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

unfortunately for the protagonist, the only action that occurred was the new deliverables on the jira board

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h

Someone needs to write a version of Kafka's THE METAMORPHOSIS, set in India, in which Gregor becomes a protest hero.

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 5h

by 2032 fifty percent of the economy will be buying and reselling rare Pokemon cards and the disposable/recycling of the many more numerous basic cards

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dkhunter, Crawling Chaos, Reluctant 🇨🇦 Nationalist @dkhunter.bsky.social · 5h

I've also heard enough from the Butlerian Jihad people recently to doubt they'd stop with AI given the chance. There's broad consensus that we've been irresponsible as a society with social media, right? Should probably blow up the internet, just to be safe.

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hailey @hailey.at · 5h

ayy i have a cool hat now, get ur cool hat at witchsky.app and edit your profile

witchsky.app

Witchsky

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 13h

What will be the Chinese equivalent of post-bubble melancholic media from Japan like Evangelion or Perfect Blue

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

this included Alan Turing btw. He was an ESP guy.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 12h

it is still so fucking funny to me that to understand a huge chunk of AMerican pop culture you need to remember that a bunch of people were just positive that ESP and psychic powers were, like, real

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Albert Lee @albertl.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder who else would be willing to deliver "shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

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Bad Lieutenant - His soul is stil dancing

YouTube video by MrBadActors / Tribute and Scene from Films

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, you can just see it happening! bsky.app/profile/poli...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?

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cold bagel pbc @coil-habdle.ebil.club · 11h

he is called orange and he is orange and he acts like an orange 🍊

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h

brains as labubus

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 12h

“Pay any cost for a cause worthy of their loyalty?” My diminutive brother with oversized footwear, archaic Greek heroes pursued arete (personal excellence), kleos (fame), and tisis (retribution), not causes. Was Agamemnon worth following?

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 9h

(to the degree that he read the Iliad at all) a later — at a minimum Roman, if not medieval or even high modern — concept of virtue as acting well and effectively in service to an ideological loyalty, which is so alien to the Homeric world that it stops being wrong and just becomes nonsensical.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 9h

wealth, land, and slaves for oneself; and earning fame and praise for success and power. Plato’s entire philosophy of ethics arises in opposition to this and an effort to recast virtues as being in service to a greater good, both philosophically and in the form of the polis. Rubio is simply reading/

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h

it totally works.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 10h

Iñárritu kinda hates himself, kinda hates you, hates society, but really hates Republicans, and most of all hates Adam McKay. And while this makes it sound miserable. It's actually funny, eminently watchable, and the reason to see it in theaters is weirdly enough: the foley work

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gerge @gerge-lemons.bsky.social · 11h

type of amish guy in 2075 who uploads himself to the cloud and then refuses to use any technology other than the kind running him

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Snowjob @snowjob.bsky.social · 12h

All dressed up and only one place to go (Cyberspace)

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Okay, I need to call something out The kneeling Kente cloth thing *was because the Congressional Black Caucus specifically asked for them to do it*

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

this is mengele shit

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

"Stabell Benn has vehemently defended the ethics of the clinical trial, asserting that no child would receive less than the standard of care in Guinea-Bissau" politely saying their lives are cheap so who cares anyway

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

"The study would be led by Christine Stabell Benn and Peter Aaby, married researchers at the University of Southern Denmark long lionized by Secretary Kennedy for their controversial vaccine research. Presently, they are facing accusations of scientific misconduct"

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

if you have to ask the question, you already know what the answer is

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rgoers.bsky.social @rgoers.bsky.social · 12h

The entire Greek cannon is filled with people you do not ever want to emulate.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

tom cruise in that is a great simulation of what it would feel like to have john wick coming after you

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

most of what film hipsters say is great about miami vice really describes collateral. the failure drill scene in the alleyway does in barely a minute what miami vice struggles at for its entire runtime

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

a lot of things went wrong with that movie and its largely the ending shootout that only barely redeems it

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

i go back to the fact that gong li was so upset about having to do the sex scene with colin farrell that she cried

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

Piece came out at USAToday Why? Because USAToday owners (Gannett) only own media companies, so they have an incentive to attract an audience & advertisers Tech elites like Bezos, Ellisons, Musk, & Benioff use their media firm to cozy to Trump, not to make profit www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion

Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 12h

Oh no, a stern post on X, Houthis are so afraid now.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 19h

The Apprentice producers edited footage to make Trump firing decisions look justified,even when they thought he’d fired the wrong person. They helped manufacture his image as a business genius, a TV persona that later helped fuel his rise to the presidency www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/b...

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The Star-Making Machine That Created ‘Donald Trump’ (Published 2024)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

its just one character

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