iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Please contact your senators about the SCREEN ACT, which is moving through the senate commerce committee TOMORROW And while youre at it, demand opposition to KOSA and the KIDS Act as well! www.congress.gov/members/find...

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Grace notes: Art as a reverie of gentle sounds. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's "Clinamen," is now at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City,

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Grace notes: Art as a reverie of gentle sounds

YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@justjanuary.bsky.social I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Change. I really enjoyed the book, and your narration was absolutely superb - as good as it gets! So I just wanted to say thanks, and that you have a new fan.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/07/2026

"Contrary to popular belief, it's not all fire and brimstone, and unlike what's happening on Earth, our weather is highly predictable. You can read about it in Dante's travel blog. Our third and ninth circles are actually quite refreshing."

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Take a Break from Earth’s Heat and Come Cool Off in Hell

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In 1925, archaeologist Leonard Woolley was excavating the temple complex at the ancient city of Ur. That's the ziggurat in the background. As the excavation proceeded, he found something quite surprising: artifacts hundreds of years older than Ur itself. Let's talk about the oldest known museum.

Ruins in the Town of Ur, Southern Iraq

M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 11/06/2026

If AI accounts for only 20% of data center use, why is it the justification for nearly every new data center? I did the math and suspect Big Tech is using AI as a cover for unpopular uses like surveillance advertising. blog.still-water.net/what-if-data...

A chart showing a log-log scatter plot that shows big tech is spending far more on AI than it earns from it. The x-axis shows annual data-center and compute spend in billions of dollars on a logarithmic scale from $25B to $300B. The y-axis shows AI revenue run-rate in billions of dollars on a logarithmic scale from $0.35B to $320B. Seven companies are plotted as purple dots. xAI sits at $31B spend and $0.5B revenue, the lowest revenue point. Oracle is at $60B spend and $12B revenue. OpenAI is at $120B spend and $25B revenue. Meta is at $135B spend and $0.5B revenue, far below all others at its spending level. Alphabet is at $185B spend and $30B revenue. Microsoft is at $190B spend and $37B revenue, the highest revenue point. Amazon is at $200B spend and $15B revenue. A green dashed diagonal line marks break-even where revenue equals spend; all companies sit far below it. A red dashed diagonal line marks 10% revenue recovery; most companies cluster near or below it. Vertical error bars on Oracle, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft show the estimated range between reported AI revenue and a conservative first-party-products-only floor, with Oracle having the longest bar, dropping from $12B to approximately $1.5B.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The number of people in the replies to this who completely misunderstand how property and casualty insurance (car, renters', homeowners', etc) works on a fundamental level means it's time for an explainer of What Car Insurance Actually Is!

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In the wake of the Michael Jackson biopic success, producers are now planning a John Wayne Gacy movie that focuses only on his career as a clown.

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

pdf, unalive, grape, hinge, corn, etc. Videos are demonetized or hidden b/c a crappy AI tool finds banned words in transcripts, regardless of context. Obviously if creators are willing to censor themselves to make a living, that's their option, but I always stop watching when I come across it.

youtube.com

The YouTube-ification of our vocabulary

YouTube video by Amy Shira Teitel

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.

He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This thread had me progressively cackling

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That's my cue to post this bit of genius ☺️ youtu.be/_WwZFsddLdE

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MeResearch

YouTube video by Crafting Through It

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jennthecorpseflower @jenntheflower.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

“it’s less move fast and break things and more move fast and make broken things, because who cares, dipshits will pay for it” sums up the AI disruption itself, as well as the slop it creates. 😔

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"Stephen Miller, widely regarded as the senior asshole in the Trump administration, masterminded the sociopath substitution, White House sources said."

borowitzreport.com

Trump Replaces Asshole with Alternate Asshole

Tom Homan said he would assume Greg Bovino's post but not his helmet.

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Seen on Reddit: The only thing that's safe in America right now are the Epstein files.

Reddit comment by user YakiDaki that says "The only thing that's safe in America right now are the Epstein files."

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

End-stage capitalism in the digital age has made us a DIY economy in which millions of customer service jobs no longer exist, not because computers do the work, but because the work has been shifted, via computers, directly onto the consumer.

latimes.com

Commentary: My travel nightmare made me realize that self-service culture is capitalism’s greatest con

The digital age has made us a DIY economy in which millions of jobs no longer exist not because computers do the work, but because the work has been shifted, via computers, directly onto the consumer.

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The sale bins had already been looted by scavengers. The talons of bargain hunters tore ruthlessly through stacks of silk blouses and left a tangle of garments upon the earth. The man knelt to comb through the castoffs like a haruspex searching for truth in the entrails of a slaughtered animal.

mcsweeneys.net

Cormac McCarthy’s The Mall

If only there was not cause, thought the man, for the boy to accompany him here. To this place of commerce. But as the woman reminded him two hours...

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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

[detective waving phone around at crime scene] AI says this guy died of his injuries

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

“Never have so few done so much to so many.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

theatlantic.com

So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?

An exit interview

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

huffpost.com

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Unchained Melody was a huge hit for the Righteous Brothers, but it was originally sung by Todd Duncan in the 1955 prison film Unchained.

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Todd Duncan - Unchained Melody (Original) 1955

YouTube video by vintage video clips

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

"I feel like the movies sold us an idealized version of the end times."

Cartoon by Emily Flake that shows a woman sitting at a desk, looking at her phone. She says to a man behind her, "I feel like the movies sold us an idealized version of the end times."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Thoughtful essay about how to evaluate the confluence of art and politics in our current climate.

pablohelguera.substack.com

The Shape of Tone

Calibrating art and politics in an age of dissonance.

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

(gift article) One example of how far-reaching the effects have been is that babies even get potty trained much later than they used to, because of disposable diapers.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

politico.com

Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic

In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.

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Sam Sanders @samanthasanders.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Just saw someone on tiktok call Dubai the Michael Kors of vacations 🥀

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Whenever you see a quote from a poll or survey in the form "x% of [population] do/believe [statement]" translate that to "x% of respondents selected a specific response option" The respondents may or may not represent a population. That form interaction may or may not reflect what they do/believe.

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Distorted Wall Street incentives drove us to centralized digital infrastructure that mirrors authoritarian power structures. But the same technologies can be architected to resist authoritarianism. Decentralization isn’t a technical preference, it’s a democratic necessity.

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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 28/07/2025