iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh I missed this Once again I’m struck by the vacuous yet arrogant emptiness of these people, they are incurious and uncaring, and the world tells them they are special and wonderful for being like this

To Sam's way of thinking, the case against Shakespeare could be made with basic statistics:
"I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare ... but really I shouldn't need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning.
About half the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse than that. When Shakespeare wrote almost all Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate probably as low as ten million people. By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren't very favorable."
(Michael Lewis, "Going Infinite")

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You're the dean of a public health department and *this* is the first time you've thought about America's built environment? www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lucasrizoli.com · 10/08/2026

"Do you think it matters which end of the banana goes into the food processor last? That's how I feel about climate change and living in the north." – @postoctobrist.bsky.social

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Thorn @coelliptic.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The Kalyazin RT-64 radio telescope would fix me

Photo of the telescope in winter. A massive, hulking, brutal radio dish rises from behind a thick row of coniferous trees. A person, minuscule by comparison, is in the foreground.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/08/2026

literally every history question has been asked in there and thoroughly, *comprehensively* answered already

Post on r/askhistorians from 7 hours ago: At what point in history could chicken nuggets realistically have been made?

post redirecting user to post from r/trevor_culley from 4 years ago

There's really not much to chicken nuggets. Ground chicken mashed into a small clump, breaded, and deep fried. Everything you need for a basic, no frills chicken nugget would have been available to you in the Indus Valley Civilization by at least 3500 BCE if not earlier.

Let's start with chicken because that's kind of crucial. Red jungle fowl were first captured and kept by humans in their native region of southeast Asia and the neighboring islands (ie Indonesia) around 8000 BCE. Strictly speaking, these weren't chickens yet because domestication is a long process, but the novelty of this cool new bird spread quickly and red jungle fowl arrived near the Ganges River by about 7000 BCE. By 4000 BCE, true domestic chickens were being raised and eaten in the Indus Valley, just as the early signs of agriculture and urbanization were starting up.

Those early signs of agriculture included the introduction of domesticated wheat, which had been spreading across the world from its own starting point with early agriculture in Anatolia and upper Mesopotamia around 10,000 BCE. Basically from the start, wheat was ground up into flower, mixed with water, and cooked into some very basic bread. So both flower and bread crumbs are available now too, though the bread was usually flatbread, so expect a different texture.

India is home to all sorts of herbs and spices you could use to add flavor, but the only thing I think would probably be crucial to your chicken nugget breading is salt. Not to worry though, the ruined city known today as Kerala-no-dhoro has you covered. Located on the coast of modern Gujarat and founded around 3700 BCE, it was a center of salt production by collecting and evaporating sea water.

(Answer goes on for another 2000 characters but I'm approaching the word limit)

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killian @craterdogs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

genuinely humiliating

pov: my roommate knocking on my door. a messy drawing of me sitting at my desk eating gummy bears with chopsticks. my computer screen is zoomed in on my ffxiv character's ass

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Ben McCarthy @benricem.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm just back from a trip to Germany to visit one of my closest friends, Daniel, who's been held in solitary confinement 23h a day for the past ten months in a 2 × 5m cell. They get one hour of visitation per month.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22/07/2026

elon stroking his chin in thought, thinking about how the three hour movie he sat still for and paid attention to wasn't as faithful as it could be to the long poem he read all of

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Every single paragraph of this peace is deeply lacerating, and incredibly insightful. An extraordinary essay by Abdaljawad Omar about the structure of feeling of Palestinianness: www.equator.org/articles/mor...

Entering the Western public square required that you suppress your own grief and fury. Palestinian suffering was admissible only when abstracted from its own content – drained of the names of villages, the mechanics of land seizure, the grammar of permit and curfew and demolition order – and repackaged in the universalist idiom of human rights, the vocabulary of the very order that had sanctioned the dispossession in the first place.

To show too much of the actual thing was to be dismissed as irrational, partisan, too emotional to be heard. Composure was the condition of entry. And composure, sustained indefinitely in the face of an ongoing catastrophe, produces its own specific damage: it slowly erodes your capacity to speak from within the Palestinian experience.

What made this condition distinctive was that there was no escaping it; there was no way to make yourself heard. An intellectual labouring over an argument already knew, before speaking, that the institutional defences were firmly in place. If your words were not met with deliberate indifference, they faced the strategic distortion that rendered historical catastrophe as “a complex, two-sided situation”.

Palestinian meaning was intercepted before it could land. Grief was required to perform continuously before an audience immunised against its claims. Cruellest of all was not the hostility – hostility can be opposed – but the expectation of gratitude. Access to the Western public square was treated as a gift, shadowing the expression of Palestinian experience with the implicit debt of being permitted to speak at all.

Ultimately the problem lies entirely outside of documentation or argument. For Western institutions, the excess of evidence has produced the opposite of a crisis of conscience. Instead there is a saturation that enables the desire to put this all behind us. Bearing witness to everything, registering the horror as it passes through the digital feed, creates a comforting illusion of a debt discharged, of a crisis already dealt with. This is why more evidence fails to move the needle. The Western subject already has the facts; what they require is a disruption that prevents this sense of closure. Even when the evidence compels an admission that genocide is taking place, what follows is too often a passive resignation: an assumption that nothing can be done about this truth, or that naming it is all that is required, while Israel carries on killing and dispossessing. The structure of moral stupidity functions by converting raw evidence into the mere performance of its own absorption. Witnessing is revealed to be an insufficient means of preventing a genocide.

This stupidity is politically effective because it appears with the grammar of intelligence. It speaks fluently, cites carefully, and reasons in complete sentences. This is the stupidity of the conference paper and the op-ed – dressed in the vocabulary of critical thought and fluent in the idiom of nuance and complexity. It bypasses the raw animus of the loudmouthed bigot entirely.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

People, in every field, are watching their careers get burned into ash in favor of a machine that is *allowed* to make vastly bigger mistakes than they would ever be allowed to. The machine can't even get the company's name right, but *you* are hounded over the color of a single pixel, etc.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/06/2026

(while being killed) stay alert everyone this is just a trial balloon for them killing someone more important

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

there are certain ideas that are really narrative features of American politics more than actual truths. conservatives are patriotic despite their claims that America has degenerated, they're tough on crime despite embracing many criminals, they're free marketeers despite anti-competitive practices

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 17/06/2026

I'm Trans gender ally🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 LOVE YOU🤍

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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 14/06/2026

(available in our shop) becauselanguage.com/shop/

Drawing of a person on a hill.
Text: Don't die on grammar hills
Sit at the top
Pick the grammar dandelions
Feel the grammar wind
on your grammar face
And touch the grammar grass

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🥔🧄🍚 @jork.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"냥갱"

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말호 @malhocomic.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

계절 헬스장

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yourwitcher.bsky.social @yourwitcher.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I appreciate the hesitation though

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Druids Akimbo @isabelvray.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

So many good ones. This is in my top five:

Tweet by “let's try calling me 'november'” @AliceAvizandum:

FRANCE: we're fancy
WORLD: ok
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch
WORLD:
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

12:27 PM Feb 18, 2017

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The only feature of 1Password that matters is their business dies overnight if they get hacked so they’ve thought harder about security than anyone you know. You can’t vibe code that in two evenings no matter how much you ask Claude to “make it secure”

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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츠타蔦_漸龑 @tsuta.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

아, 정말로…… 한국인이다.

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

this man has better values than a solid 99% of americans and i think that's beautiful

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Is it good to financially incentivise doctors to prescribe certain specific drugs? Surely this has never happened before so let's all find out!

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Ill Will @illwill.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence. illwill.com/lies

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/01/2026

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/01/2026

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They’re killing observers because they are threatened by them. the work these people are doing is profoundly brave. They’re all heroes.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

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Mint Royale @mint-royale.com · 24/01/2026

I wish the internet was more about people 3D printing whistling mortar bombs for their very happy dogs to chase than arseholes secretly filming unsuspecting people for grifting and humiliation but I guess that ship has sailed

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