iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 5h

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

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Trent Kallust @badger597.bsky.social · 3h

I think I'm willing to hope someone can truly realize what they've done, do the best possible thing for those they've harmed, spend the rest of their lives trying to atone, and maybe earn some semblance of redemption of not forgiveness. I don't think that person gets a public platform or trust.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 5h

spiders georg spiders georg eating breakfast with spiders georg it's just spiders should have guessed eat them all 'cuz i'm his guest breakfast with spiders georg

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 7h

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h

This is part of a series of terrible arguments that people make that they think are real gotchas. Yesterday, someone said "I get why women would choose the bear, but then why haven't they? Why haven't all women walked into the woods?"

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Trent Kallust @badger597.bsky.social · 6h

My mom is flying from Abq to Co Springs today... or at least trying to. They're routing her through DALLAS (ffs) and so far her plane has been delayed by almost 4 hours, first due to weather and now guess where Air Farce One is en route to? There is seriously nothing that asshole can't screw up.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable

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Trent Kallust @badger597.bsky.social · 12h

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Lance Henriksen (Jesse), Jenette Goldstein (Diamondback), and Bill Paxton (Severen) from Near Dark

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 21h

Somebody wake up green day

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on AI: "Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside?"

Has your relationship to AI changed since it was first released as a widely accessible consumer product?

No. Very early on, I did that thing where I asked AI to generate some text in my voice, and the result was so dispiriting—so dull and literal—that I lost interest. I don’t have any AI products and don’t want any. I would, in fact, pay not to have them and would pay extra to stop them from sneakily titrating themselves into existing products, like, for example, probably, the likely forthcoming AI fork that assesses your angle of food-entry and tells you how efficiently you’re eating compared to others in your demographic and so on.

How does George Saunders—the person, not the writer—use AI day to day?

He tries to avoid it, although he sometimes screws up by forgetting to add “- ai” in his searches. I don’t consider myself qualified to talk about the use of AI in medicine or science or any of that. But in writing I find it completely unappealing.

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 30/09/2026

Right up there with this classic

@LPNational (the national Libertarian Party) asks, “In your words, what do Libertarians believe?”

@WAForeskins quotes with “My girlfriend shouldn’t have to sit in a car seat”

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW. PENGUIN.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what they've done.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

the software industry has not solved "cleanly copying and pasting text in a table from one program to another" after 40 years of productivity design and optimization. just thinking of other things that took more time and effort than cracking an atom in two

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026

Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Called it again

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
x.com/AnthonyAguero/…

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am officially back in the Burque and the river is flowing again after months of being dry!! Grateful for this rain, even as it’s brought challenges across the state. Was so excited, I had to go check it out for myself. We even saw a porcupine as we were out and about! 🙏

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

lol if the conservatives want to take away my ADHD medication, I refuse to be held responsible for all the incredibly dumb things that will happen next

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/09/2026

paranormal podcaster: today i’m speaking to a man who says he regularly feels the presence of spirits. mysteriously, two of them appear to be related - a father, and a son. i’m meeting him today in his place of work. richard, hi. catholic priest: sorry what kind of podcast did you say this was?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

...and let slip the dogs of housing

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Trent Kallust @badger597.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My wife and I went and got ours yesterday. I will now proceed to feel like baked ass for a few days, but in a controlled, beats the alternative sort of way!

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Tara @taradeenihan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you are too young to have lived in a pre-9/11 world, is it common knowledge that DHS and ICE didn’t exist before then? (TSA too.) These agencies are not institutions. And we got along for 200+ years without them.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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