iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...

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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
BREAKING NEWS
GOR SENATOR'S PERJURY CLAIM AGAINST SMITH FAILS IN HAWKS-HAWKEYES MOUP
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ROPIC CEO DARIO AMODEL, WHO MET PRITELY WITH TRUMP.F
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

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Brendan Bell @bdbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Todd Bowles needs to be fired right now. Not after the game. Not at their bye week. Owner needs to march down to the sideline and give him the Attitude Era Vince McMahon "You're Fired!"

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Vince McMahon: You're Fired!

ALT: Vince McMahon: You're Fired!

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Brendan Bell @bdbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Can your toaster feel LUST?" Do you see how ridiculous you sound?

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a ‘paradise of machines’ risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence, a nuclear arms race and other threats to life itself.” apnews.com/article/pope...

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Pope warns a ‘paradise of machines’ could undermine humanity as he opens France trip

Pope Leo XIV warns that a “paradise of machines” could undermine humanity. He has raised existential questions about scientific progress and human rights during his visit to France.

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a native Connecticutian... Connecticutter... Connec... person from Connecticut, this hit home. Excellent newsletter from @rodger.bsky.social today.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026

this lady on threads posted this big huge thing about how artists are just jealous that everyday people can now use AI to create better art that gets more attention so i click through to see her “art”… i wish there was an unveil feature here:

AI slop dragon in sunglasses

BIGGER IDEAS
MESSIER CREATIVE PROCESS
MORE MAGIC
PET MORE DRAGONS
SAME SARCASM
Fueled by Coffee Chaos
BIG IDEAS
AI CHAOS
* DRAGON ENERGY
* SARCASM & SPELLS
WOMEN WHO CREATE
FANTASY OVER FEAR
PROMPTS & POSSIBILITIES
CREATE WEIRDER BRAVER
KINDER
COOLER WORLDS
FABULOUS
CHAOS
LIVES HERE
Same
Human
Different
Magic

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the stupidest and laziest amongst us. Every single one of them.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb, by Stefano della Bella, 1648

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Aaron Rodgers fumbles again and it's a Thicc Six®

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Everything on the replays is 🤌🏼

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hi hello. The Red Sox can clinch a Postseason berth today! with: a win OR a loss by HOU

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Willson Contreras Red Sox

ALT: Willson Contreras Red Sox

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo *cue yakety sax*

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI critics: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination AI Stans: This is the greatest, most powerful tech in history. It is not a theft machine. There are no original thoughts anymore People Who Created AI: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the wet bandits trying to rob a house

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Brendan Bell @bdbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A bit of a longer read, but absolutely well worth it. The conceit is fun and engaging (if even a little goofy!), but the information presented is impeccably sourced, well-reasoned, and compelling. Undoubtedly the best article I've read on the topic.

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump said they would target "the worst of the worst." Instead, ICE is attacking and detaining our children. All of our children deserve to grow up in a country where their safety is valued and they’re treated with respect, and dignity - not terror.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 16/09/2026

What a spectacular moral failure. This experiment is commonly understood to be wildly unethical and did real damage to the people involved. Fuck everyone involved with this. Absolute garbage.

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Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I watched Macklemore’s speech at the concert. He didn’t say anything remotely hateful of Jews. He criticized the Israeli government, but explicitly reached out Jews in the audience to say he loved them. That he was opposing genocide, not Jews. Outrageous that big arenas canceled him.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In other news, please look at this photo of a 16-year-old Willem Dafoe playing Charlie Brown in a production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 13/09/2026

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Whole class cheering after Bart says the line

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"

Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 12/09/2026

Can the media please stop platforming these losers?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2026

The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, documents show.

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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage

The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That interview within hours of the WTC falling in which Trump boasted (incorrectly) that he now owned the tallest building in the New York is the most Trumpian thing that has ever happened. It's his entire life, ethos, and purpose in one anecdote.

glennkessler.substack.com

Trump’s 9/11: Where He Cleared Rubble, Predicted bin Laden, and Lost ‘Hundreds’ of Friends

From exaggerating his role at Ground Zero to inventing cheering crowds, a review of Trump’s most misleading claims about September 11.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/09/2026

Column: We memorialize 9/11 reflexively and habitually. But we have learned to overlook the more sinister and lasting changes — the loss of public space, the universality of surveillance, the fortification of our buildings and infrastructure.

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Column | The architect of 9/11 built the world we inhabit today

The changes to our urban design, architecture and everyday life are so profound we can hardly see them.

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Brendan Bell @bdbell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Did the prompt mention a nipple specifically?

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Love to joke about the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attack in American history.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026

pretty fuckin telling that Steve Ballmer got punished a million times more harshly for cheesing the NBA salary cap than Donald Trump did for attempting to overthrow the government by force www.nbcnews.com/sports/nba/n...

nbcnews.com

NBA suspends Clippers owner for a year, docks team first-round draft picks in Kawhi Leonard probe

The league suspended owner Steve Ballmer and two executives Wednesday and fined the team $30 million for circumventing the salary cap.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can't help but think of this hiker-rescue story I saw earlier today

The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on Al to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.

The group said it packed supplies for an eight-hour climb, not its roughly 16-hour ascent. The climbers said Al recommended simple carbohydrates instead of fats because fats "take too long to digest."

"We relied too much on Al rather than our own critical thinking," the group told rangers.

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

hey stop what you’re doing and watch this

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/09/2026

This is pretty catastrophic and I'm not sure how either of these companies reverse the trend. It really appears the AI bubble is based on the whims of maybe a few hundred companies spending money on two companies to justify five companies spending money with one company.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No words to describe how horrifying this is www.springfieldnewssun.com/tncms/asset/...

A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required
ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
Pierre Damas Bel was a new student at Wright State University. He was fitted with an ankle monitor in July.
Pastor Carl Ruby of Central Christian Church wrote on social media that Bel threw himself in front of a semi "after being teased by fellow students at Wright State about his ankle monitor."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026

Q: “Last month DHS recorded a record number of deportations. What changed to make that possible?” Trump: “We just were able to break the court system a little bit. We had judges that were very hostile.”

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