iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/02/2025

Every time I hear Xiye speak, I learn something new. Now, more than ever, we need voices like hers - original, compelling, and grounded. If you care about climate, watch this! ⬇️

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Xiye Bastida on an Indigenous Lens of Climate Change

YouTube video by Bloomberg Live

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pikat @pikat.io · 05/02/2025

practicing drawing shoes

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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Why does this work? I couldn’t even get past NOAA security to make my meeting on time.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

BREAKING: Representatives of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” have gotten into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where they have accessed key payment and contracting systems.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

'A confident Democratic Party would ask, “Who elected Elon Musk?” It seems an act of will not to make that a rallying cry. When life gives you a Bond villain, make Bond-villain lemonade.' My column. on.ft.com/3WK5gLe

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While Democrats sleep

[FREE TO READ] As Donald Trump tears up America’s rule book, the minority party can’t work out how to respond

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 Ever looked at one of @propublica.org's news apps, like Nonprofit Explorer, and think "I wanna make things like this for a living"? Cool, because we're hiring for a Deputy News Apps Editor! Details, including salary range and application, here 👇👇

boards.greenhouse.io

Deputy News Applications Editor

New York, New York, United States

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk bought the United States of America—the most powerful nation in the world—for $200M. For scale, Steve Ballmer bought the LA Clippers for $2B. The fucking Clippers.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 03/02/2025

"Everyone thinks of solar like the Whole Foods of energy - better for you, but pricey. In fact, it's now the Costco of energy, and everyone needs to know that." - yet another unforgettable thought from @billmckibben.bsky.social

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/02/2025

you've radicalized me | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE looks over at a guy in the near foreground.
MATTIE: Screw you man! Get away from me.

PANEL 2: Reverse shot. The GUY is wearing a sandwich board that says I'LL KILL YOU MATTIE
GUY: Wow. No need to talk to me like that! I'm just minding my own business.

PANEL 3: The GUY, getting angry.
GUY: i'm becoming radicalized against you in fact!

PANEL 4: The guy, chasing MATTIE offscreen.
GUY: You should have been nicer to me!!!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

i know a lot of gov employees are watching my feed at the moment 👇

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

last night was my first time experiencing TRUE dark skies. it was such an emotional experience and it made me hate light pollution even more.

A photo of the silhouette of my telescope against a starry night sky.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 02/02/2025

There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 02/02/2025

President Donald Trump’s new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800.

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Trump Tariffs Target Loophole Used by Chinese Online Retailers

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

USAID provides lifesaving humanitarian aid around the globe. Musk, the world's wealthiest man, is calling for its closure, describing it as a "criminal organization." And it looks like Musk will get his way. This is America.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/02/2025

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

AMAZING! A GROUNDBREAKING sickle cell disease treatment has been APPROVED for NHS use. Exagamglogene (exa-cel) SUCCESSFULLY edits the faulty gene in a patient’s OWN stem cells. Researchers concluded there was a functional cure in 97% of trial participants that received it! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

American media organizations have constitutional rights that are the envy of journalists around the world, but it seems they are just not brave enough to assert them. As we can now see, when press freedom dies in this country, it will die not with a bang but a whimper. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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FCC Requests ‘60 Minutes’ Harris Interview Material as it Reviews Paramount-Skydance Merger

The government has asked for the footage and transcript from the segment, which is the subject of a lawsuit against CBS by President Trump, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Rolls Reus @fambam.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Ocean Moon #photography

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Holy crap, check this book out!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/01/2025

NEW: Vera Rubin was a pioneering female astronomer. The federal webpage for an observatory named for her now excludes mention of efforts to diversify science. “I’m sure Vera would be absolutely furious,” said a co-author of a biography of Rubin. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

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Vera Rubin Was a Pioneering Female Astronomer. Her Federal Bio Now Doesn’t Mention Efforts to Diversify Science.

The edits to the webpage offer a glimpse into how far the Trump administration will go in refusing to acknowledge today’s inequalities as it purges federal initiatives promoting diversity, equity and…

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

this is critical. lesson: organize, focus, make sure ordinary people understand the stakes

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I am not trying to be cruel but I agree: it is an enormously bad time to be trying to break into games. It’s a bad time to be a senior+ in games even, & I don’t see it improving soon. By all means, keep making art you care about, but it’s so unlikely to be a “pay the bills” career at this point.

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Some days you need the dragon, powerful and protective; some days you are the dragon, fierce and full of fire

A digital painting done in Clip Studio Paint. A black dragon rears back from the viewer in a powerful and defiant pose, readying its flame breath. The flame is a rainbow, gathering in the dragon's mouth and throat with streaks of rainbow light streaming. The dragon has a mane of glowing fire, flowing back and around in waves, in the white, pink, blue, brown, and black of the progress pride flag colors. The dragon's pose flows into a raised talon, ready to strike or defend, with wicked curved talons. Its eye is a radiant yellow. It has various spikes on its head, a curved beaky snout full of tooth like hooks, and forked horns. Its wings are spread and flared behind. The art is not subtle in its support for queer people. The artist's watermark reads copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind. abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...

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Kansas faces one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

@marcelias.bsky.social: "There is a reason why Trump nominated Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth. He wants to humiliate these Republicans, because he knows that once they have voted for these folks, he will own them. They will not have a shred of dignity or standing left."

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

What we are all experiencing is called "resilience targeting." It is a deliberate attack favored by many of todays shitlords, and is a fairly well known theory in disinfo and climate circles; it's just that everyone seems to be in denial that it's an attack. Today might be a good day to read up

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Humble @humblebundle.com · 25/01/2025

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Humble Winter Sale 2025 featuring Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

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Humble Winter Sale 2025 featuring Wolfenstein: The New Colossus

Humble Winter Sale 2025 featuring Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

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Stephanie Krent @stephaniekrent.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Just one day after entering office, Trump moved to tighten control over public health communication and messaging (again). This isn’t just a public health problem; it’s a free speech problem. tinyurl.com/bdz7v4y8

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Trump Administration Temporarily Mutes Federal Health Officials

Scientific meetings were canceled, and research data on the bird flu outbreak was delayed, amid confusion over the directive.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

my best guess is a vampire fell asleep on it last night

Water evaporating from a park bench in sunlight.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/01/2025

T. Rex Evolution xkcd.com/3042

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/01/2025

affluent authoritarian policies are extremely unpopular and require a vast network of lies and propaganda to support them they'll keep dismantling academia, journalism, and public educational reaources until we grow a collective backbone and kick them squarely in the teeth

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/01/2025

Donald Trump has declared the U.S. is in a “national-energy emergency.” “The actual emergency, obviously, is with the climate,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes. nyer.cm/pmI58Hh

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

ok back to drawing Hitler

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Sorry for bluesky posting during crisis! But I went on twitter and I can easily see people I've known for years in my @s, which felt comforting (yes, despite it being Stormfront 2!). It's a phenomenon that's impossible here, unless I'm missing some secret easter egg

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Far FAR from the most important thing now but if BS wants the juice it desperately needs to revamp notification filters. I almost never see mutuals in my @s. It's a cascade of confusion in which I see friends' @s rarely and only by chance. It makes BS estrangement-inducing and that can't be the goal

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Maple_qb 🥕🕹️ @mapleqb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

found on r/me_irlgbt, seemed relevant. stay strong. i love you all.

A vaporwave-style graphic showing a tiny plant sprout that says "If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be unnecessary."

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A new completely open reasoning model out of China, Deepseek-R1, is now available. The benchmarks show it at parity with the likes of o1 and Sonnet In some informal tests on non-code problems, it is really good, not o1-pro level but surprisingly capable (and incredibly small & fast!). Big advance.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The smallest versions can run on my laptop. This is a pretty big leap, because the only reasoning (test-time compute) models so far have been from Google and OpenAI. You can try it: chat.deepseek.com

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DeepSeek

Chat with DeepSeek AI.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 20/01/2025

I'll be in MONTREAL, CANADA on Wednesday February 12th, doing a signing at Crossover Comics - and the store is staying open an extra hour just for this! It's also the day that ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM #1 comes out :0 I hope to see you there! www.shopcrossovercomics.ca/us/service/r...

An image for the event! It's got me AND T-Rex on it. we're different people

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

There are no rigorous studies yet on how to best prompt reasoning models like o1. They are not chat models, they are designed so that you give them a question and you get an answer. You want to give them context, clarity, etc. but we don’t know what the optimal way to do that is yet.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Three Blondes, by Judy Horowitz, 2017, 📸 by @BMPPhoto

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Pietro da Rimini, 1330

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A lot of pseudoarchaeology enthusiasts claim that the traditional "timeline" presented by archaeologists doesn't "make sense" But archaeological chronology isn't there to "make sense," the dates we present are what is supported by actual evidence 1/5

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