iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ceej @ceej.online · 14h

emulsions… very “enemies-to-lovers”

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Agreed, and on top of that, I actually cherish my agency even for shit like what to eat

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The underappreciated point here is that taking the messy, contingent nature of scheduling, communication, and navigating social relationships is something that AI people think these tools can do. When in fact it is quite difficult and takes a lot of social skill.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s an insane nihilism here right at the heart of modern conservative movement that is fundamentally removed from any sense of economic rationality

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know there's a butterfly motif in 9 to 5? Or that the 3 leads subtly influence each other's costumes over time? Or that you could read a queer romantic obsession in the costumes? Or what Lily Tomlin's nameplate necklace really says? tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/bitt...

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Bitter Kitten Movie Club: 9 to 5 (1980) - Tom + Lorenzo

9 to 5 (1980) Directed by: Colin Higgins Starring: Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman Costume Designer: Ann Roth Happy Dolly Day,

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today I had the thought “is it worth googling what to do with leftover glass jars that are perfectly intact? Nah I’ll just add this one to the pile”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

If you were asked to consider the biggest threat to humanity in the next ten years, you might choose the worsening climate disasters or ever-growing number of wars. But tech oligarchs want us to believe it’s chatbots that can’t even tell truth from bullshit. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha...

For the past several weeks, we’ve been treated to breathless coverage of the supposed major threat presented by artificial intelligence. If we’re to believe the titans of the AI industry and the media reports mindlessly echoing their every utterance, humanity’s years may be numbered.

It’s not because of climate change and how we’re actively making our planet less fit for human habitation. Indeed, many of these prophets of AI doom don’t actually believe climate change is much of a threat at all. It’s also not because increasingly unstable geopolitics is shifting the world toward greater conflict and the risk of global war.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

Dairy farms in Kansas? Raided. Barton County? Texts about entire hotel blocks rented out by feds for the next weeks. It is a pogrom. This is called a pogrom.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Voltaire absolutely skewering a lot of people on the internet (1759)

"Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him."
After their survey of the library they went down into the garden, where Candide praised its several beauties.
"I know of nothing in so bad a taste," said the master. "All you see here is merely trifling.
After to-morrow I will have it planted with a nobler design."
"Well," said Candide to Martin when they had taken their leave, "you will agree that this is the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses."
"But do you not see," answered Martin, "that he is disgusted with all he possesses? Plato observed a long while ago that those stomachs are not the best that reject all sorts of food."
"But is there not a pleasure," said Candide, "in criticising everything, in pointing out faults where others see nothing but beauties?"
"That is to say," replied Martin, "that there is some pleasure in having no pleasure."

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For the NYT I wrote about Ed Sheeran, the fantasy of political neutrality and the politics of self-interest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...

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Opinion | Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Why Politics Is So Hard for Celebrities

Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Vital piece here from Martin McNair, father of Jordan McNair, and @traumacode.bsky.social on the dangers of heat for athletes and the need to be able to execute an emergency response plan—something Maryland and Arizona St completely failed, to devastating effect. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

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My son’s death during a college football workout was preventable. Lessons must be learned

Arizona State hockey player Matthew Mayich is fighting for his life after collapsing during practice. Tragedies like this can be avoided

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026

Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended victims of Epstein and Trump. Why is she kissing up to Chris Brown? To (rightfully) lambast your colleagues for supporting a sexual abuser, only to have those politics fly out the window for something so inconsequential, is, on its face, a baffling choice.

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nothing left now but for Ed Sheeran to drop out of the Ed Sheeran tour

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME”

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore is right once again

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The elementary school limbo champion to Ehlers Danlos diagnosis pipeline

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I will never forgive Doug Ford and the Conservatives for this. It was a jewel of Toronto, of Ontario, of Canada.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i wonder if its a coincidence that every AI ceo is calling for a development slow down right as their capabilities are plateauing

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imagine how much this shit slapped in 1892

Pictures of peach Melba and a description (vanilla ice cream, peach, raspberry sauce)

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes thanks, I will truly watch any and all feature-length examinations of our worst people released in theaters this Fall

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wrote about Trump's 9/11 lies. He's been spewing this nonsense for decades. He lies out of entitlement & self aggrandizement and "believes" his own lies for the same reason. His cognitive failure is a result of moral failure, not the other way around. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-911...

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Trump’s 9/11 Lies Are A Moral Failure, Not A Cognitive One

He is a fool because he is evil, not the other way around

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

We forget that things used to be better, and we forget how things were made better, and we forget how they got worse. Like vaccines, antitrust worked *too* well.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 7, 1933. Cranberry workers on Cape Cod went on strike to protest their terrible wages and working conditions, threatening the ability of Americans to have some taste to their bland, mushy, dry, and overcooked Thanksgiving dinner. Happy Labor Day!

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 03/09/2026

they've got a pre-write for your obit, bro. they're saying your legacy is complicated. they used the word complicit, bro

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The GOP's biggest donor is relentlessly tweeting anti-semitic race science, but Democrats have to disavow a streamer. Do I have that right?

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Brenda Peters RN(NP), PhD 🇨🇦 @brenda-peters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, congratulations on uniting Liberals, Conservatives & NDP in Canada!

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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The American version of Saparmurat Niyazov.

From the Wikipedia entry on Saparmurat Niyazov:

"During his rule, Niyazov created a strong cult of personality around himself, which resembled the one around the Kim dynasty in North Korea and the Gaddafi regime in Libya. He renamed the town of Jaňga and city of Krasnovodsk after his nickname Türkmenbaşy, and renamed schools, airports, Ashgabat streets, and even a meteorite after himself and members of his family. The city of Kerki was renamed for his father, and city of Ýylanly for his mother. The doting actions of the official Turkmen media supported his cult of personality. The government renamed the months and most days of the week after symbols Niyazov wrote about. The national anthem of Turkmenistan referred to him. According to the newspaper Neytralny Turkmenistan physicians were ordered to swear an oath to the President, replacing the Hippocratic Oath."

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 25/08/2026

This is what we mean when we say AI is destroying the Earth.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/08/2026

"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks--no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."

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Representation: James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

KBJ has them cold:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/08/2026

there is no level of fuckery they can manage that will counteract the blue wave that's coming in november and I hope every prospective dem officeholder is taking note of exactly how far this court is prepared to go to fuck them over in future, closer races

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"The real transgression which triggered the investigations of both of these scholars was being a star in a PWI, and having a crossover book by a major trade publisher. This was their true sin." @thrasherxy.bsky.social on the killing of Jason Arday. lithub.com/steven-thras...

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Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday

Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media sabbatical, I watched the Jason Arday story unfold with increasing horror over the last couple of weeks. With hundreds of stories…

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Shout out to Canada and our cherished French language protections

EN: Get Lost Wasp

FR: Fiche-moi la paix, sale guêpe! [leave me in peace, dirty wasp!]

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Benjamin Freed @brfreed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

US trade negotiators tried to suppress Heated Rivalry

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Insofar as my grandmother has wheels, she IS essentially a bicycle

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Beth @bethc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Changing my “90s bangers” playlist name to “golden oldies” as a memento mori

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Darth Vader praises Flock cameras: "This is what the Emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth."

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The 51st @51st.news · 19/08/2026

NEW: Rev. Mariann Budde faced backlash — and gained fans — after a sermon in which she asked the president to “have mercy” for the marginalized. Now, she's written a book for children about bravery, @ecwilliams.bsky.social reports:

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Rev. Mariann Budde wrote a kid's book about courage

The bishop faced backlash — and gained fans — following a sermon in which she asked Trump to “have mercy” on immigrants and LGBTQ children.

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