iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Democratic candidates are looking to kick Republicans teeth in this election and it is very good to see

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Trump administration weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars | This will make your life worse. Dirtier air and more expensive gas tanks in addition to the climate impacts. No one benefits.

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The Trump administration weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars

The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy. An LLM is not an aircraft requiring years of training to operate.” www.chronicle.com/article/harv...

chronicle.com

Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane

When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.

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

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My daughter's college made them download ChatGPT & when she called to tell me about it, she was spitting fire angry. Mind you, she's a freshman in a humanities program. She told the Chair, "I could have gone anywhere to study, and studied any subject. Why are you doing this? I expected better."💥

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 22/09/2026

ICE grabbed a Kentucky State basketball player at the airport because she missed a student visa deadline while recovering from back surgery. She's been shuffled through four facilities and is now sitting in Texas. Kidnapping with a badge, and it's happening every single day.

dailykos.com

New ICE horrors come to light

Unfortunately for the rest of us, Immigration and Customs Enforcement never sleeps.

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Lindsay M. Chervinsky @lmchervinsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I received the loveliest email today from someone who did not have to send it to me. It made my evening. Just a reminder that it costs nothing to say something nice and might mean a great deal to the person who receives it.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So no one is bothered. Who here feels the same confidence about Jeffries? I don’t. That means that selling out is (or seems to people to be) on the table. Difference in trust -> difference in interpretation -> different response.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I bet no one — NO ONE — thinks that Mamdani is going to sell out to Trump. That is, I hope, just not a thing. Whatever his reasons for meeting with Trump, I bet most people think they’re likely to be more like ‘keep your enemies close’ or ‘this will come in handy if a hurricane strikes NYC.’

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...

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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This story of the resilience and courage of a young pelican, who "asked" at a NOAA lab for help, and GOT it, is my feel-good story of the month 🥺 🦑 🌊 🧪 wapo.st/4roaN8r

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Scientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help.

“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max

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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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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026

From the information available, it seems this US-Denmark deal over Greenland changes almost nothing. US had bases there before; US continues to defendsl Greenland because it s in NATO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...

nytimes.com

U.S. and Denmark Reach Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says

The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/09/2026

i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything? it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That's $4.1 million per DAY he's been making since the election. And remember, he isn't even allowed to have another job while he's president. This is pure corruption. Trump is the most successful white-collar criminal to ever live.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of James Telerico or Ken Paxton will be the next senator from Texas. If you're telling people not to support Telerico, you're saying you want Paxton to win. That's it. You cannot select a different, third bespoke person to be senator like buying a tailored suit.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Ossoff: "The draft-dodging commander in chief builds a monument to himself while plunging us deeper into a war he doesn't know how to end or win"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you're counting that's now 4 GOP members with Nazi connections in the 119th Congress - Dave Taylor, Eric Pratt, Mike Collins, and now Jon Husted.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026

Turns out you really do need food inspectors after all

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/09/2026

One of the things I hate most about AI is that now I first approach a lot of art with suspicion instead of awe

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

It’s actually ok to be a person who does not enjoy doing research but then you should not be doing research for pay

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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fr33d0mnow.bsky.social @fr33d0mnow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

David Steiner Is a trump appointee as postmaster general, who is directing the post office not to deliver ballots to registered voters in blue States This man is acting unconstitutionally and breaking the law

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sigh. Taps sign. Again. You DO NOT want legislative term limits. They're bad. We know they're bad. We know this with as much certainty as it's possible to know anything in the social sciences. We have mountains of evidence from the 17 states that have tried it. No good comes from term limits.

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Beth DeSombre @bethdesombre.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

TFW you start to do a small academic task and discover the 3 hidden tasks that need to be done before you can even start on the small task you though you'd be able to quickly knock off. (Note: this isn't procrastination; this is info that needs to be found, and then corrected, taking multiple steps)

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