iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 06/07/2026

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

A screenshot from Adobe Acrobat showing the toolbar which includes the following options:
Edit a PDF
Generated Podcast [New]
Create PDF Space
Export a PDF
Create a PDF

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 27/12/2025

Jon Stewart has some absolute fucking NERVE to be making fun of Long COVID survivors and people still masking on his piece of shit podcast when he’s seen UP CLOSE the government deny healthcare and resources for 9/11 survivors who breathed in toxic air and are suffering decades later. What a psycho

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.

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Alix Weasel @alixwzl.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

How has this cover somehow got even wilder with age? It is 2018. The Atlantic has launched it and Signal's rabidly anti-trans crusade with a giant cover story. Corner stories include a lack of pandemic preparedness (two years before COVID-19) and reflecting on the wisdom of a rapist.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The assholes who refused to wear a mask to protect their own grandparents are demanding we endure a depression to protect Donald Trump's ego.

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hi, no thanks @hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

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wookietv @wookietv.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"Simon says I am a member of doge and I demand to be let in to see and inspect the gold."

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Jack Daw @jackdaw687.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This is why I feel societal things started disintegrating after 2016 where I am. More and more aggressive driving, more rude people in stores/other places, just felt more dangerous. A few years ago I attributed it to "If people see leaders do whatever they want without consequence, so will they."

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I'm confused about how the AP put out a story titled, "Why conservative American evangelicals are among Israel’s strongest supporters" with no mention of evangelical beliefs about Israel helping kick off the end times and the return of Christ. THAT'S THE MAIN THING. apnews.com/article/isra...

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Why conservative American evangelicals are among Israel's strongest supporters

One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week was with American evangelicals on Monday.

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WIRED @wired.com · 06/02/2025

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did

Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A big reason the tech billionaires are so interested in government now is they’re not innovating or building anything of value so they need protectionism & monopolistic leverage

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Allison Bond @allisonrbond.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Infectious disease MD & professionally trained journalist here! 🚨 The contents of this article & the fact that it was given space in The Atlantic is a dangerous display of both-sides-ism. 🚨 The “fear” of RFK flippantly mentioned? Actually a well-founded concern re: a resurgence of deadly diseases

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Hakim 🏳️‍🌈 @alsagone.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Tapping the sign again

Tweet from PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer, and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off. He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.

Alex Volko @altryne
On the topic of our kids having AI friends (long)
I got my 6 yo daughter an AI toy for her b-day that arrived for Xmas instead. She unpacked it all excited, I explained that this isnt like the other toys, that this one has AI in it (she of course knows what AI is, seen the things Ive built and interacted with them, chatted with ChatGPT and Santa mode, knows that daddy is "doing AI" etc). So a very interesting experiment happaned after @magicaltoys reached out and fixed the issue referenced below (very quick turnaround thank you) So...she played with this Dino, chatted with it, and the..learned to turn it off, and doesnt want it to talk anymore. She still loves playing with it, dressed it up, it now has paper shoes and a top that we made together, but every time I ask her if shed like to chat with it, she says no.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I suppose this is why so many authors are incensed about AI “writing” — it’s clearly just something tech dullards created to compensate for their own weaknesses and now they’re projecting that on all of us. Look, I’m sorry you suck at writing. But don’t make the rest of us suffer your failures.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Here’s the most charitable reading I can offer: The tech barons behaved as though they were atop a social hierarchy, and expected mass adoration for their generosity+forgiveness for mistakes. Instead, Elizabeth Warren, Lina Khan et al treated them like the heads of *massive corporations.*

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Big Tech spent a decade doing everything possible to be the best conceivable progressive ally. They got treated with utter contempt, pounded daily, crucified in return. A full rethinking is required.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Step back, and look at broader history. Historically, the US has had a series of financial bubbles. Greedy & foolish people cause great harm, then govt steps in to minimize the harm. CFPB emerged from the last financial bubble. Now the guys trying to set up the next one want it gone. wapo.st/4g4sxyS

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Elon Musk wants to ‘delete’ federal financial watchdog as ‘DOGE’ begins work

“Delete CFPB,” Elon Musk, the billionaire tech executive running the “Department of Government Efficiency,” said in an early-morning post on X.

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