iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Fuckface posted a portrait of himself captioned Super Intelligence, a day after admitting he takes a pill he calls the 386 and doesn't know what the hell it is. He also says our best defense against rogue AI is a high-IQ president. We have no defense. We're solidly fucked.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 7h

I see reports that the former British banker, and whistleblower, Simon Andriesz, 57, has "committed suicide." Andriesz, 57, exposed U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s past links to Jeffrey Epstein, including emails in 2018 about a start-up business they planned.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 19h

MEANWHILE, in Canada, meet Brady Rogers, the reluctant politician who's fed up and thinks he can do better. His sign says "I barely want to do this." His website says, "I guess I'm running for Kelowna city council." His business? Recycling plastic into cool things.

lawn sign with a grumpy man in a "DADLIFE" sweatshirt and the sign says "I barely want to do this" with his name and campaign

Hi, I’m Brady.
Do I enjoy politics? No.

Do I know what I’m doing? No.

But am I qualified? Also no.

I was born in Williams Lake and raised in Kelowna since I was 10. These are the streets I biked every day, the cars I threw crab apples at (sorry), and the parks I played in. Seeing this city grow has been cool, but with growth has come a whole new spectrum of challenges. Running for council is the last thing I saw myself doing this year. I don’t like meetings, I don’t like having to be certain places at certain times, and I’m allergic to stuffy offices. But unfortunately, I happen to like Kelowna, and think I can help do some good.

I guess I’m running for Kelowna city council.
Support the campaign

I graduated from UBCO in 2015ish (long story) and worked for 4 years as a robotic automation engineer. As cool as the job was, it was soulless, and I wanted to use my abilities for more than just helping huge companies save money.

Since 2019, I’ve been building The Rogerie.
Starting as a farmers market booth beside the mall, my wife and I began turning plastic waste into new products in our laundry room. Seven painful years later, and we have a pretty awesome shop downtown by Sprout (come check it out!) where you’ll find me just about every day.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

He’s never going to give this one up, even if the Trump regime claims they got everything they wanted.

Trump’s Truth Social account posts a n image id himself peering over some mountains with the words: Hello, Greenland!

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧵The rape kit was invented by a woman, named after a man and paid for by Playboy magazine. Her name was Marty Goddard. In Chicago, early 1970s, about 16,000 women were being raped in a year. When women went to the police they weren’t believed.

Portrait of Marty Goddard with text stating she invented the rape kit and revolutionized sexual-assault forensics.

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Pépère Patriote fella ⚜️🇺🇦 @grandzugzwang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello Illia, if you haven't already,I highly recommend reading this article by an epidemiologist well versed in in Russian bio-labs history. He tells us at the end what to watch for to assess the severity of the incident. alexwasburne.substack.com/p/the-irkuts...

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The Irkutsk Plague

What to make of the Irkutsk pneumonic plague incident so far

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Denialism isn't specific to COVID, apparently. Killing the messenger, literally. It's insanity. "The incident is the latest in a series of attacks on Ebola response teams, underscoring persistent mistrust among the population." #Ebola #DRC www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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Congo politician beaten to death after urging Ebola prevention on radio, party says

A senior member of Congo's ruling party was beaten to death after taking part in a radio programme to raise awareness about the Ebola outbreak, a party representative ‌said on Monday.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's not that OpenAI and Anthropic have created monstrous algorithms that choose to "go rogue." It's that OpenAI and Anthropic are wildly irresponsible companies run by idiots who purposely program their products to do shitty things, largely so executives can pretend they've birthed Frankenstein.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Without snark, can anyone point me to where the claim that the environmental impacts of AI are insignificant comes from? Every reputable source I've found says the opposite, including conversations with people I know working in environmental/energy conservation. Why are so many convinced otherwise?

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What Jen said... Journalistic malpractice.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‼️ Residents of Russian-occupied #Oleshky in Kherson region are trying to flee the city because of severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, despite the danger of mined roads. Dozens of people are leaving by bicycle, moped, or on foot.

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 02/10/2026

Do you know what’s needed to end the Ebola disease outbreak in DRC? Check out our explainer article to learn about the different factors that will help stop the outbreak 👇

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What will it take to end the Ebola disease outbreak in DRC | MSF

Stopping the spread of Ebola disease requires multiple coordinated actions to be carried out at the same time.

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Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An average of seven children a day are dying of Ebola in DR Congo. It’s criminal that this is not getting more attention. But watch it explode into the international headlines if a white person gets it. www.proximities.news/p/dr-congo-g...

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DR Congo, Gaza, South Korea

Today’s three stories you should know

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Please watch this crucial discussion about the scale of Earth's energy imbalance. The numbers are shocking. Thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCR...

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12 Hiroshima Bombs Every Second

YouTube video by Facing Future

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stochastic Parrots now rule the news cycle with transferred psychosis of apocalyptic anxiety.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/10/2026

🧵 1/ The Ebola outbreak in the DRC, with >8,000 confirmed cases and nearly 4,000 deaths, remains uncontrolled. There are treatment units but not enough health care workers to staff them. Those who are there face risk of infection, exhaustion, and trauma, some while not even being paid.

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Congo Is Running Short of Health Workers as Ebola Remains Out of Control, WHO Says

One treatment center requires about 300 health professionals, said WHO representative

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CNN and MS NOW are complicit in Trump’s illegal scheme to steal taxpayer money for political ads. Why are they accepting stolen money to run illegal ads?

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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More attempted hacking by AI agents of a government website. This time in our own country. Carney is preaching about the wonders of AI but he's not doing much to hold Big Tech accountable for their dangerous AI products attacking our online services www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, research firm says | CBC News

AI agents tried to hack into a Library and Archives Canada website, according to a report by artificial intelligence research firm Transluce.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only? Will there still be anything left of the mothership, earth?

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The techno fascists are trying to make a modern cultural revolution and we all know how that worked out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura...

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Cultural Revolution - Wikipedia

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What are the words that would best describe this?

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am not sure if the USA can ever recover from the ongoing self destruction. What will rise from the rubble might be better or far worse. It’s up to the USA nation to decide and the rest of the world to choose if they can be trusted again. All I know it’s going to be a long road.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026

NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brazilian intelligence officials have briefed French and German officials on US and Russian interference ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, Reuters reports.

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

European police forces drop Russian software firm, a digital surveillance company accused of concealing its Russian ownership. Now do Palantir. #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺 #TechSovereignty www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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European police forces drop Russian software firm following POLITICO probe

Authorities in at least three countries are suspending their use of Oxygen Forensics after allegations emerged about the company’s secret Russian owners.

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trees don't store carbon, forests do. The number of trees planted is largely irrelevant: the real question is the area that will be converted to forest cover.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is brilliant and very useful for allies, because if there ever was a need to support our trans communities world wide, it is right now.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How, why is this clown the most powerful man in the world? I would laugh if it wasn’t so stupid.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nick Johnson: "While 24hrs ago it felt like some sort of major plot had been disrupted.. with the release of those men on bail it doesn't feel like the sort of major plot that maybe we initially thought it had been" Maybe we could start asking, who pushed that narrative & why?

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Neo-nazis don’t even have to bother trying the forgiveness arc anymore before getting a splashy profile they just gotta be a little sad their racist grift didn’t work out

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/09/2026

Effective altruism is closely linked to the Epstein-backed Edge network of big-name scholars/thinkers, many of whom believe their brilliance makes them better than everyone and uniquely capable of saving the world. So it's not surprising to me that these men see women as less than full human beings.

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DRONE TARGETS JOURNALISTS These images from the @afp.com show the aftermath of an Ethiopian drone strike today, on the headquarter TV station of the local Tigrai TV network in the Tigrayan city of Mekele, as war rages on. No info on casualties, Tigrai TV has been off air since the attack.

AFP photo showing the destruction caused to the headquarter building of Tigrai TV in the city of Mekele

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Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists @cosantifascists.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Data Republican is mad that we unmasked some of the most heinous people in the world.

“The goal of GDL Exposed is to push back against the neo-Nazi organization Goyim Defense League by unmasking their activists who travel around the country harassing people,” a representative of the site told Raw Story. “The GDL is led by Jon Minadeo, whose primary source of income is video chatting with children and rebroadcasting those recordings to thousands of angry neo-Nazis, without the knowledge or consent of the children or their parents.

“These videos have included support for mass shooters such as the Antioch High School shooter in Nashville, who was found to have shared a GDL flyer. Data Republican is right. We do hope to ruin these people’s lives. They are predators who would kill every non-white and Jewish person on earth if they could.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The plan: Build a 200-room, 300-bathroom data center, 70% subsidized by federal and local governments. Make it accessible to the train. Build a supermarket for the 800 people doing 24/7 on-site maintenance. Call it the future of technology. Make OpenAI pay for the rest. Then let people move in.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR

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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

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