iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watchdog group Public Citizen files a formal FCC complaint about Trump's taxpayer-funded TV ads “Broadcasters may be held liable for airing any ad that is in violation of federal law. Federal law explicitly prohibits using appropriated public funds for government propaganda"

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 27/09/2026

Student journalists have been heroes over the past ten years and the fact that we have allowed the world to reach a state where hardly any of them will be able to serve communities as journalists after they graduate is something we should all feel shame about

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Brandon Millman @brandonmillman.com · 27/09/2026

Aside from the Notre Dame win a few years ago in South Bend, Marshall football has been nothing BUT yikes for a good while now. (yes, even counting their successful '24 campaign). At least I was there to see that last decent game.

TOUCHDOWN BRANDON in the shadow of TOUCHDOWN JESUS

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s

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Brandon Millman @brandonmillman.com · 25/09/2026

Unpopular(?) opinion: the Easter egg bit is derivative & tiresome if you're doing it for EVERYTHING you do.

As a Swift fan who has ridden this wave for nearly 20 years, I am tired, frustrated, and annoyed. There’s a kind of mindwarp you can fall into as a Swiftie (I reluctantly use that title because of the political valence it’s taken on in recent years by the Target-and-Starbucks Ashleys of the world), where it’s tempting to believe her self-authored mythology as a “mastermind” who is always thinking ten steps ahead, doing everything with intention and leaving clues along the way.

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Brandon Millman @brandonmillman.com · 23/09/2026

Welp, I've found it: simultaneously the best & worst idea in the world. Best, because what an incredible time for a side hustle like this. Worst, because I weep for our future, if it's come to this for them.

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506 Sports @506sports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

week 3 🏈📺🗺️: 506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2...

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506 Sports - NFL Maps: Week 3, 2026

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Steely Dan’s album “Aja” turns 49 today. So take a few seconds to watch Jay Graydon replicate his iconic guitar solo on “Peg”. 🎸 💕

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 22/09/2026

Long-time telecom advocate @gbsohn.bsky.social said California's settlement with Paramount over its merger with Warner Bros Discovery contains is a "disaster" that relies too much on behavioral changes without real structural remedies.

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Paramount settlement lacks structural remedies, ex-FCC nominee Sohn says

Her comments came a day after California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement resolving the state-led antitrust challenge to the merger.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fine, I’ll settle for the middle of the range

A job email I received with an insane salary range from $65K-841K a year

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Wisconsin State Journal @madison.com · 22/09/2026

The Cottage Grove board voted to draft a new ordinance barring the use of automated license plate readers throughout the community.

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Cottage Grove votes to end use of Flock cameras

The Cottage Grove board voted to draft a new ordinance barring the use of automated license plate readers throughout the community.

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Brandon Millman @brandonmillman.com · 22/09/2026

Nothing. It means absolutely nothing. It means not one goddamn thing.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/09/2026

boycotts don't work if they have an expiration date!

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Brandon Millman @brandonmillman.com · 21/09/2026

And all the commercial availabilities will be the spammy "casino" app ads.

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 21/09/2026

Advocacy group @freedom.press raises the concern that Paramount's independent editorial board overseeing CBS and CNN might be influenced by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in the future.

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Brandon Millman @brandonmillman.com · 21/09/2026

Larry Ellison now scrambling to invent/acquire technology that will help the faults slip faster & easier now.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sure, giving in to corporate blackmail is *usually* a bad idea. But maybe this time it will work!!!!!!!!!! 🤮

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Brandon Millman @brandonmillman.com · 21/09/2026

"Bonjourrrrrrrrr, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys."

capitulation
noun [ C or U ]
us /kəˌpɪtʃ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ uk /kəˌpɪtʃ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/

the act of accepting defeat:
To withdraw the remaining troops would have been a humiliating capitulation.
Some say withdrawal of the military forces represented a capitulation to terrorism.

an occasion when someone unwillingly accepts or agrees to do something:
We are seeing hopelessness and capitulation among investors.

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phil @philjamesson.com · 20/09/2026

when i start ruminating on the boxed cereals which destroyed my memory, nothing can help me sleep. not even getting in full military regalia

image of a woman in bed wearing military regalia with several bars and medals pinned to her lapel

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Studiously impartial C-SPAN calls for the Trump administration to immediately restore White House access to the journalists of CNN, MSNOW and Politico.

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BadgerNoonan @badgernoonan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Well of all the Packer wins of all time, that was certainly one of them.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Brandon Millman @brandonmillman.com · 19/09/2026

New classy af billboard in my village within the last week. Good work, Schober Outdoor Advertising. 🙄

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 17/09/2026

RTÉ has confirmed that Ireland will not take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest and that it will not broadcast the competition.

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RTÉ will not take part in or broadcast Eurovision 2027

RTÉ has confirmed that Ireland will not take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest and that it will not broadcast the competition.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Attorneys for Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) alert the judge that Team Trump appears to be considering demolishing Kennedy Center New filing this morning ====>

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 16/09/2026

ok, there it is, run the ad

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wasn’t a fan of AI but then I saw this, now I’m convinced it’s pretty great.

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506 Sports @506sports.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

week 2 maps: 506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2...

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506 Sports - NFL Maps: Week 2, 2026

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Atlas Nuggs @atlasnuggs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@edsbs.bsky.social Happy Anniversary

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 16/09/2026

It's heartbreaking how, in a split second, anything and everything can change for someone. I'm thinking of our colleagues in LA - who showed up to work today, unaware it would be their last...their colleagues, charged with reporting the news...the first responders...the witnesses...their families.

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 16/09/2026

KNBC-TV's helicopter was covering a fatal collision involving a city bus in Los Angeles when it crashed just after 7 p.m. local time Tuesday. Full coverage: thedesk.net/2026/09/knbc...

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Factal @factal.com · 16/09/2026

Los Angeles Fire Department confirms three people dead and one person hospitalized after television news helicopter crash in Chatsworth

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Update AIRCRAFT CRASH/ CRASH IMMINENT 09/15/2026 INC#1526 | Los Angeles Fire Department

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