iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 13h

Ppl be waiting for “Jesus to come back” and he’s literally right here

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Joshua Graves @joshuagraves.me · 28/09/2026

Here’s a silly hot take. Who called them poultry farmers and not chicken tenders?

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cornell asked employers what’s wrong with college grads. The issue wasn’t technical knowledge but handling ambiguity, conflict, compromise & feedback. AI may make these “soft skills” more valuable. You can teach domain knowledge but it’s harder to teach motivation or how to work with others.

chronicle.com

Companies Are Skeptical of New Graduates. Cornell Has Ideas to Fix That.

Colleges need to start teaching soft skills, or students will keep falling short in the workplace, argues a Cornell report on “the future of the American university.”

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 27/09/2026

This what Garfield Benjamin called “squeeveillance” in his excellent piece on cuteness and surveillance in Surveillance & Society from 2024: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

ojs.library.queensu.ca

Squeeveillance: Performing Cuteness to Normalise Surveillance Power | Surveillance & Society

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

youtube.com

Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we're boarding now. a gate attendant literally screamed at us to board by boarding group... and a hundred people just laughed in her face. we have formed a self-governing society at this point and her attempt to order us around is oddly funny

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 23/09/2026

Christy Moore recorded a great song about it too, Dunnes Stores.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

nytimes.com

F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm at the gambling den. I'm at the loan shark hut. I'm at the combination gambling den and loan shark hut.

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 17/08/2026

I was SO EXCITED when I heard JS and Clarissa were working on this book, because I couldn’t have written *my* book without their literal years of activism and organizing within the tech labor movement. This is going to be an invaluable read, folks. Can’t wait to get my hard copy ❤️

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Big victory for Arizona: A court just ruled the Trump administration's attack on Solar for All was illegal. Congress created this program to help families get low-cost clean energy and cut their electricity bills. The EPA needs to release these funds now. apnews.com/article/clim...

apnews.com

Judge rules EPA illegally terminated $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-incom...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good. Damn good.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These are the AI risks we should be worried about and legislating against not freaking out over whether some poorly sandboxed security test leads to Skynet.

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Joshua Graves @joshuagraves.me · 20/09/2026

I wasn’t aware of this Calvin and Hobbes comic. And living near such (nearly) unspoiled beauty really does drive home how priceless it is.

Calvin and Hobbes comic.

C: PEOPLE KEEP TALKING ABOUT OPENING MORE WILDERNESS FOR DEVELOPMENT. WE SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE VALVE OF OIL, TIMBER, MINERALS, AND HOUSING, BUT NOT THE VALUE OF UNSPOILED BEAUTY, WILDLIFE, SOLITUDE, AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL.
H: WE NEED TO START PUTTING PRICES ON THE PRICELESS.
C: YEAH, IF OUR WOODS ARE WORTH A ZILLION JILLION BAGILLION, THINK WHAT ALASKA IS WORTH.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There are many parallels including the fact that quality is remarkably worse. Going from professional journalism to podcasts and TikTok influencers is equivalent to the quality drop as software becomes vibe coded AI slop. But when the choice is between cheap, good and fast; good usually loses.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AI is disrupting software careers in the same way the internet did for journalism. While many are in denial, I expect we will see a similar pattern. There will be winners who’ll go further than they could in the old world similar to Nate Silver, Ben Thompson or Ben Evans have but many more losers.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

404media.co

‘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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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

this isn't "these guys are annoyed at regulation and if we tone it down they'll go back to being on our side" this is "elon is now the single biggest GOP donor and everyone else has had their brains cooked by group chats and have gone full fash"

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🎶 i made a lot of mistakes 🎶 as i barrel through a group of pedestrians

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I looked out over them while they were doing it and felt emotional. A room full of youngsters bent over pen & paper in the physical act of writing. No screens, no keyboards. Nothing from me, most importantly, giving them my practiced/processed thoughts before they can form their own first thoughts.

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Jeff “Suffering” Bettger @jsuffering.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My band Absenter out out our first ep today! It is available to listen to on all streaming platforms #seattle #punk #posthardcore #pnwlife music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Editor: I'd like a story that combines Americans' hatred of artificial intelligence, their fears about the environment, their antipathy toward data centers, and their angst over inflation driven by dwindling fuel supplies. Reporter: Got ya covered, boss. Need anything else?

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The New York Times

GIVE THE TIMES

Data Center's Spill of 5,000 Gallons of Diesel Forces N.J. River Cleanup The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.

Listen • 5:15 min

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Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@garrettbucks.bsky.social "The opposite of the apocalypse is a neighborhood" is a really great distillation.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 17/09/2026

they think they are being moral or leftist or rightist when they are saying this, but they are not my own version of "there's no <X> or <Y>" that i usually find tiring is the only political division that ACTUALLY matters, ever, is low-trust vs. high-trust culture

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.

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Hard Problems @hardproblems.com · 16/09/2026

Public policy is where much of the powerful change in the world can happen. What can designers do to support better policy? www.hardproblems.com/articles/des...

hardproblems.com

Design for policy change

Most policy failures are built in before a rule is ever tested. Eniola Ayedun on where design fits in policy-making, from the UK to Nigeria.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips

howtovote.tips

How to Vote / Cómo Votar

A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.

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NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I don't take sides" doesn't work anymore. Silence isn't neutral. It favours the aggressor. Time to speak up.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We gotta seize this dude and all of his enabler’s assets after this. He’s done too much damage. It’s not enough for these people to just sail away from this on a big boat. That’s our boat.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ed Sheeran has now dropped out from the Ed Sheeran tour

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are a few writers who totally changed how I thought about writing and what language can do and Annie Dillard was one of them. One of the best to ever do it.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dan Selsam, OpenAI researcher, talks about how current AI models are already outsmarting humans and AI researchers are so dependent on AI models for coding or studying AI that it’s trivial for the models to fool researchers into thinking they’re aligned. He also believes they could destroy humanity

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New conspiracy theory I half-believe just dropped

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