iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Bryan Zug

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Budweiser was trying to identify individual alcoholics and send them personalized "Chuck, you haven't had a drink in a while, here's a free case on us" ads we would rightfully call for them to be drawn and quartered

018767

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. — Vaclav Havel

02911

Reposted by Bryan Zug

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

687255848446

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is beautiful.

111825

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gandalf. Go hiking. Assemble a crew to take down Palantir. Sorry, I wouldn't be so on the nose if these times weren't.

2369

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 05/10/2026

Henry’s essay on the state of tech—and of tech work, and of tech workers—is very good. It’s hopeful, painful, and beautiful all at once, and I think it’s worth your time.

2274

Reposted by Bryan Zug

henry ✷ @strange.website · 05/10/2026

it's a new season for technology & for technologists, and our labor and its impact to the world are both more greater and more dangerous than ever. how do we make sense of work in an industry many of us no longer recognize?

henry.codes

Dark Forestry

510830

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Following the Pope’s encyclical about AI, you’re going to see a lot more religious intervention in shaping public opinion about tech companies. There are only two social institutions resilient enough to counter AI politically — states and religion. They bought the first. Standby on the second.

430975

Reposted by Bryan Zug

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yes. the big takeaway from the crucifixion of Jesus is that capital punishment is good.

Jack Posobiec

@JackPosobiec
Christ Himself accepted the death penalty

411361195

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Based on all of the organizations we've worked with, I think regardless of technology or tools, it's often difficult for organizations to identify their most valuable members because of organizational biases and politics that reward and protect mediocre and toxic individuals, often unintentionally.

1101

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/10/2026

I mean, think of all the money a vulture like Trump could've made in the wake of the Great Depression if he'd had Citizens United to prevent the election of FDR.

614619

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

259184584881

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Leah Payne @drleahpayne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pope Leo on AI & the arts

1232

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

“AI companies are fixated on adding features right now…But as always, the more features, the broader the attack surface. So all of these companies need to be fully focused on security, and from what I can see, it still often seems like an afterthought.”

wired.com

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

07031

Reposted by Bryan Zug

Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

1136

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

Hard to imagine what that would be like

23875231267

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

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

131

Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The person with nothing left to lose is the most powerful person outside of the presspool.

010

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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."

11859511284

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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.”

9396

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

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

540916163

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

14321

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

281185168

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

25767434532

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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.

404280447

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

392137615

Bryan Zug @bryanzug.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don't they call that range? 😂

000

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

2073712303

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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.

82091207

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

263735148

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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

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

131

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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.

24982263351

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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.

28116

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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.

8927091121

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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 ❤️

1283

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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.

47271653220

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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...

126480

Reposted by Bryan Zug

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.

141284544