iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Posted this in the bad place ages back but it is my duty to inform EVERYONE of how jealous Kelsey Grammer was of the Frasier dog

"It's widely rumored that I hate the dog, and it's kind of fun to perpetuate the myth. The truth is, I have nothing against Moose. The only difficulty I have is when people start believing he's an actor. Acting to me is a craft, not a reflex. It takes years to master, and though it does have its rewards, the reward I seek is not a hot dog. Moose does tricks; I memorize lines, say words, even walk around and stuff. But I don't need a trainer standing off-camera, gesticulating wildly and waving around a piece of meat, to know where I'm supposed to look."

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/1452879/frasier-co-star-frustrated-kelsey-grammer/

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Never, ever trust "the cloud".

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I personally wouldn't find it "humiliating" if the US were to withdraw our military from around Iran & lift sanctions. I do find it humiliating that we massacred 120 schoolchildren & no one in the US political system cares or will do anything about it.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

me every day until the day an Ellison legally has to pay $7 million a day to Warner Bros shareholders until whenever the hell a huge and complicated lawsuit is resolved:

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Homer Simpson Tells Marge to Hurry Up!

ALT: Homer Simpson Tells Marge to Hurry Up!

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I. M. Noone @ianmnoone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Amnesty report JKR doesn't want people to see. Download, distribute

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s worth emphasising: the public have reached this conclusion all by themselves, because they sure as shit weren’t told it by the US press.

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The games company I was working for searched for funding for *three years* before ultimately folding because its coffers had ran completely dry

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/05/2026

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ ➡️ PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Absolutely nothing could have prepared me for Acclaim Entertainment, Inc’s musical sizzle reel from E3 1995

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Spent the night building up our girl gang in Yakuza Kiwami 3. I sure hope a big stupid loser baby didn't fill his diaper on live television again while I wasn't paying attention.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/07/2026

JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/07/2026

In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

And now mom says ice cream isn’t dinner. What’s going on? What does this mean? Dinner is food and last time I checked, ice cream is food. So what’s this really all about? The answer is simple: power

A screenshot of Tucker Carlson with a filter used to make him look roughly 10 years old

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/06/2026

Here’s just one of the unprecedented measures the Liberals pushed through at the end of this session: Cabinet ministers will now be allowed to authorize the use of banned pesticides in the name of “national economic security.” Even if they’ve been deemed unsafe for human health. shorturl.at/OlnQl

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Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC News

The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22/06/2026

Centrist Americans being mystified by Kier Starmer's unpopularity despite him doing everything they're always telling Democrats to do is so funny. Just the biggest dumbasses around.

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 22/06/2026

Who's the seller, M. C. Escher?

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

this should be mandatory reading for the entire country

But what was known in 1964 was largely abandoned in 2024, and what was offered instead was a questionable survivalist theory of democracy-one that proposed to erect a shield over one group while providing weaponry to destroy another.
For reasons moral, pragmatic, and perhaps mostly ancestral, the next black presidency will have to think bigger. To its list of adversaries-which include a renewed white supremacy, a rapacious billionaire class, an energetic Christian nationalism-it must add another, perhaps more formidable than them all: empire.

But for many Arab and Muslim Americans, "America before Trump" meant returning to a time when FBI informants sought to entrap them, when police agencies spied on their mosques, and calling a presidential candidate a Muslim was a slur. Seemingly blind to this trauma, the Harris campaign followed up the Democratic National Convention snub by deploying Bill Clinton to Michigan. There, in the state with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, Clinton told an audience that Israel had been forced "to kill civilians" by Hamas, and that the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea belonged to the Jewish people because "they were there first." Meanwhile, Harris welcomed her endorsement by Dick Cheney, who was not a very popular vice president but was a zealous defender of torturing Muslims.
The cumulative message was not "We don't need your vote." It was "We don't value your life

In 1965, the year of the Voting Rights Act's passage, Coretta Scott King stood before an anti-war rally in Madison Square Garden and rejected survivalist democracy:

Have you often wondered as I have, why it is that the same president Johnson who speaks so eloquently for civil rights, and who has been so moved by the struggle for the right to vote and the anguish of the poor, can be so callous about the Vietnamese and so apparently
thoughtless on foreign policy. I think it is because we permit him to be.

And that story forces a very basic question: What was the point of all this?
Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer? And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors? And if they did not, if they believed that the "poor and needy" meant those within the empire as well as those without, then what moral mandate does that place upon their children?
And if their children have come only to praise, not check, empire, then why have they come at all?

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

israel needs a forever war. whenever peace is close, it ramps up the bombing to derail things

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hundreds chanting, "FUCK AI!" "Hundreds of people marched through downtown Vancouver over the weekend to protest a proposed cluster of AI data centers backed by Telus, voicing concerns about water use, electricity demand, and what that could mean for local communities." www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Imagine typing prompts into a plagiarism machine instead of drawing a sketch, painting on a canvas, capturing a moment in nature with a camera, writing your own story, framing a shot and capturing human expression, making a film that's a collaboration of many different artists.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2026

Satire is dead.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this is a masterpiece

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

They’re just the dumbest boys and girls, the right. Sitting at their computer, angry or trying to inculcate anger, living tiny little lives

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is a flat out horrifying article. It may be too much for some to read. But this should be documented, and we should know this is happening.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/05/2026

Kara Swisher is one of the main reasons Elon Musk happened, she's never apologized for it, and we should never forgive or forget.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Obama and other liberals keep saying that they want a "strong GOP". Well, this is what it looks like: a brazen and gleeful rejection of Black people having anything worth respecting or defending and alignment with an openly white nationalist agenda that holds nonwhiteness in contempt.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

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Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’

In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Atlantic reporter Sarah Fitzgerald is under investigation for leaking classified information regarding the whereabouts of Kash Patel's secret stash of Woodford Reserve.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

a “what does tucker carlson believe” story should be one sentence long and the sentence is “he will say literally anything for money, we saw him admit it in the texts released in the dominion lawsuit”

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Incredible delivery from Tim.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG.

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A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

one time I said "great, the system works" to someone who had just haughtily informed me I'd lost a customer, and she got so mad I thought she might actually die

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Matt Anderson @mattbegins.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Few things are funnier to me than the way Vision walks in CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE AVENGERS.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I think about this Every Single Time someone laments the loss of political community and bipartisanship.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The New York Times writes far more stories about the trans community than any other US print outlet, and is the least likely to quote a trans person when it does. Seems bad?

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