iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yes- this 100%! In the 80s we spoke a lot of the first world and the third world and except for a few exceptions like Singapore it seemed that a substantial portion of the world was doomed to live in inescapable deep poverty. Things are much much better!

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Great series. Strongly recommend.

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

During summer abroad as part of my MBA program I was scheduled to spend a month at an Aerospace company in Southern France. In August. I turned up and they said 'nice to meet you. Nobody's here. We suggest you go explore Europe.' Suggestion taken.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We have seized the airports and radio stations. Madison has fallen. We ask the people of Wisconsin to please remain calm during this period of transition.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For Black people, Black immigrants, a shackling like this is just too much. As everybody knows: The statue of liberty has a BROKEN shackle at her feet. Immigration should signify freedom, not slavery!

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

$SPCX For Starship to work there's a performance and weight loss needle that needs to be threaded. Maybe they can do it? But removing lidar and radar from Teslas really calls into question the decision making going on. www.gadgetreview.com/waymos-ceo-p...

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Waymo's CEO Pinpoints Where Camera-Only Self-Driving Falls Short

Waymo CEO argues camera-only self-driving hits a safety ceiling, while sensor fusion cuts serious crashes 94% versus human drivers.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As billions around the world tune in to the World Cup, this is what has happened to football in #Palestine. Since October 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 1,007 Palestinian athletes and sports professionals and destroyed more than 260 sports facilities.

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” ~Clarence Darrow. Image: Associated Press.

This black and white photo shows a man—Clarence Darrow—standing and wearing a light suit with a dark tie. He looks directly at the camera.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

D-Day commemoration at Omaha Beach, June 6, 2024. A D-Day veteran to Ukrainian President Zelensky: “You’re a savior of the people. My hero.” Zelensky: “No, no, you saved Europe. You are our hero.”

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Just watched the Artemis astronauts crying and doing a group hug as they do incredible things for all humanity. The best of us. What a contrast.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The fact of the matter is: a severe #IceStorm is developing across much of the country at this very moment, with potentially devastating and far-reaching consequences extending far beyond the region of maximum #ice concentration. Watch out for the #ice, and help your neighbors weather the storm.

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We didn't ask for this technology and most of us don't want it. But this is a fundamental human rights issue. The decisions we make now as this technology is in its infancy will define our relationship with this technology going forward. We need to rise to the occasion.

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

Star Trek Voyager scene. It's a romantic evening on the streets of a charming little town with I'm sure a folksy name like 'Fair Haven' or something. Ensign Harry Kim, dressed in an overcoat, leans in with a full heart and closed eyes and kisses a large black and white Holstein cow right on the mouth. Two closed captions are simultaneously present: On Harry's side of the screen the caption reads, "(gasps)" and on the cow side of the screen the caption reads, "(moos)".

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Grant Mathu @grant-mathu.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This is about half of my monthly La Crosse County Board pay, turned into food. The other half? Already donated in the form of food for some of the little free pantries around La Crosse. As food insecurity grows, even small efforts matter.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 12/11/2025

you should quit social media if you can. if you can't, you should use apps that give you and old-school reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. yes, like bluesky. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...

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You should quit social media for good

Platforms optimized for engagement warp our politics, erode attention, and harm our wellbeing. Here’s how I minimize time on the (anti‑)social web.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

The subject of those quotes had been on his mind for a while. Here's a prescient passage Carl Sagan wrote one year before that last interview, in his 1995 book “The Demon Haunted World.” Replace "crystals" and "horoscopes" with "cell phones" and "Facebook" and it could have been written yesterday.

Quote by Carl Sagan: “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Our ability to comprehend daily events has been corrupted by a toxic info environment where political & attentional dynamics distort & manipulate our “collective sensemaking” processes. Our “official” sources are now products of that same environment. Reality fractures, along with the social fabric.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/08/2025

It’s no coincidence that we stand here today, at the Democracy Center, with Donald Trump's ICE agents standing outside as we speak. Is this a threat to you, Trump? Are you scared of what happens when the people of this state come together to make our voices heard?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/08/2025

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/08/2025

aw that's nice, my library got some books for when the AI founders drop by

A children's book by Mo Willems titled "I Really Like Slop!", with an illustration of a pig in a chef's hat holding a bowl of green goop with flies around it and an elephant looking disgusted in the background

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death." Otto von Bismark

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

You can make most every argument about how anything in history could have been done better but there is just no case that Achilles at Troy, Lincoln at Gettysburg, Truman after Hiroshima, or Churchill on D-Day would have been more effective by concluding:Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 12/06/2025

Senator Alex Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Disordered denial is a symptom of a broken information system. A system where platforms reward outrage, where truth is optional, and where entire communities profit from false belief.

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I know you're a truck and I'm a turkey but I really think we should get to know each other better.

A somewhat confused but hopeful looking male turkey seeing its reflection in the side of a truck and displaying its feathers.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19/02/2025

I try to keep the language on here… PG… but in this case i can’t. You, Trump, are a traitorous piece of shit

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In 1973, a brilliant critic named Stuart Hall created a diagram that changed the way we study media, and could help you survive this moment. Just dropped: the second letter in my series about how to analyze the media in a time of crisis. It's all about codes. buttondown.com/thehypothesi...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’m not quite entirely persuaded by this essay but goddam it is very good and bracing. Really worth a read. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of...

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A Disease of Affluence

Trump's supporters are not motivated by economic anxiety, but by its opposite.

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

#aurora From Sonoma County just north of San Francisco - not visible to the naked eye but definitely a little something.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/03/2024

As internet popularity becomes dictated by algorithms, content is becoming more generic and dominated by AI-created content. And as this content becomes more generic, AI models will train themselves on their on content, creating inbred "Habsburg" AI. tinyurl.com/wyea31124

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/03/2024

You literally cannot steal an AI image, they are not protected by copyright and are therefore in the public domain

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Cameron Momtaz @cameronmomtaz.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

This is very good. And this is the way.

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