iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ridge Cook @ridgecook.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Have to realize the Internet is morphing into late 70s cable systems. Youtube with local commercials and podcast "shows" hawking national brand sponsors. Totally understandable as bills have to be paid.

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

everything on the internet is a "show" now

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A year later, DC residents are still waking up to troops in the streets.

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andrew webster @andrewrweb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

wrote about a good video game www.theverge.com/games/950735...

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Final Fantasy meets Zelda? Yes, please

Hey, listen.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/06/2026

the contempt they have for the people who live here is never going to be the national story but man is it wild to experience firsthand

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 04/06/2026

A new @neverpo.st! Georgia asks @chaykak.bsky.social about liking what you like, liking what you see online, being told you like what you see online, wondering if you like what you see online b/c you like it or b/c you saw it online, and whether anyone *actually* likes Geese (spoiler: who cares)

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🆕 Never Post! Did The Feed Ruin Taste?

Georgia talks to New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka about the state of personal taste on our algorithmic feeds. When popularity reigns supreme and it feels like everything is an ad online, how do we ...

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I went on @nytopinion.nytimes.com's The Opinions video podcast to talk about "taste" and why Silicon Valley doesn't have it but wants AI to, with Nadja Spiegelman and Sophie Haigney www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 17/05/2026

“It’s no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by [A.I.] have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.” – words by @chaykak.bsky.social – illustration by Ariel Davis

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A Lo-Fi Rebellion Against A.I.

As slick, machine-generated visuals become ubiquitous, artists and designers are embracing a style of handmade imperfection.

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

fantastic essay of art criticism and art history

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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Andrew Marantz traveled to a film festival in northern Italy to become the first foreign journalist to land a substantial interview with Péter Magyar, who ousted Viktor Orbán as Prime Minister of Hungary. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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Péter Magyar Led Hungarians out of Autocracy. Where Will He Take Them Now?

In his first substantial conversation with a foreign journalist since being elected, Péter Magyar, Hungary’s new Prime Minister, discusses the rewriting of the Hungarian constitution, the implications...

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

my piece from the pre-reboot Believer! vintage

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

From the @semafor.com media newsletter: The controlling investor in Letterboxd is looking to sell its stake in the company. They've solicited interest from Versant, and last year approached the Ankler about purchasing it. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My profile of Laurie Metcalf is in this week's New Yorker. We talked about Steppenwolf, "Roseanne," and her tremendous performance in "Death of a Salesman"—as well as her partnership with the once-cancelled producer Scott Rudin and her role in his Broadway comeback. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Laurie Metcalf’s Third Act

The once cancelled producer Scott Rudin has staked his own comeback on making her the First Lady of American Theatre.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"If you tell people often enough that your product is going to upend their way of life, take their jobs, and very possibly pose an existential threat to humanity, they just might start to believe you," @chaykak.bsky.social writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making

A.I. companies are facing hostility and mistrust—and much of the heightened, sometimes histrionic rhetoric about the powers of the technology has come from within the industry.

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

the pointless, militarized occupation of Washington DC continues with these armed, camo'd figures constantly patrolling the safest, calmest areas of the city. Glad my corner grocery store and the steps leading in to Kalorama Park are so heavily guarded

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Friends, some personal news! I'm starting a newsletter called Porch Party. My proposition: the Trump admin is really NOT business as usual, and the effects on people's lives that I hear about daily are mostly not making it to the public. Let's change that. Sign up here: www.porchpartynews.com

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Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In the New Yorker this week, a story I've been trying to get off the ground for 5 years... about a Hollywood stuntwoman-turned-personal-injury-lawyer, her ex-con fiancee, high-speed crashes with 18-wheelers, and economic desperation in 21st century America. It's set in New Orleans and it's a doozy.

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The Car-Crash Conspiracy

High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

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Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

‘Our hatred of social media or of artificial intelligence is not some novel phenomenon, Dekeyser reminds us; it’s a feeling that has existed in some form across millennia.’ @chaykak.bsky.social reads @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰-𝘕𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology

Our hatred of social media or of artificial intelligence is not some novel phenomenon, the new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us; it’s a feeling that has existed in some form across millennia.

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

say what you like about BlueSky, I still love this labeler that tells me who went to a fancy private school

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This is the biggest stretch of an acquisition since when Jack Dorsey made Square buy Tidal because he wanted to be friends with Jay Z

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

this is a really new phenomenon! slopaganda is incredibly fast and very glossy, easy to take seriously

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

new column: I talked to the Iranians making the viral Iran war LEGO videos, describing their goals and 24h turnaround process. AI "slopaganda" is the new language of geopolitics:

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

great essay by Sophie Haigney about an age of agency without morality [gift link]

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Opinion | All the Worst People Seem to Want to Be ‘High Agency’

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @newyorker.com's @chaykak.bsky.social, @nytimes.com's Tiffany Hsu and @washingtonpost.com's @drewharwell.com about how social media and AI are disrupting and distorting Iran War coverage. ❓What Qs do you have about the use of disinformation as a tool of war? 📻 Listen:

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Social Media and AI Disrupt, Distort Iran War Coverage | KQED

We talk about AI, disinformation and social media as tools of war.

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

new @newyorker.com column! We all loved the weather app Dark Sky. When Apple shut it down, nothing seemed as good. Now Dark Sky's co-founder Adam Grossman is back with Acme Weather, a really nice weather app that tries to solve the problems of the genre www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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Why You Hate Your Weather App

As the weather becomes less predictable, we need forecasts and apps that are better at telling us what we don’t know.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk.

The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship.

Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Some personal news: After nearly eight fantastic years, today is my last day at @wsj.com. Next month I'm starting with @nytimes.com to cover cybersecurity, intelligence, and more. I'm thrilled to be joining such an excellent team, and can't wait to get started.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

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"Cheat on everything" Al tool
Apr 23, 2025 - Two 21-year-old Columbia University dropouts are proposing a new $5.3 million twist on the concept: use their Al tool Cluely to "cheat on everything." Read more
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https://www.theverge.com» » Microsoft›Al› Tech:
Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again
22 Aug 2024 — Microsoft is getting ready to rebrand its Copilot for its business Al efforts. It's part of an effort to push Microsoft 365 Al tools.
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https://www.theverge.com› Wearable Science Tech:
Dexcom Stelo hands-on - OTC Continuous Glucose Monitor
Aug 26, 2024 - The $99 Dexcom Stelo is an over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor designed for Type 2 diabetics who don't use insulin.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/03/2026

Silicon Valley has embraced a new buzzword—“taste”—and in recent months it has become “as much of a tech-world cliché as ‘disruption’ was in the 2010s,” @chaykak.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vCNpCn

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In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?

A.I. companies are attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality. But has the online ecosystem become so polluted that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all?

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/03/2026

A.I. companies are attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality. But has the online ecosystem become so polluted that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ofYtig

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In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?

A.I. companies are attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality. But has the online ecosystem become so polluted that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all?

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 18/03/2026

Huge job opening at Bloomberg in SF: bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobD...

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Artificial Intelligence and Venture Capital Editor, San Francisco

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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Great to have @chaykak.bsky.social back from paternity leave. His latest column is a rousing defense of...us! Hooray for humans. "No large language model has yet been programmed to feel anything, and no number of branded baseball caps is going to change that." www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?

A.I. companies are attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality. But has the online ecosystem become so polluted that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all?

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

On "Ezra Klein", Jack Clark of Anthropic kept talking about "taste" as what they look for in hiring, now that Claude codes so well. When pressed, he defined "taste" as experience. In addition to the functions Chayka talks about, taste also seems to be a way to replace and diminish "expertise."

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

it's the greatest day of the year

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Nicole He @nicole.pizza · 11/03/2026

dear friends and colleagues, i am relaunching my Worksona. as part of that process i have made a LinkedIn for the first time. please connect with me on there so that our Worksonas can interact and do Business www.linkedin.com/in/nicole--he

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

lmao closed all summer. DC is a wreck these days

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/03/2026

Jay Graber is stepping down as the head of Bluesky. Revisit a profile of the tech leader in which she talks to @chaykak.bsky.social about her efforts to build nontoxic social media. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zcBW0Q

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Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media

X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm back from parental leave for a while; if you emailed or messaged me in the last ~3 mos please try again!

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