iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 3h

putting the gross in gross domestic product

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5h

If your newscast says Hastert was 'tied to' a child sex abuse scandal, you're failing your listeners.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

The last time the Strategic Oil Reserve was this low, Olivia Newton-John had the #1 song in the country.

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Norcross @floridanorcross.bsky.social · 8h

another reminder that none of this is private and these AI companies are harvesting every single thing they can from you.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026

A significant part here is that it matters a lot *which* LLMs people are using. That the president is using the Nazi LLM made by Musk, which also generates CSAM, is materially different from other commercial models, but especially from models that we could audit and inspect. This could be regulated!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"he reportedly described himself as a content creator who reviews restaurants and throws food back at employees when he doesn't like it" So... He criminally assaults & batters people when he doesn't like his food. ... Nuisance influencers are a cancer on society. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Philadelphia restaurant offers $5,000 to find customer who allegedly threw a cheesesteak in an employee’s face, then he turns himself in

A Philadelphia restaurant offered $5,000 to help find a customer who allegedly threw a cheesesteak in an employee's face and ran away.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 04/10/2026

I’m finally home. Nothing planned until December when I’ll be in Panama. I’m looking forward to a great fall.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 03/10/2026

One massive upgrade in traveling internationally, for me, has been Apple’s credit card. I charge in whatever local currency and it appears in dollars, often 10% or more less than any other method

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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God @thegodshow.com · 30/09/2026

He’s obviously removing all anti-trump leaders ahead of a ‘national emergency’ so they can halt elections and seize permanent control.

Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals

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Ramon Eijkemans @eikhart.com · 29/09/2026

I *don’t* care how good your outreach is, how smart your agent can hook into posts i’ve written. If you email me without me asking, and especially if you keep doing that, i’ll block you out of principle and will surely never ever buy from you.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 29/09/2026

The weather here is actually perfect this morning. If I have to leave Chicago at my favorite time of year, I’ll take this.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 29/09/2026

It’s 7:00 am. I’m still not quite awake but… let’s do this.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 28/09/2026

Sitting here at the Frankfurt airport really makes me want to start learning German again. I was getting pretty proficient, but I’ve lost almost all of it.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026

The imagined influence of the algorithm controls all language, which is the same thing as controlling thought, ultimately. And the generation that’s grown up saying “unalive” doesn’t even know they’ve been muzzled all along.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026

It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/09/2026

(I can’t see the comments because I don’t have an account on the anti-trans machine, but I know the internet well enough to know people won’t stop hating the guy just because she told them the truth. So, how do you assign accountability for that toxic behavior? Find those commenters & out them?)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/09/2026

I’m glad this is getting amplified, but my take is different: it sucks this this is on Substack. Boom, roasted.

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i bring an iced coffee to the interview. only it’s not for me, it’s for the interviewer. and it’s laced with a sedative. when she comes to, she’s wearing my clothes and i’m in her office. her car keys don’t work. i’m with her husband. her kids don’t recognize her. coming soon from A24.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 26/09/2026

I confess I do miss my old Twitter account (not X). That really was a great community for what I do. A few current projects are showing me how many people I’ve lost touch with since it ended.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 26/09/2026

My only real annoyance with macOS 27 is the “Running in background” displays of seemingly every app.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 26/09/2026

The most exciting thing about packing for my trip tomorrow is a new suitcase. Yeah, I’ve hit “that” age.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 25/09/2026

I live in Chicago, and I still see this shit as I use Apple’s Private Relay (genuinely a good privacy option for my threat model) which randomizes my IP. I often have to turn it off on the page load to see Bluesky. It’s so insane I had to write it up (chriswiegman.com/2025/08/acce...)

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Accessing Bluesky with iCloud Private Relay

Last week Bluesky took the drastic step of blocking users from Mississippi due to their draconian age verification laws. In theory, as long as you aren’t trying to access the service from within Missi...

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Evie Nyx @evienyx7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At this point in my life, "friends with benefits " are just my friends who have health insurance

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

tl:dr If you are treating humans and their labor as disposable resources for technology, you are advocating a dystopian future.

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Crazy to think that if I’d bought $1,000 of amazon stock in 1997 I would have died of a cocaine overdose by now

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 21/09/2026

I’m pretty sure he’s really 3 orange cats in a dog suit.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 21/09/2026

It’s dropped enough outside, with a strong wind out of the east, that it really does feel like winter inside this morning. I’m loving it.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just realized that you could cut a clip of the Paul brothers speaking to our armed forces and seamlessly turn it into a scene for "Idiocracy".

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/09/2026

honestly same

a vending machine with a small printed sign taped to it:

the light inside
is broken but
i still work

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 19/09/2026

It took longer than it probably should have, but this morning I finally deleted my WordPress (.com and .org) passwords from my password manager.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 17/09/2026

Now I’m waiting for a screenshot of a republican pointing out this is OK because Google’s Gemini said it’s OK to eat rocks.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 17/09/2026

Last Friday I switched from Xfinity to Astound (both broadband as this building doesn’t get fiber). I switched because Google Meet (work’s platform) on Xfinity had been all-but unusable these past 2-3 months. It’s worked perfectly (Knock on wood). I’m honestly surprised at how much it’s improved.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 17/09/2026

If I’m grateful for anything it’s that I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to avoid driving. Even at current US gas prices we only spend $20-30/month for our car. I do feel for the many, many people I know who have to do long car commutes.

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Chris Wiegman @chriswiegman.com · 17/09/2026

This morning the weather, for the first time this year, really feels like winter (not cold, but the heat isn’t on and it’s dark and wet outside). I’m really loving it.

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