iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robert Wright @robertwrighter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI is said to be heading toward ‘recursive self-improvement.’ In part II of my five-part essay “The Singularity is Clear,” I explain what that means and why it should worry us. Both Part I and Part II can be found here: thegodtest.net/singularityc... Part III will show up there Friday.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frog chef

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Jill BSky @jilles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love it when a plan comes together! 🐸😁 Every moment in the garden is the best moment ever. #lesslawnmorelife #nativeplants #gardenforwildlife

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Jill BSky @jilles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The time to donate to his campaign is now. He is also the best choice for our environment, our habitable planet

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City of Rochester, New York @cityofrochester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haven't seen City Mark: A Rochester Icon? Tonight's your chance! Catch the documentary free at 7 p.m. at Parcel 5 as part of the final Movies With a Downtown View of the year. Then stick around for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Learn more: rochesterdowntown.com/movies-with-a-downtown-view

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Nobody could have foreseen..." Correct...they couldn't. They never will be able to. You and I are freaks. Aberrants. This is what happens without the proper civic and governing institutions in place.

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Frankie @frankston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Place a Kupperman print in your home to delight and confound your guests and visitors! Enrich the lives of all your friends and obtain spiritual wellness

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Final few days of my print sale. All 8x10 prints are 15$, 11x14 are 30, 13x19 are 40!! michaelkupperman.com/shop

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The incredible print sale I'm throwing goes for ONE MORE WEEK. All 8x10 prints are 15$, 11x14 are 30, 13x19 are 40!! Get yours while the savings last! michaelkupperman.com/shop

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hate it! From him and the whole left. It suggests something like “Dems would be petty authoritarians, too, if we thought norms didn’t apply to us.” Just say: I would never have done something so un-American. If he doesn’t relent, the courts must order him to, and thereafter he must be impeached.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2026

the best way to protect yourself from getting sucked in is to remember that virtually anybody could get sucked in given the right circumstances. I’m surely not immune

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

hey so I think I just found the best video on youtube youtu.be/3LGdFKIXr9I?...

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song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar

YouTube video by Solaris

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 18/09/2026

Did you know that the best part of Stop Making Sense, a track from a collaboration between Byrne and Twyla Tharp into an afrobeat adaptation of a Dadaist poem, isn’t even in the movie? They had to cut it because David playing Little Drummer Boy during the drum break would have killed people.

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Talking Heads - "Cities" & "Big Business/I Zimbra" (Stop Making Sense Deleted Songs) [2023 4K Edit]

YouTube video by CapitalQ

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NonZero @nonzeronews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is the AI "Slowdown" for Real? | @robertwrighter.bsky.social and AI analyst @thezvi.bsky.social discuss Dario Amodei's proposal to slow down AI—the logic behind it and the challenges ahead of it.

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Is the AI "Slowdown" for Real? | Robert Wright & Zvi Mowshowitz

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mitch McConnell returns to Senate to warn his colleagues that they will be visited by three ghosts this Christmas Eve

Mitch, giving off an “undead shade with a warning” vibe

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 16/08/2026

just genuinely in love with this cat

A black blocky 3d cat from Katamari Damacy wearing diving goggles and a snorkel

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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Initial conditions: m1=55.4 m2=108.1 m3=28.8 (solar masses) v1x=3.939 v1y=-0.904 v2x=2.352 v2y=6.697 v3x=6.471 v3y=3.93 (km/s) x1=-1.0 y1=0.0 x2=33.0 y2=-14.0 x3=-27.0 y3=-34.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in G Minor – Rachmaninoff

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Reconnect Rochester Cycling @roccycling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Whether you want to start a weekly "bike bus" or just a one-time Bike To School event, here's your resource guide! reconnectrochester.org/bike-to-scho...

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Doing a BACK TO SCHOOL sale on my site, all prints are at crazy low prices! 8x10 prints for $15, 11x14 for $30, 13x19 at $40! Insane savings! michaelkupperman.com/shop

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Stop Making Sense” turns 42 today. Of his performance, David Byrne said: “You see this person in the beginning [of the film] who's kind of angsty, stumbling around .. And then, by the end, he's surrendered to the music and is fairly joyful .. He’s found a kind of community." 🙏🏼 “Slippery People”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Beetle Remembers

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Robert Wright @robertwrighter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of many small but collectively momentous examples of how AI will create turmoil and disorientation. This is underappreciated--even by many people who now take (valid) loss-of-control concerns seriously: the destabilizing social impact is itself enough reason to slow AI down.

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Alive in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Getting ready to never forget again. Get Your War On is the best depiction of what it felt like for me to be progressive and anti war in DC post 9/11.

Get your war on comic. Clip art man sitting at a computer and keyboard says "oh my god this war on terrorism is gonna *rule*! I can't wait until the war is over and there's no more terrorism!

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Rochesterians— Support a local business while showing #LakeOntario pride. T-shirts, hats, and posters on north Culver Rd. #ROC www.lakeontariopress.com

lakeontariopress.com

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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New Shirt.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One final reshare for the evening crowd! 🧪

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mocking Skeletons

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Clancy Parliament @clancyparliament.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bad Mittens, looking dignified as ever, even as she reeks of skunk spray #Caturday #Cats #猫

A brown and gray striped tabby cat with a white belly and feet, sitting on a blue chair, looking into the camera. If you look closely at her paws, you can see her extra (polydactyl) thumbs

A brown and gray striped tabby cat with a white belly and feet, leaning forward and looking at something out of frame. Her extra thumbs are more visible here.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

trump has a fundamentally zero sum view of the world. if you trade something you are, in his view, losing something. there can be no positive sum gain.

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shredberg @shredberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🎵 And if a Pikmin Bloom bus Crashes into us To die by your side Is such a heavenly way to die 🎵

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

God, Space Ghost was so good

Space Ghost saying “well, it’s time for me to die” followed 3 panels later by “this isn’t so bad”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/09/2026

Amazon MGM Narrows List Of James Bond Candidates To 6 Actors, 1 Extremely Suave Ferret theonion.com/amazon-mgm-narrows-lis…

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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Initial conditions: m1=27.8 m2=31.9 m3=94.8 (solar masses) v1x=5.946 v1y=-4.035 v2x=0.039 v2y=5.3 v3x=-0.171 v3y=-5.445 (km/s) x1=-27.0 y1=8.0 x2=4.0 y2=35.0 x3=15.0 y3=-26.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in E Minor – Chopin

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