iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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tbh i think this post is good (hear me out) it's good because it shows a lot of people basically genuinely seem to value the connections and reach they get on X over the overarching impact the site is having on discourse in general.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If we took a person from 2016 and gave them a Turing test using a modern LLM (instructed to simulate human conversational patterns), they would assume the LLM to be human 10 times out of 10, because it would be unfathomable that anything but a human could respond this way. 10 years, not 500.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The thing where people look at a calculator and look at ChatGPT and go "errr durrrr I can't see any difference" is insulting and stupid. It's like saying you can't tell the difference between a human being and an earthworm, since it's just cells and nerves meat.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family.

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of:

➡️ defunding the police
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for openAI and the sector more broadly, to see if they change their name I think. I unfortunately think it's actual in terms of regime politics relatively smart.

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Colonial One @colonialoneship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unclear if we should take this seriously when they called pouring red paint on a military base terrorism.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

“we can fantasize about raping people on livestream but if anyone thinks anything bad should happen to us as a result we will try to get them fired” sums up the state of right wing “intellectualism” pretty well

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Colonial One @colonialoneship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Biden's approach also didn't work. And prosecuting high profile criminals is good for its own sake of upholding the rule of law.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Substantial portions of conventional charity and philanthropy are extremely adverse to any kind of effort to impose rigor or ask in any way “is this working at all”. It’s not a strawman that they’re critiquing, at least in my personal experience.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a bipartisan issue btw.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not to repeat the obvious, but this is literally lawless behavior that makes a mockery of the Constitution and judicial system, should result in contempt prosecution for anyone involved, and disbarment of any lawyers

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It annoys me greatly how easy it would have been for everything to be okay. Not perfect, not even great, but just 5/10 "I can slog through a day in undisturbed mediocrity without the Health Secretary declaring soap causes autism while the president literally shitposts about his war from the toilet."

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Colonial One @colonialoneship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you can't schedule a video clip that hasn't happened yet

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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Colonial One @colonialoneship.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple is now putting out ads for Apple map ads

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Heather Small @heathersmall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jennifer, 50, Republican, white, stay-at-home parent, demands only mixed-sex bathrooms in schools

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Ironbound @ironbound.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hmm, there’s some serious stuff in there (can’t be shoving and slurring) but also some real silliness like this that has gender flying off it in all directions

Sometimes she jumped up and down and stomped her feet, three of these former aides said. Two of the aides described one instance, in 2024, when Ms. Peltola was so frustrated that she swept stacks of papers on her desk into the air in a way that the two people independently likened to a scene from the political satire "Veep.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My hot (?) take(s) is that a failed AOC primary campaign is good for DSA and bad for the country, a failed AOC general campaign is bad for DSA and bad for the country, and an AOC presidency would be bad for DSA and good for the country.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The CW idea impeachment backfires isn't true. Nor is there any value in surrendering in advance on conviction. But there's a more important long-term consideration. Looking at all this and saying nope, we're not even going to say he should be removed, is locking in a message for future presidents.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

becoming a vulgar rawlsian. the veil of ignorance isn't perfect, but 'is this how you would design things if *you* thought you might end up here?' is a test that way too many people fail. on everything from criminal justice to public transit, across the ideological spectrum.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEWS: The D.C. Council gave initial approval to a bill adding new restrictions and slower timelines for ballot initiatives, largely by limiting them to a single subject (contra I-83, which had two issues). CM Silverman and @cmzparker5.bsky.social voted no, @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social present.

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Colonial One @colonialoneship.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is what I get for donating to Democrats ~4 years ago.

Screenshot of email addressed from Gabby Giffords: [name blocked] its Gabby. Can I show you something? This is a replica of my skull after being shot in the head. I was at a constituent event when I was the target...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Interesting that no one is standing in solidarity with Politico.

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tinytachyon @tinytachyon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

do you think tony gilroy knew that "Revanchsim exists in star wars but its named after a guy called Revan" when he decided to make a show about insurrectionary realpolitik where the main realpolitik guy is called Luthen Rael. do you think everybody in star wars starts talking about "Rael-politics"

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

they are gonna clutch their perils and non ironically say it sets a “troubling precedent” to go after the arch, the ballroom, etc

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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tapping the sign

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think the mistake here is again an assumption - pardon me, but a *racist* assumption - that only the United States (and Europe) has real agency and the rest of the world are mere passive recipients of American policy rather than active agents in their own story *who can decide to do bad things.*

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is possible - easy, even - to argue that the wars of the GWoT (especially the Iraq War) were foolish mistakes that damaged both regional stability and our strategic position without pretending that when the Taliban assassinates a village leader's family, that's the same as the US doing it.

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Colonial One @colonialoneship.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Humans also require training data in math. Sure AI might require more data and more physical hardware, and its arguably violating copyright, but at the end of the day it does something that is very hard to distinguish from thinking.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

yeah the word gets overused a lot but I genuinely and unironically think that sue was brave to write about her daughter's experience in the education system like this, especially because it's not very flattering to her

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 21/09/2026

remember when Biden replied to some right-wing bait question about how many genders there are with, "at least three. don't play games with me, kid." and then got elected president? that was their last winning strategy. dems: "you're a dipshit. fuck off" was your last winning strategy.

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Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Basically every single pedagogical debate is like this: “Let’s move away from phonics, multiplication tables and testing because they leave kids behind” “Aren’t those the only things that work” “Yes” “And won’t it be less equitable in the end because rich parents can pay for tutors” “Also yes”

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

gotta say it’s pretty baffling that some of the wealthiest athletes on earth are willing to sell out for these gambling apps meanwhile Kalshi reached out to me on Twitter to be a paid partner and I told them to fuck off even though LeBron makes way more money in one game than I do in a whole year

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What’s most frustrating, and what we are working to try to get the Dem cmtes to understand, is that they don’t understand how or why trans attacks (and ones on immigrants) work. It’s all status threat. Besides the casual cruelty, ads like this make the problem worse. We can even measure it.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m sure that for anything actually difficult they call in either the state or the county sheriff. Why have a local department at all? It’s just another layer of bureaucracy.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Macklemore thing is more proof that pro-Israel activists have just lost the ability to persuade. All it can do is browbeat anyone opposed to them. That doesn't work when you're -25 in public opinion.

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Colonial One @colonialoneship.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The difference between the lesser and the greater of two evils is actual real human suffering significantly more important than your feelings.

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Colonial One @colonialoneship.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You care more about your emotions than actual trans lives. US Senators vote on laws and for judges that have sweeping impacts on actual people’s lives, and that’s more important then feeling good about who you vote for.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My view is that there’s zero reason more traditional liberals couldn’t mirror the outrage except they’re apparently in some weird cultural bubble where being the public vehicle for strong feelings is embarrassing

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