iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 02/10/2026

Well, Wes, this sent me down a bizarre astroturf rabbit hole. Let's see who the super creeps behind this are! WakeUpSaintPaul.org is a generic site with some bogus survey likely designed to collect names. It says its a "project of the Domestic Policy Caucus".

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW YORK (AP) — At least three supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 06/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨BLUESKY 38 IS AI SLOP🚨🚨🚨 PLEASE DO NOT PARTICIPATE sorry to ruin everyones fun 💔💔💔

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screenshot of the repo, with CLAUDE circled in multiple locations

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 01/09/2026

“Search engine” is actually a terrible thing to use AI for. It gives results that look plausible very quickly, often mostly right, and in order to check them you have to do more & different work that feels like a waste when results are kind of right, so you just trust the thing because it’s easier

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026

I keep being asked about if I'm doing a book: 1. Yes! Portfolio/Penguin Random House 2. It's called The Hater's Guide To Silicon Valley 3. It's out July 2027. 4. It is currently going through edits! I have written it between podcasts/newsletters. I have been very busy!

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/08/2026

Joined Steve Bartlett on Diary of a CEO for a 2.5-hour-long chat to talk about the Al bubble, why OpenAl and Anthropic are burning billions, the fake Al boom, and what the aftermath of the bubble could look like. youtu.be/Lf5oqGOCRCM?...

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The Man Who Calls BS On AI: They’re LYING About AI, 2027 Is When It All Breaks! | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?

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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 26/08/2026

Apparently ICE arrests are at an all-time high and I'm guessing they've managed that by decentralizing. Focus on a specific urban area, and you get a lot of targeted resistance. Anyway, helpful reminder that ICE are literally everywhere and we should all be watching out for our neighbors.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Any opposition politician who is serious about justice needs to be running on "abolish and prosecute."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There’s an aggressively paid for influence op going on right now to defend AI slop as art and protected speech across platforms. AI execs realize they have a problem and don’t wanna get Marie Antoinette’d. The free ChatGPT trip is the tip of the iceberg. First person to nail it down gets a Pulitzer.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Let’s pitch in and get them at least one such generator, and the necessary solar panels, so they can quite literally organize their own power." chuffed.org/project/1969...

chuffed.org

Let’s ship a Solar Generator to folks without power in Gary, Indiana

Gary, Indiana is a predominantly Black, relatively poor, post-industrial city with a shrinking population.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026

In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

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Personally victimized by iced coffee at a job interview @karimarie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Excellent read. "AI Overview offers the seductive promise that the messy, effortful, contestable business of finding things out [...] can be replaced by a single, confident, algorithmically fluent paragraph." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

bostonreview.net

What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2026

When you hear "NVIDIA" and "data center" in the same breath, know that this person is not talking about VOIP or Instagram or online banking or online gaming, they are explicitly talking about generative AI services. These data centers aren't useful for anything else.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2026

The biggest mistake that people made about the AI bubble is assuming that the rich and powerful are smart, better-informed or somehow intellectually superior. Yes, they'd absolutely spend all this money without really knowing if it would work! Everyone around them said it would

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Katie @katiestp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Guys I volunteered to donate skymiles to get folks home after they’re released from detention. My first person got home last night and I am just over here like 🥹😭 One way flights are often under 50k miles. They don’t need to be skymiles either. Please consider. www.standwithminnesota.com/skymiles

standwithminnesota.com

Donate Your Miles — Stand With Minnesota

Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

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MRSPOURS @mrspours.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

2026 MN State Fair Crop Art entry "Witness" based on pStar Tribune photograph by Leila Navi with MPR reporter Sam Stroiza.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/08/2026

donate your miles! help us add to the list of 100+ families we’ve gotten to reunite with no money changing hands!

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Unidos has a whole toolkit on how to avoid shopping at Target this Back to School season. 🚫🎯 Alternatives galore . unidos-mn.org/corporate

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Unidos MN

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨 🚨🚨The comment form, for Mpls folks. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/019fc...

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Smartsheet Forms

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Kevin Rowe @kevinrowe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reporting to you live from Pine Island, MN, a small town outside of Rochester where Google is holding a community event to help sell their proposed data center to the community

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Carin @mrotzie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you are a Jewish DFLer who wants to unite and spend our fall fighting fascism rather than each other, please consider signing.

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Meltwater, a poetry collection by @cwahmanholm.bsky.social, illuminates just what you are describing with deft and expansive tenderness, dread, and wonder. Here’s one of several prose poems in the book titled “Glacier,” which I think about often.

GLACIER
The room was huge and cold. The glacier's skin smelled like pine, snowcloud, bog, lichen. There were stanchions around the ice so the audience wouldn't touch or lick its weeping face. Some people had brought their children. Our brains stuttered. Who could ever-What would possess-Who would want— I didn't like the exposure.
Whenever I heard a spurt of knee-high laughter, whenever a child looked up at me thinking I was its mother, I felt stripped of another layer of clothing. Everyone knows that children smell fear, but they smell shame even better. By the time the lights dimmed I was naked and didn't know what to do with my hands and arms. I couldn't cover everything. For an additional five hundred dollars you could mount a ladder and point a hair dryer at the glacier for two minutes. With your gun of hot air you could shape the surface into pits—a gentle divot for an eye, a more forceful one for a mouth.
You could make sweat run from armpits, from the small of a slick back. Any meltwater was yours to keep. We had heard that some people had vials from all five

glaciers lined up on their mantels like Hummels. Pictures were free but we didn't take any. It felt pornographic all that melting, all those crowds. One couple recorded their entire session, the machines blinking and blinking, their voices tangling as they narrated. I stared at the ceiling. I rubbed the ticket stub in my pocket until it pilled into pulp. We didn't talk in the car.
When we got home I was so thirsty. Like wanting to have sex after a funeral. I stood in the shower and let the water spray haphazardly into my mouth. There was so little I hardly had to swallow. I bent over the sink and cupped my hands to my mouth over and over and over again. I put my mouth directly over the faucet and hummed. This sounds like a metaphor but isn't. I'm just talking about water.

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Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Excited to be moderating a panel at @awpwriter.org's 2027 conference centering emerging Queer Minnesota authors as they discuss their roles as writers in our resistance movement.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

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‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Not a conspiracy. The tech industry generally targets edtech and defense. General users are important, but the real, long term cash flow is in education and defense. They will often pour lots of money in, and once they have enough investment it's harder for them to pull out.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Ian Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

DEI means recruiting the best candidates and appealing to the widest possible customer base - which results show is good for people, and for business www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

guardian newspaper report friday august 14th saying
US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ICE has started its crackdown in Springfield, Ohio -- the town where JD Vance accused Haitians of eating dogs and cats. Residents reported "a caravan of vehicles" conducting raids. One unnamed neighbor "praised all the Haitians who live around him." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

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Springfield Haitians in ICE custody following immigration enforcement

Several Haitians from Springfield are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the Butler County Jail following an apparent increase in enforcement after the official end of Temporary Protect...

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

OpenAI put out research this week which found no correlation between revenue per employee and use of AI, Fortune reports.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

These people are not Democrats and should not be listened to or treated like them.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.org

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our team & Meidas have made the call: we simply do not see a conceivable path to victory for Craig. Congratulations to progressive fighter Peggy Flanagan!

50501 BREAKING NEWS
MINNESOTA SENATE
PEGGY FLANAGAN (D)
WINS THE PRIMARY!
Called By:
Hunter Dunn & Meidas Touch

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Once inside the lobby, the demonstrators unfurled a massive banner reading ‘Stop Stealing Our Future,’ while others held signs with messages like ‘OpenAI bought my Senator.’”

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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Jewish and looking for a prayer community these Days of Awe that will support rather than suppress your work and yearning for liberation? @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social has a directory of communities eager to welcome you just as you are opencommunities.info

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Open Communities · Pro-Ceasefire Jewish Congregations

Observe the High Holidays with an inclusive, values-aligned Jewish community.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/08/2026

Peggy Flanagan has the endorsement of the DFL. Angie Craig has

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Senate primary here in MN tomorrow. Peggy Flanagan wants to dismantle ICE. Angie Craig supported a resolution thanking ICE for their service. Wants to reform ICE. Voted yes on Laken Riley Act, then said whoops. Given what’s happened here in 2026, it’s not all that complicated a choice.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/08/2026

Don’t hesitate to come to the polls; DOJ monitors will be outside the 100-foot zone, you don’t have to talk, you also don’t have to freak out, if you see them talking to anyone before they vote (they can only do so after) or engaging otherwise, tell the precinct head judge. We’re trained to help.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I need to believe there are still places where good Democrats with real values can beat shitty Democrats funded by conservatives. I no longer live in such a place, but you do. Get out there and vote for Peggy.

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