iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Micaylah THL 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @micaylah.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But I'm also guessing you don't know even half of what's in a blockbuster new film about Musk, and #ElonMusk and America's oligarchs seem to wanna keep you in the dark and not know that this movie even exists. www.levernews.com/the-elon-mus...

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The Elon Musk Film You Need To See Before The Midterms

Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney reveals what he learned after years of researching and reporting on the world’s richest person.

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hitler did it better, but they've finally consolidated the media. Now they control the narrative. But we still have the power to say "no." Boycott Paramount, Warner Brothers and all the properties included in this new media monstrosity called Skydance. psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-merger...

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The Merger That Ate the News

Boycott Dispatch #46: The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Expect a boycott update reflecting the Warner Brothers merger. A lot of recent updates are already on there: psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...

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Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace

Updated 3/28/2026 (Image is recycled AI. The damage was already done by someone else)

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Reca @recarecaps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@psychopete.bsky.social (Maybe interesting !? 🤷)

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is really cool 🧪

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 30/09/2026

New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf. aasnova.org/2026/09/30/t... 🔭🧪 @caltech.edu

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The Solar System Has a New Life Expectancy, and It’s a Billion Times Shorter

New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧪 When is “no” a good outcome in research? In today's article, researcher Valentina Muñoz explores the challenges of participant recruitment and what it means to look beyond the numbers, drawing on her experience as a cancer research coordinator. www.inspirethemind.org/post/when-no...

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When 'No' Is a Good Outcome: Redefining Success in Cancer Research

At the core of any healthcare or science degree, students learn the importance of numbers. Specifically, “bigger” is often synonymous with “success”. It has been viscerally etched into my brain since ...

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How TF is Christmas crap on the shelves in bloody September??? It's not even (Canadian) Thanksgiving yet, never mind Halloween or Remembrance Day. They must be REALLY desperate and trying to get their crap on the shelves before diesel goes even higher, all I can think of.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Guard The Leaf @guardtheleaf.com · 29/09/2026

Canada Needs To Start Watching Who We’re Letting Through The Back Door BRING THIS UP WITH YOUR MP AND LOCAL MEDIA! I left email contacts for all major canadian media in the article #elbowsup #boycottusa #canadastrong #CanadaSky #never51state #political www.guardtheleaf.com/p/canada-nee...

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Canada Needs To Start Watching Who We’re Letting Through The Back Door

From Kristi Noem at a Canadian mining company to a Don Jr. connected investor in Draganfly, Canadians need to start asking who we’re letting into our strategic industries.

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Facial recognition is everywhere. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students modded did that. @josephcox.bsky.social spoke to NYT journalist and author @kashhill.bsky.social about what that means for us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFn...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026

404 Media's @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social wanted to know why Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music pages of dead musicians and indie artists were publishing AI slop music. So, he tried it out himself on a band's official page. It was horrifyingly easy. Watch more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI3...

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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026

The statements, taken together, are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they worked, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI3...

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The Kung Fu Hog Master @kungfuhogmaster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Huffy and Piglet 🦔🦔 #Hedgehogs

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AstroBin @astrobin.com · 23/09/2026

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "The Methuselah Nebula" by Gavin Bent, Hunter Outten, Nick Fritz, Nico-RZD, Kaleb Jordan, Christopher Slaten and Bradley Bieri www.astrobin.com/kk97kj/ #astrophotography

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Communications Sustainability @commssustain.nature.com · 23/09/2026

Turning recycled polypropylene back into high-performance plastic is a major barrier to a circular plastics economy. A scalable dual-dynamic vitrimer process strengthens post-consumer polypropylene while keeping it fully recyclable through five recycling cycles. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Dual-dynamic vitrimerization upcycles post-consumer polypropylene into a durable recyclable material - Communications Sustainability

A dual-dynamic vitrimer network enhances yield strength by 24%, increases Young’s modulus by 31%, doubles complex viscosity, and retains performance through five recycling cycles, according to a two-s...

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks for the laugh! How anyone could think this is real past the first glance...

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From earlier: the US won’t let Puerto Rico regulate disinformation during emergencies, a horrifying AI mistaken identity case, Flock’s device security is exciting trash, a fabulous art project about the internet's “Wild West” era, and it's my bday so become a patron! www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...

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Cybersecurity: September 22, 2026 | Threat Model

This week: today is my birthday (and Max cat’s birthday), ShinyHunters hacked the stuffing out of Cl0p and is punishing them in public, the

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Michael J Armstrong @profmjarmstrong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

U.S. diesel fuel prices rose 65% between 23 Feb and 14 Sep 2026. ⛽🚚

This time series plot illustrates the weekly average number 2 diesel price in the United States from 2020 to 2026. It also highlights when Russia invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022, and when the USA and Israel attacked Iran in Feb 2026.

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A lot of updates to the boycott guide with the new ones listed first. Remember, it’s not about being perfect. It’s about making the right choice when we have a choice. psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...

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Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace

Updated 3/28/2026 (Image is recycled AI. The damage was already done by someone else)

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your wearable or mattress sensor is giving you your HRV and a "Readiness" score every day? What are these metrics and do they have value? erictopol.substack.com/p/the-big-ho...

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The Big Holes in Wearable Heart Rate Variability And Readiness Scores

A Gaping Lack of Evidence for Health Benefits

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19/09/2026

US journalists know that he's lying. Because he has lied every time before, and they know this.🤷🏿‍♂️ Just like US journalists know that the police are lying after an incident. Because the first thing the police say after an incident is always a lie, and they know this too. They pretend not to know. 🤡

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🇨🇦 Canada’s Gen. Jennie Carignan faces Germany’s Gen. Carsten Breuer today for chair of NATO’s Military Committee. If elected, she would become the first woman to hold the position and step down as Canada’s defence chief. History could be made today. 🇨🇦 🔗 Source: toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/19/n...

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NATO defence chiefs to decide whether to tap Gen. Carignan for senior NATO post

OTTAWA — NATO chiefs of defence are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, today to choose the next chair of the alliance's military committee, and Canada's top military commander is in the running.

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San Jose Astronomical Association @sjastronomy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🌙 Tomorrow is International Observe the Moon Night! On Sept. 19, join people around the world in celebrating our nearest celestial neighbor. No telescope required. Just step outside and look up! 🔭 🧪

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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK 🧪🌊🌎🦑

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🧪 Preparing students to work on a project on the #DairyBush this fall (a natural woodlot on the #Guelph campus) and want introduce them (& you) to this sugar maple that is estimated to have germinated in 1785. This 241 year old 🍁 (older than 🇨🇦 , than lithography, than …) is part of your campus.

Image looking up the trunk into the canopy of a sugar maple that germinated in the UofG Dairy Bush in 1785

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The Kung Fu Hog Master @kungfuhogmaster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The straw thief strikes again... 😂💗🦔 #Hedgehogs

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tech note: First I had to figure out where to raise the context length from the default (4096) to something more useful (262144). This is the number of tokens the LLM can hold in memory.

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But in the end I got a .py script that I can run whenever I want, with several command-line options like raising the LLM timeout value, how many days of data, and a couple of Ollama options for a different model etc. It all runs locally on my PC, obv except for the DB query. Fun and useful!

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I started by asking the LLM to retrieve the data and format it into a .txt report. Once it had that right after several tries, I asked it create a Python app that I could run from the bash command line, that called Ollama as needed to process the data. This part took over 2 hrs from that 1 prompt.

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What I wanted: something to retrieve local crime stats from the local police public DB of reports and format it, running Ollama locally. My system: Pop! OS Linux (Ubuntu based), Core I7-14700KF, 32Gb, RTX 4060, Ollama running ornith-1.5:9b (Qwen based), and KIT as the interface.

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thought this might be interesting to those who wonder what an "ordinary person" could use AI for. My background: I used to code, but it's been a few years; I now do the security requirements and control sets for my org's use of cloud products. The idea and the DB URL came from @ddgumgum.com .

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Overdue, adding Lowe’s later today.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/09/2026

A 40-year-old kernel bug got discovered while on stage at DEF CON and the writeup is glorious

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How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?

A 40-year-old kernel bug discovered on the DEFCON 34 main stage.

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For alternatives, Skechers is a great one. psychopete1.substack.com/p/boycott-di...

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Boycott Dispatch: Adidas

They almost had me going there for a minute.

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also Allbirds allbirds.ca well-made and sustainable. I have the Dasher Mizzle running shoe from 3 years ago and they're still going strong, though I only wear them for workout runs / rucks.

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Allbirds Canada | Comfortable, Sustainable Shoes & Apparel dsfvbdfvbv

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!

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Cynthia / Estienne @cynthb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An excellent critical look at claims that AI will cause a human extinction event in the next decade, and what is being overshadowed by the hype, by House of El. El has a Ph.D. in computer science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPf8...

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The Biggest AI Fraud Is the One Nobody Is Investigating

YouTube video by House of El: AI

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