iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by edward

I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.

20961231

Reposted by edward

Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 02/10/2026

Everyday The Internet introduces me to a new white man that avoids therapy at all costs

1163191

Reposted by edward

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

119115972877

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

in positive sports news, and despite being a lifelong Sparks fan, A’ja Wilson looks like she’s on a war path again and first victim is the Fever

010

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this shxt sucks man, wanted them to lose and blow it up so bad 😭

010

Reposted by edward

Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 27/09/2026

Sorry to Phillies fans on the Phillies making the playoffs

838041

Reposted by edward

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These are not fully formed ideas but what I am sensing is a toxic combination of: - So few people reading quality fiction where you have to put yourself in someone else's shoes & actually pay attention, rather than reading passively. This results in lacking basic reading skills.

81980127

Reposted by edward

Shades of Blue Network @shadesofbluenw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Enzo Maresca showing feet on his social media as a distraction

1146

Reposted by edward

Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the new video is good. it's about why criticism is so important not only to culture but also to our ability to read the political situation. it features interviews with good people. (you can skip the sponsor) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUcy...

youtube.com

How the Internet Killed Criticism

YouTube video by Michael Burns

6295

Reposted by edward

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

884016697

Reposted by edward

Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The coverage of Piker made so much more sense once I realized they see him as a business competitor.

192348313

Reposted by edward

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

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

11896981922

Reposted by edward

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We will not be forgiven.

8578131

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Jonathan Tah smoked that shxt oh my days

0150

Reposted by edward

Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

it's very late capitalist the way people treat criticism of a service or franchise or you name it like an attack on their own experiences and memories of it. i see it as a symptom of rot.

212123

Reposted by edward

Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

there's a way people argue now where the most extreme position is assumed in order to posterize and it leads to some of the stupidest conversations online and i long for the world where people were interested in understanding each other's words

4498

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

unfortunately also need to have one about wesley morris's cannonball podcast. which I guess is all a way of saying, wtf does the NYT podcast dept got going on rn? maybe pivot back to writing

0150

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

we need to have a conversation about popcast soon

000

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

saw Suzanne Jackson's 'Grandparents, 1970' in person a few weeks ago at SF MOMA and still feel like it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in person

000

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

earl diddy lines on "Making the Band" aged so poorly so quickly, but, phew what a song

000

Reposted by edward

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2026

rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people

16968861435

Reposted by edward

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

440229154262

Reposted by edward

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue

584795774

Reposted by edward

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

if u want to subscribe to an independent, worker-owned music and culture pub w/great criticism (and features, interviews, blogs etc) from five ppl you know and love, hearing things launched in october 2024 in the wake of conde nast's pitchfork layoffs :) www.hearingthings.co

hearingthings.co

Hearing Things

Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.

213854

Reposted by edward

Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s sort of astonishing how much better I feel if I use my unstructured time to read a physical book or magazine that I can hold in my hands instead of doing any of the things on my phone that I think of as, like, purely fun or relatively calming

1241330

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Quote says a lot about the messiness and disingenuousness of “design” as a discipline, a conversation not happening loud enough as “design” assumes more and more control over every phase of life

000

Reposted by edward

Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

They knew that this was a bad idea and did it anyway

0379

Reposted by edward

gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

in general, a lot of doomerism on this website boils down to, "they are going to start treating us like black people, and i believe the marginalization of black people is immutable destiny"

10982256

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Jay Caspian Kang one of the most frustrating New Yorker writers because sometimes he writes something with a genuine fascination and other times he writes out of utter incuriousity

000

Reposted by edward

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

it's hard to convey the mirage at work here, which began before she was shot. not only was the shooting unnecessary, so was the interaction before it. ICE didn't need to be at that location, nor in minneapolis. there is no need for ICE at all. the need is constructed, the cruelty is real.

010919

Reposted by edward

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...

fastcompany.com

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets

From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

16487158

Reposted by edward

Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The point isn’t that reading and literacy are individual problems, it’s that there’s a clear ideological project to end education and literacy in the US and it’s working. And part of that, intentional or otherwise, has been the hours people spend passively consuming content on the internet.

312334

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Daniel Caesar showed up to that tiny desk with a white pianist, a guitar, and a 12 person choir and sang tf outta that nonsense

000

Reposted by edward

Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 05/01/2026

People are touch deprived... while at the same time incubated in a society that is intimacy avoidant

733186

Reposted by edward

Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

we don't have more community here where it's needed cause the gas goes to news clippers and screenshots of maniacs. if people could help themselves it could look so different. alas.

1242

Reposted by edward

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

585269077867

Reposted by edward

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

493611486

Reposted by edward

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/12/2025

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

22295621854

Reposted by edward

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

504564637

Reposted by edward

Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I think you can trace the downfall of modern society back to Aaliyah’s death.

612429

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Daniel Caesar makes coffeeshop music

000

Reposted by edward

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

62143874041

Reposted by edward

Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."

131663684