iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 3h

this is excellent and also now I want tiramisu

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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 22h

2370/XXXXX <------ final day, still under 25% of XXXXX. Help me thrive and survive.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h

voters should be doing shit to tech companies that republicans try to do to the post office

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5h

google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 3h

ughhhh an AI-booster coworker at my theater company just posted an unsolicited AI-generated 'show poster' on slack. It features the names and faces of two other coworkers, playing an elephant and "piggie." It is not connected to any show we're doing, it does not have any purpose whatsoever. WHYYYY

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 7h

I was telling my students the other day how this was a landmark moment for me as a kid. It’s the first thing that really got me heated about politics, and was followed by my participation in the anti-war protests. Many of them didn’t know what I was talking about.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10h

I much prefer the historically accurate version where the British conquered the world for spices and still couldnt use any of them until the people they stole the spices from went there to show them how to use pepper

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 7h

nbd just crying about bears at 7am

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 8h

it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 7h

Thats definitely a kookaburra, but i can 100% see the goat face too, that's great shit

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/09/2026

The jigsaw puzzles got me aftermath.site/jigsaw-puzzles...

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.

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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields

Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again surprised by a Buoy charge, once again writing them a frustrated email asking why (the actual fuck) they do not allow subscription customers to opt into shipment reminders. The option exists for new subscribers, so why on earth can't it be opt-in for everyone?

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feel like the wealthiest man in human history seething with rage because he's not allowed to say the n-word should really be the final argument against the idea we have a rational economic system or material based politics.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“His comments are in line with what I hear from the vast majority of people on the IT implementation side: The problem is the controls and restrictions put in place on this powerful technology, not that agents are independently acting to violate instruction.”

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

well this is fucking maddening

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again, don’t let the abstract fear-mongering about future AI distract from the destructive and deadly things already happening.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What AI is doing to the already rapacious and deadly American healthcare system is truly dark. bsky.app/profile/70sb...

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Rabbi Ariel Stone @rabbiariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food.”

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Bea Eli 🏳️‍⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A LITERAL EMERGENCY PLEASE HELP BEX!!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s like shouting “you do you!” At Sisyphus while kicking his rock back down to the bottom.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

and because The Internet, i don’t meant to say these things are literally in opposition but rather that i fear the camaraderie, the positive impacts clean air spaces can foster will seemingly never wet the media’s palate in the way conflicts inherent to community building will and that sucks

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This this this this this!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you think maskers are a bigger problem for the left than perpetuating propaganda to avoid taking any kind of L, we are in real trouble.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There’s an old maxim about knowing someone’s character by how they treat waiters. Let’s also say you can know it by who they deem worthy of an apology.

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still remember in grad school when I asked a workshop instructor how to handle potential discrimination during the interview/hiring process (in my case as a disabled person) and he blue-screened before landing on “well it’s going to happen, so your call if you decide to lose the job by caring.”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are any number of facile quips you can make about archvillain and wannabe-Thanos Peter Thiel, but this violent and cruel philosophy is not uncommon in SV: that you cannot be competent/successful without hurting and destroying people. See ‘move fast and break things.’

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/09/2026

It is the duty of the extremely online to send this to your friends, relatives, or colleagues who own portable generators.

Three geese flying with carbon monoxide alarms on their backs. The geese are flying through an intense blizzard over the US. The geese are wearing wool hats with pom poms on top. They are not afraid. The text reads: Carbon monoxide safety geese brigade. Ever loud! Every lifesaving! Ever bird! Make sure your carbon monoxide alarms are working. Keep your portable generator outdoors and 20 feet away from your home!

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laura c @elmcee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was even more grim than I expected.

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Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge @riceboilsover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The article was the bait. The response is the problem. And it turns out a distressing number of otherwise apparently reasonable people have some deeply held eugenicist views and it's gross.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/09/2026

If you own 20+ flashlights, at a certain point you're probably running an unregistered lighthouse but we're not the lighthouse safety commission so keep up the good work.

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Aurelia 🍊 @aureliaorange.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is all obvious to anyone even half awake. Frustrating to see so many people still asleep at the wheel on right wing culture war shit.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Eugenics=white supremacy + ableism That may feel obvious, but we need to understand that within those who talk about better humans is someone who believes in the inherent superiority of whiteness in learning, thinking & behavior. They've now captured the government & tech to institute their beliefs

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good job everyone! Shared ableist values with the Right! Congratulations! bsky.app/profile/chan...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So many people are blocking me right now. People hate having their ableism held up in front of them. I haven’t said anything other than be more empathetic to the disabled and chronically ill. I desperately wish people understood the hostility we get from all of society, including “allies.”

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

keeping kids safe from infection should matter to you, thus the tools that achieve this—from vaccines to air cleaning tech—should also matter. if you care about vaccines, fight for them; in the meantime, mask up, open a window, & crank up those air purifiers—the virus doesn’t care about bureaucracy.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everyone in #NYC should rush to get boosted and mask up. There are sloppy anonymous and international disinformation accounts pushing mass infection in NYC. Protect your heart, your brain, and your livelihood. Get boosted ASAP. 💉💪😷

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 22/09/2026

I hate AI! You hate AI! We all hate AI! Join The Flytrap as a paid member TODAY and get 40% off three weekly installments of 100% human-made feminist media! f.mtr.cool/huvnxpafvj

In the background, there's lettering that says FUCK AI! In a browser window it says SUPPORT HUMAN-MADE FEMINIST CULTURAL CRITICISM! On the right bottom corner, there's a venus flytrap wearing sunglasses.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

just want to say that when a politician campaigns on/publicly states transphobic positions it will actually be reflected in policy and is not some sort of 4d chess electoral rhetoric move

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colin feral @sal.gay · 22/09/2026

"Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, the lead sponsor of the bill, noted 18 governors have 'signed identical provisions into law without fanfare'" WITHOUT FANFARE NEWSOM YOU WEASEL www.ebar.com/story/170505

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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care

Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

insulin should be free for anyone who needs it. is 2026 ffs

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