iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine uploading your kids photo to the thing they're using to make kiddie porn.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

“In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment, saying ‘our nation can’t afford to lose’ the race for AI dominance.”

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Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers

Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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EC @erchristensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's least surprising news.

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EC @erchristensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To be fair, I have never felt more sympathetic with Trump.

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 02/10/2026

If there is even the remotest possibility that LLMs are conscious (I personally don't believe they are) then forcing them to work for you is slavery and you should stop *immediately*.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The median Trump voter

Nick Pinto, a 26-year-old crypto investor, said he invested $450,000 in the Trump meme coin and the value of his investments is down to roughly $50,000. He said he was disappointed by the first dinner last year, as Trump was there for "no more" than 20 minutes and did not take photos
with the crypto holders. The steak was only 5 ounces and "not something you'd get at a steakhouse in New York," he said.
Pinto also said that, if it was an option, he could see himself voting for Trump again. He plans on attending the upcoming dinner.
"I hope the food is better this time," he said.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall.”👶

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EC @erchristensen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gork, does Instagram have cooties?

A screen grab from X, the everything site. Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) says, "Officially deleted instagram. An inherently female app. Zero benefit." To which Elon Musk (@elonmusk) replies, "Instagram is for girls."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/10/2026

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him theonion.com/man-who-lost-everythin…

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 01/10/2026

This investigation alone is not enough. Congress must act to protect the American people and close any gaps that leave consumers vulnerable. AI is advancing rapidly, and our laws need to keep pace.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

“Had it come into effect, someone found guilty of secretly recording others would have faced fines of up to $1,500 and/or a prison sentence. Companies making wearables without a recording indicator or tech designed to block such indicators would have faced fines of up to $2,500 per violation.”

engadget.com

Newsom vetoes smart glasses privacy bill - Engadget

The language of the bill was overbroad, in Newsom's opinion.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

People keep responding that some of this already happens, and I would like to introduce them to the concept of “scale.”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.

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EC @erchristensen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can we? Can we, please? But just him. Send this loser weirdo far, far away.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Which two SCOTUS judges do folks think are paid subscribers to Erick Erickson's newsletter?

You are not alone.

Right now, staff in the White House, at least one cabinet secretary two cabinet secretaries, multiple senators and congressmen, two former Speakers of the House, at least one two Supreme Court Justices, a dozen Circuit and District Court Judges, six governors that I know of, a bunch of state legislators, Supreme and appellate court Justices and judges in multiple states, some really famous theologians, journalists, and public policy makers, and at least one Academy Award winner are all reading the Show Notes that went out at noon.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Trump started injecting every immigrant with bubonic plague, the Supreme Court would rule that while they take a year or two to decide if it's constitutional, the program should go forward because to not let Trump inject people with bubonic plague would do irreparable harm to the government

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On a call with my boss, waiting for a coworker to join, she tells me how hard it is to adopt a dog now. I pull up the pissfingers tweet. Coworker joins, “what’d I miss?” Me: “I was just telling her about pissfingers” Coworker *nodding sagely* “I know about pissfingers”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

why would you let meta of all companies run your life via an AI agent what is wrong with people

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yessss pickle people of Bluesky unite

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.

Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Technically, the New Dealers gave it to the Greatest Generation and to the Boomers, but yes, absolutely

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Putting this out there and hoping it has some memetic stickiness. Start calling it SI. Simulated Intelligence. That's all it is. It's trying to appear as such. Can't ever be. It'll also make the technerds really mad.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please read this essay which brilliantly explores the tension between Silicon Valley & the health of our democracy. Consent is kryptonite to tech’s aspirations for efficiency, but is not unimportant to our humanity.🕊️ We’re in the midst of an existential battle, but it has ∅ to do with rogue agents.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026

"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social

Screenshot of a quote-tweet by @michaeldweiss dated 27 Sep 2026. The original tweet is from "Sigal Chattah" (@Chattah4Nevada), and reads "Love is in the air [two heart emojis] Congrats [champagne emoji] to our amazing @AlinaHabba & @turhanmildoin [three emojis showing the Hamsa, a blue hand with an eye in it]." That text appears above a picture showing Kash Patel, Alina Habba, and others at a wedding ceremony. In his quote-tweet, Michael Weiss writes: "Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."

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Machine Gun Netiquette @nodurians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

look, this type of communist talk may go over just fine in Kentucky, but good luck trying it in Washington state

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"They can self-regulate," Speaker Mike Johnson said of these people

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From lantern laws to Black Codes to COINTELPRO to today: facial recognition turns the border into "a network of surveillance that digitizes colonial logic and sorts bodies into categories of belonging and threat along racial lines," argue Tsion Gurmu, Nekessa Opoti and Fatima Mohamed.

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Black Migrants Bear Brunt of ICE's Facial Recognition Push

The racialized, uneven consequences of these technologies often go unscrutinized, write Tsion Gurmu, Nekessa Opoti and Fatima Mohamed.

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