iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Similar to how Gully Foyle gains the ability to stride across the stars and travel through time in Bester’s seminal “The Pep My Destination” (“Peppyr, Peppyr” in the UK)

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to get back to believing that people are essentially good and can do amazing things. I don't care if that makes me sound like a deluded hippie or whatever, it's what needs to happen. The endless security theater and paranoia of the 21st century is also hurting all of us. It fucking sucks

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pick a dark night this month and watch this at 1:00 AM with headphones. Stick with it until the last 1/3 kicks off, trust me. archive.org/details/foes... (Thx to @bakoon.bsky.social for introducing this to me a couple of years ago.)

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Foes (1977) (directors cut)

FOES 1977 directors cut reconstructed by Kelly Cult

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey did you know David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) and the Kadane brothers (Bedhead/The New Year) 13 years ago released a criminally underrated album together as Overseas? overseas.bandcamp.com/album/overseas

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Overseas, by Overseas

10 track album

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 24/09/2026

i'm the guy at twitch who says we should ban these guys without telling them why, but keep the guys who call for genocide and the 600,000 accounts that just show family guy episodes all day. i make $800k a year and my family loves me

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s a new Morphine song in 2026 with a full album in December? WHAT youtu.be/UqIfuVG4xUo?...

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Morphine - Cocoon (Official Music Video)

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trans youth have been thrown to the wolves, even in the bluest of blue cities and states. They deserve (and *require*) so much better than this.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tried something new today: I bought comp books & pens for all my students in my upper div. class. I gave them 15min after each film to just journal about what they saw - it didn't necessarily have to be about the film so long as it addressed memories/emotions evoked by the film. No phones. Physical.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

yes of course talarico would be better for america and texas if he is in the senate. but that doesnt make what he said okay.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is the plot of Iran-Contra

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Average Joe @socialjoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In network security we've been dealing with the sort of thing the HuggingFace incident represents for decades, from script kiddies to exploit toolkits, and so on. It's an escalation in hacking tools, not a machine with consciousness or free will.

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh man I hope you’re getting one or more of the Podcast: The Ride hosts on for this ep. Scott Gairdner had a rotten time at Elitch lol.

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The drum roll into the thunderous exclamation point of the snare POP before all hell breaks loose in “Something Against You” by Pixies. It’s unsafe for me to be behind the wheel and listen to this. Drums have never sounded better than they do on Surfer Rosa.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Current day Ringo post: peace & love to me fans ✌️✌️✌️ Current Paul post: Just petted dog! Hypothetical George post: heard a new album, give it a listen Hypothetical John Lennon post: Come to “Cancel Me if You Can Fest” all funds raised benefit the Ricky Gervais cartoon where cats say the word slag

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is their plot to steal the election, steal our country and then enslave our people.

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Gerard Cosloy @gerardcosloy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

deepest condolences to all family, friends and musical co-conspirators of Half Japanese’s David Fair

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Enough! K’ul Wahad! No middle aged construction worker ever withstood so much! You may remove your hand from the fork, young human.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/08/2026

it should have been illegal for dolly parton to die

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I want them to have a show where they just do this

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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

repulsive.

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I used to blast this cassette on heavy rotation on the way to school the year it came out.

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 13/08/2026

i love when a very stupid guy tries to "tell it how it is" and ends up saying something both reprehensible and moronic. yeah you got us good

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

As the ongoing, accelerating climate catastrophe really kicks societal collapse into gear in about 10-15 years, I hope the ragtag survivors will still have records of those most responsible for stopping our last chances to avert doom. We’re going to be a blip in the fossil record because of them.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the “dobby’s grave” landmark is just a small dead guy who died on the beach a few days ago. he’s not even buried, someone just saw him and said “that’s dobby” and everyone started piling harry potter merch on him. a sad end for lindsey graham

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/08/2026

Unclear when "centrists" will ever learn that a Democrat who supports Republican bullshit will never peel off votes from an actual Republican.

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Also, I saw this in the original theatrical run, and experiencing the pink room sequence for the first time in that setting on a huge sound system made my have an out of body experience. It doesn’t quite do that to me anymore, but it’s still overwhelming.

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😱 scare-ick 😱 @ericcalkins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Watched Fire: Walk With Me with other folks on a stream late last night. I think I’ve only seen it a handful of times and it’s been many years, yet every second of it was still etched into my being. Masterpiece.

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Wanna Hear Some Halo Lore? @stefanheck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It’s time to use our stupid ideas for something good

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 04/08/2026

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.

But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

especially coming on the heels of MeToo and with BLM later in the summer. "Things can quickly change across an entire society" was very frightening for them and they expending massive amounts of money and effort to try to prevent it from happening again.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

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