iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Omg what?!?!? how do you ascertain whether you are in one type of place or the other, it is news to me that this is different in different places

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is there some kind of universal bus driver language that i didn't learn in school bc i am so tired of buses driving right past me when i'm clearly waiting at a stop and this happens to me literally everywhere (hello from canada where the airport bus drove right past me and my bags at the first stop)

even more so in youth organizing where folks are in the rigid phase of their political development. lately i'm feeling like people i consider "on my side" don't consider me and people like me on their side, which is a weird grief to have after being in and out of movement organizing for 10 years

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and not always, but often, it is people with lots of privilege that can afford to withdraw into the comfort of their like-minded bubble instead of working across disagreement to politicize / radicalize / actually get something done

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

as a child of the social media left it is really obvious to me how we exported what should have been Social Media rules (pressure, block, deplatform public figures with whom you cannot have good faith conversation) into our personal lives (going no contact with your family who voted Trump)

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remember 15 years ago when if you talked about climate adaptation you would get cancelled because you were assuming climate change was inevitable and that was giving in to big oil's narrative? anyway just thinking about that for no reason

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it pisses me off when niche inter-community conflicts and conversations become viral and multiply marginalized people are exposed to public ridicule from a hostile public and in a deepening fascist social climate

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

gosh her original essay was so transformative for how i think about my own class privilege, and this followup feels like it mirrors the longer arc of how we're understanding race and class on the left. "in a nation of racism and riches, there is no absolution here."

emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

EAs 🤝 right wing radio guys always asking for money to save the unborn children

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i find all the effective altruism is a sex cult stuff offensive mainly because it implies that i've been hanging out with a bunch of sex cultists for years and no one thought to invite me to the cult

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I really want people to think more like organizers. I'm seeing endless debate, and more than a little conspiracy theorizing, about the motivations behind the big companies' warnings about the danger of AI. And almost no discussion about how we seize this moment to demand the policies we want.

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TSA agent Kang asked me to confirm that i am over 12 years old, asian on asian crime

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is this really the same bsky dot app that got flak for having too many furries? have we forgotten our origins??

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probably we'd all be better off if the AI labs had the same commitment to transparency, guardrails, and community participation as an aella gangbang, that's not the problem here

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yeah not loving what feels like essentially "point and gawk at people for being poly" energy on my feed at the same time as "don't make fun of ed sheeran for being a redhead"

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i think a lot about the fossil fuel divestment group at my college, on the back of their shirts was the IPCC scenarios graph

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

to be honest I thought discourse on here had evolved beyond shaming people for like, the concept of having sex with other consenting adults, but apparently not

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I don’t have the background to describe what effective government regulation of AI would look like except to say that it should be a felony to remind me of the Aella sankey chart

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

oh yes to be clear he's still a piece of shit, I'm just so fascinated by the political opening the AI threat is creating and who's going to be ready to actually move in it

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you will genuinely never guess who wrote these absolute bars about AI and the tech elite

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

pumpkin spiced liberation would be like the younger leftier cousin of red wine and blue

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Behind closed doors, Newsom is negotiating with investor-owned utilities to help limit their liability for the wildfires they cause, while capping how much local govs and victims can recover. This needs to be subject to public scrutiny and input. www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/22/p...

pressdemocrat.com

PD Editorial: Newsom puts utilities ahead of wildfire victims

Governor Gavin Newsom believe utilities are asked to shoulder too much after a wildfire. It is an outrageous conclusion that insults every Californian who has watched a utility-sparked fire consume a ...

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ooh May through August, we have 12 days!!!

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ohhh yeah I see what you mean - I'm not a huge seltzer aficionado, just a lychee one, so I had the opposite reaction I think

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I mean in the meantime, Climeworks emailed me saying my modest lil DAC purchases from 2021 are going to be delayed to 2032-2035 or replaced with biochar and mineralization, so...

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

wait i'm surprised by your reaction to the flavor!! do you normally like lychee? to me it tastes exactly like i expect lychee flavored things to taste, and i grew up having canned lychee as a regular dessert and drinking lychee jelly drinks

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it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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oh yeah i'd believe that

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honestly I didn't even think about the carbon accounting of it all but at this point it's sort of refreshing (ha) to have a product NOT making carbon accounting claims

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good context thread bsky.app/profile/wait...

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the website is upfront that carbonation is usually fossil fuel refining offtake anyway - so replacing your la croix with this prolly has 0 impact even if we assume perfect net-zero DAC production, but hey it could be marginally decreasing the profits that fossil fuel companies make from byproducts

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not an expert but yeah I think of this kind of thing not as a carbon offset, but as a tool to build awareness + support R&D + long-shot, proving demand in a possible utilization market if I'm gonna buy fun little drinks anyway, I'll spend a bit more to signal to The Market that I like CDR

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A new lychee-flavored sparkling water, carbonated with CO2 pulled directly from the air.

7 years after I first learned about CDR, back when Climeworks was saying they might sell me a soda or a rock... I finally have my deepest wish... a direct-to-consumer DAC carbonated beverage www.drinkmisan.com

drinkmisan.com

DRINK MISAN

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Björn Jóhann @bjornjohann.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

AI doesn't use very much water. Don't believe viral memes that lack citations. You know what DOES use a ton of water? Factory farms.

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Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com · 23/07/2026

In our latest newsletter is our 2026 summer fellows! They are both brilliant but it was hard to choose: the interest in our fellowship was overwhelming. We blew through our budget for the program but that’s okay! donorbox.org/lpl-summer-f...

Two photos of our research fellows including Aicha who loves Pokémon and cooking. They are investigating the criminalization of sex workers.

Li is an artist who likes cats and is investigating the late night releases from jail.

A link to the LPL summer fellow finds and a screencap that says “you gotta give”

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

uh now that ive written it down i think this might also be Neurodivergence

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

the problem with being a nerd about organizing skills is that I'm so annoying to anyone who tries to organize me. you didn't make a direct 1:1 leadership escalation ask that names my self-interest and a clear next step? sorry it's gonna be a no from me dawg