iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...

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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch

Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And, there’s this whole other component of the problem: there is literally NO reception infrastructure here in Cap Haitien. Unless there are relatives to pick people up. Just taken from airport, to police station, and dropped on the street. In their ICE sweatpants and no shoe laces.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026

Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

“‘Mark, we have two minutes left. I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming,’ the publicist said.”

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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

“I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future,” the publicist said.

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Μαρια Κιτρινη @greekheanen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I talked to some kids about encyclopedias and they thought I was having a stroke

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No War But Class War @deliberatelyobtuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peaky Blindside over here

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

some pilots are part of the furry community

An illustration of the Ralph Lauren Polo bear dressed up as a pilot and standing in front of a red airplane. The text says "Polo Aviator by Ralph Lauren."

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

We can rein in generative AI, the companies behind it, and the harms it causes. But that requires actually wanting to understand the impacts it’s having today, not allowing ourselves to be led astray by people who benefit from lying to us and disrupting regulation. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha...

All those harms are not nearly as simple of a story nor one as sensational as telling people that AI might kill us all in ten years or so. But it’s irresponsible not to be focusing on it more because those are all the ways AI is really harming people today, and how they’ll continue to well into the future if AI companies and the executives that lead them are not brought to heel as soon as possible.

Generative AI and the harms it causes are not inevitable. AI superintelligence is nothing more than a science fiction story that increasingly delusional and disconnected tech people are telling themselves. We can act to rein in the real harms of AI today, but that means not falling for the targeted deception of an industry trying to avoid regulation and finally holding them accountable for the widespread consequences we’ve all had to shoulder in their pursuit of power and profit.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

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DumpTruck 🍑 Decider Alice @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online · 20/09/2026

KILLLLLLL MEEEEEEEEEE WHYYYYYY BIRDS WHYYYYYY

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I get that people are afraid dems will lose but what use are politicians that wont stand up for marginalized people _specifically in this moment_. The scale of what needs to be done requires people with courage not just another spineless politicians. We have hundreds of those right now. To what use?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ask yourselves why people want panic for you and power for themselves. Who does that serve?

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026

As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every democratic candidate deciding to moderate on a social issue to 'take it off the table'

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Defector @defector.com · 14/09/2026

The Jets may want to reconsider being "AI-first." defector.com/the-jets-may...

An AI-generated map of the united states that has incorrect borders and puts Detroit in Canada.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Amodei writes "A race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives, can make these risks more acute." Yep, absolutely. Nothing about the AI future is inevitable. Unregulated Tech companies racing to attract investors+win market share is a recipe for disaster. Also... uh, Dario? This is you:

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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

"The United States registered the largest absolute rise worldwide, increasing emissions by +2.2% compared to 2024. For the first time, China and India maintained or reduced their emissions (+0.1% and -0.2%)" We're on track to exceed 2°C globally. joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

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Six of the 16 major emitters reduced their emissions in 2025

Nevertheless, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reached a record high.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In 2023, I nearly died when an ectopic pregnancy burst, taking out a corner of my uterus and one ovary with it. I bled 2 liters out internally, and the whole time kept asking am I dying because it FELT like I was dying bc I WAS. It was excruciatingly painful. That's how these people are dying.

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/09/2026

It is cool to know what someone will be looking at when they run me over in the crosswalk

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/09/2026

The slop factory is now claiming to have invented iterative, abductive research design… 20th century ethnography would like a word, sir.

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Anthropic coined a new research term: "self healing studies."
Historically, it was hard to adapt research studies after they launch. The researcher writes the study guide, the interviews run, and if users raise something new along the way, it has to wait for the next study.
In a "self healing study", there is a continuous feedback loop between interviews and the study guide. Each round of interviews identifies new topics, they are added to the guide, and the next interviews explore them.
Nothing waits for a follow-up study - the guide keeps evolving with the study.
And the researcher sits above all of it as the guardrails.
The study proposes additional topics, and the researcher uses their judgment to decide which ones deserve exploring.
The term comes from Jane Justice Leibrock's team at Anthropic, from their churn interviews on Claude Code.
Before we even had an MCP, Anthropic built its own plugin to run Listen studies because they wanted them running around the clock.
That's the future of research.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You just know the lawyer who drafted this complaint is a massive Star Trek nerd.

INTRODUCTION
The Borg are one of science fiction's most terrifying villains, representing the ultimate violation of individual identity and autonomy. A vast cybernetic Collective, the Borg travel the
galaxy seeking out new civilizations to assimilate. In order to forcibly absorb their victims into the Collective's shared hive mind, the Borg physically restructure them at a cellular level until
each individual's identity is consumed. The Borg's chilling catchphrase captures it plainly: "We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.
Resistance is futile. " Autonomy is consumed and repurposed in the service of a cold machine intelligence that feels nothing for what it has taken. In one memorable scene, the beloved Captain Jean-Luc Picard is captured by the Borg and remade as a machine version of himself-— recognizable, but also wrong, Captain Picard was deployed to the Borg's purpose.?l

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

(whispering) you don’t have to comply, you’re a $4 trillion corporation in a capitalist society

Markets Do Not Punish Firms for Maintaining DEI*
Hanna Folsz
Jacob M. Grumbach*
August 14, 2026
Abstract
The Trump administration has used executive authority to influence the behavior of civil society organizations such as law firms, universities, and corporations.
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some firms complied with the order, whereas other firms resisted by reaffirming their DEl programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as compliant firms, both in terms of stock market returns and revenue. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including measures based on executives' public statements about DEI programs, interest group ratings, firm financial statements, and shareholder rejections of anti-DEl resolutions. The results suggest that, at least in some areas, firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with minimal costs to financial performance.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...

Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/08/2026

went for a long walk and now i don’t know what everyone is talking about. learning an important lesson: never stop looking at the computer

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/08/2026

Bloomberg just estimated that planned data centre gas plants will increase US power emissions by 20%. For some perspective: by my calcs, that is the same as the UK's entire economy-wide 2025 emissions.

Bar chart comparing annual country CO2 emissions (gray bars) to emissions from proposed gas-powered data centres (purple), highlighting that planned gas data centres would produce roughly the same emissions as the entire United Kingdom.

Ninety-nine proposed plants tracked by BloombergNEF would emit about 318 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually if run at industry-standard rates, according to a Bloomberg News analysis. The entire US electric power industry emitted about 1,485 million metric tons of carbon last year, according to Energy Information Administration data, meaning one slice of data center infrastructure has the potential to lift US power sector emissions by 20%, and as much as a third should the new plants run flat out.
The data center building boom has already strained the US electricity system, prompting reliability concerns and moratoriums on new project approvals. With even greenlit facilities facing yearslong delays connecting to regulated electricity grids, data center developers are seeking alternatives. These include so-called behind-the-meter projects that can be permitted and built without the approval of utilities or the independent system operators charged with ensuring grid reliabilit

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/08/2026

Published estimates of AI energy use per prompt (~0.3 watt-hours) appear reassuring small. But they are increasingly disconnected from how we actually use AI. Modern agentic tools use around 600 times more energy per prompt, as I discuss in my latest over at The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2024

…"AI" companies, like most other corporations, absolutely could protect your rights, and treat you with dignity and respect. They just don't think it's worth it. bsky.app/profile/wolv...

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

AI is not just consuming a lot of fossil fuels. It it also enabling the fossil fuel industry to drill more, faster. These applications create far more climate pollution than data centers — 3.3x to 13.3x more, according to new peer-reviewed research. We *have* to start talking about this.

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AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought

A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipse Totality hits Spain! #SolarEclipse

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