iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sebastian Ullrich @kha.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I just checked, I must have created the Lean Zulip 8 years ago on Feb 26 after we had outgrown Gitter. More than 15,000 other users have since followed. I'm very happy to see them make this step and get Jeremy Avigad and other great people on board.

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Greg Price @gnprice.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Happy we were able to make this happen for Zulip. This also marks a big change for me — excited about the work to be done.

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026

people were rightly scandalized by that a freelancer for the Chicago Sun-Times published a list of non-existent books in their summer reading list, but it's actually much worse to falsely attribute made-up quotes to a political leader in one of the most widely-read papers on the planet.

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.

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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

every time someone like AOC gets elected here you get them being like "yeah I couldn't get an apartment to roommate in in DC until after my salary kicked in" because our system is built to assume a "political outsider with a normal job" is actually a modern feudal lord (car dealership owner)

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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I'm in an US context but this is why it drives me crazy when people are like "we should cut elected office salaries to punish them" when the reality is we desperately need to raise them so that you don't have to already be independently wealthy to get elected

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"A better, quicker path out of this situation? Proving to the plutocrats that they actually are in the same game and bound by the same rules as common people by enacting harsh civil, criminal, and social penalties on those who have orchestrated our present political moment."

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Very cool analysis of the submissions to a major management journal that shows how much the system of science, built for humans, is under strain as a result of AI. AI can be used to do better science or it can be used to just do more stuff. The danger is that "more" is winning due to incentives.

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Zulip organized team chat @zulip.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We're launching this account for Zulip organized team chat. 👋 Learn more at zulip.com, and please follow for updates! #OpenSource #chat

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

hilarious that github is so awful and building your own stuff is so easy that everyone is building their own version of various bits of github. can't help but think they might be in big trouble xcancel.com/JohnPhamous/...

JohnPhamous
@JohnPhamous
we built an internal code review tool

- fast, ssr, no page jank, opportunistic updates
- semantic groups: breaks down a giant diff into logical & ordered groups to review
- marks groups that deserve extra human attention

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Zulip organized team chat @zulip.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Zulip 12.0 was released today! This is a major release, with almost 5,500 new commits: end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configurable image previews, and much more! blog.zulip.com/2026/04/27/z... #opensource #teamchat

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Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 12.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configur...

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

wasn't expecting @evgenymorozov.bsky.social's essay to bear so directly on engineers' political formation. fascinating idea that the culture of discourse in the production of software itself forms tech workers as liberal subjects (like lawyers I suppose) www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

The evidence isn’t merely anecdotal. A comprehensive 2023 study tracking political donations of 200,000 employees across 18 industries revealed tech workers as uniquely anti-establishment—and trailing only the bohemians of arts and entertainment in their liberal fervor. The source of this radicalism lies precisely where Gouldner placed his faith: in what he called the “culture of critical discourse” embedded in technical work itself. Thus, the researchers discovered that non-technical employees within the same tech companies showed none of this rebellious disposition, confirming that coding itself, not mere proximity to ping pong tables, contributes to their dissenting mindset.

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Scrib dooooon @ritatreats.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

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Greg Price @gnprice.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Turns out the "Alligator Alcatraz" nonsense goes much deeper — and more deeply racist — than I'd ever imagined. I appreciated the details and the many primary sources in this piece from last summer by @asherelbein.bsky.social.

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Greg Price @gnprice.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is so good. I hope the nascent genre of Isaac Chotiner fanfic has a glorious future.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 07/12/2025

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss. We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 24/12/2025

The math of DOGE was never remotely feasible and I personally think it's embarrassing we let musk pretend to be an engineer

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/11/2025

I continue to be absolutely staggered that the people of the Bay Area put up with not only the rampant pollution, but the pathetic impotence of local regulators. Maybe the abundance bros are right. Maybe people are fine with their kids going school next to this shit? bsky.app/profile/nied...

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺 25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

“On This Day: A Recount Ends”

NYT front page with Bush’s face with headline showing SCOTUS deciding in favor of him 5-4

“Hanging chads would be counted no more.

On this day in 2000, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that there would be no additional counting of presidential votes in Florida. Thirty-five days after Election Day, the decision effectively handed the presidency to George W. Bush, then the governor of Texas.

The court determined that the Florida Supreme Court’s method for recounting ballots violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and that there wasn’t enough time to establish a new way of counting the votes.”

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/12/2025

given how much cheaper touchscreens are than having to tool and manufacture physical switchgear, the safety data must be really bad for automakers to be voluntarily shifting back to real controls

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/12/2025

it's been really interesting to see cyclists emerge as one of the more pro-AV factions in SF specifically... big disconnect between reality on the street (where cyclists generally notice an improvement over humans) and online vibes (where the worst mistakes are amplified), IMO

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/12/2025

when people hear the word "autonomous" they jump straight to science fiction, but here in reality there isn't a single robot that doesn't require some level of human oversight and maintenance

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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 23/12/2025

ICYMI: In response to our investigation, Instacart is no longer allowing retailers to use its AI tech to charge shoppers different prices for the same groceries at the same time on its platform.

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Instacart Stops Pricing Tests on Its Platform Amid Outrage From Customers - Consumer Reports

Instacart announced it would end AI price experiments at grocery retailers on its platform, prompted by CR’s joint investigation.

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Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Pretty unsurprising. As already said, the weaponisation of "freedom of speech" is part of a larger authoritarian project designed to suppress any forms of independent counter-powers (NGOs, academia, media) and factual criticisms of the current US administration's policies.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

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One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

am not trying to come off as holier than thou but: what are we getting from posting about annoying opinions from the other site? these guys aren’t even here; they won’t see it; everyone you’re addressing here already agrees with you. I just have to see their takes over and over

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Matthieu Guyot @matthieugdsm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

En 2025, "aucune vague de froid n’a été recensée. La dernière remonte à février 2018, rappelle Météo-France (…) Il a fallu attendre la mi-novembre pour voir des gelées généralisées en plaine, soit l’une des dates les plus tardives depuis le début des mesures, en 1947." Les conséquences dans ce fil

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Climat : l’année 2025 parmi les quatre années les plus chaudes jamais enregistrées en France

L’année qui s’achève sera la troisième ou quatrième la plus chaude dans les annales de Météo-France, qui a publié lundi 15 décembre son bilan climatique annuel. Un jour sur deux a été au-dessus des no...

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Glenn André @glennandre.eurosky.social · 15/12/2025

On va vite se dire que les villes des années 80 à 2000 étaient en fait hideuses.

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Spooky Seren S. Pumpkins @silvergoldsea.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The sweeps destroy people’s belongings, deprive them of shelter, make medications and crucial documents disappear. Sweeps do not help anyone — they are cruel and traumatizing. If you don’t want encampments of unhoused people, build safe, permanent housing.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2025

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/3MTlm33

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/11/2025

Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu. Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.

uhero.hawaii.edu

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/11/2025

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

complaining about paywalls when so many journalists are being laid off and there are fewer market incentives to do great reporting and in-depth investigations, data analysis and features is also wild when everyone understands you need to pay for electronics, streaming services, and utilities

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 11/12/2025

Earlier this year, the director of CalTrans presented this chart to members of the state Senate’s Transportation Committee, showing a dramatic rise in deaths on California's roads. No lawmakers asked about the chart. Or what CalTrans was doing about it. 1/9

A bar chart presented by then-CalTrans Director Tony Tavares at the Senate Transportation Committee hearing on March 11, 2025, showing that deaths on California roadways have increased more than 60% since 2010.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The US secretary of defense is taking time out from his attempted sham prosecution of the astronaut senator to condemn Scouting for being too woke www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

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U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'

Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed? They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever! BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it. Snack Stack exclusive:

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In Search of Van Halen's Brown M&Ms

Contract riders and the meaning of a modern pop star

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Look up Gene Weingarten's wapo piece "Fatal Distraction." I can't read it again. Do not get rid of the back seat alarms.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I will take this dumb take as a flimsy springboard to show the absolutely exquisite apple pie that my friend made of me and my husband for our wedding

An absolutely amazing and exquisitely detailed pie of me and my husband on our wedding day

A piece of the apple pie my friend made in the shape of my husband, which I am eating.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Making it impossible for an author to sell their next book doesn’t just kill that book. It makes it far less likely the author will continue writing at all. They have to make a living somehow and they were already earning pennies an hour for their bonkers fragile and emotionally demanding work.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

*endless screaming*

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The typical (and finally, I think, fading) American stereotype of the French as cowardly is utterly incorrect. If anything, historically they have had the opposite problem

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

this is far too common to be dismissed as anecdota tbh. the sheer number of clubs and social groups that couldn't survive remote, or stayed permanently remote, had a huge impact on the social lives of like 100 million americans bsky.app/profile/adis...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/11/2025

There's a reason why major social media platforms, including Twitter pre-Elon, spent time and resources on "countering foreign influence" or "coordinated inauthentic behavior." But then Tai bi, Shellenberger, Weiss, Benz, and Jordan showed up claiming that was the "censorship industrial complex"

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