iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#Art by Mehrdad Jafari #Iran

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#tiredpoem 1/10: a small excerpt from Chapter 3 of Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution, translated by Arthur Mitchell.

no distinction to be made between the results which intellect arrives at in applying its categories, whether it rests on inert matter or attacks life.
In many cases, however, we feel the frame cracking.
But as we did not begin by distinguishing between the inert and the living, the one adapted in advance to the frame in which we insert it, the other incapable of being held in the frame otherwise than by a convention which eliminates from it all that is essential, we find ourselves, in the end, reduced to regarding everything the frame contains with equal suspicion. To a metaphysical dog-matism, which has erected into an absolute the factitious unity of science, there succeeds a skepticism or a relativism that universalizes and extends to all the results of science the artificial character of some among them. So

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I agree with the sentiment here. But these cases get brought against corporations all the time. They just have the resources to fight it and the money to pay the fines if they lose. It's not that corps don't answer to the law. It's that when you get to be a certain size, the law has no teeth.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 15/10/2026

wondering about wifi symbol starting to signify something more like bad smell lines

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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz was hounded by federal law enforcement into taking his own life for behavior that was nowhere near as bad as what these companies do every single day.

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Slowly reinventing the normal-sized library

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Whew. Listen.

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026

No one asked the Oakland Review of Books to make a voting guide, and we made one anyway. Today we start off with the ballot propositions and the regional transit measure: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/orbs-totally...

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ORB’s totally partisan 2026 voting guide

We made a spreadsheet and everything.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“To create a better future, we must create a world without billionaires. We can have billionaires, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both.” Just finished @gilduran.com’s The Nerd Reich, which I encourage you all to read. Immediately. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...It’s an o...

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Dave Pell @davepell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Pathetic tech CEOs bending the knee and calling it Super Intelligence is more dangerous than anything Artificial Intelligence can do to us.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Promoting your work is just having a conversation in public about your expertise and interests. Negative associations with self-promotion come from people who just blast out their promos. Friendship is magic. You need your heist team/hype team. Form an informal collective.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Clarity: Know your goal and your audience Reciprocity: Offer something before you ask for something Repetition: You have to find ways to say the same thing over and over and over. Generosity: Promote & celebrate others. It's not zero-sum Experiments: Try stuff. Don't overthink. Learn from mistakes.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 10/10/2026

not now kitten mommy’s overstimulated at trader joes

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nicanor Parra, trs. Jiménez-Orrego & Quasha

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Write the way you want
Too much blood has gone under the bridge
To go on believing I believe
That you can only go one way.

In poetry everything is permitted.
The poet who sleeps on the sofa
Greets you with thunder and lightning.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The left isn’t weak because of infighting. The left is weak because every facet of our society and economy is geared to the benefit of fascism and white supremacy and it is the challenge of multiple lifetimes to dismantle all of that.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i have a totally unproven and clearly overly broad thesis that most people doing laptop jobs have stopped caring and that 'whatever just hit the KPIs' is pretty much the default state

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the beginning the political spam texts were spaced by twenty-four weeks, then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. In four days, we could be seeing the spam every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very excited to get my hands on this! Hat tip to @zephoria.bsky.social

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"you would have to feed in millions of separate little things every day to equal what a child takes in. And after three years of this kind of business, it still might not have learned to reason or work out its own programs. You ask it to add 2 and 2, and maybe it says 5.” archive.org/details/how_...

Cc an a computing machine be

taught to ‘think’ in the broadest sense, as the human brain can think and learn? Efforts have been made in this direction, based on accumulating knowledge of how the human brain works. The brain is, in effect, a whole hierarchy of computers with much of its basic input provided by ranks of lesser computers down the line. The information gathered by the retina of the eye, for instance, is not simply shunted along to the brain. Instead, the retina acts like a tiny, highly sophisticated computer, analyzing the visual data and passing on only the significant results. In the brain itself further analysis takes place as information moves from one level to another and is processed in computerlike fashion all along the way until a unified perception results.

In a computer, electric pulses travel to specific places along specific conduits to produce their own version of a unified perception in the form of an answer. Not so in the brain. One brain cell, or neuron, may pulse another, as the electronic switches in a computer pulse each other, but the similarity ends there. Each neuron has inputs from a number of other nerve cells, so that in one way or another all the 10 billion or so neurons in the ‘brain are interconnected directly or indirectly. The system provides whole arrays of incredibly complex feedback loops in which some cells qualify the operations of others, stimulating them to respond to certain incoming signals and inhibiting their responses to others.

Theoretically it would be possible, as one computer scientist has noted, to hook together hierarchies of computers to simulate the complex layers of the brain. The gear necessary to give this supercomputer even 1/20th of a human brain's capacity would fill several barns. And the fact is that no one would really know how to hook together such an array.

it goes on

https://archive.org/details/how_the_computer_gets_the_answer_Life_Magazine_oct27_1967/page/n11/mode/2up

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Roses are red Math isn't hard Slop hurts my head Bring back the

A computer punch card with motion blur lines and the text

PUNCHED CARD in white on a black background

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'I finished [this book] wanting to read more Palestinian writers, more Palestinian history, more political theory, more poetry, more theology & more of the people whose work Lababidi brought into conversation' www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... @newvillagepress.bsky.social #booksky #Gaza #Palestine

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If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE: Essays on Conscience and Wi…

Yahia Lababidi wrote the 47 essays for If You Cannot Sa…

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/10/2026

I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/10/2026

And, of course, I wrote about this at @theflytrapmedia.com earlier this year, and this has been a topic of conversation in a LOT of circles for a very long time.

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Algospeak Will Be the Unaliving of Me

Maybe we want to bare our teeth.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 08/10/2026

Pretty much every war, since I’ve been alive at least, has been a “lesson in unintended consequences”.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am trying to think of AI from a standard corporate accountability perspective and I found this line from the safety policy employee who quit to be the most succinct explanation of the concern. it doesn't need you to buy into any sci-fi narratives. it's all about scale/scope:

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 08/10/2026

If you’re looking for something to help you go to sleep I’ve got Burgess Meredith performing in the 15-century play Everyman, recorded in 1955. archive.org/details/15th...

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*15th century - Everyman - 1955 Meredith Silvera

Everyman, a Morality Play of the end of the 15th-centurywith Burgess Meredith - Everyman, Frank Silvera - Death, Terrence Kilburn - the messenger

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2026

They have erased the history of the tech industry and tech innovation so that their workers don’t ask what happened to prior generations of innovators and innovations. It’s a very intentional strategy.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026

This is like I was saying the other day how it is a norm in the VC world to hire college dropouts (and encourage people to dropout) so that tech workers are easily malleable and not curious or knowledgable of the harms they are participating in.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meta glasses: too perverted for Amsterdam

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2026

And again, making the implicit explicit: I moved away from these motherfuckers because I couldn’t stand being around them. But we are always going to have to win over some stupid people’s votes. Plus even smart people don’t like being dismissed or condescended to, and will turn cynical & disengage.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 02/10/2026

text spam is getting wild out here, cold open, fake NY area code, throws you right in the middle of the story

Spam text: If you're hoping for overnight arrangements, that's perfectly fine with us. Adult toys are also more than welcome. The one thing we truly value is a respectful atmosphere — no alcohol, and nothing rough. We are a few close friends, all twenty-six, just out of college, looking to meet mature gentlemen around this area. And our time is entirely flexible: your free time is our free time. If you're interested and would like to see our photos, please contact me via Telegram: @Shivani7250

From Paul: Why did it take you so long to graduate college?

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you’re illuminated by / some mystery / almost infinitely / smaller than your self, David Bromige

JUST THINK

Suppose this really were
happening to you
so that a screen
repeated every swollen move
a second after its enactment—

how would that feel,
reel upon reel
compelling as the notion of
your children growing older
when you stared at one just then,

that you’re illuminated by
some mystery
almost infinitely
smaller than your self,
the square you
could never make it through
at the back of the theater.

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Josh Scannell @frannyrecounts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

With the book’s release, I want to give a brief overview and outline a few of the key arguments. I’d include links to contemporary events but there are too many connections. The worst part of writing about race, computation, and police power is that it is always timely.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

i have been laughing at this for 5 minutes straight

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Am I returning to my Catholic school roots? Why am I nodding along to Pope Leo's encyclicals so frequently?

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/10/2026

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is always a complicated technical solution to a simple social problem.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it.

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