iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The simple fact is that liberalism permitted the development of its executioner, exactly as in a healthy tissue a constituent cell may proliferate and give rise to a fatal cancer." -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, pg. 200

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 21h

Aren't 3D objects actually 4D if they exist in time?

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Jing @jingdee.bsky.social · 23h

Bad news for NZ export producers & economy, Netherlands calling for sanctions on NZ for breaching their trade agreements on climate change. Something that I have pointed out in 2023 posts when Simeon Brown defunded projects that included provision for extreme climate events. Expect UK to follow

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There has to be a tension if not outright contradiction between: 1. We are the best managers of the economy. 2. All we offer is tax cuts=smaller share of economic output managed by government.

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Clark Addison @clarkaddison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I could sit here all day but there are golf balls to lose.

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Sarah Chambers @sarahpolo10.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Instead of focusing on the substance which is that National attacks on Tax aren't correct, they are focused on tone policing strong language. So ridiculous

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lesson of the 2020s: If you're a nominally left government, they'll call you communist anyway, so their reaction is no reason to refrain from pursuing a social democratic agenda.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I've mentioned, I'm writing an article on the reception of Wittgenstein by 20th century British Catholics. I'm going to say something about the Slant authors: their engagement with Marx is rightly widely recognised, but there's an awful lot of Wittgenstein in the mix as well.

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Kārikiōrangi @sharonm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Couple of nights ago I was hanging a basketball-sized poached egg on the washing line and making sure it did not split open. Not a clue about interpreting that.

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beekaynz @beekaynz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Last night my teeth crumbled in my mouth and I had to spit them into the palm of my hand so my dreams weren’t what you’d call restful

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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re so excited to share the trailer for BLACK SHEEPS with the world! This film was handmade with love and care (and many litres of fake blood) and I can’t wait for people to see it.

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Black Sheeps | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Labour are beyond useless. If interest deductibility for landlords is a bad idea, then why not reverse it? CGT is a discrete tax measure and does not displace the unfair advantage interest deductibility gives to landlords. #nzpol

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Will de Cleene @zippygonzales.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The fuck is this "two people or more" shit flying under urgency under the radar? Honestly, the shit they're shoving through before the election staggers me.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Linguistic analysis of Luxon's sentences.

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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dunno what the OP was but 100 times "Yes!"...

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the end justification for right wing economic policy divides into 2 streams. One stream relies on the idea that poor people don't deserve better; the other that counterintuitively the poor will eventually be better off by being treated worse.

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Will de Cleene @zippygonzales.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No-one does double entry quite like the Australians.

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Will de Cleene @zippygonzales.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've attempted to live in Auckland four times and failed. One of those times I visited Roger Douglas in South Auckland. Another time later on, I was his roulette dealer at Sky City. I don't know know where I'm going with this story, but I'm pretty sure there's a metaphor somewhere.

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And appeals to every ideology because we all believe we have the best evidence

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Amen. It's the myth of value-neutral economics/policy.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

TOP's "neither left nor right" and "evidence based policy" sounds just like a way Roger Douglas might have described his ideas in 1984. #nzpol

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Anarchist Quotes @anarchistquotes.com · 12/09/2026

Considering that our culture invented napalm and nuclear weapons, I'm not sure we're in a position to judge the smaller scale violence of other cultures. John Zerzan

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Strong Stable Dave @daveharton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first compute.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This policy was never going to end well.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anyone want to talk with me on Zoom for an hour each week until the end of the year? I'm thinking we need more 1 to 1 personal conversation in this online world.

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Douglas Dubois @douglasdubois.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My daughter is delirious with joy about the bargain first print book from her favourite author she got in an op shop. Might have done this parenting thing right?

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.” Jacques Ellul

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The original foldable reading device even comes with that new-book smell. Your move, Apple.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lilac and blue in the sky behind St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

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Ash Flanagan @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People keep asking about the mechanism for the AI apocalypse. There is a simple answer: Yud et al think the AI will invent nanobots and use them to disassemble us into molecules it uses to build more GPUs for itself.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reawakening of pre-internet ways of doing things might be the natural result of techbros' AI.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.

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Jason Nishiyama @evilscientistca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

M23 is an open cluster located about 2050 ly away in the constellation of Sagittarius. The very bright star in the upper right is a foreground star, only about 330 ly away. #astronomy

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I feel crazy when someone asks what the book I’m reading is about and I have to somehow explain Jacques Ellul

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Avinash Blundell @rewildnature.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes, but you get to live in the Land of the Free...

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Zach Evans @bikesarehealing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The US is $40 trillion in debt and has none of this Or a good health insurance system Or high speed rail Or a minimum living wage But we have a trillionaire!!

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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Since the coalition was elected, landlords have received benefits equivalent to more than 25 years of Treaty settlement redress. #nzpol

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Landlord tax break cost rose by $800m to $2.9b

National’s pre-election fiscal and tax plans costed the policy at $2.1b.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maybe we need to recreate John A Lee's Democratic Labour Party or Jim Anderton's New Labour Party? #nzpol

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

time for a quick checkup on facebook, the everything app

Vintage Typewriter Enthusiasts
Jonathan Stark • 8h
I was given this many years ago. Can anyone tell me anything about it? Is it worth anything? Thanks for any help.

Picture of a typewriter with a Nazi emblem above the keys

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

they'll have big CSR programmes obviously but I'm convinced most of Big Tech is anti-literacy

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The #Stoics thought that #Philosophy was comprised of Logic, Physics, and Ethics. The love of widsom requires all three, given a suitably broad definition.

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Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In Wairau Park there is a Raw Essentials pet food shop next door to a Japanese restaurant. In my mind I always think of that place as Katfood Don.

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Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No kind of socialism was ever about a few free doctors visits or universally free prescriptions. #nzpol

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 25/08/2026

The situation is similar for soy. About half of all US soybean oil is used to produce fuel, not food. We could rewild close to half of the midwest just by switching from biofuel crops to solar + EVs. www.grainjournal.com/article/1058...

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Renewable Diesel Production and Expanded Soybean Crush

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

it was a slow decline the first couple of years of Kogan ownership - I think cos local management was mostly still in place. When they left it started to dive, then a genuinely disastrous website redesign to allow vendors to let people use it as a temu slop reselling platform has finished it off.

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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Labour's Barbara Edmonds has for the first time revealed the party intends to support the government's legislation for rates capping through initial stages. Are they out of their minds?? #nzpol

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It is extremely foolish and self-destructive for the left not to be consistent in supporting academic freedom.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 12/07/2026

Despite a paper trail proving otherwise, Unbound’s administrators claimed they still owned the rights to Effin’ Birds and threatened to sue Penguin Random House if PRH paid me any royalties for my ongoing book sales. Wasn’t resolved until two months ago. They tried to bankrupt me out of spite.

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