iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Charlie Becker has still not dropped a pass as a college football player.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ACTUALLY, IF YOU CONSULT THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY MASTER CLOCK,

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 06/09/2026

It has finally happened

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

clock at zero, ball still not touched (hard to make out, I get it)

the clock is at zero on the first Michigan Hail Mary play

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

that’s a way you lose a game in 1947 when the game clock is operated via hand crank

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 06/09/2026

The Michigan internet lawyers are going to be operating at a Jordan-in-the-Finals level on this

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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I need someone to show me how there was one second left. Because there sure seemed like zero seconds left.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

sincerely, fuck that

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

oh my

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

that is in fact literally in the bible. it's Matthew 6:5.

5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.

Alex Jones saying there's going to be a national draft in 3 weeks.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

no serious candidate for Governor in California is ever going to be someone you don't find at least slightly upsetting.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Back on True Anon! where we talked everything from hasbara to bronyism

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

NEW: After years operating in almost complete anonymity, the top content producers of Canary Mission have been identified. www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

dropsitenews.com

Meet the Top “Content” Producers Linked to Canary Mission

A Drop Site investigation reveals the highest paid employees of the Israeli group running the infamous pro-Israel doxxing site.

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kakostropous.bsky.social @kakostropous.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Recently, @dropsitenews.com @jsweetli.bsky.social exposed Canary Mission's secret website. This site proves that CM is based in Israel, with paid employees whose job is to digitally stalk people exercising political speech half a world away. Today, we're sharing it with you: blacknestfiles.org

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BlackNest - Canary Mission's secret website.

BlackNest is Canary Mission's secret website. This is its reproduction.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Old InfoWars' staff appear to have also done some ransacking on the way out. This is some of the property the families planned to eventually sell off to collect on this judgment, in a studio we were prepared to pay up to take over.

Property was removed from the Infowars studio, including a large Infowars sign that was often used as a backdrop for programming. (Harrison Smith Twitter Photo). It is likely that Jones or those acting on Jones’ behalf took the property. (Jones Son’s Twitter Video “This place will never die. It will never go away. And, that’s why you need to go to the Alex Jones Network. That’s where all this is going to be [gesturing to the equipment around him]. We’re going to walk in that spirit. We’re going take it forward, move it forward. The Alex Jones Network. Go there. Remember our history. Join us now.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

New motion filed by the Sandy Hook families shows Alex Jones's little video outside of his studio claiming he was locked out by the state-appointed receiver isn't even true. Still banging the fake persecution drum even as he moves around his assets.

FSS and Jones’s actions in the past two days include:
• Alex Jones recorded a segment on May 1, 2026, in which he appeared outside the Infowars studio and in which he falsely claimed that the Receiver shut him down at midnight and that the studio is now locked.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Voting Rights Act was passed to ensure equal representation in our democracy. The SCOTUS decision today guts the prohibition on racial gerrymandering, effectively using the redlining of the past to rob Black folks of equal representation in the future. It’s a devastating blow to democracy.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/05/2026

Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. 70%-80% of all AI compute goes to OpenAI and Anthropic, creating an illusion of demand that is going to waste hundreds of billions of dollars. This is a very important monologue for you to hear. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

podcasts.apple.com

Monologue: AI's Demand Story Is A Lie

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · May 1 · Bonus · 19m

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Daily Wire is allegedly laying off massive amounts of staff because their numbers are in freefall as it's becoming more difficult to retain a maga audience. Nature is healing

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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/04/2026

Political Profile: Kash Patel theonion.com/political-profile-kash…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/04/2026

Yet the most-egregious conflict of interest is that asset managers like KKR (Global Atlantic) and Apollo (Athene) have bought interests in insurance and retirement companies, taking their billions and investing them in AI data centers and software. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-privatecredit/

According to an article in BIS Quarterly Review published in March 2025, insurers account for 9.5% of private credit investors (with pension funds accounting for a terrifying 30.7%).

That’s a lot. Collectively, it amounts to more than 40%. — It seems as though much of that insurer-provided funding is going to a relatively concentrated group of companies. According to analyst firm Oliver Wyman, insurers provided 43% of assets at the top-seven listed private credit firms in the Q3 2024 period.

This figure is a steep jump from 32% in Q4 2021, and, when you calculate the difference between assets already held by private credit firms between those periods, means that more than half of all new capital going into private credit came from insurers.

The “risk” in this case is something that can be heavily gamed, such as when an asset manager owns an insurance company, allowing it to loan money to itself using its own funds and collect a management fee for the assets under management. For an example as to where this becomes a problem, per Nick Nemeth of Mispriced assets, 67% of Apollo’s management fees come from charging its own insurance affiliate Athene (which it merged with in 2022) for investing its money.

And this blatantly-obvious conflict of interest is to blame for the culture shift. As I’ve hinted at previously, asset managers have been either buying stakes in or the entirety of life insurance and retirement funds and then taking their money for a joyride.

Worse, the asset manager doesn’t even have to buy the whole insurance company. For example, Blackstone — who bought a minority stake in AIG (yes, that AIG)’s Life and Retirement Business for $2.2 billion in 2021 (though it’s now known as Corebridge Financial), allowing it to manage $50 billion in assets at first and then as much as $92.5 billion by 2027, charging management fees likely numbering in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Blackstone President Jon Gray also sits on the board of Corebridge.

There are a bunch of models for how private equity gains control over insurers, and the scariest part is that said private equity company doesn’t even need to take full ownership, or even a majority stake, for the transformation to happen, as I mentioned with Blackstone’s AIG (now Corebridge) deal.

According to a 2023 paper from the International Monetary Fund called “Private Equity and Life Insurers,“ a private equity firm might buy a small (but strategically meaningful) slice of an insurance company, typically less than 10%. They will then enter into a “strategic alliance,” where the private equity firm starts directing their portfolio of the insurer.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/04/2026

Kept you waiting, huh? www.wheresyoured.at/news-microso...

solid snake saying "kept you waiting, huh?"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/03/2026

Oh!

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Jon is joined by misinformation researcher @noupside.bsky.social, who is currently being sued by Stephen Miller for her work, and Platformer editor @caseynewton.bsky.social. They break down the tension between government and social media platforms and how that impacts our elections.

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404 Media @404media.co · 05/03/2026

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

404media.co

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

who gets to fly in the government fuck plane now

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I thank Kristi for her service at "Homeland"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/03/2026

I don’t like my writing style as much back then but I’m proud of this piece from August 2024 about the collapse of the Software As A Service industry. I hadn’t learned finance fully at that time and thus didn’t think about the debt side! Rookie mistake www.wheresyoured.at/saaspocalyps...

The answer is simple: the tech industry's desperate attachment to artificial intelligence is largely fueled by the Saas industry, because Al is the first meaningful new "thing" they've had to flog to customers in quite some time, and because so many of these solutions are sold in bulk on annual contracts signed by people who aren't the end user, artificial intelligence feels like something that they can put on top of another solution and claim it's new.
Theoretically, Al seemed like manna from heaven.
It was an entirely new industry that you can either sell services into (like data storage and
processing) or build services using. Al has a near-mythical pedigree that makes braindead CIOs and CEOs that don't really know (or care) what their people do all day sit up and say "wow, I need to make sure we're using the bleeding edge of technology" to investors and partners.

It's hard to overstate the significance of a collapse of growth in the Saas market, as is it hard to overstate how dangerous generative Al is to its fortunes. While these companies had costs before, generative Al is multitudes higher than regular cloud compute costs, meaning that any new revenue growth from this software will be burdened by leveraging an increasingly-expensive solution to a problem that most of them have trouble describing.
And if the revenue never arrives, they'll be faced with the same problem as the rest of the tech industry - that they've run out of ideas to generate growth.
At that point, they'll have to reckon with the fact that there are too many software companies incapable of solving any problem other than "how do we find a new way to charge customers for
something?"

I realize this is all a bit technical, but the very basic thing to know is that SaaS companies must grow, and their way of growing is growing and upselling ("expanding") customer revenue, and that specific thing is declining. SaaS sales teams are built to land accounts and then grow them using
"customer success" teams that find new ways to
"get more out of the software" using the customer's credit cards, which is why so many SaaS companies acquire completely different business units (like Salesforce, which just acquired a data protection and management company for $1.9 billion for some reason) as a means of further penetration into the customer's existence.
And if that business model is dying - if customers are no longer as easy to upsell, let alone retain - then things are going to get desperate.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

New interview! On the Israel-US war on Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the forces behind both: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobD...

youtube.com

Sarah Kendzior Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Calculated Iran Move

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

these people should all hang

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/03/2026

lol even though they banned them the government used Claude anyway. Slop strategies for the Epic Bacon War. This could not have gone worse for Altman www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

WSJ
‹ Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Is Dead:....
Last Updated: Feb. 28, 2026 at 9:41pm ET
• LIVE
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U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban

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PATRICK SISON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools.
Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic's Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed.
Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran.
The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the
company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.
The administration and Anthropic have been feuding for months over how its AI models can be used by the
Pentagon. Trump on Friday ordered agencies to stop working with the company and the Defense Department designated it a security threat and risk to its supply chain.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/03/2026

Quite literally the official chatbot of the war in Iran

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/02/2026

Everybody is really sleeping on the “Oracle gets destroyed by openai and data center debt” as a possibility

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/02/2026

OpenAI announcing “$110 billion” in new funding, leaving out that $35 billion of Amazon’s $50 billion is contingent on an IPO, and the $30 billion each from SoftBank and NVIDIA is paid in installments. Anyone reporting this as fully closed is wrong. It’ll happen anyway. openai.com/index/scalin...

OpenAl and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today
announced a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate Al innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers around the world. Amazon will also invest $50
billion in OpenAl, starting with an initial $15
billion investment and followed by another $35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/02/2026

Joined Newsweek’s The 1600 to talk about the reality of Claude Code, the actual costs of AI, and the bubble at large. youtu.be/RKwK7qrBz8g?...

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AI Overlords Are Engineering a Broke Society ft. Ed Zitron

YouTube video by Newsweek

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Consumption's back on the menu, boys!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/02/2026

OpenAI’s “$100bn” round, instead of $50 billion, Amazon is investing $15 billion with $35 billion contingent on AGI or OpenAI going public. Nvidia and SoftBank both investing “$30 billion in 3 installments.” Microsoft investing either “low billions” or “less” or “none.” Feels unstable!

Amazon's decision to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI could hang on whether OpenAI goes public or reaches a loosely defined milestone known as artificial general intelligence, which generally refers to AI that is on par with human abilities, according to three people involved who have communicated with
OpenAI executives.
Under the terms of the investment, which are still being negotiated, Amazon would initially invest $15 billion into OpenAI, these people said. The other $35 billion could hinge on OpenAI reaching AGI or going public, the people said. The proposed Amazon investment is part of OpenAl's current funding round, which could top $100 billion at a valuation of $730 billion before the financing.

In addition, SoftBank and Nvidia each plan to invest $30 billion in three installments through the year as part of the round, said the people. Microsoft had been expected to invest low billions of dollars, The Information previously. reported, but it could invest a smaller amount or none at all, according to two of the people.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/02/2026

Free newsletter: I go over NVIDIA's earnings, the reality of OpenAI's $100 billion round, and the "analyslop" phenomenon of speculative, lie-ridden fan fiction that gets framed as meaningful research and promoted by the mainstream media. www.wheresyoured.at/on-nvidia-an...

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On NVIDIA and Analyslop

Editor's note: a previous version of this newsletter went out with Matt Hughes' name on it, that's my editor who went over it for spelling errors and loaded it into the CMS. Sorry! Hey all! I’m going...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The face you make when someone in the audience says they hung out with you at Jeffrey's place when were 15 years old

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/02/2026

pretty sure the record reflects a lot more than a "sought to" about Epstein's 2014 SpaceX visit niedermeyer.online/2026/02/10/m...

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There's more than a whiff of Musk in the Epstein Files

Explore the relationship between Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein, as documented in the Epstein Files.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

look like everything in the BOP is going well, as per usual

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy !

Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"

How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/02/2026

Now OpenAI says it will be spending $600bn on compute through 2030, a year when it says it’ll make $280bn. Weirdly it says it made $13.1bn In revenue in 2025, even though Sam Altman said in November it was “way more than that”! www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/o...

OpenAI generated $13.1 billion in revenue in 2025, the sources said, up from its $10 billion target. The company burned through $8 billion, lower than its $9 billion target, they said.

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