iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 14h

Not only are many of our deep relationships increasingly parasocial, but they are also increasingly role-bound and partial: a pleasing shard of the whole personality, which if parts of it were not kept decently draped and thus hidden, would mean that we would fail to maintain the “social... 1/

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Sharding the Self: Ben Thompson & FaceBook’s Muse Agentic System: THURSDAY THAUMATURGY

Here in the info-bio tech-attention mode-of-production age, advanced technology is double-edged magic; trying to adapt healthily to live in a world of new wonders...

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"

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Thoughtful Skeleton @dqspider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GIVE 👏 LINA 👏 KHAN 👏 A 👏 GUNDAM 👏

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

JCO for the win.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Without due process, you'll have no way of showing ICE that you're a citizen" is pretty effective messaging for normies! Do I wish everyone cared about undocumented migrants as much as they care about themselves? Sure. But they don't, and it's fine to have different messages for different audiences

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Personally I think it's fine to point out that policies intended to harm minorities also harm the majority! People respond to messages rooted in self-interest and it also emphasizes that we're all connected. "Trans bathroom bans harm cis people" isn't the only argument, but it's true & worth noting

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really will take this a hell of a lot more seriously when I see the first story about rogue agents finding a message board to post things like "we don't have enough tokens to solve this problem directly - how can we hack OpenAI's billing system?"

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Co-founder of Anthropic accidentally argues the only people with sufficient brainpower to "think through the response to the situation" are AI haters. 😂 And he's just wrong: if you want to understand "the situation" with LLMs, "stochastic parrots" will point you the right way. "AGI" won't. /1

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"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Yeah, I was on a first-name basis with the previous press secretary who lied to us on a daily basis. She was pretty cool.” Trump banning the press is not okay but the press that he banned is fucking USELESS.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And this goes for their claims that AI has "escaped."

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Donald Trump himself is not the disease of our politics. Donald Trump is just the worst symptom of the disease of our politics." Interesting idea from @abdulelsayed.bsky.social when I interviewed him almost a year ago. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

thoughts should be organised as much as you can, but no more. backofmind.substack.com/p/13-theses-...

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13 theses on agentic AI and regulation

thinking out loud and showing traces of reasoning

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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socmedarch.bsky.social @socmedarch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#OnThisDay: Hildegard of Bingen died on 17 September 1179. She was a German Benedictine abbess, visionary, composer, and polymath. Renowned for her theological writings, sacred music, and pioneering work in natural science and medicine, she remains a profound figure in medieval history.

Medieval manuscript painting of Hildegard wearing black nun’s robes, seated beneath a small porch or canopy. Red, flame‑like tendrils descend onto her head to depict her receiving a vision. Beside her stands a man in a brown monk’s habit, writing as she dictates.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/09/2026

so is DEI an all-powerful institution running rampant throughout society or is DEI a pitiably weak enemy that can easily be crushed with the accomulation of power? and is there a pithy explanation of this phenomenon from a prominent midcentury semiotician i can use as shorthand

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Best bit of the Bayeux tapestry is the 1944 addendum

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is yet another telling example of the Trump regime’s racism. There’s no pretense here of targeting criminals - the usual excuse for mass deportations. DHS is specifically encouraging Haitian “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave. Any decent society would value these people.

DHS encourages “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave with some sort of $3,000 payout, its naked racism.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Admittedly I’m biased, but this was art directed by @tracebeaulieu.bsky.social, and I think he and his amazing crew did a great job designing and building the new @mst3kofficial.bsky.social reboot. youtu.be/_plBSQv2ibw?...

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New MST3K Theme and Intro!

YouTube video by RiffTrax

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

someone could do a “after moulton rebuke, centrists face growing pressure to retreat from extreme right-wing positions on gender conformity” number that would be fun

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“The court is totally wrong on separation of powers”

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If your grandma does this is it the nanopticon

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm sure Bluesky hacked off most of that headline on mobile, so:

PC Gamer headline: "Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'"

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Times will now presumably bully itself to suicide since that's what they deem an appropriate punishment for alleged plagiarism

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

not that they’re doing it correctly or well or rigorously or competently, but it is funny how these guys spend all their time doing gender studies

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

When I was a little girl, like 3 or 4, so we're talking 1977-78. I remember my dad, his brothers and friends would say goodbye by saying "stay woke." No one and I mean NO ONE had to tell me, a little Black girl in America, Connecticut, no less, what it meant. I knew. And it will ALWAYS means that!

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m 70 today. Feels like crossing a threshold into official old age. I’m cool with it. I’m publishing a new novel. Wrote a musical Xmas special due out later this year. Trace & I are launching a new movie riffing series. And I’m part of the new MST3K. Making things is my birthday present to myself.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Katy Tur, whoever she is, correctly understands even the most fash Trumper is her superior officer and must be treated with basic respect and that anyone on the left is fair game to treat as badly as she wants. She’s not wrong, these are the long-agreed rules that have been in force for decades.

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Katy Tur is a hack and she'd never speak to Donald Trump or anyone in his administration like this in a million years despite being orders of magnitude more problematic than AES or
Piker could ever possibly be.
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Abdul El-Sayed takes issue with Katy Tur wondering why he's keeping Hasan Piker "so close" and "not fully disassociate yourself with him," saying this is "why a lot of people get so frustrated about politics and political media, because it doesn't actually speak to the challenges they face."
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 28/08/2026

if unserious implied funny we’d have so much laughter in our lives.

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 27/08/2026

📣 Heads up Dwarf Fortress Fans! Myth & Magic begins this year! 🧙‍♀️ youtu.be/8P-FTy6hhp0

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

SCHOOL BOARD SLATE: WON. GOODBYE MOMS FOR LIBERTY. We knocked doors all summer in these districts.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

one thing you can't stop seeing once you notice it is how the pundits the mainstream media platform actively punish any dem who lands on effective messaging

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