iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Being online when the conversation turns to sexual assault is fucking hell for survivors. By the way.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These sound like non-trivial problems.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is such a fucking racket and these companies are all in cahoots. The best way to protect yourself and your employees from AI is to abstain from using it.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026

“The detentions are happening in a flash – we’re talking, like, 90 seconds from the time ICE shows up to that person being driven away,” Willis said. “And often they are moving very quietly, with very soft feet.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm adding this article to my Mission Impossible grudge series idea folder.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was explaining this at a political meeting last night. Stephen Miller has smartly decided to fly below the radar after the backlash to Minneapolis, Chicago, and other outrages. But by many measures things have gotten worse.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

how do you run a company that is incapable of analyzing what your agents are doing

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“They stripped language requiring the systems to operate in a “predictable” and “reliable” manner, the people said, and removed a clause mandating that ethical considerations be taken into account when using AI weaponry.“

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are three proposed amendments to our North Carolina state constitution on the ballot this year, and this week, we're talking about each of them. Today is Part 1: the voter ID amendment. Our recommendation: vote against all 3. 🙅‍♂️

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

Cannot insist you listen to this enough, this conversation condenses everything going on with AI and its wider economic effects tightly. One of the best in the show’s history.

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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very very good. This is life after cars.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 28/09/2026

It hurts my head so much that people think this technology should be trusted like this.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 24/09/2026

"There were blocks clearly which were coming back telling the AI agent 'no'. The AI agent found a way around those blocks – didn't accept no for an answer" Yup, very techbro coded.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

grosssss

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

inquirer.com

We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He should make a quick phone call to Don Jr. and make this very point.

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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

I’m gonna plead “too Black” to know wtf Choosin’ Texas is.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/09/2026

Who is Mr. "Free Speech Absolutist" gagging this time?

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026

Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.

theguardian.com

New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators

State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Public records show that as Donald Trump's "Recovery Czar" for Hurricane Helene, Michael Whatley held a grand total of 5 phone calls, totaling 38 minutes in all. Full story: www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah I very much think they are inventing robot wife-servants because they’re mad human women have better options than wife-servant now I think all the time about that guy who said male clients kept flirting with his automated scheduler because the software defaulted to a female name

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m listening to the Ezra Klein—Jensen Huang interview and it really is astonishing how clueless and bored Huang sounds. He sounds like an exec rattling off talking points that he only just received. “It’s an Industrial Revolution. Jobs will change. But it’ll all, uh, be good. But my chips!”

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Woodsmoke is carcinogenic on top of causing asthma and respiratory problems. Winter urban air is more stratified, so pollution stays in a more concentrated layer close to the ground. This couple has been poisoning their neighborhood for 50 years and are whining about a 4-story building?

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh my GOD

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A sorta odd request. I’m looking for an artistic cartographer or an illustrator to commission to make a cute, useful street map of an actually existing village. Searching the internet produces a bunch of fantasy map specialists and AI slop, which isn’t quite it. Know anyone? (This is paid, ofc.)

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is so good to see @reportermatt.bsky.social, who was in like 80% of my classes in college, become the most influential reporter in Massachusetts. He just loves the place, and you can tell in everything he does. A truly wonderful man making the whole state better.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

love bernie for what he's done to help push dems to the left and inspire folks like aoc and zohran, but the man is pretty close to "do the opposite" when it comes to picking friends. the fact that he's hanging out with these people is pretty solid indicator you should not take them at all seriously

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026

and by "using AI to improve government efficiency and reduce fraud and waste" we mean just a giant, lumbering piece of shit built by weird and incompetent zealots

arstechnica.com

Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."

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