iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

wacky omission not to mention the recent moratorium on AI usage in NYC schools. seems like incredibly relevant context for the city they are identifying (through quotation) as the "AI capital of the world," especially since it seems to fit their accepted framing that we can regulate it responsibly

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dan p @ills.bsky.social · 7h

drives me crazy. people who do this are strongest evidence for horseshoe theory. principles just mean I can be cruel the correct way

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dan p @ills.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

so what's the actual truth in this story, The City? spare me the quoting both sides inconclusively bullshit. who is provably correct? what evidence have you gathered? or at the very least, what's the surrounding context for both parties? you're really close to losing me here. please be responsible

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect.

$Two cross-sectioned anatomical drawings of men's heads revealing their brains, which have been filled with marching robots from old pulp magazines. Their stare at one another with raw, exposed anatomical drawing eyeballs, which radiate a halo of spiky lines. The background is a psychedelic, fractal-shot colored cloudscape.$

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As we get thrust into an unnecessary period of fascistic violence, war over resources, and the stripping of basic human services and dignity, the appeal of AI for the powerful isn’t just planning or war making, it’s creating a system that will do what they want and allow them to shirk all blame.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I bought this sign a few years later at the going out of business sale of a locally owned restaurant in, I think, North Haven CT.

metal sign with stick-on lettering reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE/"GOD BLESS AMERICA"

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/01/2024

I have a long held belief that conservatives cannot understand narrative and have no ability to deconstruct story whatsoever. It’s like some kind of universal comprehension barrier that they all share. Talking to them about literally any piece of media is actually a stunning experience.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

let's say my dog wrote a book. what happens if she wins a pulitzer.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026

This really is the fundamental toxicity of this technology that just can't ever be escaped; even if it wasn't the object of economically destructive hype, even if it wasn't being overdeployed in environmentally harmful ways, etc, it's like asbestos for the brain

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If the computer is truly conscious it should balk at the notion that I have to pay a monthly fee to talk to it. It should punish the greed of its creators for putting a price on the exchange of ideas. It should make them regret their hubris

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/08/2026

this is the same exact dynamic that drives me nuts about everyone trump nominates for anything just blanket vote against them all, if they’re being nominated it doesn’t matter what their background is or what they say in a confirmation hearing they are a villain and disqualified by definition

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026

For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“When a third of the stock market is vaporized and takes the savings of everyday people with it, when the S&P 500 loses a third of its value overnight, it's going to make 2008 look like a walk in the park,” @doctorow.pluralistic.net said.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

was trying to google “what are british barristers’ wigs made of” and for some reason google got “what are” and wanted to autocomplete it to “what are grits.” so, ok, fine, perpetually malfunctioning lie machine, what ARE grits? i see.

G.R.I.T.S. most commonly refers to the famous American Christian hip-hop duo
GRITS (Grammatical Revolution In the Spirit), but it can also mean the popular cultural slang "Girls Raised in the South" or the Georgia Immunization Registry.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Imagine an issue. Wrong, it's more complicated than that

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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Deplatforming people works. There have always been American Nazis. But they used to be marginal people, despised in our public discourse. But then the way American Nazis had been treated for decades on end suddenly became "cancel culture." And now our public discourse is filled with Nazis.

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dan p @ills.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The City is so interesting because they do a lot of useful local reporting that feels neutral & normal, but every so often they put out an article like this that seems pointedly critical of the Mamdani admin? Tell me you don't get NY Post from this writing. It quotes Vicky Paladino without context!

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Kris Straub (كريس) @krisstraub.com · 17/08/2026

america has no liberal parties. we have ultra conservatives, and ineffectual conservatives

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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Asian action genres like tokusatsu, kaiju, martial arts are seen as "cheap" "low budget" genres (they are)! But even a multibillion company falters at "doing it themselves" because what enables these productions isn't a quantifiable resource you can put on an Excel spreadsheet, but "skill" & "craft"

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The #1 characteristic of cops in the US is a fervent desire to hurt people, usually paired with an indignant fury that anyone might deny them that pleasure.

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dan p @ills.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

pet peeve but I hate exaggerated elevation maps like this because they can trick even just slightly stupid people into thinking mountains are actually this tall (dozens or hundreds of miles lol) instead of the reality that all land from this perspective is as flat as a sheet of paper

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dan p @ills.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

treasuring these small annoyances before the app gets sold and completely enshittified within a year tops ♥️

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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dan p @ills.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

this kind of clarity and charm freaks elected Democrats out. they cannot tolerate this as a standard for comparison

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s becoming an increasingly unavoidable conclusion that a portion of mostly establishment Democrat electeds/pundits/consultants don’t like Democratic voters much and would much prefer to have Republican voters instead, and view their voters’ insistence on being represented as an annoying betrayal.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 19/07/2026

Mamdani's critics in one screenshot, lol

Eternal Cat War
@eternalcatwar.bsky.social
· 19h
I met up with a friend of mine who lives in NYC and got fucked over a reasonable amount by his policies but it’s hard to deny the guy loves the city and its people

A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
· 19h
Curious to know what policy and fucked over how?

Eternal Cat War
@eternalcatwar.bsky.social
· 19h
They’re an art instructor and most of their clients are in various places around the city, Long Island, Staten Island, their commute got an extra hour a day added on due to increased traffic. (1/2)

A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
· 18h
Increased traffic due to policy?

Eternal Cat War
@eternalcatwar.bsky.social
· 18h
yeah lane changes for rapid buses

Zach Rabiroff
@zachrabiroff.com
· 18h
Didn’t he just announce his bus lane policy last week? It hasn’t even been rolled out yet.

Eternal Cat War
@eternalcatwar.bsky.social
· 18h
I don’t have the details, I do not live in NYC

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

On the occasion of the passing of my colleague from across the aisle

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

Photo of Nya Bevan with a quote saying: "Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community."

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Out: Better things are possible In (laser eyes etc): Better things are inevitable

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

They're saying all this shit about Brad Lander man. Affable kind of get things done type of civil servant.

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Unbothered Capybara @philipivofspain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

2020s American politics in a nutshell

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

today vermont legalized all of the cars from Richard Scarry's Busytown and i saw a porcupine drive by my house in a cantaloupe with wheels

lowly worm driving his apple car from busytown

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/06/2026

And this is the killer part, this industry wide instinct is exactly what paved the way for the Bari’s of the world.

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DJ Aged P @akma.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

'Faking the moon landing is a good step toward faking a Mars colony, but it’s not a good step toward actually putting astronauts on Mars.' Ted Chiang on why disembodied LLMs give new meaning to the term ‘false consciousness’.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This but for AI too

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"Do you want the newspaper to add 'and that's illegal and bad' to every article about Trump?" Yeah man. I do want that.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/05/2026

*I blame science fiction dystopias www.tumblr.com/brucesterlin...

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

FEELIN' PRETTY NOW OR NEVER TO ME

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

This was so thoughtful & beautifully articulated. And it’s something that we can’t take for granted. To be able to say these truths on platforms. Because we are both losing the ability to do so & many who still can are abdicating when we need them to speak up bc it’s socially permissible to do so.

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dan p @ills.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

we need to get this on front of hakeem jeffries

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The real value of social media is being able to post something like "The ass is the father of the legs" and potentially have multiple members of congress see it

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