iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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An important thing to note in this period of fascism is that fascists are historically not good at government. Their entire shtick is "oh yeah? Well that's so-and-so's fault." Actual governance requires you to have a solution that is not "well let's fuck those marginalized guys up."

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 10/10/2026

we gotta raise taxes. a lot.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

When ISIS killed my friend James Foley on camera they put him in an orange jumpsuit as a direct reference to images of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not fucking interested my government having a fucking propaganda CONVERSATION with tomorrow’s terrorists, thanks.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The climatologist  told me societies  can change  but it’s inconvenient. The teacher  told me students  can think  but it’s inconvenient. The epidemiologist  told me people  can help  but it’s inconvenient. The ethicist  told me that it’s inconvenient is no excuse.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026

Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.

nextgov.com

GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer

The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 Big news: The Washington Sun launches w/: — Huge investment in DC & local reporters — Legend Tom Sietsema — Capital Weather — Newsroom of +100, w/ great reporters (& me) Comes after Bezos's enormous cuts to WaPo To support, sign up for (free!) newsletter: washingtonsun.com/newsletters

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026

Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.

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Shivvers in Fear 🙀 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026

the 🐐

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/07/2026

The average sea surface temperature globally is surging to new record highs for this time of year, well above the historic warmth in 2023 and 2024. How anomalous will it get over the next year as El Niño tightens its grip? Track the data at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🌊

Graph showing daily global mean sea surface temperatures for 2026. This is also compared to the daily data from the 1981-2010 average and 1991-2020 average. Annotations are also shown to the current year with the other years from 1940 to 2026. There is a seasonal cycle. There is a long-term warming trend. 2023 and 2024 are also indicated, which were the warmest years on record. Data is from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis and updated through 23 June 2026.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

or, hear me out: we could fund public universities and have free tuition.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

3 days of 8 hour workdays is 24 hours

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Re: Graham Platner, I felt like I was being punked when people acted like he wasn’t obviously dishonest and untrustworthy this entire time. Starting with the unbelievable defense of his tattoo, which I was shocked to see people fall for

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iloveaeo.bsky.social @iloveaeo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My dumb ass started to open Libby, and search for a book called “In Bulk” to add to my list…

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I don't want to hear politicians running on "we need to see each other as neighbors again" bullshit. No I want you to run on expanding the commons and offering actual SPACES in communities where people can gather across differences. That means no rhetoric but ACTUAL $$$ invested.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Curator of Vertebrates

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History currently has openings for three early-career Research Curators in Vertebrate Zoology, one each from the disciplines of ornithology, herpetology and ichthyology. The Department of Vertebrate Zoology seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise in, and a commitment to, collections-based research centered on systematics and evolution of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. This includes the ability to pursue an original approach to systematics and comparative analyses using, for example, morphology, development, and/or molecular data, and showing evidence of broader impacts or applications in evolutionary biology and/or collections-based ecology, as demonstrated by a record of peer-reviewed publications.

Candidates must have demonstrated the ability to establish an externally funded research program and to contribute to the growth and curation of the collections. Research in the Department is supported by the Museum’s shared laboratories, including the Laboratory of Analytic Biology and the Scientific Imaging facility, among others. The Department’s scientific collections are the largest in the world for fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, and the third largest for birds.

These federal positions will be filled at the GS-12 level, with a starting salary of $102,415, and excellent benefits. The positions are permanent and require a one-year probationary period.

The official announcement is posted on USAJOBS, where applications must be submitted.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Please be sure to read the announcement and instructions carefully, as the process of applying via USAJOBS is stringent and differs from applying for an academic position. This website offers helpful advice: https://serc.si.edu/careers/tips-applying-federal-jobs

Please contact the Search Committee Chair, Michael McGowen (mcgowenm@si.edu) or the Department Chair, Helen James (jamesh@si.edu) with any questions.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/06/2026

Mangrove forests are both a very important absorber (sink) of greenhouse gas emissions and provide critical buffers during extreme storms caused by climate change. If you want a farmed seafood, you can feel good about - can I direct you towards oysters?

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is a really funny essay on a dark topic by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social , you should read it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/bad-fascis...

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Bad Fascist Party

At the Great American State Fair, a celebration of death.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You've surfed your last butthole

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 19/06/2026

There is actually some skill and effort involved in science. It doesn't magically fall out of the All Knowing Oracle box.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/06/2026

Thread about how using “A.i.” will turn you into a world class loser in the eyes of your colleagues… and yourself. Just say no. This shit is trash and it destroys human souls. I’m not exaggerating.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I am getting a lot of questions about the angler in Massachusetts who "accidentally" caught a great white shark and then released it, resulting in lots of viral media coverage. Some quick thoughts here, in no particular order. wbsm.com/nantucket-fi... 🧪🌍🦑🦈

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Massachusetts Man Catches Great White Shark With His Bare Hands

A 9-foot great white shark off Nantucket? See how this local boat captain safely released the massive beast back into the surf in under 15 seconds.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026

I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

In Soviet Russia, papers review peers!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

public-inspection.federalregister.gov

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 24/05/2026

Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ 2nd highest on record 🌊 Data from ERSSTv5 averaged over January to April.

Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each January to April period from 1900 through 2026. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

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Spencer @neverworry.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This shit is disgusting.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Ok, lets have a look at this: Over the last few days a new paper in Science has led to MANY discussions in the paleo community and it appears to have breached containment into the wider world, judging by headlines and google results.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

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iloveaeo.bsky.social @iloveaeo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I have a bad habit of typing doplhips when I mean dolphins. I am government marine biologist.

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Wake up, babe, a new Cretaceous Kraken just dropped.

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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This kind of torture and inhumane treatment is an extension of the torture and inhumane treatment present in our prisons. It’s a moral imperative to dismantle it all.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

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randomly generated oni @ceritusorbis.com · 20/04/2026

Rick Moranis coming out of retirement to make Spaceballs 2 should be bigger news than it is imo

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Spaceballs: The New One

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Not if that job is physical comedy

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/04/2026

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier

Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

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