iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Someone has to volunteer as tribute to dress like this and go on CNBC to explain software and the internet and social engineering to the people.

The cast of Hackers standing against a wall wearing pants with too many zippers.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/06/2026

You know, sending the Argentinians to Kansas City might lead to some incredible innovations in the grilled meat space

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

my man looking like the baby from the Teletubby sun grew up to be an alcoholic

still from a tv showing coverage of the UFC white house fight. it's joe rogan in an ugly tie that's too short holding a microphone and looking like a blister with acne. You can see the white House in the background.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/05/2026

Jeez, things are not great inside Google www.linkedin.com/posts/amshal...

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Today was my last day at Google. I have made a conscious choice of leaving for better. I am looking forward to spending more time with my kids, family and friends. I am looking forward to not yelling at my kiddo when he comes into my office because I am still busy until 7 PM due to some broken shit. Because we no longer have a sensible software engineering process and everything is rushed.
I am also looking forward to sleeping through the night without getting paged at 2 AM! Why and for what you ask? Because a job that, I kid you not, literally needed 2 CPUs and 20GB of RAM could not start for some time. It was starved for 2 CPUs, when God knows how many hours of CPU and RAM resources are going into GenAl! I had to get up to get an emergency loan and ensure the job runs fine. And then not be able to go back to sleep until 5-6AM.
Furthermore, I am looking forward to thinking for myself and gaining some autonomy, rather than taking product and technical decisions made up by higher-ups and executives (who are probably using Al for those decisions) and feeding them to Al to generate garbage. This has become absolutely meaningless to me very quickly over the past year. I don't want to be just another execution arm for someone else.
Trust me, I am not against Al. Heck, I have a masters in Al. I use a lot of GenAl myself, but work has lost all meaning to me. This GenAl stuff and the way it is changing software engineering creative process might be cool and fun to someone without a computer science or software engineering background. It might give them a sugar high, making them think they have superpowers now, but I find absolutely no joy in it. Needless to say, the use of Al where it should not be used is reaching new levels of absurdity.
I want to go back to "basics" and think. I invite you to do that as well.
With that, cheers to a better tomorrow. Better for humans, not Al freaking agents!.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 28/03/2026

(via chaos.social/@1337core/11...)

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 28/03/2026

@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com Can we make this story a banner feature of Woke 2 / New Green? (‘Telephone Tales’, Gianni Rodari, 1962)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/03/2026

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/03/2026

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

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Michael Neth @infernocloud.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is why game rules are important and you don't do house rules. Smarter people than us designed these games to work correctly!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/02/2026

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours theonion.com/exhausted-friends-slow…

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell. This is fucking crazy!!!!

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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 31/12/2025

⏰ 12 HOURS TO GO 👀 When the new year begins, so does #PublicDomainDay2026. At 12:00 a.m. ET, iconic books, films, and music move into the public domain—and we’ll be sharing highlights #here all night long. 🔔 Set your reminder ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

Original 1930 illustrated cover of The Little Engine That Could: a small blue steam engine pulls a curved train uphill through snowy mountains, hauling brightly colored red and yellow cars filled with toys and animals—including a giraffe, elephant, and teddy bear—under the bold title text “THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD” at the top.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 20/11/2025

“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability

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Michael Neth @infernocloud.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings in Wichita, Kansas was huge again. This is where democracy can really be seen because there are no bots in the real world. Even Fred Armisen was out here!

A large crowd at a No Kings protest in Wichita, Kansas.

A large crowd at a No Kings protest in Wichita, Kansas. A truck drives by with a sign on it saying, "Trump is king of arrogant morons."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/07/2025

"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen

Social media users were quick to note that ChatGPT's answer to Lewis' queries takes a strikingly similar form to SCP Foundation articles, a Wikipedia-style database of fictional horror stories created by users online.

"Entry ID: #RZ-43.112-KAPPA, Access Level:
| (Sealed Classification Confirmed)," the chatbot nonsensically declares in one of his screenshots, in the typical writing style of SCP fiction. "Involved Actor Designation: 'Mirrorthread, Type: Non-institutional semantic actor (unbound linguistic process; non-physical entity)."

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Mr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It is extraordinarily weird watching him conveying a single, cohesive thought for more than five seconds here. It really does show you that, while his heart as always been several shades deeper than vantablack, there's something medically wrong with his brain at this point.

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 08/06/2025

These fascist dipshits keep claiming there is all kinds of violence in Los Angeles right now. At this very moment, even! Weirdly, every single local channel is running regular programming, instead of this BREAKING NEWS EVENT. It's like ... it's like the dipshits are lying, or something. Weird.

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dan @danabra.mov · 31/05/2025

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Progressive JSON

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Progressive JSON — overreacted

Why streaming isn't enough.

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Sarah Todd @sarah-todd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This week’s newsletter is about how to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate, when you’re actually amazing and it's they that suck. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

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How to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate

Look at all this evidence of humanity! Gimme $2 and become a premium subscriber. This week’s question comes to us from DB: How do I make art without feeling...

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Cammymoop @cammymoop.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Just because the pieces stick in Stick and Stack, doesn't mean you can't still do cool tricks! Wishlist or try the beta now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/... #indiegame #pixelart #tetris

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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