iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 18h

You know a gene is selfish when its DNA twists the wrong way, as demonstrated by the left-handed double-helix proudly adorning the 50th Anniversary Edition of the multimillion copy bestseller on this topic.

The front cover of the 50th Anniversary Edition of the multimillion copy bestseller "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, featuring an image of DNA that is bold, colourful, and chirally incorrect.

1315131 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

New in PN: Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization "With early voting underway, Omar got agents at her door at 6am, when her 14-year-old was inside, over a theory cooked up on an anonymous message board. Republicans never objected to weaponizing the DOJ. They just wanted custody of the weapon."

publicnotice.co

Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization

Just kidding, they always love it when they’re holding the weapon.

442281687 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

862866402 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is virtue, I believe, in the protection of the collective. Safeguarding the community is so much harder than lifting the ego. Anyways, join a union, fight inequality & reject the idea that any 1 is better than the health of the many. You know who taught us that? Plato (and later Rousseau).

216920 0

Jonathan Miller @intercalator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hate that I understand the reference

070 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But we're in a time in the world when no one really wants to do anything so boring as "pay to support the institutions that do the hard dull work of developing knowledge." And when I say "no one" I don't just mean the fascists. Slopulism is everywhere and everyone wants the fast easy answer.

07313 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

2854653344 0

Jonathan Miller @intercalator.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He doesn’t know where the pope lives, does he

010 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aaron is not exaggerating one bit. This is not just some fancy way to say “I don’t like Trump” These are the ramblings of a disordered mind. The interviewers have done us a service by taking it all down verbatim.

25514 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My favorite example of this is the lab leak, where LEAKED SECRET SLACK MESSAGES show scientists going "wow, this could really be a lab leak," then investigating, finding no evidence and moving on. To this day conspiracy theorists claim the chats prove the leak is real.

547428 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

14095462208 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

who gives a fuck what the hologram wants? is everyone suffering from a series of brain injuries

1556679 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

hollywoodreporter.com

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

201151664 1

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

5843511194 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Trump administration gave a high level security clearance and unprecedented access to your sensitive PII and financials to a kid who ran foreign CSAM boards, was fired from his only prior real job for stealing company data, and was linked to a Russian cybercrime ring.

219578 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

6079102231 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

7164881220 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It would be cool if they covered the literal top Republican donor for the second cycle in a row being an Actual Nazi as being as important as they covered Piker saying Mao had some good ideas bsky.app/profile/mcke...

3748113 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

251171310 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Foods are making people sick in numbers not seen in recent memory because FDA is not inspecting food bc they fired their food inspectors, yet for some reason this same FDA is still fixated on trying to deny 46 years of evidence that mifepristone is safe, including 4 major FDA reviews finding it safe

fda.gov

Questions and Answers on Mifeprex

213661 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is nuts AND...290 people attended in-person (with another 230 online). Pathetic showing from a small & unpopular but very loud group that has hijacked American public health to our deep detriment.

8388114 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We live in a world where the incumbent HHS Secretary delivers a keynote at a conference that attacks the polio vaccine and where our incoming surgeon general owns stock in tobacco companies and sells “herbals.” This is deeply abnormal. Save our ship. @nicollewallace.bsky.social

10692223 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

6072192559 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)

844252861 0

Jonathan Miller @intercalator.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Kirby frame bsky.app/profile/anth...

1194 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It is not a "grim choice" to support either a psychotic Republican or a mainstream center-left politician.

he Michigan Senate election has presented liberals with a grim choice. The Republican candidate, Mike Rogers, has pledged support for a corrupt, racist, authoritarian-minded administration. Rogers hasn’t made even the tiniest concession to Donald Trump critics. But supporting El-Sayed means accepting a strain of anti-Semitic politics that to date has had no place within the Democratic Party.

What’s more, El-Sayed has already said that he intends to use his victory as a platform to reshape the party. Him winning could invite a future in which the United States has not just one party that is open to bigots but two.

Although El-Sayed has never said anything nearly as inflammatory as the sorts of comments Piker makes routinely, his mixture of anti-Zionism and populism treats pro-Israel activism as a nefarious and all-pervasive force. He has denied that any Democrat who believes in human rights could have any motive other than money for holding a position on Israel different from the one he prefers. El-Sayed tends to depict nearly all opposition to his candidacy as financially driven, but when applied to Jewish political activity, this charge becomes even more conspiratorial.

702313243 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2026

"that's not a real problem, this guy is just saying that bc he's a piece of shit who wants attention" boom, keep it moving

1537 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(I'll add that this is why you see so many people who believe utterly bonkers things say that they got there by following the evidence and doing their own research. They recognize science as authoritative, and try to mimic the things they think it does.)

0133 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

2162541958 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is basically right-wing Lysenkoism. There’s no “conservative science” or “socialist science.” There’s just science, and people who want to hijack the prestige of science on behalf of ideology.

7941242 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm also not sure it should be necessary for anyone to have to explain that you cannot calculate a national average from a sample of 20 people, but apparently we have to seriously engage with every argument from scientific racists and not simply laugh them out of academia

Section of text

Small sample sizes are not a problem
Parra and Kirkegaard (2025; p9) claim “a sample of 20 can provide a reasonably precise estimate of a population mean”. Warne (2023; p202) argues a sample size of 96 is sufficient “to have a 95% confidence interval width of +/- 3 IQ points”, and that only five countries in the 2019 dataset fail to meet this criteria. Neither claim takes into account the need for national averages to be calculated from data which is representative of citizens of those nation-states. Data collection exercises which aim to be nationally representative involve much larger sample sizes, typically several thousand individuals, such as the example of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) mentioned above (Corsi et al, 2012). At their inception in the 1980s, DHS sampled between 3,000-5,000 participants, and in the 2020s include 5,000-30,000. Nation-states often involve many millions of citizens, and considerable diversity across demographic and economic factors. Sample sizes of 20 or 96 individuals cannot hope to adequately reflect this diversity.

2373 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 21/08/2026

90 day discount on beef—does nothing to address the problem. Clown economics.

1041246223 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.

312379565 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

7855071452 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here is a fun clip of Sean Duffy and his wife explaining to their daughter that Harvard, a top tier American university, is too woke and scary for her. This was brought to us by our own tax dollars, as part of a reality show purporting to be about a road trip across America.

521682328 0

Jonathan Miller @intercalator.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How strongly did he ever hold those environmentally sustainability beliefs in the first place?

000 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m surprised by how little attention this case has gotten. Even I didn’t really register it for a while. This entire family of three permanent residents were summarily detained without even the option of bond, all as collective punishment for one one of them being the son of an Iranian official

8336183 0

Jonathan Miller @intercalator.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And without a single reference to some new bombshell piece of credible evidence nor pushing this through the health agencies under his control, it all just gives away the game, doesn't it?

000 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

8408245 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I know you'll be extremely shocked to hear this, but the loudest "keep politics out of sports" folks were always full of shit.

791891302 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

There's been a steadily building narrative among conservatives and centrists that the lab leak theory was suppressed, but when you look at both public and private statements of scientists they all said it was plausible and should be investigated. Absolutely infuriating how this gets memory-holed

1367376 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Jha says "the available evidence overwhelmingly points toward a research-related incident in Wuhan " on the basis of no new evidence and no direct published evidence, but oh, BTW he does have a start up that provides paid assessments of lab leak risks. Hmmm.

1124 0

Jonathan Miller @intercalator.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Crazy how all these bad things happened while he was president!

0232 0

Reposted by Jonathan Miller

EagleBeaverMan @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’ve been waiting my whole life for a class of politicians who articulates their view of the world coherently and goes on the attack to impose it instead of reacting to questioning from a defensive crouch. Now, finally, they seem to be emerging.

071 0