iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As Churchill famously said, we shall debate fascist semantics in the New York Times, we shall debate it on Channel 4 News, we shall debate it on the BBC (coming soon)... We shall never surrender! @astra.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/cd0kC...

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But IS IT fascism

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

My thoughts on the "AI slow down" are ~ the same as my thoughts on the "AI pause", back in 2023/2024 👇🏾: All they want is time to capture & shift the regulatory & paradigmatic frames away from their rapaciousness, & to skate on the money they owe for promises they absolutely will not be able to keep

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Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

…You know they just want time to play catch up and plan for regulatory capture in secret, right? https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1641136990753103872

3/30/2023, 1:05:36 PM

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Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

…Y'all i am so fucking tired.

CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction.

WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).

HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction.

And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.

Screenshot of a question and answer from Time Magazine:
Questioner:
How can we untangle all of this?

Damien P. Williams:
One problem I have with the “AI Pause” some have suggested is that it does not look back. So many people have said, “Okay, let’s not build anything stronger than GPT-4 right now because we don’t know what it will do and it seems like it might get out of hand very quickly.” But none of that is about disentangling the current problems in those systems. If a pause were to happen, it would need to be to reassess what prejudices and inequalities are already baked into the systems we’re using now. If we don’t or can’t stop and fix these problems, we may have to untangle them by junking the current systems and starting anew. Either way, the process must be both thorough, and fast.

Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

Remember: the vast majority of these signers not only anti-care about "a.i." oversight & policy, they also only care about "existential risk" as a means to get you believing their hype & Never in any sense of "exacerbated capitalism left unchecked is driving us all to extinction"

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Boosters say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to solve all of our problems. The Doomers say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to kill us all. >>

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is still the most memorable part of the whole affair for me

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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know it's where we're at in 2026 and we all know it, but it bears stating the obvious that every major company in the world is openly throwing a tantrum that people expect them to provide goods and services instead of just sending them a payment of $200 every month for nothing

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/09/2026

Nobody can afford the necessities of life, authoritarianism is on the march, oligarchs are immiserating everyone, the climate crisis is intensifying, AI is on the verge of getting out of control… …and this is the “one goal” Corporate Dems are singularly focused on

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iratelump.bsky.social @iratelump.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is well past time for Canada and anywhere else in the world to end "safe third country" designations for the United States. Continuing to do so is simply enabling the Trump administration's chain refoulement and other human rights abuses.

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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 30/08/2026

It blows my mind how the rich don't seem to think the help have plans to immediately toss them out the airlock. But also, don't think the billionaire tech cultists haven't been whispering amonst themselves about just how many humans will be needed once they think the robots can do everything.

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every day another one of these

"this does not help your cause" - guy who hates you and your cause

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i am so tired of all of this shit. im tired of people getting vaporized wantonly with my tax dollars. im tired of being ruled over by mafiosos. im tired of the demands that normal people sop up the crocodile tears of bad faith wreckers. im tired of the alternating threats/self pity of trillionaires

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/08/2026

Bernie Sanders is leading the charge against data centers, but his AI policy leaves a lot to be desired. As Sanders follows the hype, AOC is taking a different tack by targeted the real harms of generative AI. We need policy that takes on the reality of AI, not the industry’s exaggerations.

disconnect.blog

Bernie Sanders has AI policy all wrong

His criticisms are responding to industry hype, not the real harms of generative AI

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

I feel like it might have been a bad idea to hand the world over to sociopaths

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 30/07/2026

There's already so many ways to play N64 games without supporting a fashy little freak's pet project. Do not buy the war crime n64. aftermath.site/war-crime-n64-...

Palmer Luckey sitting behind his little M64 by ModRetro.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I get to put a hat on Heater one (1) time per year and it’s when she’s under anesthesia while getting her teeth cleaned. The vet puts it on before she wakes up. I consider it a fair trade for the cost of her dental cleaning.

I am beaming while holding an EXTREMELY high Heater. She is an orange cat with little white mittens and — in this picture only — wearing a crocheted watermelon hat. She IS NOT happy about it.

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 24/07/2026

Watching CBC News, you might not even make the connection between this year's extreme wildfire season, and fossil fuel-induced climate change. Tara Mahoney sits down with @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss gaps in the public broadcaster’s climate coverage. breachmedia.ca/why-is-cbcs-...

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Why is CBC’s reporting on wildfires ignoring the role of climate change? ⋆ The Breach

Tara Mahoney sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss the climate gaps in CBC’s wildfire coverage

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

While this is happening to Cuba Canada is doing nothing to help. That's not Canadian values. Those are Mark Carney's values. What the hell is wrong with that guy? www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXNf...

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Cuba’s deepening crisis as residents ask how much longer they can endure

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"Oh no Thomas, but their beliefs! Their sincerely held beliefs!" fuck their beliefs, fascists don't believe you have rights, stop volunteering for the Fascist Feeling Defense Brigade.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 26/06/2026

Become ungovernable

A fake coyote with a sign Fake Coyote Goose Deterrent next to it, some geese are walking by nonplussed

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 25/06/2026

The federal government plans to privatize the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre, described as being at the forefront of innovation in the country. Along with it goes control over the centre’s publicly built technology. Christopher Holcroft writes. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Carney is Selling Off Canada’s Publicly Owned Tech Gem. Why? | The Tyee

Leading the charge is Build Canada and a broligarchy of AI boosters. Second in a series.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Internal mechanism
The True Source of Value
ASI
Golden Egg factory inside the goose
What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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Shareholder Value = 3 eggs
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Increase = 71
It was the goose that created value
74 - 3 = 71
Goose value
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As Poilievre stepped on stage to address the CSFN conference in May, some of Canada’s most prominent conservatives were watching. So was an increasingly notorious “Canadian nationalist.” New for @thetyee.ca: I dig into the organized effort to make a racist movement mainstream in Canadian politics.

The Tyee headline reads: A Racist Group Is Trying to Gain Legitimacy in Canadian Politics

Subhead reads: The Dominion Society is part of an international far-right movement proposing mass deportations.

It also says the story is by Rachel Gilmore

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iratelump.bsky.social @iratelump.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Carney cuts are now well underway. I don't think many of the people who voted for the Liberals in the last election were expecting these kinds of service reductions. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/eco...

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Parks Canada begins ‘first period’ of job cuts

Parks Canada is entering the “first period of workforce adjustments,” as part of the federal government’s plan to reduce the size of the public service over the next three years.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/06/2026

ah, I was wondering why the NYT was having a panic attack yesterday lol

nyt headline

Mexico Can't Go On This Way

Mexico amends constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore boss's calls, messages and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum have lifted 13.5 million people out of poverty in the last 8 years, but NYT wants us to know that Mexico “can’t go on this way.”

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 21/05/2026

Memo to the global community: Canada has officially abandoned climate action. PM Carney has systematically dismantled all the insufficient policy we had in place. A clear-eyed and devastating piece by my brother, @sethdklein.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought | Seth Klein

While Canada may be clinging to fossil fuels, much of the world is moving on

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 16/05/2026

INNOCENT

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

4 panel anakin/padme meme: a skin says “data centers are less popular than nazis” and padme says “wow, and nazis are really unpopular right?” anakin says nothing. padme says again “nazis are really unpopular right?”

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Did you know there’s a Liberal MP who supported the convoy, spread misinformation about vaccines and more? Well, Carney seems to trust Marilyn Gladu to betray many of the things she previously claimed to believe — but do Canadians? Well, I got some clips together. Here’s Marilyn, in her own words:

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 18/03/2026

Commentary: AI translation of literature should be questioned because literary translation requires human interpretation and cultural understanding that machines cannot provide.

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Lost in AI translation: What’s at stake? Our humanity.

Literary translation is one of humanity's most crucial tasks — one that should never be left to the machines.

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 05/03/2025

it is very telling that “BIOS”, in addition to being an acronym, is also the Greek word for “life”. meanwhile, “UEFI” is, of course, ancient Greek for “unified extensible firmware interface”

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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 28/02/2026

There are really no words to describe the horrors that this war on Iran will unleash. Yet the Canadian government is supporting this illegal catastrophe launched by a country that is threatening to annex us.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 27/02/2026

GEE, I SURE WONDER HOW WE GOT HERE, LANCET!?

COVID-19 Commission US lab origin conspiracy theory (2022)
In September 2022, The Lancet published the report of their COVID-19 Commission headed by Jeffrey Sachs, an economist with no medical background, who has pushed the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 came from a US "biotechnology" lab.[44][45] Before the report's release, Sachs appeared on the podcast of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who previously spread vaccine conspiracy theories. On the podcast episode, Sachs claimed that "Government officials such as Anthony Fauci "are not being honest" about the virus's origins".[46]

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.

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formthehead @formthehead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 05/02/2026

in case you missed it, they pepper sprayed a one year old baby girl in a literal drive-by shooting style because they’re terrorists gang members. nobody is safe, period. youtube.com/shorts/8Jceg...

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ICE Agents Pepper Spray A 1-Year-Old Girl

YouTube video by good morning, bad news

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iratelump.bsky.social @iratelump.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The hipster coffee shop post is back! Can we get Nick Adams to start doing press conference in front of a brownstone with someone he hired from craigslist to tell comically laughable lies about politicians, too? Those were fun.

Old post by Jacob Wohl reading: "I just left a hipster coffee shop. It was packed with liberals, whispering amongst each other about what a commendable job President Trump did with Vladimir Putin this morning in Helsinki -- America is PROUD!"

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition.

Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 25/01/2026

Wojak "Yes, Chad" meme where the soyjack is saying "Nooooooooooooo
I have a high IQ and don't respond well to shrill noises" and the Chad is saying "Plastic whistle go eeeeeeeeeeeeee"

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🚨"Theyr're dumping people in the woods" - Medical workers are flagging potential cases of federal agents releasing injured detainees in the most inhumane method possible. LIVE NOW⬇️

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/01/2026

*squints* So if you pay to use their product, the reward you get is that you then have to pay them to use your own products????? That’s the plan????????

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

John Birch Society having a totally normal moment.

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