iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 15/10/2026

The only way to prevent fascism is to rain hell on fascists and their enablers. You can’t trust voters to do it or reward you for ignoring the bad guys and focusing instead on “good governance.” That must be lesson from the Biden administration

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026

The acid test for me is a simple one: Has my professional and/or creative life benefited in any material way from "AI," and very specifically generative "AI"? No, it hasn't. Has it been negatively impacted by the same? Yup, in a whole bunch of ways. My professional life is worse now for it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026

And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The centrist wing will say it gives her baggage like Clinton, I would argue it gives her the aura of an Obama-style superpower that strikes fear in the hearts of the literal worst people on earth

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I would also urge people to lean into a culture of rebellious care right now. Our empathy and our refusal to abandon each other are at the heart of what they seek to destroy, and these things fuel all meaningful opposition—as MK and I discussed in our book, Let This Radicalize You.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/10/2026

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to censor ourselves before they even have a chance to do it. We will not do that. We will confidently put resistance politics out there into the world to go along with the movements of people who are actively trying to fight against these systems.”

publishersweekly.com

Taking a Stand: PW Talks with Haymarket Books publisher Julie Fain

Left-wing press is celebrating 25 years of publishing books on social and economic justice

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

hakeem jeffries should be in front of a microphone blasting the regime for unleashing its security forces on a member of congress under his leadership.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There’s this strange belief that saying the enemy’s name lends them strength, but the implicit underpinning of that idea is that saying their name requires you to adopt subtly apologetic, fearful, hedged criticisms. If you say their name while slugging them in the face, you simply look unafraid.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this is so much more encouraging from a purple state democrat than giving in to bullshit on trans rights this is the kind of shit people will go to the polls and fight FOR

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Okay fine. I will win the NFC East.

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"Bat & Ghoul" Russ Hellville @radicalruss.com · 08/10/2026

Democrats better learn quickly that they must stand for the people, all of the people, not just the people that Independents don't think are icky, all of the people and all of their civil rights. Or, they can become the American Labour party.

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Headline Vibe · by NoMAGA @headlinevibe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Win first” treats a targeted minority’s rights as campaign currency. Once that becomes acceptable, every future concession is easier to sell as necessary strategy.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i voted for all of them, but the response from biden, harris, obama, and the clintons to both terms of trump has been a dumpster fire. theyve sat back, laughed and joked, written books and had a good old time while regular people faced the fire.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lafeyette park is where he gassed protesters and stood with a bible. its one of the most accessible areas in dc and where ordinary people should be able to just walk. fuck this piece of fucking shit

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When some of you say "there's no money for public libraries etc..." I hope you know that there always is and it's just not prioritized.

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can’t improve on the headline

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026

you'd like to schedule a doctor's appointment? have you logged into MyHealthChart yet? Remember that MyHealthChart used to be Healbe. If you migrated your chart from Healbe Now or Healbe Epic, you are not eligible to make an account. Please make note Healbe Epic is formerly MyHealthChartRX.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

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James Aponte @jamesaponte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I finally got back to making movies again… and now I have my latest feature debuting in my hometown next weekend!

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Catrina, CEO of Ventress @ohcatrina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Consent is an immediate and enthusiastic “yes”. Not a no and then a yes after you pester them or guilt trip them. Not a half-hearted okay. Not complying because otherwise there would be an argument. Nothing but a clear yes. That’s it. It’s that simple. YES or nothing.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Bible does support the idea that unlevened bread can be transubstantiated into flesh so, you know, I don't really look to the Bible as the definitive source on trans issues.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

we're going to have to do so much to get our military back to a force that can actually fight instead of justifying pete hegseth's male inadequacy issues

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

They can start by annihilating student loan debt and dumping piles of money into the arts and humanities.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026

"Computers don't think. If we had programmed this to come out a car instead of a monkey, you'd be looking at a hairy Buick." "No Way Out" (1987), with a remarkably prescient summary of how machine learning can work with "restoring" images

a series of images from the movie NO WAY OUT where they do a remarkable job summarizing how machine learning works in "restoring" a photograph

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

feeling sad? watch spy x family sick at home? watch spy x family bored? happy? anxious? watch spy x family the panacea of our time

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I must say that I went with an Nvidia card instead of an AMD when I bought my gaming rig a couple of years ago. If I can ever afford another one (big "if" at this point), I will certainly go with an AMD, BASED SOLELY on the complete odiousness of Jensen Huang. He is for sure one of the bad guys.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dear @duckworth.senate.gov when you became a senator you swore an oath to the constitution. Well impeachment is literally in the constitution. Impeachment is your job. So yes, “get back to work.”

Article II, Section 4:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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O @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23/09/2026

seems bad

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 22/09/2026

this one from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is one of my very favorite moments in all of cinema and I'm very glad Mike included it

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026

funny thing about antitrust law is if you actually bother to enforce it you get markets with more small and mid-sized competitors that can't threaten you (see: Paramount threatening to leave California) as easily but alas, spineless corruption rules the american experiment

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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