iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/10/2026

The modern Republican party is like a specialized island species where they have no known predators. They are completely unprepared for a hostile environment. They have designed their own simulacrum and no longer how to live among us here, in the Real.

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I love New York.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They're also both incredibly clumsy and obvious. Don Segretti, the Nixon operative who coined the term ratfucking, would be embarrassed to see how half-assed this all is.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

2nd busiest passenger rail corridor in the country if it were a freeway, even redundant to other freeways, it would be fixed immediately like the 10 after the fire in LA

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The stats (very lightly and inconclusively and from a limited sample a few years ago, which makes it even better) back you up

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a kind of attribution error if true. Those big ticket items have gotten more expensive at a rate almost laughably greater than core inflation; if normal goods prices were flat you still wouldn't be able to afford the big things. But it's easy to see why core inflation would feel so damn bad.

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And this would increase sensitivity to normal goods inflation if the income increase by a greater amount. You'd never care if you're building wealth! But you're not. So you look at where your money *is* going and damn no wonder I can't build wealth, look at the price of these eggs!

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Squares w/ my half-cocked vibecession theory. Income up = normal goods more affordable. But if BIG stuff (college, home, new car, retirement) is out of reach anyway? We're not building any wealth? Then it breaks the "deal" we have in our heads about what making money does for us. Feels bad!

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay led the UN commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza. It also concluded that Hamas committed war crimes, including sexual violence, on 7 October 2023. It is long past time we stop denying any and all of that.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The combination of "everyone has to be in a car all the time" and "everyone is now performing for a camera and creating content all the time" is a bad combination and not a sign of a healthy society.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

0:00 - this is dumb, who cares about growing giant vegetables 1:20 - if Secretariat doesn't win the Giant Zucchini Contest I'm gonna burn down America

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bride of Boogedy, a kid-oriented made-for-TV sequel to kid-oriented made-for-TV nonsense. That silly trash was my first experience of horror by way of possession and it still gets to me in my 40s. Very annoying.

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you are ever in a place showing the 4K restoration of Days of Heaven, don’t miss it. The current Netflix-sponsored run may be closing everywhere now, not sure (it closes today in NYC), but it’s breathtaking in that format. It gave me the same feeling I get looking at the world from a mountaintop.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#TodayInHistory: 🎬 #OnThisDay 52 years ago, the film “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” opened in theaters. Now heralded as a classic, the 1974 action crime caper flick is the original film by this name. It was also remade in 1998 for TV and as a major motion picture in 2009.“

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 01/10/2026

good @profferguson.bsky.social quote in this one: “My fear is that there will be a Pyrrhic victory of winning the battle against Flock but losing the war against mass surveillance”

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On November 4 you're gonna hear a lot of tech freaks claim that really they consider themselves to be center left

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Eric Reese @reeseer83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

States like to present lethal injection as a clean, almost medical, form of execution, but it's all just prison warden chemistry experiments administered by amateurs and should rightly fall afoul of the 8th Amendment.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nothing but loosely circa 1990 bangers in the primary care waiting room this morning. “Emotions” “The Way You Make Me Feel” “Again” Feeling the urge to put on a school uniform and make sure my homework is in my backpack.

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

current status: thinking about Train Dreams again

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 26/09/2026

(apocryphal Marie Antoinette voice) let them live in the cloud

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The change of the leaves during an election year in Maine has a special kind of power over Susan Collins, the rhetorical equivalent of being bit by a radioactive spider. It’s truly a remarkable natural phenomenon.

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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

American CEO: “We can’t control it!” American CEO 2: “It will destroy us all!” American CEO 3: “The apocalypse!” French CEO [hitting a Gauloise, exhaling slowly]: “C’est une issue de skill.”

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Accepting antisocial behavior is 👏 not 👏 a requirement 👏 of progressive 👏 urbanism!

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is great storytelling. Ignore the preview thumbnail here. This isn't "here's why this boot rules." It's a very human exploration of familiarity and craft and artisanship and working to a purpose.

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Why Forest Rangers Still Wear This 75-Year-Old Boot.

YouTube video by The Iron Snail

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just one of the remarkable stories from this piece:

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, I have also seen Annie Hall, good job Belgians I guess.

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Weird to do a pod on a 29 year old who just moved from Celtic to Bursaspor but I guess it's good to catch up with old friends

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is absolutely infuriating what a banger this is. I’m sharing a fucking insurance ad just to make sure the rest of you hear this bop.

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It's the Dog Park | Progressive Insurance Commercial

YouTube video by Progressive Insurance

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder how much of this is not actually opposition to the idea of free money but people finally understanding that Trump is full of shit.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One thing I always say about polls about young people is that people overread exit polls about them as being fixed for two reasons. 1. There is always a new cohort of young people at each election 2. Young people are especially prone to being politically volatile

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I love how politicians are constantly texting me from a never-ending series of new unblocked phone numbers using zip codes appropriate to where they’re applying for a job. It’s just like how my friends text me.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I enjoy this a lot because the four places I’ve lived fit nicely onto the map, roughly paired at opposite ends of the two highest similarity zones. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Map of the contiguous US, shaded on a continuum of blue to red, with red indicating “most like you”. A light red portion curves roughly from New Mexico through Lake Michigan with its darkest area around St Louis and downstate Illinois. A darker red portion curves from roughly Buffalo down through the major mid Atlantic cities. A third dark portion covers south Florida. Crudely colored aqua circles in the red section roughly indicate Kansas City, Chicago, DC, and NYC.

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James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm curious about curbside as a fueler of last resort. Add it in strategic locations, but mandate a kwh price 300% (or whatever, smarter people than me do the math) of the average off-street price. Then distribute the overage to a local benefit district, the Hidden Cost of Free Parking approach.

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 03/09/2026

ULEZ is truly transformative, and it's insane that people are still mad about it. Every city in the world should be doing this. bsky.app/profile/dmos...

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bluesky is like a rehab clinic for people whose time on twitter poisoned our brains so our automatic reflex when we see something upsetting is to repost & inflict it on as many ppl as possible but we're surrounded by guys who don't even want to come off the stuff. Still doing it. Passing it round.

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