iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Asad Margins @catsashimi.bsky.social · 1h

Simone Weil hit on something similar: "Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 4h

you know he has some *wild* burner accounts

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 4h

Instead, just a bunch of white men - who are a vast supermajority of all elected officials, every President ever save one - almost all complaining that there "isn't a candidate for them." How is any of this news? What did we learn? Extremely weak tea.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 4h

Long, soft-focus piece on @npr.org Morning Edition about the Democratic Party's "struggles with men" in a series of conversations with (white) Maine men. Not once was it mentioned that men have *always* leaned conservative - not once was there a sense of how today is more or less than that.

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Andrew Simmons @adlsimmons.bsky.social · 13h

I'm working on an article about teachers who bring guests into the classroom to serve as visiting experts, judges, audiences, and more. I'd love to chat with any public or private school educators who make this practice part of their pedagogy. Please feel free to message me here.

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 20h

Founding a worker-owned local news outfit in 2022, we didn't know if we'd last a month. But as @hellgatenyc.com enters our fifth year, we are surviving, and even thriving. Here's our 2026 annual report, detailing our achievements and challenges of the past year. hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

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Hell Gate 2026 Annual Report

As Hell Gate roars into its fifth year, let's take a minute to talk about how things are going.

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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 22h

"fouled by allegations"???!!?! JFC, NPR. He admitted in court he sexually abused teenage wrestlers as young as 14, after which the judged called him “a serial child molester.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23h

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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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A terrific contemporary tech dictionary thread.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Roko’s basilisk: the comforting fantasy that there will be a God whose notice you are worthy of.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Its not quite time to really tell people what’s happening, plainly, because they’re still caught in the midterms fever but someone credible has to emerge soon to do it or it’s a wrap.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

truly shocking first 15-20 minutes of film, really *not* what we were prepared for

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Edwin being Good again just in time for the playoffs is some deeply Dodgers shit

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very funny that the Dodgers got a Bad Edwin Diaz season this year and now he might just be nails again.*If* that's the case it's just very hard to see any team scoring enough runs over a series to beat them.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

oh yeah didn't graduate high school is a pretty common one for me!

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

sure it's kind of their approach with everything - "the Holocaust didn't happen/it was/would've been awesome"

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't think it's just that, a lot of them are straightforwardly pro-rape.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy"

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

re-charter Congressionally created Executive Branch agencies as Congressional agencies or QUANGOs with Fed-style governance

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very cool. A program in NYC gave 2 kWh batteries to families in order to let them run the AC during peak demand and charging the battery at night when energy is cheap. I predict a time when it will be weird that houses didn't have batteries. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units

Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 03/10/2026

Holy shit I've never in my life heard of a publication treating an interview one reporter did as fair game for *every single journalist who works at that publication* that's BANANAS and I would not ever speak with USA Today as long as that's the case.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yes totally agreed and I think there is going to be a reversal of tide here, eventually

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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit treating Deshaun Watson like any other QB, and nary a mention of two dozen sexual assault allegations as part of an already disgusting “redemption” arc they’ve spent all night trying to weave is really gross.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

kind of shocked to realize that not only is Riggo still alive, he's looking good and sounding sharp

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it was a great fucking time and definitely broke something important in me that I won't get back

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely incredible. I love to see this digital art history being preserved.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Assistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival Studies

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tbf it didn't seem like we were doing *great*

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Going to bed

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's a zeroeth thing here, as well - which is that newspapers (and publishers more generally) *failed to maintain their ad business* during the transition to digital. They knew it was coming; they chose short term profits instead of winning the future. Much more on this in my book, soon!

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Poor Circulation: How Newspapers Abandoned their Readers and Lost the

Jacob Kramer-DuffieldFebruary 2, 2027 The newspaper industry is in dire straits. It could have been avoided. Once important enough to be protected explicitly by the first amendment, newspapers today ...

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very good thread from Josh on the current state of play in news media. One slight note though -

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also the author of the canonical "AI is made from people" feature! Putting together quite the clips folder.

theverge.com

Inside the AI Factory

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 01/10/2026

I 100% agree with this. The risks from AI aren’t anything to do with existential threats from superintelligence. The risks are negligence, lack of care for the people and ecosystems impacted by this work, and invasions of privacy at scale.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I suppose that's also why you didn't have room to talk about the ad where Brady is going to fuck the bare mattress but them's the breaks.

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Simmons Beautyrest Black: Dream in Black Suite with Tom Brady

YouTube video by Sleep Geekz

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

jason: so the team of the school you’re visiting is the gamecocks, and this is their mascot. what do you think his name is me: Cocky jason: … yes, it’s Cocky

it’s that famous red thing that son-of-a-gun Cocky

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yeah this was the first thing I thought as well

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm just not sure I see the misfit - I'm an adjunct and part of what my union contract guarantees me is more or less total autonomy in design and execution of my courses (within general departmental and school parameters); Hollywood unions pushed hard for writing room structure and freedom

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yeah I just don't know. The bigger answer of why that all hasn't worked is that the alumni networks support the chapters, and the alumni are men in Congress and Fortune 500 executive positions. If it were to become shameful for them to keep supporting frats, that'd be big.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Benetti has developed a great approach to the national games through the year, NBC being back on baseball coverage has been a big positive

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