iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Picard management tip: Some of your decisions are going to be mistakes. You have to make them anyway.

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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

gentle reminder: the void is for screaming, the abyss is for staring, please don't mix that up and ruin the experience for the rest of us

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am taking a class right now for the first time in over a decade and the textbook is a online only McGraw-Hill book "edited" by my instructor from chapters of OTHER McG-H textbooks. It is totally incoherent. The book is only accessed through the McG-H interface. No part of it is even printable.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Im sure there are actually horrible ghouls saying nightmarish things online but I actually think people rallying to support cultural institutions with their bodies in the face of the fascist assault on beauty and art is good

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

It's very easy for people not affected, to think that it is doomerism when people point out that having your freedom yanked back after a brief window is *absolutely fucking demoralizing*. More so than at any point in fighting to get that brief window.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

It's one thing to fight for decades and win your freedom. It's another to watch it instantly torn away a decade or two later, and then be asked "just do it over again, c'mon don't be a doomer, it worked once so"

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Pretty Khemyst @prettykhemyst.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

*taps mic* This is your reminder that the folks telling you about the 'evils' of vaccinations are in fact vaccinated along with their family members.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Remember when people were pissed that the Obama administration subsidized cheap cellphones for low income folks?

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jacob galapagos @jacobgalapagos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s think for yourself thursday

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump's first act of kindness will be dying

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Because there are two Americas*, we are underestimating the amount of psychosocial grief unleashed this past week Michael Wright Cassandra Wilson Dolly Parton Tim Curry Gloria Steinem In basically one week

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

They want to shield racists, and make it out of line to describe people as racist, because they believe in racism and would like to proliferate racist ideas with as little friction as possible.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 06/08/2026

Imagine if instead of the hands free operation you've been using, every function of your phone is nominally available through the worst bullshit automated customer service interaction you've ever had

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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What if you did your job instead of writing sternly-worded letters?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Complaints about intellectual diversity from the right are basically a coping mechanism to avoid the obvious explanation. There are few astrologers in the astrophysics department, because most people with advanced scientific education stop believing in astrology. But that explanation’s not allowed.

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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Universities need to stop half-assing their response to the all-out assault on science (and higher education more broadly) if we are to have a hope of surviving. We should know that a concept of a plan is not going to work. Universities need to coordinate and take bold action or we're cooked.

science.org

University science in the US needs a coherent plan

The Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Univ...

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The thing about burrito discourse is that broadly people under 40 have decided the economy does not provide the living standard they want, on everything from housing to gas to the price of going out. Whether or not this is an irrational belief is irrelevant, somebody has to successfully address it.

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Jean-Luc Picard @spacedadsupport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just because you never received praise doesn’t mean you never deserved it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026

Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Anthropic's CEO says AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Victorian bootmakers suggest a different possibility. A story about sewing machines, economics, and why history can help us think more clearly about AI. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-victo...

newsletter.platypuseconomics.com

What Bootmakers Can Teach Us About AI

Anthropic's CEO warns AI could erase half of entry-level jobs. Victorian England suggests a different possibility.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps

Top is a map of the US with “Google search volume for “eyes hurt” April 3 to April 10 2024” with a hot line running from Texas north east through to Maine. The bottom map shows the path of the total solar eclipse which runs in a lone from Texas through to Maine

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And when there was only one set of footprints in the sand, o my child, that was when I blocked you.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026

My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026

I wrote about how nuclear weapons are still a problem and it's a problem if the people who have the nuclear codes can't be trusted not to use them "And importantly, scientists need to understand then, who it is we make a deal with when we compromise on our values in order to get funding." ⚛️🧪🔭

news.chanda.science

We can't have metaphors anymore because everything is literal

or How I'm still worried about nuclear weapons

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Dr. Jen @notthatkindadr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

of our fellow scientists have an ethics problem. They think if they design something that then gets used to kill/harm people, it's not on them. I saw this firsthand at Los Alamos. My own boss said of his work there 'if there's a hell, I'm pretty sure I'm burning in it.' Stop working for madmen ppl

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You can actually budget all you want and stop eating out, but it doesn’t change the fact that people don’t just make enough money for this economy anymore.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

To Trump and his tech and MAGA cronies, "reinventing government" means maximizing profit for themselves and people like them, while making it maximally punitive and exhausting for voters, taxpayers, entrepreneurs, or anyone in need. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

thebulwark.com

Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose

Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.

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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The ambivalence I feel reading this is stunning.

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dylan @pinkponysub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I want 4 day work weeks, free universal healthcare, and a livable wage to meet my basic needs!!

Anne Hathaway as Penelope in her soon to be Oscar winning performance screaming I want odysseys in the odyssey 2026

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/07/2026

John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.” (Published December 2025)

propublica.org

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 24/07/2026

You actually don't have to base all your politics around being afraid of what Republicans might do or say. They're going to do and say those things either way so you might as well try to get health care

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The Economist @economist.com · 24/07/2026

Hugging Face is no laggard. The tech firm is valued at $4.5bn with hundreds of employees and a dedicated cyber-security team. How did an AI agent hack into its servers?

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Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet

Containing the technology is getting harder

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King ♛ @thekingjshow.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026

I really ain’t got much to give socially rn. a bitch is utterly depleted to put it nicely

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[Light Tru] @momentoftru.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Bare Minimum Friday. BMF Try to take it as easy as you can today if you can. If it can wait until Monday, let it.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

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Spicy Garbage Soup for Brains @copaceticmes.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026

looks like i can't drink the water either

Detroit Free Press article with the headline

"Boil water advisories, restrictions in Oakland County after pump failure"

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am not, never have been, and never will be, "here for it."

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14/07/2026

The Roberts Court campaign to re-segregate public life is proceeding apace. Unlike their other racist rulings, this one to segregate higher education has shocking amounts of buy-in from mainstream society thanks to decades of propaganda amplified by sloppy or unethical media coverage.

chronicle.com

Nearly 70% of Selective Colleges Lost Racial Diversity After Admissions Ban

Three years after the Supreme Court ruled against the use of race in such decisions, institution-level changes are starting to emerge.

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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I will go even further and say I won’t vote for anyone who doesn’t want to *prosecute* every single ICE and BP agent, down to the interns working desks in those agencies

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is a beautiful essay on learning, unwillingly, how to hate. "He died, and all I can say is I wish it had happened sooner, and been more humiliating." By @magsvisaggio.com assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham is Dead - Assigned Media

How a decade of hate made me a worse person

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