iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 29/09/2026

I continue to feel good about boycotting all Meta products

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Federal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one of the disconcerting things about all this is finding out how many people appear to be desperately seeking someone to do their thinking for them. i sincerely don't get it.

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Jim Ray @jimray.net · 22/09/2026

My entire politically aware life has been watching an increasingly rabid right wing eek out the narrowest electoral victories due to consolidated corporate media with zero indication from the center left that they’re even aware of why they keep losing.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tens of thousands of civilians dead in the past three years. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12/09/2026

you may think i am joking but i am not. they’re talking about AI the way protestant zealots talked about the end times. in both cases we are hearing people talk about themselves — their desires, their lust for destruction, their yearning to trample their rivals underfoot.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 13/09/2026

Dang if only there was someone to stop me, the CEO of Torment Nexus Inc., from building the Torment Nexus.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 09/09/2026

"I was an Associate Slop Doula for Mondo Mayo, founded as a mayonnaise company, which now sells consumer packaged goods, software as a service, and surveillance technology, and is one of three large corporations remaining on Earth." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...

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Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 08/09/2026

Some people fetishize individualism so much that shared responsibility feels like oppression.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 03/09/2026

I very strongly recommend reading this latest from @anildash.com, especially if you're not in tech, especially if you work in policy on issues of tech and innovation. Most tech entrepreneurs don't want this and need alternatives. www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...

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VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 03/09/2026

“There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be held accountable for what they say.”

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Promoting genocide is a bright line. Here is the email I sent to support@1password.com and business@1password.com condemning their donation. I encourage you all to do the same. Full text is in the alt text, to make it easy to copy/paste and adapt to your own message.

To Agile Bits Leadership,
I am a longtime 1Password user. But beyond that, I am an information security professional. In that capacity, I am responsible for convincing literally countless companies to adopt Business and Enterprise plans for their companies and helping them onboard. I haven't bothered to add up exactly how much recurring 1Password revenue I am personally responsible for, but needless to say, it's a lot.
In addition, I am also a desktop Linux user and have used Linux as my primary OS for nearly twenty years.
I am shocked to see that 1Password has become the first independent corporate sponsor of Omarchy, a Linux distribution created by a man who openly supports genocide of ethnic minorities: David Heinemeier Hansson.
I am also appalled to see that 1Password has responded to other people who share my concern by trying to draw a meaningless distinction between the Omacom Foundation and David Heinemeier Hansson. There is no way to support Omacom without tacitly condoning the reprehensible behavior of its founder. The statement "1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views" is completely at odds with the fact that 1Password has pledged $300,000 to a foundation controlled by a man who openly calls for repeating a genocide previously enacted by Adolf Hitler himself.
I am mortified that I am responsible for driving revenue to Agile Bits only for the company to turn around and spend that money in such an odious way. If Agile Bits is truly committed to its stated values of "not endorsing hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, the company must rescind its deal with the Omacom Foundation, refuse to pay the remaining $200,000, and claw back the $100,000 already paid.
Unless Agile Bits reverses course on this funding, I will not in good conscience be able to continue recommending 1Password professionally, or to use it personally.
Genocide is a bright line, and it is imperative that we all stand on the correct side of that line.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 02/09/2026

LISTEN to your product's users, but only ACT on their observed behaviors.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is downstream of America's oligarchy problem. The GOP is the party of the top 1% of the wealth distribution, but also the ~25th-80th percentile. Meanwhile, media is the provenance of the 90th-99th%ile where you'll encounter dumb campus leftism, but not Nazism or Christian nationalism.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 21/08/2026

This was one heck of a rabbit hole. Thank you!

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I maintain that consumer AI products would have been received very differently if they were launched with promises like, "You can query this to sort through your inbox of 50,000 emails" rather than "What if artists starved in the streets? :)"

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 19/08/2026

Re: @charity.wtf's "user trust is built through friction" I try to teach PMs that FRICTION is not always the enemy, but VARIANCE usually is. Asking our customers to do something identically every single time earns trust, whereas magic that mostly works and occasionally requires expertise does not.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 14/08/2026

I like this quote, but I’m not really convinced by the article’s suggestions. Making a simulation of a metaphorical abstraction to intuit about a lower-level abstraction feels incongruous with developing understanding about the underlying abstraction.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 14/08/2026

“You need a rich set of concepts in your mind to think creatively and fluently about how to move something forward. If you're lacking that fluency, your ability to participate in the project is meaningfully limited.” www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/u...

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Understanding is the new bottleneck

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micr...

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 13/08/2026

I keep seeing people sharing that em dashes are a strong AI smell. It’s an odd way to share that they haven’t read much until recently.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 12/08/2026

This has been my experience when assessment & operational reflection becomes highly bureaucratized. I wish I could say it was a symptom of org size, but I’ve seen startup teams suffer from Long Job Titles syndrome and enterprise teams struggle to fairly identify performance vs toxic workaholism.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 12/08/2026

Not a dunk at all! In fact, I agree with you when the perspective is from the job-seeker. This article just happened to be for an audience of people having to make hiring decisions. I tried addressing this in the footnote:

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm excited to announce that my new book is available for pre-order!! @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205810... @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social

cover of the book has the title and my name and a glitchy computer

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_tc @tcmx3.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Good read. I typically find posts like this either *much* too optimistic about how the workplace functions or they do that thing where people tend to overvalue their own contributions to their success (which is probably just a specialization of the former). This one is definitely well calibrated IMO

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Christopher Buecheler @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026

I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’d go further — it also means an executive mindset based on short term Zaslavian plunder, not just prioritizing growth over long term sustainability but actively undermining the concept of a thriving company beyond the exec’s personal payout.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 05/08/2026

> Some things get worse because people are incentivized to make them worse.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 05/08/2026

A couple weeks ago I shared what I look for when hiring junior engineers, and since then, have talked with some friends and former colleagues about following it up with a post about hiring SENIOR engineers. Here it is:

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What I Look For when Hiring Senior Software Engineers

Fine computer instructions and notes about them.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 04/08/2026

Why don't you let me fix you some of this Mococoa drink? All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 29/07/2026

That's a good direction. Another potential direction to explore is curating links to other areas around the web (likely fellow engineer blogs) that pass your editorial standards. I'm sure you've considered that already, though.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 29/07/2026

I support you holding that line. Right now, quantity of content can be influenced by more people than ever, so focusing on quality control is more paramount than ever.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 29/07/2026

Reminds me of the curse of knowledge phenomenon, in which experienced people often inadvertently assume that the majority of people also come to the table with the same knowledge, skills, and abilities. IMHO we are at the frontier of an entirely new level of abstraction akin to operating systems.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 28/07/2026

This is weird -- I just disabled the VPN I use for contractor access and it opens fine. The error is interesting. It's a new one for me.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 28/07/2026

Whoa! I am too. Fascinating! Thank you for the heads up.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What I would add to @jamellebouie.net's column is that the right has characterized nearly every advance of the compensatory state--whether proposed or enacted--since the New Deal as "socialism." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s New Insult Won’t Save Republicans

The president’s attempt to drum up a third red scare is certain to fail.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 20/07/2026

Niche drama in the programming languages world involves the proponents of one language scoffing at the proponents of another language because people are generally socialized to mistake an ecosystem that empowers many kinds of languages with one that implies competition among them.

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Jesse Lawson @jesselawson.dev · 19/07/2026

Hypermasculinity is an immediately performative indicator of deep inner conflict, an outward manifestation of insecurity about one’s place in the world and relationship to fellow humans. It is a sad expression of a complete lack of humility and rational thought, a pathetic reflection of emptiness.

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