iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

All you need to know about Twitter

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Barbara Streisand had the excuse she had never heard about the Barbara Streisand effect.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

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Environmental Coffeehouse~ Sandy @envirocoffeehouse.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

And don't forget this clueless effing moron. youtube.com/shorts/ucpYt...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Pubmed.gov is down. There are many outrages. This one is senseless, foolish, and a sign of a new dark age. A biostats friend wrote "This is akin to burning the libraries at Alexandria and Ninevah."

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ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

#JenniferRubin at her best today. The Reckoning's a'coming open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

'...before...Trump took office the first time in 2017, Transparency International ranked the United States among the top 20 countries in the world for least corrupt government. Now the United States has plunged in those rankings to its lowest level ever. We now have the same ranking as the Bahamas.'

nytimes.com

Opinion | Trust Was Once an American Superpower

Undermining one of our country’s greatest and least-appreciated assets.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I drafted this post last night, when TSLA was at 331/share. This morning, before publishing it, I updated the numbers. It had dropped to 311/share. It's at 302 right now. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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a man pointing to a sign that says believe

Alt: Ted Lasso, "Believe."

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/02/2025

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Annoying side effect of climate change is a growing sense that electrification of transport solves the problems with cars rather than leaving all the other problems with cars unchanged

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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pugparent.bsky.social @pugparent.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

So complex but we need to understand that what is happening to our country has been designed by Thiel and others to destabilize our economy, our markets, and our future...they are not making America Great Again. They are making America their piggy bank.

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Pete Marcus @petemarcus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Yep, politics feels like a subset of tech right now

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sharp criticism here from a French regulator over a former Amazon UK boss taking the role of interim chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority - from a Rana Foroohar column www.ft.com/content/7e37...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The UK finds itself in an interesting place re: AI and tech policy. Outside of the EU AI Act and, from what I can see from the Data (Use and Access) Bill, unlikely to be in overall alignment re: automated decisions. Meanwhile Beeban Kidron's proposed amendments to the copyright provisions seem...

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 02/02/2025

I made a reel about posting photos of your kids online. In short, please stop. Generative AI models trained with CSAM can be used with your kids photos. It’s terrifying. www.instagram.com/reel/DFiRNR6...

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Graff, who wrote this, is a former editor of POLITICO.

Text: Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices
February 1, 2025
By William Boot

WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as elite technical units aligned with media oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at the national treasury, block outside access to federal personnel records, and take offline governmental communication networks.

With rapidity that has stunned even longtime political observers, forces loyal to Musk’s junta have established him as the all-but undisputed unelected head of government in just a matter of days, unwinding the longtime democracy’s constitutional system and its proud nearly 250-year-old tradition of the rule of law. Having secured themselves in key ministries and in a building adjacent to the presidential office complex, Musk’s forces have begun issuing directives to civil service workers and forcing the resignation of officials deemed insufficiently loyal, like the head of the country’s aviation authority.

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 26/01/2025

When oligarchy meets technology. (And media, money and corruption...) Well worth reading, by @williamcb.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/williamc...

To sum up, oligarchy based on the combination of technology, media, money and corruption of the rule of law is the reality now of our most important ally, the guarantor of Europe’s security for 80 years. We are dealing not just with oligarchy and not just with the tech-industrial complex but a combination of the two. How is this turn liable to impact the UK?

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The Lady Lucy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐾🐕 @lucyarnold.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Royal Society really needs to get their act together on this one, Musk is an appaling reflection on such an august institution. Unless, of course, they approve of Nazis-saluting disinformation-spreading people, I suppose. Fauci deserves better than their complience through inaction, imho.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Banksy drops another bomb.

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Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 20/01/2025

🎙️How are data & algorithms impacting our lives? @ginasue.bsky.social, @jenitennison.com & @jfbonnefon.bsky.social discuss how data & algorithms impact our work, public services & decision-making, while raising questions about ethics, fairness, & governance. 🎧https://pod.fo/e/299eb0

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 20/01/2025

1/4 The term social web is probably too big a compromise. The "web" part is the only part that's imho useful. The sad part is that "social" means "we removed most of the features of the web." Why? Some vague sense that people would write too much if given the space. Or link too

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/01/2025

I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.

Trump dropping his own memecoin means he has the wrong people in his ear re crypto policy.

I’m now getting very concerned about the Trump presidency.

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Something that hasn’t been much discussed - creating a bunch of personal memecoins opens the door to secretive foreign buyers trying to curry influence with our leaders. If you hated hunter biden’s anonymous art sales, you should hate this too.
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Basically, we used to have an informal rule that presidents wouldn’t start or run businesses that could pose a conflict of interest. Creating a bunch of memecoins and defi protocols opens the possibility to rampant violations of the emoluments clause. Not to mention the obvious COI given the fact that trump can set crypto policy.

Ryan Selkis (d/acc) 🇺🇸
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Dear
@realDonaldTrump
:

Please fire whoever recommended going forward with the Melania launch today.

1. They don’t know what they’re doing.
2. They cost you a lot of $ and goodwill.
3. They don’t have your interests in mind.

Brent
@Brentsketit
feel bad for anyone trying to build anything serious rn

president just making a complete mockery of this industry

fighting another biden admin prolly would have been better longterm

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/01/2025

Superb by @histoftech.bsky.social on the women, largely women of colour, who persistently raise real-life harms of tech to be sacked by rich white guys and sidelined by comforting white corporate feminists who just want a few tweaks, not system change The misogyny and racism are features, not bugs.

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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Read this by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social It's a foretaste of what we all will face as of tomorrow. Can we survive this future? Not unless we are bold and serious, elect leaders who lead, and kick out those out to destroy Europe. It's existential. It's real.

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Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe

"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 08/01/2025

The great thing with Signal is that not only is it more secure and operated by better people, but it's also flat out the better product in terms of usability and aesthetics. Also no weird AI bots, solid desktop version, and great videoconferencing.

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John Naughton @jjn1.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-8-...

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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄 🔔 As Advent ends, the 12 Days of Christmas🎄begin! Join me for a deeper dive into the initiatives shown in this map - from Data Science Africa to @ai.cam.ac.uk - as we explore practical responses to AI challenges. the-atomic-human.ai/reflections/...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/12/2024

A lot of rich parents are very upset at the government for charging VAT on private school fees. Maybe they should instead ask why private schools have put up fees so far above inflation over the past 15 years. www.ft.com/content/852b...

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Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The most important plot for understanding UK politics & economics now - the collapse in productivity growth since the mid-2000s. Nothing that governments of last 15 years have done has made a material difference, & if we continue doing the same things we'll get the same result.

Plot of productivity growth since 1970, showing a pre-2005 trend of 2.1% pa growth, and post-2005 trend of 0.5% growth. ONS data.

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John Naughton @jjn1.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A Modernist duck-pond memex.naughtons.org/friday-27-de...

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

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Stéphane Taillat @staillat.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Lots of interesting & important takes in this review essay by @himself.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com (I also recommend Mary Bridges' book which is a must-read for anyone interested in the construction of the US national security/economic security apparatus) Some additional thoughts 👇

foreignaffairs.com

The Rise and Fall of Economic Statecraft

Overreach and incoherence hobble America’s most powerful weapon.

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”

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Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

My prediction in @wired.com: 2025 is the year of AI agents. The coming psychopolitical regime "directs the environments where our ideas are born, developed, and expressed. Its power lies in its intimacy—it infiltrates our subjectivity. We will be playing an imitation game that ultimately plays us."

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AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines

Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence.

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