iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘤𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘺 🍁 @ajohmss1956.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So she's calling on the mayor to start policing what costumes people should be allowed to wear? That should go over well with the freedom-loving, 'get government out of our lives' maga crowd.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Susan Dell is angrily calling on Zohran Mamdani to step in after seeing viral cosplay at New York Comic Con 2026. Maybe take it up with your Mar-a-Lago plastic surgeon.

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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych @nick-carmody.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Vance couldn't have any less respect for the intelligence of MAGA voters... ...who he assumes have no idea what socialism actually means, and therefore will consume this ridiculous word association gaslighting. Fact: Trump is the most socialistic president in history... ...as analyzed below. 1/

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Heathen Peasants @the-poors.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wal-Mart, a Multi-billion dollar company, multiple multi-billionaire family that still owns almost half of it, $681 Billion in revenue in 2025, $30 Billion stock buyback authorization for 2026. Gayle gave them 44 years and they gave her a fucking flower.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Telegraph figured it out? The Telegraph?!

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I forgot to post my new video! Jubilee is a very odd YouTube channel youtu.be/9RcrnvMK7p8?...

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The Heat Death of Jubilee

YouTube video by Big Joel

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/10/2026

"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given...individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Bowerbird @bluebowerbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Of course he wants everyone to lose basic skills so they depend more & more on his products. Meantime, actually using your brain turns out to be good for you! theconversation.com/taxi-drivers...

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain

Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.

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Gaijin (GimGam Glitzdakka) Goombah @gaijingoombah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"I suffered so everyone else should to" is the most backwards, change-nothing attitude that perpetuates suffering and destructive entitlement.

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BIRCH @bitsbitsbirch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"just kidding" 😆

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For me it always comes back to this Yes Kaiba has a whole character arc, but his origin is rooted in toxic gamer culture

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Rob Burgess @robaburg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Being a sentient person in 2026 means arguing in public for issues you never thought you would have to articulate out loud: "Read to your children yourself instead of outsourcing it to a robot!" "Don't televise executions!" Things like that.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.

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Adam Dayton @shardshinjuku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is something that the actual sketches would have come up with but way more hacky.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Theory: Trump resembles a movie/TV villain because generations of writers based villainous characters on him (at least in part). Elon et. al. resemble movie/TV villains because they do not understand stories and thus have deliberately chosen to emulate those villainous characters.

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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

State Senator Gutierrez unafraid to name the monster after an immigration rights lawyer spoke on how ICE sexually violates detainees at a local hearing on a proposed detention center

Gutierrez says "i want to be very clear. Donald Trump is complicit"

"in the raping of these women be the disappearing of these people," Gutierrez continues

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Adam Dayton @shardshinjuku.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THIS!?

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Dorked @dorked.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An official Sonic discord sounds like a fascinating social experiment, but also terrifying.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Cogsbreak @cogsbreak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Now it just tastes bitter." "That's the sarcasm." "Can I get the love again? I'm sorry."

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Secret Ingredient - Gator Days

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Ally Roth @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have covered the VMAs for seven years and this is genuinely the worst one by a lot. Please listen so our suffering means something.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You're not making pragmatic calculations, you're not bargaining or impeding fascism in any way, shape, or form, you are a gullible mark at best, or hate your fellow human beings so much you're engaging in willful collusion with fascism as long as it hurts them no matter how many others are harmed.

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Heritage Foundation now targeting women's sports after SCOTUS' anti-trans sports ruling - LGBTQ Nation

Project 2025's architects say that Title IX and women's sports harm men's sports and "feminine graces."

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych @nick-carmody.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump once again literallyt rolls out the red carpet for a murderous (communist) dictator: 3/

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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych @nick-carmody.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump once again literallyt rolls out the red carpet for a murderous (communist) dictator: 1/

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinning the herd with preventable infectious diseases for sport is what they promised. And they delivered.

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Only 3 chapters in but Pure Invention by @mattalt.bsky.social alread my feels like it will be my favourite non-fiction book I read this year. The cover is superb as well.

Cover of Pure Invention by Matt Alt in 3 colours of pale red, white and black divided into panels like a manga with aspects of Japanese pop culture in each one.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Normally it would need to be a story about a police shooting to see the New York Times stoop to this level level of euphemism and downplaying what happened.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

Hamburger Shonen: "Ben 10, Avatar (TV Series), Generator Rex, Original Teen Titans, etc" I think I just felt my brain reboot lmao

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

I have never in my life heard of 2000s era American action cartoons referred to as "Hamburger Shonen" until today.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great reporting and honest language here from Bob Smietana. No "racially tinged" mush mouth talk. No caviling with "critics say" hedging. Self-evident evils are discussed as such, not as "controversies." He gives words and sinners the dignity of meaning what they mean.

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can only speak for my little corner of the world, but in music there was in fact a genuine vibe shift. Explicitly conservative songs were topping the charts. Let's Go Brandon was a viral meme. Nickelback headlined Kid Rock's festival with no notable backlash.

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luchinius.bsky.social @luchinius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Why can rappers say this word and I can't??"

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Joey Protons @tankhammer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would be cool if during a rant about wanting to remove more safety features from one of the factories he owns, he walked into an active area and a heavy machine arm swung into him and put him through a wall like Wile E. Coyote.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

I despise him. I loathe his entire being. His mere existence is both a poison and a blight upon humanity. The world at large would genuinely be a better and safer place without him in it. I will loudly & audaciously celebrate his passing. May he be forever cursed to step barefoot on multiple legos.

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Josh Cajun Samurai @khakibluesocks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let’s Have Another Little Talk… We actually made it to YEAR ONE! I'll be dawg gone...I managed to keep this blog up and running for 365 Days?! Wowzers. ...let's talk about it.

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Let’s Have Another Little Talk…

We actually made it to YEAR ONE! I'll be dawg gone...I managed to keep this blog up and running for 365 Days?! Wowzers. ...let's talk about it.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me, in elementary school, re-reading the Narnia series for the umpteenth time: "But aren't the sons of Adam and daughters of Eve also the sons of Eve and the daughters of Adam? Isn't my mother also MY mother?" My fundie teachers: [Evasive and unsatisfying in a way that planted an important seed]

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Telmarines aren't happy about this, but the Telmarines are never happy about anything.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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