iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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there’s an uncomfortable nuance probably worth diving into about the ethics of using generative AI to ship code versus generate art assets versus clone a person’s voice versus push slop to the algorithms. I truly don’t know where the line is. it’s frustrating

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ceej @ceej.online · 20h

I think it’s important for anyone who (completely understandably) checked out on AI the second the crypto/nft/metaverse/snake oil chuds started pushing it to realize that, in at least the domain of software development, we are very much living in a scenario where the snake oil actually works

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 13h

The current interface is not the best! Not the best

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 17h

See the thing is I know you do a lil bit want to see what this thing can do

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 18h

Put it in your slack because I don't have the Ronnie emoji here

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 18h

Technically, it's gonna replace both a toaster oven that requires me to flip bread to toast it and a microwave, so it's still less space but lord

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Jeff Hodges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 18h

I have @ronnieftw.bsky.social'ed my new microwave

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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 22h

California voters, Darrell is right and it’s critical to vote yes on RTM. Yes on public transit!

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 23h

The East Bay Times editorial against Measure RTM is so bad I had to refute it. Bad argument after inaccurate statement and then completely ignoring AC Transit's existence because it disproves their core argument that cuts over service improves transit. darrellowens.substack.com/p/voting-aga...

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Voting Against The Bay Area Transit Measure Is a Fatal Mistake

The East Bay Times and Mercury News Editorial Board write a bad column on the transit tax measure.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h

whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again"

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Katie Grote @katiegrote.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We were at a birthday party in El Cerrito yesterday and one of the East Bay dads was raving about the parent community in the Sunset and how lucky all the parents and kids are that they can all just get together and hang out on Sunset Dunes!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/10/2026

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's funny how NIMBYism is such a religious conviction for some people that developers will just say this worldwide without fear of repercussion.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

every elected official they interview in this article, except derrick van orden who they lead with for some reason, had their death threats instigated & encouraged by donald trump. the country doesn't have an incivility problem, it has a maga death cult problem

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

if you are a political opponent of donald trump, he will encourage his followers to kill you. if you are a political ally of donald trump who ever disagrees with him, he will encourage his followers to kill you. for some reason we can't speak about this plainly

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hegseth broke the news about live streaming an execution to a MAGA propagandist who has 14/88 tweets and once hired Atomwaffen members (who were at Charlottesville and friendly with the Tree of Life shooter) to help him harass the family and neighbors of a Jewish murder victim.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/10/2026

no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt

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meetar @fjord.style · 10/10/2026

[Kurt Russell shoots a dog] This is why we can’t have nice Thing

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 10/10/2026

Californians take note! Vote yes on the Billionaire Tax (Prop 40), and no on 41 & 42

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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think electing a former documentarian who specialized in exposing corruption to the Senate was a very good idea, in hindsight

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

During school pick-up time in a neighborhood with many schools, agents wearing construction vests and masks surrounded a car with a man and a five-old child inside. They aimed an AR-15 and fired 7 bullets onto the car. (1/3)

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most AI consciousness people do not believe current models are conscious but believe that it will be hard to tell when the transition happens and so it is worth putting in place appropriate mitigations in advance

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Berkeley Climate Equity Action @climateequity.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The best long run way to prepare for a public safety power shut off is to go solar with a battery. The worst way is to have a back up generator, which kills people through carbon monoxide poisoning.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Like we can’t *all* be pensioners but voters all over the world have expressed the preference that they want their countries to be retirement homes.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman says she'd add a "shot clock" to housing permits in her first 100 days. It sets a deadline for the city to act on a permit. Long waits raise interest and land costs for builders while they wait. kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2026...

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what I had to say turned out not to be a column

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Something Like People

A poem

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yomna @rival-elf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thinking about how Margaret Hamilton had to intervene and tell the other engineers that error handling, especially in a spacecraft, is critical, and how this ended up saving astronaut's lives.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026

we gotta scrap the entirety of DHS and start from scratch, with leadership we trust. the department is an insane clusterfuck anyway, you can sell it as an rationalization measure

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the cheering after the completely nonsensical "let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego" is really one of those moments that perfectly crystalizes how these ghouls do not deserve pity nor rehabilitation into the body politic. Crush their movement and drive them from power forever.

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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is incredible.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i think the fact that most serious ATV injuries happen as a result of the ATV itself being unsafe, vs most (not all!) ebike injuries resulting from car crashes is not a comparison that makes the *ebikes* look bad bsky.app/profile/laur...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs.

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🍄 @snakeroot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That big boy, that big bitch, for all weather

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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