iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026

I think it's important to interact with AI in a very carefully controlled way: specifically to understand exactly how toxic and terrible it is I only get it to return text in two conditions: (a) a topic I know well and (b) a question I **already answered**. You learn v quick how bad the answers are

newrepublic.com

Does Generative AI “Work”? That’s a Misleading Question.

Generative AI works a lot like fossil fuels “work”—narrowly, intermittently, and with a lot of nasty side effects.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12/10/2026

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Always useful for lawyers when people admit their crimes in public

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026

After Jan. 6, 2021, many Trump loyalists headed for the exits. But not Russell Vought. He told the president, I’m going to work night and day to get you back in the White House in four years. Then he and others began working on a plan: Project 2025. Listen to our latest "Paper Trail" episode 👇

podcasts.apple.com

Who’s the Shadow President?

Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · October 1 · 36m

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Meanwhile what is happening in Chicago?!?! This is way too hot for October.

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Indeed. It was the first car dealership I ever felt respected in as a professional woman. The salespeople were straightforward and not condescending. The user-friendly design for maintenance under the hood was a nice touch also.

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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you need an example of how data centers that use unpermitted gas turbines harm public health, look no further that Elon Musk’s xAI facility in Tennessee – where the 35 off-grid turbines used to power it could emit up to 2,000 tons of noxious nitrogen oxides annually 😷

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fucking hell: www.rawstory.com/ryan-mackenz...

TEXT:

One of the memes, sent by Julia Henke, a member of Armstrong's editorial staff at Polis Media, showed a photo of Black children excited over cotton candy alongside the caption "You mean I don't have to pick it and I can eat it?!"

Henke also shared an image of Hitler's face pasted over a black-and-white concentration camp photo, with a made-up quote reading "You can't hate Jews when there is no Jews." She followed up with another Hitler image captioned "You can't be racist if there is no other race."

According to the report, Henke once said she hoped to someday land a "federal judge position."

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/10/2026

Yes! We've almost completed the cycle from: 👴🏻"LOL! Africans live in mud huts! They don't know about modern bricks!🤡" To 👴🏻"Huh. Africans did know about kiln-fired bricks ~2500 years before Europe. But they also knew that thick mud walls painted white, keep buildings up to 27° F cooler than brick"

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mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 4 images @CRSG@mastodon.social 1) Because jokes are fun! It's OK to make jokes. 2) I'm not making fun of painting buildings and infra white to reflect the sunlight and enjoy passive cool...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trying to track where Elon is spending most, and the answer is pretty obviously Texas, but I still think Ohio is where it can make the biggest difference. stopthetrillionaires.com

Where the money/hate is landing
Disclosed independent spending (darker = more)
America PAC 2026 target state
Nothing disclosed

AK
$608K

ME
$1.8M

VT

NH
$1.3M

WA
$346K

ID

MT

ND

MN

IL

WI
$320K

MI
$6.7M

NY
$364K

RI

MA

OR

NV

WY

SD

IA
$2.7M

IN

OH
$7.4M

PA
$1.2M

NJ
$389K

CT

CA
$330K

UT

CO
$228K

NE

MO

KY

WV

VA
$352K

MD

DE

AZ
$855K

NM

KS

AR

TN

NC

SC

DC

OK

LA

MS

AL

GA

HI

TX
$14.6M

FL
$588K
Michigan: $6,650,814 across 190 disclosed expendituresShow all states
DISCLOSED SPENDING ONLY. Dark money and undisclosed committees are not on this map.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I agree that this is a BFD. But I think it gives Trump too much agency. This was baked in for quite some time and I expect Lindsey Graham's death is what accelerated it. Putin is no doubt offering Trump a way out of his Iran disaster, which ALWAYS required scapegoating Ukraine.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
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,…

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Same thing goes for the AI utopia/accelerationist/singularity story, which is basically the same as the AI doom story. There are plenty of problems that don't yield to increased intelligence. A lack of intelligence is not why we have a climate crisis or no durable peace in the Middle East.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Intelligence is not a universal solvent. It doesn't fix everything. The people pushing these ideas only believe this is true because they desperately want it to be true. They want the world to be much, much simpler than it actually is. But we live in a complicated world, and that's a good thing.

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Bob Burgess @bobburgess.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why aren't gas prices dropping if oil is flowing through the Strait? The answer: "For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

Hiring US-to-China Oil Tanker Costs More Than Launching a Space Rocket

For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/10/2026

Democrats appear headed toward a big victory—but a small polling error could mean a dramatically different outcome, Marc Novicoff writes.

bit.ly

How the Polls Could Be Wrong Again

Democrats appear headed toward a big victory. But a small polling error could mean a dramatically different outcome.

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Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the most fucked up things I’ve read in a while and that’s saying something

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A few years ago I wanted to nominate a mentee for a prestigious award for young scholars. They checked with their advisors and were told: “Do not bother to apply. You are at school X. You will not get it.” The downstream effect of award concentration in Economics is that it discourages applying.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why have so many people fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because corporations and billionaires rigged the system in their favor — and a bought-off political establishment let it happen. It's time to fix the system.

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Society only survives if we care for everyone. Even the weak. Even the poor. Even those who can't contribute to our growth. When we stop taking care of those people, everything falls apart. Ignoring the poor destroys cultures faster than any other plague.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Eritrean soldiers fought alongside the Ethiopian army from 2020-2022 against the same rebels they are currently allied with, committing some of the conflict's worst atrocities against Tigrayan civilians including gang rapes and massacres. Now they are back, having switched sides. War is vile.

vice.com

“They Started Burning the Homes”: Ethiopians Say Their Towns Are Being Razed in Ethnic Cleansing Campaign

Survivor testimony and satellite imagery in Ethiopia’s Tigray region provide evidence of wide-ranging destruction by Eritrean soldiers.

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former Joliet police lieutenant Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County, per Illinois State Police. Harrison’s charges make him at least the third Will County law enforcement officer accused of misusing the surveillance technology this year.

chicago.suntimes.com

Former Joliet police officer charged over alleged Flock camera misuse

Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County in July 2025, when Harrison was serving as a lieutenant in the Joliet Police Department.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

n.pr

Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The report calls into question popular policy approaches aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure development. Our policy one-pager offers recommendations that point to another way forward: one that emphasizes democratic, community engagement. 5/5 datasociety.net/research-lib...

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 06/10/2026

Despite her recent statements, she has, over the past year and a half — through the Trump administration's countless illegal impoundments, funding freezes and pocket rescissions — done little to actually rein the executive branch in.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Susan Collins Voted to Confirm Russ Vought. Is She Having Second Thoughts?

In recent weeks, as the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ...

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BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇷🇺 US President Trump says he is concerned about the Russian plague that leaked from a lab.

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The rich are really leaning into their villain era, huh? What’s the use of having money if you’re gonna do fuckall with it? www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/...

r/Fauxmoi
u/voguediaries • 43m • v.redd.it
Chris Rock bizarrely volunteers the fact that he had the money to pay for a lawyer for his best friend's wrongly convicted brother... and yet he chose not to

"A guy named Roger Logan who I grew up with... he was one of my best friend's brothers who went to jail for 19 years for a murder he didn't commit.
His brother used to plead with me to pay for a lawyer for Roger and I never did it... I always had like a no lawyer thing because a lawyer is like an open-ended thing. Like I'll pay your mortgage. I'll put whatever.
I always stay out of lawyers because it's so open-ended and it still messes with me. I had the means to help him and I didn't. I don't know if we could have got him out or not."

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🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈‍⬛ @screwedjoan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When you think about it, men having to face social and personal consequences for their actions is almost exactly like that time we mob murdered a bunch of women

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BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JUST IN: 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Brazil launches investigation into alleged US interference of its Presidential election.

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Sara B @sarabjustone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We’d be a lot better off if every single one of us said “What do you mean by that? Do you actually hear yourself? What could possibly lead you to think that?” Every single time. Every single holiday. Make THEM uncomfortable.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You have to accurately assess the problem to create proper solutions

Screenshot of article which reads: Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to American democracy.
It is a vivid and identifiable symptom of the real threat. And it is a popu-
lar frame because it blames no one. But because political polarization is
a symptom, and not the root of the problem that ails us, “fixing” polar-
ization will not restore American democratic health.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As @propublica.org pointed out in Vought's leaked speech (@andykroll.bsky.social ), Vought is MORE dangerous bc he sees himself as a martyr for his ideology--welcomes fines, prison, or worse--comparing himself to a Biblical Esther. He seeks to destroy US Govt checks & balances in any way possible.

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We're still tracking Russ Vought, Trump's "shadow president," at @propublica.org. Here's my latest on Vought and what he's done to the CFPB after courts stopped him from killing it. Think less watchdog, more golden retriever: www.propublica.org/article/bilt...

propublica.org

The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.

Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It has all of the twists and turns of a movie plot...except it's reality.

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Latest episode of @propublica.org Paper Trail has it all: dark power behind the "throne"; Christian Nationalists; how budgeting used to drive massive change in the checks & balances of US Gov; DEI/Museum scapegoats; leaked recordings; and future plans revealed. www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...

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Who’s the Shadow President?

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Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is an excellent ProPublica Paper Trail piece on the strategy they’re using in moving money around and why. Excellent and alarming and gives a peek into what the admin will try to do next. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

podcasts.apple.com

Who’s the Shadow President?

Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · October 1 · 36m

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shite - a professor at Harvard who advocated for the survivors was denied tenure. She was later terminated. The same day the termination notice arrived, she received the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.

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