iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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I really *want* Boulder, CO to win its SCOTUS argument against Suncor and Exxon over climate change. But the Supreme Court will never let that happen. In part because Boulder’s glorious, RIGHTEOUS argument… is also bullshit, legally speaking. My latest in @thenation.com

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This Lawsuit Could Make Big Oil Pay for the Harm It’s Caused

The question is whether the Supreme Court will let it.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

I think the Clean Air Act *probably* preempts a lot if not all of state regulations. I think the problem is that the Clean Air Act is not properly enforced, and never when Republicans are in charge. I think it's *probably* legally correct that only the feds can regulate b/c pollution is interstate.

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 1h

elect me president and i will fully fund and expand the USPS to include online social network where you can connect with people and business for free. i’ll pay human beings to moderate it. i will also give you free postal banking too, and i can do it because EVERYONE HAS A POST OFFICE

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1h

This is only prescription acne treatment for now, but it will inevitably expand to other routine medical decisions. There are lots of decisions AI can make quite accurately when there’s enough data and precedent. That will be as true for medicine as it has been for software development.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 1h

Btw this is infinitely worse than saying “America deserved 9/11”

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 1h

Eight years ago today, Susan Collins cast the deciding vote that put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. That alone should be enough for Maine voters to boot her ass out of the Senate. And that's before you get to the corruption and the Trump bootlicking.

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Shaun Manning @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social · 1h

I think Facebook is the hardest to replace because a.) there's no other platform that does what it does, and b.) even if there were, the demographics make migration unlikely. But it's also shown the steepest degradation in usefulness, maintaining connection with distant friends and relations.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1h

We do notice when ICE shoots 2 innocent white people. We will spend months talking about it. Rightfully so. We don't notice when cops shoot two innocent Black people *a day*. No one even notices that the total amount of fascist state killings in the US have gone down under Trump relative to Biden.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/09/2026

Antisemitism is bad, and we should all stand against it. But people keep sharing this misleading statistic that Jewish people receive the most hate crimes. They don't. You know who does. Jewish people receive the most *religious based* hate crimes. And Jewish people *report* the most hate crimes.

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 18h

ie, don’t follow San Francisco.

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jobelenus @jobelenus.bsky.social · 5h

Yup. We pick up the people you don't want and turn them into gold. And you siphon our money back to your states

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. The catch? Children and their parents can’t pick the stocks or reject donated shares, and they can’t sell for five years.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 05/10/2026

Now there is certainly healthy debate as to whether such a reclaiming is even possible, but to the degree that it might be, we have to actually do the work to unbundle it from its historical harms and not pretend we can gloss over them.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 05/10/2026

Part of the reason we have to understand the problematic historical origins of AI is that, to whatever degree we think we can reconsitute a version of it that isn’t bad for humanity, it will require grappling with the phenomenon as it actually is and was, and not how we wish it were.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 05/10/2026

The myth that technology was doing just fine, ethically speaking, until the evil oligarchs got ahold of it actually only serves the ends of technofascists. We can do better than this.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18h

ken paxton sucks

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18h

Oh so a fundamental section of a necessary discovery was recognized by the woman interacting most with it .. not the credentialed “scientists” And it’s being shown that the person with privilege kept lying This isn’t common at all

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Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming

ALT: Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20h

Gina Hinojosa seems to be doing well, but if she really wants to win she should promise to publicly execute Jerry Jones. Easy W.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Kristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social · 19h

hhhhhaaaaaate it here

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Tokyo Toni Morrison @sillygenius.blacksky.app · 20h

right. cuz making customers enter a raffle for the *opportunity* to buy sneakers, while torpedoing all your brick & mortar relationships and simultaneously allowing thousands of units of product to be backdoor’ed on the resale market didnt have a negative effect at all

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Madison Monroe @madison-monroe.bsky.social · 21h

2019: Colin Kapernick campaign 2020: Don’t Do It (anti-racism) campaign NOV 2021: ALL-TIME HIGH STOCK PER SHARE 🧐🧐🤨 Let me help you out, your quality declined and HOKA stepped up, just to start.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h

Very saddened to say I won’t be able to headline Tim Pool’s student event in Chicago this week. I unfortunately have other plans.

Hi Katherine,
Timcast Media is partnering with the Chicago Thinker to host a student event in Chicago on October 9 at 4:00 PM.
The event will feature a one-on-one conversation with Tim Pool followed by a live student Q&A. To create a dynamic and balanced dialogue, we are specifically seeking a featured guest to represent a left-leaning perspective.
Timcast Media will fully cover and arrange all travel and accommodations.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Sincerely,
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Hi Lisa,
Sorry, I'll be too busy slamming my hand in a car door that day to talk with Tim. Hope you understand.
Kat

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 19h

A year after Silverio Villegas González was killed by immigration agents, his family is finally exploring legal action against the U.S. government. They also continue to fight for custody of his two children, who remain in foster care in Idaho. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/06/s...

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Family of Silverio Villegas González obtains attorney to begin legal process in adopting his children

The family of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, who was killed by an ICE agent during Midway Blitz, has also obtained an attorney to explore legal action against the U.S. government.

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 22h

Same energy;

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/10/2026

I sit down with 2026 Trump supporters often! But not to try to convert them.🤷🏿‍♂️ I do it to understand the depths of their depravity and racism more deeply. The cool thing is, they'll tell you! They're open about it! They don't know that their violent views on racism horrify the entire world.

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026

On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 05/10/2026

Did Americans finally remember right wing authoritarianism sucks and embrace the Democratic values we all hoped they would after seeing historic executive human rights abuses? Or are gas prices high? Much to ponder

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i agree with holly about almost nothing substantive in policy but holly is extremely well informed and connected in ai policy/safety stuff and i would highly recommend her as a source of information

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the "bad misstatement" in question is to the effect of "yes, I commit sexual harassment regularly and utilize the funds made available to me via nonprofit grants to commit sexual harassment and to induce people to have sex with me and to participate in sexual events which i attend"

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 04/10/2026

again— i tried to escalate this to the head of comms privately. only to find out find out there was no longer a head of comms

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Damien: Omen II the Joy Fantastic @mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think on most accounts of the decreasing marginal utility of money this would come out justified, we stan an effective altruist king 🤴

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Hey all, Im looking for any academics who may be able to help someone from Gaza get enrolled in a European University. Please let me know if you can help or if you know of anyone who could help.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2026

So whenever I see these takes, I know they don't actually want to know what academics actually say — you wanna know how I know this? They would read the papers and not (just) the social media posts.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know that tweet is just far right propaganda, not a serious policy proposal for now. But still. Here’s a piece I wrote up about what it’s like to be teaching a class on the history of democracy and the far right here, and at this moment. rightlandia.ghost.io/a-semester-o...

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A Semester of Living Inside History--literally and figuratively, and for better and worse

This fall I'm leading Willamette's study abroad program in Strasbourg, France. The students and I are housed at a grand, historic chateau (pictured above) located in a 60 acre wooded park on the outsk...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This term I’m teaching in Strasbourg and staying at a Chateau in which Nazis housed officers during the occupation. When the AfD won in Saxony-Anhalt I thought “that’s bad, but they’re not going to invade Strasbourg any time soon.” Now this.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cw rape The whole Geller "no one knows what the survivor wants" thing is such an incredible example of how survivors are treated worse for being raped than rapists are for raping someone like oh yeah I wonder why we don't know what the survivor wants maybe it's Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2026

the arguments usually devolve into asking for more research into so-called AI Ethics, a very damaged field that has been being called out since the late 2010s

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is such a crystalline expression of Trump’s worldview. The only motivation that matters is money. If you’ve got money, you keep people loyal by giving them “gifts.” If you don’t have much money, you may say you hold certain values, but really, it’s just a matter of finding each person’s price.

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