iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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That Kelvin wave I was concerned about has arrived in southern California

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

What a superb rebuke to Trump, who is determined to make the U.S. a wholly lawless state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/…

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Stuart Wilkinson @fairtradestu.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The second anniversary of this post is coming up, and surprise surprise these little "end of life" laptops are continuing to run well with #linux and do what we need then to, which includes spending less on tech so we can buy more actual books for the school […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

A mastodon post from October 2024 showing a photo 8 laptops running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and libre office, the post explains the school has added Ubuntu to some old windows 10 devices that their IT support told them were end of life.

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

New York City Mayor Mamdani posted about a New Yorker who was shot by an ICE agent today in the City. The NYC said: Abolish ICE.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Hey academics: 'By consuming AI products (which is optional, nobody – nobody – is forcing you to do it as an intellectually–independent academic, which you are, aren’t you), you are fueling these crises and are therefore actively sabotaging and annihilating the hard efforts and work of many of […]

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s hard to believe that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz hasn’t had extensive training in research ethics. That means she’s intentionally going to let babies in Guinea-Bissau be infected with Hepatitis B by withholding vaccine when they have vaccine available.

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Sam Stokes @five-eights.com · 07/10/2026

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026

As always with Rs, the sense is not so much that they deny the physical phenomenon of climate change as the presence or absence of the phenomenon simply never enters their thinking. They interact with it *purely* as a partisan matter, something libs care about. No awareness of a world beyond.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Bodhipaksa @bodhipaksa.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

It looks like Putin is attacking cargo ships in NATO members' territorial waters. I'm curious what his plan is. Create a supply-chain crisis by making ships stay in port? Try to convince Nato countries that it will be damaging for them if they continue to support Ukraine? Create tensions in […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A couple of billion years ago, cyanobacteria evolved the ability to photosynthesize. Suddenly they could turn the abundant atmospheric C02 into carbon for replicating themselves. The only side effect was the release of oxygen. It was a monumental success, but it ended up turning Earth's C02 […]

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I am the very model of the Modern Monetary Theory.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A conservative Christian attorney resigns from the Dept of the Interior in protest of Trump's and Musk's "deeply troubling assault on the rule of the law”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!

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Deep Space 90210 @ds90210.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Garak: If you wouldn’t trust their advice then don’t trust their criticism

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I get the impression that so much of the good work being done right now (legal work, mostly) is just trying to hold off various disasters for a few months. The audacity of hope. Don't give up.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I want to share with you the gist of a mind-blowing conversation I had with my doctor today at my annual physical. She asked about my mood, which led to a conversation about how AI is ruining everything, which prompted her to mention that she doesn’t use the AI transcription app that her […]

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Guillotine Jones, Flâneur @guillotine-jones.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Let's end the old week and start the new one with a meme commemorating how Republicans are using the US Congress to beclown themselves with baseless conspiracy theories that crumble in the light of day. Who votes for people who control all the branches of […] [Original post on beige.party]

Internet meme distilling the grilling of US Special Counsel Jack Smith by a Senate committee on Sept. 30, 2026.
Composite photo of Eric Schmitt (R-MO), left, and Special Counsel Jack Smith during the 6-hour hearing.
Text: "Eric Schmitt: 'Did you or did you not slap Chris Rock at the Oscars in Los Angeles on March 22, 2022'?
Jack Smith: 'That was Will Smith'."

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

WSJ: "How dare the prosecutor take the side of the victim!"

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So this just got reversed by an AZ appellate court, and pretty harshly too. The courts goes out of its way to make it clear that various procedural, evidentiary, and other rules require it to very much take the side OF the AI evidence. And then say it created incurable bias.

By contrast, the AI video crossed that line. Unlike the
photographs in Rose, which captured a particularly poignant moment for
the young surviving victims, the AI video here (excluding the embedded
“real” videos of the victim) does not reflect actual events. Indeed, rather
than documenting an event or recording a particular moment, the AI video
presents a depiction of the victim and his thoughts created from the
imaginings of the victim’s sister.
¶51 Moreover, despite the explanations concerning the genesis of
the AI video, it presents the statement (including non-verbal
communications made through facial expressions and the like) as coming
directly from the victim. It erases the interpretive distance between the
family’s belief about what the victim would have said and the victim’s own
voice and opinions. Indeed, the AI victim stated, “this here is a true
representation of who I was, you know, not how the courtroom portrayed
me.” No disclaimer could cure that error.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Inside you are two elevators. Both of them are out of service at this time.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

My days of not taking Michael Tracey seriously have come to a middle, yet again. (re: last boost)

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Feeling very stressed about everything, and I went out to do some astrophotography. I was hoping for auroras, and was first excited to see an orange glow on the horizon, then annoyed as I realized it's probably a combine, then delighted again as I realized […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A nighttime sky view, with some silhouetted trees in each lower corner of the photo, the Milky Way stretching vertically up from an orange spot on the flat horizon, which is the moon about to rise

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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 01/10/2026

🧠 If you ask a chatbot about the midterms, there's a good chance they'll refer you to a lot of "pink slime." The term refers to low-quality websites that masquerade as legitimate local news outlets but in reality are often partisan-backed & AI-created with a lack of real journalists & standards.

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Kevin Leecaster @greenfire.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Predictions like these convinced a whole lot of people to continue investing in fossil fuels long past the time that industry should have been starved of investment dollars. Anyway, if you haven't divested from the fossil fuel industry yet, you should.

Winners and Losers
The IEA overestimated gas growth in Asia and underestimated solar
® Forecast @ Actual

Gas Solar
Note: Shows expected growth in Asian power generation between 2018 and 2025, based on actual 2018
generation, actual 2025 generation, and the 2018 World Energy Outlook's Current Policies Scenario estimates
for 2025. Actual 2025 generation figures are from Ember.
Source: International Energy Agency, Ember, Bloomberg Opinion calculations

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"the Senate will be under the control of the Dem. party when it convenes on 3 Jan.regardless of the election. Of the 65 senators carrying over, 32 are D., plus the two independents..., but only 31 Rs will carry over. That assures Ds an initial 34-31 advantage in the Senate. Normally, that […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

rationalist funding thread. it's always the ones you most suspect

The Weirdness of Dating/Mating

Let's put all that together.

I claim that most women have a “deep” preference for nonconsent in dating/mating. It’s not just a kink; from the first approach to a date to sex, women typically want to not have to consent to what's happening.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

setting up surveillance cameras to crack down on the porch pilates

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wrote about the National Design Studio a while back, and two things worth noting. *It is led by a white nationalist *They do skins, not services. America.gov is a chatbot with a .gov skin. They are promising to make services work better but its all TBD.

Skins vs. services: the National Design Studio is building a handful of attractive single page websites, but not fixing digital services that most of the public relies on when they interact with government. Skins is easy to do, but not very impactful.

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KrissyKat @krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The climbing out of a hole in the ground fad has spread across the nation from NYC!

Dispatch Audio :

People seen coming out of hole in
the ground

Heard on: Kennewick WA Law Dispatch

00:00 -00:38
00:00 King 94, what are you doing? Dispatch, Zone 2,...

Sep 30,2026 - 1:51 AM CDT

Suspicious Circumstance

N Palouse St, Kennewick, WA 99336

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As discussed during the dispatch call, officers
were dispatched to a possible suspicious
circumstance near North Palouse Street in
Kennewick, where a caller reported someone
coming out of a hole in the ground, possibly
involving more than one person.

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Democrats Abroad @democratsabroad.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Join us for a talk with candidates in California's most pivotal races — the ones who can flip red seats blue and hold the seats we've already won. Hear directly from: Marni von Wilpert - CD 48 Congressman Derek Tran - CD 45 Congressman Adam Gray - CD 13 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A colorful graphic in blue and orange headed “Know before your vote.” The text below is arranged in three rectangles slanted slightly up to the right. It says
“THE CANDIDATES. HEAR THEIR PRIORITIES. ASK YOUR QUESTIONS LIVE.
THE PROPOSITIONS. BALLOT MEASURES EXPLAINED WITH FAYRAJ FROM CA INDIVISIBLE.
YOUR OVERSEAS BALLOT. GET HELP FROM THE DA VOTER ASSISTANCE TEAM.”
At the bottom is a section with starburst shapes in the background and text that says “TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 6. 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 8 PM CEST. RSVP NOW. LIVE ON ZOOM.
At the very bottom is a link to the event: democratsabroad.org/california meet the candidates 26.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just can not get enough of the reaction of his staff when the realization hits lol (around 9:30)

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I expect, in the says to come, we will learn that the greatest sin possible for an American politician is not falsely accusing an honorable public servant of perjury, but mixing up two sports teams.

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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

oh good firefox has rounded corner tabs now I cannot imagine a browser without rounded corner tabs

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