iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

function of population size, i think

JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't understand why the Jack Smith congressional hearing has such immense engagement/coverage it has ~no consequences? the video consists of a guy saying "I don't think that's true, can i read the paper maybe" and some procedural bickering? the premise is entirely obscure anyhow?

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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American media: time to come up with the dumbest possible discourse about a Billboard hit British media: You are like a little baby. Watch this

Opinion - UK politics

What ‘Choosin’ Texas’ tells us about Burngam’s social care obstacles

Stephen Bush

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Friedersdorf’s defense he is a dumb motherfucker

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val (try medaka) @tech-val.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

look, if your white collar job is an ineffable expression of the human spirit that contains no menial drudgery I'm truly happy for you

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

depending on how you count white collar, a majority of American workers DO in fact work white collar jobs. even if you're very strict about what counts, it's like 45% (up to 65% if generous!) counting people who aren't working, the statement is true, but this is still a LOT of people to hand wave.

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 27/09/2026

this website is a great place to practice the skill of finding common ground with people you disagree with, to practice building rapport, to learn how to talk to people in a way specific to them, which makes sense to them, and which can actually work to bring them into agreement with you

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unironically the PNW mindset lol

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

one trillion liters of water is less than the dairy and beef industry uses in one day

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Thomas Jerome @thomasjerome.com · 24/09/2026

Naming the "Ableism" list so that a screen reader pronounces it "Four bee ell three one ess em", 10/10 bit

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My reaction to this was “huh, doesn’t sound like Duckworth.” So I watched it. She’s talking about tariffs & funding USAID & farm bankruptcies & it’s obvious that the “save face” bit was acknowledging these things will change only if Trump agrees & you get him to do that by letting him think he won/1

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if someone had told me about the behavior of this Labour government without naming the party i would conclude that Reform was three times as bad as i'd thought

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my most conspiracy minded opinion, tbh, is that most dentistry is an outright scam, and that this is reflected in the extremely high suicide rates of dental health professionals. (I think it's like double the background rate.)

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can't pay you for this, but send me all your valuables.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026

"let's stop pretending to be so clever and just produce used cars."

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 22/09/2026

GRIMDARK: WH40K is considered the progenitor of "grimdark" space fantasy, because of its famous tagline: "in the grim, dark future of space, there is only war." Unrelated fact: Cincinnati is considered the progenitor of Skyline chili, because of its famous civic motto: "what if chili was bad"

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Dan Brennan @danieltbrennan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sodom and Gamorrean: The Impact of the Sexual Underground on Working Class Solidarity Among the Palace Guards of Tatooine

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Android-Facilitated Wartime Mythmaking in Early Societies: Case Studies in Narrative, Performance, and Dramaturgy for Small [Furry] Audiences

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

apnews.com

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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ceej @ceej.online · 21/09/2026

See here how The Stance has entered his body and his mind. The Stance infests him. The metamorphosis is complete

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this really drove home to me the similarity/pattern of "conspiracy theories that start as legitimate possibilities during periods of scientific uncertainty, which are just held onto FOREVER." *tons* of COVID conspiracies came from this exact dynamic, really wild to learn about the parallels!

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Bonesmashmaxxing 6'5" Australian terachad @sandyklanfer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Transplant discourse is great for capital: if you're blaming newcomers for displacement, you're ignoring the wealthy landowners who are actually responsible.

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'll put it the other way (no slippery slope!) "great-american-melting-pot" style rhetoric about how *everyone* who arrives is welcome, no matter their background, no matter if they live in enclaves, no matter if their identity seems "not normal"... this has real benefits for vulnerable communities

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

wow you thought i was using the literal definition of transplant? you fool, i was using a definition that arbitrarily carves out every minority group until it’s no longer problematic

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it seems like today's discourse is all downstream of "gentrification" I fear this is the boomer-coded thing that millennials will be known for (I am a gentrification skeptic, but I guess if there's actually some kinda consensus about how real/harmful gentrification is, hmu)

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Mike Locksey vs a Head of Lettuce @convolutedname.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Contrarian take" That "I don't follow politics" has become the go to again instead of proudly doing the whole hog, is good actually

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Tomorrow,” said Toad, “I can just take life easy.” Toad went back to bed.

Toad settles into bed, ready to take life easy.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 17/09/2026

The media are far more upset about an AI apocalypse than they’ve ever been about the climate catastrophe we are now right in the middle of.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I read a story that uses "working class" to refer to the entire mass of U.S. adults without four-year degrees, I assume the writer is engaged in a political project, not analysis. The project is to ignore the perspectives of economically-insecure college grads. newrepublic.com/article/2155...

newrepublic.com

The Term Working Class Is Useless

Too many political analysts and pollsters are relying on education to define the working class, and it’s leading us to the wrong conclusions.

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The degree to which this website does not understand Hasan is continually surprising to me! it is *certainly* comparable to the degree that legacy-media types do not understand Hasan.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

via lethargic.talkative.fish/@suricrasia/...

The IBM slide but it's edited to say management can never be held accountable, therefore management must never make a management decision.

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Dizzy Dragon - Topic @her.toy.cybernetic.gay · 17/09/2026

i am a regular guy! i can enter a space! i am a regular guy! i am freed from the roles and identities that bind others!

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Dropout Tv Make Some Noise

Alt: Dropout Tv Make Some Noise Jacob Wysocki regular guy affirmations

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I knew a lot of this, because I am old and read voraciously on the internet, but here is where I started encountering lots of new-to-me information

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

here is the part where I start to lose track of things

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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

new rule: You can't say "AI doesn't think" until you post 1) a measurable, falsifiable definition of thinking 2) that includes humans by those measurements 3) and excludes AI by those measurements Bonus points for a definition that isn't ableist or dehumanizing to ND humans.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I respect my haters and share their concerns

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

yes. i would wager that these people genuinely believe that the country is MAGA and that there is a vast and untapped audience to be appealed to. incidentally, these people also exist in an impenetrable bubble of sycophants.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have to emphasize that this is the literal, actual guy running the literal, actually DNC boosting El-Sayed

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026

Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is a very big difference that I had not remotely connected the dots on before. seems totally right! may also work to explain how NFTs got so much traction despite being desperately stupid, while LLMs get lots of hate despite *not* being stupid in the same way

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JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I refuse to pontificate about how trans people should use their votes. I will, in the STRONGEST possible terms, demand at EVERY turn that if you are NOT YOURSELF TRANS, you better vote for every fucking democrat you can, and get every cis person you know to do the same.

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t think anyone should feel bad about being blocked. I get it, it feels weird, but people draw those boundaries for all kinds of reasons, many of which have nothing to do with you. It’s not an indictment on your character. Unless I block you. You should really feel bad about that

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