iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 12/10/2026

GOTTDAMN

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is not a “Chinese psy-op.” The companies are bad faith neighbors.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you don't live in DC, may be hard to appreciate scale of nihilist, grifter-based desecration of what has always distinguished the nation's capital, and what so many people have worked so hard for so long to sustain and improve. Backhoe-based counterpart to wartime damage we see in news footage.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/10/2026

‘The current generation of synthetic agents simply cannot be trusted. Until they can be fixed, they should be removed from the market, just like a car with defective brakes.’ garymarcus.substack.com/p/we-must-re... by @garymarcus.bsky.social

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We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now

Every minute we wait risks disaster

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10/10/2026

Well okay then. Ukrainian attack drones struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal in Rostov-on-Don, setting the Russian fuel facility ablaze. The strike came just hours after the US eased sanctions on Russian diesel exports and Trump announced a major diesel deal with Putin. #Russia

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three weeks ago: @pbsnews.org #Russia www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It just boggles my mind that an American state has been in North Korean missile range since the late 90s, with very public reminders, and no one treats it like a big deal except that increasing missile range might “threaten the US mainland.” Great, awesome. We’re definitely not treated as a colony.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...

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jsthorpe2.bsky.social @jsthorpe2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why would Democrats ever agree to a spending bill again?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A good reminder from Ed that not everyone will be able to afford a personal agent — even as the Internet is re-wired around them. @edmundlee.bsky.social #Muse

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jsthorpe2.bsky.social @jsthorpe2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is he angry that Tony Stark built his team in a cave from scraps?

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera

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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026

NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months. n.pr/3SK34oz

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NASA rushed engineers out of their labs. They say it risks future space missions

NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/09/2026

Despite initial fears of decline, New York City has transformed significantly since 9/11, becoming larger, wealthier and more diverse. New Yorkers share their stories of resilience and how they continue to adapt to a changing post-9/11 world:

washingtonpost.com

New York changed in dramatic and surprising ways in the 25 years since 9/11

Some of the most positive changes have come with downsides that are straining the city.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Real Americans are watching the game on NBC right now with an over-the-air antenna while second-screening social media.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.

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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Werner Herzog's scathing quote about Ai is what I needed this morning.

Werner Herzog response to a question about ai

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jsthorpe2.bsky.social @jsthorpe2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A decade defined by growth in so many ways with these boys. Thank you everyone who has been with us for any part of the journey

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Yup, you’re getting screwed. Since 2022, streaming prices have risen more than three times as much as inflation (which is also too high)." Progress! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did

Congrats, you cut the cord. Now you have six more cords. Streaming prices are rising three times as fast as inflation, making escaping cable company greed now seem quaint.

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Brian F'n Patterson @d20monkey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New collections, organizations, and a few tweaks to the page are live. Check it out to support my work. Free memberships are welcome and keeps you up-to-date on what I am working on! #ttrpg #webcomics #battlemaps www.patreon.com/cw/d20monkey

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d20Monkey — Creating webcomics and maps for TTRPG

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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sad to hear we could have gotten an Order of the Triad spin-off from The Venture Bros. only for it be turned down. The possibilities it could have had!

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026

"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase

CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.

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j❓❗ @jeeznomad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Coming from a former HP kid: You can just be an adult with taste and integrity. It's not even hard. You have the capacity to make that choice any time you want.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“.. there are really two separate economies: one for people who make their primary income through investment and passive income . . . and then typical workers who clock in day in and day out.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6f3a...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Then the Haitians did it The Right Way. And now after Americans lured them here and practically begged them to come to Springfield — Springfield! — now they’re having Trump’s armed secret police inflicted on them, and being told they all need to go back to an incredibly dangerous place or else

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Something else - and no, I’m not making an original point here — that endlessly infuriates me about the trump administration’s siege of Springfield Ohio is that the Haitians are there primarily because they were invited there, largely by local conservative political and business leaders…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What a lede, @lindsayzoladz.bsky.social. 💔 @nytimes.com #Dolly www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

APOLLO: Since 2006, US debt “is up nearly fivefold over that period. The economy is up less than 2.5x.” (via Schwab) 🇺🇸

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 26/08/2026

As a tribute to Dolly, why not donate a book? Leave one is a free library. Give one to a friend or neighbor or child. Buy one for a teacher’s wishlist. If you have book donation ideas, add them to this thread. Dolly would love to see people getting books!

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life."

do you ever feel that you're a joke

all these years, the people thought the joke was on me, but the joke's actually been on the public

i'm sure of myself as a person, I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life. I like the person I am, so I can afford to around with makeup and clothes because i'm secure with myself.

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters

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David Cochrane @davidwcochrane.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

21 days before the 25th anniversary of September 11th, the United States imposes 50% tariffs on the country that gave its citizens refuge during the worst terrorist attack in US history.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

(FT) - Almost two years since Donald Trump won election pledging to slash prices and fix the US’s public finances, his Iran war and tax cuts have delivered a different outcome: record-high debt, soaring fuel costs and punishing mortgage rates. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6cb3...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21/08/2026

you can write a lot of thinkpieces about the structural problems with american governance but also "don't elect grandpa cheesebrain"

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Seung Min Kim @seungminkim1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'

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