iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by lemon

Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

yeah, the easy fix here is simple fact: u.s. law says you can't put living people on u.s. currency but does not specifically say coins (it names other types, but not coins). it's not critics saying it

2253

Reposted by lemon

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

this is fucking CRAZY

3258273

Reposted by lemon

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Remember when Prigozhin was marching an armored column of mercenaries on the capital of a nuclear power in an attempted coup? I think that might still have been the craziest geopolitical moment of the past decade.

42106573

Reposted by lemon

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Yes sure. Why not expend our most limited ABM capabilities in defense of a country that has their own ABM systems in a pointless war that achieved nothing?

1342468

Reposted by lemon

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I think that escapes a lot of market folks because markets do not work that way. Whatever happens, a firm can exit a market that isn't working out or worst case close up shop and liquidate. Countries cannot do this and geostrategic effects follow actors home. TACO may not be on the menu at all.

225915

Reposted by lemon

HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s amazing how much we all just want to believe nothing is going on

041

Reposted by lemon

Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

*taps the sign*

101146187

Reposted by lemon

Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

NYTImes calls NATO the “North American treaty organization”

752747405

Reposted by lemon

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The only concern I have with a congressional candidate who wants to back Ukraine to the hilt, defend Taiwan, and impose costs on Israel for gross civilian harm is how much money I can donate to them. You fucking losers.

311560259

Reposted by lemon

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

quite frankly these scenarios are useless because if they are true there is absolutely nothing you can do about them besides adapt to society collapsing. which, again, little to none of the people raising them really believe will happen

1563

Reposted by lemon

dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

as a proud american i do have a birthright steeped in western values: my god-given right, enshrined in the motherfuckin constitution, to hate the clowns and bums in washington and vote them out on their asses. you can pry that from my cold dead hands, g-men

436330

Reposted by lemon

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.

10045451360

Reposted by lemon

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

10054689518035

Reposted by lemon

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

WTF is she talking about? Our country opposed the creation of a national police force into the 20th century, largely for the reasons we are seeing now. Congress didn’t even give the FBI arrest powers or the ability to carry firearms until 1934 (it was created in 1908)

751412404

Reposted by lemon

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This is not what "we're supposed to do." You don't need a concealed carry permit in Texas. Texans do not have to show our IDs to police unless we are lawfully detained (reasonable suspicion) or arrested (probable cause). This guy would rather sacrifice his own rights than break the party line.

1553318703

Reposted by lemon

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This situation is not, in fact, evolving. It’s over. This is not fog of war. It’s “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”

832240431

Reposted by lemon

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

6636031182

Reposted by lemon

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

381633257

Reposted by lemon

David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

460137885700

Reposted by lemon

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Good, but stop using the word "graft". It sounds wonky and technical. "Tom Homan took bribes. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel covered it up. Why? Are they also for sale to the highest bidder? Maybe even foreign governments?"

21442112

lemon @juicesqueeze.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Unfortunately I don't think the kids are alright

020

Reposted by lemon

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I don’t feel safe, so let’s explicitly nullify the contract between the states and the federal government and between the government and the governed. That’s the sort of thing that will lower the temperature.

742747

Reposted by lemon

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16/09/2025

the trump team even admits it and that we're gonna give the PRC access to americans' data to train the algo hahahahAahahhahah ah ah ah ah ha ah ah i give up www.ft.com/content/550e...

Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour.
https://www.ft.com/content/550e4680-89e7-4b59-bb5d-2064cd6799c7

An Asia-based investor of ByteDance said the new US TikTok entity would use at least part of the Chinese algorithm but train it in the US on American user data.

“Beijing’s bottom line is a licensing deal,” said the investor. “Beijing wants to be seen as exporting Chinese technology to the US and the world.”

“It’s the ultimate Taco trade,” said one US adviser close to the deal, referring to the acronym “Trump always chickens out”. “After all this, China keeps the algorithm.”

American and Chinese officials reached a framework agreement on Monday after two days of talks in Madrid to hammer out a deal that would keep the Chinese-owned app online in the US.

The Trump administration has repeatedly intervened to keep TikTok available despite US law that required ByteDance to divest its American operations of the app or face a nationwide ban.

China’s top two trade negotiators, vice-premier He Lifeng and deputy commerce minister Li Chenggang, indicated Beijing would approve the export of TikTok’s algorithm.

Separately, US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said the spun-off app would be controlled by American investors but preserve some “Chinese characteristics”.

Another person familiar with the matter said TikTok had been developing a standalone US app in anticipation of a deal but was keen to ensure that content generated by American users would still be available to users in the “rest of the world” app and vice versa.

1017445

Reposted by lemon

Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 12/09/2025

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

254214295100

Reposted by lemon

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The President of the United States said, on TV today, that the U.S. should have a justice system more like China's, with quick trials that happen the next day. And most of the media decided that wasn't news, because .... you know what he's like.

27556061423

Reposted by lemon

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I’m not saying y’all have it wrong or need to change your system but it is important to me, as an American, not to live in a ‘papers please’ country

427312

Reposted by lemon

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The police can detain whoever they want. If you didn’t commit any crimes, they have to let you go. What’s the problem? I love how deeply committed to the constitution our textualist judges are.

1451975

Reposted by lemon

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

t is simply difficult to discuss China with even a modicum of seriousness when the President could try to sell the entire island of Taiwan to China tomorrow on a whim

0213

Reposted by lemon

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/08/2025

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

127123141992

Reposted by lemon

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Me when I’m extremely innocent and not hiding anything

842477

Reposted by lemon

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share

113118511905