iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10h

The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 11h

Waiting for a few more major reports like this before I look into changing but so far I love what I'm seeing and it's far easier to manage this than my current setup.

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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 12h

Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.

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Retatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJM

Retatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12h

I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 21h

I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 11h

Republican attack ad: "This Democrat loves transgender surgeries for minors" Democratic attack ad: "This worthless sack of shit let a pedophile walk free and called you a stupid asshole"

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

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they like rape and rapists, is the thing.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

It’s almost as if the safety of systems is a function of how we organize social relationships around and through those systems, as opposed to a bunch of predictions run through linear algebra and bayesian statistics

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

as with the fossil fuel industry the reality of the crisis is a load bearing part of the strategy - exploited to lend urgency to plutocrats' preferred political response, which they position as sensible and responsible

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe you get to become Elden Lord because you have the awesome power to use the dodge roll like a child uses blankets to protect them from monsters. *50 foot long sword smashes into you at 100 mph* Bullshit Lord: Nuh-uh, I hit spacebar. I took no damage.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay. Dungeon Crawler Carl took me a bit to get into, but holy shit am I digging this series. No wonder it's making the rounds. What an achievement.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The other part is that there's more & bigger & faster cars on the road than there used to be. Who in their right mind wants their kid roaming around, alone or in a pack of ferals, in the age of the Childcrusher 3000?

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 27/09/2026

you can’t stop them from trying, but we can do the work right now to help other folks not help their conservative friends from owning this world-renowned destruction of government under “conservative principles.” Let them make their bed with the hounds.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026

Claude making a scientific discovery

Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These are the sorts of 'Christians' who make me do my best to keep my religious ideals and beliefs to my damned self. They are a mockery of the very faith they use as a shield for their disgusting, hateful bigotry. Radley is cool though, and I appreciate his harsh words against such vile souls.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

3700 words into this latest bit of story. That puts me over 11k this week. What the ever loving hell is going on!!?! I have been at this for 10 damn years and I have NEVER had a streak this productive before. I would claim that I am at a loss for words but that is clearly not the case!

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Y'all. It's crazy how quickly I am able to build this world I'm working on. I'm now 10k words into my week, and I haven't felt stymied even once by either the story or the setting. All I'm doing now is following the character along as he does what he would do in any given situation. All my love.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Should be illegal to be that rich and dumb as fucking brick.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Y'all. I just wrote 900 words. 2k total over the last two days, and nearly 10k on the week. It is insane how much just having the right idea at the right time can translate to a frenzy of productivity. I pray this continues. I am beyond grateful for this transition to night shift. All my love.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey everyone. For all that my move to night shift has been an unqualified success in terms of my job security and my financial well-being, I was just starkly reminded that I'm barely any better off than I was when I became a full-time working adult in 2002. It's a weird feeling. All my love.

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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is just us subsidizing Amazon

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Man, Poaster's Bushido alone dictates this man should win.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This chart makes me want to paint my face and go full troglodyte.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/09/2026

I think she's just mad that she can't take bribes from military contractors in exchange for handing them tens of millions in taxpayer-funded contracts to build defective products that the military will never use anymore www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It’s the president canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like. Republicans said they would never let this happen. Well here it is. If they have any integrity they’ll join us in ending this practice.

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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal

President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026

i think we are going to learn that there are a number of people in and around this admin who committed no shit, capital T treason and there will be strong incentives for the DOJ to prosecute them

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026

snodd tarnes is right about one thing, though, thune and johnson really did completely squander their majority

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

I don’t think Donald Trump will die in jail and that’s a damn shame but “ah! well. nevertheless,” only ever applied to him personally

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Y'all. Every week I show up to work to deal with systems broken by men (almost always men) who have no clue what they are breaking or why it was even important in the first place. They will receive no consequences for their actions. They will, in all likelihood, be promoted. That must end.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I suppose in the abstract, I'm a "China hawk" in that I don't think Taiwan ought to be conquered and think the Chinese should have elections and stuff over there, but we probably should've thought of our free and open Indo-Pacific whatsits before we made our little fucky-wucky, so concretely...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

the paramount/warner antitrust suit could have done serious damage to this man’s empire and I will not stop being furious at everyone in california politics who caved on it

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Good

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also every time I am devouring a bag of chips, in my head I am Zoey. Om nom nom nom.

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Zoey De Dann Comiendo

ALT: Zoey De Dann Comiendo

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am struck again, each time I watch it, by just how well told the story of K-Pop Demon Hunters is. Not only is it catchy as sin and a visually daring, it's just an incredibly solid story told with finesse and care.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have now written enough of this new story to tell some very important things, which are good things to know: 1) I have started in the wrong spot in the story and I am now struggling without a tone promise or clear sense of what I'm writing. 2) I have chosen the wrong pov for the story.

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