iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

not sure if I agree or disagree but definitely got me thinking

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

So glad that I got the WNBA league pass. This stretch before the playoffs… man

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

From the National Air and Space Museum Today in 1977, Voyager 1 took this image of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, captured from 7.25 million miles away. It was the first of its kind taken by a spacecraft.

The crescent Earth and Moon captured from space, in one frame.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Irritated that now I’m reluctant to use em dashes

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

16 months ago: Never forget how it started.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026

Since the purpose and efficacy of Black protest is the subject of the day here’s some reflections on the Negro Silent Protest in response to the pogrom in East St. Louis

Until the arrival of that freer world, though, marchers tarried daringly in the contemporary one, replete with the threat that surrounded and structured their daily lives. This threat and the struggle to navigate and overcome it were evinced in the multilayered undertones of death and resiliency that permeated the march but defied exhaustive representation. Indeed, the marchers' silence also indicated the impossibility of ever fully invoking the dead or articulating the experiences of anti-Black onslaught, both its trauma and the profundity of efforts to resist it, which would always remain to an extent unspeakable if not unknowable.
Such a feeling is captured in James Weldon Johnson's inability to describe the significance of the demonstration to his colleague and collaborator W.
E.B. Du Bois, the NAACP director of publicity and research:

Still despite claims that the march was "epoch-making, its actual efficacy in bettering the lives of African Americans remained uncertain.' Cayton's Weekly, for instance, argued that the paraders risked reifying racial castes in their admirable efforts to tarry in the horrors of racism and in asking for legislative protections "in the name of the race"66 The march had undoubtedly made an impact, but ensuring the realization of its transformative potential required continued agitation.

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ʟᴇɢꜱ ʙᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ @maybecam.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026

No choice bc it’s a mandate, but I think most can guess how this is being viewed

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026

Current rotation “Caos” Miguel “Frozen Charlotte” Jack White “New Self” The Bobby Lees “Cry Baby” Vince Staples

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026

I’m surprised that birthright citizenship was upheld. Would have never imagined uttering that 3+ years ago

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026

Looking at Mars mission failures and successes, from the 1960’s on, is still mind boggling

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vsamsondc.bsky.social @vsamsondc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"The world did not adopt GNSS merely as a convenience; it built entire classes of infrastructure, automation and digital systems on top of it. Now the same signal dependency that enabled enormous economic value has also become a systemic vulnerability." insidegnss.com/the-new-pnt-...

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The New PNT Reality

Locata CEO Nunzio Gambale explains why fielding complementary PNT solutions is about much more than just backing up GPS, and why PNT resilience has become an ec

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PlayStation @playstation.com · 02/06/2026

God of War Laufey is the next mainline chapter in Santa Monica Studio's series. First gameplay and story details of the newly announced PS5 action adventure: play.st/4fn8ZIW

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 02/06/2026

Time for another cyberpunk 2077 run

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 19/05/2026

I question whether I should fave/“like posts that are innocuous to most. And cave to caution every time 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 19/05/2026

Auto-renewing my WNBA league pass. Sports/entertainment value for the cost is still tons better than everything else

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 09/05/2026

People paid to install appliances but don’t even read the instruction manual is why I rather do it myself. This is the 2nd time I have to undo what they did & then do it the right way. 😒

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 23/04/2026

Frito pie still hits, especially when dressed up. Just had one topped with shredded brisket, queso, & pickled jalapeños. #OldieButGoodie

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏 To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space. Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform. Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut 📹 Sen

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/04/2026

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 04/04/2026

Stressful (but in a good way) week… think I’ll make a pound cake to decompress

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

I admit that I held my breath a little #ArtemisII

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Karl Vaden @karlrv.blacksky.app · 19/03/2026

Old reel to reel at my mom’s. Think I’ll clean it up but I wonder if the tape is stable enough to play…

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

So many simply refuse to learn this simple truth: “sorry if you were offended” IS NOT an apology, and never will be.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

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Jeff Foust @jfoust.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/12/2025

Consumers don’t know if their medications came from factories that used dirty water, were infested by insects or birds, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S. Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.

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Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t

We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This is ridiculous. The author has provided a summary. But instead readers are being given a probabilistically generated summary by a machine that often makes things up. And the authors have no say in it.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/11/2025

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)

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Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes

Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.

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