iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.

Hand-drawn Venn diagram titled "Bubbles," with four overlapping circles: Beanie Babies, AI, NFTs, and Dot-com.

Each alone: "Gamble on plushies!" / "Gamble on LLMs!" / "Gamble on JPEGs!" / "Gamble on HTML!"

Beanie Babies + AI: "The products tend to have cutesy first names."
Beanie Babies + NFTs: "Who will own the rarest fake monkey?"
AI + Dot-com: "Genuinely important underlying technology."
NFTs + Dot-com: "This URL could be worth millions!"

Every bubble but Dot-com: "Mostly in private markets."
Every bubble but NFTs: "Good people got hurt."
Every bubble but AI: "Never threatened life as we know it."
Every bubble but Beanie Babies: "Blame Silicon Valley."

All four: "Somebody got rich, but probably not you."

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To be fair, it was sort of baffling for President Ford to name the theater after himself in the first place.

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why am I just learning now that Iowa’s idiot governor forced the UofI to hire Mark Baurlein lmfao

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

State representatives only do this when things are going very, very well

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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hope this keeps bond yields down!!

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

From the same mind as: religious liberty except for catholics for some reason

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Huh, a “let’s reconsider the ‘grind up the poor’ guy” movie from the production company owned by Larry Ellison’s failson? Huh. Weird. I wonder if Bari Weiss will get a cameo

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Instagram Reel: What if Harry Potter didn’t go to Hogwarts at all? Today, we’re sending him to Arizona State

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hmm I think this misunderstands how redistribution and investment in public infrastructure promotes economic growth and therefore increases the tax base

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Think about this though— what did the Neanderthal do? what if the Neanderthal had bad vibes?

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

passé at this point but can you imagine if obama had done this

Scarlett Johansson changed her magnesium supplement routine after a spray left her feet feeling dry

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think this happens *a lot* but historical memory tends to smooth out and flatter

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I doubt we need to manufacture that many moons— my advice is SELL.

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is true but they also often make you sign a very detailed and specific “statement of faith“ as soon as you get into leadership. A very odd esoteric structure that leaves people not realizing the church they attend is actually a very specific kind of Calvinist, for example.

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

*whispers* he would have been right to do so

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

i think the reason these guys picked christianity as the religion they pretend to believe in is because they are too lazy to revert to the religion of their whitoid ancestors and sacrifice their children to bog demons or whatever

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Jake @jakeofonline.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

King Hûi said, 'I wish to receive your instructions.' Mencius replied, 'Is there any difference between killing a man with a stick and a sword?' The king said 'There is no difference! 'Is there any difference between doing it with a sword and with the style of government? 'There is no difference'

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Read Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity!!!

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

They just let you lie on this website

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I don know any communists, or tradcaths, or lessWrongers or orthobros or Effective Altruists or redpilled incels or anglicans and I think you made all of them up

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’m pretty liberal and I don’t know a single communist wtf are they talking about?

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Get in loser we’re relitigating the investiture controversy

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Emotional Mohács for cafe hopping propagandists

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

interesting thought, voice of reason

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

some classic stuff here. “I only lost the election because my opponent was more popular than me“

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Colonizers‘ devotion to the metropole has always been contingent, since at least Gonzalo Pizarro

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Detained by ICE on her way to Mass yesterday, Sr. Letty is reunited finally with Sr. Norma Pimental, Pope Francis used called Sr. Norma his “favorite nun.” Quite a moment that shows the human face of rounding up people randomly.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/06/2026

Guys, guys!!! I think I have figured out a solution. I call it "German AC"!

Illustration of Maxwell's demon from Wikipedia
By User:Htkym - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1625737

Labels have been added: Maxwell's demon is German AC, one gas chamber is inside, the other one outside.
The second panel says: The German AC only lets fast (= hot) molecules pass outside, thus lowering room temperature without creating surplus heat.

Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment to ostensibly disprove the second law of thermo dynamics. From wikipedia:
In the thought experiment, a demon controls a door between two chambers containing gas. As individual gas molecules (or atoms) approach the door, the demon quickly opens and closes the door to allow only fast-moving molecules to pass through in one direction, and only slow-moving molecules to pass through in the other. Because the kinetic temperature of a gas depends on the velocities of its constituent molecules, the demon's actions cause one chamber to warm up and the other to cool down. This would decrease the total entropy of the system, seemingly without applying any work, thereby violating the second law of thermodynamics.

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

👀 statewide nightmare over soon??

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not italian🌻☀️ @notofassisi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“basic goods” my brother in Christ what if i told you john finnis is not the gospel. not even the catechism!

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Barron going on about basic goods grounding morality betrays his intellectual debt to Grisez and Finnis, and he likely misunderstood the point because he has no intellectual tools to understand Aquinas in any way other than this very post-Humean American way.

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

MSG seems like it‘s not unhealthy for you, but sometimes it does seem too loud

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Wow this really uh Doing the opposite of making me not want to live in Europe

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Aren’t all books “word books”?

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