iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gorillaz at MSG was intense last night. Been a Damon fan my whole life but never seen him live, and the whole show was this wild outpouring of creativity. C and I just kept looking at each other like “WTF are we watching?”

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Back in January, C and I made a New Years resolution to go dancing every week of 2026. The NYC house music community is super welcoming to olds, and we have a bunch of DJs we love that perform all the time. So we’re really crushing our partymaxxing goal this year.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it really helps that el-sayed genuinely appears to loathe mike rogers, which is not something you can say about way too many democrats and their republican counterparts. that transmits to voters who are angry and need an outlet for that anger right now.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what happens when politics (building popular support for a movement) adopts the playbook of digital marketing (cheaply annoying a million people to convert a handful of sales)

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026

the self-driving analogy is so perfect: Google is actually developing these things, albeit at tiny, experimental scale, and meanwhile Elon Musk is raising billions off the hype that they're right around the corner

“We don’t expect, to be perfectly frank, that we’ll have anything usefully operational in the next few years,” he said, comparing the mission to the company’s early efforts to build driverless cars. “Remember how Google was researching for like 15 years, before anything showed up? I think this is going to look like that.”

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Real ones know Carol Kaye is in a class all by herself. McCartney wanted to sound like her! She was offered induction into the HoF and she turned it down! That's a real bass player. And she's still with us.

Carol Kaye, bassist for the Wrecking Crew and like every pop song you've ever heard

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is cool, a visual guide to live music performances: rockillustrated.com/listings/nyc/ Feels like a throwback to a better internet era, and a better live music era, both of which we can have again if we want them!

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New York Concert Listings - Rock Illustrated

FROM THE BRONX TO BROOKLYN TO MANHATTAN TO QUEENS TO STATEN ISLAND.

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RevolutionaryRadish @revoradish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

yeah why are people so desperate for a slur to use for outsiders (bad)? i feel like i'm going crazy reminding allies that that's the whole thing that's bad

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My latest feature for @wired.com is out, and it’s part of our epic issue on the state of women in Silicon Valley, and I can’t wait for you to read it and enjoy this art 🙌💗 bsky.app/profile/wire...

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pats beating up on Aaron Rodgers at Bob Kraft Stadium and I just don't want any of them to leave happy today

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/09/2026

you used to have to leave the house and go to a physical library and sort through physical archives and maybe sit at a desk with a weird whirring optical machine on it to read something without paying for it

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Begging for a gritty Silicon Valley reboot where Pied Piper is terrified of their own frontier models, and Big Head accidentally starts a Zizian-style cult.

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Neil Kleid @neilkleid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“So pour one out for this era of Marvel. And pour one out for comic book publishing in New York City. 90+ years is not a bad run.” Ooooof.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love these moments when an everyday American nervously steps up to a microphone and says the realest shit. There are heroes everywhere.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The problem with the blog discourse is we're stuck saying "things were better back then!" and it sounds like typical boomer shit, but in the case of the internet, it's 100% true.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My youngest started high school today. My oldest has their first college info session in a few mins. We're good, I'm good, this is all good.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is also true. The internet took a terrible turn when we collective decided closed platforms for shorter-form content are better. They aren't!

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is the truth. I was at a popular news weekly in 2004, and even then it was clear the blogs were going to eat the publishing industry. The blogs were so much faster, and I would argue that obsession beats professionalism in the news and content world.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every few weeks we get to relearn that the big shot media guys have no idea how media works.

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The Big, Dumb QB Haver (For Now) @andrewkilger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Patriots are in last place in the NFL

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been on a foldable for two years, never going back to a regular slab phone. IME the aspect ratio of the front display (which gets 95% of the use) is soooo much more important than common worries like having a crease in the display.

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

"I, too, am become death, destroyer of worlds" No you're not.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about

ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Segway was simply Dean Kamen's stepping stone to inventing Coca-Cola Freestyle machines. Progress is non-linear.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Regime change! OK, no regime change. Unconditional surrender! OK, no surrender. Nuclear deal! OK, no nuclear deal. But we control Hormuz! OK, we don’t control Hormuz. But we’re squeezing them economically into concessions! OK, no concessions. But maybe a future president can get something, IDK.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The YouTube algo got my kids into rollercoaster content a year or so ago. We made our first pilgrimage to Cedar Point this week, and they know all the rides, the design firms that made them, the total airtime, all the stats, it's really fun to watch them nerd out.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For years I've been trying to verbalize Ross Douthat's whole vibe and I finally realized he's like if Peggy Olson kept Pete Campbell's baby and raised it Catholic

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't know what Woke 2 looks like, but Woke 3 will be enforced with sticks and stones.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"If you look at the Ford Foundation, I think Henry Ford would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they were up to." interesting example you've chosen for Katie Miller's podcast, Brian.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

have to figure trump's gonna rename lake ontario soon

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Love it when @codewordagency.bsky.social pops up in the media for doing interesting things. In this case, we're continuing to experiment with radically trusting our team members. And we have some big new experiments coming later this year. www.hr-brew.com/stories/this...

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This company doubled down on the four-day workweek two years after piloting its program

“We trust you to get your work done. We don’t need to know that you’re sitting at your metal box nine to five.”

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And now Yayoi Kusama! The most instagrammable artist in history, for better or worse

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I hate when big media outlets refer to “the MAHA coalition” as if it’s anything beyond two hundred moms who spend all day on Instagram and think their kids’ ADHD was caused by a lack of elderberry

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night

As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The woman in front of me on this flight watched 7 uninterrupted hours of CNN.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Bulwark crowd is crashing at our place because they burned their own house down. Don't forget.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This Washington Post story about journalists “questioning whether the White House considered their safety” for some reason does not mention that Trump helped Saudi Arabia’s crown prince cover up the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi

WP: They were on the plane when Trump secretly left. Here’s what they noticed.
The journalists traveling with the president had no idea he had switched planes due to a perceived threat from Iran. Now some say the operation has left them feeling deceived and questioning whether the White House considered their safety.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/08/2026

A monstrous waste of money.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is a remarkable essay from @tomcritchlow.com on the confusion and pace of change in the tech, media, and marketing worlds right now. (For Tom and me, those are actually one world; you can't understand one without the others.) newsletter.brxnd.ai/p/an-almanac...

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An Almanac for the Age of Chaos // BRXND Dispatch vol 126

On marketing’s three-body problem: how to navigate when customers, channels and craft are all changing at once

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you’re obsessed with the lab leak theory you’re gonna absolutely go wild about this theory that the sitting US president in 2020 helped Xi cover up what was going on with Covid in China and then willingly pumped out propaganda on the internet running cover for the Chinese leader

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My favorite thing about all this is they can't just dump Weiss and move on. Ellison bought her company and made her the figurehead of the whole operation, so now they're stuck with her terrible news instincts and her worse management skills. Whoops, nobody could've seen this coming!

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Pretty amazing trick by House of the Dragon to create a sprawling ensemble cast across three seasons without a single character anyone cares about.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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