iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The same is true for c. elegans, bacterial clumps, dog vomit slime molds, dicty, etc… complex flexible problem solving is pretty ubiquitous in the natural world and we don’t ascribe anything like what people are trying to force onto chatbots merely by virtue of complex problem solving.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

today the US Sec of Health and Human Services said “chemtrails” on front of a crowd that immediately applauded him for it, in case you were wondering where we’re at right now

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

people seeing a jerrypost demystified

A chart showing people encountering a jerrypost and what happens across four stages:

Stage 0

- 1,637 saw jerrypost on Discover
- 5,184 saw jerrypost on Following timeline
- 487 saw flyer for jerrypost
- 43 canvassed by grassroots staff

Stage 1

- 4,657 scrolled past
- 267 blocked jerry on sight
- 137 unfollowed jerry
- 1,751 kept following
- 76 crashed out
- 463 muted jerry

Stage 2

- 1,530 reposted to torture their followers
- 153 liked jerrypost to worsen the Discover feed problem
- 18 sent jerrypost to group text

Stage 3

- 50 received venmo payment
- 113 had thanksgiving dinner invitation rescinded
- 247 shunned from society

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 16/09/2026

This is all another manifestation of intelligent design thinking, but ironically reversed to ascribe non-design to systems that were in fact designed by people.

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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP Annie Dillard. Thanks for teaching me how to see all the pennies.

It is still the first week in January, and I've got great plans. I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand But—and this is the point—who gets excited by a mere penny?
If you follow one arrow, if you crouch motionless on a bank to watch a tremulous ripple thrill on the water and are rewarded by the sight of a muskrat kit paddling from its den, will you count that sight of a chip of copper only, and go your rueful way? It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
It is that simple. What you see is what you get.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Glad 60 Minutes is doing a Jacob Wohl story literally nine years after I reported on that guy. One time he was pretending a scam website he was running wasn't his, so I called the number on the website and it went to his mom's voicemail. Jacob is like training wheels for investigative journalists.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 11/09/2026

Outside of more actual organizing, the best thing the left could do tactically would be to develop propaganda literacy instead of collectively and constantly letting ourselves get walked around like a dog.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

anyway go listen to some live music today. if you want to tune in to some wherever you are, may i recommend the colburn conservatory’s performance forum? it happens most thursdays at 11:30 am PT, one of many livestreams found for free on their youtube: colburnschool.edu/livestream/

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. attempted to enlist its NATO allies in a campaign to “systematically dismantle” the International Criminal Court, straining already fraught transatlantic relations.

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US pressures NATO allies to destroy International Criminal Court

Washington said it “would be watching closely” to see which allies help in its campaign against the court during a closed-door meeting this summer.

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Bobby Amour @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dreamt I was running late for an orchestra concert (as a violinist) and realized on the way I had no rosin or sheet music. Britney Spears was running for president

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Something we’ve lost in those 25 years is what Adult Swim really defined, a thrilling sense of weirdness where you really believed the bosses must have no fucking idea what’s actually on their network in the middle of the night. More than any one show, that FEELING was most influential on me.

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Bobby Amour @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"wireless charging" but it's a way of magnetically winding a mechanical watch

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

that lack of education and awareness is the soil in which their propaganda bears bitter fruit, and as both leftists and liberals we must take it as an urgent project to attempt to remedy this lack of media literacy and critical analysis.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 13/08/2026

Believe it or not, there actually was a vibrant debate about which bathroom certain women were allowed to use in 1965. It was kind of a whole thing!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you for the nice story @kaylacobb.bsky.social, and long live doing creative work on hard mode.

“We are also doing it on hard mode. If you use AI, you’re not working with us. It’s just not happening. If you have at one point worked with f–king Palantir, you’re not working with us,” Collins said. “But I think it also hopefully gets us some credibility with creators that we are doing what’s best for them and not necessarily just to make as much money as possible.”
Part of that approach is so that Collins and his team can sleep at night. But jokes aside, whether the new InfoWars becomes a decades-long household name or if it’s a blip that will be forgotten by next year, Collins is focused on the broader ramifications of what they’re doing.
“Your children and your grandchildren and the people you’re not related to will judge you based on your character at this point, so that’s what we’re doing,” Collins said. “We are playing the long game over here at The Onion, as we’ve always done.”

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

[steps up to the mic with a knowing smile, gestures to quiet crowd. clears throat, then…] Turd Way. [the crowd goes absolutely berserk with laughter. can jokes really be this good?? is that even allowed???]

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Have seen a couple of reactions to this effect. But no. In this case, our reporting shows that President Trump was aboard a plane with a nondescript call sign, "Reach 18." The legacy Air Force One flew from Turkey to Britain with the AF1 call sign ... and no president.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the president is not merely a rapist recreationally; he has a strong ideological commitment to rape.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just gonna get more autistic to piss off antivaxxers.

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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @colortastetexture.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The day I’ve always dreaded has happened and I’m logged out of my account and can’t get back in. Please consider this a proof of life; an Ankh-Fourpork pizza I made tonight that hasn’t been posted anywhere. #kai #food 🍕🍽️🍜

A pizza with smoked pork, chorizo, pepperoni, and champagne ham on a wire rack.

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There’s a Wendy Carlos like character in mine and @mrmahoney.bsky.social new script! Trans people are magic!

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you are seeing this message, shut down your computer IMMEDIATELY.

This image shows a computer desktop with various folders and pop-ups. A large pop-up warns against subscribing to The Onion, with a message from InfoWars about The Onion Membership. Another smaller pop-up suggests The Onion will make you gay. And that's true. It will.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/07/2026

The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

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Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Doing my semiannual bluesky visit to yell about how known piece of shit Scott Yenor is outing the anti-trans movement as being fundamentally about rolling back women's rights, in addition to targeting trans people. (1/3)

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

and ya know who didn’t have those doses? people who need hydroxychloroquine every single day to treat our autoimmune diseases ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026

I used trello a lot when i was doing more journalism and project planning and project management workflows; there can be a SIGNIFICANT amount of nebulously proprietary shit in there. Trello claiming all of that to sell to their "AI" partners for LLM trainig is just… so so bad.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/07/2026

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

matthew always brings the receipts

• A law called the "Food Traceability Rule," designed to make tracing contaminated food easier, was supposed to go into effect on January 20, 2026.
• Taylor Foods started paying Sidley Austin to lobby. on "regulation of food safety" in January of 2025.
• On March 20, 2025, FDA announced they were pushing back the implementation of the "Food Traceability Rule" by 30 months.
• On March 26, 2025, Taylor Fresh Foods Inc contributed $1,000,000 to MAGA Inc, a Trump-aligned super PAC.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/07/2026

becoming the preeminent Jeff Epstein Did Nothing Wrong truther when Epstein-as-ur-villain is maybe the one thing everyone can agree with is, I guess, the holy grail of being a contrarian asshole

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emily ke finch @emilykefinch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

having to pay the largest defamation settlement in the history of american jurisprudence maybe a bit of deterrent. fox is in the business of right wing propaganda but it's still a business.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

everybody really needs to learn that all intellectualizing of transphobia is post facto transphobia is just an "ew, gross" feeling about people who don't fit into gender norms they come up with the rationalizations to explain a feeling they're already having about non-compliance with gender norms

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026

this guy wants as many americans as possible to die of preventable diseases. he views that as preferable to vaccines or long term medication. makes us “stronger”

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