iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 05/10/2026

Getting reports of bad election ideas in Signal groups. Defend democracy by shooting these down. No, you can’t show up at a precinct & be a challenger/observer. Those must be appointed by a party, nonpartisan campaign or ballot initiative. Letter must be accepted by officials. No letter, out you go.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We fucking loved the Internet when it first appeared! That's how it became great! And you know that's how it became great because ghouls immediately appeared to try and sell what we created back to us at a premium rate

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i think the only answer is shitposting through these times or logging off completely, and I am not capable of the latter

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/10/2026

The trees are turning colors and there are gloriously crunchy new apples and there are migrating geese flying through the air. The Earth is beautiful and every one of us are a part of it

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026

... meanwhile, we've raised over $2,500 to help equip volunteer ICE Air observers in other states with the sort of equipment we're lucky to have here in MN. We're off to a great start, but we could absolutely use more help: ottergoose.net/ice

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Jesse Pearson @lixivial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If there’s a poster-child for someone succumbing to AI psychosis due to the sycophantic nature of a chatbot, it’s Trump. That he _actually_ has is just part of our grimdark timeline. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

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Retronymous @retronymous.com · 02/10/2026

Scrum: "I'll have that ACA replacement ready in 2 weeks" – FOREVER

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the only reason Scrum works at all

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/10/2026

Hey, guess what? I’m keynoting BSides Twin Cities on October 23! My talk is called “We Keep Us Safe” and connects local community defense and protecting our neighbors to cybersecurity and fighting for the users. Local community conferences like this are so important. Come show up and support!

bsidestc.org

BSides – Twin Cities – An inclusive security conference for those in the Twin Cities area.

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Eddie Mars Attacks! @eddiemarsattacks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s because Xi is coming on Wednesday and apparently my guys are a peace offering.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Every time. Every single time.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 14/09/2026

It rules that in 2026 you can steal $600,000 just by asking politely

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 14/09/2026

No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026

This is a good article

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd hate to be a co-defendant. Everybody knows money talks.

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winston @winston.cc · 10/09/2026

If you're in the Twin Cities and working in tech (broadly defined! fuck gatekeeping!) i've lobbied for the next Tech Workers Coalition meetup to be a burnout support group. TBD what that means, come find out Sept 24 at Bruhaven. I'll be there!

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Courtney @resistasista76.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In the face of widespread cruelty, kindness is defiance. ✊❤️‍🔥

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e (they/them) @certificates.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

see also "the machine finds 'vulnerabilities', but you need an expert who understands not only those technical details but your organizational context to evaluate and prioritize those vulnerabilities."

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026

Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 01/09/2026

@nbcnews.com is reporting that ICE arrested 50,000 people in August — 100,000 over the course of the summer. At the pace they're building or contracting jail space, that number can only realistically be expected to go up from here.

nbcnews.com

ICE arrests 50,000 people in August, continuing record pace

ICE is in the midst of a nationwide arrest surge that is not as visible as aggressive enforcement efforts from earlier in 2026.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/09/2026

“I have never awarded a prize to a queer sex shop. That is a surprise.” -Martin Schultz, former head of the EU

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It has been 7 months since federal agents killed two Minnesotans. Alex Pretti’s family has lost a son and a brother, who his sister called her “hero.” Alex Pretti's family is calling for accountability and justice. They deserve nothing less. youtu.be/V47dE01V8sc?...

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Family of Alex Pretti speak out

YouTube video by Good Morning America

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

I got nothing pt. 2

The bot told him, as Baldeo recounts, "Your mom very much values new experiences, being around people from different cultures, different socioeconomic backgrounds, and this is how you should frame it to her: that you're exploring a part of Chicago that is more diverse." Her son took this tact to Baldeo, and she said yes. It was only later that she saw the chat history that let her know he had gamed the bot to manipulate her.

"My instinctual reaction after the fact was, 'oh my gosh, I was manipulated by my own reasoning,'" she says. "I reflected on it and I thought, that's a really clever way to use it, because that's not how I built it."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

I got nothing.

The most tech-savvy parents have built their own tools. Sarah Baldeo, a cognitive neuroscientist, spent the past year traveling for work, so she built a custom GPT of herself to chat with her 15-year-old son when she's unavailable. Baldeo tells me she programmed the chatbot with her personality, uploading screenshots of texts between her and her son, along with documents about her values, the family rules, and challenges she felt in parenting.

Baldeo wanted her son to ask the chatbot advice, and he did prompt it with questions he may have fielded to her, like, How do I diplomatically tell my teacher I'm overloaded with assignments? But he also asked the mombot how to convince his human mom to let him hang out at a coffee shop in Chicago in the evening — something Baldeo had been hesitant to allow.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

El-Sayed: I thought you were for the everyday man. If you're for billionaires, you and I disagree. Watters: I just think I have the right to the fruits of my own labor El-Sayed: Billionaires don't make their money off of their labor. They make their money off their money

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chrisjuhn.bsky.social @chrisjuhn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I witnessed Spider-Man going into action yesterday in Minneapolis. He rode in on the back of a muscle car. Then leaped onto the pickup, right before unleashing a hail of fists onto his nemesis, Jake Lang, Jayden Scott, and their minions.

A man dressed as Spider-Man attacked Jake Lang and Jayden Scott on the back of a pickup truck.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

404media.co

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/08/2026

PSA: Signal apparently has a bug right now where if you have somebody scan your QR code it exposes your phone number and not your username, so if you don’t want to have the embarrassing interaction I just had where somebody was like “seriously? don’t you work in cybersecurity?” act accordingly

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 12/08/2026

DFL chair richard carlbom on the daily call highlighting that every candidate that got endorsed won their election. minnesota democrats "backed up 100% of our endorsed candidates. i don't remember the last time that's happened." over 1.1 million voters cast a ballot, largest turnout for a primary!

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.org

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am truly honored and humbled to be Minnesota’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. Thank you, Minnesota – for everything.

I love you, Minnesota! Miigwech, thank you for everything!

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 12/08/2026

2 things I hope to read in the media (but what are the odds): - The *incredible* work the resistance (Indivisible, the signal chats, the whole fuck-ICE grassroots) did for Peggy. - Covering Tafoya like the nut she is instead of a moderate-feinting celebrity. Getting her going you’ll see the nuttery.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/08/2026

Angie Craig welcome to your personal century of humiliation

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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Next Senator from Minnesota btw

Peggy Flanagan wearing a "Protect Trans Kids" shirt

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Jesse Pearson @lixivial.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Guess that ag fest attendance is paying off big for Klobuchar today. This is looking like one of her worse performances in the state so far.

August 11th, 2026 primary results for governor in blue earth county with 58% of vote counted showing Amy Klobuchar with 1,821 of 42.1% of the vote, and Kobey Layne with 719 or 16.6% of the vote and Mohammad Wazwaz with 566 or 13.1% and Thomas Evenstad with 482 or 11.1% of the vote

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Jesse Pearson @lixivial.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Exciting results for Mankato: Julia Hamann, the progressive candidate for Mayor, came within 6 votes of outright winning the primary from the incumbent and certainly more than enough to move onto the general!

Results for August 11th, 2026 primary for Mankato Mayor showing Julia Hamann receiving 887 votes (40.74%), Toby Leonard receiving 397 votes (18.24%) and the incumbent, Najwa Massad receiving 893 votes (41.02%)

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 12/08/2026

peggy flanagan leading murray county and anoka county? WOW

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 12/08/2026

Updated from my bosses. Passing 2022 certainly, 2018 in sight? x.com/VoteMpls/sta...

Shows 82,988 Minneapolis primary voters by 5p on today’s Minnesota primary; compared to 83,381 all-day (thru 8P) in 2022 and 101,266 in 2018. All mid-terms.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in Pervert Glasses news, Meta glasses have been banned from court in England and Wales: Meta glasses have been banned from courts in England and Wales: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave

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assigned mage at birth @jigglypuff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

tomorrow is don't vote for angie craig day, make sure you don't vote for angie craig

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/07/2026

“Blue no matter who” only travels in one direction, example #750. (And Uncommitted was only for the primary, not the general. These centrists should hang their heads in shame.)

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ash 🏳️‍⚧️ @rollingfor20.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

senator hoffman has released a new statement regarding angie craig’s actions towards him, released via EMQ’s Facebook: she is so cooked

From Senator Erin Maye Quade on Facebook:

“Statement from Senator John Hoffman:

Congresswoman Craig went on FOX 9 this morning and declared that what I said was “emphatically” untrue. Her campaign has also characterized my account as “categorically false.”

Let me be equally clear: I told the truth about what Yvette and I experienced.

The screenshots released by her campaign show direct text messages from Congresswoman Craig. They do not address the substance of what I said: that a dear and trusted friend approached us twice on her behalf regarding an endorsement, once while I was in the ICU and again while I was recovering at home.

That friend confirmed that the endorsement requests came from Congresswoman Craig. Yvette was also present for these conversations. I did not invent them, and I will not allow our family’s experience to be dismissed simply because it is politically uncomfortable.”

“I acknowledge that Congresswoman Craig sent a message expressing sympathy after the shooting. My remarks addressed the endorsement requests that followed and the painful impression those requests left on our family while we were trying to survive and recover. It is dishonest to give condolences and then immediately ask for endorsement like her text showed.

Peggy Flanagan’s repeated contacts with our family were different. Peggy reached out simply to ask whether Yvette, Hope, and I were okay. She sought nothing in return.

My remarks were about that contrast, and I remain accountable for every word I said. Congresswoman Craig may disagree with my endorsement. She may defend her campaign’s conduct. But she does not get to rewrite what my family experienced or publicly attack my honesty.

After everything Yvette, Hope, and I have endured, we deserve better than having our trauma turned against us for political damage control.

Senator John Hoffman
Chair of Human Services Policy and Finance

Serving the cities of Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Coon Rapids, Dayton and Rogers and the Counties of Anoka, Hennepin and Wright.
www.johnhoffmanmn.com”

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