iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Would you trust this cat?

A brown striped cat wearing a sign which reads 'Garage sale!! Follow me!'

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Historically, having a vibrant, successful city people want to live in, visit, and spend money in is about supporting the arts, versus "we need more cops with guns to terrorize everyone" and while it's not rocket science it's pretty great to have a mayor who knows that.

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404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026

help jason pls

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 03/10/2026

How your email finds me

Photo of my torbie cat Birdie with her front paws on my black leather couch and her mouth open showing fang. Her ears are slightly angled back, suggesting that she is mad. She is orange, brown, and white with a pink nose and pale green eyes.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

basically, they care more about punishing people than housing them, even though that's actually the best way to reduce the public disorder they supposedly want to address & is also kinder and cheaper & more effective.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope can feel in short supply these days. But I am truly hopeful for the future, in large part because of the community we've built through the Bethesda Declaration. Proud to share these reflections on hope: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.... May they bring you some hope.

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Hope From the Front Lines: Reflections From the Bethesda Declaration Movement | Hope: A Public Health Blueprint for Action

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please check out my futuristic opinion piece in @jamapsychiatry.com "specific treatments for schizophrenia that are tailored to target symptoms at different developmental stages are no longer the stuff of science fiction, but instead are realistic future goals" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Updating Treatment Goals for Schizophrenia

This article discusses research providing renewed reasons to revisit the utility of glutamatergic drugs for treating schizophrenia.

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I didn’t generate this!! I would never. It came up in my searches.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

RFK, jr appears to think that AI's medical judgment is better than that of any doctor while completely failing to recognize that it's based on the judgment of the entire medical literature (which he says is just pharma propaganda or Big Vaccine or whatever). the level of stupid is beyond belief.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

evil. hilariously, they don't seem to realize that AI gets its answers from..... research done by experts.

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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social has the most interesting review of the MAHA Summit. She asks who organized the event, who attended, and where the money goes. Kennedy likes to keep his grift in the family. Zadrozny notes: "Finn was the summit’s first speaker." www.ms.now/news/maha-su...

If the divergent, often competing pet interests of the activists within MAHA made the movement hard to define, the structure behind the business of MAHA is murkier still. The summit was presented by MAHA Center, a nonprofit helmed by Tony Lyons, publisher of Kennedy’s books and other contrarian works. Lyons also runs MAHA Action, a separate nonprofit, and MAHA PAC, the rebranded super PAC that bankrolled Kennedy’s presidential bid and is now backing Republican candidates in the midterms. Tickets to the summit went to “MAHA members” who enrolled at the $6,000-a-year tier — a membership advertised and presented by Lyons’ MAHA Action but whose agreement is with MAHA Holdings, a separate entity with no public-facing website, about which little is known beyond its CEO, former tech entrepreneur Alex Hardy, and one board member: Kennedy’s 29-year-old son, Finn.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am not at my best and if I get worse I will need some help to be on the safe side. a 30$ for safety ok that's vague. im doing very badly right now, ok cut off is 9pm (because bank) etransfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We've all heard how corrupt Ken Paxton is. But he is also incredibly stupid if he thinks this "well, he served 60 whole days" excuse for releasing Adam Hoffman, who sexually abused a boy over a three-year period starting when he was 8.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why aren't these countries and companies demanding immediate court orders stopping further action and arrests or other remedies for these crimes? These are clearly illegal actions by companies or is it just legal now to commit crimes if you just say AI did it?

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Possibly the best example of American democracy and governance in the era of Trump.

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Judge says of Trump's "gender ideology" exec order: "It seems to interfere with matters of that are the most private, the most sensitive to the people of the United States: their personhood. The chief executive cannot prescribe orthodoxy in sexual matters...Where does he get off and issuing this?"

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 23/09/2026

Repeatedly subdividing a triangle using its centroids

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Neal Hockley @nealhockley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chatting only yesterday with colleagues about how AI is partly just an old fashioned story of incentives. AI is, partly, a paywall breaking, copyright evading machine. If there's no incentive to produce intellectual property, it won't be produced.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At least one Trump cult member started out as a member of the sexually abusive 12-step based DC "Midtown AA' group. While real AA isn't a cult, its ideas can be spun off easily into one by leaders imposing AA concepts like confession by force www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’

Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

yeah, headlining this as what 'really happened' and running it as a news story rather than opinion is a problem.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean “constituted crimes against humanity.”

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US strikes on alleged drug boats may constitute ‘crimes against humanity’, UN expert says

Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This was quite a read

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Police can’t eliminate organized crime, drug trafficking, or the illegal drug supply, yet nobody says policing “doesn’t work.” Someone uses drugs near a harm reduction service and suddenly harm reduction caused the entire crisis. That double standard is absurd. Smh 🙄

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

what's especially absurd about this is that we have data going back to the 70s about how harmful this is & contrary to what we know about how people learn (a little out of comfort zone, not in panic zone & gradually increasing stress only with support not coercion).

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

must be one of rfk's friends...

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cult leaders bank on smart people's arrogance that they can go into coercive settings & not be affected. they use stressors like sleep deprivation, isolation, food deprivation & unmet social needs to manipulate ppl. it can work on *anyone* at a low point. avoid such group settings.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here’s the best view of an aurora I’ve ever seen (and that includes watching a solar storm from a Fairbanks snow bank).

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how do people like rfk jr live with themselves? You have to be a psychopath...

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable what a huge waste

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

AKA ineffective selfishness, I guess...

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