iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 3h

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/10/2026

Wall Street executives helped finance Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes for years. The Trump Administration has failed to hold them accountable. If it won’t, Congress will.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 15/10/2026

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Never Forget. Never Forgive the Betrayal.💔🕯️😞😞😞

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 16/10/2026

Ukrainians are not superheroes. They are people who want to live, love, and see another tomorrow. Two of Ukraine’s leading artists, Jamala and ONUKA, have come together to release “Lyudyna” (“Human”) — a song about finding the strength to keep going, even when you have none left.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Remy Bastien, nicknamed “Tiny Hawk,” pulls off an insane BACKFLIP at CJ's Skatepark in Canada. He is 8-years-old. #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Amazing/s/...

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The wealthiest in our country should pay their fair share into Social Security. Scrap the cap!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This news is both beautiful and brutal.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 16/10/2026

I dunno, entirely human behavior xkcd.com/221/

int getRandomNumber()
{
return 4;
// chosen by fair dice roll.
// guaranteed to be random.
}

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/10/2026

It’s time to hold the bankers who financed Jeffrey Epstein accountable.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let's Try Bernie's Way.......

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT engineers develop a breath test that detects pneumonia in minutes no X-rays, no lab wait. Just a single breath Two MIT engineers, Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg, have developed a breath test that can detect pneumonia in minutes.

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God @thegodshow.com · 11/10/2026

SLAVA UKRAINE! 🇺🇦

Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/10/2026

If Congress doesn’t act, Social Security benefits are on track be cut in 2032. Not on my watch. We must protect Social Security by lifting the cap so that those with the highest incomes pay the same share as everyone else.

“Just take the cap off” Elizabeth Warren on removing the Social Security tax cap to make the highest earners pay their fair share.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Bernie Speaks Truth To Trump And AI Billionaires......

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026

If you’re able, please support my friend Aaron. Where would we be without his clips? Independent media is critical, and he works tirelessly to prevent misinformation and gaslighting by giving us the video and audio evidence

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

I am genuinely curious: if you are YIMBY or aligned/curious, how do you rationalise this? Do you see data centres as part of the general philosophy of welcoming large-scale developments eagerly? It seems like a moment where a movement based around encouraging local development has to distinguish..

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

This is the application of generative AI that is meant to be 'the good one'

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Lizifer. Yeh, just like my big bro Luci. @lizifer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't know how to get over the fact that companies immediately were like "eh, fuck our customers" as soon as US food safety standards were legally loosened. The infrastructure was already there. There had to be a conscious decision and action to fuck things up as badly as they did.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026

NEW: At long last! Free news with swearing is here! We’re sorry for the delay. If you haven’t listened before, this is a sign that today is the day! Check out our award-winning show :) open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

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Headlines for October 1, 2026

The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 01/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: President Zelenskyy confirmed the first combat deployment of Ukraine’s new FP-7 ballistic missile.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Text from a friend. HEADS UP TEXAS. CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION ASAP. This is a family with a Latino last name.

Texts from my friend: I wanted to share with you a message from Texas I thought would be a good fact or call to action for your audience.
I wanted to share something that happened to my 76-year-old mom in Texas yesterday because I immediately thought of you and the reach of your mic.
My mom, Margaret, has been a voter since she was 18 and has always voted. She went to a voter-registration event in Bexar County and, when they suggested she check her registration, her record couldn’t be found. She immediately filled out a new registration application.
Then she checked her husbands, and his record couldn’t be found either.
Regardless of why any individual registration has an issue, this feels like an important public-service message: Texans should check their voter registration now, while there’s still time to fix a problem, not discover it when they go to vote.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

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Dav Raye @davraye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That's how this big government bureaucracy is going to keep millions of eligible voters from voting, nearly all because they have foreign or black sounding names. By the time they can prove they are citizens the election will be over. This is all very well planned, no accidents in US politics.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

PLEASE NOTE on the recent SCOTUS per curiam decision: existing law blocks most states from purging their voting rolls within 90 days of an election. This decision is not likely to impact the midterms, and also the use of the SAVE program (different from the SAVE act) is VOLUNTARY.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

imagine telling people that you prefer the output of a computer to experiencing the wonder of another human's imagination like you're announcing that you are an anti-social asshole with bad taste, just to be clear

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

oh my goodness -- I had no idea Mike Collins's hit ads on Jon Ossoff are *this* bad. Truly abysmal stuff.

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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As we suspected:

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026

NERD ALERT: This is so rad. @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social Votes hub pro lets you customize your election results viewing dashboard. Here's one of four I've built for election night. You can include other information in each race as well, such as district maps; and it's all updated in real time.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🇱🇹🇺🇦 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda on Russia: In all but name, Russia has already lost the war. Yet, its leadership does not allow itself to admit defeat, fearing international legal accountability and possible revenge from its own people. Kremlin regime increasingly finds itself cornered.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Australian Plastic Surgeon Fiona Wood AO Wins Royal Medal for Pioneering “Spray-On Skin” That Has Transformed Burn Care Worldwide

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🇺🇸🇨🇳 The US nearly started a conflict with China due to false intelligence generated by AI, - CNN. The incident occurred in the spring, when an AI-generated intelligence report erroneously stated that a Chinese ship was transporting components for a nuclear weapons program in the Middle East.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.

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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich

Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n

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