iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.

28923140

Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 4h

Small ball and 3 run home runs. Fun.

4231

Reposted by Mike Masnick

David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am eagerly await the remaining parts of Konstantinos's excellent series like I eagerly wait the remaining parts of On the Calculation of Volume (not a joke -- I am eagerly awaiting ##5-7!)

0153

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7h

So basically Trump has only been slightly less disastrous for international tourism than COVID.

161836456

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Semafor @semafor.com · 8h

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

3701937696

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?

361199315

Reposted by Mike Masnick

geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 10h

Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.

801796430

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades

20658601558

Reposted by Mike Masnick

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

uh…what the fuck

1062084253

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.

1712808862

Reposted by Mike Masnick

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

363283778

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 8h

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

2034538764

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

705191104480

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

42481981837

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Reminder: Cosplay Patton here is 0-1 in wars and he took an L to a B-level power

1802559442

Reposted by Mike Masnick

VoxPort @voxport.live · 12h

Happy International Podcast Day 🎙️ Podcasting was built on an open standard: RSS. Nobody owns it. That's the whole point. VoxPort brings that same idea to your identity. Sign in with your atproto account, record in the browser, publish an open feed. Your show goes where you go. voxport.live

voxport.live

VoxPort — Record, Publish & Own Your Podcast

All-in-one podcast studio in your browser. Record with pro tools, publish to Apple & Spotify via RSS, and own your audience with AT Protocol identity. Free to start.

0175

Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 9h

Pretty sure there are a few third party Bluesky apps that already allow for editing.

110

Reposted by Mike Masnick

alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 10h

the bsky team is working on various ideas for creating smaller social spaces in the app. which use case is most interesting to you? 1. posting into "topics" that organize public posts 2. posting into "communities" or "groups" that can be public or private 3. posting directly to your followers only

20724164

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 10h

Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"

853021472

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 10h

It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.

381708370

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11h

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

2634014844

Reposted by Mike Masnick

One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 12h

This is an amazing study that does a great job of illustrating how memory works in LLMs. Obviously can't run these tests against the closed-source models! They put additional filters in front to prevent/obfuscate extraction for some reason *cough* NYT *cough*

13210

Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11h

Fwiw I'm serious that they made a smart decision in doing so. The samples I submitted were, in retrospect, embarrassing. It also freed me up to work at the radio station instead (each had a policy against allowing people to work at both)

3750

Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12h

30+ years ago the Daily Sun rejected me as a writer and they've continued making smart decisions ever since.

220310

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 16h

hey is the strait open yet

Six hundred of our finest warriors joined SECWAR
for morning PT at the Pentagon ahead of his HISTORIC State of the Force address.

481091153

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

12622691038

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14h

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

youtu.be

Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

14068931290

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0

42761611794

Reposted by Mike Masnick

phil @philjamesson.com · 15h

as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery

395181626

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

10262801799

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.

38771181

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 16h

The guy who proclaimed the Iowa Hawkeyes are the Atlanta Hawks also said a month ago that anyone who thinks Michigan fans say "beat Ohio" doesn't know ball. The absolute goat in the crowded "Republicans don't know ball" marketplace. Yes he voted for his govt to control college sports, why do you ask

The Hawks/Hawkeyes guy accusing libs a month ago of not knowing ball

Eric Schmitt
@Eric_Schmitt
“Beat Ohio?”

Tell me you don’t know ball with saying you don’t know ball.

91044157

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

"Schmitt says he stands by his claim that Smith is a 'dirtbag' and a perjurer. And with that kind of commitment to the bit, he’s definitely a shoe-in for the VP spot." — @lizdye.bsky.social

publicnotice.co

Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith

When gotchas go disastrously wrong.

2131938355

Reposted by Mike Masnick

adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 16h

bill clinton made my electric bill skyrocket this year

55861100

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

442726377

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 15h

Hugely excited that this now sees the light of day. Aster will not only serve science and scientists, it will help deliver #trust signals to online communities.

1387

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 16h

Oh this is exciting and backed by a murderer’s row of atproto knowers. Makes perfect sense for science to be embracing the protocol like this.

35713

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16h

almost as if they are operating on the assumption that everybody else does what they (openly, on live tv, with signing ceremonies) do

22814100

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 16h

"And don't get me started on what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did to cause today's high gas prices."

33978139

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17h

Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.

206105873771

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 16h

The Jonathan Chatterton Friedersdorfs will be so very upset at this latest assault on American higher education. Hegseth is completely unprepared for the thousands of long-form words and high-profile declarations from these extremely good faith defenders of free speech.

2538

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 16h

bro are you five

Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”

81580190

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 16h

I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon.

9826136

Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15h

Hegseth is destroying the military academies along with the military.

413637

Reposted by Mike Masnick

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

It is actually completely clear from context clues.

722436305

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

"Super Intelligence."

2112450678