iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

So much of the practice of law is not "canons of construction" but "pick the right option from this dropdown with 500 fucking things in it" *resubmits his Alias SUMMONS*

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 2h

listen everyone, i’m getting sick of all the criticism. this is my first blender project. i’m still figuring out how pivot points work. i am also aware that at frame 860 he teleports to fairfax along the x-axis. i’m working on it

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404 Media @404media.co · 2h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

404media.co

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and the biden doj shrugged

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Matt Loar @matt.loar.name · 28/09/2026

Psyching myself up for what I expect to be a borderline hostile email from OC and then it's just "let me ask my client"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

Literally this, so much, forever, in so many ways that are hard to articulate and reach facets of life I never imagined.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is such a fucking racket and these companies are all in cahoots. The best way to protect yourself and your employees from AI is to abstain from using it.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

between this and Medicaid and more, trump and his party have set up for so much of this country to fall off a very steep cliff starting next year. It is going to be really bad. We are going to stay on top of it at @zeteo.com

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's Laura Rutledge explaining that the secret service will not interfere with the radio communications at this game immediately followed by the broadcast audio going to hell

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/09/2026

Given that fascism is definitionally characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition, any space not sanctioned by the state that encourages people of various backgrounds to mingle and find solidarity is, from my view, in and of itself anti-fascist

merriam-webster.com

Definition of FASCISM

a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government ...

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Footnote one is a grenade that will create chaos across the country as the DOJ uses it to argue that every sanctuary policy is unconstitutional. It doesn’t do that, but they will read it that way.

' The dissent argues that sections 1373(a) and (b) do not displace laws restricting information sharing with DHS because "[w]hen a law imposes an express restriction on disclosure, it is that law—not an 'entity, 'offi- cial, 'person,' or 'agency'-that is doing the 'prohibit[ing]'
or re- strict[ing]." Post, at 7 (opinion of JACKSON, J.). But the distinction the dissent draws between laws and those tasked with enforcing them is il- lusory. Sections 1373(a) and (b) prohibit any "entity," "official," "person," or "agency" from "prohibit [ing]" or "in any way restrictling]" the request for or receipt of information regarding immigration status. (Emphasis added.) Those prohibitions necessarily include invoking a law to deny a
request for or transfer of such information.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Breaking: China and the United States reach historic accord on the name of the technology that will kill all of us.

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Matt Loar @matt.loar.name · 25/09/2026

Dogs' noses are amazing. My dog can smell executive function from 30 feet away. Whenever he senses that I'm about to get work done he comes and insists we go for a walk

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Matt Loar @matt.loar.name · 25/09/2026

And a new Cabinet department!?!? This is so fucking stupid

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?

Trump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's face

Trump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud.

Nikita Bier: Hello computer,

Find every Amazon purchase I ever made.
Call the number of the manufacturer.
Say you’re not satisfied.
Request a refund.
If they decline, threaten to leave a bad review.
If they decline, find the CEO’s phone number and ask him for a refund.

Now, repeat the same process for items I never even purchased and see if you can get them to send me money.

If they ask for a recipient, generate an image of one and send that.

Do not stop until you’ve collected $1 million in refunds.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

c-span.org

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

static.klipy.com

Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hell of an act, what do you call it? “The only democracy in the Middle East”

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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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Matt Loar @matt.loar.name · 22/09/2026

Went to re-light the pilot on the gas fireplace only to find it has been on all fucking summer

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Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

6/end: Banning diesel exports would, in effect, be a small subsidy to farmers and other industrial users of diesel across the country at the expense of New England residents, who would see heating costs skyrocket if not run into acute physical shortages.

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akeley.bsky.social @akeley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saying 'To the victor belong the spoils' to the UN is like saying 'I just wanted him dead' during your murder trial.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THIS IS INCREASINGLY RELEVANT WITH EACH PASSING MOMENT IT FEELS LIKE

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 21/09/2026

good morning, did you remember?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The agency waived a Congressionally mandated 25% cap on foreign broadcast ownership to allow a trio of Middle East sovereign wealth funds, from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, to own 49.5% of the merged company."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just joining the Russian economic sphere I guess.

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Kate @kateretired.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Feeling overwhelmed by world events? Find a dog, any dog. 😂🥹❤️

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 20/09/2026

Red Alert 2 ass building

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Matt Loar @matt.loar.name · 19/09/2026

I like celebrating Saturday by turning off the alarm and going back to sleep, just to have a dream where my life is ruined because I overslept

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That's, that's not how crossing an air gap works. Please stop trying to scare people with a scenario involving transmitting a trillion parameter model across an air-gap with a channel that is less than 1 baud. Orders of magnitude less.

Fireside Alpha
@firesidealpha
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change

"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."

"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."

"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."

"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."

"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe... Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:

Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.

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