iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 10/09/2026

hi im the guy that the right wing says is a pussy bitch faggot clown. now im gonna say some stuff to alienate my supporters but that might appeal to some mythical subset of the crowd who might vote for me if they happen too exist

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the internet getting so much worse/unusable lately means, among many other things, that short news stories that used to take me 30 minutes to quickly research and write up now take twice as long because i can't fact-check basic-ass information that once would have taken me seconds to Google.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s a bit ironic that the more academia is treated like a business, the more we run into business problems (“branding”, etc.), and then the business problems are held up as proof of long-standing and deep-seated problems of academia

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/08/2026

Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?

nytimes.com

Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)

The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/08/2026

”This latest deal takes it to almost $4bn of taxpayer money spent on killing offshore wind projects.” Trump continues to dump taxpayer dollars into gutting effective clean energy in favor of building more fossil fuel plants to line the pockets of his donors." Article: zurl.co/9V5th

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Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases

Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 07/08/2026

A high school wrestling match in Washington showed no provable crime. Prosecutors filed no charges. Wrestling experts saw ordinary contact. But because one wrestler was trans, it became a scandal—and two school officials now face criminal charges. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/school-off...

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School officials face charges after trans wrestler controversy fueled by the religious right

Video showed an ordinary high school wrestling match and prosecutors found no provable crime—but two Puyallup educators are now accused of waiting too long to report it

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is in fact racist to call an Arab with views you disagree with an antisemite. I know this will be a surprise to many but unless that person is actually saying something antisemitic, the Arab is not genetically predisposed to antisemitism

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/07/2026

The WNBA is known for being one of “the most LGBT-inclusive professional sports leagues." But when Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton confronted anti-trans activists who showed up to a game, they suspended her instead of the transphobes. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Co-Owner Five Games for Confronting Anti-Trans Activists Courtside

Anti-trans provocateurs bankrolled by the right were sitting courtside with signs praising WNBA player Sophie Cunningham. Celeste Keaton reportedly confronted them.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/07/2026

At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.

Mayor Mamdani holds up bananas with a 30% off sticker on them.

Shelves of produce and canned goods, all with 30% off stickers on them.

New Yorkers clap at the press conference announcing the 30% discount for municipal grocery stores.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good reporting here. Important shit.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

U.S. taxpayers spend about $2 billion every year on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees, subsidizing the companies that refuse to adequately pay hundreds of thousands of workers, or give them healthcare. /1

American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:

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Amanda Deibert @amandadeibert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Platform our campaign to end the public existence of trans people or we'll set the billionaire on you" If you contribute a single penny towards the revenue generated by the Potter franchise you're helping fund this shit.

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 22/07/2026

With polls closed, the GOP State Senate candidate in Arizona's 14th District is now officially Mylie Biggs. In 2024, she said she wouldn't even vote for a woman because "I don't think women should hold office… It's a man's position... I think women should, you know, run the home."

friendlyatheist.com

Mylie Biggs, who believes women shouldn't run for office, is running for office

The wannabe Arizona State Senator says women shouldn’t vote or hold office. Apparently she's the exception to the rule.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is fucking terrifying

Separate research supports the concern. Anat Perry, a Helen Putnam Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and associate professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, co-authored a paper in Science examining how sycophantic AI responses erode users’ ability to calibrate their own judgment. The paper found that when AI systems consistently affirm a user’s position, the user’s capacity for independent evaluation degrades over time.

Joanna Stern, NBC’s chief technology analyst and author of “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything,” has documented the creep of AI dependency in daily life. Her reporting has shown how users begin with low-stakes queries, such as what to cook for dinner or what to wear, and gradually escalate to consequential decisions about careers, finances, and relationships. The trajectory from convenience to reliance is difficult to reverse once established.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.

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ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says

It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.

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ToplessTopics.org @toplesstopics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Fellow leftists, especially the older ones...I beg you...stop reposting AI slop. Call out and block that shit, you are NOT upholding progressive ideals if you give that garbage power!!

Screenshot of Batman from a comic angrily snapping a gun in half while saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."

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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 25/06/2025

After 9/11, Martin Scorsese filmed a little tribute doc to his New York neighbourhood. I have never stopped thinking about Lou Di Palo’s cheese shop ever since and urge everyone complaining about “immigrants taking over” to watch this clip ❤️

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The hypocrisy about state-run services makes a lot more sense if you realize Republicans think of themselves as a competing capitalistic service that deserve all the leg-ups of government help but none of the oversight.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

if your pamphlet looks like this absolute visual diarrhea, not only am I not going, I'm telling everyone and their mum to not go because no one cared about the event/product/whatever the hell you are trying to advertise with this slop

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 07/07/2026

A Catholic hospital chain in Michigan was taken over by a secular non-profit a year ago. The biggest change? Reproductive health care returned for patients because bishops were no longer getting in the way. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-catholic...

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A Catholic hospital was sold. Reproductive care returned immediately.

Beacon Health's takeover of Ascension Borgess in southwest Michigan restored reproductive health services that Catholic doctrine had blocked for years.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

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Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...

The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.

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NPR @npr.org · 06/07/2026

Memphis police say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours of July 5, killing a man who was armed with a handgun. State investigators will handle the case. n.pr/4aAUCgW

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National Guard troops fatally shoot a man in downtown Memphis

Memphis police say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours of July 5, killing a man who was armed with a handgun. State investigators will handle the case.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 05/07/2026

In the spirit of "trying to make ourselves better," there's still time to delete this and post another version — one that doesn't buy into the divisive, ahistoric, revisionist "history" of the Christian Nationalist movement.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 06/07/2026

In an admittedly cursory search, literally the only references I can find to the Founders calling America "god's noble experiment" are from... Chuck Schumer speeches. Why is the Senate Democratic Leader carrying water for a right wing Christian lie? And apparently fabricating quotes to do it?

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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 02/07/2026

Sony is putting an end to physical PlayStation games, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the ESA doesn't really have anything to say about it. kotaku.com/video-game-industry-esa-…

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The ESA Doesn't Want To Talk About Digital Ownership

Whose job is it, exactly, to deal with this?

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

the hype buildup when it was just called "it" and was a black box and everyone was trying to guess what it was only to end up with a fucking segway, we need to bring back that kind of laughing at tech kings

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

there's a saying down our way that translates to "a crook does not believe honesty exists" and I think it's spot on

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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 27/06/2026

Trump is blocking a bipartisan housing bill to attach a voter suppression act over a "problem" that only affects 130 people a year, while 745,000 Americans sleep outside. Bad math, and even worse priorities. #UNFTR for @meidastouch.com. Watch the full video: youtu.be/MCPjytZiWnA

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

yes, yes, the guy that dogwalked you & is delivering on his promises & makes you look exactly as bad at your job as you are -- yes, that guy "has work to do!" I bet Mamdani is *shaking* they are so bad at thissss 🤡

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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

people who can’t do anything for anyone fear they’re on the verge of losing to people who can

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

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Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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