iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 9h

Watch Tesla self-driving v14 Lite try to drive through a red light, forcing the driver to hit the brakes! After more than a decade of development, Elon Musk's self-driving software still can't understand basic rules of the road. It must be banned.

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Center for Space Environmentalism @space-environment.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

CSE has formally petitioned the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to dismiss SpaceX's application for the 100,000-satellite Starlink Gen3 constellation. Read our full comment: www.spaceenvironmentalism.org/actions/publ...

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Comment on the SpaceX Starlink Gen3 VLEO Application to the U.S. FCC (2026)

October 3, 2026 Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 via ICFS Electronic Filing In the Matter of: Space Exploration Holdings, LLC, Application for...

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My opinion of Isaacman is not improving

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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...

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• 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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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#PPOD: Roman has opened its eyes! These fuzzy rings are the first photons of starlight captured by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument. And yes, they’re supposed to look like that—for now. 🧪 🔭

This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the Wide Field Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Roman’s primary science instrument has opened its eyes to the universe for the first time, revealing a sea of out-of-focus stars, each spread out over many thousands of pixels. The image, which zooms into one detector and zooms again to a single star in the insets, offers a baseline the Roman team will work from to align the telescope’s optics and tune the focus.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Bob Somers @bobsomers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Investigate DOGE at Santana Row #TeslaTakedown

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Element115Art @element115.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) was originally named "Constitution" but Star Trek fans convinced them to rename it Enterprise after the NCC-1701 and now Enterprise (OV-101) is canonically considered to be in the lineage that led up to the NCC-1701. Temporal mechanics...

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phylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026

OpenAI guy deeply concerned that OpenAI product is extremely powerful. no no this is not an ad. don't say this is an ad. it's The News

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Kara Swisher calls @Google @googlemaps @googleearth “NOODLE SPINED” “UNCTUOUS QUISLINGS” who “SOIL THEMSELVES” 🔥

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is ready for launch! 🚀🧪 Named after NASA's first Chief Astronomer, the telescope is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on August 30th. Image Source: NASA/Kim Shiflett, Sydney Rohde

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]

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Meat proxy

A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

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Babad🎃🎃kakis @ryanwu2438.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Karen Bass reelection update: the mayor has come out as anti-taco stand. In Los Angeles.

“I do not believe that you should have a food vendor in front of a restaurant, period,” Bass shot back, adding that she wanted them off the streets completely and in brick-and-mortar locations. Their presence near restaurants “discourages people from going in, just like you shouldn’t have encampments in front of restaurants or in front of schools. You just should not do that.”

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Danny Robb @inverting-vision.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

60 Years ago today, the first Lunar Orbiter launched on a mission to photograph the Moon in preparation for Apollo. For the occasion, I wrote a history of the camera, originally built by Eastman Kodak for a classified Air Force program. #otd #HistSTM 🗃️🔭 invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/k...

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Kodak’s “Pre-Invented” Lunar Orbiter Camera; or, The Fate of SAMOS Readout

Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell. Project Manager Cliff Nelson (left) stands with NASA/Langley team members Calvin Broome, Israel Taback, an…

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g @g--0.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

terrifyingly, the most normie corporate colleague you have also believes this

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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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Kelly Stonelake (she/her) @kellystonelake.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Read @doctorow.pluralistic.net's comparison of Zuckerberg to dictator Alexander Lukashenka, including the phrase “history’s most guillotineable billionaire."

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Pluralistic: Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There is a raccoon running around Capitol Hill who has Shortened Spine Syndrome.

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badwebsites @badwebsites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I practiced civility and they rolled back wildlife protections...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026

Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Conor McGregor had the evening he deserved.

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Stou @mf-stou.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Can't wait to find about the loopholes that make this law nearly worthless 🫩

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yellowstoneten @yellowstoneten.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

spotted on Reddit: this menu card from a Lufthansa flight explaining the bibimbap being served the Korean text apparently translates to: "You know how to eat bibimbap, right? You are experts. So, please understand that we need more space for English and German instructions."

menu card from a Lufthansa flight with a German section, English section, and Korean section. the English section reads "Bibimbap means 'mixed rice'. Besides rice, tofu or meat, and a hot chili paste, it can contain a variety of different types of vegetables, meaning that countless variations are possible. You mix the ingredients together yourself to create a meal."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

listen, i'm marisakabas.04 on signal if you've got anything!

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Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Causing chaos on this scale is unacceptable for a safety-critical system. Can’t anyone build a reliable self-driving car? Waymo’s robotaxis should be removed from public roads until these defects are fixed.

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

DSA never endorsed Platner He was never popular among DSA people, in my experience DSA people are not fans of guys with Nazi tattoos &/or ties to Blackwater Anyone saying anything to the contrary is a liar

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Houston, the Apollo 11 bootprint hoodies are 80% funded 🚀 We're only a few pre-orders away from landing this Eagle! 🦅 🔗 sciencesocks.co/prod... 🔭🐡🧪🎨

Blue hoodie with an embossed Apollo 11 bootprint on the chest, next to the real bootprint photo in lunar soil

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

California just finalized rules for CCS pipelines without distance requirements from communities. Oil companies just have to avoid building near them "as far as practicable" and, if they can't, provide regulators with "vapor dispersion" analyses & training for 1st responders. What could go wrong

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

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Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”

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Stou @mf-stou.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Finally watched Project Hail Mary and I have to say it was by far the worst space-themed film I've seen so far. And that includes Moonfall. 😭

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed

Ice detention center leader at the tay swift wedding

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/07/2026

RTX, which you might know as Raytheon, is the US military contractor which supplies the Iron Dome and Israeli air defense systems. This is what its stock price looks like over the past thousand days. The arrow points to October 7, 2023. Lloyd Austin was a former board member of RTX.

A graph showing a steady increase in RTX's stock price over the past thousand days with an arrow in the middle showing where it stops being flat, when Israel began its genocide in Occupied Palestine.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.

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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A car is one of the largest purchases you’ll likely make as a consumer. If you choose to spend that $50,000 on a Tesla, you’re choosing to support child genocide. Not buying a Tesla is one of the easiest things you can do to not be a garbage human being.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/07/2026

every new Tesla sold is a measure of our collective nihilism

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

When you read this it becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.

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Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning

The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

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