iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

pretty compelling train of reasoning tbh

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Caleb Williams looks like the Unabomber sketch

Hoodie and mirrored sunglasses with a mustache

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.

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Matt Maiocco @mattmaiocco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NFC West standings 49ers 3-0 Seahawks 2-1 Cardinals 1-2 Rams 1-2

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Goodell put out a hit on the Rams for not taking the Australia game seriously.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Chuck is a better king than I would be because I would’ve sent in the Royal Marines to do a wellness check after this.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

HE DID IT! NFL RECORD

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brock Purdy is a top 5 QB btw

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brock Purdy is a top 5 QB btw

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Getting pumpkins and barbecue in Loudoun County today. Half of the local candidate yard signs say “SLOW GROWTH” on them.

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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With all the Aidan Chiles talk, I looked up Adrian Chiles’ latest and that man does not miss

Adrian Chiles opinion column: I’m an avid fan of chard but you can have too much of a good thing. Subhead: my veg patch has turned into a chard jungle and now it’s chard for breakfast lunch and supper

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is, by SCOTUS standards, a pretty sharp rebuke of the Eighth Circuit. And a richly deserved one.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some shows that would’ve made my Top 100 list that didn’t make the NYT list: The Terror (season 1), Wolf Hall, The Expanse, John Adams, Vanderpump Rules, Silicon Valley, and Derry Girls.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Trump DOJ's plan to prove a political vendetta against him by convincing FBI agents it baselessly fired to testify on its behalf is, somehow, not working out as intended www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

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Ex-F.B.I. Agents Crucial to ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Suggest Testimony Won’t Help

Lawyers for the agents said that their clients would testify about “a properly predicated allegation that then-citizen Trump had unlawfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you’re my age or younger, it’s pretty weird to watch a bad Packers team.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To be clear, Justice Jackson is the circuit justice for the First Circuit and does not report to John Sauer.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To be clear, this appears to be DOJ literally addressing the actions of Justice Jackson. In another recent application out of the First Circuit — the USPS mail ballot rule applications (TRO and PI) — Jackson set briefing schedules there (26A297 and 26A305) without addressing the admin stay requests.

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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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - New York sued Polymarket on Thursday, accusing the prediction markets operator of running an illegal gambling operation. @reuters.com

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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

The replies to his tweet are spectacular. Explaining the difference between race and culture to Elon-pilled zoomer fascists is like teaching nuclear physics to a squirrel.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve always wondered if Trump knows he can’t fire the vice president. Maybe we’ll find out.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unlimited Power: Jedi Independence Versus the Unitary Executive in the Old Republic

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Would’ve paid almost anything to see the other CA9 judges’ faces when he circulated this.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My sense is that a lot of domestic and foreign figures are quietly waiting him out at this point. They’re assuming he won’t be president in two years and that his successor (Vance, Rubio, or a Dem) won’t pursue things like this.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My favorite part is when explicitly disavowed any critique of the books’ merits and even described some as “first-rate works of literature.”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026

jason benetti you are my GOAT

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Giants don’t have a QB3 on the roster?

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1. Under what possible procedural mechanism can a court of appeals affirm a TRO and remand for entry of a *permanent injunction* when there hasn’t even been an answer to the complaint? 2. This just openly defies Kavanaugh’s stay of the order until disposition of a cert petition.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026

Good poster from WW2.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Big day for the right to remain silent and not quartering troops in private homes.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Canada is a sovereign country, but in practical terms it is more important/integral to the U.S. economy than at least a few U.S. states. Once again the “nationalists” know almost nothing about this nation.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/09/2026

From my personal experience people don't want to pay you to tell them they can't do anything about, eg, the very likely anti-Dem. midterm backlash in 2030 (or, gulp, 34). But it's true. So consultants make up stuff like "Kamala Harris would have won if she ran anti-trans ads"

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