iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the goalposts for being an effective or "efficient" person just change with tech advances so there's nothing AI is going to be able to do that is going to be like: wow, now that the robot does my tasks i have infinite time to sit by the pool

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had another thought about this in the middle of the night which is that there are workers at TSA coming up on 20+ years of service. And they’re aging (obvi). So this is a neat trick for gutting ranks of higher earning, high seniority workers.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chair Fight is common in retail and comes down to control. My first thought that it’s particularly discriminatory to pregnant women. The second is the extremely fuzzy definition of “fitness standards” and how those are measured.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The gaps between job roles, job descriptions, and the work people actually do is pretty vast. I don’t mean the work that the procurement person who hires vendors does. I mean the work that people do across orgs.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Know you no ball, sir, at long last? Have you left no knowledge of ball?

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There was a “pro data center” party in DC last night and I truly can’t think of a dorkier way to spend a Saturday night. AI themed cocktails. You’re at a work party idiot.

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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You need to appease your abusive parents. You need to be friends with people who don't care whether you live or die. You need to listen to this song that's so popular no one has heard of it or else you're a snob. Why don't people read the news anymore?

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's the point--and, frankly, I think the more most students are exposed to what is truly unique about the academy, the more they love it. A university is one of the only places where people can play with ideas without needing to expect any sort of commercializability.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Network is like all the worst guys from the past 15 years and…BJ Novak for some reason.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excellent analysis of the emotional political logic of the moment and offering of a well constructed policy framework for the future. Love it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, it is Day 7 of the Be Specific Challenge, where I beg any reporter talking to these tech CEOs about how, exactly, AI is going to make us extinct in a year. If they dreamscape 50 hypotheticals, ask them to be specific, because they are doing a creative writing exercise for money, not policy.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pause talk coming from the tech barons (which is not new, they've played this tune before) sounds to me like hedging for a shift in power after the midterms more than anything else. We should regulate them, but they should not be rehabilitated.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Both the action and the substance here are great. As a non-mathematician reading this helped me understand aspects of the AI companies’ treatment of math with more complexity. (Foolish me, I’d assumed the field might be treated with more respect than the arts have.)

Text reads: “In recent months, the success of AI in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles. But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal. Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.”

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⚔️ Michael Whitney @michaelwhitney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

to me the tldr of AI company psychosis is they built a tool that helped them with their job (coding) and immediately assumed like idiots that every single person on earth would benefit similarly

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 04/09/2026

hey someone ask Sean O'Brien if he's glad he spent political capital supporting this corrupt shithead

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What's the ratio of op-eds about Claudine Gay paraphrasing someone vs op-eds about Ariely just straight up fabricating data

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Doing Jim Office Face at levels we've never seen before right now

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026

Bel was one of the Ohioans that Vance demagogued in 2024. He was one of the people who Vance targeted with a blood libel. And now he is dead because of the consequences of that libel. I would like to ask Vance about him.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My labor version of this is referring to people as “workers.” And anyone who says “THE workers” is usually trying to speak on behalf of a group of people who didn’t elect or even ask them to do so.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 23/08/2026

IDK if the brand "Butterfly MX" will ever be as known and hated as Flock but imo it should be, deeply antisocial product

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/08/2026

The fascist tycoons have priced these concerns into their adoption plans; they learned from the cycles with social media and the gig economy that they can weather public backlash over these things, and don’t mind being hated as long as they get entrenched.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Perfect encapsulation of what private equity does to everything it touches. Rampant wage theft and, based on my own experience at the park this year, total chaos at concessions. Machines were broken, they were out of basic items like ketchup, etc.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 08/08/2026

The only thing I'd add to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's fine work this morning is that the establishment Dems have an ideological blind spot around organizing. They overindex on capital-intensive forms of mobilization and are completely lost when it comes to labor-intensive forms of mobilization.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Started using my airline points to do upgrades on short flights for work trips (say to Boston or Chicago) entirely because if I'm in first class I can get help when a flight is cancelled or delayed. That's the only reason. No luxury, just buying basic decency when something goes wrong.

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Alex Hertel-Fernandez @awhf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📢 TOMORROW! Join a @columbiaigp.bsky.social webinar joint with Workshop to understand what American workers think about AI and what they want from policy. Featuring a fantastic lineup from Workshop, @groundwork.bsky.social, @cljeharvard.bsky.social, @domesticworkers.bsky.social, @aflcio.org!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you are poor (or even middle class) you are not allowed to dream, think, create, expand. To the quarries with you where you belong.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I sure do know what you mean. I sure do!

Highlighted quote from an article about young rich women who are centrist Dems. The woman is noting that these Dems from established families will not need to pursue cultural visibility: “that’s the difference between old money and new money, you know what I mean?”

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is a very cool project deserving of someone great!

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Vet’s assistant basically called me an unreliable witness, potentially a liar, in the visit notes yesterday.

Visit notes from veterinarian. Highlighted sentence reads “owner initially reported mild vocalization during and around urination starting yesterday morning, later denied vocalization when using the bathroom”

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

America's Test Kitchen was bought by PRIVATE EQUITY oh my GOD. Nothing is sacred.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When I lived in DC I visited this often, it’s such an incredible piece of art. Also initially misread the headline as “in the trash” and had a full moment of panic rage.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 29/06/2026

America’s real state fair starts August 27th. Plan accordingly and thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Centrists don’t fear bad government...They fear a left-wing that governs well. That’s the terrifying threat Mamdani poses to the status quo—and the massive opportunity his administration presents for all of those who want to transform it." Read the whole forum: hammerandhope.org/forums/mamda...

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How Is Zohran Mamdani Doing?

Nine New Yorkers discuss the first six months of the Mamdani administration.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The strategy works and I’ll tell ya this extra nugget for free: sometimes you don’t even have to say pretend-yes. Just say “oh that’s so interesting” and keep it movin’.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

MEL!! Happy Birthday to our National Treasure!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 24/06/2026

It is *absolutely* relevant, when we consider that the most powerful players, like Andreessen Horowitz, *hire people who kill unarmed civilians around them*.

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