iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs

Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.

A post from the Comal County (TX) Republican Party:

Democratic Socialists of America

The DSA's mission is to replace capitalism with democratic socialism by shifting economic and political power from corporations and wealthy owners to workers and the public.

Is this what you want for America?

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

IMO we shouldn’t have an economic and political system where one unelected guy can get “carried away” and unilaterally cut US social welfare programs, steal everyone’s social security data, and stop the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid.

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Also shoutout to that time L7 played Letterman and destroyed the equipment RIP Jennifer Finch m.youtube.com/watch?v=5miC...

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L7 - Pretend We're Dead (Letterman 1992)

YouTube video by 90`s Live Archive

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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

There have already been an alarming number of people for a while who think that everything served up in a Google search is ON Google, and they don’t understand that search results simply POINT to other things Hence the common notion that “if I find it on Google, it’s free to use however I want” 🫠

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

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BeingHelpish @beinghelpish.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So we go in, shut down the strait, and then charge 20% to open it back up? Protection racket much? I feel like we should have to sign up to be a pirate or working for the mob.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Guardian @guardianofforever.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Massie should file the paperwork and demand proof of life when it’s rejected.

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ltponcho.bsky.social @ltponcho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And don't get me started about our wonderful public transit workers. Give those folks a medal.

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ltponcho.bsky.social @ltponcho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

how about a toast to the folks that pave our roads, run the disability office, deal with all you cranky assholes at the dmv?

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ltponcho.bsky.social @ltponcho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

can someone thank a schoolteacher or postman or public defender, just for once, please.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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capillariancrest.bsky.social @capillariancrest.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The same guys who now loudly love AI also loudly loved NFTs in 2020 and I won’t let them forget that that’s their track record. It’s not one of credibility.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/05/2026

The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per the Social Security Administration's estimates.

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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

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Allenk_81 @allenk81.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

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Carly @nautiluscarly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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ljw100.bsky.social @ljw100.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We would all be better off if we ditched social media and just left hand-written notes on sign poles

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This would be the correct use of “long-lost”

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

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FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“A long-lost original print of 1977’s Star Wars was recovered from an archive and screened for a group of cinema aficionados and die-hard fans.” What does the Hollywood Reporter think the BFI Film Archive is? What do they think the archivists there do? If it’s in an archive, it’s not ‘long-lost”

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‘Star Wars’ “Looks Terrible” in Screening of Long Lost Original 1977 Version

The years have not been kind to the oft-romanticized original print of the sci-fi classic, which lacks all of George Lucas' post-release tweaks and polishes and looks "like a completely different film...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

So..this guy is in charge of a nation. A pretty big one. How is that ok?

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Omg they should have these but big enough so you can fit way more books and with awesome air conditioning and free WiFi and…

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Historically, if a westerner gets arrested and sent to prison in Iran/China/North Korea? People will be like... "That country is led by horrible people, what did you expect?" Guess where the US sits in this sort of calculus now.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

i realize the title is a bit counterintuitive but the answer is that you cannot as an individual guarantee your food is safe. we can, as a collective, push back HARD on dismantling food safety regulations, and put pressure on an unpopular administration to keep our food from killing us.

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