iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 3h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Q: “How do you define socialism personally?” Vance: “I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.”

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Sam Lloyd @llamsoyd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

great bit by major league baseball that the 19th, 24th, 28th, and 30th highest payroll teams are going to be four of the five squads still standing tomorrow, given that the whole sport will shut down for 2027 because owners have brainwashed everyone into believing teams like them don’t have a chance

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People always ask “where are you going to get the money to pay for stuff like housing and healthcare and public transit” and the answer is the same as it’s always been Make the rich pay their fair share

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

SENTIMENTRADER: “.. S&P 500 closed at a record high. With twice as many lows as highs on the NYSE. Here's every date the S&P closed at a record and the NYSE low/high ratio was > 2: 6/22/29...2.1 12/3/99...2.0 12/21/99...4.2 12/22/99...4.1 12/23/99...2.3 12/29/99...2.4 10/6/26...2.6”

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Big Ten looks weird this year. Gotta find some other schools to feel good for. Minnesota? The two teams that beat PSU already?

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How bad was last night? Haven't seen anything like it since COVID.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

and in turn making it a normal systems safety problem also means that existing law and regulatory frameworks are applied, and the entire alchemical-occultic frame and the political economy it is aligned with is dropped in favor of treating the industry as other countries across the world have

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

May be a healthy strategic decision to be otherwise occupied.

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Penn State's been outscored 41-10 over the last four quarters. Been a long time since we've seen that.

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2nd 3rd down play running routes short of the sticks. Just...like, what is going on here

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Eli @eliglazier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh we’re like bad bad at football. Ok.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Phillies will pay Aaron Nola $24.5 million every year through 2030.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

sure, why not, let's get some hope going

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

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, that was trash. Trying to get back on a normal sleep schedule that includes two wild days that were wild even before playoff baseball was added to the mix in the afternoons.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is really remarkable that in a time of historic impasse in Congress, with both houses have been reduced to complete standstills despite a mounting number of political, economic, and ethical crises, both parties have spent months working to pass a bill limiting the pay of college athletes

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

so this game is going to be just as stupid as the rest of the weekend, huh

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the last chances I'll have to watch a quarterback older than me play against the Eagles, I guess. (LeBron's gonna reset the age curve for a while, fortunately.)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My skepticism of a lot of things may not have been wrong...just early

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Listened to the first quarter on satellite radio and watched the second quarter via satellite internet on Peacock. Then went for a campfire dinner by the lake. Great choices all around.

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good night from the shores of the Gitchegumee.

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

go owls (playing football in like 3 hours)

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Paging my professional organization, who's supposed to be interested in establishing good physical spaces to do things

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Little late on this, but the South "America" season premiere was excellent.

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

With 24 hours to mull it over...getting engaged was awesome, 10/10 would recommend

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ok, what's the reason for an anti-Sherrod Brown ad during a Buffalo-Penn State game?

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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New literature review on housing ladder spillovers: When rich tech workers move in, low-end rents go up. So does it follow that adding high-end homes would reduce them? Yes. Changes at the top of the ladder can propagate down and affect prices at the bottom. 1/

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"As it turns out, our baseline view was wrong pretty steadily for the last 6 months, and we'd prefer not to do that introspection"

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wrote something up. For now it's just on FB, but I can share the links that were included in it...because they're all bangers. Original song, clean audio track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPRD...

youtube.com

The Who | Who Are You (HQ)

YouTube video by ♪FenderGibson Sounds♪

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Guess Matt figured this was the easiest way to get seats to games

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy.

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