iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 6h

I should not have to dress like a construction worker just to avoid being killed by a driver.

norman rockwell painting of man standing up at town meeting

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5h

Yes it makes the art bad

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 18h

I have my great great great grandfathers diary in my possession - he drew this in 1845. There were no photos so he drew what he saw. I am sharing Henry T Whinfield’s art for the first time ever to the world. This is a world debut.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some perfect ads coming out this year.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

1 big thing: Ø Link economy breaks
Total U.S. web traffic for top news sites
Visits to approximately 100 top sites;

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the
U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have a very important complaint: Amtrak coffee is terrible.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CNN can’t stop complaining this morning about the ban on White House access for 3 news organizations, and while it’s bad, maybe it is not *quite* as bad as the fact that 3,500 local newspapers have folded in the last 20 years. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

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An alarming number of independent publishers and small chains closed papers last year, new Medill study finds - Poynter

The United States has lost nearly 3,500 newspapers and more than 270,000 newspaper jobs since 2005, the report found

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And now these folks want to claim that the vaccine that came as a miracle, saving countless children and immeasurable pain, is a "massive fraud"? The ignorant arrogance of a (subset of) society that has erased its history and replaced it with conspiracy theory.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

gif of Gustavo Fring saying, "Do it."

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Florida Man misses Michigan Senate debate

Abdul El Sayed debates an empty podium as Mike Rogers i guess skipped this debate?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Absolutely amazing that Trump is viewed as so untrustworthy that not one in five people will support the promise of free money

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dang thing landed on my neck. New York, you got the spotted lantern fly. Rockaway Beach.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every new iteration of American pick-up truck is just an increasingly louder "Fuck you" to cyclists, pedestrians, and other drivers

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey New York City what’s there to do in this town, on a bike.

Green weird folding bike looking over East River at Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline. Tourists in the view. Don’t worry I walked my bike in this park.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Chicago. Got some damn skyline.

Chicago! Towering building covered in glass reflecting sun and clouds and blue sky.

More skyscrapers, sky getting a bit cloudy.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

thinking about this quite a bit right now

Mass suicides in Nazi Germany
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During the final weeks of Nazi Germany and World War I! in Europe, many civilians, government officials, and military personnel throughout Germany and German-occupied Europe committed suicide. In addition to Adolf Hitler and many high-ranking Nazi officials like Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Philipp Bouhler, others chose suicide rather than accept the defeat of Germany.!"! Motivating or triggering factors included fears of execution for Nazi war
crimes or reprisals and atrocities by the Allies and the Soviets, Nazi propaganda glorifying suicide as preferable to defeat, and despondency after Hitler's suicide. For example, in May 1945, up to 1,000 people killed themselves in a mass suicide in the German town of Demmin, before and after

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I write for a living and I do everything I can to avoid using “lay / lie.” It’s just too much pressure.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What's your plan to burn less gas? Because gas isn't going to get cheaper.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.

The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/09/2026

I think one of the reasons I'm an AI skeptic beyond all the environmental and meta economic harms it perpetuates is that AI writing is still dogshit, repetitive, and boilerplate. I can't imagine ever using it to help me with actual writing, nor should it be designed to do so.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm angry that Facebook seems to think I'm old enough to want an AI slop video for Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit."

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's an alien concept to many, the idea that one can use something other than a car to travel. Bernadette couldn't imagine using an e-bike like I can't imagine riding a camel to the store. (Ok, now I'm thinking of riding a camel... where would I keep it? How would I feed it? How fast is a camel?)

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

By Dec. 6 in Michigan, the end of print at The Ann Arbor News, The Bay City Times, The Flint Journal, The Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle and The Saginaw News. www.mlive.com/news/2026/09...

mlive.com

MLive announces full turn into digital formats, will end printed editions in December

The Michigan news organization will print and home-deliver its final printed editions on Sunday, Dec. 6, and the publications will continue afterward in online formats.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pretty sharp drop. Steeper slope than Bush's post-"Mission Accomplished"/Katrina era.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oatmeal was stalking prey, a tiny spider, all night long. Though he didn't catch it, he felt satisfied about the evening's hunt.

Gray and white part Siamese cat on the arm of a chair at night. He's looking up at his prey (not in photo) a tiny motionless spider on the ceiling. Also note hole in curtain, caused by cat a month ago.

Now he's on the other arm of the chair, looking at unknown.

Cat is now lounging in front of tv screen, like the big content hunter. On tv, a lion on the savanna.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

All I've got to say is, I love how this tune (just playing on my earbuds as I come across this video) matches perfectly. youtu.be/wf7RUjUqO7U

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365 Rolling Stones (One For Every Day Of The Year) - The Andrew Oldham Orchestra, 1964

YouTube video by Deltics IORR

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Once the car became the American way of life, we essentially morphed into a series of car companies with a minor country problem." A fantastic video on how cars took over and what we can do to get American biking again, via @climatetown.bsky.social

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America Hates Bikes

YouTube video by Climate Town

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Wes Marshall @wesmars.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Are raised crosswalks effective? Yes. Yes they are.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 24/08/2026

The stores have started putting out their Halloween stuff, so you know what that means...

A scene from a news broadcast of a mustachioed guy dressed as Dracula. It says: "=COMING UP=
GOBLIN TIME"

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm going to be on a bike vacation (put bike on train, go to place, ride around) in NYC next month, and if I don't see a star on a bike, I will be sad.

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Mark Wedel @mrreeezinable.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Oatmeal sees things that others do not see. #caturday #cat

Same cat, nose up in the air because he's looking up at the phenomena.

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