iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office

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raisin bird @bryanthomasdaly.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

younger trader joes cashier: have you tried these scallion pancakes yet me: (with the terrified sternness of a third grader with one line in the play) It’s Giving Dinner

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this looks great, i loved the musique concrete one (how i learned about psyche rock)

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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

daily affirmations

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

on the labor relations point, i do wonder if AI company CEOs are worried about sabotage (coordinated or not) by their employees, because many (most?) of their employees have gone insane

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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Me: I mostly use you for summaries of Wikipedia articles, which themselves are summaries... So... Agentic AI: Sure, You Want Me To Tell You The True Name of God, Which Holds All Knowledge In 3 Syllables? Me: Wow! What is it?! AI: Dewalt® Professional grade Water Hose at Ace Hardware® near You

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Everyone is talking about the desperate need to slow down AI research but almost nobody is pointing out that AI employees can accomplish this themselves without the permission of their CEOs. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/unionize-ai

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Unionize AI

Is a strike less realistic than building a doomsday machine on purpose?

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"We would be better off if we could rely on actual social science, rather than the kind of bong-hit P(d00m)ing in much of this week’s media commentary, to understand the upheavals that are happening around us."

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How should social science think about AI?

Big structures and large processes are back, baby

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steinkern @koboldvintner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rare pride flag: tick-borne illness

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Eddie Current @cheatlines.co · 21/08/2026

i have a theory that casual users of image generators think "hyperrealistic" means the same thing as "really realistic" and it's requests for hyper/ultra realistic that cause the maggot fractal food bsky.app/profile/chea...

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

can't believe this article still exists and i was able to find it. "stop appropriating my fort lauderdale slut water" is my cellar door www.vice.com/en/article/f...

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Florida Girls Are Pissed That Hipsters Stole LaCroix from Them

"Stop appropriating my Fort Lauderdale slut water!" said one native who has drank the sparkling water since the mid-2000s.

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Orc Bitch @orcbitch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oh absolutely. In fact I'd say I derive a kind of destructively psychosexual thrill from working in a fast-paced office environment

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

in my twenties, i sometimes went to work still tripping on club drugs. and look at me now! (unemployed)

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Max Read @maxread.info · 07/08/2026

wrote about data center protests as a kind of blowback: silicon valley's own tools and ideologies coming back to bite it in the ass www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post...

But even beyond the use of specific software platforms to undermine their parent companies' long-term aims, the tech industry is finding itself obstructed by the consequences of its own success. One thing Sun emphasizes in particular is how much this pushback is occurring in an atmosphere of almost zero trust:

My conversations make me wonder if the technical content of data center deals is mostly beside the point. Closed-loop cooling systems? “I don’t believe them.” Paying millions in taxes? “I don’t believe them.” Creating a thousand jobs? “I don’t believe them.” I hear a reflexive skepticism of every claim.

Rather, the way that AI companies engage with communities—forcing NDAs, dangling billion-dollar promises, pushing environmental externalities far away from AI’s wealthy user base—resembles a classic story about dark money in politics. Your politicians are being bought by billionaires and gigantic corporations to screw you over. It’s not Skynet: it’s the oligarchy.

Oh, there's no faith in institutions? An all-encompassing skepticism and paranoia? No local institutional news sources? I wonder how that came about. Replacing and diminishing trusted mediating institutions with advertising-surveillance platforms has been extraordinarily lucrative to Silicon Valley executives and investors over the past two decades. But the low-trust environment cultivated over the past couple decades by the tech industry's flagship companies has now created real obstacles to its ambitions. Now that tech giants are the institutions—and effectively in charge of U.S. industrial policy—they are getting a first-hand lesson in how corrosive to long-term planning institutional mistrust can be.

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wasn't paying attention & forgot Mobility's birthday on 8/1. This book is 3 years old! It concludes with wildfire smoke in Portland &, would u believe, today there is wildfire smoke in Portland. Please buy it/read it so I can keep writing novels about people & feelings bookshop.org/p/books/mobi...

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Mobility: A Novel

National Bestseller Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA Powell’s Best Book of 2023A TIME Best Book of 2023A Vulture Best Book of 2023“A masterpiece of misdirection.” ―Geraldine Brooks“Mob...

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"The average turnaround time for these less-rigorous permits for gas-burning plants linked to data centers was 18 days. In comparison, companies applying for full air permits, the category that commonly applies to more traditional power plants in the state, can expect to wait 285 days."

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Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution (Gift Article)

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Dockworkers unions in six countries are calling for a big escalation on Oct 30 to protest war and militarization. They're urging strikes, protests, refusal to handle arms, demanding an end to US-Israeli war on Iran, genocide of Palestinians. They're urging dockworkers around the world to take part.

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Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide - Workday Magazine

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Dockworkers unions in France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco, and Italy are calling an international day of action ...

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

she's got legs that go allllll the way up, angering god

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Chris 𓅨 @bigjuncofan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We all have that one homie who scholars theorize was not a single individual, but a collection of different authors

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Chicago Film Archives @chicagofilmarchives.org · 24/07/2026

Ladies of the Faust and Wyckoff families drinking Schlitz with their pooch by the Lake in Belgium, Wisconsin, circa Summer 1945. 📽️ From a reel of 16mm home movies labeled "Wisconsin Vacations At Wyckoffs - Part I" in CFA's Chester E. Faust Collection.

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

good luck dim sum, the page, blondie's for insane martinis

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𝖘𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖆 𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉 @sievish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

my landlord writes beautiful poetry

screenshot of a text message. it says:

Ok I
Will
Put it
outside your door. Help
Yourself to the tomatoes. Eat
Them
As
They become ripe.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Love when cars drive down the block, windows open, Google Maps robot voice instructions cranked to 1000

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 18/07/2026

<protest chant cadence> This is what pornography looks like

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

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Chicago Film Archives @chicagofilmarchives.org · 16/07/2026

A loose montage of Chicago summer scenes from 1984 from a Super 8 reel labeled "Summer City Festivals" in the Bill Stamets Collection.

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the number of times i've seen this shared earnestly...open the schools

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"electronica" doesn't really cut it; this track is utterly transcendent:

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Episode III

YouTube video by Svitlana Nianio - Topic

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wonderful essay on the conditions that give rise to tech madness, which are structurally and normatively anti-democratic

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Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

An excellent piece on how the language of empire does not easily apply to the current moment of big tech/digital capitalism.

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

anthropic ad where they send you a flyer with your face in crosshairs captioned "could AI do this? we're asking hard questions" in tasteful serif

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

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Little Gitmos everywhere

The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

phone thinks i have a voicemail from someone at the utility company named Calm Ed

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“I don’t know who this man was, but he didn’t deserve to be executed in the street,” Em said. “I’m pretty (expletive) tired of people dying in the streets.” www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...

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Witness says Biddeford shooting victim told police ‘I tried to stop’

One resident says he heard the shots and saw as agents pulled the man out of the vehicle.

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The best Chicago music festival returns tomorrow

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nikki @neverett.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

risking it all in the bakery section at jewel-osco

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emily-vwg.bsky.social @emily-vwg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

municipal engagement experience summed up in a single sentence

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

there are almost 1,500 national guard members in memphis, in addition to hundreds of federal, state, and local cops. beyond terrifying. tennesseelookout.com/2026/07/06/n...

As of Sunday, there were 1,450 National Guard soldiers assigned to Memphis Safe Task Force, according to Brady McCarron, deputy chief of public affairs for the U.S. Marshals Service.

The U.S. Marshals Service is the lead agency in the task force, which was convened via a Sept. 15 executive order by President Donald Trump to “restore law and order” in Memphis, the nation’s largest majority-Black city.

Soon after Trump issued the executive order, Gov. Bill Lee deployed the Tennessee National Guard to join hundreds of other law enforcement officers in the multi-agency task force effort, which has brought officers to Memphis from the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Internal Revenue Services, ATF and a host of other federal law enforcement agencies. The National Guard soldiers first began arriving in Memphis on October 10.

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riding hell for leather @drpepsi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Belgium’s new James Ensor jerseys will feature densely grouped portraits of weird skulls and clowns.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026

enjoying some yogurt covered pretzels with red and white sprinkles left over from an office 4th of july party but shaking my head so everyone knows i don't condone the pretzels' latent jingoism

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