iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 10h

YOU GUYS TRAINS ARE AWESOME WHY ARENT THERE MORE OF THEM

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 7h

YES. So many folks just keep parroting "People want to maximize their profits!" Ok... isn't the whole point of money to buy goods & services? At some point we should look at what goods & services people want. And if they see shortcuts to get those things that don't require money.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

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Rob Shearer @r.v.cx · 09/10/2026

The techbros are very obviously setting up “don’t be mean to AI” as not just a moral virtue but a speech prohibition. They gave the game away when they brought America’s worst dissembler on side to attempt to criminalize calling AI “artificial”.

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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Public execution was never about justice, it was social control. It creates the illusion that something is being done with people who freak out about the existence of crime. Also that shit was the original watch party in the middle ages. We should not still be doing it

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE is a militia of serial abusers.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/10/2026

A federal immigration agent shot a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, the latest of nearly two dozen such shootings in the past two years.

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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car

Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.

As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of the first things Fidel Castro did upon taking power was televising live executions by firing squad.

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Alex Weston (he / him) @northbynorthweston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#Inktober Day 7. Prompt: panic In Greek myth, the nature god Pan was believed to periodically shout loudly and startle all of the forest creatures into a frightened stampede known as “panikos”—the origin of our word “panic.” #inktober2026 #inktoberchallenge #inktoberday7 #inktoberpanic

An ink drawing of a man with furry goat’s legs, a bare human torso and bearded head with horns on his head, cupping hus hands around his mouth and shouting loudly.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am crying 😂😂😂

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

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Alex Weston (he / him) @northbynorthweston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Inktober Day 5. Prompt: smack Pachycephalosaurs butting heads. From childhood until today, when I don’t know what to draw, I default to dinosaurs. #inktober2026 #inktoberchallenge #inktoberday5 #inktobersmack

An ink line drawing of two pachycephalosaurs (a type of dome headed dinosaur) butting heads.

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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Taylor Farms should've just claimed that the cyclospora was gaining sentience, I guess. Not that they got appropriate consequences either.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 06/10/2026

ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it creates, which have gone viral on social media (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/01/2026

ICE is in fact the worst of the worst

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 05/10/2026

🤣😂 Anytime a company offers a new AI integration.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The clearest and most succinct expression I've read of how, beyond the clear fascist rhetoric, the Prairieland prosecutions have terrifyingly expanded federal legal power, beyond the point many feds even wanted to go.

For other activists on the left — and on the right — the Prairieland case has set a dangerous precedent. Cadeddu, the federal defense attorney, told me that the most worrying of all the “terrorist acts” was vandalism. There is no dollar amount set on what sort of damage might qualify as an act of terror. Even throwing a snowball at an ICE vehicle during a protest and scratching the paint or damaging a taillight might qualify. “In theory, if you happen to be on a Signal chat with some people planning a protest, and one of the people at that protest — you don’t even have to know them — throws that snowball, you could be implicated in material support for terrorism, simply for helping to organize,” she says. “That’s the meaning of the case.”

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The entire and complete reason why Every Investment Dollar is getting poured into this genAI shit is so that they no longer have to care what you think about it Your labor isn't needed, your spending isn't needed, your vote isn't needed, and neither is your life. They want you as vermin.

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mamet Speak. I've been doing my impression of Mamet Dr. Seuss-style bebop speak for over 20 years now. Includes homages to HOUSE OF GAMES, HOMICIDE, THE SPANISH PRISONER, HEIST, SPARTAN, & THE UNTOUCHABLES. www.youtube.com/shorts/m-zYC...

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Mamet Speak #film #spoof #acting #comedy #satire #parody #movies #mamet

YouTube video by Film Intuition

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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Alex Weston (he / him) @northbynorthweston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Inktober Day 2. Prompt: relic "Venetians Stealing the Body of St. Mark," after a mosaic in the Basilica San Marco in Venice, Italy. #inktoberchallenge #inktober #inktober2026 #inktoberday2 #inktoberelic

Ink line drawing based on a medieval mosaic depicting four men stealing the body of Saint Mark from a crypt.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had a question about the scenarios or screenplays of the silent era and thought I would answer with a few posts. I am going to focus on the feature era simply because more material survives. Silent movie scenarios could be all action and stage direction. This example is from 1916:

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Supporting your vulnerable constituents is a demonstration of strength and principle. In 2026, that’s what ppl want

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 30/09/2026

More of this please dems!

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Alex Weston (he / him) @northbynorthweston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I think it’s historically comparable to any point in history, when those in power are punching down at the weakest in society. When you concede to them these points, you’re conceding that it’s OK to punch down and letting them position themselves to ask for even more.”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Alex Weston (he / him) @northbynorthweston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From the same “free speech absolutists” that whine about censorship whenever it suits them.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My foreign policy views are simple. I think we should be the first among equals to enforce the international law we helped build. Thanks, @ezraklein.bsky.social, for having me on the show.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Doing this but for radio playlists and music charts.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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