iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Edward Vogel @mathartforall.bsky.social · 8h

Found this gem on my Rochester NY hike today. books.google.com/books/about/...

Book sitting flat on a wood table.
Cover is greenish fading to orange top left. Circular and triangle shapes sitting on a grid.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 14h

grindr bio of a guy who’s absolutely not getting laid

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f͎i͎z͎z͎.͎l͎o͎l͎ .°• @fizz.lol · 18h

This is also one of the most radical ways to protest against the techno fascist capitalist hellscape that is always trying to crunch our spirits and souls. Create. Write. Draw. Craft. Be weird. Be kind.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20h

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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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 20h

Something that never ceases to amuse/infuriate me about the US legal system is that there are separate standards for "reasonable person" and "reasonable [law enforcement] officer", and the "reasonable officer" standard kinda boils down to "reasonable person after several strong blows to the head".

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.

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shanny8.bsky.social @shanny8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now pay that man money for his false imprisonment

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, yes. one of the basic problems is that they think that thinking about something really hard is a type of sampling, and that you actually don't need to sample anything to get information, and that there is no difference between thinking about something and doing it.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok I'm a little mad at this because the prosecutor basically blames the victim for the lack of charges. it's common after a media outcry over rape for prosecutors to revisit a case to save face, not out of actual concern for justice. #TW

“She never says that she was drugged without her knowledge. She admits to taking drugs and alcohol voluntarily and with knowledge. She does not allege that she was forced to engage in any acts. She does not say that she was physically helpless or unconscious or incapacitated at any point during the time at the fraternity house,” Van Houten said of Doe’s 2024 statement to investigators.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huh. I'm over here urging Chris Rufo to drink bleach and try sounding with a straight razor.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

this is a very good thread

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 28/09/2026

he's running

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 28/09/2026

Also, correct.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like society is running on Aldous Huxley software and the government is running on George Orwell software

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026

I hope it's clear that this isn't sex-positivity. It's just basic misogyny.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026

I can’t believe we used to have airlines specifically for trans and pan americans. this country has really regressed on queer rights.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/09/2026

So this is a lie.

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Woj @swojack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Almost any infraction can be charged as a "crime." You can charge jaywalking as a "crime" and while few judges would put up with that shit, the plan is to disappear people before a real judge can stop them. Immigration judges are just normal DHS employees like the ICE thugs.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

What’s probably going to happen is an eventual compromise post-Trump that sees immigrant communities targeted for more criminalization as “only deport the criminals” becomes the consensus position on DHS and mass deportation

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s nice to know that, as a nerdy and insufferable kid with good standardized test scores, I could really have turned out a whole lot worse

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Courtney Love will tear us apart (again) 🥵 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 26/09/2026

i don’t think i saw a single “enjoy the camps”

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've said bf, any lawyer continuing to work at DOJ under these circumstances has abandoned ethics and integrity to the point that it should threaten their bar cards. This person was willing to tolerate a *great deal* of misconduct and mendacity till the day the leopard tried to eat her face, too.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ugh. THAT fukken bitch. I hate her almost as much as I hate Troi's mom, for whom I reserve my deepest, most abiding loathing.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Currently writing about this. It's faster than GNFS, but (1) it requires access to a special oracle, (2) it isn't *quite* as fast as SNFS, and (3) calling it a "new" algorithm sort of obscures the fact that the core of the algorithm is from FUCKING 2007. Still a super cool result, of course.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The transes were saying almost exactly this ten years ago.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 25/09/2026

This post lives rent free in my head

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Been thinking about this for the past day and this feels like it sums things up pretty well.

Base picture is from The Simpsons. The character Ralph Wiggum is sitting in the back of a school bus alone. The closed captioning says "(chuckles) I'm in danger."

A picture of the blue handicapped placard has been placed over Ralph's face.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 22/09/2026

may your dog leave you for someone more worthy. I'd say "may your children cut you off", but they already know you're untrustworthy.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned

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The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have plenty of critiques of commercial aviation in the US. "Pilots are too sexually liberated" is not one of them.

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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 22/09/2026

whenever you say "trans people are asking TOO MUCH and should accept Democrats shitting over their civil rights", you're part of this. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. Your smug assholery is making the world WORSE. Fuck you, and may your favorite meal make you shart a big hole in your favorite pants.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 22/09/2026

anecdotally, a sign that our culture is fucking regressing on gender is that multiple nonbinary people I've interviewed are telling me to misgender them because they're on the job market and they fear discrimination

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He’s totally getting fired

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Furries are the backbone of virtually all specialized Information Systems. I would be watching my tongue lol

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Pat @pizzasuplex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yea dude no shit that’s why it mostly works. Those are load bearing furries.

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