iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Phew. Somebody look into Daniel Heinen’s investments and political donations ASAP.

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Once it can be done, oligarchs are going to be unwilling to provide conscious beings with the needs, dignity, safety, and longterm care that would ethically require, or they’d do it willingly for us. Profitability demands those resources go to labor & services they can control and sell reliably.

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Even if the sheer abundance of memory and operational resources existed to run the complexity of consciousness, we’ve seen how tech bros treat actual human beings. They go through incredible measures to limit our needs and desires at an individual & societal level to maximize productivity.

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And even for people, things like temperature are still subjectively experienced. People themselves experience temperature differently from others, & even by individual, are inconsistent on hormone fluctuations, medications, health, mood, etc. AI could use sensors to approximate, not experience it.

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True AI consciousness would look a lot more like Simulation Hypothesis. It would take nearly quantum level computing to run a mind-boggling (and very flawed) set of loops that code memory, identity, beliefs, and values interacting & combating with each other. Truth is, it’s not profitable.

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Trump tells Minnesota to "fight" Somali immigrants amid alleged ISIS plot

… because they’re specifically trying to incite race wars. Preferably, before the election, to find any excuse to use unconstitutional power grabs, DHS, ICE, and martial law to interfere with the elections. Hang onto your hats, folks. Expect them to dial it up to 11 before ceding any power.

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Trump has long railed against the state's Governor, Tim Walz, with his administration carrying out widespread immigration raids.

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What I wouldn’t give for someone still on The Bad Place ™ to repost this gem to him 😂

Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The GOP and the Heritage Foundation’s entire plan relied on breaking the systems we rely on to hijack them. They know nothing about producing actual value to society or improving those systems. Only liquidating them for personal power and profit. Domination and prosperity are opposite goals.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

October leaf palette. If you zoom in to the colours and details it will dial down stress a little and help you recover if there's any angst for you later today (research has shown this)🍁🍂🌾🌿

Leaves from 6 different trees & shrubs collected in October and arranged to create a colour shift echoing a rainbow

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 11/10/2026

someone really hated this little freak

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/10/2026

Men - stop whining about having to face consequences for the thing you exclusively broke.

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Sure. We have concentration camps, are trying to overturn birthright citizenship, DEI, bodily autonomy, due process, the Feds are about to execute someone on TV, but let’s worry about giving AI personhood before we give it to Black people, women, or minorities. These are not serious people.

Biden deserves credit here… AND… Dems have frequently pandered to GOP criticisms for being too soft on crime, immigration, healthcare, DEI, LGBTQ rights, etc. that they frequently sell those people out. To get real progress, we need more of this, not the more recent Schumer/ Jeffries garbage.

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Fascism is still fascism, whether it wears racism, misogyny, or bigotry towards religious minorities or LGBT folks. Rounding up people in the streets without due process is wrong, as is intimidating them and executing them in the street. Intersectionality is what it will take to stop them.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026

It's actively still happening and getting worse for a lot of people and barely makes the news. Forgive those of us at risk for being upset that it's about to get a lot worse once the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT starts executing us for entertainment value. But sure. Sorry to disturb your enjoyment read.

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This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.

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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Would be nice if our government and the US Postal Service were trying to prevent things like this, instead of preventing people from voting. 🥲

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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AI, even the top frontier models, can’t use or blend cross disciplines for new angles or ideas. That spark comes from humans and our drive to help each other and understand the world around us. Without human drive, curiosity, and expertise, there is no semantic context for LLMs to operate from.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” - Albert Einstein

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RSS Creator and Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz dead at 26 | Harvard Magazine

I always think of Aaron Schwartz vs these tech oligarchs, too. Trying to make open source tools and data is a much more noble stance than any iteration of techno infrastructure today. And yet... he's dead, this guy's in jail, & Musk, Altman, and Zuckerberg are selling other people's data & content.

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The former Safra Lab fellow was a leader of the open-access movement.

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Me: Look! Data shows helping people meet their base Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs stabilizes people and communities for a fraction of the cost. GOP: ...But we could use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to destabilize people and communities while blaming poor people and minorities. 😈

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

While I’m proud of anyone who steps up to fill the gaps and serve their communities, these are social services that should be properly funded and staffed. Housing the homeless is cheaper than sheltering or any of the downstream issues like emergency room or police response.

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lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.

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I’m just picturing you sipping your tea and feeling really tired.

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Obviously they’re inter-related :P

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Yes, but you’re a project manager and a spreadsheet human. Those ARE your turn ons. Makes sense you (and they) would be into it.

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There are plenty of bacteria illnesses that are antibiotic resistant. They definitely mutate faster than we can develop, test, and approve new classes of antibiotics. www.drugs.com/article/anti...

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Alt: Surprised Pikachu Meme

Fascists: *says something wildly inappropriate, violent, dehumanizing, and provocative* Everyone else: *is provoked* Fascists: *experiences natural consequences*

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Surprised Pikachu Meme

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…but for how long, until it mutates? Prevention gives it fewer opportunities to learn how.

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This week: Russian lab outbreak. New plague just dropped! 2026 scientists: …We’ve already been working on an mRNA vaccine for it. 😎

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At this point, unless the Russian KGB is personally holding them & their families hostage under assassin orders, I don’t care what their rationale is. Even if it was, why would you sign up to be a part of it to begin with? If you can’t do your job as a representative, you shouldn’t be in office.

People like this say the most absolutely vile things they can think of specifically because they’ve never experienced the natural consequences of their actions. Surprise. Violent dehumanizing takes provoke reactions that would get you punched in the face and still be less violent than your take.

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The good news is that fascists aren’t capable of understanding or maintaining community, loyalty, intersectionality, or building interpersonal value, which are the remedies to see through the ruination they’ve wrought.

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This is so terrifying. So many people said “Get out of the country if you can” - and go where? The billionaires are running the same playbook everywhere they can get their hooks into. The fight’s far from over, but it’s more interdependent than we’ve ever seen globally.

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Reversed is maybe the wrong word. This has happened. Still happening. Creating fractures and traumas to everything that we once knew. The pendulum will swing, & we will rebuild and reimagine. It will never and can never exist as it was before, and we’re allowed to grieve that. Grief isn’t the end.

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I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People

For many of us, we’ve already attempted these conversations over and over again. Over tax reform. Healthcare. BLM. Immigration. LGBTQIA rights. Vaccines. Rape culture. Etc. The other party has to be willing to be curious and hear or care their beliefs cause harm. This ol’ chestnut is 9 years old.

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Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society.

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It’s important to make it clear this isn’t the work for the oppressed to be doing, but for people who share privilege with the other party. What you’re prescribing used to happen organically, and resegregation, propaganda, disinformation, and social engineering is working against all of us.

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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no sign he’s capable of actually loving or caring for any other living being. It poisons everything he does.

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My brother took me out for a late birthday dinner tonight, and he told me a buddy of his was pouring a bowl of cereal and found broken glass in it. Luckily, he found it before eating, but what if that had been a kid who has no idea any of this is going on?

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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After hearing about how George Soros and "AntiFa" paid protesters, this is rich. I guess it's true. Every accusation really is a confession.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 02/10/2026

"A dozen orcs stormed the Palantir offices in Seattle this week to apply for jobs at the surveillance tech company. Palantir's militarized AI products attracted the horde of orcs, who hoped that their history of serving the Dark Lords would land them a gig. Unfortunately, Palantir didn't bite." 🤣

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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oil, and collaboration on the rival PGA circuit, LIV Golf. 3/8 of the locations were Trump properties. Several Saudi.

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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In fairness, if we don’t get a handle on climate change and the other crises of our own makings, Gen Z and Millennials won’t live close to long enough to take out a pension. 💀 Even those that do may need to cash out for environmental damages and insurance lapses as the euphemistic case.