iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6h

"A Bolsonaro win — aided by Trump and Big Tech billionaires — will be the likely end of the Amazon, the lungs of the earth. If you have young kids, you are watching them get locked into an extremely dangerous future. You’re not mad enough at the fascists and their collaborators." -@AaronRegunberg

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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 1h

Bay Area transit is facing an existential crisis. Without new revenue, BART and Muni operators warn of catastrophic cuts. To prevent a total collapse, transit advocates are asking voters to pass two citizen-led ballot measures this November – each needing just a simple majority to pass.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13h

There is no such thing as a neutral AI product And if you are trusting them with your writing... I don't even know what to say to you anymore www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds

Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 14h

Extremely late capitalism and its snake oil merchants tightrope walking between tragedy and farce

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 13h

Banned Books Week and New Docuseries ‘Bucks County, USA’ Remind Us of the Threat Moms for Liberty Poses to the Freedom to Read | Central Bucks School Board Member Karen Smith recounts her time on the front lines of the "school board wars" defending her district against book banners. #BannedBooksWeek

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Banned Books Week and New Docuseries ‘Bucks County, USA’ Remind Us of the Threat Moms for Liberty Poses to the Freedom to Read - Bucks County Beacon

Central Bucks School Board Member Karen Smith recounts her time on the front lines of the "school board wars" defending her district against book banners.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Paula @paulapaulpaula.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The really fun thing about pre-GPS is that everyone had "their" route to get from A to B. And you always knew that friend who'd delivered pizzas or whatever and who knew the best routes. Also, illustrated and creatively worded instructions to friends' houses when you're visiting from out of town.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

San Francisco will likely see a top-10 highest tide on record, even with tranquil weather. If a storm coincides, the tidal record could be smashed, and transit chaos is possible. 2/2

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Potentially record high tides will threaten San Francisco Bay Area in the days leading up to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hwy 101 & 37, the Bay Bridge, BART, Amtrak, ferry service and airports could be disrupted by rising seas amid a very strong El Niño. 🧵 1/2

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Housing protests across the Spanish state this weekend as the movement grows!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

or you could just take your kid outside and talk to them

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is part of the regime's attempt to crush organized labor and replace unionized TSA workers with contractors. They tried to eliminate workers bargaining rights last year, then forced them to work through the shutdown w/o pay for more than a month, and now this.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Paula @paulapaulpaula.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ongoing thread. Newsom sucks. People outside CA, please don't fall for his social media cheekiness. Watch what he does not what he says.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

𝑭𝑼𝑪𝑲 this guy

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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Shannon Bucci 🔻 @shannonbucci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The vast majority of child maltreatment cases are related to neglect, and the vast majority of neglect cases are related to poverty. The family policing system is just another tool for the state to exert its power—it was never intended to protect children.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

"The US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women’s health and status that has followed Dobbs," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social, "to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women’s death and indignity."

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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan

The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...

A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Being the world’s fourth richest asshole is shouldn’t be a reason for celebration

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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The tiresomely old-school cost of supporting scholarship and pedagogy is so dull compared to the exciting opportunity of an Ambient[dot]ai contract that will empower the tracking potential of our 500 new surveillance cameras!"

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1. California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 other Democratic AGs had Paramount and the Ellisons over a barrel. They had secured a restraining order against the merger with Paramount and their negotiating position was about to get even stronger. Then, Bonta threw in the towel.

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Paula @paulapaulpaula.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For anyone waiting for a good moment to talk to your friends and family about taking the climate crisis seriously, you will have many opportunities soon. Lotta grief on the way. Take care of yourselves, too. 💙

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations @breakingmews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your daily moment of Zen: an otter cracking open a crab in Monterey Bay. Otters are the puppies of the sea.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ok this is the kinda cross-promotional #synergy I can get behind

It's New York State's "Get There Green!" poster for their Get Their Green week (Sept. 20 - 27) and it's got Lowly Worm driving a big green apple car and a bunch of mice in a green pencil car and Goldbug is on this sweet ass electric scooter shaped like a leaf

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48 Hills @48hills.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In past lives, Kate Razos was a professional jockey in 50-mile endurance horse races and a member of Berkeley band The Yeastie Girlz in the 1990s—now, she's working on a series of paintings based on the concept of consent.

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Kate Razo's portraits are anything but by the book - 48 hills

From bookstores and breeding grounds to vaginacore acapella rap, the painter pours life experience into her work.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Among other things, a really important point gets brought up here, which is that it’s apparently easier for us to imagine killer robots taking over the world than a concrete system of laws that applies to someone like Sam fucking Altman

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Paula @paulapaulpaula.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We gotta keep Muni functioning!!

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