iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution

Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 20h

When the American government is lying about the count of American corpses, things are pretty scary.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You end up around Amsterdam NL, don’t be a stranger

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*The thing I like least about modern AI, among many things not to like *The lack of happy enthusiasm *The tech investors, coders, mathematicians, the people who know it best, they chew their fingernails till they bleed *Even the YouTube "techoptimists" chasing clicks and eyeballs look haunted

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Empathy and self-esteem issues combine to be the best vaccination you can give clever young men against rationalism/fascism/objectivism/etc

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 27/09/2026

i often think that my crippling self-esteem issues are the primary reason I am not a rationalist because otherwise I fit the profile to a tee

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

we really are so tremendously lucky that mamdani is actually genuinely interested in governing and capable of doing it well, the list of charismatic guys who can’t do one or the other is very long and he could have done so much damage to the movement instead we got this

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"oh no our software is so powerful for us to work out what it's doing". skill issue. Hire some SREs.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

why are the midterms any part of this decision might be a question

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead:

Infographic titled "Six Ways 'Rigged Election' Rumors Mislead." A two-column table pairs six labeled categories with descriptions. The first three categories are:

No Evidence: The rumor is entirely unsubstantiated. There's no evidence to support the rumor.

Fake/False Evidence: The rumor is based on fake or synthetic evidence (e.g. AI-generated content), manipulated evidence, or false witness testimony.

Misinterpreted Evidence: This rumor is based upon real evidence that has been misinterpreted or intentionally mischaracterized to create a false impression.

A black banner then introduces the final three categories: "Real Evidence, Real Voting Issue, False Narrative."

Exaggerated Impact: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but falsely insinuates or exaggerates impact on election results.

Ignored Remedies: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but ignores and/or obscures the remedies that would address this problem

False Blame: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but either falsely attributes intent for an accidental issue or places blame on an innocent party.

Source: UW Center for an Informed Public, September 2026.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My very favorite thing about New York is that after six months you are a New Yorker. That’s not true in so many other places. A phrase I learned from Maine is “a cat can have kittens in an over but that don’t make ‘em muffins” - indicating it wasn’t even enough to have been *born* in Maine.

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wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you haven't seen @electrolemon.bsky.social's September 21st videos, I highly recommend doing so! They're a source of joy every year. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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9/21 - YouTube

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"A small price to pay for freedom, Mandrake. A necessary sacrifice to preserve our precious bodily fluids from communist infiltration."

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18/09/2026

Don’t pal around with terrorists.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One thing I did come away with is that while doubtless considerably more aware of Canadian wrath than Americans seem to be, I definitely underestimated it myself. If asked to describe in one word the vibe off Carney's choice of words, I think I'd have to go with: Ukrainian. Canada *means* it.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

31 years ago Newt Gingrich shut down the office of Explaining Computer to Congress and ever since we've had money pour into tech while Congress abdicates regulatory responsibility and now the leading industry in the country is engineers making machines that operate online wihout any guardrails.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

some of them will but the unfortunate fact of the matter is that nothing really gets close to matching the United States for science funding - the rest of the world doesn’t have the capacity to just freely absorb what we’re losing here a lot of folks will leave the profession entirely

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This isn’t leaving my head.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And then stone them in the town square.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

I’m so good at not watching television I don’t watch television all the time I was made for this

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 13/09/2026

I know all software is created with AI now, so I’m “using” it in some second-order way. But programmers have always been perverts. All software was created with Emacs before and no one ever demanded I care about it (except the perverts). I’m normal, just leave me alone?

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After Brexit my hot take was that the UK would never rejoin the EU, but that an independent Scotland would.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 12/09/2026

Come Out Ye Black and (Spray) Tans

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Keith "Ghost Skeleton" Putnam @timetravel.camp · 12/09/2026

9/12/2001, looking south at the corner of the West Side Highway and Houston St., Manhattan.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of the center now. You didn't experience this. It didn't happen. This wasn't real.

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“I’m so tired of being called a racist!” is what the kids call Telling On Yourself

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026

this is a man so hollow, pathetic and power hungry that he is actively trying to ingratiate himself with neo-nazi groypers who think he is a race traitor

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

his AfD just won a state election in germany. this is his victory lap.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They know this was broadcast right

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did you think X/Twitter was the only one doing it? Algorithmic feeds are not your friends.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026

U.S. autos have some of the lowest consumer privacy standards of any industry in the U.S., hoovering up no limit of driving and behavioral data and then selling it to any old random asshole yet when it comes to Chinese EVs, suddenly they're all hot and bothered about privacy

"“Right now, Chinese automakers are dumping subsidized vehicles with connected software and hardware around the world,” John Bozzella, CEO of the group, said in the letter seen by CNBC. “This hasn’t happened inside the U.S. yet, but given the scale and urgency of this threat, we urge you to enact a Chinese vehicle, software and hardware ban before adjourning this year and make this policy the law of the land.”

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/09/2026

I don’t want to dunk in any one person, as I see this argument a lot, so I’ll post a screenshot rather than quoting it, because this sentiment is common. Peter Thiel has a philosophy degree. Lots of these guys have liberal arts degrees. Credentialism & reverence for institutions won’t save us.

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i'm more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact
WEB CODER: so i met God today, 2/3

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Get off of X/Twitter and honestly probably anything with an algorithmic feed. For X/Twitter we can actually measure and statistically validate how it permanently warps your worldview.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/09/2026

The candidate who led the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party to a historic state election victory in Germany has thanked Elon Musk for his support www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’

Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026

A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

bugs bunny is the scariest opponent genre fiction has ever produced

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 06/09/2026

front-end code is both the most tempting target for programmers to want to replace with AI, and also the hardest to fix AI's fuckups on, because bugs are subtle and can't be caught with easy boilerplate tests

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Like @bruces.bsky.social says: The future is old people in cities afraid of the sky.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Temperamentally, a lot of these people seem like they’re suited to be in Congress in 1999, debating the V-chip and explaining why telecom deregulation is gonna be great.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s only renamed in the US. When I look at it from my computer in the Netherlands it remains Lake Ontario.

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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The main that accepts the most immigrants gets to be the richest. That used to be the US but Trump has shut the doors. Let’s be smart and make NL rich.

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