iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h

Student journalist Cat Harris from @cnsmd.bsky.social stood her ground against a bully. There is hope for journalism. video.snapstream.net/Play/aoWTkvo...

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The Lead With Jake Tapper - Intv w/ Cat Murphy

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14/10/2026

Professor Shaw is exactly right, and a full accounting of how (and how badly) the Supreme Court has gone off course will emphasize the need for reforms like actual ethics review and proper term limits. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

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Opinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start.

Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.

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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I know most people are going for comparisons to MS South Carolina, but you deserve a classier allusion, Constant Followers.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thelonious Monk ~ Bolivar Blues (Live in Japan,1963) #TheloniousMonk #BOTD #JazzSky Amazing performance and pristine sound, and dig Monk's crazy dance starting at 2:11 during Rouse's solo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5cO...

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Thelonious Monk - Bolivar Blues

YouTube video by All That Jazz Don Kaart

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pjb1959.bsky.social @pjb1959.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

LOL This should be your bluesky profile.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened)

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Poetry #Paintimg #Autumn Lord: it is time. The huge summer has gone by. Now overlap the sundials with your shadows, and on the meadows let the wind go free. - Rainer Maria Rilke 🎨 Ramona Younquist

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Paul Klee ~ Parc near Lu, 1938 #PaulKlee #Expressionism #ModernArt

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yankees are only carrying 10 pitchers right now. Far from running out of arms, they're blowing the Red Sox out of the water right now, having only used five of their available pitchers. Some incredibly intelligent and sexually magnetic man wrote about this recently

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pjb1959.bsky.social @pjb1959.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bringing an iced coffee to a job interview is better than bringing your mom.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Re-created versions of Moses Harris’s color wheels (published in 1766!) by the always-delightful @rougeux.bsky.social www.c82.net/natural-colo... #color #dataviz

vintage color wheel of prismatic colors (red, yellow, blue).

Vintage color wheel of compound colors (orange, purple, green).

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026

CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all." TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can tell this is a real statistic because it includes measurable variables like “vitality” and “a little longer”

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Perception / i-Perception @pec-ipe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

👁️ Can your eyes respond to an illusion as if it were real? Researchers found that pupil size and eye movements changed on if people saw a hole or a bump. The eyes responded to the perceived 3D shape — even though the stimulus was completely flat. 🌀 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/0301...

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hungarian-born American photographer André Kertész. New York, August 1969 #AndréKertész #Photography #NewYorkCity

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visionBoy @rsek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I believe that Bob (“Happy ending”) Kraft got $70 million towards his stadium’s infrastructure.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a footnote, if a mechanism exists to deprive ANY group of civil rights—no matter how reviled they are, and by however many—then that mechanism WILL eventually be weaponized against YOU. You do not have to be trans or pro-trans to be against deprivation of anyone's rights. (PS: I am pro-trans.)

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pjb1959.bsky.social @pjb1959.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But with a little more effort he may be caramelized.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Remember when Kristen Welker would always ask every Republican guest to repudiate the statements of Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson, or other MAGA racists? Neither do I.

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pjb1959.bsky.social @pjb1959.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“crook” instead of “criminal”

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UC Berkeley researchers found that semaglutide, a GLP-1 drug, extended the lifespan of older, healthy mice by an average of 100 days. The treatment also improved muscle and cognitive function, offering new clues about how GLP-1s may affect health and longevity. bit.ly/4clJQfA

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.

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Denouncing Extremists

One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...

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Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report

After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.

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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Purple Robe and Anemones, 1937 botfrens.com/collections/48/content…

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A very early, stunning Jackson Pollock, just as he fell under the influence of myth and Surrealism. Mask (1941) #JacksonPollock #ModernArt #Surrealism

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's fine if someone isn't personally interested in studying dolls, but anyone who proudly announces that dolls are unworthy of study is just plain stupid. And they're extra stupid if their own field revolves around a thing with more symbolic value than genuine functionality. Y'know, like Bitcoin.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

well, Craig, we can't all be studying money and bitcoin now can we?

Craig Warmke
@craigwarmke
Your child goes to Princeton and decides to major in English.

So let's look at the course offerings.

To begin, how about a course on dolls?

"These small, domestic, and seemingly trivial objects have played surprisingly significant roles in large socio-cultural histories, including the histories of gender, race, modern psychology, commodity aesthetics, colonialism, and technology."

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From Fall 2026

Associate Professor of Business Ethics

Satoshi Nakamoto Faculty Fellow

John Chambers College of Business and Economics
West Virginia University

I mostly write about money — especially bitcoin — at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics. I’m a Senior Fellow with the Bitcoin Policy Institute and am writing a book with Troy Cross on the freedom to transact. I’m also the creator of darkfolio.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#rstats #datavis #history New {HistData} pkg vignette: a new challenge in statistical historiography, a taxonomy of ways to re-vision historical graphics, with case studies for Minard, Perozzo, and Snow. friendly.github.io/HistData/art...

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The HistData Challenge: Re-Visioning Historical Graphics

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Mathematician & NASA human computer Katherine Johnson was born #OTD in 1918. She was instrumental in the success of the first US manned spaceflights, calculating complex trajectories enabling humans to reach orbit & land on the moon. Her story was told in Hidden Figures (book/movie). #WomenInSTEM

A split-image portrait of Katherine Johnson, the pioneering Black NASA mathematician: On the left, a black-and-white historical photo from her NASA career in the 1960s shows a smiling middle-aged woman wearing cat-eye glasses and a light-colored dress with white collar and trim, seated at her desk with a globe and papers in the background. On the right, a color photo from 2015 depicts an elderly Katherine Johnson (in her late 90s) seated in a wheelchair during the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, wearing glasses, a dark suit jacket, an orange top, a blue ribbon with the medal, and holding a green item in her lap, as she looks directly at the viewer with a gentle expression. The side-by-side images contrast her youthful professional life with her honored later years.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026

don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA

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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 25/08/2026

Is it possible to be more juiceless than this

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 24/08/2026

We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.

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Climate Disconnect @climate-disconnect.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is from today's newsletter by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, telling it like it is. This is where we are. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/canada-is-...

The US Cannot (and Should Not) Be Trusted By Any State

What the Canadians have discovered is that the USA cannot be trusted. This needs some discussion. All states lie and deceive. That is nothing new. Indeed, one element of successful diplomacy is the effective and well-placed strategic lie. However, if your entire policy is to lie, all the time and with malice, it makes a mockery of international relations.

Yet, that is precisely where the USA is now. It has reached the state where there is no national interest or even national policy. There is the will of a fundamentally dishonest president, often filtered through the mind of a 35-year-old stalker.

As I have said before, this means that the US government needs to be seen as a threat, not a friend, by other states, particularly those who are, or at least were, US allies. The US cannot be trusted because it is run by a dishonest criminal, and behaves as such.

The implications of this are massive and will run far beyond this Trump term of office. The US has shown that it will opt for a criminal to run it, even after that criminal tried to subvert a free election just a few years earlier. It has shown that within the USA there is a large and loyal pool of supporters for that criminal (say 33-38% of the country), who will follow said criminal even though he is openly corrupt.

In other words, a far too large percentage of Americans have shown that they will support and continue to support a criminal leadership. If they still support Trump now, they can and likely will support another criminal at another time.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We are masters in our own home.

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David Cochrane @davidwcochrane.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

21 days before the 25th anniversary of September 11th, the United States imposes 50% tariffs on the country that gave its citizens refuge during the worst terrorist attack in US history.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM

Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.

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pjb1959.bsky.social @pjb1959.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The 4-point lead is within the poll’s margin of error.

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pjb1959.bsky.social @pjb1959.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good to know that 32 is not too late to start anew.

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