iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 28/09/2026

Of course, one should bear in mind that correlation does not equal castration.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The illegal boat strikes began exactly one year ago today. The boat strikes weren’t really about stopping drugs. They were about testing for compliance to see who would obey illegal orders & purge objectors. Trump was normalizing his ability to smite anyone—like the angry God of the Old Testament.🧵

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 10h

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just another day on the West Bank.

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interacting with a flexible, accordion-like kinetic paper sculpture crafted by Chinese artist Li Hongbo using stacked paper sheets in a honeycomb structure. youtube.com/shorts/hLpe9...

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She’s not subtle.

Justice Department Ends Over 50 Half-Century-Old
Desegregation Cases
Throughout the United States
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced today the dismissal of more than fifty desegregation cases
- from Waterbury, Connecticut, to Flagler County, Florida - ending matters that had remained on court dockets for more than half a century.
"In this administration, we are ending prolonged federal oversight of these school districts because the effort does not reflect the reality of those classrooms today," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "In some cases, school districts have been under federal control for more than 60 years. Now these local school districts can redirect taxpayer dollars back to benefitting students, instead of funding onerous and outdated consent decrees."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Weird coincidence that all this is happening the same day as the AI air control rollout. “You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.

figure shows dramatic cut in research staff

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

dario's friday letter demanding a new regulatory regime and asking for a waiver of antitrust laws so they could form a cartel was signed off on by sam, dario, elon, and something like half of all politicians. so everyone who sees this as a bid for Complete EA Takeover and has any other ideology

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

Right now, WAY too many resources and way too much attention are going to largely silly Hypothetical Futuristic AI Doom Scenarios - because that's what the AI Millenarian Death Cult cares about - instead of actual, right-now, AI harms. And they've been getting away with it for too long.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know this is alarming people, but it looks to me like someone just restated the terms of NATO membership to him

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poll watching right now is like, "Normal candidate with normal opinions ekes out small lead against sweaty bag of farts who sends dick picks to orphans and once dropkicked a puppy with leukemia."

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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

More Everything Forever by Adam Becker is a really good read if you are interested in this thread.

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Drew Breunig @dbreunig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I believe the danger created by people at AI labs assigning a 10% chance to AI destroying humanity is greater than the actual risk of AI doing so (which I think is far, far lower). Believing the stakes are existential can justify terrible decisions.

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 04/08/2026

thrilled as i am to see the 9/11 high school gymnastic routine do the rounds again, it doesn’t hold a candle to the 9/11 middle school interpretive dance set to the music of lmfao

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

more than anything, i think we’re all learning that people who spent their professional life learning how to talk to computers were completely unprepared for a situation in which it appears that the computer is talking back

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

BUT it seems self-evident that X and the things it pushes on to the vast majority of sensible British politicians and pundits who use it every day, is having a non-zero effect on their worldview, most obviously in the valence of news events, and their conception of how the "public" feels about them.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

THREAD. A collection of charismatic scarecrows I have met and photographed on walks in the countryside over the last 17 years. You will find the all-important caption to each photo in the alt text.

A scarecrow who was actually quite together and sexy around the age of 38 but whose appearance took a dramatic turn for the worse over the next four years, due to a combination of alcohol abuse and internalised rage.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Everyone is constantly trolling everyone in public life and I'm sick of it.

Screencap of a tweet by RFK, an AI-generated image of RFK spoon feeding JD Vance sauerkraut while Marco Rubio looks on holding a giant pop tart. The text says, "Join the party, @marcorubio."

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sure everything keeps getting worse but it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that everything is also getting dumber.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Iran's regime lies a lot. Not that everything they say is a lie, but when they claim they did damage, it was probably less than they say. America's regime lies a lot. Not that everything they say is a lie, but when they claim an Iranian attack didn't do damage, it was probably more than they say.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some of the most well-known NoBlogs sites belong to researchers who solely report on far-right hate and radicalization, never doing anything aside from showing you what exists. Using speech to to shine a light and hold people accountable IS effective. Never let them try to convince you otherwise.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The analysists have elevated "centrism" as a kind of political neutrality to such a point that they have to invent an imagined neutrality in order to admit that they liked someone.

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thread. I have yet to see a proper explanation of how LLMs actually work that is targeted to an informed general audience. So here is an explainer that I put together along with Tim @countzerozzz (inspired by @CIFAR_News LMB discussions).

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This footage is my Roman empire.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.

Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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marco rubio’s coke guy @seriouspro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Framing and displaying this on an easel at my wedding

OPEC:

Behind every celebration are countless petroleum-based products

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.

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