iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Connie Chen 陳穎慈 @conniechiiiwa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Still unemployed & it’s been hard catching up with finances. In need of help with rent, bills, & medications. If you can help financially or share this post, I’d really appreciate it. Thank you.💛 - paypal.me/conniechiiiwa - venmo.com/u/conniechii... - buymeacoffee.com/conniechiiiwa

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

1/ Members of the #LongCOVID community warned that this would happen 👇

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/08/2025

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

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FrameLab @theframelab.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Substack aims to become a main publisher of news and information in the 21st century, which would give the company tremendous power to tilt the political discourse toward far-right politics. www.theframelab.org/why-framelab...

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Why FrameLab left Substack

Our top reasons for making the right move

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I mean… a lot of people definitely do

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

There is no power on earth for authors like word of mouth. Especially with the death of Twitter, so many of us have lost huge chunks of our reach. So please, if you love a book, tell your friends and talk it up on your social media. No voice is too small, every single word counts. And thank you!

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

using substack directly funds rightwing agitprop. this is not in question. substack is a UBI program for fash: they actively recruit them and pay them in advance.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What We Know About Covid’s Impact on Your Brain. "Scientists worry that persistent cognitive issues caused by Covid signal that a surge in dementia cases and other mental conditions is on the horizon." Source: archive.md/IZx1h

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/02/2025

Again, the revenue they are sharing w/ Nazis is money YOU spend on your fave substackers. If you're accepting paid subscriptions on substack— and putting content behind a pay wall—you are inherently asking your readers to share that money w/ Nazis. "You can't read this unless you give Nazis money."

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Roses are red Our resolve hasn't faltered

WARNING
IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS BUT NOT UNALTERED

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 10/02/2025

Clearly there cannot be "one way to do product management." I, myself, organize PM into six fundamental flavors, as shown in this diagram (note the labels along the legs of the triangle). Full post: sociotechnical.org/archive/six-... [1/9] #productmanagement

An iron triangle diagram balances Business, Technology, and Usage forces. A hexagon is inscribed within the triangle, and its vertices are labeled Operator, Architect, Technologist, Innovator, Advocate, and Growth.

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The problem, ultimately, is that people seem to think categories are real things, things that exist in nature. And they aren't. NATURE exists in nature. Any finer distinction is something that we draw - and we have to decide where to draw it.

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David Holl @postobject.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Looking into ways to measure VOC around LA with the intention of finding other folks to help measure and share info publicly. Tons of tools for smoke and aqi but nothing for VOC so far. Let’s change that

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/01/2025

Who captured these historic 1960s San Francisco snapshots? 📷 Abandoned for years in a storage unit, these unseen photos are finally seeing the light of day, but the photographer's identity remains a mystery. Can you help solve it? 🕵️‍♀️ Join the search: blog.archive.org/2025/01/10/e...

Photos of Muhammad Ali, 1968 / The unknown photographer / The Grateful Dead, 1967

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

we did it joe!!! 🎉

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 12/01/2024

“Although 10,000 deaths a month is far less than the peak of the pandemic, this level of preventable death is not acceptable,”

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Beyond avoiding Covid infections altogether, the next best way to prevent Long Covid is through vaccinations, reduced ~70% by recent reports and a meta-analysis of 24 studies (Figure) www.scientificamerican.com/article/vacc...

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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

I currently know FIVE people in my immediate circle of friends with Covid. IT. IS NOT. OVER.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2024

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...

Iconic image of Mickey Mouse standing at the wheel of a steamboat.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/11/2023

“Infection with the coronavirus is known to leave behind a long legacy of health problems, many of which are characterized as long Covid. But mounting evidence suggests that the coronavirus also befuddles the immune system into targeting the body, causing autoimmune disorders in some people.”

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How Viral Infections Cause Long-Term Health Problems

In a few patients, the immune system becomes misdirected, attacking the body instead of the virus.

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David Holl @postobject.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

In work~ish related news: This Thursday (Nov 2) we'll be talking with David J. Bland and answering your questions about experimentation, strategy, managing uncertainty, and of course, testing business ideas :) Get your *free* ticket here: lu.ma/fvu62txs See you there!

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Ask the Authors: Strategy Tactics with Special Guest David Bland · Zoom · Luma

Join us for a conversation and Q&A with David J. Bland, author of Testing Business Ideas.David has been an inspiration to us ever since his startup days in San Francisco, when he was Principal...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/10/2023

If you missed my Sonoma State University Center for Ethics, Law, and Justice seminar series talk "On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other 'AI.'" (or if you just want to dig into it again), the youtube link is now up: youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws

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On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other AI. Dr. Williams.

Forum for Law Ethics and Society (FiLES). Dr. Williams takes a deep dive into the propensity for GPT style AIs to not merely present falsehoods but to perpe...

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

target is at the beginning of the walgreens cycle, so named because walgreens already showed us how this story ends: an executive admits to investors that they exaggerated the entire thing

Walgreens Executive Says Shoplifting Threat Was Overstated
In a call with investors on Thursday, the chief financial officer of Walgreens, James Kehoe, said “maybe we cried too much last year” over theft.

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David Holl @postobject.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Strategy Tactics is out now! A confidence booster for developing leaders who want to "be more strategic" but are fed up with "secrets of success" and other business lullabies. Take your next step forward with these 54 tried-and-true tools & techniques: pipdecks.com/pages/strate...

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