iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 Check out the new courses we've just launched to accompany our Philosophers and Great Essays series! For anyone wanting to go deeper into some of what we cover. Completely free for anyone to use. And more to come. Do please spread the word! www.ppfideas.com/courses

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Courses | Past Present Future

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Should make a stronger claim at the end here: You do not want *AI specialists* to help your company take advantage of the tech, you need *domain specialists* using the tech to tell you whether they can get something useful out of it.

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🍁Mel🇨🇦 @melhathnofury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Here’s instructions on building your own Corsi-Rosenthal box.

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Richard Fryer @qualiagames.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

No one can tell me this isn't a Sacha Baron Cohen / Armando Iannucci style pastiche.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...

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We’re looking for a writer

We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Here's the second part of my series about how to design tabletop RPGs. It looks at the tools you can use, using Lady Blackbird by @johnharper.bsky.social as an example. (Please repost this, it helps!) #ttrpg www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...

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How to design tabletop RPGs: The tools | Graham Walmsley

How to design tabletop RPGs: The tools by Graham Walmsley on Patreon. Join Graham Walmsley's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Gurwinder @gurwinder.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Warren Buffett’s test for how fortunate you think your life is. For an even wider perspective, draw a marble not just from the pool of 8 billion living humans, but from the 100 billion humans who ever lived. shorturl.at/9IY8F

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 16/02/2026

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

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Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?

How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

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Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Delighted that we at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk are once again supporting this annual online event aimed at reaching people currently under-represented in the think tank sector… please share with your networks…

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2026

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We’re looking for a Policy Planning Assistant to support the South Downs Local Plan Review, which will be published for its final consultation and submitted for examination in 2026. Applications close on 25 January 2026. 🔗 Full details here: bit.ly/4aPXbNf

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Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Getting to Net Zero is cheaper than letting the planet burn. Twice as cheap in fact. If we do nothing, climate change will cost us 15% of global GDP. Getting to Net Zero limits those costs to 7%.

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:

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Should we just give cash to the homeless?

A new charity is tackling homelessness with a simple approach. Does it work?

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link: asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...

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Richard Fryer @qualiagames.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Some jumbled thoughts on AI and social media algorithms. Verification becomes secondary to visibility, with news outlets chasing what’s “already trending,” mistaking algorithmic amplification for genuine public concern, creating a feedback loop which can result in institutional capture.

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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 16/06/2025

Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Good morning! Julian Simpson (@juliansimpson.bsky.social) creator of the Lovecraft Investigations, will write "Haumea" when the Cosmic Dark Kickstarter hits £45,000. And we're about to hit Kieron Gillen's stretch goal, so please help us hit that. (And repost!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

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