iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026

ah, the return of merit

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026

it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Really tired of repellent computer dweebs talking like they're hardened warriors

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Nobel Committee must have overlooked this

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Objectively funny that they whined this into a story.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

when someone drops "sportsball" into a conversation like this they are madder than they have ever been in their life

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 06/10/2026

Religious liberty will always be framed as religious people’s right to freely oppress and exclude others

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is nuts. @murray.senate.gov: “Tying funding for transit projects to marriage rates and how many babies a woman has is the sort of bizarre and dystopian idea you’d expect in a TV show, not actual policy put forth by the U.S. government — yet here we are."

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Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding

The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/10/2026

I can't get over the fact that he thinks daylight savings is bad because you have to climb up "high and dangerous steeples" to change the clocks. Like a fire engine full of cats has to go out and they climb the ladder like in a Richard Scarry drawing

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I appreciate the horror aesthetic photographers bring to documenting her ubiquity.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it’s been true for a while but here’s the latest proof that the republican party is nothing but a cult

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine being this guy

Still from the first minute or two of the original Star Wars with C3P0 and R2 but also another protocol droid we literally never see again

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spend a lot of time thinking about the importance of signaling in geopolitical and strategic stability. The "faith of Jerusalem" phrase is stuck in my teeth. 🧵

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Fire Marshal Bill @firemarshalbill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, Athens, Rome, Jerusalem. All famously lasted forever without any societal collapses.

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i think this is a fealty test trump daring republicans to show disloyalty

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The CEO of General Mills should receive the title “General Mills.” It should be like becoming the Dalai Lama. Everyone who works there should have a military rank.

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Kathrin @puzzledpeaces.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm always struck by the absolute fucking JOYLESSNESS of it all. They don't want to browse and explore and spend time actively pursuing a hobby they might enjoy. Instead, they want to click 5 times and then go "Behold my stuff" to an empty room because they have no actual friends.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Weird the AI didn’t catch that

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Xtina @redlizziec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesss, that needle was used to administer the cootie shot!

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

shoving all my work aside to report out what led to this sign

a sign that reads DO NOT OUT NOODLES IN THE WATER FOUNTAIN!!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026

pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this poor model looks so bummed out by this stupid level 1 rpg dress

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