iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5h

google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years

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cee @cee.wtf · 26/09/2026

talky jev talking to opus is making me fall out of my chair laughing > "led band they're called lady lead live led leading stone the rock... led les less least are the band the leads but" >"led zeppelin!"

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 26/09/2026

No, AI is not "doing" this. The US medical system has created a multibillion dollar market for hospitals and insurers to play stupid billing games, and they are now using AI to make them even stupider.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 25/09/2026

This language doesn't seem like a good defense to me. If a cattle rancher's herd escaped and trampled a suburban neighborhood we'd blame the rancher.

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Henry @henryfellerhoff.com · 17/09/2026

Ink & Switch's approach of being forward-looking while staying uncompromising on both the value of intention in what you make and the necessity of shaping the world to match your and your community'´s system of values is (in my opinion) the most essential message in software right now

A quote from Peter van Hardenberg, the lab director of Ink & Switch, from his talk "How to Research Tools for Thought":

"I would encourage everybody to think about how – as we're moving through this new world – that we are intentional about how we shape it. And I don't want to tell you whether you should or shouldn't adopt any particular technology, but I will tell you that the world will not wait for us – and that we need to figure out how we can engage with our values and our intentions, and how we can serve our communities to make sure that the people who are using these tools that we build and that other people build are able to do them in safe and trustworthy ways, but also in ways that are satisfying and joyful and let us have what we set out to do."

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hailey @hailey.at · 13/09/2026

my take is that an alarmingly low number of people understand just how bad cyber warfare alone could go. doomers going on about x-risk but not the very real and present problem of infra cyber defense and the very disastrous consequences that could have

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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."

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José Maia @josemaia.pt · 08/09/2026

updated my priors

the nameless one from planescape torment.

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Ulfsire @ulfsire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Extremely cool person translated lore into Sumerian

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 02/09/2026

Thank you @danluu.com for making the ultimate case against Ed Zitron: bsky.app/profile/danl...

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Mikhail @va11halla.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Inside you there are two wolves

paul riedl from blood incantation holding 2 bc rich guitars

brian bucklew from freehold games (unormal.bsky.social) play caves of qud

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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@jilltucker
X.com
And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

who needs to worry about genocide when you can rotate a perfect golden sphere of cumming shrimp in your mind palace forever

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 21/06/2026

@faineg.bsky.social just walked out of the other room and reminded me I made this. It's not actually the ending of the movie, but the scene works perfectly

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Dune Navigator Scene - Walk of Life Ending

YouTube video by mountainherder

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Ulfsire @ulfsire.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’ve been striving to do this as well, one salient thing I’ve arrived at particularly with gen ai art / music / writing is the loss of specific authorship, how this removes it from the chain of being and erases discussion around the piece and thereby any possible emergent culture

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 24/05/2026

Baby is never too young to listen to the progressive metal masterpiece Lateralus by Tool.

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Tynan @tynansdtm.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

For the three other people that will find this funny.

What appears to be an in-game screenshot from Morrowind (2002) in a first-person perspective. A low-polygon man with long hair, a black band T-shirt that says "Tool" and blue jeans squats in a river in the rain. At the top of the screen is the subtitles "No. The frequencies hit different in here." At the bottom of the screen is the quest dialogue "Objective failed: Convince Tool fan to leave the water (0/1)." Behind the man are massive leafy trees and mushrooms, and a flying pterodactyl creature. The river fades into the foggy distance. Also at the bottom of the screen, slightly cropped out are the standard HUD elements: the health, magicka, and stamina bars, the equipped item slot (currently empty) and the player character's raised gloved right hand.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/05/2026

"As all rivers are lost in the sea, which shows no sign of their presence, so will all peoples be lost in the widening confines of our Republic, with an ocean-bound continent for its unparalleled expanse & one harmonious citizenship, where all are equal in rights, for its gentle and impartial sway."

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 12/05/2026

bsky.app/profile/rekm...

Screenshot of the post by @rekmarks.com linked in this post.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)

Treat lies like obscenities.
Kate Cohen
Former Post contributing columnist
My dream new journalistic standard would make it unacceptable to quote a lie in a news story. In the deep-fake, bot-infested Trump era, it’s no longer enough for news organizations to seek truth; we need them to protect the public from lies. Lies should be treated like obscenities, graphic violence or sexual content. That means literally refusing to repeat a transparent lie — not quoting it early and then offering corrective facts two paragraphs or 30 seconds later. Sure, sometimes it’s a judgment call whether a statement falls just to the spin side of the mendacity line. But sometimes it’s obvious. You know how news stories avoid quoting profanity by saying things like “he said, adding an expletive for emphasis”? That’s how reporters should deal with lies: e.g., “he said, before repeatedly lying about …” As for lying on live TV? Bring on the bleeps!

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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

ambrose bierce on columbus does not hold back:

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THE COLLECTED WORKS
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the human mind is affected with a singular disability to get a sense of an historical event without a gigantic figure in the foreground
overtopping all his fellows. As surely as God liveth, if one hundred congenital idiots were set adrift in a scow to get rid of them, and, borne by favoring currents into eyeshot of an unknown continent, should simultaneously shout, "Land ho!" instantly drowning in their own drool, we should have one of them figuring in history ever thereafter with a growing glory as an illustrious discoverer of his time. I do not say that Columbus was a navigator and discoverer of that kind, nor that he did anything of that kind in that way; the parallel is perfect only in what history has done to Columbus; and some seventy millions of Americans are authenticating the imposture all they know how. In this whole black business hardly one element of falsehood is lacking.
Columbus was not a learned man, but an

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ignorant. He was not an honorable man, but a professional pirate. He was, in the most hateful sense of the word, an adventurer.
His voyage was undertaken with a view solely to his own advantage, the gratification of an incredible avarice. In the lust of gold he committed deeds of cruelty, treachery and oppression for which no fitting names are found in the vocabulary of any modern tongue. To the harmless and hospitable peoples among whom he came he was a terror and a curse.
He tortured them, he murdered them, he sent them over the sea as slaves. So monstrous were his crimes, so conscienceless his ambi-tion, so insatiable his greed, so black his treachery to his sovereign, that in his mere imprisonment and disgrace we have a notable instance of "the miscarriage of justice." In the black abysm of this man's character we may pile falsehood upon falsehood, but we shall never build the monument high enough to top the shadow of his shame. Upon the culm and crown of that reverend pile every angel will still look down and weep.
We are told that Columbus was no worse than the men of his race and generation-that his vices were " those of his time." No vices are peculiar to any time; this world has been

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My new book, Lost Worlds, is out today! It tells a new story about how humanity went from hunting and gathering to the cusp of "civilization" that incorporates all of the stunning new archaeological work of the past couple of decades. I'm really proud of it! www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

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Lost Worlds

"Wyman evokes the sights, sounds and smells of entire lifeways that have disappeared….Lost Worlds convinces us of the value of slowing down to recogniz...

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 01/05/2026

Dawkins is a great example that when you have a naturalistic view of "real patterns" but don't have a process ontology, you will end up in metaphysical dualism unintentionally. Minds are not software, they are what specific bodies are doing as they engage with the world.

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It’s like this: Why perceptions are our realities - Flux

Minds do not create experience, experience creates minds

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A tale told by, like, a Very Low IQ Person, like, a not-good-brain person.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 29/04/2026

Ultimately my politics is whatever maximizes the numbers and kinds of AdP:s over time.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

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ompuco @ompu.co · 28/04/2026

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

No one called out the idle rich quite like Mary Wollstonecraft

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sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

hello again! i found this book of tech logos from 1980-1990, what a score

cover of book of tech logos is a white grid with black lines

open book shows ten old black and white logos per page

open book shows three old black and white logos per page

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posts inspector @pippy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Much like baby must one day “hate mommy” to self actualize, the young hacker news commenter must theorize that reactivity is the original sin of UI complexity

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 20/04/2026

Responding to technological change with pouty denials is bad.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 14/04/2026

This is actually how you know you've made it.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 14/04/2026

This whiny fucking loser

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 13/04/2026

See also: Swedish drug policy policy and initial COVID response.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2026

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/04/2026

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 09/04/2026

James Hargreaves pampering farmwives with the Spinning Jenny.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’m not crying in space. You’re crying in space.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

<I’m wheeled into the Pitt> Santos: male, 36, at happy hour, now saying “tummy feel crazy” Al-Hashimi: 47% of men’s bodies reject modern IPAs. They’re too hoppy now Robi: the silent killer. Get him to surgery McKay <alone now, staring straight at camera>: I am the same type of communist as you

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’m not going to argue against using tools to expand your capacity - remember random ideas, talk stuff through as if you were having a conversation with yourself, etc. - but writing is inseparable from actually thinking and arguing, they’re not different things you can automate

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