iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrew Sacher @andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my weekly album reviews roundup is up ft. greg freeman, stef chura, holidays in united states & more andrewsacher.substack.com/p/6-new-albu...

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6 new albums I think are great

Read my reviews of new albums from Greg Freeman, Stef Chura, Circuit Circuit, and more.

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

keep thinking about "personalised" books/art made by AI and remembering James Baldwin's quote "you think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" these AI bros are deliberately doing a psyop on themselves to cauterise their capacity for empathy

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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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Amanda M Hatfield @robotsvsghosts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How cute will you find it once the inevitable data leaks start?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026

"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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Andrew Sacher @andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my favorite new songs roundup is here, ft. primitive blast, microwave, krill & more andrewsacher.substack.com/p/my-8-favor...

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My 8 favorite new songs across punk, emo, indie & more

Featuring reviews of new tracks by Primitive Blast, Microwave & Puddle Splasher, Krill, and more.

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 25/09/2026

was the nor’easter Morrissey’s idea stereogum.com/2512628/all-...

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Flazlo @fleezlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm just thinking back to COVID when our pundits and media intellectuals were incensed and enraged about kids falling behind in their education because we were doing remote schooling.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Just go to therapy, bro.

DAVID JIANG, COFOUNDER and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid.

His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense.

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses.

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Bill Pearis @soundbitesnyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gruff Rhys on soundtracking Sharon Horgan’s ‘Youth’ and the Super Furry Animals reunion soundbitesnyc.substack.com/p/gruff-rhys...

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Gruff Rhys on soundtracking Sharon Horgan’s ‘Youth’ and the Super Furry Animals reunion

Rhys’ is the Featured Musical Artist on Horgan’s new HBO series

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the perfect distillation of nearly all NIMBYism.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026

“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.

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Andrew Sacher @andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BOSTON, doing an EMO REVIVAL talk/reading/signing with James Carroll of the great MAKE DO AND MEND! Where? Wanna Hear It Records in Watertown When? Saturday, October 10 at 3 PM FREE!

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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We're staking our economy on forcing a technology down people's throats that outputs misinformation as a matter of course. Someone asked me about my interview with Gil Duran. This is happened when I googled our names together. I have not interviewed Gil Duran. This path: civilizational death.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Trump claimed he's "banning the free press" & added "we're repressive also" when asked about China's lack of press freedoms during bonkers event where he struggled to stay awake, demanded kids get 5 vaccine shots instead of 1, and rambled incoherently in response to basic Qs Here's a supercut:

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Andrew Sacher @andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this week's album reviews are up, ft. emo revival vets deer leap's first LP in 10 years, a DIY psych-rock epic from the drin & more andrewsacher.substack.com/p/6-new-albu...

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6 new albums I think are great

Read my reviews of emo revival vets Deer Leap’s first album in 10 years, The Drin’s DIY psych-rock epic, and more.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On one hand, AI might cause nuclear annihilation in the dumbest way possible. But on the other hand, it is semi-almost-useful at making lists. Gotta take the bad with the good!

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Incredible quote to start with “millions of Americans like me” and then to end with “on our normal vacation to Greece or the Vineyard”

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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton

The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 16/09/2026

This very real contest launched last month. One of you needs to win and do the funniest thing.

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it.

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.

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Scare-emy Haunt Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

even bands who have already finished their leg of the tour are saying hey fuck this little turd, and I think that's beautiful

from biirdofficial on IG: Following the decision for Macklemore to be dropped from the Loop Tour, we feel it is important to be clear about where we stand.

Our time on the Loop Tour has already come to an end. Our last show was at the MetLife stadium where we witnessed Macklemore's speech.

We stand unequivocally behind every word he said.

Our support is with the people of Palestine, with the artists who have made the difficult decision to step away from the tour and with anybody that speaks up against Zionist lobbying groups.

Ní saoirse go saoirse an Phalaistín 🇵🇸✊

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Virgo's Constant Groove @ceencrumpets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A lot of things that have paywalls actually do not if you use the library.

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dan ozzi @danozzi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can’t believe this timeline has got me supporting macklemore and jimmy kimmel. unforgivable.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This article makes two important points: 1. People using ChatGPT expose sensitive data because they think it is private 2. OpenAI relies on hundreds of human contractors reviewing replies to improve their models www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Andrew Sacher @andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

my weekly favorite new songs roundup is up, ft. carissa's wierd, popfree, soul glo & more andrewsacher.substack.com/p/my-10-favo...

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My 10 favorite new songs across punk, emo, indie & more

Featuring reviews of new tracks by Carissa’s Wierd, popfree, Soul Glo, and more.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/09/2026

If this is confusing, imagine your roommate is going to buy an Ikea Billy bookcase, and so you loan them $50 to pay for half of it, and they write an IOU on a post-it saying so. But then, before you get paid next week, you say "that bookcase is now worth $2M." and you both agree and update the note.

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yuzuBOO @yuzupool.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah. they caught you loafed. yeah all four of your paws were tucked in. what the hell were you thinking its all over the news. you became bread

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Andrew Sacher @andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my weekly albums roundup is up, including a review of one of my absolute favorites of the year: this is lorelei andrewsacher.substack.com/p/4-new-albu...

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4 new albums I think are great (September 11)

Read my reviews of This Is Lorelei’s bluegrass-infused Matador debut, the Rise and Fall/Oathbreaker-related Wrong Man, and more.

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Andrew Sacher @andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my pitchfork debut is a review of the heaviest russian circles album yet pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Russian Circles: Nine

Read Andrew Sacher’s review of the album.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

once again, all that shit about how these AI companies are going to flip on the doomsday switch tomorrow was an attempt to boost Open AI’s IPO price and market their services. pls try to remember this the next time someone tells you the apocalypse is happening tomorrow for the 43rd time

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/09/2026

Now is a good time for you to sign the petition demanding that the criminal who conspired to endanger first responders, and supported insurrection and election denial, be prohibited from attending 9/11 observances and disrespecting survivors and the city: c.org/DWLWktyGcj

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Sign the Petition

Ban Rudy Giuliani from 9/11 observances

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You know this is my shit right here get the book

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 08/09/2026

Former BrooklynVegan editor @andrewdsacher.bsky.social's essential new book 'Emo Revival: Community, DIY, and Rebirth in Post-Hardcore and Emo (2008-2018)' is out today. Read an exclusive excerpt and buy a copy for yourself:

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Read An Exclusive Excerpt From Andrew Sacher's New Book 'Emo Revival'

For years, Andrew Sacher served as the resident emo aficionado at BrooklynVegan, shedding light on up-and-coming bands that other sites weren’t covering. He first announced his emo revival book back i...

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Going to toss a tiny pebble into the ocean here by saying this is completely insane and unacceptable and it's absolutely surreal that we tolerate it today and every day.

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