iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve been thinking about September 11, 2001 + how the response led to where we are today. A group of us recorded 550 video/oral histories for a people’s archive outside of nationalism or corporate media. The tenderness, the desire to share names + sensory + lived experience. hereisnewyorkv911.org

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Voices of 9.11: A People's Archive

Voices of 9.11 is a collection of over 500 video testimonies recorded in 2002-2003 in New York City, Shanksville, PA, Washington D.C. and the Pentagon. The project was explicitly designed to give each...

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14/05/2026

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

All praise to Virginia Giuffre who fought for justice in a society that prosecutes corruption but not pedophilia.

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We know enough to take on the responsibility to throw sand in the gears of this monstrosity.

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

There's a lot of talk of AI being anti-human, or at the very least anti-Humanities, but this is missing the point. The AI assemblage is fine with both people and pedagogies as long as they are docile. What AI is anti, and what it undermines, is any trendency to refuse or revolt.

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Running through a Berlin farmer's market today, a man in a food stall calls out, Woman with the keffiyeh! I turn & he holds out a freshly made falafel ball I take the yummy treat. Free Palestine! I call out Thank you, he grins. And on we go with our day. There is so much joy in solidarity.

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Auffällig, dass in Brandenburg, wo Tesla einer der größten Arbeitgeber ist, der Antisemitismusbeauftragte zu Elon Musks Nazi-Aktivitäten und zu seiner vom Judenhass durchsetzten Plattform, die jener Beauftragte vornehmlich nutzt, um gegen pro-palästinensische Stimmen vorzugehen, kein Wort verliert.

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I know plenty have folks have shared it but in case you missed it, Discord is asking for user opinions on adding AI to the platform. Give em hell and tell them precisely how you feel about it. Including the intent to leave if it's added in. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Look at the date. Disabled people told you. They made too many disabled people.

A tweet from imani on 12/19/2020 quoting Gregory Mansfield about making assisted suicide available before healthcare. Her quote reads: This is what l've been saying, with a massive influx of disabled people from COVID, we're going to see a huge influx of assisted suicide programs and legislation because the system barely worked ahead of the pandemic.

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I've known this dear family for over a decade. They are deeply committed to rebuilding their family home. As we seek to make repair in the world, this is one family that we can help in the most basic material way to survive. A Family in North Gaza chuffed.org/project/1561...

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A Family in North Gaza

A better world is possible.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

this is the way

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/11/2025

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.

The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Fuck every single person who said #MeToo went ‘too far’

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Working on a new piece THE WORST JEW IN BERLIN. It's stories & photographs, odd items I found at the flea market and ideas for science fiction films.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

you know I have words on this…

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/08/2025

This is one I've been thinking about for a long time, and I do hope you'll read it, and share it. The stakes have never been higher, but it'ss never been clearer: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is exactly what NYC's entrepreneurial community needs. www.anildash.com/2025/08/20/z...

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Zohran Mamdani is the leader NYC needs for innovation and entrepreneurship - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I am quoted here so let me be totally clear on my take: Jonathan Greenblatt has made a calculated choice to aid the consolidation of authoritarian power by the MAGA movement in exchange for the suppression of criticism of Israel. And the consequences for American Jews will be devastating.

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

When you strip away humanity

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Toys from today’s bookbinding workshop

Box of brightly colored thread on spools and glasses holding bookbinding tools such as an awl, scissors, needle and bone folder

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Her name is Dr. Elizabeth Potter, a microsurgeon who specializes in complex breast cancer surgery. And this insurance company is now trying to destroy her reputation & bankrupt her surgery center since she spoke out about their practices. I’m sure you’ll never guess which health insurance company.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

One outcome we need to see is every single ICE employee standing in front of a tribunal for their part in ethnic cleansing, which is certainly not going to happen today, but it's a good goal to put up on the board, because it helps us think about everything that needs to change so we can achieve it.

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

always remember

Graphic that says Stop Forcing AI Into Fucking Everything. Nobody asked for it. Everyone hates it.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years. So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

They’re terrified of the people realizing their power. They’re terrified of anyone who actually wants to disrupt the status quo for anything besides profit. 📢 DON’T RANK CUOMO! 📢

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

My latest — The accusations of antisemitism against NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani have been some of the most appalling smears I’ve seen in my years covering politics. I wrote about the concerted attack, & pressure for American Jews to define a local political race through the lens of Israel:

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The appalling smearing of Zohran Mamdani as 'anti-semitic'

It's Islamophobic. It's racist. It's also completely untrue.

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 20/06/2025

So many people memory-holed this info. It came out after the election, so it probably got buried in the post-election fog. Andrew Cuomo and Alan Dershowitz are on Netanyahu’s legal team for his ICC war crimes defence.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/06/2025

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 17/05/2025

Day 77 of US-Israeli total siege on Gaza

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Ruth Sergel @ruthsergel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Wait! Did J.D. Vance off the pope??! Just askin’… (joke)

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Just a reminder that the corporation which proudly promotes its barely-concealed white supremacy on giant posters in the USA is the same company awarded £330m to run the NHS Federated Data Platform #PalantirOut x.com/PalantirTech... www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechn...

palantir poster - see https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/1911766217129406544

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

Images of protests and crowds across the country.

HANDSOFF APRIL 5TH 2025
BOSTON
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
PORTLAND
SAN FRANCISCO
SAN DIEGO
IDAHO
UTAH
OAKLAND
(AND SOOOO MANY MORE!)

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