iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...

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Scootrbum @scootrbum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A Los Angeles restaurant worker with a valid work permit was followed by ICE into her workplace. The manager used PAXIS.app to identify the kitchen as a non-public area, told agents they could not enter without consent, asked for a judicial warrant refused access, and requested that they leave.

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PAXIS

A comprehensive guide and assistant for immigration-related queries and actions.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Here is a statement from Champagne, aka Benjamin Song, the most maligned of the Priarieland protestors. Champagne was just sentenced to 100 years for shooting and injuring a police officer who had just drawn a weapon on an unarmed, fleeing protestor. prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-wr...

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Statement by Benjamin "Champagne" Song - Support the Prairieland Defendants

I don’t Hate. I don’t Hate anyone. I don’t Hate cops. I don’t Hate Trump. I don’t Hate nazis. My beliefs are composed thus:

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

you either die a hero or live long enough to see the consensus reality required to make democracy function shattered into a million algorithmically ring-fenced backrooms

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 17/06/2026

We are hiring a Research Manager or Sr Research Manager at DWN! This role will play a critical role in advancing DWN’s mission to end immigration detention through research, data and policy analysis, writing, strategy development, and coalition building. www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/about/jobs-o...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Most academics being interviewed: Blah, bland, meh. @naomioreskes.bsky.social interviewed: stand back because 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

So looking forward to this! Do you know the best press contact at your publisher to see about a review copy? Thank you!

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Shirley Hazzard's Transit of Venus (as screenwritten by @specktor.bsky.social , who almost was able to make this happen in the early 2000s... still wish the stars would align for it)

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Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 10/06/2026

Data for Progress is hiring! We're looking for a Chief Operating Officer to help lead our internal operations and strengthen our impact across the progressive movement. Apply on our website 👇 www.dataforprogress.org/jobs/chief-o...

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Chief Operating Officer

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Your dog is so cute! Is he a spaniel?

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Alex the Unenthusastic @afterdarkalexi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I’m at the oil shock. I’m at the super El Niño. I’m at the combination oil shock super El Niño fertilizer shortages imminent famines historic droughts over half our oxygen lost to ocean acidification AMOC collapse portending a southeastern USA heat dome + Western Europe ice age

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

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John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is an absurdly irresponsible piece filled with straight up lies, misinformation, and corporate propaganda lines straight from Anthropic. It ironically follows the form of corporate climate denial! An avalanch if misinformation on behalf of polluting corporations

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

lol this is your plan? @economist.com

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

To learn ways you can interrupt the ICE machine, see our toolkit! Updated regularly!

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Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

re: the Backrooms, something can be a silly unserious meme embraced by the young and also be a really obvious reflections of the ambient anxieties of its audience. because liminal spaces and backrooms stuff is absolutely a reflection of late capitalism in a fairly obvious and straightforward sense.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025. Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car. That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human. doi.org/10.32866/001...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A city that spends more on guns than on its children is a failure. Tomorrow, please vote for the candidate that loves Los Angeles enough to take care of its children - not one who panders to special interests, commuter freakouts, & vilifies our unhoused neighbors.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

LA's continuing budget crisis can be felt in every essential city service. This evening, my 6 year old & I sat through the summer camp orientation at the Rose Hill Rec Center. The presentation was full of apologies for all the cutbacks -a deafening reminder of @mayor.lacity.gov broken promises.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/06/2026

“It’s absurd. It’s absolutely impossible for people to comply when the law is written loosely enough for police on the ground to interpret it however they would like. Police are chasing people into the night. It boggles my mind. It’s so irresponsible, and it’s not keeping anyone safe.”

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After curfew set outside Newark migrant jail, numerous protesters arrested • New Jersey Monitor

A second weekend of strife outside migrant jail Delaney Hell resulted in potentially dozens of arrests.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/06/2026

Scott Pelley is a hero, and it really makes you wonder: where has this spirit been? In other media figures, other executives, other people who have seen these oligarchs degrade everything of value in this country? Why is it so striking & unusual for *anyone to fight back*?

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 01/06/2026

“It’s working for me” is such a fucking banger of a line

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 14/05/2026

If LLMs are a "social technology" akin to a market, it might be interesting to bring Marx into the mix to think about how markets aren't just information processors but the means by which relations of social domination are organized (and mystified) knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

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AI as Social Technology

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This looks fantastic! Do you know the best publicity contact to request press review galleys? Thank you!

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

oops, I should have done my homework first. Such tests HAVE been done (!), and the A.I. methods -- as I would have suspected -- come out looking really poor in such capacities (and yes, this is an A.I. summary 🤣): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/....

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“The kids want liminal spaces!”

Michael Lerner as a studio boss in Barton Fink.

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Just a plug for The Beige Room, the 3-part miniseries audio documentary I co-wrote/produced about the stranger-than-fiction rise of the Landmark Forum from the 1970s California new age scene to the corporate mainstream, and the dangers of self-help for profit: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The 11th

Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Monthly · The 11th is a podcast that publishes an entirely new issue on the 11th of every month. Inspired by the experience of opening a magazine you love every mon...

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Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

'It is as much an exercise of history as it is an experiment of alchemy' - Wisconsin Death Trip.

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

😂 And your work has actually helped me theorize more about it, as maybe I mentioned! I'll be writing more on this as I digest the film... anyhow it's so worth seeing.

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

On the occasion of the Backrooms film release, reposting my 2022 essay on the phenomenon, the inherent tensions btw collective worldbuilding and surrealist art, and Kane Parsons' original web series (which I predicted even then was bound for Hollywood). borderstudies.substack.com/p/the-backro...

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The Backrooms, Before Hollywood: Lore vs. the Sublime

Before you head to the cineplex (ideally in a dead mall), my Backrooms essay from 2022

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

[steps onto soapbox] The authors of all these articles about how women are the "new" enemy of the far-right, and misogyny is "new" fuel for extremist violence, apparently just didn't consult, you know, history.

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Phenomenally underrated skill in politics is to distinguish between things you find annoying or aesthetically displeasing and things that are actually a problem

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

11. There are similar arguments out there about AI magically perfecting markets and democracy. To figure out the important consequences of AI, and avoid disasters like DOGE, we need to move away from this kind of thinking, and very quickly too. Finis.

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The 1992 film - I don't know how well it holds up but I loved it as a kid, and has Gabriel Byrne at his sad, tender best for the grownups en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_th...

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Into the West (film) - Wikipedia

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

As we @moneyontheleft.bsky.social have long argued, austerity’s endless ‘hard choices’ about who to impoverish are structurally, rhetorically, and ideologically inseparable from heteronormativity, ableism, classism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. 1/

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I recall; excellent piece! I first encountered Theweleit's work in a film studies/psychoanalysis class in college & found it revelatory but had no idea how increasingly relevant it would become

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

From their own words; the now infamous on here "I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" quote was specifically in response to seeing a slaveowner auctioning off his own barely teenaged daughter

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John Breen @breen.tech · 22/05/2026

Bc we don’t own the means of production

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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Feels like a missed opportunity to focus entirely on contemporary porn instead of drawing on much deeper historical scholarship about the role that racist, misogynist psychosexual fantasies *have always* played in fascism... perhaps most iconically www.upress.umn.edu/978081661449...

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Male Fantasies

This first volume of Male Fantasies centers on the fantasies that preoccupied a group of men who played a crucial role in the rise of Nazism. These men were ...

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 23/05/2026

Louisiana has decided to cede the entire parole decision-making process to an algorithm that will decide if you die in prison or not. There will be no human input or nuance allowed. Even our parole board is sickened by this. LINK: veritenews.org/2025/04/10/t...

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TIGER, the algorithm banning Louisiana prisoners from parole

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm B...

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