iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think the robots are going to kill us all but I think there is a real-but-low probability that the robots make cybercrime cheap enough that the modern Internet can no longer exist

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Sarah Kimmel @sarahkimmel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@donnermaps.bsky.social is a statistical steely eyed missile man. 👏👏👏

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/05/2023

reposting my translation of Sappho fragment 16 here

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16/09/2026

It seems like this is a good time to tell you all why LLMs are never, and can never be, conscious.

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Sarah Kimmel @sarahkimmel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today on Adventures in the RP...

My husband tells me a friend of ours called for help when a rat jumped into her car while she was smoking with the door open.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"A group of literally hundreds of people has sprung into action, coordinating, donating, providing lifts for families to get somewhere safe for the night, bringing food to those who don’t want to leave the house, offering shelter, car seats, toys..." www.opendemocracy.net/far-right-vi...

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Far-right chaos won’t define Northern Ireland – solidarity will

While extremists grabbed headlines, hundreds of ordinary people mobilised to protect our neighbours

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/04/2026

This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees. The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in. The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

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Federal employees are not ok

A new survey shows collapsing federal employee morale

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

no01.substack.com

March, 19-21: God is a comedian

A stiff drink is recommended

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

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Sarah Kimmel @sarahkimmel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It may not be as good as Mama's but it seemed the appropriate dessert for celebrating the 1st Amendment today.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

navqi’s sister says their family drove to dodge county, wisconsin, where ice took the six after leaving broadview. dodge county sheriffs denied to navqi’s family that they were holding any women in the jail before ultimately releasing her after 5 a.m. on her own without a working phone.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

family and friends gave the u.s. attorney’s office the phone number of one of the detained people, whose phone was pinging at the broadview facility. after doing so, the phone unlocked, someone read their messages, and then the phone turned off. sometime around then, ice took the six people to wi.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

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‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest

The other winners of the fourth annual contest were Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie and Caleb Chilliams, Chicago officials announced.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read:

‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’

Translated as

‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’

This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift.

The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Just to keep it straight ... It's Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security who's allegedly having a barely concealed affair with her married aide who tried to fire a Coast Guard pilot for not turning their luxury jet around mid-flight to go back and get her blankie ...

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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS

Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 15/02/2026

Token Anxiety i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always

Token Anxiety
Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13
A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents.
Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party.
All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day.

I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes.
Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working.
The vocabulary is what really gets me though.
People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling
horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep

labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep
"Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet.
Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now.
Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?"

The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks.
Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric.
Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day.
I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm
unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says
"something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas.
Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

YouTube video by Federal Reserve

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. Your health care is still legal and protected. I'll always fight for you.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye Ich do love Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich do love

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Yesterday, the Deportation Data Project posted new FOIA data on ICE arrests through October 15 and it’s staggering how much it instantly disproves every claim the Trump admin has made about targeting “criminals” during its splashy arrest operations. Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.

Chart showing ICE Arrests in Illinois, April 1, 2025 through October 10, 2025, By Criminal Record 7-Day Rolling Average

It shows a massive spike in arrests of people with no criminal record beginning in early September with Operation Midway Blitz.

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Sophia_Nyx 🐰 @sophianyx.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Name your fav They Might Be Giants song.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 10/11/2025

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win. Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?

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a hologram of obi-wan kenobi is displayed on a disney+ screen

Alt: a hologram of obi-wan kenobi is displayed on a disney+ screen Wow. That AI is bad. It’s LEIA, In all white, ASKING for Obi-wan.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I wrote about MAGA for Mamdani Guy, what a vibes-based Democratic Party might look like, and popularism's promise of losing forever. badfaithtimes.com/vibes-arent-...

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Vibes Aren’t Everything. They Are the Only Thing.

To survive in this political environment, Democrats must stop thinking and start feeling.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

80% of air traffic controllers absent at New York facilities. The system is at breaking point.

The FAA
@FAANews• 42m
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Nearly 13, 000 air traffic controllers have been working without pay for weeks, ensuring the safety of more than 50,000 daily operations across the national airspace system (NAS).
As we head into this weekend, a surge in callouts is straining staffing levels at multiple facilities, leading to widespread impacts across the NAS. Currently, half of our Core 30 facilities are experiencing staffing shortages, and nearly 80 percent of air traffic controllers are absent at New York-area facilities.
After 31 days without pay, air traffic controllers are under immense stress and fatigue.
The shutdown must end so that these controllers receive the pay they've earned and travelers can avoid further disruptions and delays.
As we continue to reiterate, we will never compromise on safety. When staffing shortages occur, the FAA will reduce the flow of air traffic to maintain safety. This may result in delays or cancellations.
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The vibes in Chicago right now are sort of like during the pandemic except if covid showed up in a random neighborhood every day and had to be driven off by everyone yelling at it

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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 21/10/2025

NEW Economist/YouGov Oct 17-20 40% of U.S. adult citizens have a favorable view of Donald Trump 57% have an unfavorable view Net -17 Last week 42% | 53% | -11 Start of term 50% | 48% | +3 today.yougov.com/politics/art...

A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Favorable and unfavorable views of Donald Trump."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% of U.S. adult citizens)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown. Data for Sept. 26 - Nov. 14, 2020 is among registered voters only."

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

why not isn’t this something they are proud of

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/10/2025

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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