iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 14/10/2026

❗ El primer CIS de la precampaña amplía la ventaja del PSOE sobre el PP a 11,8 puntos eldiario.es/politica/cis...

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you haven't read @exmove.bsky.social's slide deck on what coolness is (h/t @garbageday.email), i highly recommend it. it will get you thinking about the deeper questions of what we want from culture and how it fulfills a need: docs.google.com/presentation...

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EX Research_Cool Is A Skill Issue

COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE A trend report by EX Research Q3 2026

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 19/09/2026

Los alcaldes Jaume Collboni y Zohran Mamdani se reúnen en Nueva York como previa a la cumbre de ciudades U20. Los primeros ediles de Barcelona y Nueva York han compartido impresiones y experiencias sobre vivienda, turismo, pobreza y clima

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Los alcaldes Jaume Collboni y Zohran Mamdani se reúnen en Nueva York como previa a la cumbre de ciudades U20

Los primeros ediles de Barcelona y Nueva York han compartido impresiones y experiencias sobre vivienda, turismo, pobreza y clima

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Be the Changeist @scoxsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New course just dropped! Horizon Scanning in the Age of AI —Asia Edition Nov. 16 – 17, 2026 Time: 13:00-16:30 SGT each day Format: Interactive online sessions via Zoom Language: English Capacity: Limited to 20 participants Register here: changeist.com/events

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Events And Workshops — Changeist

Hands-on workshops and masterclasses from Changeist on horizon scanning, scenario development, and foresight methods. Public sessions open to practitioners and teams.

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Reimagining the Civic Commons @civiccommonsus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW: Belonging is a basic human need, necessary for health, well-being & social connection. But it doesn't just happen; it has to be built. Rituals can help. Our latest article looks at how ritual shapes belonging, & what this means for the public spaces we design and program: tinyurl.com/y6u488h7

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Can Rituals Help Hold Communities Together?

Artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, scholar Ashley Gallegos and author Michael Norton on the science and practice of ritual in public life.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026

Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."

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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Another must read from Cory Doctorow!! When in Singapore more than a decade ago to revamp experience of Ministry of Manpower, this UK proj was enormously influential. Because someone else had gone first, giving evidence and permission to others. I hope Mamdani’s PIT crews do the same.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

Mamdani has just unveiled his Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews: five "game changing" teams of public interest hackers who will remake NYC's digital services: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... 36/

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Transcript: Mayor Mamdani Launches “Public Interest Technology (Pit) Crew” to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems

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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We’re running another online horizon scanning workshop in mid Sept for European, Mideast and Africa timezones. If you know anyone who’s been thinking about building better skills in this area, please pass it on. 🙏🏻 pretix.eu/changeist/se...

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Horizon Scanning: Sensing & Sensemaking for a Complex World

Sept. 17 – 18, 2026

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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Chatting with my offspring about her favorite movie, FORBIDDEN PLANET, I’m reminded of this amazing earlier work by Bebe and Louis Barron, BELLS OF ATLANTIS, narrated by Anaïs Nin. youtu.be/fNodsrQhQ28?...

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Bells Of Atlantis - Ian Hugo (1952)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/05/2026

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

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Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how.

How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.

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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Fun game! April 30 98🎯 99🎯 95🏅 97🔥 99🎯 Final score: 975

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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And don’t forget: every day is Manager’s Day. Buy them this one and improve your life. 💅 www.koganpage.com/business-and...

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Future Cultures

The only way to succeed tomorrow is to act today. Transform your business and prepare for the innovations, technologies and challenges of the future through Fut

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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Last days of the 40% off sale on our books. The royalties alone might buy us a sandwich. 🥪 SALE40 at checkout. www.koganpage.com/general-busi...

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How to Future

Adapt, embrace uncertainties and create more resilient business strategies by mastering the futuring mindset.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.

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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who is risking their safety and contributing their time and money to protect our neighbors. If you are so inclined, please check out Stand With Minnesota (standwithminnesota.com) to find a way to help. And no one start any beefs with Will Stancil. (2/2)

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Meanwhile:

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/01/2026

Neighborhood watch is taking on a new form in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch. These folks, who're tailing federal agents as they make arrests, are passionate, determined, and just about everywhere—and ICE is getting frustrated.

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Meet the Minneapolis neighbors standing up to ICE by the thousands

Local resistance is "growing exponentially," says Defend the 612's Andrew Fahlstrom.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney speaking at a podium in Davos, Switzerland. A quote from his speech is edited on top: “WHEN THE RULES NO LONGER PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT LET US BE CLEAR-EYED ABOUT WHERE THIS LEADS. A WORLD OF FORTRESSES WILL BE POORER, MORE FRAGILE, AND LESS SUSTAINABLE.”

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Carney reportedly wrote the speech himself. Canada's govt is in good hands. He urges everyone to recognize that the US has joined Ru in finishing off the intl order and is trying to convert allies into vassals but also to remember Canada/EU/others have the power to push back and defend sovereignty.

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Histories of modern Russia often point to Putin's 2007 Munich speech as the clear point of rupture with the west. Feels like Davos today will be pointed to as the moment of allied rupture with the US.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Abstract

When we empathize with someone going through something, we often draw on our past experiences with the someone and the something. These kinds of experiences ground "thick empathy", a form of empathy that has been largely overlooked in the psychology and neuroscience literature. Consider how a mother, empathizing with her daughter about to give birth, can draw on her own experience of childbirth, and her relationship with her daughter, to deeply grasp what her daughter is going through in a way that others who lack those experiences cannot. I argue that thick empathy deserves more empirical attention because it is associated with well-being and helps us build networks of effective mutual social support. My analysis highlights novel risks and dilemmas posed by "empathy machines" that promise to enhance or even replace human empathy and are becoming increasingly popular as a potential solution to widespread loneliness. Even when empathy machines provide value to individuals, their widespread adoption risks imposing collective emotional and epistemic costs that ultimately make it harder for us to empathize well.

Keywords: empathy, understanding, experience, thick description, ethnography, phenomenal knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, chatbots

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I met Hilary and Dan in London this summer. Their Power Station project is an incredible artist-led work showing how we can transform our energy system as well as our societies for better, more livable futures. Please, check them out and support their fundraising if you can! www.power.film

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Power Station

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

CALM IS MORE CONDUCTIVE TO CREATIVITY THAN IS ANXIETY

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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

NYC friends, WORKS on WATER's 3rd TRIENNIAL (Aug 28-Oct 26) Opening tonight, Aug 28, from 5-9p Governors Island in the LMCC Galleries in Building 110. worksonwater.org/2025-triennial

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2025 Triennial — Works on Water

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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Did you get the flyer warning of a fine if you put out your large items on the wrong day? Image of a sad lamp and other discarded furniture and objects.

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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

New Intercambio de Superpoderes “Don’t expect to be told what to do, not everything can be planned. I have questions, I’m a researcher, I’m a psychologist. Imposter syndrome is very real. Very humbly I can bring questions…and put something out there.” possibilityhours.substack.com/p/intercambi...

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Intercambio de Superpoderes : Enrique Peralta

Ingenuity / Ingenio

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/06/2025

The logic is pretty obvious here. Presidents can’t declare war so anything the president does without Congress can’t be a war. It’s not an assessment of what’s happening; it’s an excuse.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 04/06/2025

fun map of the day: seating arrangements for legislators around the world

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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"Reluctant Optimists: Designing Cities for Change" Ever wondered why government feels like a black box? Or how design thinking can transform entire cities? I reveal the secrets behind 30 years of working with governments, startups, and communities worldwide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8KI...

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Reluctant Optimists: Designing Cities for Change with Scott Paterson

YouTube video by Create What Matters

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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Intercambio de Superpoderes : Lina Rodríguez "There's nothing you can tell me that I haven't thought about me improving already" - Lina open.substack.com/pub/possibil...

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Intercambio de Superpoderes : Lina Rodríguez

Maker / Hacedora

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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"liking China, not liking China, is not part of my equation" Thomas Friedman after having regularly visited China over the years to see the rate of innovation, the readiness, and the ease of going to market and scaling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBa...

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Why Trump Could Lose His Trade War With China | The Ezra Klein Show

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

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Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action

I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...

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