iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The dirty secret is that rich people need to live in politically stable regimes in order to keep their wealth. They will piss and moan about taxes, but they will not flee en masse. They like paved roads and not being kidnapped too much.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 4h

Hundreds of French supermarkets hit by a cyberattack that turned up the heat in refrigeration systems Hundreds of French supermarkets saw their refrigeration systems defrosted, spoiling tons of frozen food. The unprecedented attack has raised serious questions about food security across Europe.

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Hundreds of French supermarkets hit by a cyberattack that turned up the heat in refrigeration systems

Hundreds of French supermarkets saw their refrigeration systems defrosted, spoiling tons of frozen food. The unprecedented attack has raised serious questions about food security across Europe.

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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 7h

"It’s unclear if the company licensed the algorithm from ByteDance, or the degree to which the algorithm is still maintained & updated by ByteDance engineers" If this was such a severe national security threat, you might have expected some, like, follow up or smth www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Trump Vowed to Wall Off TikTok From China. Did He?

New details from inside TikTok US suggest notable operational ties remain to its former Beijing-based parent company.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/10/2026

Nicholas Cage is on a generational run.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 10/10/2026

When we reframe discussions about computer use as discussions about decision-making, suddenly we have a much longer and older history available to us - we've been making decisions together, in societies, for a very long time. lesscomputer.ca/afterword/

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 10/10/2026

2. It's arguable that a decision is the unit of democracy. The ways in which decision-making is being tied to computer use is another place where I'd like to bring facilitation thinking to technology decisions. lesscomputer.ca/afterword/

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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Nippon Life Insurance Company of America is suing OpenAI for interfering with their original settlement…aiding and abetting…abuse of the legal process, and violating one of Illinois’ unauthorized practice of law statutes.” techpolicy.press/nippon-life-...

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Nippon Life v. OpenAI and the Future of AI Legal Work

Do legal briefs by chatbots count as "unauthorized practice of law"? Daniel Kalish examines how century-old licensing laws could apply to AI companies.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The White House Correspondents Association is excited to announce its inaugural Peace Prize.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Professional governance is an important source of leverage and surface for digital rights and governance.

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Like so many things, it didn't even need to be literal to already be very obviously true and culturally loud.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 09/10/2026

Me, every day for the last 5 years

A four-panel "For the better, right?" meme using stills of Anakin and Padmé from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, sitting in a sunlit meadow. Top left: Anakin, squinting earnestly, says "I'm deeply concerned AI might kill us all." Top right: Padmé, smiling, replies "So you support prosecuting AI firms for negligence, IP theft, CFAA, civil rights, & human rights law violations, right?" Bottom left: Anakin stares back in silence with a faint, knowing smirk. Bottom right: Padmé's smile has faded to a worried look as she asks, "...Right?"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

Lewis Mumford, Authoritarian and Democratic Technics, 1964

tendency of this system might be in doubt, for in many areas there were strong democratic reactions; but with the knitting together of a scientific ideology, itself liberated from theological restrictions or humanistic purposes, authoritarian technics found an instrument at hand that has now given it absolute command of physical energies ofcosmic dimensions. The inventors of nuclear bombs, space rockets, andcomputers are the pyramid builders of our own age: psychologically inflated by a similar myth of unqualified power, boasting through theiscience of their increasing omnipotence, if not omniscience, moved by obsessions and compulsions no less irrational than those of earlier absolute systems: particularly the notion that the system itself mustbe expanded, at whatever eventual cost to life.

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Hey Siri, am I on the right side of history?"

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Why do Republican events keep breaking Grindr?"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is insider trading an official act? Asking for a Chief Justice.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I like it and I'd like more of it

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s like Mar-a-Lago face, but for your brain

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was impressed by how quickly this Daily Show interview got to what feels like a fundamental philosophical disagreement around AI: whether people prefer self-determination and/or purpose to 'comfort'. I think one side hasn't met many people in poverty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLD...

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Jacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily Show

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The application of this principle to the law-school hiring process and the American Association of Law Schools is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The DDoS theory of "fixing" public services.

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Donald Trump Brain Gym for Super Intelligence

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pretty excited that this still needs to be said (and it does) in 2026.

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The inability to admit mistakes, to attempt to correct them, and provide redress for those harmed should be so basic for the average person, let alone someone whose job is leadership.

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French are getting leadership at a fraction of the price of the American consumer, and it appears to be of a much higher quality.

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For the world’s poorest consumers, the problem is not simply that smartphones are getting more expensive. It’s that the cheapest phones are disappearing restofworld.org/2026/ai-data...

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The AI boom is making the world’s cheapest smartphones disappear

AI data centers are driving demand for memory chips, pushing phone makers to raise prices and abandon some of their most affordable models.

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Eric Pazdziora @ericpazdziora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade'

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The biggest take-away may well be that the fragility the field feels today is not new: instead, it is a built-in characteristic of the structures and models used to fund open infrastructure for decades investinopen.org/blog/the-202...

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The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report: Running to stay in place

Insights on open infrastructure funding trends and emergent issues in scholarly communication

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pretty sure the rolling, growing food recalls and measles outbreaks and spikes in maternal mortality are… terrible things?

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