iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Paul J @semitext.xyz · 29/08/2026

Sure looks that way

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

By my read the Meta settlement essentially REQUIRES Meta to continue and expand its corporate surveillance and data harvesting. It requires meta to "invest" more in its "behavioral" age assurance system, ie monitoring everything you do on the platform and trying to figure out if you might be a teen

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Worked out my anger about the craven dismissals of the 2020 protest movement over at The Nation www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 26/08/2026

Okay but the video game adaptation of the Battle of Lake Changjin when

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 26/08/2026

Only throughline I see with the two movies is anxiety about how technology grounds our sense of reality (CCTV footage, suddenly being somewhere where you don't have cell coverage), but otherwise yeah I dunno, they're both surreal lol.

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 26/08/2026

This is true, but Blood Dungeon is good enough that it will pull through, I have to believe

BOO-ny gesserit @bennygesserit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Just learned about "Elmer," a lesser-known cryptid from the greatest city on earth, Richmond, Virginia (1935)

an artist's rendition of Elmer, it's like if Evie became a meth addict, got a perm, and grew duck feet. caption reads: This may not be Elmer, the famous What-Is-lt who has been draw-ing crowds at 418 West Main Street by his weird nocturnal thump-ing. but at least it answers to the description given by Mrs. Georjie Douglass. Foxo Reardon, staff artist, is responsible for this.

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 18/08/2026

Sometimes that Inform6 game is just like that.

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Ohhh no that sucks so bad

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Both improved with cryptography

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Oh no, what's the story there?

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 13/08/2026

Language Transfer is kind of nice www.languagetransfer.org/app

languagetransfer.org

App — Language Transfer

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Yeah, chapters 12-14 of Capital Vol. 1 have a lot of sharp insights for our current moment.

Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 11/08/2026

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comrades at Latinos United Network for Advocacy are fundraising to get a minor from Guatemala back home, who's currently homeless in Maryland. They're trying to raise $1k for a hotel room for a few days and the means to return. Please donate via venmo at @Susana-Barrios-1 !

venmo.com

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 11/08/2026

Thinking of doing something crazy like going to bed.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

JJ and crew nailed it on this one. Antioch Arrow chaos. Minutemen terseness and heart. Mission of Burma jaggedness. Just top notch from start to finish.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

All great families should follow this progression.

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

remember to always say OH BIG STRETCH

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A Stonetop hack where the town development rules are for a roaming caravan would be kind of rad.

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Also you can't trick me into using LinkedIn.

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In general my attitude is that the French new wave boys didn't have shit on Agnes Varda, but I have to admit Godard was really cooking with that one.

Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I forgot that Contempt was about trying to make a movie about the Odyssey. It really did anticipate all this discourse in advance.

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I can't get this stupid idea out of my head

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

currently distracted thinking about which of these would be harder to explain in an audit

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 29/07/2026

I am an OG Nolan hater. I haven't seen the Odyssey yet so not commenting on that, but in general there are so many annoying things about him it is difficult to summarize. Broadly speaking he is clearly talented, but those talents are almost always in the service of something that deeply sucks.

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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

On the site this week, @jaymcastello.bsky.social writes about Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. "Portofiro struggles with perversion, Developed World variety." bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/07/29/w...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.

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Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

can't find a way to shorten this one; each detail is so important

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 28/07/2026

It really is a publication by and for the haters, and I love that for it.