iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Jon

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 9h

🚨🚨🚨 Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today

1021538795 1.5K

Reposted by Jon

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 8h

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

The No Kings Instagram account has been reactivated, but administrators have not yet regained access.

We now know that Meta pulled down the account. For approximately 90 minutes, Meta did not respond to our team, even as the account was offline at the peak of our national day of action and livestream. The account is now viewable again, and Meta told us in their response email that they made a bad call.

However, administrators are still unable to access the account, blocking our ability to post about an ongoing day of mass action for early voting. Meta is currently not allowing the team to log in using the No Kings email address originally associated with the account. The team is troubleshooting that issue now.
This is not OK.

This is part of a much bigger concern: activists and movements around the world are increasingly vulnerable to decisions made by powerful technology platforms that can determine who gets heard and who gets silenced.

We will close the loop once our team is fully back in the account. This remains a developing situation.

21152801990 5.3K

Reposted by Jon

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10h

Given the news that Meta throttled Lula in Brazil and stories like this one below every Dem state legislature should open an investigation into whether the platforms have attempted to influence elections in their states.

511652605 1.7K

Reposted by Jon

Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

851657483 1.7K

Reposted by Jon

Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just like Exxon knew about the impacts of climate change, the beef industry knew too. A new PLOS Climate study documents how the National Cattlemen’s Association (NCA), now NCBA, responded to evidence linking cattle methane to global warming from 1986–1996 (study 🔗 at end of 🧵)

114575 145

Reposted by Jon

#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/10/2026

Sleeper candidate for best House member, also the author of the Block The Bombs Act.

236455 364

Reposted by Jon

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

8254171093 5.4K

Reposted by Jon

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux...

463187 631

Reposted by Jon

Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

Which labor unions are doing great work to both BLOCK fascist + oligarchic consolidation and BUILD multiracial democratic movement? @stephluce.bsky.social shares lessons from— • @nationalnurses.bsky.social • @neatoday.bsky.social • Philadelphia CLC + UNITE HERE Local 274 • May Day Strong coalition

convergencemag.com

Unions Step Up to Meet the Moment

Labor unions, as individual organizations and in coalitions like May Day Strong, are mobilizing to defend democracy this fall.

04020 40

Reposted by Jon

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

This is clearly not acceptable

861100083365 10K

Reposted by Jon

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

150152626571 15.3K

Reposted by Jon

Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

411803559 1.8K

Reposted by Jon

James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BP are technically first responders, but as we can see here and we have seen countless times through the years, they do not respond to help people who they don’t think need help. Because of international cell phone agreements, it can also be very hard to call 911 in remote border areas.

412037 120

Reposted by Jon

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

getartcraft.com

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

19944421246 4.4K

Reposted by Jon

Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 07/10/2026

No child should need a lawsuit to get out of government custody. Right now habeas petitions have helped some kids get home, and I talked with Acacia and the National Center for Youth Law about how they work. austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-chil…

18142 81

Reposted by Jon

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views

575216574225 21.7K

Reposted by Jon

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"A national election, that of Brazil, which will affect the 8.3 billion people who inhabit this world. The Amazon, according to scientific evidence, is close to reaching a point of no return. Returning to the deforestation levels of 2022 (Bolsonaro) would be the final blow" x.com/ActisAndres/...

215373 153

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will🫣

000 0

Reposted by Jon

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

13991992993 9.2K

Reposted by Jon

Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All the magic bullet explanations of the global right wing surge, from "austerity" to "immigration" to "woke", fail to cope with the fact this is happening in Japan, Brazil, South Korea, and India. "It's The Phones" remains, alas, undefeated.

5459 45

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

And I feel like there is not enough attention in this "we need people in the trades" discourse about how our economy abandons most manual laborers (Wishing I could find this paper, some striking charts in there...)

020 2

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

using lifetime earnings data to show that most manual laborers' wages plateaued and started to decline in middle age, whereas professionals saw the opposite. That doesn't represent the master tradesmen I know, but it does represent most other manual laborers I know (eg, farmworkers)

110 1

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Tangential issue, but on this general topic I was just searching my citations (in vain) for a paper by one of the Fed banks (St. Louis?) documenting divergent circumstances for manual laborers (or was it just lower income quintiles?) vs. white collar professionals,

100 1

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Tai Chi Zero / Tai Chi Hero

000 0

Reposted by Jon

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

1013240775 3.2K

Reposted by Jon

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's the 260 year anniversary of the time angry rioters filled the streets with cheese wheels

20806141 806

Reposted by Jon

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

independent.co.uk

Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate

A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon

28632 86

Reposted by Jon

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/09/2026

"So you confused two teams? It’s an easy mistake to make! The one time a friend invited me to a Yankees game with seats by third plate, everyone I knew was outraged that I had such an amazing view but couldn’t remember whether the Yankees had faced the Lakers or Manchester United." buff.ly/hFrhZKG

buff.ly

An Open Letter to Senator Eric Schmitt About It Being Totally Okay Not to Know Anything About Sports

“It is hard in America not to be good at understanding sports! People have no idea how excluded people like us feel.”

310614 106

Reposted by Jon

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meanwhile METR is being positioned as an "independent" group that is evaluating the "safety" of the systems being built by Anthropic et al. But they are neither independent nor investigating actual safety. And that, is the kind of story we need the press looking into around these goons.

26914 69

Reposted by Jon

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The sentiment index has become primarily a metric of partisanship now, like so many other things. The other stuff matters, but this magnitude of partisan swings didn’t happen in the 20th century, & that is directly linked to changes in the media environment in the 21st.

14512 45

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Machine dems flub it no matter which local/regional machine they hail from

010 1

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

FWIW here's a summary of multiple explanations for declining labor share of income (2013). One I haven't seen in this thread yet is offshoring labor-intensive industries www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...

brookings.edu

000 0

Reposted by Jon

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/09/2026

Climate defiance are legends. Amazon are a fossil fuel company. Why are do they get climate week invites??

9376111 376

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this because everyone on payroll--even executives--is counted in the labor share?

100 1

Jon @shadowskate.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the earlier series of replies with more explanation bsky.app/profile/best...

100 1

Reposted by Jon

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026

We see your Western Massachusetts lesbian KN-95 bar story. We raise you "bookseller tries to figure out if the company that posts close-ups of trout eggs that's trying to buy his entire inventory is actually AI scheming to slice up rare books to scan them" story.

motherjones.com

A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

718355 183

Reposted by Jon

Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

one thing that’s going on here is that a lot of these rich people had already offloaded most of their day-to-day cognitive tasks long before AI

3233 23

Reposted by Jon

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

7040131580 4K

Reposted by Jon

Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fleeing rats only interesting because of sinking ship

51095 109

Reposted by Jon

Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

She’s right. And, fyi, the globe is doing victory laps over on other social media platforms about how many new readers and new subscribers they’ve gotten out of that “news article”— so we can expect more fuckass “reporting” like that from them in the future

410932 109

Reposted by Jon

leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

5463851420 6.4K

Reposted by Jon

AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

5542471629 4.2K

Reposted by Jon

Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fair Share has delivered major wins in education and transportation. This is attack on the very idea behind it and on everyone who worked on that campaign. She doesn’t neutralize disingenuous MAGA attacks: she shows that they will work on her.

0127 12

Reposted by Jon

Dr. Guy Incognito DDS @guyincognitodds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I (and @bostondsa.org) really want to emphasize that "No" vote on Question 5. It's millionaires trying to undo the Fair Share Amendment while damaging MA's finances far worse than if Fair Share had never passed at all. NO on 5!

02510 25

Reposted by Jon

Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, because it helps you avoid being a mark and to place accountability in people making these tools. Hope that helps.

1220145 201

Reposted by Jon

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"AI investment is projected to total $10.3 trillion from 2025-32 ... a staggering 3.6% of GDP/year. Never before has the US economy been so dependent on the buildout of a single industry." And we were told a clean-energy transition was too expensive (gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

wsj.com

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

23118 31

Reposted by Jon

W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will be 92 years old on my death bed and the press will still be writing fawning profiles about how Richard Hanania and Tucker Carlson are changed men

0283 28