iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 8h

hey look one more reason not to use or encourage the use of chatbots et al

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door-to-door paperclip insurance salesman @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 14h

It is incredibly bizarre to contemplate that reading Nietzsche was (after some struggle) more conducive to living a compassionate life than reading the slop from people who claimed to just be following the numbers.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19h

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 18h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 16h

In another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 16h

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 15h

If you got in actual trouble when the A.I. breaks the law they would find ways to make this the case, which might have the side effect of making A.I.-based software more annoying and hard to use for any arbitrary task, which would be good

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 19h

Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 18h

In the hallway of the Old Cartoonists’ Home

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

I don't understand how anyone can still be a capitalist in 2026 when so much of capital now prioritizes its core functions in capitalism (maximizing profit & minimizing risk) well below, like, exercising unprofitable control over its workers or building clout in a fucking group chat

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21h

the most compelling argument about their motives is that they are running the motions panel to permit things which they know to be illegal to preserve the optionality of a Republican tyrant while making merits rulings which gather power to the Supreme Court

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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 20h

Lady Death Knight Painting:

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

i am 100% sure that belief in facilitated communication is anticorrelated with belief in helen keller

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James Pitt @sahelanth.bsky.social · 20h

“here‘s an AI mockup of the site we want you to make for our drug! nothing it says on this mockup is correct about our drug. doesn’t have the right indications or even the right brand colors. also I don’t want it to look like this. just posting it as a discussion starter. hope this helps! :)”

a picture of a muscly man yelling “what the Christ are you talking about” to express how I feel towards this client.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People are also upset about non-economic things that get expressed in economic terms, like the fact that everything seems wildly out of control and we have a maniac in charge of the country

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While the news & white papers breathlessly cover the idea of a threat of a future AI bioweapon, an Ebola outbreak is escalating, having killed nearly 4,000 people so far. The Trump admin has diminished US support to control it w/travel bans, an eroded CDC & a hobbled WHO www.who.int/emergencies/...

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Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus - Democratic Republic of the Congo

Since the last Disease Outbreak News was published on 11 September 2026, the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expanded further, with two additional health zones af...

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one thing campists all have in common is that they make arguments which require you to abandon any sense of personal dignity as a sign of loyalty

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This does not make the establishment of an apartheid regime remotely justifiable.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Afrikaners were subject to borderline genocidal warfare by the British within living memory of the establishment of the apartheid regime.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

how it feels

the wheel of samsara with a kitty powerless against the endless cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is under the radar presumably because no one has gotten on a plane to the U.S. (yet) but a potentially enormous disaster in a region that lacks the resources to handle it

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo did a live play-by-play of how he was going to manipulate the NYT with the Claudine Gay story as a way to discredit academics of color broadly. He has never believed in colorblindness! Not once!

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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't understand why high-decoupling is supposed to be more intellectually sound. We live in an interconnected world. "You must ignore the context (because the context is damning for my position)" is pretty silly.

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lete lyre@C108乙 @letelyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

『転生したらSpiders Georgになって蜘蛛1万匹を食うチートスキルでなんと平均をめちゃくちゃにした件』

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a genre of youtube videos that is basically "sovereign citizen successfully argues minor traffic infraction into 45-day sentence for contempt of court"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western:

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Rationalist-adjacent" is a fun term that correctly includes "people who yell at Rationalists a lot" as a community that is meaningfully related to Rationalism

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ive been thinking that the moral panics around "dei," "reverse discrimination" etc have evolved into a full-fledged conspiracy theory to dismiss the empirical disconfirmation of racism entailed by the upward mobility of blacks et al despite residual disadvantages since the end of de jure segregation

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

what's particularly funny about this is the implication that Hamas leadership was paying attention to the dynamics of American politics and modulating its position in relation to those dynamics but nothing of the sort was happening within the Israeli government

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

scott siskind is really interesting in that you can see him struggling to be a better person using a process which just makes him worse. you can watch him use his considerable intellect to do very little more than wriggle around in shit and backslide.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

i still read scott alexander as my own personal memento mori. i could fall down a similar hole a similar way: decide that my ethics had to be extremely particular and extremely responsive to facts, fuck up and believe like five things which are wrong, and hubris my way into believing something awful

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Cosimo Kramedici @slurmslurper.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Dorothy Thompson was a prophet

Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics, Chestertonian distributism, and everything else one can imagine. Mr. G will never be a Nazi, because he will never be anything. His brain operates quite apart from the rest of his apparatus. He will certainly be able, however, fully to explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along. But Mr. G is always a "deviationist." When he played with communism he was a Trotskyist; when he talked of Keynes it was to suggest improvement; Chesterton's economic ideas were all right but he was too bound to Catholic philosophy. So we may be sure that Mr. G would be a Nazi with purse-lipped qualifications. He would certainly be purged.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, yes. one of the basic problems is that they think that thinking about something really hard is a type of sampling, and that you actually don't need to sample anything to get information, and that there is no difference between thinking about something and doing it.

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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🌺Honeymoon study, cept' it's yuri: 🌺

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.

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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.

“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Article about left-wing space's dirty laundry: NB named Jennica took off their mask to do the land acknowledgment Article about right-wing space's dirty laundry: The guy who coded the lynching simulator game turned out to have a Portuguese grandmother so we changed his name in the GC to the n-word

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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is the last day of our "official" subscription drive. It's been a resounding success - but we still have further to go. Currently we have 89 subscribers. Reaching 100 would be a huge milestone for us. playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...

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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive

Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

another way to think about Zuckerberg at this point is as an digital slumlord, ruling over an e-favela, which is structurally ungovernable but also still managed by cyborg BOPE raids that keep the rabble in line

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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