iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I'm glad we're finally outsourcing the horrible bits of life like making plans with friends so we can have more time to consume ads.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 9h

I don’t even think you’re wrong, though. So much tech is “what if I didn’t need other people to get everything I want and I could get it instantly” without realizing that human interaction and the resulting friction can be pleasurable for people

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Free p*ssy upstairs.” The fact that the 7 fraternity boys from Cornell had to write an “I’m sorry” assay as an option as punishment for forcibly intoxicating & gang raping a young girl is what is deeply wrong with our society today. www.lawcommentary.com/articles/cor...

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Cornell Sued After Student Says 7 Fraternity Members Drugged and Gang-Raped Her, Some Faced ‘Essay’ Discipline | Law Commentary

A former Cornell University student has sued the school after alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and gang-raped her at a fraternity house, accusing Cornell of responding inadequately af...

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Grace @gracekind.net · 26/09/2026

“Improve model for everyone,” aka “allow my images to be posted on public websites”

“Improve model for everyone” setting in chatgpt

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if you don't know your own address it's because you specifically don't have to know it. people that detached from reality shouldn't be in a position to drive social policy for those of us living in reality

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 23/09/2026

I found the ultimate enshittification scheme: My cellphone carrier Xfinity Mobile is suddenly now allowing 30+ spam calls to my cell phone, and is offering a spam-call filter…for an extra fee. They are literally making a business out of enshittifying basic cellphone service.

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think we just need to *be* with each other more. You can't figure out who shouldn't be around you without being with others in the first place. Hell may be other people but you need to encounter people as people before you can decide.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/

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Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo

Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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Doctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugs

Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alito and Thomas offer their constant dissent to the Constitution of the United States and are enjoying, yet often fail to report, gifts from donors, and still get government paychecks.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 14/09/2026

RACE RATING CHANGE: Texas U.S. Senate 🟡 Tossup → 🔵 Tilt D Our model gives James Talarico (D) a 55% chance of defeating Ken Paxton (R). Talarico has consistently led in polling, but his advantage remains within the margin of error, and the race is still extremely close.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Although peering into some of the platforms can show how bad things can get…

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spoonbending @spoonbending.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Glorious little sidewalk-garden, Denver. Summer, 2025.

multi-coloured flowers, blooming on a fully-planted raised bed on a sidewlak, in downtown Denver. Wispy shadows of plants show on the sidewalk and the bright, sunny photo has dark green trees in the background. Photo taken Summer of 2025.

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spoonbending @spoonbending.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thanjavur temple, for Lord Siva, built by King Rajaraja Chola between 1003 - 1010 CE. Referred to as simply 'Big Temple' by locals, Lord siva is worshipped as Brihadeesvara, in the form of an enormous linga.

Huge, highly carved rust-coloured granite temple tower, with open, paved courtyard in the forefront, with a man walking past, looking tiny in contrast to the tower.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wonder if his name is in the redacted Epstein files.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026

For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. These “shadow docket” decisions have let the Trump admin. bypass lower courts on deportations, ICE stops and more — often with little to no explanation.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

SF City Attorney's office says Meta's response is "astonishing"

Statement from SF City Attorney's Office:

“We find Meta’s response astonishing. Meta appears less concerned about whether they’re guilty of exploiting children than whether San Francisco should say anything about it. Meta has bigger problems to solve here than determining our jurisdiction.

"To be clear, San Francisco consumers can access the unlawful ads through Meta online spaces. In that way, Meta is serving California consumers, including San Franciscans, with advertisements that contain unlawful, sexually explicit material.

"The San Francisco City Attorney is empowered under state law to act in the name of the People of the State of California to address unfair, unlawful, and fraudulent business practices across the State. Our letter to Meta simply asks that the company stop violating the law.”

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026

Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.

a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/09/2026

The Biden White House guys who had the meeting on AI with Andreessen have *just now* figured out that they should point out that Andreessen has been intentionally lying about it ever since in order to drum up support for the fascists. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU WAIT www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Opinion | What Really Happened at the White House Lunch That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump

Setting the record straight about the venture capitalist’s meeting with us in the Biden White House.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Party wanted you to not believe what you saw with your own eyes—that an octogenarian repeatedly falling asleep in the Oval Office was actually a champion pole vaulter clearing bars 20 feet high.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Terms of service tend to shift over time, often with little awareness by users (fine print notice). Tech leadership has also revealed patterns of deference to authoritarian leaders over time.

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why in the name of all that's holy would anybody buy that??

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Kien Tan @kientan74.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Does anyone know... Do Lime/Forest et al pay parking fees or business rates? Because the parking area of these bikes alone has a rateable value of around 200-250k (similar to a shop around the corner). That's at least £100k a year in business rates...

Pavement area in City of London filled with rental bikes

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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.

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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Let's be done with them all...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A Philadelphia nun named Sister Rose Kuhn drives to a Texas immigration court weekly to sit next to unaccompanied children as young as 4 who are facing deportation hearings alone without relatives or an attorney so that they won’t have to face the judge by themselves. Heartbreaking and horrific.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The “paradox” of AI...is that it is “an amazing productivity tool” in the workplace. “But in education, that gets it completely backward: what matters is that you put in the time”. 👏

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Law schools tell students to put AI away

The technology is being banned from certain classrooms to remove shortcuts that ‘stunt intellectual growth’

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. (Published June)

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Nathan Cassell @pyxorium.com · 05/09/2026

Nice at Lookout Mountain today 🚲

Pleasant day in Clear Creek Canyon, west of Golden, Colorado. Ponderosa pine trees in foreground with layers of ridgelines extending across the middle ground and further in the distance. Blue sky above with white and gray puffy clouds. View from the Upper Hairpin (or Engineers Lariat) at Lookout mountain.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state

Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They just got back from 5 more weeks off, after multiple other very long vacations. They never work.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Department of Defense is now the Department of Don’t Call It A War Because We Would Have To Pay Benefits To Widows

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026

A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the attention to Flock has exploded in recent weeks in April, bolts published an article on the length that a Wisconsin town went through to get Flock to take down its cameras — including covering them in trash bags. what the mayor told us:

"“The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product,” Diaz said. “They were never really selling to us in the first place. What they are doing is selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.”"

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