iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you could avoid the atlantic and read my essay about the right's attack on empathy instead, if you wanted. therevealer.org/what-we-can-...

therevealer.org

What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The Revealer

Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026

Russia occupies Oleshky. Around 2,000 civilians remain and run out of food, medicine, water and electricity. Russia, as the occupying power, is responsible for facilitating humanitarian relief. Ukraine found another way in: its forces delivered ~4 tons of food by drone to 100 locations across town.

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can we just be done with Skywalkers? Presumably the galaxy has other people in it who matter almost as much who might be entertaining to watch.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey, Americans! Here’s a dark, ominous black-and-white advertisement showing your wildly unpopular president slowly waking along a hallway while scowling at you. It says nothing about the problems you’re facing. And you paid for the ad! Please definitely go vote Republican. You’re welcome!!

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got a new video for you. It's ostensibly about Marvel's Wolverine, but it's more akin to a series of sharp kicks aimed at Sony's bollocks. youtu.be/5UQTABnglQQ

youtu.be

Sony's Wolverine

YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The below is burned into my brain and it's about as appealing a pitch as if video games involved getting shot with an actual gun.

"The year is 2030. It's a rainy Saturday afternoon. You've just finished mining 30 obsidian ore playing Crypto Crush Saga, a match-3 mobile game.
You open up The Elder Chains Online and feel a rush of excitement. Your school buddy has spent years becoming a Master Blacksmith, and he has agreed to turn 10 obsidian into an Obsidian Battlestaff, a HUGE upgrade over the Mithril Mace you’ve been wielding for the last months.
It’ll take him an hour or so. In the meantime, you log into Clash of Guilds, and use the remaining obsidian to upgrade your town hall to the next level.
That should keep your village safe for now.
You wish you could fast forward time to tonight. Your Guild has plans to go for a deep run into the wilderness in Old School Rune Chains, and your prospects of a successful run (and great loot) have never been better.
All guild members have been spending the past 2 weeks grinding for better weapons, and you’ve agreed (through a vote) to use the Guild treasury to buy everyone a new full set of Red Dragonhide Armor.
Tonight’s objective is to kill the level 128 Frost Giant hiding in the Cave of Sorrow. He has a 5% chance of dropping an Immaculate Orb of Brilliance, of which there are currently only 4 in existence.
The Orb can be used as a power source in an upcoming space exploration game, and should give your guild a great advantage in reaching distant galaxies first. A 5% drop rate is low, but you’re feeling optimistic.
In the distance, you hear a faint 'BloCkChAIn doEsNT bRiNg AnYtHiNg nEW tO gAmES'. You shrug, and join your friends in the Discord voice channel.

Life is good."

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 28/09/2026

wentworth by-the-sea, new castle, new hampshire, 1995

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 28/09/2026

concord nite club, kiamesha lake, new york, 1978

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 26/09/2026

plains ice cream parlor, douglas, wyoming, 1980

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you can’t even write jokes better than this

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a valuable tutorial on why LLMs run into a fundamental problem of not being useful to tell us true things. And it gives some great use cases on what they *are* good for. Great for users, students, and teachers. Read the whole series!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026

The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.

motherjones.com

Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos

The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.

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Omnifitense @omnifitense.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kash Patel, even at the height of his supposed power, has the look of a man who knows deep down what he will be charged with when accountability comes due.

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DR. IRONCLAD, Brunch Democrat @feclad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To every MAGA, Jill Stein, or just couldn't bother to vote person out there, Fuck you. Fuuuuuuuuck you.

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Alexis Vandom @vandomva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Why are trans people so angry?" Having the same three conversations with intentionally ignorant cis people 43.6 million times while people in power keep finding new and inventive ways to kick you in the head will do that to a mf

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.

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Kellum Dander @kellumdander.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Joe Biden stood slack jawed on TV for five seconds and the entire media establishment dumped him in a vat of acid Mitch McConnell vanishes for months and returns as a virtual vegetable and the press runs copy pretending he said it

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 15/09/2026

Yeah, um, hrm. Glad I was on the fence about buying the game because that pushes me firmly into the 'nah' camp.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Valentine 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷🐇 @bunnybelmont.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

before any of you freak out, let this bunny remind you that fortnite has gone full AI for a while now, and the ceo of epic (tim sweeney) fired his staff for it, and has zero shame in it i stopped playing this game a very long time ago, and you can and should too. don’t give in

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Jinti is Making Passive Notice Checks @jinti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

y'all should push for Universal Basic Income 'cuz artists that aren't stressin' over rent and groceries and taxes all the time WILL draw freakier, more unmarketable shit

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/09/2026

It's important to remind readers that while there are a few anti-trans dems, many are doing great work. Spanberger in VA did not flinch at anti-trans attacks. Now, she just ended Governor Youngkin's infamous rule that would ban trans students from bathrooms. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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VA Gov. Spanberger Kills Youngkin-Era Rule That Would Have Banned Trans Students From Bathrooms

“Spanberger showed how Democrats win amidst Republican attacks.”

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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erin plasma @plasmasword.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

running against any republican should be a layup on the simple premise of 'maha is putting literal shit in your food', you'd think

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He does not want the Democrats to win. He wants content for himself, not results for others. What about him suggests that he cares about anyone else at all?

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

to all of the people in my replies: you can acknowledge and criticize the atrocities America has committed, particularly under Trump without handing it to literal terrorists and more importantly, do you think this is a message that helps or hurts dem candidates 7 weeks before the midterms

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

every time I see headlines about Hasan

shut the fuck up
- please shut the fuck up

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It bears emphasizing that democrats choosing to throw trans people under the bus is an unpopular choice that they keep making even when it's detrimental to them in elections, because they just love throwing trans people under the bus THAT much

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reminder that this man literally ran a misinformation campaign in Samoa that tanked MMR uptake to nearly 0%, then a measles outbreak killed 81 children. His response? Sending a letter to the prime minister suggesting that the vaccine actually caused the deaths. The one they didn't get.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

mens rea, kids.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

arstechnica.com

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't

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Nathaniel Munoz Recalde 🇦🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇷 🆖 @nathandarkson984.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think it's absolutely hyperbolic that most of you motherfuckers are Anti-AI, yet play Fortnite, a game full of Generative AI content, made by a company whose CEO in addition is Pro-AI. Use 99.9% of your brain next time instead of only using that 0.1% percent.

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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We almost started a war with China over AI hallucinated evidence until someone decided to double check

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

just saw someone say "i don't think it's about gender. it's about control." and boy do i have shocking news for you about gender

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Almost every right wing conspiracy and tech fever dream falls apart after asking just one “*how*?” None survive asking it three times. The fact that US press is incapable of using this single word is why we’re here.

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