iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10h

“Should I really watch Georgia, if Senate isn’t that competitive?” Well, yes! —Nearly all state offices at stake, starting with Gov & AG. —Dems could flip utility commission. —Raffensperger’s successor as SoS —Dems hope to gain in legislature —Cobb school board could flip Dem.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone who does polls can you add a question like "Would you send Donald Trump to Iran in chains if it cuts gas prices in half"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

mike collins just said in the debate that america has great health care and it will get even better with AI 🤡

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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 9h

The way he does this shit is nice nasty. It hits you hard but his delivery is calming. He burned Perdue the same way.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17h

Diesel's like $8.40 out here now...

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 20h

Representative Delia Remirez is one of maybe 4 or 5 Democrats in Congress who actually take seriously the oath of office and the Constitution.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some days when I feel resentful about having spent years explaining that criminalization is the fuel of fascism which is why we have to reject criminalization, I remember that perhaps the time I say it might be the first time someone has considered the idea. So I keep saying it and keep organizing.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There is a lot of series left. The Dodgers are the Dodgers. But here's the thing about the Brewers: they don't win of lose a lot in a row. Wherever they are, they bounce back. With a head start they will be difficult to beat.

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

as a healthcare worker, I see every single SI abbreviation as suicidal ideation and not Super Intelligence. having said that,

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧵RILE FOLKS UP TO MAKE GOOD TROUBLE MUSK opens in NY & LA tonight, elsewhere 10/16 •organize a group; preorder tix for opening wked •have voting resources+info re: Musk's elex spending on your phone; share at intermission & after •if you go before 10/17, direct ppl to No Kings Vote Early protests

bleeckerstreetmedia.com

MUSK | Only In Select Theaters October 9, Nationwide October 16

An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

espn.com

Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody

Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026

brilliant example sir, this message is sure to resonate with the peasants

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Welcome to the future of thinking. NERVE CENTER premieres next Thursday on InfoWars.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the blood and soil guys are right to some extent. your heritage and birthright are being forcibly threatened by violent thugs. and that heritage and birthright is called a secular multicultural democracy with vague pretensions towards egalitarianism and lawful order

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Around 04:00 seconds, in the lower left of the frame, you can see Darializa Avila-Chevalier, Democratic nominee for Congress being buffeted around in the corner. Spot her eyeglasses' large white frames. She disappears from sight. Then a couple/few folks help her to get back upright.

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frog Suit Mario @16-bitman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Patti Harrison joining Infowars motherfuckers

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*through a mouthful of road salt* WHUGH???

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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We have been living in the Black Hole Sun video for about a decade now

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Phones are a distraction engine. What if the ban on phones triggered France's high school students' revolt? "According to a professor..., when his students looked up from their smartphones, they discovered that an unbearable world had been prepared for them." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/dimanches...

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

forbes.com

Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm waiting for the day that this becomes the daily driver in America for bringing your kids to soccer practice

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best advice for grad students is to have them picture an enormous fire. Their work is on fire. The buildings are on fire. The fire has consumed all and its flames reach into space and consume even the cold and silent moon. Also don’t enter your original work into a chatbot.

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the replies to this contain 100,000 variations of the "sickos" comic with different self-insert fursonas in them and that's beautiful

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The approved 2026 Chicago Public Library (CPL) total budget request is $169,257,813, which includes an operating budget of $103,966,346. [Just thought I would leave this here]

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wages are at all-time lows, and profits at historic highs, as a percent of GDP. The backlash against A.I. is a backlash against unchecked inequality. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com Chart:

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

if you haven't had the chance to catch any of the history of charging the mound: The Big One streams live on youtube tomorrow night, free to watch for everybody ROBIN VENTURA VS. NOLAN RYAN 9 pm eastern 83 minutes, color, closed captioning available www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6gX...

youtube.com

ROBIN VENTURA vs. NOLAN RYAN

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

these little freaks love playing dress up

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Carl LaFong: American Vermin @thecarllafong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Funny how all of these people connected to Epstein are dying by suicide.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whistleblower and former banker Simon Andriesz, 57, has died by suicide, The Banker reports. Andriesz exposed US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s past links to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2026

#OtD 3 Oct 1993 Katerina Gogou, Greek anarchist poet, author and actor died by suicide aged just 53. After the fall of the dictatorship, she was a key figure in the early Athens anarchist scene, and a vigourous proponent of trans and gay rights stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1025...

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Drink Hogwater. It’s on your side.

A can of "Hog Water Green Flavor" is displayed with text that reads, "Contains the same chemicals as chemtrails. But this time they're on OUR side." A plane is depicted leaving a trail in the sky.

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