iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My hottest take: Law enforcement should be more terrified of unnecessarily or accidentally taking someone’s life than of risking their own. That is the table stakes of the job, and what makes it very hard & extremely serious.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“The wrong ICE is melting, the wrong Amazon is burning.” (Written on the back of a frozen pizza box)

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

An utterly wild system, we’re just guinea pigs for however long it takes to realize the bad shit, and then on top of that how long it takes for political leaders to agree the bad shit is bad. And with the last 30 years of tech we still haven’t really caught up.

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Something that I didn’t understand as a child but is really wild as an adult, is that so many advances in technology get thrown out into the market essentially unregulated until we see what they f**k up & the damages caused and then laws try to catch up.

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Oh my god, PREACH! Yell this at everyone Peter!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sharing again my starter pack of amazing, smart, funny female voices, and added a few new one. This list is full of current and soon to be faves. (Confidential to Men: if you’d like to follow more women on social this is a great place to start.) go.bsky.app/7X5PS9R

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

They wanted Cuomo to win and now they want to make Mamdani a failure

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Dave Teare @dteare.eurosky.social · 03/01/2026

Outstanding piece from @billmckibben.bsky.social today that gives hope that we have the technology and the means to stop fighting over oil. billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-po…

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

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Just possibly it's the oil?

A solar panel is the new peace sign

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Yeah yeah he’s cringe but can you imagine being dumb enough to fall for this shit? Like oh sure the worlds richest man with billions in government contracts is saying that disability payments are the real scam, he seems legit lol

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/02/2025

BBC tested a bunch of chatbots used as news source: - 51% have issues with answers - 19% fabricate fake statistics / info - 13% fabricate fake quotes or alter them This is exactly what you expect from a random word blender being used as a source of information. www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

The answers produced by the AI assistants contained significant inaccuracies and distorted
content from the BBC. In particular:
• 51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant
issues of some form.
• 19% of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors – incorrect factual
statements, numbers and dates.
• 13% of the quotes sourced from BBC articles were either altered from the original
source or not present in the article cited.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Ah, I missed Lisa Murkowski’s and Susan Collin’s performative “no” votes only when the Rs have enough votes to pass… and then when they don’t, hem and haw and signal no but then fall in line at the last minute. Feels like a throwback, some things don’t change!

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Been listening to the American Hysteria back catalog and am currently circa 2021, which is kind of a trip in current context! But, just finished listening to the lovely interview with @marawilson.bsky.social, and snagged her book on audible. Excited to listen to it.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Being a YIMBY means getting regularly accused of trying to complete the Bay Area’s transformation into a tech bro playground, but tbh a big part of the reason why I want more housing here is to RESIST creeping homogenization. I need rent to get cheaper so I can hang out with more weird artists.

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 11/01/2025

You know who believes in climate change...house insurance companies

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city trees @citytrees.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

My theory is that Trump activated the bigotries even of the marginalized groups he threatened, against other marginalized groups he also threatened. So white women voted their racism, minority men voted their misogyny, older immigrants voted against newer ones, everyone voted their transphobia, etc.

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Ali Vitali @alivitali.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

When we see narratives that blame the most vulnerable people for problems caused by the most powerful, I think it’s important to remember that this viral spread of misinfo is a more pervasive version of what the powerful have always done to defend themselves, with tech they steered in this direction

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Christine Boylan @kitboylan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I’m in Japan right now so I’m obliged to remind the world — we don’t want AI. We want a robust rail system. We want trains. Metros. High speed. Locals. Cute trains. Efficient trains. Trains.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is not some “new” Zuck. For two years I was one of a small group of civil rights leaders who regularly pressed Zuckerberg to deal w/disinformation, hate speech, voter suppression & Trump incitement on the platform. Myanmar had already happened so we knew the danger of unfettered speech.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The end of the road for me was Kenosha. Facebook had an explicit policy against posting “calls to arms.” A rightwing militia group posted a flyer literally called “a call to arms.” Kyle Rittenhouse took up arms, traveled to Kenosha & killed two men. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

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Zuckerberg Admits Facebook ‘Mistake’ In Leaving Up Kenosha Guard ‘Call To Arms’

The Facebook CEO said the moderation team dedicated to militia groups “didn’t pick this up” when initially reviewing the page.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Nah, it was dumb as balls. Congress relabeled French fries "freedom fries" because they were mad at France for not joining the war. The justification for attacking Iraq was that they had aluminum tubes. The war had a slogan and the slogan was "Let's Roll!"

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

You miss 100% of the boys who aren't back in town

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I grew up in Nor Cal and literally every time I’m in the Donner or Tahoe area I’m blown away by truly what world class level beauty it all is. Like people travel from all over the world to visit and they absolutely should it is not overrated.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

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5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID

Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/12/2024

Newly elected Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar is already cooking www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

NBC news screenshot of interview with Texas representative Greg Casar
"The progressive movement needs to change. We need to re-emphasize core economic issues every time some of these cultural war issues are brought up," Casar said. "So when we hear Republicans attacking queer Americans again, I think the progressive response needs to be that a trans person didn't deny your health insurance claim, a big corporation did - with Republican help. We need to connect the dots for people that the Republican Party obsession with these culture war issues is driven by Republicans' desire to distract voters and have them look away while Republicans pick their pocket."

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Apple Watch request: one-off option for the “find my phone” button to vibrate your phone instead of pinging. Specifically useful for when there is a solid chance your phone is, say, lost in your sleeping kids’ covers or flopped under your duvet while your spouse is asleep.

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This really blows my mind. A big part of why I studied French was that the classes at my school were like 70% girls and I was a teenage boy. A lot of straight guys really don’t even like women. Bizarre.

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

“A lot of straight guys really don’t even like women.” 🎯 Took me a long time to really understand this was the deeper meaning of “objectification”. A weird and sad thing to live & realize as someone that enjoys gets along well with men.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

one major improvement i've seen in the world over the course of my lifetime is the emergence of lightly-salted sweets. i just swung by a bakery to pick up a chocolate chip cookie and it had the slightest flaking of kosher salt on it. that shit went crazy. i think we're doing great in that department

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 30/12/2024

I’m a big fan of being a big fan of things! Nothing will bring you more joy in your everyday life, and give you opportunities to challenge and expand your intellectual life, while also making those who create things feel appreciated and respected when they often aren’t.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

One of the best parts about being a parent is sharing these sorts of things with your kids and reliving the magic from your own childhood all over again, but with them too.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

defining the US “working class” as “white men who drive pickup trucks” creates remarkable tunnel vision the working class in the US is majority female, racially minoritized, and disproportionately made up of immigrants retail and service jobs are the core of the working class but not the “vibe”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 20/12/2024

Party City is bust. Michaels and Joannes are both owned by private equity. I went to Sur La Table recently and it looked so sad I googled and it has also been bought by private equity. Is the goal to get everyone to shop at Amazon/walmart/target? cause it's working.

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beccadagoo @silly.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"wow it's like i'm flying! - guy who just jumped off a building

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Megan Garcia @thatmegangarcia.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Alex Goldman, I’m so glad you do the work that you do. You’re so good at it, and this episode will help a lot of people. 💛 @agoldman.bsky.social

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

NEW: Signing the NDAA into law with a ban on some trans care for service members' kids would be a horrible move from Biden, and a sadly full-circle moment for America. From me at Law Dork, a look at this moment — and our history.

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With the Senate's vote for an anti-trans military bill, Joe Biden has to make a choice

Signing the NDAA into law with a ban on some trans care for service members' kids would be a horrible move from Biden, and a sadly full-circle moment for America.

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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Glad I made time to read this. I used to have a great time using tech, but it's become an increasingly enraging slog. We deserve better.

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I wrote about the wave of assassinations that characterized the Gilded Age and what that might be able to tell us about our own age of profound inequality and simmering discontent.🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/worldhis...

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Echoes of Rage

Our new age of violence looks a lot like the Gilded Age

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I put away laundry cautiously, over the course of several weeks

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Liz Hsiao Lan Alper @lizalps.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I just read the NYTimes article about "What if A.I. is actually good for Hollywood?" And the misconception that angers me the most is the belief that craftsfolk and crews exist to execute a director/showrunner's vision. Crews don't get the spotlight but they are crucial to creative collaboration.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

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Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision

The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

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Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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