iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 6h

Annoyingly this is great If you keep feeding the bear more salmon, it gets HUGE

A brown bear illustration almost completely filling my laptop screen, asleep with a belly full of salmon

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 11h

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6h

It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6h

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6h

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

damn near every states highest paid government employee is a college football or basketball coach. embarrassing

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please stop referring to China as a "5000 year old civilization" as an analytical point. Imposes continuity and coherence where there is none.

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever I hear someone say "this narrow and imminent future time frame will be pivotal for democracy" or something like that, I just think, "man, we've been pivoting for a decade."

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your aesthetic tastes don't have to be moral choices. You can just like the things you like without having to justify it.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026

A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:

nypost.com

Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”

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Silly dollthing (Alison!)🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @sillydollthing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm remembering having a full on "hey you need to code good because the real world implications of stuff fucking up can lead to huge financial issues or even death" so it's kinda wild how insanely sloppy the profession is lmao Ppl are vibe coding in the health sector, they're doing it in cars

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love it when I hear advice to sleep well, get a solid 8 hours every night. Oh great. Thanks. Should I go ahead and dunk a basketball too? Be a virtuoso violinist while I’m at it? Are there any other results you’d like me to spontaneously achieve?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

I’ll just add to Sheryl‘s important point a mantra that I learned from my lawyer spouse: the law is what the people in power say it is — and in the cases under debate “the people in power” are judges. You/Mamdani/et al can argue what you want; what matters is how judges will rule. See: SCOTUS

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This doesn't just apply to the legal system. So many people seem to think that explaining something or even sincerely trying to understand it is that same thing as saying that it is morally acceptable (or even good) as it is. Understanding it is the only way you can effectively combat it!

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/09/2026

Explaining how the law and legal system works is not a defense of either. There is a growing sentiment on the left - I see it every day! - that explanations of the legal system (like, for example, why Mamdani can't legally arrest Netanyahu) are making excuses,

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Killing the for-profit health insurance industry would immediately improve American life, and is probably the single biggest improvement to Americans' lives govt could provide. It devolved into 'scam' 20 years ago; now it's a nest of scams within scams.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are over 25,000 international college athletes across the NCAA, making up almost 13% of the entire college athlete population. If the NCAA and universities won’t protect these students from ICE, this recruitment must be understood as predatory. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

theguardian.com

ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friendly reminder: your cat has never looked at you and thought you should be prettier, thinner, richer, more successful, or more productive. they just love you exactly as you are.

Jinx the tabby bobtail cat looking lovingly at the camera.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...

Current and former owners of Last Ditch could not be reached by phone, email or social media. However, Last Ditch did share on Instagram that the Globe story allegedly misconstrued statements from Noire, and urged community members to stop harassing Noire.
"It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack a Black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar," the Last Ditch statement reads. "There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe article. He did not call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless.
"As a result of this abysmal journalism, he has been getting additional threats, slurs, harassment, and is being reported to the police over something he did not do," Last Ditch continued. "This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is, at its core, anti-Blackness hysteria."

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems to me that this is a really intense and painful intracommunity conflict where most people involved are queer and some degree of covid cautious. Idk where all y’all who stopped masking way back when the U.S. government told you to got the idea your input on this is valuable.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m pretty obviously not advocating for the harassment this bar received, or everything every covid cautious person has said or done regarding it. I’m saying y’all ignore us completely until you’ve found a few you can comfortably ridicule. Then you try to make us answer for that. And I just won’t 🤷

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeahhh as a disabled lesbian it’s pretty obvious the article was written to give everyone an opportunity to laugh at the most isolated and vulnerable among us. The wider public has never *ever* given a shit about any other harassment campaign that’s shuttered a lesbian bar. Y’all can’t fool me!

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 26/09/2026

Wage theft is the #1 form of theft in America and you never see anyone go to jail over it.

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In my experience: asking about process and tools is very helpful in catching someone out on using genAI, because real artists genuinely LOVE talking about their process and tools. Being vague or evasive about one’s process is a huge tell that they just generated it.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of my biggest irrational fears as a child was the planet Venus, but sometimes I think it wasn’t that irrational

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition.

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just worried that one bottle of olive oil was jealous of the other bottle of olive oil because I use it more often. People cannot help but anthropomorphise.

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doctor eep (𝘢̶𝘭̶𝘵̶ℴ𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

danny tommo sounds like a british slur for a guy who pretends he's english, but is actually from one of three noncontiguous provinces in northwestern italy, and left-handed.

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Jonathan Harris @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A huge part of Republican politics is the inability to understand that an adult's perspective is (and must be) different than that of a child.

"Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources:
It feels like the summers are hotter and the winters are colder. And the cities have grown so much. When I was a kid, San Antonio to Houston seemed so far away. Now you’re at the edge of one and into the other within about two hours."

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know that people don't like Banksy because it's like, "ah it's just a facile gimmick, his art is corny and his pranks are jejeune" but also I'm sorry to say this but Banksy is good.

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Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I learned about this earlier in the year from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social who had both some amazing posts about Minnesota people using similar tactics against ICE and has shirts via www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa.... They inspired one of my favorite protest posters.

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social-inspired protest sign of the Boston anti-man hunting league sign with ICE at the center instead of SH (slave hunter). It's a bright green circle with magenta letters: ICE in the center, surrounded by 6 letters representing people who have different roles in stopping a kidnapping, one who tries to talk the kidnapper down, 5 to grab the kidnapper if that doesn't work, and an outer circle of 12 people who create a commotion so that the kidnapper can be removed from the situation).

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Solitary confinement and the box are an attempt to remove even the possibility of community solidarity from those targeted groups in camps.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Dr Oz is saying that paying for insurance and not using it is fraud, because he wants sick people to die in pain. It's eugenics, he is a eugenicist, and any actual opposition party would make "we are going to have him face a firing squad" part of their platform.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While Ed Sheeran has definitely stumbled and bumbled through this controversy I think the real enemy is Robert Kraft and his fellow NFL owners and we should mostly focus on them.

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𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙮𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙒𝙒𝙀𝙛𝙖𝙣 @bradythewwefan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

bitches complain about gas prices then call you a commie for suggesting infrastructure that allows for travel without needing a car.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To hell with this guy.

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"What I’ve noticed is how frequently “this isn’t us” is said, not as an aspiration to improve but as a denial of responsibility—as just another way of staying exceptional, just another way of demanding first sympathy for a situation we have helped bring about." www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/

the-reframe.com

This is Us

Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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