iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Society is being shaped a little too much by a bizarre pseudo cult started by lonely neurodiverse kids reading ray kurzweil and misinterpreting utilitarian philosophy on internet message boards 25 years ago.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can someone staple this to the foreheads of all those Third Way nincompoops? All the people that told us to ‘just wait!’ for Merrick Garland? All the advisors who do nothing but chase poll numbers?

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If they* tank the USD and California prints its own money, I propose to nickname them Bearbacks and a design in accordance with the nickname. * fucking techbros

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Disable my VPN? Just so I can visit your little website? Fuck you, zazzle.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh gee, what are the chances or either of those things happening!?

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With any luck, this’ll backfire on Newsom and sink any chance of his 2028 or any future run for president.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.

In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026

The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doctors say that the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is likely due to low rates of vaccination. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his van says it’s caused by chemtrails. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Folk music is drastically increasing in popularity. Prepare for an apocalyptic recession.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Gavin Newsom is basically an overrated sports car. Really pretty on the outside and capable of top speeds. But the fuel efficiency is terrible. So is the handling. So is the maintenance. Looks really cool in a movie but it's completely impractical as your everyday ride. This will become clearer.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Transgender people deserve to have a nice life. That is the entirety of the argument. If you disagree, you’re saying that you do not believe in liberty or justice for all.

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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 13/09/2026

🚨 NEW: The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet tomorrow to sign a joint declaration for all three countries to gain independence from the UK

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BREAKING: A secretive DHS predictive policing unit is reportedly analyzing Americans’ financial activity, sharing their names with police and prompting traffic stops, per 404 Media.

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

AI is never just sitting there minding its own business. It has objectives to accomplish, given to it by people who don’t think that highly of other people.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The party of law and order"

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Designing autonomous, malicious software is generally considered irresponsible and dangerous.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand that these are chatbots that were designed to complete challenges like this, using tactics like this, you can understand that the chatbots didn't "go rogue."

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Muppets should have Marvel money. Their own studio where they’re just wading through loose Benjamins. The Muppet Show should be an unending staple running longer than The Simpsons. Dark Crystal AoR should have completed after several seasons. There should be a Muppets movie every year!

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Alan Fisher @amfisher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But my smart toaster keeps complimenting my toasting choices while encouraging me to kill myself!

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh bummer WAIT WHAT I bet there’s a story behind that and I’d like to hear it!

Searching Netflix for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and one of the recommendations is Straight Outta Compton, the NWA biopic.

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*checks email* Awesome! All the 9/11 sales are ON! These prices are falling like towers!

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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know it's where we're at in 2026 and we all know it, but it bears stating the obvious that every major company in the world is openly throwing a tantrum that people expect them to provide goods and services instead of just sending them a payment of $200 every month for nothing

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If your Mac doesn’t want to eject an external drive, but you can’t figure out what’s using it, open a terminal and run: lsof /Volumes/<disk name> the first column will be the program name. It’s messy, so use: lsof /Volumes/<disk name> | awk ‘{print $1}’ | sort | uniq

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026

what do I know really though, I just want to live on a peaceful, habitable planet, on which all people are treated with dignity

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Another high profile resignation from leading AI company Anthropic. This is the warning to the world he wrote this evening on Twitter. "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Between this and Cory’s previous article on the danger the rest of the world faces by being locked into US tech companies, I’m really tempted to start teaching classes in Linux and LibreOffice. Preferably in EU.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026

Put another way: Sirius believes that its profits come in part from the fact that dissatisfied customers can't figure out how to cancel their service.

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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is why the cell phone providers fought so hard against being able to keep your number when you switch. We had to enact it into law that your number stays with you, but of course there’s a catch - you have to ask! You have to KNOW to ask! And then they warn your number may not work temporarily.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026

The researchers' hypothesis was that dominant businesses don't maintain their lead by making their customers happy, but by making it harder for those customers to leave. There's good reasons to suspect this.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026

In a new Stigler paper, "Rising Customer Durability, Falling Business Dynamism," researchers from U Chicago and Stanford unpack clever research into how monopolists raise prices, lower quality, anger customers, and *still* dominate a market: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/rese...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026

Half a century later, our entire economy is dominated by monopolies, duopolies and cartels, who boast of *gigantic* margins, whose products are palpably worsening at an accelerating clip.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026

Good news: he lost.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Mitch McConnell shit is really weird, and I say this as the person the NYT assigned to write three separate obits of Uzbekistan's president as the state covered up his death: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ghost-senate

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Ghost Senate

The vanishing of Mitch McConnell.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's payola isn't about radio play - it's about *search*. When you search Amazon, the top results do not represent Amazon's best guess about what product will best match your query: rather, Amazon *auctions off* those top results to its platform sellers. 22/

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm sorry, but we should not trust an industry built on the back of "existing laws (copyright, IP ownership) do not apply to this technology" to comply with existing laws. AI-specific regulations are needed and anyone who can't see that is either stupid or bought and paid for.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

Human beings are the most valuable things in our world and they are literally priceless. Murder isn't "theft of life." Rape isn't "theft of sex." 18/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

In the property religion, the way you can tell if something is valuable is if it has a high price. Property cultists insist that the problem with privacy is that our privacy is being sold too cheaply. They're wrong: private information isn't "mispriced" - it shouldn't *be* priced. 17/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

Being forced to sell your privacy doesn't just raise the prices you pay, it also lowers the wages you earn. 11/

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