iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As I wrote in the piece, for South Africa to cave would mean "treating invented crises as real." In other words, this illustrates a special and even harder case of the glonzo problem, in which it's Trump who's convinced it's glonzo, and nothing short of glonzo's head on a platter will satisfy him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Democrats don't have any income" is an insane statement, but it's also an admission that he sees the money collected by the United States government as his personal piggy bank, to be raided as he sees fit.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

are those droids

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1. In American politics, the simplest explanation is probably the best. Why are some Republicans suddenly and conspicuously breaking from Donald Trump? Not just any Republicans, but ruby-red Republicans, in ruby-red states, in the span of days? The answer is probably diesel.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All footage of Trump should be like this.

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

instagram.com/mandatoryrollercoaster

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 14/09/2026

They did WHAT on 3rd down

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's an anecdote: On 9/10/2001, The Onion staff had a New York launch party at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the staff's move from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City. They woke up hungover, took a week off, and then produced one of the greatest front pages in the history of newspapers.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lmao. This isn’t even satire, it’s more of a reenactment

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It would be my honour to get run down in the street like a dog by the stock broker trying to change the background on this ultrawide gaming monitor on his way to the most expensive grocery store in town to buy a special kind of chips i cant afford

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

turns out the guy who looked, talked and dressed like he didn’t give a shit about the job…doesn’t give a shit about the job

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The best argument against the Christian god is that Mike Johnson has not been struck dead.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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eric van allen @seamoosi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Star Wars, Zero Company? buddy that's me every friday

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026

Today's @xkcd.com

It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

donald trump being like “this is not what i voted for”

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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.

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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Interior has reassigned ~30 of its most senior career staffers. Among those losing their longtime positions? The woman who directed the National Wildlife Refuge System for the last 10 years, and the man who ran the migratory bird program for the last 15.

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‘They Want Us All To Leave’: Interior Reassigns Dozens of Senior Staff

Around 30 top staffers have been reshuffled, with some people moving to teams outside their areas of expertise.

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Nicolas Gonzalez, the heat-weary fan @nicosgonzalez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A growing sentiment in bird conservation as a result: "[we take] hope from an upcoming generation falling for birdwatching, a hobby that [we] believe can serve as a pathway to an emotional investment in the conservation status of birds and the wider environment." www.cnn.com/world/gen-z-...

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Why Gen Z is going bonkers for birding | CNN

Birdwatching is seeing a boom among young people in the UK. The reasons why are paradoxical.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back to school. ❤️

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phylan @phylan.website · 22/08/2026

homer chasing the Flanders car with golf clubs

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As soon as there‘s a Democrat in the White House again, John Roberts will discover all kinds of new limitations on their presidential powers, but for now, President Make-a-Wish gets whatever his little heart desires

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

An increasingly complex world makes geometrically expanding demands of us, so of course some will welcome a technology that helps us do 'good enough' work (so far as we can tell***) on stuff we don't care enough about to do ourselves

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Not sure exactly how it happened, but 21st century America decided the two greatest businessmen in US history are PT Barnum and Charles Ponzi, with an honorable mention for Henry Ford's non-business activities.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13/08/2026

every time i see these posts i think its a psyop you cannot open threads and scroll 5 posts without suffering a brain injury. nobody online or irl you ever talk to uses it. they are tricking insta users into clicking on threads links and generating profiles for everyone, that's it

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izzy @isobel.top · 11/08/2026

logging into bluesky

chrono trigger screenshot:

Welcome to the Millennial Fair!
Have fun!

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The fucking literacy crisis is also a political crisis - if you can’t retain information and can’t see themes in what you read you also can’t retain information about your life or see themes in it - which is convenient for fascists and oligarchs both. You know you’re miserable and you don’t know why

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