iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The historians are speaking plainly & directly. Timothy Snyder, specialist in the history of Central & Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Holocaust. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

“I’m here to chew gum and kick ass,” he said, unwrapping another stick of Trident, “and I’ve still got like three packs of gum.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.

Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

done with the hard part, now onto the hard part!

A dialogue window labeled AMONG THE LIVING CREATURES. Two full progress bars in green extend across the window. The top bar, “Manuscript Target,” shows 118,764 of 110,000 words written. The bottom bar, “Session Target,” shows 4,180 of 2,500 words written.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

There are 12 other answers but, as you'll see by reading the first two responses, @colsonwhitehead.com pretty much sums it up www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

Roland Busch, the chief executive of Siemens, the industrial company based in Munich:

2025 will be the year of industrial A.I. It will be a powerful tool to address skilled labor shortages and boost productivity, creating substantial growth opportunities.

Siva Sivaram, the chief executive of QuantumScape, a developer of solid state lithium-metal batteries based in San Jose, Calif.:

In 2025, the race for global battery supremacy will intensify amid growing demand across sectors like transportation and A.I. The battle for lithium-ion batteries is lost to China, but the future depends on next-generation technologies that outperform them. I hope the United States leads in this new era of energy storage.

Colson Whitehead, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author:

I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue.

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

in 2025 this gesture will be coming back in a big way for me

Close up of hand from Salvator Mundi, Leonardo da Vinci, in a gesture of benediction

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

there are some days where i have more people mad at me online than my ancestors would have had mad at them in their entire lives. there is functionally no difference between this and being cursed by a witch

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/12/2024

i've still got no comparisons for this story to anything else in american politics in my lifetime

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10/12/2024

Put down your phone and walk through a wall. Or write a book. It's the same thing.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I would love to write a piece on the Adjustor’s goodreads profile.

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Gary Lovely @colonellovely.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Only ever thinking of Søren Solkær's photographs of starling murmurations.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

WISDOM IS BACK!!! (If you're not familiar, this fantastic queen of a bird has been hatching chicks on Midway for at least 74 years and is practically saving her species)

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch

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Yesterday’s Print @yesterdaysprint.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Barnard Bulletin, New York, November 22, 1938

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Melons could kill you; so could melancholy. In his new book Eating and Being, the historian of science Steven Shapin analyzes the longest-enduring system of medical and gastronomic thought in European history, dietetics. My review is up at LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-m...

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On Melons and Melancholy | Los Angeles Review of Books

Ben Wurgaft demonstrates how Steven Shapin’s “Eating and Being” illuminates the intellectual and cultural dynamics of “dietetics”—the relationship between diet, health, and identity—like no prior work...

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

politics reporters are so washed man. i can't find any information on Walz's bench, squat, or power clean at all

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Elizabeth Gonzalez James @egjames.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

I am so honored to be speaking at the National Book Festival this month, an annual celebration of books put on by The Library of Congress. If you’re in the DC area I hope you’ll come see me speak with Alexander Sammartino about writing violence and the west. www.loc.gov/events/2024-...

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Fathers, Sons, Guns — Novels of the West: Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Alexander Sammartino

We learn from the news that America is a violent country, but how do novelists reckon with that violence? In Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ Texas novel “The Bullet Swallower,” the legacy of two brothers an...

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

discovering that design within reach unfortunately exceeds design within grasp

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

NYC libraries face a $58.3 million cut that could force Saturday closures, meanwhile @NYCMayor announced a $225 million Cop City. Budgets are moral documents: libraries amplify human thriving and cops amplify violence. @NYCCouncil #NoCutsToLibraries investinlibraries.org/dayofaction

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Day of Action for Libraries: #NoCutsToLibraries — Invest in Libraries

Your library and your community need your help! Our public libraries are facing a potential $58.3 million cut.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

when you design your syllabi, remember that the point of education is to get students to engage with something so weird that they never stop thinking about it for the rest of their lives

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Political scientists have already had to reclassify the United States as not a consolidated democracy, since we failed the "peaceful transfer of power" test in 2020. Next up for debate: does the U.S. pass the "monopoly on the legitimate use of force" test for Weberian statehood?

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

cat snoozing on the desk, dog resting under it. as above, so below…

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

solstice— and now the long climb back into the light, thank goodness

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

anybody you meet at 4am is either a benevolent alien or an actual demon

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

editor, publisher, agent, writer

Pictures of Daniel Craig 1) in outdoor gear and sunglasses on mountain 2) in a business suit 3) in tank top with drink 4) looking wrecked and unshaven.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

i think it should be a bigger story that NYC’s public libraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the NYPD spends 95% of the Library system’s total budget to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the cops kill people

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The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new, encrypted radio system

The public and news reporters will no longer be able to listen in.

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

here are some pictures of some strange stones i found on the street and wanted to send to my geologist friend to identify before i realized i was just taking pictures of beets

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

had a dream last night that i invented a pizza with an entire chicken pot pie as a topping. i am frightened by my own genius

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

names i call the dog: bingus, shingo, dorgon, spingoid, glumbo, blimpus the dog’s legal “government” name: Dorothy

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

i love that there’s still no direct messaging on here. real retro 2007 facebook wall to wall kind of vibe

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

culture critics at the nyt

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

nobody is a bigger devotee of costco than my mother

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

always a delight to ask my composition class how much they think a professor is paid for publishing a peer-reviewed article— this quarter we got a low guess of $500 and a high of $300,000!

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Tom Lin @tom-lin.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

grandma’s running out of subjects for her paintings

A dog is shown a photograph of an oil painting of herself.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big

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