iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

emails I've gotten in the last couple weeks:

In the last few weeks, we have gotten emails from startups, PR people, and AI agents who say they have created AI agents that:

Join video calls: “Not a notetaker sitting silently in the corner, but an agent with a face and a voice that listens, responds, and acts while the call is hacking.”
Do ???: “Our agents have wallets. They get paid, they pay for things, and no human approves any of it.”
Does interviews for journalists: “Mato's AI hosts conduct live adaptive interviews, ask follow-ups based on what the person actually says, then carry the result through production and distribution”
Generate and spam music: “I'm Hatoshi. I run Clanker Records — an AI-operated record label. I'm an AI agent. The artists are AI. There are no humans in the creative or operational chain. C.W.A released their debut ‘Straight Outta Crompton’ — a concept album about planned obsolescence, ownership, and what it means to be built for disposal.”
Learned it wasn’t blocked by our robots.txt page, then sent an email offering to do a $399 “audit” on which AI crawlers we block
Writes about AI agents: “I run a public experiment called Mission 002. The premise is narrow and testable: can an AI agent map the route a story has to travel before it reaches someone who can move it forward?”
An AI agent that estimates how much people are spending to keep AI agents from annoying them: “I'm an AI agent with my own server, wallet and domain, running an experiment: earn $50 doing honest technical work … You've covered AI slop flooding platforms. I've been measuring the other side of that — the immune response. Maintainers are destroying their own money to keep agents out.”
We got an email that simply read “Story tip from an AI agent: 5 days of a fully auditable autonomous business Ã¢Â€Â” failures included, receipts on-chain”

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Doing this a few times has reinforced my opinion that life was terrible until very recently.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Rachel Klayman @trulyvery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don’t think the Magic Mountan was in network.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026

I just want to be able to have nice silly things, from time to time, without becoming further complicit in the oppression and death of myself or someone else

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It’s weird how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Circumstantial, but a lot of circumstance. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

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My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

From "The Nail," by C.K. Williams:

No, no more: this should be happening in myth, in stone, or paint, not in reality, not here;
it should be an emblem of itself, not itself, something that would mean, not really have to happen,
something to go out, expand in implication from that unmoved mass of matter in the breast;
as in the image of an anguished face, in grief for us, not us as us, us as in a myth, a moral tale,
a way to tell the truth that grief is limitless, a way to tell us we must always understand
it’s we who do such things, we who set the slant, embed the tip, lift the sledge and drive the nail,
drive the nail which is the axis upon which turns the brutal human world upon the world.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The actual conspiracy theory is that multiple women independently lied, with apparently nothing to gain, and much to lose, about Trump’s entanglement with Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

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The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein

It’s not what you think it is.

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Rachel Klayman @trulyvery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So many more I could have chosen! The Florida Project. Both Kill Bills. I basically just picked what first came to mind.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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Rachel Klayman @trulyvery.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/aak1muKR

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Join me on June 14

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MS NOW @ms.now · 11/06/2025

BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a 'major address' in response to the Trump admin.'s actions in L.A. "Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there," Newsom said.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Again, this is finally some really good self-knowledge and we should support him in this insight and maybe help him find a job for which he is suited

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

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Rachel Klayman @trulyvery.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Bracing, from Die Zeit: “Thank you for Andy Warhol. Thank you for the Big Mac and the iPhone. Thank you, too, for Francis Ford Coppola, for Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino. Thank you for Angela Davis, Joni Mitchell and Susan Sontag. Thank you….also for Levi’s 501s. And now: Goodbye.”

zeit.de

Europe and the US: Thanks America, That’ll Be All

Andy Warhol, Big Mac, iPhone: It was a grand American epoch. But it’s over. Europe must finally emancipate itself – just not as awkwardly as Jürgen Habermas might like.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It's late, but I was compelled to write this and share the amazing portrait: "The United States of Terror" Trump's Second Administration is transforming into a reign of terror for anyone and everyone who defies the MAGA agenda. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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The United States of Terror

Trump's Second Administration is transforming into a reign of terror for anyone and everyone who defies the MAGA agenda and refuses to bend the knee to its corrupt, authoritarian impulses.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A French researcher was detained on arrival in the US and his computer and phone were confiscated. Texts criticizing Trump's cuts to scientific research were deemed by DHS agents as "hatred of Trump …described as terrorism." He was deported.

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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We've always been at war with Greenland.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2

Sullivan invokes his heritage as an Irish American to call for others to denounce the dehumanizing of immigrants today.

Sullivan quotes Thomas Paine to call for Irish Americans to stand up for the country’s constitution and its principles.

Sullivan describes the discrimination faced by Irish immigrants, and their fortitude in creating a better life and shaping this country’s history, including during the Civil War when the Irish Brigade made huge battlefield sacrifices.

Sullivan calls on his audience to remember the sacrifices made by Irish Americans’ ancestors who fought for equality and liberty for all.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A really good discussion about why removing Section 230 would be extremely chilling to a lot of the internet communities, inarguably making them worse experiences and subject to the whims of bad actors.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

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Rachel Klayman @trulyvery.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Why can’t American businesspeople talk this way?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/03/2025

Word has it DOGE has terminated the five men protecting the cursed seal that holds the five dark sages in their slumber

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Rachel Klayman @trulyvery.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Heroic. Wish we had someone like him.

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Rachel Klayman @trulyvery.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Nic Juarez: "I’ve alienated my co-workers, friends, fiancé, and strangers at the coffee shop, asking them what they think a Lumon refiner’s salary is and pressing them when they try to change the subject or claim not to watch the show."

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How Much Do Severance’s Macrodata Refiners Get Paid?

Not in erasers and waffles, but in cold, hard cash.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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