iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 12h

Oh yes, Master Luke. Time for some human/cyborg relations

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Tom Buttry @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"And you claim not to know the work of these bootleggers, even when you have a picture of Smokey on your phone!"

Smug looking Senators Schmitt and Kennedy in front of a photo of Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

history has furnished us with a lot of characters who would've been incredible posters if they had lived in the Internet age. but I would put Jim Jones up against anybody you could name

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is why i’m not interested in “Bibi told Trump to do this war so it’s Bibi’s fault.” Bibi had told every president since Clinton to bomb Iran. It’s the President’s job to know when a foreign leader is being a bloodthirsty idiot and NOT LISTEN TO THAT GUY. This war is because of Trump.

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Tom Buttry @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Sits down, opens briefcase, takes out shockingly intact cocktail shaker that's still frosty and two chilled Collins glasses, which I begin to fill with ice that also mysteriously materializes from briefcase* "Before we get started with this interview, may I interest you in a Harvey Wallbanger?"

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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Following the shutdown of USAID, high-aid-exposure African regions saw violence rise: ‘conflict events increased by 10.6%, battle counts rose by 6.9%, and battle-related fatalities went up by 9.3%.’ Our new article explores aid's link to security.

rusi.org

Development Aid as Security Policy?

Recent cuts to foreign aid have raised serious humanitarian concerns. They also offer vital insights into the relationship between development and security going forward.

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People huffing the happy paint can talking about Blexas and Blansas let's try and make Blaine happen first

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"we need the president out on the stump immediately" yes, haha YES. Get the Hateful Tangerine out there post haste to talk about his Beautiful Ballroom! I promise it will help!

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm sure the DOJ that thinks 86 47 constitutes a threat will be all over this.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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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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Tom Buttry @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay, so when he holes up in there in 2029, it will simply catch fire and he'll be unable to escape. A bit on the nose, but that's been the case for a solid decade-plus now

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The director/camera crew having the idea to locate a SeatGeek sign in the stadium and zoom in on GEEK and get it on the broadcast within 10 seconds of Benetti nerding out is the pinnacle of sports broadcasting

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 22/09/2026

Ohhhh we're doing black people fleeing to Canada again.

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Tom Buttry @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did I do today's engagement bait over lunch? Of course. Just missing the cut (a lot of these due to running too long / failing to stick the landing or getting cut short) Silicon Valley Arrested Development Jane the Virgin Battlestar Galactica Veep It's Always Sunny Firefly

NYT Top Shows list
Breaking Bad
The Good Place
The Wire
Succession
Chernobyl
Better Call Saul
The Americans
The Righteous Gemstones
Community
Parks and Recreation

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Tom Buttry @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sideline reporter to Kenneth Walker: "How fun is it to play with Patrick?" K9: Literally giggles

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Incredible quote to start with “millions of Americans like me” and then to end with “on our normal vacation to Greece or the Vineyard”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 17/09/2026

Stupid question but are there antitrust restraint-of-trade implications to having multiple league stadium owners collaborating to refuse business to a particular musician? www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Kraft, the 85-year-old billionaire, had a longstanding relationship with Sheeran-the English musician had even played at his wedding in 2022. Over the course of a 40-minute conversation, Kraft explained that he wouldn't host Macklemore, the outspoken American rapper, at his stadium.
More than that, several other National Football League owners were also ready to cancel Sheeran's dates as long as Macklemore remained on the bill.
By then, the tightknit circle of NFL owners whose hulking mega-venues host
everything from sold-out concerts to World Cup games had drawn a line in the sand.
David Tepper and Arthur Blank-the
respective owners of the Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons-had made up their minds, people familiar with the matter said.
Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie would soon reach the same conclusion, as the owners traded phone calls and prepared to address the situation.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Look I too would rather go home than think for an extra second about Pete Hegseth, I get it Congress

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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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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

as an adult, i no longer believe there is anything inherently virtuous about reading fiction, but it definitely makes your brain work in a way that the phone is explicitly designed to smother

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 16/09/2026

Beer isn't addictive. It makes you more sociable and is a great way to spend time with friends. That's why I have eight of them a day: because I love talking to my friends so much

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 15/09/2026

CBS News Exclusive: New photos reveal widespread damage at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East caused by Iranian attacks.

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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I like how much of the “low information” working or middle class voter discussion implicitly goes hard at the idea that they’re poorer and more susceptible to bad, dumb (mis)info, and I’m not saying people aren’t, but have u seen how rich highly educated people vote?

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