iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

got into it with this guy myself

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10h

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12h

Old enough to remember Warner Communications. Old enough to remember Time Warner. Old enough to remember AOL Time Warner. Old enough to remember WarnerMedia (AT&T), Old enough to remember Warner Bros Discovery… the Ellison acquision sucks but let’s not pretend Warner is some old school indie

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

The Plot to Enslave America requires them to destroy the notion of reality and truth. They will use the legal immunity conferred by the captured courts and the technology the tech oligarchs have developed to hasten this plan by flooding the information environment with fake video.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NO ITS NOT LMAO - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITON "AI IS BREAKING OUT OF THE COMPUTER, NO ITS NOT, AI IS HACKING THE GOVERNMENT, NO ITS NOT, AI IS SURPASSING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE, IF YOU CAN BE SURPASSEDB Y A STATISTICAL AVERAGE OF REDDIT POSTS, THATS A SKILL ISSUE MOTHER FUCKER - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is it safe for me to say on here that I do not believe the polls about the Midterms? I don't trust white voters to be honest about their voting intentions with pollsters.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ideally you wouldn’t have to wonder if the Commander in Chief even knows San Diego is a military town.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When Trump’s broke brain muses about Iran destroying San Diego does he think that reads as a woke city to a Nebraska crowd or does he really fantasize about losing 100,000 active duty military on his watch?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska

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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

bring back ass whoopings

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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was born in 1984, my frames of reference are different to *most* Millenials since I’m an early printing. There’s no real line between generations, it’s just one long linear track and it’s so much more diverse than a series of monoliths. But that fact makes it harder to divide and conquer.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

While Millennials and Gen Z blame each other for ruining society, the same monsters that have been ruining society since before we were all born are laughing their asses off. Generational divides are made up, and that’s fine until they’re weaponized to keep us fighting over complete bullshit.

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SoldierExclipse || 18+ Illustration @soldierexclipse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is no longer a joke

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

Premium Newsletter: How Has AI Changed The Economy? Not very much outside of GPU sales and data center construction, with AI software sales and GPU rentals having a negligible effect, even as BLS data overemphasizes software's contribution to real GDP. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

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https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-has-ai-changed-the-economy/

This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming illustration of AI’s potential share of GDP that I’d argue did more to muddy the waters than actually telling anyone anything, mostly because its…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

While I admit that the way we measure tech's economic impact leaves room for improvement, I must admit, the fact that AI sales have been an economic nothingburger makes sense when you recognize that it came from a tech industry that's run out of ideas. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

We’re over a trillion dollars into the AI bubble with hyperscalers expecting to spend a trillion dollars more next year, and as you’ve read today, it’s really unclear as to what it is we’ve done other than pumping tech stocks and a chunk of GDP growth that is almost certain to disappear once the money runs out.

For the most part, every economic analysis I’ve found has tried to put lipstick on a pig. Putting aside GPU sales and data center construction, AI software sales and AI model efficacy do not appear to have had much of a meaningful impact on GDP, and what effect sales have had appears to have been vastly-inflated by outdated methodologies that have failed to keep pace with a tech industry that has, for the most part, not really innovated much in the last 15 years.

LLMs are too inconsistent, too unpredictable and too expensive to replace human beings, and none of the data I’ve seen seems to suggest that they’re doing much to enhance human productivity outside of accelerating the amount of questionably-stable and secure software shipped on a daily basis.

How much of the sales pitch of an Instinct or Muse “agent” is giving people the means of escaping the poorly-designed labyrinth of different apps and websites that we’re forced to use, each one built not to serve a purpose but to push us down particular rabbit holes to boost engagement? How much of “AI” and its supposed (unfulfilled) promises is based on rising above a software stack that is built with little consideration of efficiency or productivity?

While one might argue that this is somewhere AI would actually succeed, the problem is making it succeed in a way that’s economically feasible. Meta, Instinct and OpenAI may have found “easier” ways to “get tasks done,” but if completing these tasks increases the cost from zero to even 50 cents a piece, is that a “productive” transaction? And what if the task is left incomplete, and the user is left either with something broken, or the task is completed using hallucinated information?

These are all problems created by a tech industry run by companies that want to juice engagement and make numbers go up rather than actually making people more productive or successful.

If I’m honest, I thought I’d have a different answer at the end of this — that there would be some sort of big idea that economists were capturing as a result of their giant brains and academic backgrounds.

In the end, I think they might be as lost as all of the rest of us.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026

talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026

also, doing that work is fucking hard. My body is irreparably damaged. I suffer from mild to severe chronic pain problems because of it. There are few safety nets for manual labourers, and if we want more of them how do we change the environment for workers so many deem as less than?

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

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lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 02/10/2026

Turns out every accusation is a confession. Anyway vote Nithya 2026 for a mayor who doesn’t do petty bullshit like this

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i've prepared November election guides for a decade—many of you have first followed me for this. the one we are publishing tomorrow? the biggest i've ever done. can't wait to share it, though you might all have to free up your entire October to explore all of it!

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✨‧₊˚ meh (but spooky) ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 01/10/2026

Again and again we need to say it. Have you ever wondered what you would have been doing in Germany in the 30s, how you would have responded to the rise of fascism and seeing innocent people under dire threat? You're doing it now. This nurse understood that and she rose to meet the moment. ❤️✊

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Alethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.com · 01/10/2026

Happy October! 🖤🍁💀🎃

The sweet transvestite from Transylvania tosses off her cloak at the stroke of midnight on October 1

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

abolish the death penalty

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Mind-Boggling Skeleton @dqspider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GIVE 👏 LINA 👏 KHAN 👏 A 👏 GUNDAM 👏

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

strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/09/2026

money can't buy happiness means rich people can't bribe reality to make them inwardly contented with their own personal demons they fashioned while stepping on the throats of others, not that people shouldn't need basic living necessities in a modern fucking society like shelter food and medicine

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.

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H Mac @hmac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The quote that went around when Wendell Berry died, "the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines" comes to mind *often* these days. Trying to live as a creature is becoming my north star.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Since you guys can’t figure out how to build a sandbox and are now threatening our bag, we’ll do it for you” - Nvidia paraphrased

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I won't even allow a Google Home or Amazon Echo in my home, and I've been burned by *password managers* and bad Chrome extensions; I sure as heck won't trust Meta's Muse to do anything involving personal information

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I will vote to send myself out to sea on a barge before I vote for Rahm Emmanuel. Please be serious.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point

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