iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

14412 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Jason Woodrow @jasonwoodrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This morning's message from Indivisible

Your vote is not small to the people spending millions to make sure you never cast it. They know what happens when working people, young people, women, and every fed-up voter show up together. We flip Congress. They lose control. That’s the whole assignment.

8792313 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.

20159991815 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.

272147052728 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is no such thing as “apolitical”. Pass it on.

826065 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For the evening crowd, if you are able to donate I'd appreciate it and if not, please consider helping to spread the word about this work.

16057 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Michigan Jill @whitchmi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shoot this into my veins! What struck me as a Michigander, is that MAGA is going after Talarico in the same way they're attacking Abdul El Sayed. These 2 Democrats differ in faith, zip, and ethnicity, but their message and motives are the same: Government must work for The People again! 💙

8543211 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Making a play for anti-system voters. Offense is the best defense.

youtube.com

Abdul El-Sayed on Trump: "You're the asshole"

YouTube video by C-SPAN

09325 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

586259246971 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline is spilling natural gas liquids in northern Wisconsin. The rupture occurred Tuesday just east of the Bad River Reservation near Lake Superior. According to Enbridge, an unoccupied semi truck rolled into an excavation site and struck the pipeline. Full story @ website

38255 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/08/2026

There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the United States in the year 2026.

"A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment." — Wikipedia

6417180 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.

5129821155 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Homeland Security 7
@DHSgov
X.com
Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

36099363823 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

292453841 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Release All the Epstein files NOW!

341500786 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I hope every student in Chicago had an amazing first day back at school and we're all wishing you a wonderful week ahead. Work hard and have fun!

194 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

4935101021 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

SABUCH @sabuch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

598 people are already boycotting Dole Food. Download GoodsUniteUs to join the movement. #BoycottDollFood @goodsuniteus.bsky.social

096 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today's newsletter is free. In it I talk about the increasingly common "I came up with all the ideas! I merely had AI write it out for me!" excuses and explain why they are total horseshit and should be dismissed out of hand. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Writing leads to thinking
Bertie Fielding is a molecular biologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He recently submitted a piece to the publication Nature that was accurately flagged as being almost 100% written by AI. The publication sent it back to him and asked him to rewrite it. Instead he wrote a long column excusing his use of AI and arguing that the product spit out after he puts the prompts into ChatGPT or Claude or whatever constitutes legitimate scholarship:

I had submitted an opinion piece to Nature Africa. It was not a research paper. It was a piece of public commentary, drawn from my own experience and written as I now write many pieces of this kind: with AI. Please read that carefully. I said with AI. I did not hand AI a topic and allow it to invent what I think. At least, that was the distinction I had been making . . . The ideas in that opinion piece were not borrowed from a machine. They came from years of leading, teaching, doing science, making mistakes and trying to communicate difficult work beyond my own discipline.
I am not claiming expertise in how the underlying models are built. But I do claim expertise in the subject on which I was writing, and I do regard myself as a thought leader in that field. That claim rests on experience, judgment and original thinking, not on whether I personally typed the final sentences . . . The ideas are mine. The expertise is mine. The experience is mine. The responsibility is mine . . . AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece. Does that also make me its author? I do not expect everyone to agree. But that is the debate I think we now need.

At the outset, anyone referring to themselves as a "thought leader" is not a person one should take seriously. But even if that doesn't bug you, there are other reasons not to take this person seriously.

The column is an exercise in cope. It's a guy who was called out for not doing his job claiming that his job is something else. "I come up with the ideas, so even if someone else writes it, I'm the writer" is the equivalent of "I chose my entrée, therefore I'm the chef." Yes, I'll agree that you had some input when it came to this meal but you didn't cook it, buddy. Someone else did, and you're a disingenuous fool for taking credit.

I could insult this guy all day. Instead I'll link this piece by Lynn Hunt about the essential links between writing and thinking and how merely doing the latter defeats the bloody purpose:

Everyone who has written at any substantial length, whether prose or poetry, knows that the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts. Or to be more precise, writing crystallizes previously half-formulated or unformulated thoughts, gives them form, and extends chains of thoughts in new directions. Neuroscience has shown that 95 percent of brain activity is unconscious. My guess about what happens is that by physically writing—whether by hand, by computer, or by voice activation (though I have no experience of the latter)—you set a process literally into motion, a kind of shifting series of triangulations between fingers, blank pages or screens, letters and words, eyes, synapses or other “neural instantiations,” not to mention guts and bladders. By writing, in other words, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.

A simpler way to put that, and the way I have always thought about it, is that while anyone can have an idea, the act of writing forces one to interrogate one's own thinking. One's own premises. Every writer ever will tell you just how often they have begun working on something – putting down ideas that they believed at the outset to be an expression of insightful genius – only to have the act of actually putting words to page or screen reveal its flaws. It's ultimately a good thing when this happens because it keeps one from pushing bad ideas and looking like a fool and helps you figure out where you need to go to make your writing come together in a coherent and accessible way.

More cheerfully, the act of writing often causes one to think of greater, deeper insights into the initial idea which changes the product for the better. It's why one writes rough drafts and then refines them. Doing this is not mere grunt work that we can mindlessly outsource to AI. It's most of the goddamn undertaking. That saying about genius being "one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" may be an exaggeration, but it's only a slight one and it applies to writing as much as it applies to anything. If you doubt this, go talk to that friend of yours from college and ask him how that idea for a novel he thought up 19 years ago is coming. Having the idea alone is not enough, brother.

Expect to see more of the sorts of excuses Fielding is offering in his self-serving, ass-covering essay going forward. Indeed, I suspect that the whole "I merely used AI to execute my vision" thing will be repeated, ad nauseam, by lazy charlatans for some time. Don't let them get away with it. There is no shortcut when it comes to human thought, exploration, and expression. And that's the case no matter how many tech companies and those who carry water for them tell you otherwise.

36017 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Robert @bearchicago.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So the best you all senators can do is give him the room to screw up our country. The hypocrisy!

001 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sometimes you just need to say, "Help is on the way, dear."

251757256 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

♥️ @abdulelsayed.bsky.social turns Trump’s racist “two Americas” attack on his wife into a chance to show he’s a loving husband in a good marriage whose wife actually likes him… Every ugly attack is an opportunity — to show who the bigger man is, and who the good guys is in the story.

602376524 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sites get Cs for “Historical Accuracy” when too much “attention is paid” to Black people, Native people, slavery, or racism. The report scolds museums for carrying my books. The Heritage Foundation seems to oppose history based on academic findings and books encouraging people “to become activists.”

1324 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"

744163453782 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026

El-Sayed on Trump posting image of him & his wife in a restaurant w/ caption "2 DIFFERENT Americas": "He's right. One in which your overlords are 2 people who don't like each other joined in the interest in making billions off of you, or 2 people who genuinely love each other enjoying pancakes ... "

28466341583 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Maria Hadden @chialderwoman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

📽️ The 400 theater reopened Friday for the first time since 2023 to lines waiting to watch movies again in Rogers Park's historic theater. The community's response was overwhelmingly positive, noting they felt like “nothing had changed” to the beloved theater.

blockclubchicago.org

The 400 Theater Reopens To Lines Of Moviegoers In Rogers Park: 'Like Nothing Had Changed'

When The 400 shuttered in 2023, neighbors called for it to revived and preserved as its original purpose as a movie house.

062 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

193126187997 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There are more gun dealers in the U.S. than McDonald's, Starbucks, and Walmarts combined, and only 5% of them are responsible for 90% of the illegal guns used in crimes. My executive order will prevent any taxpayer dollars going to to vendors who traffic illegal weapons.

1158 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Methinks the appropriate target to blame for the deaths of over a million Americans is not Dr. Fauci.

1683587629 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Seeing people confused about Fauci taking the Fifth even though he was pre-emptively pardoned by Biden. Pardons only cover past conduct; they don't immunize future lawbreaking. Fauci's claim is Trump II DOJ would gin up a perjury investigation into him based on anything he says today.

461033291 0

victordlombardi.bsky.social @victordlombardi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@neilsteinberg.bsky.social Hey, Neil! I wish you a speedy recovery. While recovering, consider watching In the Hand of Dante on Netflix (of you haven't already). It's...not terrible. At the very least, it's an interesting love story. A Dante expert, such as yourself might find lots to appreciate.

101 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If the Baltimore Orioles were to win a World Series -- a moment I've waited on for four decades now -- and showed up as a team to grip and grin with a corrupt, racist, pedophilic narcissist who debases our republic at every turn, I would never be seen at Camden Yards again. Fuck the L.A. Dodgers.

56974127 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you noticed toilet water tastes different today, you’re not imagining things. Tune into The Jim Haggerty Show every Thursday for more things you AREN'T imagining.

372588359 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump must be impeached for undermining and subverting our free and fair elections. And when he sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table.

432406518 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm so happy that Durbin is retiring. Juliana is going to be such an improvement.

515814 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

The Onion @theonion.com · 14/07/2026

“Paramedics had a very short window to save Sen. Graham, and thankfully they did not make it in time,” said George Washington University Hospital cardiologist Dr. Eric Fallstaff

theonion.com

Paramedics Praised For Being Too Late To Save Lindsey Graham

WASHINGTON—Emphasizing that every second counted during a cardiac episode, doctors on Monday praised first responders for being too late to save Lindsay Graham from an aortic dissection. “Paramedics h...

363212423 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

10726504420329 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Consider this my call, Mr. President: Instead of spending $100 billion dollars bombing innocent children in your illegal wars, invest in healthcare, jobs, education, housing, transportation, and environmental justice. I challenge you to do just that.

2149 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

12273454210763 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You mean to tell me that in one of the wealthiest cities in the world, we can't figure out how to fund jobs for every young person who is looking for one? If Chicago is good enough for tens of millions of tourists to visit, then it better be good enough for working people to live here.

0198 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I would read letters like Emily’s every night in the White House. They were powerful reminders of why the work we did mattered, and who we were fighting for.

389136513372 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The U.S. government is white supremacist as a matter of policy. It steals political power from Black people and pushes mass deportation of dark-skinned immigrants. The Supreme Court is racist. The White House is racist. Congress' leadership is racist. To fight racism, vote against all Republicans.

18401143 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/06/2026

Great nations invest in education. Great men aren’t threatened by brilliant women.

23298362992 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This past week Jesse Watters referred to ‘the Jewish question’ & said Trump/Vance are sending a message to ‘the Jews’. This past week, 3 anti-genocide Dems, including a Jewish Dem, won NYC primaries. Guess which of these 2 the media is focused on as proof of rising antisemitism?

231081196 0

Reposted by @victordlombardi.bsky.social

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Michelle and I had fun surprising the first group of visitors to the Obama Presidential Center on Juneteenth. Come check it out!

847245195236 0