iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mike Lacher @mikelacher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026

Wall Street and corporations have schemed for decades to stack the bench with judges who rule against consumers and workers. Result? Federal courts have distorted the law to further rig the economy—and you're paying the price. Democrats must be clear-eyed about this challenge.

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“from the archive” jfc 😑

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The more a regime depends on AI, the more it depends on the people who keep AI running. And those people, like every other praetorian class in history, will quickly discover what their indispensability is worth." www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

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How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators - Schneier on Security

This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs. Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina O...

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

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The War Against Accumulated Capital

Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Voting Simulator from @theonion.com has great environmental storytelling

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Honestly a pretty stunning interview with Bill Gates. I've never heard him this urgent & combative. I take him seriously in a way I do not take most apocalyptic AI tech bros youtu.be/A_156w0aYtU?...

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Bill Gates: A.I. ‘Makes Nuclear Weapons Look Like Nothing’ | The Ezra Klein Show

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One way tech oligarchs retain power is through dual-class shares, allowing them to cash in on public stock markets without giving up power over their companies. @ryanlcooper.com thinks this needs to end: Dual-class shares should be banned, or taxed in proportion to founder control over the company.

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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect

‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eventually, the limitations of the old medium become part of the appeal. Physicality, scarcity, ritual. The inconvenience becomes the point. Anyway, I wrote about why this happens, god help us all. medium.com/@watsonwelch...

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Why old media becomes luxury

Art forms don’t die. They go premium.

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My theory: when a form of media gets displaced by something cheaper and more convenient, it doesn’t die. It goes premium. Movies get bigger. Theaters get fancier. Albums become collector’s items. Board games become an expensive hobby for suckers like me.

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Around 1700, Venice — population ~150,000 — supported seven active opera houses. Per capita, that’d be like modern Los Angeles having 180 opera houses. So opera, at least, wasn’t always like this.

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wrote an article 🙃 Why are movies, concerts, books, board games — basically every form of media I enjoy — getting so expensive? Unfortunately, I have a theory. 🧵

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

walked into a grocery store in malibu…the rich people are not ok

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the next 30 years, Los Angeles will be spending $100 million of YOUR taxpayer money EVERY YEAR to pay for the convention center. That’s enough money to: - Hire 625 firefighters - Remove 185 mil sq ft of graffiti See what else $100 million buys: convention.nithyaforthecity.com

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What $100 Million Could Buy

Los Angeles is paying $100 Million a year for the next 30 years to pay for the Convention Center expansion. See what that money could have funded instead.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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lighthouse prince @historiancole.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

tim curry keeping up the bit twenty years after the fact by writing in his memoir that he and miss piggy had an affair during the filming of muppet treasure island is just so good and funny

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

incredible gag in the new Quake episode: there's a new enemy type that's just the old dog enemy — except now it has 3 grenades strapped to its back (after you kill it you need to dodge them)

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I still can’t believe Gou Tanabe managed to make H. P. Lovecraft’s goofy-ass Yithians — described as having a cone body, lobster claws, three eyes, and face tentacles — look cool as hell

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

next time I go to the airport, this will be my fit

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

he was working on a musical adaptation of Waking Ned Divine 😔

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

looks like AI shops really, REALLY don't want these cases to go to trial. I wonder why 🤔 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

Anthropic must pay thousands of impacted authors.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

something i learned a few years ago is that the odyssey and the iliad were part of a larger cycle of epics about the trojan war but we lost the other six. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Cy...

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Epic Cycle - Wikipedia

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 16/07/2026

Raffi you’re so right

Threads post from raffi_music:
stay creative. after Baby Beluga, I didn't worry about how can I top that.. just kept growing as a person and musically. 14 years later, Bananaphone!

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David Welch @watsonwelch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I respect the new Cape Fear’s commitment to being absolutely unhinged

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I know it’s not a popular position but I really don’t see mass unemployment from generative AI soon because of structural and technical features of the tech. Gift link where I explain the reasons. It’s distraction when AI will really cause many other big problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

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