iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrew Chalfoun @achalfoun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The best use of Bayesian statistics in human history.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You really can’t make this shit up.

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Favorite Coyote and Roadrunner, wrong answers only.

The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968) - the original one - with Steve McQueen as Thomas Crown and Faye Dunaway as Vicki Anderson in pursuit

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Both yesterday and today, the top 3 stories on the NYTimes web site were about AI safety. Which is insane, given what's really happening in the real world. It's like they want to distract their readership away from the corrupt clown Trump's multiple dumpster fires, to minimize Democratic 2026 wins.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Quite stupendous degree of nominative determinism at work here www.economist.com/science-and-... From The Economist

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/07/2026

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social please enjoy this storytelling masterclass, this emotional voyage, this impeccable sense of pacing and timing

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

i still believe we need an ablative absolute "grass having been touched" in learnèd english to evince when the narrator is coming back to reality. "i just think that all nonelectric car owners should be imprisoned for life. sigh ... 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰, we should probably incentivize solar panels more"

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Philip K. Dick Trickle @pkdtrickle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They’re not even fighting the Weather Channel. They’re trying to fight weather itself. They’re literally old men yelling at clouds.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/06/2026

Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“Perps name is Donny T, goes by John Barron on the dark web. Real sex pervert, walks in on underage girls, sticks his hands in privates, total groper. My source says he hangs out at MSG.”

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Ice T as Sergeant Tutuola's Doubting Glare

ALT: Ice T as Sergeant Tutuola's Doubting Glare

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 28/04/2026

the correlations between virtue and wealth or power are, at least tracking from moderate to very high levels, quite obviously inverse. the entire world at the moment is a demeritocracy.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 29/04/2026

there is civil law, common law, and calvinball. under which legal tradition does your country fall?

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Today in Crash Blossoms - Must the subpoenas be hurled vigorously and penetratively directly into Powell's flesh? Why can't he simply get them delivered like everybody else?

Headline in Al Jazeera English: "US judge upholds decision to toss subpoenas into Fed Chair Jerome Powell"

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

we've lost a decade of our lives watching Republicans be "concerned" while doing diddly squat

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/03/2026

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sin…

Q: What is Sinners about?

A: America’s inability to discuss its complex racial history without bringing the Irish into things.

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Why is it that every time the Trump admin does something stupid and evil, they try to balance it out with... something else that's also stupid and evil? They're a fucking disgrace.

Article from the New York Times, 17 March 2026:

The Trump administration is considering a new strategy for throttling the country’s offshore wind industry, after federal judges blocked its five previous attempts to stop wind farms under construction off the East Coast.

Senior administration officials are drafting settlement agreements that would pay nearly $1 billion to TotalEnergies, the French energy company behind two wind farms off New York State and North Carolina, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times, including copies of the agreements.

Under the terms of the proposed settlements, the Interior Department would cancel the leases in federal waters for the two projects, known as Attentive Energy and Carolina Long Bay, the documents show. The Justice Department would then pay more than $928 million to TotalEnergies, reimbursing the company for its winning bids in lease sales during the Biden administration.

In exchange, TotalEnergies would abandon its plans to begin building the wind farms. It would also commit to investing in natural gas infrastructure in Texas, as the Trump administration prioritizes the production of fossil fuels over renewables like wind and solar power.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

As a nation, do you know how assholic you have to be and how badly you have to behave to radicalize Canadians?

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 19/02/2026

Battle school is a dumb genre, but it is a remarkably less dumb genre if you shift it to a PhD from high school. Consider:

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Vance brought FOOD to MILAN?!?!?!? From the US?!?!?

From the Irish Star: "Vance & family reportedly traveled to Milan with a fleet of 14 aircraft & a motorcade of 100 vehicles. 11 planes are for staff, former athletes & security; 1 plane is solely for food supplies & 2 are transporting the 100 armored vehicles."

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"Fulsome"? Like, meaning the new deal kisses Trump's ass more than the 1951 treaty?

Headline at abcnews.com: "Bessent: Greenland deal is 'much more fulsome' for the US"

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"Everness" by Jorge Luis Borges:

Sólo una cosa no hay. Es el olvido.
Dios, que salva el metal, salva la escoria
y cifra en Su profética memoria
las lunas que serán y las que han sido.

Ya todo está. Los miles de reflejos
que entre los dos crepúsculos del día
tu rostro fue dejando en los espejos
y los que irá dejando todavía.

Y todo es una parte del diverso
cristal de esa memoria, el universo;
no tienen fin sus arduos corredores

y las puertas se cierran a tu paso;
sólo del otro lado del ocaso
verás los Arquetipos y Esplendores.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 07/12/2025

Phernḗ is the Ancient Greek word for a dowry, derived from the common verb phérein 'to bring', as it's what a wife brought with her. Parápherna were a wife's property separate from a dowry. This term was adopted into Latin, and from the Latin adjective paraphernālis, English gets 'paraphernalia'.

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

When I saw "SCOTUS AGREES TO REVIEW TRUMP ORDER RESTRICTING BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP" my first thought was, Who granted cert? Two options: (a) Four people on SCOTUS are so insane they can't read the 14th amendment. (b) Four people on SCOTUS want to make the rest say Trump is insane. I wonder which.

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Anyone writing Project 2029 for the democrats must realize there are no norms & no conventions post-Trump. So, if the democrats have 50 votes in the senate, on day one the next president needs to nominate 4 democrats to SCOTUS. And they announce all the Roberts precedents they will no longer uphold.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

For the astronomers: I found an accretion disk diagram cheese. A quesar.

A display of cheeses. Two in the front are vaguely torus shaped, sliced in half so you can see the shape, like a bagel cut in half to make two u-shapes. They look like drawings of the disk of matter around a black hole, narrow in the middle and flared on the outside.

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Right. Here's my big pitch: Muppet James Bond James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye Dominic Cooper as Bond Kermit M Frog Mrs Moneypiggy Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Tom Gauld continues to document my life

3-panel black and white comic strip. Panel 1. A woman sits in an armchair reading a book. There are shelves full of books either side of her. A voice off-panel says, "You can't survive on books alone." The woman says, "Maybe I can!" Panel 2. The voice says, "How?" The woman replies, "I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Panel 3. A caption reads: "However". The woman is now a skull, resting on two books on the armchair. The skull says, "I regret nothing!"

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I can almost already hear Larry Summers (and other conservative economists) admiring Jeffrey Epstein for creating a Pareto-optimal distribution of adolescent sexuality.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A tale I must tell today on my late mother, and in doing so, I mean no actual disrespect to the Cheney family, grieving as they are for the actual loss of their loved one. The humor that follows is that of the Simon family's dark and dystropic sense of humor and so, an apology in advance. However...

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 03/10/2025

He also invented “major question” doctrine which bans Biden from doing things clearly authorized by law but apparently allows Trump to eliminate a congressionally-mandated agency.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 03/10/2025

the modern republican coalition is made up of people who are sure that any supposed connection between fuck around and find out is a fabrication of libs and pointy headed elites and the deep state.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 03/10/2025

1) you can just tell these people to fuck off. 2) work strategically to arrange things so you will continue to be able to just tell these people to fuck off despite the costs they will try to impose on you for doing so. 3) in any case, just tell them to fuck off.

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid.

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Michael Caine, Sean Connery

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

who's your favorite jedi? wrong answer only

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

How do you know when you live under a corrupt authoritarian regime? When the government punishes a foreign country for allowing a new business model the shows that businesses run by favored local kleptocrats are old-fashioned, corrupt, inefficient and wasteful monopolies. archive.is/eZbWu

archive.is

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

When Trump deploys troops to US cities and orders them to shoot demonstrators — as he will — the fate of the US depends on whether the Trump regime’s perceived legitimacy is like the Chinese Communist Party in 1989, or like Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1989.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 27/09/2025

War ravaged Portland

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Director Comey, still think it was a smart move to October Surprise Hillary a few days before the 2016 election? For the nation? For yourself? Look, It's shameful for Trump's morons to carry out a nakedly political prosecution. But the Schadenfreude burns like a Bessemer converter.

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eek @eke.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

as I wasn't familiar with this image:

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“Whoever designed the human visual system has a lot to answer for. Maybe not as much as the knee team, or the lower back group, but a lot.” - @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.

Screenshot of the posit:: conf livestream, showing a man in a plaid shirt next to an optical illusion image of two concentric circles that look like they’re not concentric

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