iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I think I did the trial run of this like six months ago and I can’t remember the result — but I like that it now gives reading recommendations!

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 17h

I did this and it told me I’m an environmentalist, which I’m not not, but ok. And then it said I should move to Rojava and I guess I’ll start packing, but I suspect the comrades will be disappointed in me.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 17h

The Orville Redenbacher of quinoa better be hard at work developing a reliable popping variety, before the high-protein trend goes totally bust!

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 17h

Amaranth too I think? But they’re small so not as satisfying. But I’ve seen them used in Mexico in granola bars.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 18h

Replies in that thread suggest it is more of an X/Twitter problem. But at least there is a spot on Google to report the error.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 18h

Whoa whoa I’m getting same result that is deeply disturbing.

Replicated search in the quoted skeet, in which a a Google search for “Mamdani Talmud” (meant to surface a tweet by the mayor) pulls up, as first result, a tweet by @nycmayor reading something completely inflammatory and vile and clearly not what Mamdani actually said.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 18h

(Now I feel bad for frivolously tagging our mayor.)

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 19h

Whoa! I did my food handling certificate in NYC and this was never mentioned. V strict re: only city-certified commercial kitchens. Granted, that was 2002, so maybe things have changed since then? Or maybe our instructor just didn’t want any of us getting ideas. Thanks for all the info!

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 29/09/2026

A few years ago, on a long layover in Delhi, I met a guy who added me to his daily affirmations message list and occasionally I get an extremely bizarre one. I just can't find a way to read this that is not ominous?

Clip-art guy on a bicycle looking back over his shoulder in a way that suggests alarm. The text above reads "Neither the struggle ends nor the complaints, what is ending slowly is age. Goodmorning"

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can just name the next AI bot “monkeys paw” and be done with it.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 27/09/2026

“Oh oh oh OH ohohoh OH I’m going to have nightmares tonight” —my mom

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 26/09/2026

Buried in this very kind and thoughtful essay is the fact that she lost her health insurance just a few weeks before her due date. What a country! themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

themomoftheyear.substack.com

I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 26/09/2026

And it’s not just how the universities they cover are depicted — it’s that they cover *only* elite schools. National media so very rarely gets into public institutions, or smaller colleges with less-wealthy student bodies — unless of course there’s some “surprising” woke scandal.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 25/09/2026

And the pitying look on the faces of Mr and Mrs Xi Jinping.

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Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com · 25/09/2026

Hot take: protests should have more accordions. Paul Stein and his accordion, which says NETANYAHU OUT OF NYC, in front of Grand Central Station

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 25/09/2026

All this time debating whether companies are responsible for the speech posted on their platforms, when companies were building machines to make the speech itself and are now offering it to us as a product.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 25/09/2026

My only quibble is the extremely fast-and-loose use of legal terminology re: immigration pathways. But if the dialogue was accurate and not just some blithe single line (“my parents had to go back to India to wait for their asylum” wtaf), every ep would be 3 hours long.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 25/09/2026

Belatedly watching Little America — 30-minute episodes of immigrant stories, produced by Kumail Nianjiani and Emily Gordon. A true balm and inspiration to truly abolish ICE and get our immigration policy sorted so we can continue to build this country full of amazing humans.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

londondaily.com

Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 24/09/2026

Now if only the dude’s advanced systems thinking would consider the system of…our planet.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 24/09/2026

At the top level of the Met on the sides, where there is no real view of the stage, there are desks with little lamps, meant for reading along with the score. I’ve always thought it would be nice to just go there and read the Sunday paper. But I don’t know if I have to pretend to be a music student?

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 24/09/2026

Classy! (And it’s true, every seat is great — I’ve sat in the literal last row a couple of times and it’s excellent.)

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 23/09/2026

Everyone should not walk out but instead gather at the back of the hall and chitchat loudly amongst themselves, occasionally laughing uproariously, maybe crank up a Bluetooth speaker, to be a joyful hindrance to this man who should not even be speaking and who should be on trial in The Hague.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 23/09/2026

(Malinger is not a synonym for linger—unless you’re lingering in sickness.) <sighs, considers this might be some kind of choice for worldbuilding. Resolves to give it another chance.)

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 23/09/2026

<coming to after 20 minutes of scrolling> wait wasn’t I reading a book? <back to book> Oh that’s right there was an egregious usage error on page 2 that destroyed my confidence in the book and made me want to go on social media and complain about it.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 23/09/2026

The Matt Gaetz jump scare!

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 23/09/2026

JCO is New Jersey’s kingmaker.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 23/09/2026

The actual soundtrack is atrocious of course. Is Griffin Dunne on record anywhere being bitter about how his vision was ruined? I hope so!

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 23/09/2026

Like the idea that late 90s lite feminism dark cottagecore was directed by Griffin Dunne of After Hours fame and scored by the same guy who did Cook Thief Wife etc is blowing my 90s mind.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 23/09/2026

Watched Practical Magic on the plane to get up to speed on this apparent classic that I missed while out of the country, and read up on it and apparently it was originally darker and the soundtrack was by Michael Nyman?!?! Practical Magic director’s cut when?!

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I dont give a fuck if someone entered "legally" or not That doesn't give ethnic-cleansing death-squads the right to murder someone, and using that as a starting point to argue is just giving them the upper hand in the conversation from the start

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 22/09/2026

“Beautifully stated” he says and then proceeds with the most incoherent and illogical explanation I’ve ever heard. (And “telexing”?! Is he a time a traveler?)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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t0ussaint ☭黑人问号脸 @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

only 28% of people would view a military coup negatively if it meant getting rid of trump but the dems wont even fight for trans rights

To safeguard the Constitution", a group of U.S.military leaders have removed President Donald Trump from power and assumed control of the United States
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21/09/2026

Yes, same, and even now that NYC is subtropical, I still have a deeply hard time enjoying fall for the brief window it is.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21/09/2026

This genuinely makes me want to go to Peru just to party.

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Pixel Area @pxlarea.com · 16/09/2026

I've always liked the part of the web where people build things for themselves. A blog about a very specific hobby, a small site someone just wanted to exist. They're everywhere. They've just become surprisingly hard to stumble across. That's why I made this field. #indieweb #smallweb

pxlarea.com

Pixel Area – a map of the independent web

One pixel – one personal blog. Explore the field with your lantern: no metrics, no algorithms, everyone equal.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21/09/2026

@mayor.nyc.gov I just learned about Maryland's cottage food law that permits sales of certain foods (mostly baked goods) made in home kitchens. Seems like it could provide a great opportunity for small-scale home biz here in NYC, w/o expense of commercial kitchen? health.maryland.gov/phpa/OEHFP/O...

health.maryland.gov

Pages - Cottage Foods

An official website of the State of Maryland.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21/09/2026

(OK, well, I read the guidelines, and it's really only baked goods and jams from high-acid fruits, so no tamales -- but still, front-window cookies would be awesome!)

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE out of everywhere already, and I'm begging more Democratic politicians to say it out loud

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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Koho Shoda "Moonlit Sea" (1920) Japanese color woodblock print 24 × 16.5 cm (9.5 × 6.5 in). #ArtSky #KohoShoda

Koho Shoda - "Moonlit Sea" (1920)
Movement: Shin-hanga, which revitalized traditional ukiyo-e collaborative printmaking by integrating Western techniques like the realistic depiction of light, shadow, and atmosphere.
Composition: The piece features a small fishing boat moving slowly across a calm sea, illuminated by the soft path of a full moon, framed beautifully by delicate silhouette reeds in the foreground

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gaza’s landscape is unrecognisable to its people. The Yellow Line has partitioned the strip, with Israeli forces lethally enforcing it as a “no-go” zone; they have also levelled entire neighbourhoods on their side of the line as they push it farther toward the sea. share.google/7RHAa4h0k4bi...

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21/09/2026

That is cool! Here in NYC there’s no way to get a home kitchen health-certified — everything has to happen in a commercial kitchen. And there are a couple that I think the city subsidizes but still, it’s a big formal step. Think of all the people who’d sell cookies or tamales out of their house!

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21/09/2026

His mildly stunned expression!

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