iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I really like how Casey Cep has the “Weird, twisted Americana” beat at The New Yorker.

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Being passively evil is so last decade. This is evil on purpose, baby.

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I know people have ten million things to say about Severance, but I just want one of those ORTBO hats

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/03/2025

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations

The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Valzhyna Mort: “Real writing, I believe, starts with distance.”

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

[tentatively] crying laughing throwing up

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

into which type of hell have we fallen?

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

backed out if AWP v last minute but hope you all find nice cushioned chairs to sit upon and have a rest.

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This is incredibly bad— a CDC website clone but w fake and misleading health advice (especially about vaccines), brought to you by the NGO formerly run by the current HHS secretary.

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My favorite genres are: 5. author did research for 12 years to write a tight 275 pages that make you gasp a lot 4. teen girls are people too! 3. something sinister is happening in book world as an allegory for the real world 2. sentences like wisps 1. a gal has a thought while doing the dishes

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

the amount of mealy-mouthed people crawling out of the woodwork to imply mahmoud khalil doesn’t deserve our full-throated support is evidence of the conditions that allowed him to be disappeared in the first place.

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Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

Screenshot of an Al Overview response that reads, “‘On the road’ consists of three words. On, the, and road.”

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

cry-laughing on a monday vis a vis: "We are in the era of the post-literate writer." blgtylr.substack.com/p/story-basi...

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story basics # 1, openings

this is the beginning, etc etc

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Naomi Kanakia: "The people who understand th[e] process [of selling a literary novel] generally don't talk about it, because part of being a successful literary commodity is the illusion that you are sui generis and have some unique voice that you'd never allow the system to dilute." SCREAMING ❗‼️

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

in this economy, I need a car honk sound that’s gently like “hey little buddy, just letting you know the light is green; no worries!” the one-size-fits-all “Fck You” sound is entirely too loud.

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Murderer.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

One thing that genAI boosters aren't prepared (or frankly equipped) to handle is how the right-wing tech CEO set are going to shift the models toward right-wing outputs. There will be a concerted effort to make these intentional propaganda machines.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

My feed should be flooded with the stories of laid off federal workers.

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

would read the book on this. 💅🏼

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

for my mom: seeking an anti-fascist newsletter by an independent journalist or several that aggregates news weekly or daily. any suggestions? #journalism #journalismsky

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I love High Country News so much. talk about a paper doing its job.

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

newsletter rec of the day—to keep things bite size and to keep forward motion manageable/possible

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/02/2025

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Is it really so hard to write “Trump issues illegal order shuttering most of USAID”? American democracy will die in plain sight with bad headlines.

New York Times headline reading “USAID is said to be keeping just 290 of its 10,000 employees”

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

so grateful for this desk view—fluid, unbounded prose from Lidia Yuknavitch & head-down, hard-working local publishing from Belt. @beltpublishing.bsky.social @lidiamiles.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

A pile of three books: Reading the Waves, Reading Arendt in the Waiting Room, and Amelia Bloomer. In the background: a brown pen cup, a gold lamp, a blue water cup.

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Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.” www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...

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40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

genuinely wondering why “the new criticism” is just absolutely trashing books. because unless a book is actively doing harm to people, why utilize a platform to pull negative attention in an already flooded media landscape?

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Aurora, the beautiful. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The cocktail of mediocrity and evil is such a bad combination.

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

just noting that today my inbox got three (3) more newsletters about book blurbs, and like… don’t we think maybe this S&S blurb thing is a big distraction from the many S&S book deals with and distro of alt right people, which might feel really relevant (again) rn otherwise?

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

today I decided I get “Read a Poem” breaks between work tasks so 💅🏼 #mentalhealth

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/02/2025

1. Find a functioning light bulb in a busy work area. 2. Strike the light bulb with a private-sector-manufactured hammer or other hard object. 3. Note any employee who pauses work at the noise or gets distracted. Refer them for Justice Department investigation....

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Elon Musk’s Directive on How to Change a Light Bulb in a Federal Building

“Elon Musk’s government-slashing crew, the “department of government efficiency,” has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the...

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

lady gaga hobbling with two canes in that abracadabra premiere WHY 😵‍💫

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

What do you do when you don't want to cook dinner but you still "Gotta Eat"? Discover the cookbook that gives you some answers—and two other bite-sized book recs—in the January "What We're Reading" column! www.thecommononline.org/what-were-r… @aftongray.bsky.social

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What We’re Reading: January 2025

AFTON MONTGOMERY <br> The poem is a car with rear-wheel drive and the engine pushing it forward from the back is the notion that people just want something to believe in, whether that thing is God or…

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Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

favorite read of the week, a song on why writing work matters in the midst of tragedy from @annasplat.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...

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On "The Man in the Water" and the value of writers

A parable in a plane crash.

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