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

bonus: fruit splooges in an erotic way

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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

"We interpret because we cannot analyze... Interpretation is merely a statement of subjective experience after having moved through the story, a statement about how it made us feel, not a concrete analysis of how those feelings were evoked or their structural role within the story itself." -BT

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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 · 08/02/2025

make the artists into propaganda machines, good. 😵‍💫😵‍💫🫠🫠

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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

@lidiamiles.bsky.social’s new book is out this week, and today it’s sunny and beautiful outside ☀️

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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

NEA wants you to show up to the function in flag pants & hand over the pen to a propaganda machine? no.

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