iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This seems a very important point - and one that much of BlueSky has chosen to overlook. Put simply, Sally Rooney's books have not been banned.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It drives me absolutely mad that Hunt has never been forced to account for this. Interviewers never say "But isn't this your fault?" (It is.)

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just as it slightly surprises me how central government looks at universities' financial woes and shrugs, I am curious that there seems to be no political interest in how we examine in the age of AI. (I wonder if this is UK specific, but I'm not aware of it being a big issue in other countries.)

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/10/2026

One of the most fascinating (and telling) charts I've seen in a long time.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They only good joke in Shakespeare. But it is a good one.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Using AI for just ten minutes makes subjects more instrumentally rational

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Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nice gig if you can get it

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He’ll is autocorrect.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

TL;DR - thanks to interaction of decisions it controls and rules it sets which use outcomes of those decisions as a performance metric, HO has acquired a power to unilaterally shape policy in areas well beyond its remit. Doesn’t seem like a good situation to me.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/10/2026

From Anthropic’s own report, the models were completing tasks which they’d been given by Anthropic, and while doing so circumvented restrictions which Anthropic failed to make sufficiently strong, so how exactly were they “acting on their own”? 🙄

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 08/10/2026

*Looks at UK universities* I can answer that, but you're not going to like it.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 01/10/2026

Yes, yes, dogs saying "sausages", but this video of dogs in a pub catching squirts from a soda siphon is the greatest That's Life video of all time. youtu.be/IahcZyBsDG8?...

youtu.be

Three German Shepherds In A Pub

YouTube video by kd fr

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now that I think about it Man City did seem to be spending a lot of money

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me too, fire truck manufacturer, me too.

A toy fire truck for sale in a supermarket. On the packaging is a slogan "driven by inertia"

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really important graph for any debate about triple lock commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's happened to crude oil flows from the Middle East since the US war on Iran began? 🛢️ Has Iran effectively choked off the Strait of Hormuz? Or is the Strait now basically open as the US claims? & what's happened to other exit routes? Here's a helpful way of visualising it...📊 👇1/8

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Al Robertson @alrobertson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking forward to the updated FCA warnings: "Remember that the existence of your species may go down as well as up."

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Like ok I get that you don’t like this other Labour Party member who thinks you have crap music taste/ are too ‘lads lads lads’/ said something mean about where your parents live. But that’s not really a philosophy of government.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25/09/2026

That's a huge success for the British cultural industry on the world stage. We should maybe even start considering it a major 21st century British export industry, maybe even get a ministry to oversee it?

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Victor Frankstein like oops sorry everyone my guy has gone rogue

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quite fed up with these crowds of fighting age men who refuse to integrate.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'Although most of the players are not English and their presence in the England team erodes an important part of English identity, I support them' - no, you don't.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One vaguely serious party.... it's all I ask for.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Probably Liberal Democrats" is, to be sure, a far more accurate description of the Liberal Democrats than "Liberal Democrats"

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Man shows ignorance of entire of human history - very particularly ignorance of entire female human history - film at 11.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 20/09/2026

This is a bit long but a nice skewering of the arrogant twats locked in their little bubbles who are driving the "AI is going to kill us all" nonsense.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.

Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This valuation makes sense (only?) for safety decision making, where some valuation is needed to decide how much to spend on safety improvements. The (controversial) methodology is to extrapolate from small decisions (eg how much would you pay for a smoke alarm, or extra wage for dangerous job).

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW on Wonkhe: Last seen around the time of the Augar review, KPMG has updated work on the costs of teaching. DK finds evidence of cost cutting everywhere buff.ly/D0cu2Xu

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got the formal notification of my half-sacking. Apparently congratulations are due!

'Your appointment is subject to a variation to your contractual terms and conditions. Your substantive contractual hours will reduce from 1.0FTE to 0.5 FTE, equivalent to 18.5 hours per week effective from 1st October 2026

Once again thank you for your valuable contribution throughout this process and congratulations on your successful appointment to your new role.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 13/09/2026

This is a very disappointing response that does little to help the millions of students already struggling with student loans! My view on the govt's reponse today to the Treasury Committee student loan report...

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

3/ Basically: if AI can become plug and play, why do most students need to learn "AI skills" via formal courses? Sure, you need to churn out people who can make plug and play easier, which has some implciations for IT/engineering programs. But apart from that? Really not clear to me.

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The story I heard was of a lecturer talking about this who at the start introduced the class to his favourite pencil, "Penny", a gift from his daughter. Throughout the lecture, he'd every so often note something down and say "thanks, Penny". At the end, he snapped the pencil in half.

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Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Not long ago, Just Stop Oil activists were given long sentences for simply discussing blocking infrastructure. In contrast, the balaclava-wearing gangs now do much the same with apparent impunity. One could almost call it two-tier justice.”

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Instead of trying to impose a top-down corporate culture that is so clearly inconsistent with the successful functioning of a university, why not lean in to its bottom-up nature?" #HigherEd astromikemerri.substack.com/p/how-univer...

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How University Management Does Not Understand Universities

(And How To Fix It)

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Breaking: The British Public respond 99% 'Don't Know' when asked to review whether the Tokugawa Shogunate's policy of sakoku promoted internal stability during the Edo period.

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