iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 3h

Ain’t that the damn truth 😞

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 4h

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 9h

Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 9h

Georgia, today is the last day to register to vote before Election Day next month. If you’re not already registered, visit mvp.sos.ga.gov to ensure your voice is heard. I’ll see you at the polls.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Hooray for Paddy Pumpkinhead!!! @paddydoublems.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finished. What a story! We need the stories to pass on to the next generation no matter how messy its history is. To quote Bradbury himself, you don’t need to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. I’ll never stop. #Booksky

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is a woman in Kentucky who writes things on the back of her car to piss off her MAGA neighbors. And I have to admit, this one is particularly inspired. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLR4mLYV/

"I'm just glad I don't have to listen to Charley Kirk defend the Cornell 7" written on the back of a car

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I immediately thought of that Ali Siddiq bit where he was arrested for being a street pharmaceutical rep and tells his lawyer to just pay the $100k bail because he has it. And the lawyer had to explain, okay: You're 19. You have no job. And you want me to tell the judge you can pay 100 grand. Bruh.

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TrashkittenDeluxe @trashkitten83.at.app.wafrn.net · 04/10/2026

I'm sure credit card companies will immediately lend their full influence towards blocking this, just like they do with struggling independent artists drawing two girls holding hands...

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Minoti Vaishnav @minotivaishnav.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Off my Moonshot announcement, I‘ve been getting a lot of Q’s about fellowships and how to get in. The one I want to focus on is how many tries and scripts it takes to get into programs. People assume you apply once and get it. Nothing could be father from the truth. Here’s my fellowship breakdown:

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Artificial intelligence can be used for surveillance, manipulation and discrimination. “Sophisticated cyber capabilities and autonomous weapons may, when developed or deployed without adequate safeguards and human oversight, introduce new dangers to security and international peace.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Alexis Adkins @alexisadkins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm always resistant to giving Houston credit for ... Much... But, getting their dozens (not large hyperbole) of law enforcement over their egos and on the same data system stopped a significant amount of crime (look at all the serial killers in 70s-80s), they are no longer major trafficking route.

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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026

Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.

For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements

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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

😭😭😭 omg I love this so much.

San Diego just honored Dolly Parton with a beautiful Día de los Muertos ofrenda, complete with marigolds, butterflies, and her iconic style.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/10/2026

Photos of AI-generated fish filling the feeds of fishing hobbyists may seem like no big deal—but the anger these images produce reveals what happens when AI makes it impossible to trust what we see, Tyler Austin Harper argues:

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The Fish Are Getting Bigger

What AI is doing to our hobbies

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Alexis Adkins @alexisadkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This Little gherkin and I startled each other this afternoon... after I had to gently relocate a baby gecko back outside. It's been an interesting day. 😍😍

Small froggie at the threshold of a door.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 02/10/2026

Anthropic copyright settlement news: Good news for authors of Wiley's For Dummies series. After outcry over the high % claimed by Wiley, Wiley is changing split to Default (50/50). Announcement below. (They're still saying that payment will be via literary agencies, rather than direct to authors)

From: Wiley Anthropic Settlement Communications <WileyAnthropicSettlementComm@wiley.com>
Date: Friday, 2 October 2026 at 21:48
To:
Subject: An update to your For Dummies claim in the Anthropic settlement

Dear Author,

We recently wrote to explain the claim percentage we submitted for For Dummies titles in the Anthropic settlement. While we continue to believe the classification of these works as Education Works is accurate for the reasons set out in that message, we are sensitive to the concerns raised

We value our relationships with our For Dummies authors and the work we've built together across this series. With that in mind, we're changing our claim for For Dummies titles to the settlement's Default Option for non-Education Works. Under the Default Option, the payment for each title is divided 50% to the author and 50% to Wiley

Here's what this means for you:

i. We'll enter the 50% allocation for your For Dummies titles in the settlement portal.

ii. To confirm your allocation, visit https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/allocation, enter your assigned claim and PIN number, and enter 50% as the author share (subject to (iv) and (v) below). If you've already entered 50%, your entry matches ours and no further action is needed. Additional instructions for updating your allocation are located here: Allocation Portal Instructions.

iii. Once all entries match, the Settlement Administrator treats the claim as undisputed. Payments go out in tranches, with undisputed claims paid first, so confirming promptly helps you receive your payment sooner.

iv. If your work has more than one royalty-bearing author, given your work agreement already specifies a royalty split between the authors, we suggest that same split apply to the claim allocation. For example, if the two authors of a work split royalties 70%/30% under their agreement, Author #1 would claim 35% and Author #2 would claim 15%.

v. If su…

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Alexis Adkins @alexisadkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the troglodyte wanting to ID Jane Doe, here's New York law why her name is protected and I *assume* it will put the same energy into IDing JOHN Doe (which appears to be regarding the same night) www.threads.com/share/_5MY0e...

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Mary-Jane (@morewithmj) on Threads

So everyone is talking about Jane Doe v. Cornell (as we should). The 101-page civil complaint, the group chat, the DA reopening the case, Hochul, AG James. What NO ONE is talking about is the other...

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

to the cis people who are like “trans people were never erased from history, that’s a lie!” i want you to pay attention to it happening right in front of your eyes all of this to strip records from a whopping ELEVEN people in fifteen years erasing our accomplishments is part of it

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TRANS HISTORY 1 (how and why we name trans people in history) - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

I’m not a historian. I’m not an expert in trans history, though I find it fascinating. I myself have a lot to learn on the topic, but one thing I DO know is that there have always been trans people. T...

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Frankensteinian trust of Paramount, Warner Bros., CBS, Turner, and Discovery will be called...Skydance. I'm glad the pieces are retaining their individual identities so they can dissembled when staggering debt collapses this exercise in corporate hubris. whbl.com/2026/10/02/d... #FilmSky

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David Ellison says combined Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery will be named Skydance

Oct 2 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison said on Friday that the combined company would be named Skydance, once its merger ‌with Warner Bros Discovery closes next week. The name was cho...

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gift link to Lina Khan’s op ed on regulating AI. While existing law can provide some accountability, it is absurd to think private companies can police themselves. Give Congress funds to hire real experts and legislate, just as we do with other dangerous products. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

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Opinion | Trump Wants A.I. Companies to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong? (Gift Article)

Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.

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Rachel Esselle @rachelsl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rachel is one of my best friends in the world. Her Mom had to have emergency heart surgery, and things are tough. The image below (and alt text) is from Rachel's Instagram. She gave me permission to share all this here. If you're able to help, it is SO appreciated: www.gofundme.com/f/support-bo...

Selfie on a boat of two women, Rachel Esselle and her dear friend, Rachel Fobbs.

Hi friends,

Last week I traveled home at my dad's request to help my mum recover from a concussion. That night turned into a nightmare for us, and she ended up undergoing emergency heart surgery. My mother grows her own veggies, makes turmeric milk, loves her walks, so this was a shock to everyone. I'm currently in Virginia helping my dad care for her while he juggles 2 jobs and serving as an elder in the church. My brother made this GoFundMe to help with her recovery expenses, which will be a long road. If I have ever made you smile, please consider donating to help my mum.

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So bots are going to ruin the internet, which may be humans single greatest invention...

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not sure if the betting disputes take place in the Gents’ toilets 😂😂 #Chester #Racecourse

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Erin Macdonald @drerinmac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Obligatory post this year: Me on 30 September vs Me on 1 October

Tim curry as the reverend at the beginning of rocky horror. He is wearing traditional clothing and standing behind a stone cross looking off to the distance

Tim curry as frank from rocky horror. It’s the famous publicity photo with him facing sideways, looking to the camera and showing off his bicep with the Boss tattoo on it.

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Phoenix Black @phoenixblack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you do the NO DRAMA application? How did you attach a pitch video and a sample of work video when there was only one space? I put mine in the trailer section!

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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The rabbis of the Talmud were hardly feminists, but they had no patience for this bullshit… #Cornell

Sanhedrin 75: A man set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. The doctors said: He will have no cure until he has sex with her.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter.

The Sages insisted: Let him die.

#Cornell7

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If this is what you are upset about in this conversation, you are lumped correctly, because you are currently mad at the victims for their resultant trauma, not their attackers.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Chad Michael Ward @chadmichaelward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Help! Like many, I'm short on funds to cover bills this month. Four $5 subs to my Patreon would help that gap. If you enjoy the art of indie filmmaking, my page shares production journals, script pages and general thoughts as a writer-director. www.Patreon.com/chadmichaelward

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Making Films with Chad Michael Ward — Productioon Journal for the upcoming FAIRY DUST film.

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Evelyn X @evelynecks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 30 October 1

Beverly Crusher not angry. (She's doin' it with a ghost.)

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

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@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Michael Hager @michaelhag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sensing some pessimism in the responses to this

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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 01/10/2026

JUST IN: Meta is using AI data centers to claim research tax credits, according to the NYT. Its total research credits reached almost $4,000,000,000 in 2025 alone.

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✨Meet River✨ River is a vocal guy and loves to make his opinions known. Whether he's excited, ready for a meal, or on a stroll, he WILL be sharing his thoughts. Beneath all that personality is an incredibly sweet nature, and River has plenty of charm to share.

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All AI data centers should be seized by the state with the ones that don't autably bother people swapped to solar and dedicated 100% of the time to finding disease cures. The rest should be torn down and converted into dense, walkable, 90% car free planned mini districts, and I am not joking.

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scenarist / Chris @scenarist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My tax dollars for harmful bullshit / Christian mythology. Enough of this traitorous Nazi hair-gel fascist bag of shit.

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Alexis Adkins @alexisadkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am Jane Doe. Jane Doe's name is Alexis Adkins.

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The Brain Cutter 🔪🔪🔪🩸🩸🩸🩸 @briancutter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Counterpoint: go fuck yourself, Michael. You're a content creator who worked for The Young Turks. And a fucking ghoul. Go yeet yourself into obscurity.

Michael Tracey of the Young Turks actively trying to doxx Jane Doe, the Cornell r@pe victim.

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Alexis Adkins @alexisadkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The DA that refused to investigate and press charges, (and if I read this correctly) the girls who dropped her off drunk... the list goes on...

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 30/09/2026

Your 3rd dose today of Anthropic settlement madness (at least from me). Authors, CHECK YOUR CLAIMS! Your situation may have changed, per this email from the settlement administrator that some authors are receiving (subject heading: Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Allocation Updates)

We made updates that may affect your claim.
What Changed?
Wed, Sep 30,
2026 at 5:35 AM
Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works are categorized.
In particular, where multiple claimants submitted default claims for the same
ownership interest in a work, we changed those works from agreement to
disagreement.
In addition, the portal is updated to reflect that some claimants changed their sole
ownership claims to default claims, and some claimants withdrew their claims.
What This Means for You
As a result of these updates, some works on your claim may now be categorized
differently. We encourage you to review the current allocations for your works.
How to Review and Update Your Allocations
Please use your claim number and PIN above to log into the portal below.
Claim Summary and Allocation Portal
For help making updates, please visit the allocation portal instructions.
If You Already Submitted Updates
If you already updated the allocation for a work, then you do not need to
submit those updates again. Any changes you submitted previously
through the online portal are recorded, but the portal is not being
updated in real time. If you submit multiple updates for the same
copyright number, your most recent submission will replace any earlier
submissions

What’s Next?
We will continue to work with claimants to help resolve disputes.
For works where all rightsholders are in agreement and where all necessary
payment information is provided, we expect to send a first round of payments in
November 2026.
If You Have Questions
Please contact us at 1-877-206-2314 or info@AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com.
Regards,
Settlement Administrator

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