iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

He makes a good point.

335189504243

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
7:34 AM · Sep 20, 2026
·
115.1K
Views

341601364

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

52531662

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
X.com
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

1970192261

amy en–dash 🇺🇦 @amynala.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m generally reluctant to reduce to individual psychology what are clearly deep systemic problems in our society and economy. That said, this guy is a straight-up lunatic.

000

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Prove I’m human? You first, website.

51354

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

18195031815

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"No nitrates" is perhaps the nicest thing anyone ever said about Ted Cruz

5514

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These pro-AI whiners can't fathom why everyone's so hostile on Bluesky. This is a knowledge-worker bar. You couldn't go into a steelworker bar and brag about outsourcing their jobs. Why would you expect a warm welcome here? Plus, you're always bragging about ending life on earth.

211024

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/09/2026

Some sacrifices are too profound for words. On 9/11, the men and women of the FDNY showed us what extraordinary courage looks like — answering the call when our city needed them most.

Mayor Mamdani, FDNY Commissioner Bonsignore and other officials stand with their hands over their hearts. In front of them, portraits of fallen FDNY members blow in the wind

9893021691

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Idiot, racist Trump is talking about eugenics. Eugenics (a phony science) gave us the Holocaust, slavery, and countless other sins against humanity and decency. I also believe in blood. All humans have blood and it’s all the same. What a nightmare.

62342132

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🇺🇦❗️🇺🇸 You have met with Putin many times. Aren’t you disgusted to sit at the same table with a war criminal, an executioner of the Ukrainian people, who is guilty of the Ukrainian tragedy?, — journalist Gordon to Witkoff

35662162

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

BJ ColanGIALLO @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm gonna swat the top of your hands when I say this: No one is calling Lake Ontario "Lake America." Get the absolute fuck out of here.

0618

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

3/3 Boas’s arguments about racial categorization/explanations & the comparative method (as is STS symmetry principle) is relevant. You don’t get to blame universal/deterministic nature until you can rule all else out b/c society/culture are almost always locally more determining of specific forms

1162

amy en–dash 🇺🇦 @amynala.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CPRIT is one of the (few) things that Texas gets right. So of course Ken Paxton is against it.

000

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you think Natalie Harp's love letters to Trump are cringe, you should see what Donald writes to me.

381194226

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hello, human geneticist here. There is no scientific basis for attempts to define people in terms of “good” or “bad” genes - these are discredited views in service of racist ideologies. For consensus & concerns of experts in our field, see e.g. this 2020 statement from @geneticssociety.bsky.social:

Statement from the American Society of Human Genetics in 2020, countering the myth of "good genes". It reads as follows:
"Genetics demonstrates that humans cannot be divided into biologically distinct subcategories or races, and any efforts to claim the superiority of humans based on any genetic ancestry have no scientific evidence. Moreover, it is inaccurate to claim genetics as the determinative factor in human strengths or outcomes when education, environment, wealth, and health care access are often more potent factors. There is no factual basis for attempts to define communities or regions of people with "good" or "bad" genes and a century of science has debunked such claims, which can feed discredited views and racist ideologies. Unchecked, unethical application of false genetic "theories" have resulted in past atrocities from forced sterilizations to the Holocaust and can still fuel unethical social policies worldwide today. Over the decades, our field also has reflected on its own role in such now-condemned ideas, and we speak out vocally as a community and as individuals to combat their resurgence.
We must protect and advance the ethical use of genetics and genomics knowledge for the profound good it can realize, including better, more precise healthcare that leverages what we are discovering about human genetic commonality and diversity. The human genetics community dedicates itself to this goal each day, and today we are improving and saving hundreds of thousands of lives. As the ASHG community focuses on realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere, we also urge societal attention to address profound educational, economic and health inequalities that fuel differences in human experience and well-being. By pursuing all of these activities, humans can celebrate our common heritage as one people, embrace and fully tap our valued diversity, and help achieve optimal life outcomes for all."

2208102

amy en–dash 🇺🇦 @amynala.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am positive I will not see anything better today!

010

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/08/2026

The Democratic party leadership fighting harder against the DSA than they do against Trump really says something. These people gotta go, man

463474684

amy en–dash 🇺🇦 @amynala.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yeah, see, you lost me at “a concern that many leaders have felt”

011

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

literally Isaac Newton was literally an anti-Trinitarian heretic, a topic about which he wrote privately in extensive writings-- more than he wrote on science and math publicly!-- that were not published until generations after his death on account of: they would have gotten him persecuted

22822133

amy en–dash 🇺🇦 @amynala.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I love these infographics explaining how LLMs work and the particular problems they pose for science communication!

000

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

362115812291

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.

341691370

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“Patti, love your work but we need to talk about your version of ‘Gloria.’”

2255681

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 30/07/2026

The Harris County DA's office is investigating the potential that any number of crimes may have occurred, including murder, manslaughter, and tampering with evidence. If the office is able to build a case, attorneys could present it to a grand jury.

texasobserver.org

Houston Is Testing Whether Trump’s ICE Is Above Texas Law

After the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, local authorities have struggled to stake their claim on an investigation into a killing within the most populous Texas city’s limits.

04217

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 30/07/2026

"Texas was ground zero for this stealing of districts across the country. But the goal is for us to get back a majority in the House, in the Senate, and to win the White House so that we can pass real reform to our electoral processes in this country."

texasobserver.org

In Congress, Christian Menefee Says He’s Fighting for 'the Least, the Last, and the Lost'

The latest politician to represent H-Town’s historic 18th Congressional District talks about his recent primary against Al Green, ICE, voting rights, and the U.S. Senate race.

27631

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Closing the Writing Center and removing its leadership now sends a disturbing signal about how seriously Harvard actually takes [its] mission.” Closing a writing center or library or dept or program or university press—an attack on one is an attack on all. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

thecrimson.com

In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.

316549

amy en–dash 🇺🇦 @amynala.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I love the em dash—despite my name.

000

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

3558911659

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to the White House. At least 23 people have been shot at by federal immigration agents. And thousands more have been caged, separated from their families, or shipped off to dangerous countries. The cruelty is endless.

14241821757

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026

Admirable clarity @science.org

The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story

4974912712

Reposted by amy en–dash 🇺🇦

Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 24/07/2026

At a congressional hearing in Houston, District Attorney Sean Teare said officials have yet to release the name of the ICE agent who fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 7. bit.ly/3TCt84N

bit.ly

DA says feds haven’t shared evidence in Houston ICE shooting

At a congressional hearing in Houston, District Attorney Sean Teare said officials have yet to release the name of the ICE agent who fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 7.

23715