iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

5542361628

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026

Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde

198129192229

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is such a good answer by comedian Josh Johnson to the question "how much does AI impact your job and are you afraid of it for the future?" youtube.com/shorts/7JYZV...

youtube.com

Josh Johnson on why he thinks that AI can't win when it comes to comedy #AfterTheCut

YouTube video by The Daily Show

38323

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This made me think of when I first moved to Canada and learned that electricity (as in your power bill) was usually called hydro, because - like in Norway - a lot of power is hydroelectric.

030

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

He is literally saying "reality is not my ideology." He has gone to war against science; science as a description of reality will win in the long run because science as reality doesn't go away even if you close your eyes and yell.

"The National Academies seem dead set on using taxpayer dollars to push their radical climate agenda and influence court decisions, but not on my watch. My office flagged their fraudulent behavior back in February and gave them the chance to make things right, but instead they doubled down and created yet another biased
document to force their ideology on Americans,"
- Attorney General Austin Knudsen

22602143

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

227147372820

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dagens rapport fra hjemmekontoret i kronisk migrenelivet: ice pack, filterbriller, aromaterapi, nevromoduleringsdings, energidrikk og pomodoro-timer. Sukk.

140

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have lots of thoughts and emotions, but I really wonder what the "climate is not that important" crowd think when they watch what is unfolding in Nepal. They will surely deny any climate link. If they admit any climate link, would that mean they need to change their world view too?

98218

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Føler at dette er noe en Aftenposten-versjon av NYT Pitchbot kunne funnet på.

Screenshot fra Aftenposten sin forside med overskriften Nettsteder skal ikke formidle drapsooppdrag under headingen Leder Aftenposten mener.

010

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

- We need power to charge the electric buses 🙏 Karianne Tung: Data center goes brr Karianne Tung will always make sure Big Tech wins.

1459

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking

412428579

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As with so many things, it is critical to realize this is not bumbling or ineptitude or not thinking through policy implications. On the contrary: making it impossible for foreign students to do the doctorate here is THE WHOLE POINT. It’s about starving higher ed under the guise of America first.

14491211

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Jeg mottar delvis AAP. På AAP opptjener man ikke feriepenger. Om man faktisk kommer seg i jobb igjen, har man kanskje litt ekstra behov for den ferien - og man har jo stått med mindre inntekt en stund også. Vi har visst i årevis at det er brudd på EU-retten å ikke gi ferieopptjening fra første år.

e24.no

– Åpenbart at ferieloven er i strid med EU

Norge bryter med EØS-regler ved at nyansatte ikke får betalt ferie det første året, mener advokat Harald Breivik.

140

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

i mostly write about the (romance) novels I read on my Substack (in a monthly reading roundup), but I just wrote a dispatch from French heatwave number 2 and 3. plenitude.substack.com/p/hot-french...

plenitude.substack.com

Hot French summer

A dispatch from canicule number 2 and 3.

000

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

5497213012

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New UN report on the environmental cost of LLMs. Key points include: inference (use) causes 90% of energy cost; web search with AI summary costs 10 times a regular search, and video generation is extremely energy intensive. Also, land and water use must be tracked too. unu.edu/inweh/collec...

unu.edu

Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

16140

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The people yearn for trains. Give the people trains.

15715

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 10/07/2026

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

Absolutely shit map of a country roughly the shape of Belgium with three regions, and Brussels in the middle but absolutely nothing else is right.

86885252

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Stefan Fisher-Høyrem @stfisherhoyrem.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Alle andre nyhetsmedier: Haaland avslører favoritthårstrikk mens brasilstjerne innrømmer å ha hørt om Norge Filter:

05717

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

8883365612535

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m finally reading this history of energy sources, published in English as More more more, and quite enjoying the takedown of Nordhaus that it starts out with. if only it were so simple…

Photo of book / Jean Baptiste Fressoz - Sans transition

100

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

415192874459

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Europe, the last few days: 🇫🇷 France: Hottest day ever — 43.8°C 🇪🇸 Spain: Hottest June day — 42.7°C 🇩🇪 Germany: Hottest day ever — 41.5°C 🇨🇿 Czechia: Hottest day ever — 40.9°C 🇨🇭 Switzerland: Hottest June day — 38.8°C 🇩🇰 Denmark: Hottest day ever — 37°C 🇬🇧 UK: Hottest June day — 36.7°C #climatecrisis

18460216

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As of today, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has gone on longer than the First World War.

20819362

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 08/06/2026

Jeg er midt i målgruppa disse partiene kniver om. Middelklasselønn og småbarn. Jeg vil ikke ha skattelette. Jeg vil ha samfunn.

826852

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Paul @airsculpture.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The US World Cup in one photograph 🙄😔

15432921341

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The money was always there for the good things.

170137753886

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

373166203812

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

6070191615

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Jeg mener egentlig at forskningsmidler burde fordeles ved lotteri etter en enkel forkvalifisering. Lurer på om NFR-søknadskaoset jeg observerer (søker takk og lov ikke i år) kan få oss dit, i en slags accelerationist reading?

341

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Spennende terrengsykkel-rute ved Domus

Skilt for gang og sykkel som peker opp en trapp.

081

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I forgot to make my very silly contribution to Helen DeWitt discourse, which is my migraine hat (unfortunately in heavy use at the moment). I had it made a few years ago when someone online made caps with a «female canon» without her in it; an outrage.

Selfie in a Green cap with Helen DeWitt written across and migraine glasses with a pink tint

000

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

8401145

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Every rich country politician who is subsidizing fossil fuel use (read: cutting fuel taxes) is maximizing the suffering of people in these countries. A spectacularly awful policy on every level.

023

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 14/04/2026

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

jobbnorge.no

Associate Professor (297742) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

15862

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This village was apparently a kind of Lebanese version of Oradour sur Glane, an important memory site. Tried to figure out wtf was up with the Wikipedia - then realized someone just did a replace all of “is“ to “was”, since the IDF just blew it all up.

Screenshot from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khiyam
featuring weird typos like the headline Hwastory instead of History

000

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Sunset from Place Rouville in Lyon on Easter Monday. One of my favorite views.

191

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Lindsay (Tired Version) @swiftchai.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Converting to Catholicism and then threatening the Pope with military action because you don’t like that he uh, *checks notes* is following Catholic belief is absolutely insane behavior

5792021745

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

289135032472

Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Every time I see a news post about this guy my brain supplies "vote for Pedro".

010

Reposted by Anne Balke Staver

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

9197012721