iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 10h

exhausted angel on my shoulder: you have all the research you need, just write frantic, wild-eyed devil jumping up & down on my other shoulder, pulling my hair & poking me with a tiny pitchfork: look, a 200 page transcript that probably has some bizarre tidbit for a barely relevant tangent!!!!

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 9h

I think I'm getting to an age where character action games feel like olive garden endless breadsticks to me. Like yeah really good yum yum but then they just keep refilling

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

Holy shit.

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 10h

There are 1000 reasons to hate generative AI, but the one that goes undetected is the complete and total destruction of humanity's core epistemological understanding of the world. Everything else is downstream of that, and the consequences are only going to get more horrifying if this isn't stopped.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 9h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 9h

I do not like this speedrun we did from "that's not technically illegal so it's OK" to "laws don't matter anyway"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I work with abortion providers in Colorado. One of them had a patient whose water broke at 4 1/2 months, was told by a Houston hospital they couldn't help her until she went into labor or went septic, so *she got on a plane & flew to Denver mid-miscarriage*. There's no respectful disagreement here.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026

I really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different!

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PT @bug-fkr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just because he would've preferred the actual innocent man in this situation would've killed himself in a more conveniently off-screen manner so he could've blithely gone on with his life ignoring the consequences of his vote doesn't mean his vote didn't contribute to this outcome

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PT @bug-fkr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah and people who text while they drive don't *mean* to hit and kill a family of three in a crosswalk either, but they still get punished for their negligence and deserve to be haunted by the outcome

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth. On April 23,2026, a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Blast Professing @gaymerherb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we've gotta practice being inconvenienced to uphold our values + praxis, because there's no amount of resistance that will ever feel convenient if everything feels like it's always going smoothly for you or if the slightest inconvenience feels maddening to you then you're not resisting practice

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/10/2026

“For all the claims Amazon makes about investing in carbon-free energy, it conveniently leaves out that it is constructing the single-largest source of climate emissions in the United States in Pecos, Texas" - @stand.earth arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

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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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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We got to get better at changing and adjusting our beliefs based on new information. It’s actually a smart and healthy way to live. There’s no shame in changing your mind when presented with new evidence that contradicts prior understanding.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyway, who wants to see pictures of my gay cat

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 30/09/2026

It’s been another expensive kitten season and I know we are all struggling, but if you have even a few extra bucks to help us save our girl, please send them our way. linktr.ee/crits4cats

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Crits For Cats, Inc Cat Rescue Official: TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, Twitch, Threads | Linktree

A small cat rescue in Eastern Maryland focused on TNR, Fostering, & Adoption

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 30/09/2026

I have a Big Ask from our community. Many of you will remember our graduates Pikachu and Eevee, who were adopted together. Eevee had dealt with some very challenging chronic diarrhea while she was a kitten, but before adoption, we figured out a food that worked for her & she was all better (thread)

Eevee, a soft dilute torbie cat, hunched over looking uncomfortable and thin.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 02/10/2026

Hey, not sure who needs to hear it, but that thing you've been working on? That cover? The social media post? That graphic? Check and make sure the thing that's supposed to be centered is truly centered :)

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cornell police omitted Jane Doe's claim that she was raped from their summary of her statement submitted to the DA. The DA closed the case without requesting the transcripts. It was either malpractice or it was intentional, and it tainted the investigation. They failed her.

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anikeru.bsky.social @anikeru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this months print club!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I hate the world's hegemons, but boy do I have to admit I love their stupid speak n' spell that incinerates a hectare of rainforest every morning"

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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James @aquartistjames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jasper says it’s naptime and work can kick rocks.

A small gray cat in a rubber ducky collar looks at the camera from between a white duvet and pink sheets. He looks very pleased with himself.

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The only reason firearms would look out of place in the type of fantasy I see is because the author, much like OP, doesn't know about their history and can't imagine making fantasy weapons out of them.

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mimi 🔞 [ team rub + working on cmsns 🎨] @notsoknightly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

some people's allyship dies on the hill of a shitty wizard book for children despite them claiming otherwise, and it's pathetic and sad

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

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Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?

California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CA Gov. Newsom has vetoed Tribal water policy legislation which would have given Tribes a say in the water decisions that impact them. He also vetoed the California Indian Freedom Act of 2026, which supported Native religious practices on state lands. (Communities United for Water Protection)

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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James @aquartistjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And the amount that were purged for political reasons during the Trump administrations…

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love when somebody fucks up their car so bad it starts bleeding out on the pavement

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DISTYX🌟🔞@ OCs galore @distyx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"A gay guy's guide to avoid your crush" was a story Alice @alicespamma.bsky.social & I wrote for Melagrana 2 by Attaccapanni Press. A story we haven't posted translated anywhere till this day. It was released in 2023. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER I SAY! (1/2)

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Witchcraft is not consolatory hokum. It doesn't offer tepid answers to hard questions and even harsher circumstances. It offers us relationships with the land, its spirits and ourselves. Relationships may be rough and require work, but they get us through. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026

Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”

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Laura likes to read a lot @lrrzmdrgl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here are their names and a wonderful soul created a website to keep track of them. thecornell7.org Also, since we are talking about college rapists Brock Turner now goes by Allen Turner and lives in Ohio

Photo of the Cornell seven rapists: Matthew Ingalls, Diego Sarabia, Winston
Lee, ScottKertzschmar, Scott Norris, Gillio Lopez, and Jonathan Newwell
A website to keep track of them: thecornell7.org

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