iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked me for a good source debunking this nonsense. I'm not sure what planet we're living in at this point.

Timnit commented "I don't know what level of ridiculousness this is", sharing a screenshot that reads

@Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:

There is a sibling emoji reaction to her post

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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture @burkemuseum.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In the early 1980’s, we began preparing separate spread wings to help illustrate features of birds that had never been accurately drawn. Today our collection of spread wings is the largest in the world, preserving more than 40,000 specimens.

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Happy International Dog Day! Ziggy isn't impressed.

A blue tick Beagle sitting on his haunches, wearing a light blue bandana and sticking his tongue out.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/07/2026

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Wild stuff funded by America250 — which is the congressionally licensed entity, different from Trump's Freedom 250 grift operation. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/america...

The Constitution, the series asserts, was predicated on Biblical morality. “If we live by virtues, if we follow the laws going back to the time of Moses, our Constitution can hold strong,” the narrator of “The U.S. Constitution” comic tells us. This narrator guides us through the entire text, article by article, and he and his assistants tell us, in no uncertain terms, that: God was displeased by the three-fifths compromise on how enslaved people would be counted in the distribution of U.S. House seats; that Clarence Thomas was “smeared by rumors and mudslinging” in his 1991 Senate confirmation hearings; that the Electoral College should be preserved to force candidates “to care about the needs of small states”; that court packing is bad and “will lead to chaos”; that Originalism is good because Justice Antonin Scalia said so; that Roe v Wade was rightly overturned because it “created law, it didn’t interpret law”; that the proposed Bill of Rights being whittled down from 17 to 10 amendments at the Constitutional Convention made it “like our 10 Commandments”; that there should be no wall keeping religion out of public life or preventing the government from supporting religions; that regulating hate speech or internet propaganda is bad but regulating spending on political ads is a grave violation of the First Amendment; that the personal right to carry firearms bestowed by a 2008 Supreme Court decision is good because “home isn’t the only place you encounter criminals”; that it’s unclear if the 14th Amendment applies to children born to people who are in the country illegally (it is); that the 2023 Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action was good because it “stopped preferential treatment given to people of certain races” (rather than trying to correct for centuries of affirmative action for white people); and, once again, that the Constitution is a miracle.

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Since Africa’s best referee, Omar Artan is all over social media today it’s worth remembering that one of the greatest football anthems ever, the 2010 World Cup song Wavin’ Flag, was by Somali artist K'naan. The song was originally written for the people of Somalia and their aspirations for freedom.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Comedy is attacking someone until they learn to have a sense of humor

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Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience @vtneuroscience.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Congratualtions to Dr. Aparna Shah, recipient on the VT Diggs Teaching Scholar Award. The Diggs Award recognizes excellent educators who model 'innovative pedagogical practices that advance, challenge, and/or unsettle existing conventions of teaching and learning. Well done!

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Take Back the Court REP. JOHN LEWIS: In 1965, Jurist Roberts was only 10-years-old. He may be a brilliant lawyer, but I wonder whether he can really understand the depth of what it took to get the Voting Rights Act passed. The right to vote is precious, almost
sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. As many of you know, I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but some
of my friends and colleagues gave all they had, their very lives for the right to vote. I feel that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be the Chief Justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people's cries for justice. I feel that the leadership of the Court will promote politics over the protection of individual rights and liberties. If the Federal Courts had abandoned us in the civil rights movement in the name of judicial restraint, we might still be struggling with the
burden of legal segregation in America today. Jurist Roberts's memos reveal him to be hostile towards civil rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. He has even said that Voting Rights Act
violations, and I quote, "should not be made too easy to prove.'

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The Atlantic writers manage to make an article about bread have some very "let them eat cake" energy www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 30/03/2026

@vscooper.micropopbio.org & @isabelott.bsky.social let me crash their high-school bacteria hunt while I was working on my book "Life's Edge." Their paper's now out, featuring lots of mutants (including my very own CZ1A).

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

this is a very bold thing to say -- women can't do this -- about a technology that requires the ability to issue detailed natural language instructions to an immensely powerful but childlike simpleton

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

In 1963 the US govt spent 2.5% GDP on research in America. This was on top of what business spent on research, and was not conflated with business "spending" on research by bundling in expenses like advertising into their research budgets. That spike in 1963 has driven our economy for decades.

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

@jackerhack.ing I came across this service recently: jace.ai 😂

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

@zigzackly.bsky.social Saw this pic of Remo Fernandes recently and you could pass as a reasonable double for him. 🤣

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

“Any selective admissions process that ignores income, privilege & structural access while targeting race‑based efforts to increase diversity isn’t leveling the playing field. It’s cementing it.” Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

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Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

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Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians

“I like to call it 'structured' racism.”

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I used to be starry-eyed about the Internet. Not so much anymore but the worst thing about the Internet is that it made this asshole a billionaire.

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Professor and C4R coLAB, Aparna Shah (@neuromusings.bsky.social), discusses our new unit on establishing proper experimental controls. Check out her blog post at bit.ly/4eAIxcl and play with the Controls unit at c4r.io/units

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/06/2025

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

When students were attacked by cops in the México City protests of 68, UNAM’s Rector - Javier Barros Sierra - stayed silent for fear of jeopardizing university funding. Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Growing in my backyard, SW Virginia. 🍄📷

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 28/05/2024

Bellingcat’s Pooja Chaudhuri identified four Indian far-right media outlets that are receiving non-transparent foreign donations. Two sites could be linked to a US-based group associated with the RSS, the group that birthed far-right Hindu ideology. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/05...

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How Four Hindu Nationalist Websites Make Their Money - bellingcat

Open sources reveal how four far-fight Indian websites receive foreign currency donations.

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

@styler.bsky.social Are you still reading Order of the Stick? The latest page is quite cool!

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Scott Beale @scottbeale.xyz · 26/11/2023

We stopped by to check out the wonderful 2023 St Pancras International train station Christmas tree, which is a tower of books created by Hatchards that features 3,800 hand-painted books.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/09/2023

Oh and btw the solution to "not everyone has the time to dedicate to art, you classist" is not "AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS AND DON'T PAY ARTISTS" it's "VALUE ALL LABOR SO THAT PEOPLE ARE PAID FAIRLY AND CAN LIVE AND MAKE ART IF THEY WANT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE"

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

🤣 'The next time Timbo chunters on about any aspect of economic policy, or about the current predicament of employer-employee relationships, he should be forced to staple to his forehead how he really “made it”. Lord knows there’s enough room' twitter.com/FinancialRev...

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Tweet by @FinancialReview

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Ziggy enjoys a sunny day in the yard.

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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

It's amazing to me how "unsocial" many social media services have become.

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