iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.

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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings

Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings

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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Via @milkkarten.bsky.social The Norwegian Consumer Council made a video about enshittification; its fun. www.instagram.com/reel/DdY8GKn...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.

One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 21/09/2026

Excellent thread re: the first radio detection on an exoplanet! Really love seeing how the handedness of the Stokes V changes, modulated by rotation of the magnetic field orientation. The one thing I am really puzzled (as in intrigued) about is the 1200 Gauss ... that is .... *strong* ....

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good heck above, This treatment of volunteers, volunteering to save peoples lives (while coincidently pointing their lives at significant risk from mother nature) do not need shit from utterly cretinous subhumans, Honestly I’m dumbfounded. Would you slash the tyres of a paramedic? A fireman? FFS.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran needs to learn that if you don’t “pick a side”, you’re picking the side of the oppressor. Every single time. It’s that simple.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They do not follow the news.

The Pokemon Swampert and Quagsire eat ice cream together in the sunshine.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good morning 🌞 Is anyone interested?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/09/2026

The Ordnance Survey (OS) has created a heat vulnerability index for all cities in Great Britain (see 🧵). Areas most at risk of extreme warming are those with the least tree cover, green space and waterways. It's why we need more trees & their inate air-conditioning.

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Shade, cooling and survival: why we need more trees

Trees are nature’s air conditioning – cooling streets by up to 5°C, cutting heat risks, and helping cities withstand hotter summers

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Inspired by the recent HEPI report, “The invisible majority: Professional and support staff and the future of UK higher education”, to do a little analysis of the costs of these benefits. astromikemerri.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

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The Cost of Academic Administration

I was just reading the Higher Education Policy Institute’s report, The Invisible Majority: Professional and support staff and the future of UK higher education, which, perhaps unsurprisingly given its...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's entirely possible to outsiurce services and achieve efficiencies. It just requires your business processes to be simple and consistent with clear governance. There is not a single university in the UK whose business processes are simple and consistent with clear governance.

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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A recent conversation had me recall a favourite PSA youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw

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Dumb Ways to Die

YouTube video by Dumb Ways to Die

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Liz Tufte Art & Design @liztufte.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Move fast and break kings! ... our policymakers created an enshittogenic environment that rewarded companies for being shitty and ushered in the enshittocene, in which everything is turning to shit. Let's call time on enshittification." @doctorow.pluralistic.net #DigitalRights #BigTech

The enshittification of technology – the decay of the platforms and systems we rely on – has many causes: the collapse of competition, regulatory capture, the smashing of tech workers' power. But most of all, enshittification is the result of anticircumvention law's ban on interoperability.

By blocking interop, by declaring war on the general-purpose computer, our policy-makers created an enshittogenic environment that rewarded companies for being shitty, and ushered in the enshittocene, in which everything is turning to shit.

Let's call time on enshittification. Let's seize the means of computation. Let's build the drop-in, free, open, auditable alternatives to the services and firmware we rely on.

Let's end the era of silos. I mean, isn't it fucking weird how you have to care which network someone is using if you want to talk to them? Instead of just deciding who you want to talk to?

The fact that you have to figure out whether the discussion you're trying to join is on Twitter or Bluesky, Mastodon or Instagram – that is just the most Prodigy/AOL/Compuserve-ass way of running a digital world. I mean, 1990 called and they want their walled gardens back.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

For one thing, this is a targeted response: go after Big Tech's margins and you're mounting a frontal assault on the businesses whose CEOs each paid a million bucks to sit behind Trump on the inauguration dais.

Raiding Big Tech's margins is not an attack on the American people, nor on the small American businesses that are ripped off by Big Tech. It's a raid on the companies that screw everyday Americans and everyone else in the world. It's a way to make everyone in the world richer at the expense of these ripoff companies.

It beats the shit out of blowing hundreds of billions of dollars building AI data-centers in the hopes that someday, a sector that's lost nearly a trillion dollars shipping defective chatbots will figure out a use for GPUs that doesn't start hemorrhaging money the minute they plug them in.

So here are our new allies in the war on general-purpose computation: businesses and technologists who want to make billions of dollars raiding Big Tech's margins, and policymakers who want their country to be the disenshittification nation – the country that doesn't merely protect its people's money and privacy by buying jailbreaks from other countries, but rather, the country that makes billions of dollars selling that privacy and pocketbook-defending tech to the rest of the world.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There aren’t a huge number of folk in my industry I truly admire. DENZEL however is one I very much do. “So what a responsibility you all have, to tell the truth. Not just to be first, but to tell the truth.”

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 31/08/2026

“There is just so much about this that is magic.” www.iflscience.com/scientists-c...

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ways to raise readers: 1. Read to them. A lot. 2. Let them find you reading, as often as possible. 3. Read books they recommend to you. Value their tastes! 4. Let them choose their own books! 5. Yes, audiobooks count. Graphic novels count. 6. Talk to them about the issues of book banning. 7. Read!

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Elisabeth J. Hobbes author @elisabethhobbes.co.uk · 25/08/2026

The stuff Dolly did with the Imagination Library and Covid jab showed exactly what could be done with $ billions if you weren’t a cunt. #DollyParton

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nice work Australia! Turned the gas peaker plant “duck curve” on evening prices as solar stops generating, into a flat, platypus looking graph, as batteries charged on cheap daytime solar remove the need for expensive, evening peakers. youtu.be/jltRq_KlGH4?...

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Australia Killed the Duck Curve (With Batteries)

YouTube video by Engineering with Rosie

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

As Canada is learning (the hard way), the "art" of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: "renege": pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 1/

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

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Nick Telford-Reed @mountainhippo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cory Doctorow has been fighting the good fight against the enshittifying evil megacorps for as long as I can remember, but earlier this year, he laid out a credible path for world to fight back. It's an excellent read and worth 10 minutes of your time, IMO. pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/p...

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Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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NixxiLePixxi @nixannabanana.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Totally different” 😬

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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So we see the latest Great Library of Alexandria destroyed…. But this time not burnt but consumed….

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.

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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Will anyone be surprised if in an AGI future: (in a scene reminiscent of priestly types asking DeepThought) When they ask “how do we solve the climate crisis”, the AGI then laughs saying “too late; a pity you built the AGI machines”. Sigh…. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Tech Won't Save Us

Technology Podcast · Video · Updated weekly · Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech ind...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Farage: the police told me not to attend the count Police: no we didn’t. It’s not a complicated story. There aren’t two sides to it.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/08/2026

The BBC allowed the CEO of Thames Water to misinform listeners of their flagship Today programme Shareholders are preventing public ownership, not by improving the quality of the service they provide, BUT by lying. We produced a blog to help you complain to the BBC: vist.ly/5d2kr

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Contact the BBC and tell them to correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership

Last week, Thames Water CEO Chris Weston appeared on the Radio 4 today programme, to talk about the future of the utility.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Lynchings never stopped, especially in the south

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 06/08/2026

"Researchers may cite an infrastructure as a necessary part of their work in a grant proposal, but funding flows only to the researcher and research project, not the repository." issues.org/open-data-re...

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Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? | Real Numbers

The scientific community must consider the longevity of open research infrastructure—why it might fail and how to prevent it.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Measles up. Explosive diarrhea worsening. Salmonella in millions of eggs Cancer research cut. Disease monitoring stopped. Vaccine efforts devastated. Pseudoscience and snake oil medicine proliferating. But Fauci.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A Very Bad Thing to Do….

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the meantime, take your kids here. They have a FANTASTIC tour, absolutely stunning. It's worth every penny. Exiting live "lectures" for kids, play with space toys, look at astronaut stuff. Bliss. And it's a lovely area too - go to Old Hall in Sandbach for dinner afterwards. You'll thank me.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Betty💪 @bettyhumpter25.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

he’s always been an asshole

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Remembering the time I was almost lured into joining a cult by some lambs.

Some really creepy - but also cute - looking lambs and their sheep guru. That one at the bottom is going to be the big problem, I suspect.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In my opinion, this is litigious thuggery. Amnesty spoke their truth and it hurt the feelings of the anti-trans brigade. TERFs destroy everything they touch. I mean, imagine suing Amnesty, of all organisations?

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