iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Corey Leigh Latislaw @colabug.bsky.social · 12h

Morning creativity: Yellow and green abstracts

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.com

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h

why is it spelled repellEnt but propellAnt? what the fuck?

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Political misogyny is the defining social movement of our time and there is no way out that does not confront it head on, though I am at a loss at how to do so and win.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's Silent Movie Day! Did you know not all silent films were black and white? Color processes like Kinemacolor were shown as early as 1909, and film was tinted and colored by hand even earlier. Here are some examples of early silent films in color from the Library's National Screening Room!

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andi a @andia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TIL that Access Now and a few other orgs have an open letter calling on the EU to do something about the proposed Bill C-22. Maybe if other countries ask, the gov't will listen?! www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

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The EU must act now to protect privacy and encryption from Canada’s overreaching Bill C-22 - Access Now

Access Now, alongside several European civil society organisations, are urging Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, European Union commissioners, and members of the European Par...

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 28/09/2026

@jzplusplus.com and i are hosting a kickoff for this year’s weird web october! (weirdweboctober.website) bubblesort studios 78 gough st, sf sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

a vector drawing of internet browsers at a slant

the browser in the foreground has the text:

weird web october kickoff

bubblesort studios
78 gough st, sf
sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

2000s style link banners say “web showcase from past years”
“make your own weird websites”
and “work on this years prompts”

there’s a halftone image of clouds in the background, a mouse with a cursor trail

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moof @antimoof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.jwz.org/doc/about-jw...

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 29/09/2026

doing fanart(?) of the old netscape navigator icon website loading animation, when you would get treated to a little meteor shower any time a website was loading 🌠💫

vector art of the old netscape navigator icon meteor shower, with a white serif N in a circle and a meteor shower happening around it

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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21h

We're excited to welcome @repsummerlee.bsky.social as a keynote speaker! There's still time to RSVP at communityaisummit.org

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Apertus @apertusllm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Getting started with #Apertus is easier than ever 🚥 Learn how the fully open source model is being deployed, collaborating with beta-testers in a range of organizations on key open source components. Our grateful survey of the inference ecosystem in a new blog post: apertus-ai.org/articles/202...

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Apertus AI

Fully Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

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Afri @l5y.tech · 29/09/2026

Reticulum Berlin Meetup tonight at X-Hain. x-hain.de/en/calendar/...

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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Omg!! iykyk #Wordle 1,928 4/6* 🟧🟦⬛⬛⬛ 🟧⬛🟦⬛⬛ 🟧⬛⬛🟦⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

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Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm thrilled that Michele Monserrati's excellent article on uses of samurai symbolism by the Italian far-right in the early twentieth century has been featured on JSTOR Daily: daily.jstor.org/why-italian-...

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Why Italian Fascists Loved Samurai - JSTOR Daily

Japan offered Italian Fascists a powerful example of how ancient traditions could serve modern nationalism.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 28/09/2026

We are now about half way to the threshold at Inference.coop where I'll have to give up my benevolent dictatorship. Want to join the ethical-ish AI train and help unseat me from power?

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Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together

A member-governed cooperative for AI inference. Direct the models, the values, and the direction — together.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 28/09/2026

Reminder.

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 28/09/2026

They're stealing the entire universe from our pocketbooks.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That is, it’s true that AI won’t use nearly as much water as, e.g., agriculture (even unnecessary agriculture) but it’s not the absolute volume that matters, it’s where the water is sourced from and how that will affect local ecosystems.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are your large language models too slow and expensive? Do your small language models lack the capabilities you need to complete your tasks? Here at Goldilocks.ai we are building the first Medium Language Model, and we're hoping it'll be just right for your needs.

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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“we have cyberpunk at home” the cyberpunk at home:

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

apricitas.io

AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?

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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 27/09/2026

There is nothing inevitable about today's GenAI companies or market or product design or power dynamics. It's based on decisions, made implicitly and explicitly, by people. To imagine a better way we must realize how arbitrary all of this is. And who it serves.

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brennan @brennan.computer · 27/09/2026

electric lawnmowers are so cool I'm watching my neighbor across the street from my house window and cannot hear it at all

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"In the two-episode arc, 'Beyond Books,' three aspiring librarians take a road trip to explore all the surprising, powerful, and essential roles libraries play in our communities today—online, in rural areas, and more" ilovelibraries.org/article/libr...

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Librarians Hit the Road

Roadtrip Nation, the PBS documentary series that sends three people across the United States in an RV to explore what it means to build a career—and more importantly, a life—around the things you love...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

50,000 South Dakotans have health care coverage because voters expanded Medicaid in 2022. The initiative passed with 56% of the vote. So this year the GOP has put 2 measures on ballot: —one to roll back Medicaid expansion —another to require future initiatives like this get 60 percent.

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"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts

Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state cons...

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not on the same scale (it's not a LLM like OpenAI) but this is my fear with eBird announcing that Merlin recordings can now be directly uploaded Merlin is a MLM trained on data posted to eBird. So making it easier to upload data (recordings) identified by the MLM to the training dataset seems bad

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Tom @moll.dev · 27/09/2026

I grew up in a place with a lot of corn, millions of acres of it grown just to make a shitty alternative to diesel. tons and tons of petroleum inputs in fuel, fertilizer, loads of water to make something with 67% of the energy density of gasoline

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Tom @moll.dev · 27/09/2026

everyone's talking about a butlerian jihad, but we need a ethanol jihad

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First four shows of the Mirah tour this Thursday - Sunday in RI, ME, NH, and MA. Still some tix for all of these at evangreer.org Deep Cuts tix are getting low!

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

aw apparently "hormone cycles so shifted that your natural sleep time is 4AM-noon since you were a teenager and there's nothing you can do to change that" isn't just something unique to me, it has its own name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed...

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Delayed sleep phase disorder - Wikipedia

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hugging Face was a case study, and I’d guess most of these followed the same test setup — not surprising, because the companies weren’t aware and so weren’t responding. But I’d like to see what models & tasks were involved. With so many incidents, they should know what the patterns were.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What kind of product design roles one should be targeting for if they are okayish/decent in visual craft but better at interaction, systems, problem framing

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/09/2026

Last month showed unusually warm sea surface temperatures across much of the #Arctic Ocean, especially in the Kara Sea, Baffin Bay, & Labrador Sea. There's been an interesting contrast in ocean temperature departures across the East Siberian Sea, as well as some lingering ice Data: NOAA OISSTv2.1 🌊

Polar stereographic map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in August 2026 relative to 1982 to 2010. Most areas are warmer than average. Sea-ice cover is also shown if sea-ice concentration is at least 15% per each grid point. Red is shown for warmer sea surface temperatures, and blue is shown for colder sea surface temperatures. Data is from OISSTv2.1.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This, from Dennett, I wish I'd taken to heart earlier in my life. www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d...

How to compose a successful critical commentary:

1 You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
2 You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3 You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
4 Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think one reason I’ve felt alienated in the past from much of architectural criticism is that it often fails to do this. The high-stakes permanent nature of architectural mistakes incentivizes critics to evaluate buildings as being entirely good or bad, in a way that doesn’t happen with other art.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wonder which would save more water - -total data center ban -stop making ethanol ?

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“They squeezed the hospital group the same way they squeeze retail companies like the Container Store or Sports Authority,” Martin said, referring to Leonard Green. “So instead of not being able to buy . . knives and forks or a basketball, you have my dead daughter.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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She went to the hospital for a broken ankle. Why did she end up dead?

Dale Alice Martin, 21, was given too many drugs after being admitted to a struggling Connecticut hospital.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/09/2026

Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. It will be released in cinemas in more than 50 countries in the coming weeks, and then will stream on the Guardian’s website, for free.

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NAZA - official trailer

YouTube video by The Guardian

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They got paid so what was the complaint, said UAW leaders? The complaint was that 30 years of this sounded like hell.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The terrible tediousness of the daily grind combined with asshole bosses and the speedup led to the famed Lordstown strike in 1972, which flummoxed aging union leadership as much as the company. What did these guys want?

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The early 1970s was a wild time for the American working class. It seemed that a revival of labor radicalism was underway. Public sector workers were organizing in new ways, bringing in needed energy to the labor movement.

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spence @thepope.dev · 16/09/2026

first aid kit implies the existence of a second, perhaps even third aid kit

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