iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dear academics, can we abolish conferences and invest in smaller, regional colloquiums and workshops? We can use all the money saved to invest in so many critical causes/orgs related to our collective scholarship. I think we can act with more direct action and urgency.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 10/09/2026

(1/2) The new Apple Watch always on recording feature is creepy as fuck. I wasn’t privy to its development when I worked there, but I did spend enough time working with Privacy Legal and Privacy Engineering to suspect that someone(s) *very* senior must have leaned on them hard to ship this.

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Going all in with „The human body was created to experience sexual extasy, no exceptions.“ at a Catholic seminary.

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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 29/08/2026

But learning isn’t just information accumulation. It’s social and cultural. It’s identity work and community membership. It’s building relationships with ideas and gaining access to domain specific practices. Stop building educational tools and systems on outdated theories of cognition. 2/2

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 25/08/2026

Really want a Blue Lights x Line of Duty crossover.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 24/08/2026

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade holds up well.

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no it's lin 💜 @infromthesnow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

happy phoebe bridgers new album to all who celebrate

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Very much agree with Pieris's argument: investing public funds exclusively in research 'applications' (believing that they have greater and more immediate economic value) will destroy the real driver of economic growth: basic science is the *only* economic engine arxiv.org/abs/2608.00172

Money quote from the preprint's conclusion : "The choice being presented to the scientific community — discovery or appli-cation, curiosity or impact — is a zero-sum illusion. The researchers who pursue fundamental questions are the same ones who end up transforming medicine, defence and industry — not because they planned to, but because transformative discoveries do not respect funding categories. Fundamental research is the foundation of the building. No one sees it while the skyscraper is standing, but remove it and everything above comes down."

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Joe Polman @joepolman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In part 2 of this podcast, Priyanka Parekh, @benshapi.ro, and I talk about the key ideas and findings in our JLS article "Reconfiguring Science through Caring Human Inquiry and Design with Pets." Relational caring can add to rather than detract from science learning!

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Joe Polman @joepolman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Priyanka Parekh, @benshapi.ro and I were interviewed for the Journal of the Learning Sciences Podcast. Here is part 1 of it, where we talk about the journey of this study and paper. Research can be a productively winding road!

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Geoff Hutchison @geoffhutchison.net · 07/08/2026

I've been on review panels. Can you imagine what the NIH and NSF could do with another $1.5B right now? There's so much good science that's going unfunded.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Love to see this! "We're constantly listening to our visitors, and a designated mask-required experience is something many have expressed interest in" www.exploratorium.edu/press-office...

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Exploratorium Announces Special Mask-Required Morning on Saturday, August 22 | Exploratorium

Low-capacity, early access offers a more comfortable museum experience for visitors seeking designated mask-required hours

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I just always get a kick out of credential-obsessed politicos who disdain the people and places that confer them. But, yes, faculty lounge is like a lava lamp at this point. We've only seen them in movies, David.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 29/07/2026

Can we get a Marcia Roy prequel series?

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Journal of the Learning Sciences @jlearnsciences.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Pod Alert! Tune in to Professors Priyanka Parekh, @joepolman.bsky.social, and R. Benjamin Shapiro discuss their Outstanding Article of the Year, "Reconfiguring Science through Caring Human Inquiry and Design with Pets", in part 1 of our 2 episode conversation! pod.link/1871587810/e...

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Parekh, Polman & Shapiro on their Outstanding Article of the Year & journey to publication - PART 1

Listen to Parekh, Polman & Shapiro on their Outstanding Article of the Year & journey to publication - PART 1 from Journal of the Learning Sciences Podcast wherever you get your podcasts!

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.

Susan Collins standing with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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Your Good Friend Shane @timsneighbor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We have always gone to the theatre to watch the powerful fail. The yellow freaks we call Minions refuse the tragedy. They open the curtain and show us the ugly underbelly we secretly crave. They ask for nothing but a master. They say, "Tell me who to work for." And we, God help us, we cheer.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 18/07/2026

Is it better than o brother where art thou?

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 17/07/2026

LOL! I’m watching the first lecture in @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s class on Hitler, Stalin, and Us and he begins with a Spinal Tap reference. Bravo!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As an immunosuppressed person I’m so angry at everyone responsible for the CDC’s non-response to the Cyclospora outbreak. We have no guidelines, just news articles sharing long lists of foods to avoid because they’ve been associated with outbreaks in the past. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so stupid.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 13/07/2026

Of all the pro athletes, Nicole Heavirland seems like she’d be the most fun to hang out with.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 12/07/2026

Wonder if Fetterman will be the third GOP Senator to go.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 09/07/2026

After all the stories they’ve held in order to promote their books and protect their sources, I wonder which journalists at @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com actually know what’s up with McConnell and when they’ll condescend to inform us.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 02/07/2026

Last night, I dreamed that Jose Cuervo got acquired and renamed Hank Azaria

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 23/06/2026

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Wendell Pierce is on Fresh Air today! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 23/06/2026

I wish the WSB people would get very into shorting them

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 19/06/2026

Congratulations to @dffeldon.bsky.social for winning Best Long Paper at ISLS 2026. As a mostly qualitative researcher, I love seeing very high quality quant research in LS spaces.

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Ellen Rose @icklenellierose.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Simply banning kids from social media, rather than enforcing sensible age-gating on certain sites and encouraging safer places for kids to go (a la Club Penguin, Habbo Hotel, NeoPets, etc.), is such a disservice to kids and gives a false sense of security to parents. Don’t ban, make spaces.

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MadMarvin @marvinm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hi, we saw you from across the bar, and we'd like to give you health care.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 13/06/2026

Finally watched the Hacks finale and it should win all the awards.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

this should frighten you

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 06/06/2026

Young Nechayev TNG spinoff when?

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 04/06/2026

I’m rereading cryptonomicon and it’s much funnier than I remembered

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

UW-Madison has almost 52,000 students. It has a dairy farm, dairy sciences, forestry and top notch humanities. It also works closely with dairy and other farmers throughout the state to improve their output. Big publics do it all.

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 21/05/2026

I want a back massage from Odo

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 20/05/2026

OMG I thought I saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the mall the other day, but dismissed that as impossible. Now, I don’t know.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro · 15/05/2026

Would be rad if Xi stinkpalmed him

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