iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Have GenAI run your hobbies. Your passions. Your family. Then you can focus on what matters most: maximizing shareholder value.

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KNAU Arizona Public Radio @knauazpubradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Flagstaff artist Chip Thomas is one of this year's MacArthur Fellows for his work confronting issues affecting Indigenous communities. We revisit a story about his 2026 art exhibit that reveals the history of Black lumberjacks in northern Arizona. buff.ly/2Omwl4A

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An art exhibit reveals the hidden history of northern Arizona’s Black lumberjacks

An art exhibit at Northern Arizona University explores the legacy of Black workers who helped cement the enduring western icon of the lumberjack in the region.

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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements…” Excuse me? Who?! When?! 🧐

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/10/2026

The cars from Cars have tinted windows because otherwise you’d see their bowels.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 03/10/2026

"no one elected you" dude it's an internationally acclaimed election watched by billions around the globe

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I was still pretty young when it happened,but yeah, it wound up being more of a Butlerian Crusade than a Butlerian Jihad ..."

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI evangelists might do better at converting skeptical people if every bit of news out of the small handful of companies doing all of it doesn't make the people in charge seem like absolute lunatics

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete Hegseth is the answer to the question what if Patrick Bateman went to an SEC school

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a Michigan fan, I guess I can empathize with Eric Schmitt. The Iowa Hawkeyes are exposing a lot of people as gigantic frauds these days.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this is utterly adorable and i think if i saw this show as a kid i would've been bouncing off the walls

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026

Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and

The results chart from Massachusetts showing Markey winning nearly every city by over 40 points

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rsutaustin.bsky.social @rsutaustin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Visit the link to read about an upcoming event on September 17, "The Apostle Thomas, the Taxila Cross, and Christian Origins in Pakistan" with Nadeem Omar Tarar and our own Brent Landau. tinyurl.com/mrwhkpny

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Toot toot! 🐭 🎺 🎉 I’m delighted to reach the milestone of 15,000 followers! Thank you for joining me! Great to see so many of you interested in #Archaeology! Here’s a tiny Roman bronze mouse playing a trumpet! Perhaps too loudly as he’s covering his ear with a paw! 1st-2nd century AD #Archaeology

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Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Seven (?) years in the making, submitted to my editors yesterday. 624 pages, covering almost 400 texts but 100 or so pages over my page limit. Happy to leave this in the hands of the editors for a while and move on to something else (or just get more sleep). My thanks to all who helped along the way

Draft of opening page to Introduction to Christian Apocrypha by Tony Burke

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...

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Dolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread Affection

Bipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country.

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Brent Landau @brentlandau.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This piece is about me and my course at UT Austin, “Religion and Outer Space.” lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/2026/03/figu...

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Figures in the Firmament

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Brent Landau @brentlandau.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Because the dorsal fin is where the theme music plays from.

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 27/08/2026

The whole system is packed full of quirks and oddities that we've yet to fully understand or explain. www.iflscience.com/two-moons-of...

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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

genuinely cannot imagine anything like this ever happening again.

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Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all.

Donald J. Trump
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Very sad to report that Dolly Parton, one of the greatest Country singers, and far beyond, EVER, has just passed away. This is a true loss for millions of people. There has never been anyone like her, and never will. In her honor, I am lowering the American flag throughout the United States for a one week period beginning tonight at 6:00PM. Rest in Peace, Dolly! The World loves you. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If everyone can call him Enes Kanter Freedom then they can call trans people by their chosen names too

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As a Religious Studies professor I fervently believe in “religious literacy.” I also believe in political literacy, which includes not being a mark who thinks that Christian nationalists introducing the Bible in schools is going to serve that goal.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

accounts describing 'Natalie Harp' as a concubine responsible for the degeneracy and fall of the dynasty have to be read with a critical eye given the recurrence of such tropes in dynastic history

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

co-sign, intro religious studies is the way to go. we have to get basic religious literacy down before we can even think about fielding bible classes in k-12. shame, because there are amazing bible educators who could write a brilliant, rigorous k-12 curriculum.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026

i both think that students in the US should get literary instruction in the Bible (basically the equivalent of an intro religious studies course) and that doing so would be so controversial that it isn't worth the effort

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Diesel of Sarcasm @dsng480.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

KT extinction killed everything bigger than a duck 🦆 (except alligators). Pretty convenient. Maybe too convenient. Quack bono? I am not saying it was deliberate. Just asking questions. Maybe those predators of ducks slipped in the shower, or lived out their lives on a farm upstate.

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another thing to note is that the journos have had slightly less than 24 hours of being shouted at on social media and they cannot cope, but they expect members of the public to cope with weeks of attacks via TV and newspaper

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 12/08/2026

Some people are pointing out that Phobos barely qualifies as a moon and that solar eclipses (more accurately "transits") on Mars are shit. These are correct takes.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Please don’t write in the newspaper 700 years from now that I got absolutely smoked.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/08/2026

A new JWST image just dropped and it is gorgeous

A vast cloud of dust and gas, mainly orange, pops in this image in which hazier, fainter gas paints reds and greens in the background.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

to the folks telling me how shitty higher ed is: yeah, i know. we went through a department closure last AY. you don’t have to tell me things are dire. but i do wish we, as faculty, had massive, totally unreasonable dreams for any future academy. you can do a lot with dreams. i know that too.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm starting to suspect that my tax dollars are going to munitions I'll never use, either

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Computer: say it. say the words. Me: can we not do this today? Computer: we do this every day. say it. Me: (*sigh) I would like to stay logged in on this device Computer: (*chuckling)

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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/08/2026

I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more

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Marina Koren @marinakoren.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

On August 5, a discarded piece of a SpaceX rocket is going to crash into the moon (this kind of thing has happened before) but it seems like this impact could potentially be visible from Earth?! arxiv.org/pdf/2607.23904

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2026

there is no good faith anti-trans sports lobby and never has been it’s been a cynical wedge issue from day one for a group of people looking to replace gay marriage as a cultural weapon none of them have ever cared about women, women’s sports, or even sports

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Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 29/07/2026

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

"A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information," it continues.
"Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an Al model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated.
The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one."

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So, once upon a time, I was doing a deep dive into what Christian seminary textbooks say about Jews, and I started trying to figure out where the assertion that 1st-century Jews hated shepherds came from. (Cited in peer-reviewed papers!) Traced it to its source: an 1800s guy just made it up.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Interesting article by my friend Nadia Drake (and edited by my editor, too!) about the difficulties of finding life on Mars. I'm far from convinced we've found evidence, but that's kinda the point. We need better experiments, and perhaps a different way of looking at things.

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