iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Again, let's just stop & remember that age-based legal restrictions on access to social media/online services are a bad idea & infringe the rights of young people to speak, access information and arts & culture, find community and play. Then look at the madness involved in trying to make them work.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you’d do it for their sports team, whether or not you even liked the sport they picked, you can do it for their deepest hearts and souls.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

but then someone on the trail had a dog and LeggyDog wanted to play and we discovered that the loose spot is big enough for her to get through and everyone is fine but now we're home.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had a good walk down to the dog park, where i sat in the shade of the doggy play structure (stairs, ramp, tunnel) and the dogs enjoyed chasing bikes (trail runs right next to the park),

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We used to structure society so that we didn't have to give teenagers 6 figure loans to go to school and we could do that again.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Chattering in class about how Marie is the most common middle name for white girls in the US. Turn to classmate. "Hey, Marie?" Marie, with long-suffering sigh: "yes?" "What's *your* middle name?" Flat, defeated: "Marie."

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I asked a death & funerals-employed friend where to even start with this and she said she'd think and get back to me instead of immediately saying "omg no" so that bodes well.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nah, people leave skeletons to theater companies sometimes, the only thing different is how specific you want it. Your skeleton's custodian would double as its agent. :D

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really thought that part of the ridiculousness was Trump naming a dead guy to the team.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mental image of just mummying some zitty kids from my high school in this

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 01/10/2026

Never in my life have I seen such widespread and uncoordinated defiance of law enforcement in America. That's just stunning. Once regular people decide to start hindering the feds all by their lonesome, you've turned a corner.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(also credit to my brother, he would not hesitate to evict someone from his life if need be. He yelled at one of his friends for starting to explain some gay innuendo inside joke that I did not get and would not want to know.)

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My brother invited me to his party he warned would probably be "a big gay sausagefest" because the women he invited were busy. It was, i was the only woman-like person there, but it was so nice to not worry about it.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is why I call AI a deskilling project.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last night on walkies we encountered this beastie on the sidewalk; i scooped it up (in a dog poo bag so it wouldn't leap from my hands; very agitated bag) and released it to a pond. Our first guess was bullfrog but we doubted it because of color. looked up ID and it is!

Photo of a pale green bullfrog on a background of weeds and old wet leaves.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(clarification: my work week is tues-sat; Saturday is my Friday)

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like my job and the people there. I still take off the first Saturday of every month and i can tell how close we are to the end of the month by how much i am banging on the glass to be let out.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A tin with no pin/pen distinction

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

US-Not-UK answer, but apparently the University of Iowa health clinics (massive hospital + med school) are the largest art collection in the state.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)

Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I found a rotting but skin-not-broken potato in a bag recently. Handled that like a rotten egg, put it in a *jar* in the trash so nothing could pop it.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm going to treat this as a good faith question, even though I'm not sure it is. Many universities require students to take breadth requirements; that means humanities students take math and science courses and STEM students take humanities and social science courses. And that's good! Why? 🧵

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

LOUDER FOR THE BACK ROW

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can't recall if Careless People or an interview, but a follower in awe of his perfect toasted marshmallows, patience to hold it farther from flames, so it took much longer but wouldn't singe. Not sure what it signifies that neither of these people know to make marshmallows (fast+safe) over embers.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw that post but didn't look at the comments (and I didn't have sound on, if that made a difference). I assumed the message was "marry someone who will lie for you when you're hiding from the kids", was I wrong or was reddit wrong?

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Update: Did make it there; turns out they aren't actually closing but have been sold to a different chain. Clerk said that's all they know, it was sudden and they don't even know *which* chain. But the 40% off everything that was promised because of closing, that was real. :>

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Feeling very 40. Restless and twitchy, so I'm pacing in the dark trying to get tired; but also sore so also cat-cow and child's pose.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using generative AI means that you can't answer the most basic element of research, which is "where did you get this information?"

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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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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dr. Praeger's and morningstar grillers basically tied, I'd have to have them together to pick a winner between them. *Veggie burger mouthfeel is broadly crap, this only a little better.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Round two, Dr Praeger's vs Actual Veggies: Mushroom quinoa (and black beans) wins over black bean quinoa. Weirdly, they're the only ones that wanted to be thawed before cooking? Better mouthfeel*, more savory taste. Actual Veggies holds the crown until i find more varieties to try.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Democrats still think they are living in the 1990s and that what people want is for the partisan bickering to cease. We are actually living in the 2020s and the people want treason to be prosecuted

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The sex shop by my old house is closing :( AND I won't be able to make it there until their last day when probably all the good stuff will be sold out.

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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I asked my boss if I could get off early Thursdays, be early or late on some other day, to take a class. Turned out to be the perfect time to ask/makes his job easier with other changes, so that starts in 2 days! imma learn SWORDS.

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Loose Leaf Queer @genderqueerwolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

10 spots left. 8 days. Who will be the last to winter's toothsome embrace?

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