iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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What were they thinking?!? Why is this opt-out??!? New #YouTube app lets everybody who clicks a YouTube link you shared see your channel/name. You have to notice it when you share or turn it off by default in #privacy settings

YouTube privacy settings, channel visibility for shared links

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Carl Rigney @carlrigney.bsky.social · 8h

@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Two Thirds to Midnight hydration check! Have you had tea today?

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Patrick DeWind @dewind.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, so what would happen if they DID try to create Plato's Republic? Well, craziness and shenanigans for one thing. I loved this top to bottom, and can't wait to get my mitts on a copy of the next one in the series.

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Patrick DeWind @dewind.bsky.social · 10h

Book #25 - The Just City by @bluejo.eurosky.social Having studied philosophy and classics in school (I even have a degree in one of them) I was a bit scared of reading something that delved deeply into both, but I was delighted by how good the story was.

Cover art of The Just City by Jo Walton featuring a detail from The School of Athens by Raphael.

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Patrick DeWind @dewind.bsky.social · 11h

Book #22 - Inventing the Renaissance by @adapalmer.bsky.social. Dr Palmer gives us not only a history of the Renaissance, but a history of the history of the Renaissance. Not being much of a historian myself, I found this boom amazing for filling in many of the gaps in my understanding.

Cover art for Inventing the Renaissance featuring the statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head by Benvenuto Cellini on an orange background.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 9h

A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A chart covering the latest Kushner/Witkoff grift.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One major reason that Microsoft was using a definition of intelligence borrowed from white supremacist Linda Gottfredson a couple of years back in their AI documentation is that scientific racists are pretty much the only ones out there pretending that intelligence is well defined and understood

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Bonnie Helen Hawkins @bonniehawkinsart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

MUSE, 2 days to go! Just £450 left to raise. MUSE mixes my artwork with 12 wonderfully authors, creating part art book, part anthology, and total labour of love. help me get it into print, there are just 2 days left. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... Every pledge and every share helps. ❤️

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MUSE

MUSE is a unique collection of art, stories and poetry inspired by myth.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 30/09/2026

Over at #Ebooks Direct: our #Autumn #Sale is on! All our #sciencefiction and #fantasy #ebook bundles have had prices cut to make it easier for you to pick up some new-season reading. And you get our free lifetime replacement guarantee! Do stop by and take advantage of us. dduane.link/AutumnEbookS...

Screengrab of the Ebooks Direct front page image for our Autumn Reading sale

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Carl Rigney @carlrigney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Fifth to Midnight hydration check! Have you had tea today? This week looks like a sizzler, stay cool if you can.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

vote411.org

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 02/10/2026

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 02/10/2026

A large collection of amazing photos of old control rooms from nuclear plants, dams, power stations, etc. So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. [kottke.org]

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So Many Amazing Control Rooms

From the Control Rooms group on Flickr. 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green, The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels, Inside

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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a cool site where you can mock up your own Penguin Classics book cover, so I did that with my own books! The Pagan Jones trilogy is coming soon, so voila - the first Cover I Can't use for Book 1.... This is the 1961 Dior suit-dress Pagan is wearing the night the Berlin Wall goes up.

A mock up for a Penguin Classics book cover for The Notorious Pagan Jones featuring a photo of the classic 1961 Dior suit-dress with leather gloves. It is so gorgeous and flattering and practical, made of brown wool, with a wide belt, long sleeves, and a cute bolero jacket attachment. I want one! The protagonist wears this outfit when she's caught on the wrong side the night the Berlin Wall goes up.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

Joined The Tech Report to talk about Anthropic's leaked S-1, the deterioration of the tech industry, and the growing debt pile underneath every major hyperscaler. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLXn...

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Anthropic IPO: "This is a dog of a company" | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tip: Corridor Crew’s ”stuntpeople react” YouTube series will give you more insight on how to structure and pace a fight scene than a library full of RPG articles.

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ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® @timforgot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Will we have to keep thinking about Sam Altman forever? I don't think so. I think he's gonna be a punchline." agreed, @doctorow.pluralistic.net, agreed. youtu.be/LiDUg_uylyM?...

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This is how the AI bubble pops | Cory Doctorow

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

Joined Jack Farley on Monetary Matters to talk about Anthropic's $8bn in 2025 losses/$400bn+ in non-cancellable commitments, the skyrocketing cost of AI debt, Oracle's distressed debt, and why the more GPUs they buy, the more expensive everything gets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4l1...

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The AI Bubble is Bleeding Cash, Part 2: Anthropic's Receipts | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Monetary Matters Network

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

Calling Vance "the most ordinary man imaginable" is so softly savage, you have to admire it.

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: We dive deep into Trump "shadow president" Russ Vought in the new episode of PAPER TRAIL, @propublica.org's podcast. I'm so excited about this. You will hear Vought - on tape! - in a way you haven't before. Pls listen — and subscribe to PAPER TRAIL www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...

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Who’s the Shadow President?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Worth it for "the Land Across" and "Borrowed Man" alone

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Needed a ray of hope amidst all the darkness in the world, so I reread "We, the Fleet" by Alex T Singer. Give yourself a treat and read it. It's no wonder Alex won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award with this story. #sciencefiction

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 01/10/2026

A demon appeared in the summoning circle. It was wearing pyjamas. "I summoned thee to give me knowled-" "Really?" the demon said. "You have the internet these days, the world's knowledge a click away. Nobody's summoned me in years." "You have all knowledge. Why did I summon thee?" "... oh shit."

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LMFAO the official America.gov AI website uses a Chinese open source model

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Agatha Frame @agathaframe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Susan Collins' out-of-state PAC is spending big bucks to buy her another six years to do the oligarchs' bidding. Posting this convo between @troyjackson207.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social, with the good people here at Bluesky at my big sis's request. www.youtube.com/live/UUPCTaN...

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Community Conversation w/ Troy Jackson and Heather Cox Richardson | Solidarity Forever Tour

YouTube video by Troy Jackson for Maine

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:

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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Murderbot graphic novel team: @ericaschultz42.bsky.social has done everything in comics, vast experience, huge heart, Inkpot (lifetime achievement) winner. She’s tough, a bit stoic, humane. My first choice for Murderbot. So glad we got her. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!

The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 30/09/2026

Fantastic thread on a common misread of move structure. Practically required reading for folks interested at all in PBTA design.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

Also I am forgetting! My friend Dani's middle-grade book THE DOG HEIST came out from @secondstory.bsky.social this month! If you have young readers in your life, maybe they too would like a heist! :D bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Dog Heist

A neglected dog brings two misfits together in this adventure for middle schoolers who love animals and stories where the kids take charge. For Caleb, September is off to a rough start. His parents ha...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/09/2026

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I walk through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI. youtu.be/u4pr23MWMM8?... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI | Better Offline

YouTube video by Better Offline

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/09/2026

"if you only know one country, you know no countries." and i don't know just mean sound bites and gotchas. understanding how chile lost its democracy--and got it back--matters. valentin tapia, today: www.liberalcurrents.com/how-chile-re...

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How Chile Recovered Its Democracy

A leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election.

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Carl Rigney @carlrigney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We just sold out of Exclusion Zone Botanist but never fear, more are on the way! And have you signed up to be notified for the launch of Exclusion Zone Botanist: Epsilon? It's not too late! www.kickstarter.com/projects/exe...

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Coming soon: Exclusion Zone Botanist: Epsilon

A solo adventure game about exploring a dark and corrupting forest. Get in. Discover and document. Get out.

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