iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 18m

This. This would piss me off so much as a creator. Don’t train AI on my words, my turn of phrase, my voice… in an effort to discredit me as a writer.

030

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 7h

It is really chilling to see how quickly Black, Caribbean, and African writers and academics have become the global face of AI use and accusations of plagiarism. For such a serious charge, @vauhinivara.bsky.social's article rests on...a Pangram scan. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.

26961321

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

A big part of how this works is a bunch of soft racists acting as if Black people being subject to racism is some extraordinary thing that rarely happens rather than a routine part of life. So they can act as if these are all individual cases totally unconnected to the last Black person they accused

322658

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 15h

Time is on my side, yes, it is Time is on my side, yes, it is… Every time I hear that song I think of this movie.

020

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Vanessa Williams does the splits and slides across all these men's laps. This is my favorite part of the '90s version of Bye-bye Birdie! Peak Cinema!

48023

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

had to log in to the bad site to make sure this was real and lmaooooo gotdamn

KACEY
@KaceyMusgraves

I don't think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
—————————————————————————-

Kristi Noem
@KristiNoem • 10h

I'll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.
And if I'm choosin' Texas, I'll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
—————————————————————————-

James Talarico
11h •
Thank you for having me last night, Kacey Musgraves!

314436

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Laura Lee @lauraleeactor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A couple days ago yet another friend of mine in Los Angeles tested positive for COVID. It’s bad out there, folks. Mask up and for crying out loud go get your covid and flu shots!

2134

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12/10/2026

this is community 🪴

62926945

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

onion person @junlper.beer · 12/10/2026

its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal

393243551

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

676260355525

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/10/2026

Solidarité!

16019

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

She’s beautiful. You’re so blessed to have her this long.

110

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

mcfonen @mcfonen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells"

Jeimy says that many infants and toddlers admitted to hospital with rare infections since 20225 weren’t yet born when pandemic restrictions were in place, and they therefore couldn’t be experiencing immunity debt. They were, however, likely exposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Wolfgang Leitner, chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speculates that covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system’s “memory” of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future pathogens. He wonders whether the virus leaves lasting scars on the immune system’s T cell defences. “But that’s just (my) hypothesis,” he emphasises in an email.

Immunity reset?

SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells...

36324

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

kickstarter.com

Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture

Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.

191443511

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I used to love this route. I guess I should have taken some pics and/or video because it probably won’t exist by next year.

052

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11/10/2026

What I hear every time there’s a new “rogue ai” announcement is “once more we’ve unleashed malware into the wild to see what would happen. We’re not sorry and we’ll do it again.”

5588166

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Let’s see if this data holds after his “big surprise.”

120

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That poor girl and many like her (and much younger than her) are being trafficked. Government-sanctioned sexual predation under this regime.

13419

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

what's the plan then?

425546

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

11150011483

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

3444711470

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

302479627

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

California's COVlD outbreak now surpasses 3 months. PMC estimates 1 in 29 residents are actively infectious statewide. Mask up and get boosted.💉💪😷 On a computer, go to pmc19.com/map and click on individual counties for more info, including a graph of recent levels. Summary in ALT text.

County, Level, and PMC estimate of the proportion of the population actively infectious

Alameda | Very High | 1 in 26
Alpine | High | 1 in 34
Amador | High | 1 in 36
Butte | Very High | 1 in 22
Calaveras | High | 1 in 30
Colusa | Very High | 1 in 25
Contra Costa | High | 1 in 36
Del Norte | Very High | 1 in 23
El Dorado | High | 1 in 40
Fresno | Very High | 1 in 23
Glenn | Very High | 1 in 23
Humboldt | High | 1 in 32
Imperial | High | 1 in 31
Inyo | Very High | 1 in 20
Kern | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Kings | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Lake | Very High | 1 in 23
Lassen | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Los Angeles | High | 1 in 34
Madera | Very High | 1 in 24
Marin | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Mariposa | High | 1 in 29
Mendocino | Very High | 1 in 24
Merced | Moderate | 1 in 43
Modoc | Very High | 1 in 21
Mono | Very High | 1 in 25
Monterey | Very High | 1 in 28
Napa | High | 1 in 33
Nevada | Very High | 1 in 28
Orange | High | 1 in 38
Placer | High | 1 in 29
Plumas | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Riverside | Very High | 1 in 26
Sacramento | High | 1 in 29
San Benito | High | 1 in 30
San Bernardino | Very High | At least 1 in 20
San Diego | Moderate | 1 in 48
San Francisco | High | 1 in 34
San Joaquin | Very High | 1 in 22
San Luis Obispo | High | 1 in 29
San Mateo | High | 1 in 37
Santa Barbara | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Santa Clara | High | 1 in 40
Santa Cruz | Very High | 1 in 26
Shasta | Very High | 1 in 26
Sierra | Very High | 1 in 23
Siskiyou | High | 1 in 31
Solano | High | 1 in 34
Sonoma | Very High | 1 in 25
Stanislaus | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Sutter | High | 1 in 31
Tehama | Very High | 1 in 23
Trinity | High | 1 in 30
Tulare | Very High | 1 in 20
Tuolumne | High | 1 in 29
Ventura | High | 1 in 34
Yolo | Very High | 1 in 24
Yuba | Very High | 1 in 28

515181

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I think what they’re really concerned about is that left politics *will* resonate — and you’ll have progressives and democratic socialists in office demanding that the Democratic Party leadership actually do something.”

hammerandhope.org

The Democrats’ “Woke” Panic and the Left’s Response

The victory of left-wing candidates in Democratic primary elections shows that voters want a different path. But party leaders don’t.

322641

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He more specifically called it a “midterm surprise,” in a Truth Social post today. He’s also said, “I think we’re going to have a big surprise, because they don’t know what’s happening.” Ominous, indeed.

1214

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A burgeoning prepper who’s heavily invested in my child’s literacy skills. Correct. I also have a flat buttocks, but that wasn’t reflected in my data.

Photo shows some Amazon data they collect in their “about me” section.

Product Preferences
Consistently invests in children's reading
materials
Interests & Hobbies
Reads with children regularly
Product Preferences
Prefers diverse children's literature
Departments
Water Safety & Emergency Preparedness

050

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

710262468659

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

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

6163752437

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And TikTok. But I’m mostly pissed about him buying up an entire Hawaiian island. Yes, the extraction began with Mormon settlers who drained the island’s sole water supply & destroyed the forest long ago, but the depletion continues with Bibi’s bestie.

080

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If we can't hold rich people accountable, then we need to abolish rich people

14616

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 03/10/2026

Awwww! Another species wising up to the fact, that its natural enemy is billionaires…#natureIsHealing

Photo of sperm whale underwater.

"NEWS
Gang of sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific"

22524100

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I recently read about Annie Jacobsen’s newest book, “Biological War,” and thought, nah, not happening, non-fictional pneumonic plague weaponized by the Russians to be airborne & 100% fatal within 24 hours because known treatments fail. Now I’m thinking, the scenario was supposed to be fictional❗️

043

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you were looking for an artifact that encapsulates this moment in time you could do worse than an official federal document signed by our top oligarchs that both declares AI is a "super intelligence" and is slop that misspells the country's name as "the Unites States"

311824

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It will be Vance following through on Thiel’s tech-reich vision, but mostly him attacking women with “family policy,” and finishing up the other half of Heritage’s project 2025. Vance wants out of Iran. His war will instead be raged here, on all who are not white, male christofascists.

010

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's almost like, diversity of thought/life experiences, equity, and inclusion create amazing results!

03617

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s always the Boy Moms.

2435729

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

4768501120

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

9753492188

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The patriarchy is bad for everyone except the predatory violent men at the top. And the only language they understand is violence.

0145

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bees pollinate roughly 1 in 3 bites of food we eat. When they decline, entire ecosystems unravel — rivers lose life, flowers stop reproducing, and springs go quiet. This is not an isolated crisis. It is a systemic one. We traded resilience for short-term wealth. The bill is now due.

213555

Reposted by Chima Simone Benson

nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

6453652146

Chima Simone Benson @chimasimone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“British food allows you the space to fill in the gaps with your imagination of what it could taste like.” He says bleh so poetically.

060