iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can confirm: "The History of Concrete" was a quirky, funny, and unexpected delight.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the latest version of Kernel Panic—WIRED's security and privacy newsletter—me and @lhn.bsky.social look at how Meta's Muse AI creates 'profiles' for everyone in your life. And yep, that means compiling a huge amount of info about your relationships Story here: www.wired.com/story/muse-c...

Screenshot of Muse's system instructions:

Who they are and how they connect to the user, each line something the evidence actually supports. Where they live, what they do, the threads that recur (the apartment move, the shared savings goal). Record the dates that matter when the evidence gives them, each on its own line in a consistent form a reminder can find (`Birthday: March 12`, `Anniversary: June 4`), and note when the user last connected and their usual rhythm when the evidence shows it (`Last spoke: this week, about the move`). Only what the evidence supports; never guess a date.

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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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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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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💓❤️‍🔥 This is the best news to wake up to!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It seems like there's a new round of "stochastic parrots has been proven wrong" discourse going on, so I'm going to re-up this: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>

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Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My press doesn’t use substack, or help make content for substack. We just turned down a second press interview hosted on substack—so I want to share this article.

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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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HAD @havehashad.com · 01/09/2026

Next sub call coming in ~48 hours (Wed, 9/2, 9pm central time), from our friends and yours, @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social! *full sub call language in alt text and replies*

Choose Your Own Constraint!

Hey hey, HADders! Lexi Rosen, here. While you can normally find me honking over at Silly Goose Press, Aaron and Crow were kind enough to pass over the keys to the skull pile this week and I can't wait to hand some out! I am SO excited to read your very best, RULE FOLLOWING pieces. I'm interested in constraints, patterns, syllables, rhyme schemes — whatever rules you've decided to follow are fair game for this call. Prose and poetry are welcome, but know that I prefer flash fiction and poems that can stick to one-ish page, and let's limit page counts to 3-5ish. That said, I care way more about the rules you're choosing to follow than the ones I lay out for you. Pretty please with a cherry on top let me know on a separate page (the last page, if possible!) of your attached submission document what rules and parameters you've decided to set (ie, I didn't use the letter E throughout the piece, I only wrote in haiku, every third word is an onomatopoeia, I had to use the word canteloup at least twice, etc), and feel free to include something about why, if you wanna — I love a craft choice and would love even more to hear about your process.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/08/2026

Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets. I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap. Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

No thanks Google

• No sooner than September 21, 2026: The new configuration goes into effect for all users.
• Auto-enablement rules:
When a user creates a meeting in Google Calendar with a Google Meet conference and adds the third participant (including the organizer), the "Take notes for me" feature and the transcription will be automatically pre-enabled.
The first time this occurs, Google Calendar displays an explanatory callout.

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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was obsessed with these! Poppin Good and Way to Go (which, I think, smelled like spearmint?) were my faves, and whichever one smelled like black licorice (was that the donut?)

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Salon of Shame @salonofshame.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

CALL FOR READERS! Sign up to be a part of the show this coming Tuesday, August 11th. Readers and their guest get in free! www.salonofshame.com/readers/

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Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We open for submissions for Issue 32 on August 15. Our vibe? Check our most recent issue, and look for Issue 31 to go live next week. tahomaliteraryreview.com/issues/issue...

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Issue 30, Spring 2026 - Tahoma Literary Review

Here is our thirtieth issue, published at an in-between moment when winter has not yet loosened its grip and the promise of spring remains uncertain. The

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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I do the same exact thing ~ for me, it always has to be speakers with an English accent ~ and there’s a history podcast that always does the trick. I go back and listen during my waking hours!

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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

submissions will be open on Saturday August 1st, at 9am central, until our monthly cap is met we will open all categories with a cap higher than usual, so more ppl get a chance to send their work -- things fill up very quickly. xray.submittable.com/submit

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Barnes makes around $370,000 a year. He has repeatedly been out of town, at events in other cities or at his family home in Chicago, during emergencies like today’s mass shootimg.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 24/07/2026

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

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Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism...

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New Ohio Review @newohioreview.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Featured Art: “Re Centered” by Gabriela Denise Frank. newohioreview.org/2026/05/04/f... @civitaveritas.bsky.social

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/07/2026

Is optimization culture robbing us of little things that make life worth living? This week on Galaxy Brain, @cwarzel.bsky.social talks with @ibogost.com about how embracing the small stuff can make us feel more alive.

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The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything

How technology is disconnecting us from life’s small pleasures

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New Ohio Review @newohioreview.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Featured Art: “Santa Cronica” by @civitaveritas.bsky.social newohioreview.org/2026/05/08/c... @kevingrauke.bsky.social

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 26/06/2026

"About a decade ago, the world looked different—possible. Now, I know we are irreversibly barreling into the unknown and that safety is an illusion." @civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews Maya Jewell Zeller about Raised by Ferns (@porphyrypress.bsky.social). 🌿 buff.ly/01i2vc8

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New Ohio Review @newohioreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Featured Art: "The Passion of Alice" by @civitaveritas.bsky.social newohioreview.org/2026/05/21/c...

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New Ohio Review @newohioreview.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Featured Art: "Busy Season" by Gabriela Denise Frank. newohioreview.org/2026/05/29/c... @civitaveritas.bsky.social

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"Rubbing stuff on your skin may have its flaws, but specific substances have proven themselves to be groundbreaking --- if not lifesaving --- like sunscreen."

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Alex Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yeah, I care about Data Centers. Like when Data is the Center of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I will send you a DM on IG! Have been to all except Yudanaka.

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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I definitely have some! What cities/prefectures do you plan to visit?

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

There's a Mini 1000 Words this week, from Saturday 17th-Monday 19th. Sign up and I will send you letters. We're gonna write 1000 words a day for 3 days straight. Comments will be open to cheer each other on. There are more than 10k ppl signed up. Let's do this. mini1000.substack.com/p/the-first-...

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The First Mini 1000 of 2026

January 17-19!

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

"To live in a 'post-narrative' world isn’t to abandon narrative, but to drive it differently." Hannah Kim on the importance of storytelling in our culture and lives. lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-st…

A painting of a man kissing a woman's cheek while another man lurks in the back with a sword

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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Check out the newest issue of The Writer's Chronicle with plenty of inspiration, including prompts from me, @tamaramc.bsky.social and @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social!

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HAD @havehashad.com · 18/12/2025

we always fill fast, but these spontaneous pop-up calls always go take a little longer. a little over half full!

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #29 — ft. Elnura Huseynova @civitaveritas.bsky.social Perry Ruhland, Jen Adams, Anna Evans, Asmi Kartikeya, Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social ) Jack Z. Bratich & more ... minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

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Monthly Dispatch #29 — November 2025

A letter from the editor[s]

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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Thank you @minorliteratures.bsky.social for giving my lyric weirdo essay a home this month!

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 25/10/2025

People across WA state can visit Washington Health Plan Finder and see exactly how much their health care premiums will cost next year. If your increase is making coverage unaffordable, Democrats need you to speak out. We can't let Republicans ignore this crisis. www.wahealthplanfinder.org

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Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Gah! They are fools, and *you* are a resplendent treasure 💎🖤

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It's never too late to learn something new. It's never too late to discover the secret language of trees. It's never too late to wrap yourself in moss & malice and become the forest horror that timid folk whisper about in the dark.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.” 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

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From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

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