iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is not accidental at all.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Criminalizing the hustle man instead of the hustle, example number 109,811,310 www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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The Man Who Broke the Music Business

How an employee at a CD-manufacturing plant became the Patient Zero of Internet piracy.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

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Stephanie Rewis @stefsull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In March, I signed up for my absentee ballot and it had four choices for why I needed it. I got my ballot in April. In June they cancelled me, so I had to fill the form out again this month. But the form has changed. They removed the option for being a citizen who's never lived in the US. Quietly!

Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request
There are four choices for why it's necessary. The last one says:
I am a US citizen living outside the country. I have never lived in the United States.

Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request
There are now only three choices for why it's necessary. The last one that said:
I am a US citizen living outside the country. I have never lived in the United States.

That one is now gone.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 05/10/2026

ghee gives you the butter flavor without making the popcorn wet & soggy but I also have been known to also add zatar, aleppo pepper, and salt

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 04/10/2026

I've got a sticker of El Conde on one of my water bottles and I get asked about him every time I use it in public. I always tell the person who asks that his voice was even smoother than his style.

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

sometimes (most times?) bad things that happen aren’t about you and there’s no real need to make them about you

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 03/10/2026

where are my fellow audiobook lovers at? i have a question for you: have you every gotten an audiobook from Books a Million? if so, can you download the file and use a different audio player that's not the BAM app?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

What’s up everyone, why are you on this one this week

Butterfly meme.
Top: folks on social media
Butterfly: Black woman
Bottom: is this my punching bag?

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 02/10/2026

I don't think that sweatpants should be available for sale without at least one rear pocket large enough to put more than lip balm in. it doesn't need to be wallet or phone sized but a folded dollar bill should not have to be stuffed in there.

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 02/10/2026

omg yes. just gutting and way too real. I think aging has really made the story hit home even more.

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 02/10/2026

I think about that more than I'd care to admit. I read that over 30 years ago.

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 02/10/2026

I finished the book "Addicted by Design" today and let me tell you something: if you're wondering how we got here with sports betting and prediction markets, this book will fill you in.

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 02/10/2026

okay this is the sign I needed to turn my attention back to Drag Race Spain.

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 02/10/2026

oh no. fake banana candy flavor strikes again! the absolute worst.

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Enrico Ariis AKA Gino Koltz @ariiscomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Nazis know NOTHING about women

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 29/09/2026

yes! we were in line for like 2 hours because he was pounding a beer between each order 😬

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 29/09/2026

also please send me the location of the Mayagüez spot

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 29/09/2026

i have a blurry photo of a head-sized one from Boquerón. dude who has the truck used a modified drill to mix the batter!

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 29/09/2026

please tell me this is from the place on the side of the road in Isabela

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 27/09/2026

yes! i almost memory-holed this! we had whole earthquake drills and were told about the dormant fault line along the MIssissippi River all because no one questioned that a psychic made a public prediction. wild.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You are correct.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026

this is so real and anyone with more than 5k followers on this website can attest to it

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And if you're on instagram, you should go to your settings and uncheck these two boxes

In your menu under sharing and reuse there is a button to click whether or not people can create with your content

There is a button to check on that says allow your reels and posts to be featured with products

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Notice all the black writers being accused of using AI in their works. Notice.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your support is our lifline and the only way for rebuilding our life after we lost everything No matter how much it's will be part of rebuilding our life

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fern🌿 @ogracemay.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Thinking about starting up the Black MaGe art/craft group again. Pls repost to circulate, and like to indicate interest.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They want us to give up on each other.

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Courtney Wilburn @cjwilburn.engineering · 22/09/2026

I was just reminded of the time the Today (US) show hosts dressed as the cast of Peanuts and I'm not sure if I'm laugh-crying or cry-laughing.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you see any “overground railroads” where you are? What systems, networks, and relationships come together around you to bring people closer to liberation?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our super talented friend and collaborator @noahjodice.bsky.social has another installment for @interruptcrim.bsky.social's "Imagining Overground Railroads" series. I shared this one with folks this weekend: the theme is "Learning Together." millionexperiments.com/zines/overgr...

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Overground Railroads

Do you see any “overground railroads” where you are? What systems, networks, and relationships come together around you to bring people closer to liberation? The different pieces of your railroad may...

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we currently know it. I've been thinking about this book for over 5 years, and am excited to finally write it.

Screenshot of a deal report from Publishers Marketplace that reads: “Coauthor of AI CON and cohost of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast Alex Hanna’s NET WORKS: IMAGENET AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN AI DATASET, on the labor behind ImageNet’s cache of 14 million photos from the early aughts that became the backbone of AI datasets, to Rachel Moore at MIT Press (world).

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

MLK said in TWO PLACES that the ultimate logic of racism and segregation was the genocide of the segregated. I feel like folks intentionally forgot this extremely basic fact for the sake of political expediency.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i think it’s incredible how people claim that if you say “llms don’t think” you are a “physicalist” or, even worse, a secret dualist it’s a basic manipulative trick, you know extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and they don’t have any there’s NO evidence for llms being conscious

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

for those who aren’t familiar—the NAACP’s solidarity with trans people and willingness to recognize “similarities between exclusions of transgender kids and racial segregation” is something i find genuinely moving

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 20/09/2026

i have been coaching a few friends still in the software dev industry through low morale attributed largely to seeing ai agent accessibility prioritized in a way they never saw human user accessibility prioritized

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.

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Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own

Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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