iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There seems to be no way to convince some people that The Past is more than just a bunch of fact-based Lego sets that historians sift for and assemble.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I would like to be clear. My writing doesn’t have em dashes because I use AI. AI uses em dashes because stunningly effective writers like me use them.

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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 16/07/2025

A slow daily diesel train between Minneapolis and Chicago sees 100,000 more riders than it was projected to see when it opened a year ago, and you all want to tell me there’s no demand for fast and frequent trains in this country lol.

Trains Magazine: Amtrak's Borealis reaches 250,000 rider mark

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This really is my true form, thank you @makinaro.com for capturing my nerdful hauteur so perfectly 😂❤️

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Propriety @proprietous.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I commissioned Maki to do a snooty portrait of me to match the one he made of @colinfanning.bsky.social in his comic "The Hermit" (get it here: maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...). Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!

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The Hermit | Maki Naro

In 18th-century Britain, wealthy aristocrats would pass the time and show off to their friends by surrounding their palatial country estates with contemplative architectural monuments.One such structu...

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Andy Campbell @andycampy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A rebuttal to the wrongheaded, outrage-fueled misreading of the NPG installation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" Portrait of Ross in L.A., 1991-- disappointed to see queer folks taking the bait as HIV/AIDS funding is slashed and denigrated here + around the world. Calibrate your energies.

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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is still one of my favorite outcomes of my historical career. @makinaro.com absolutely killed it. (Thanks for the shout-out, @nicolablack.bsky.social!)

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Nicola Black @nicolablack.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Have you heard of Hermitages (type of folly)? They had actual hermits living onsite! It's so bizarre to me! This comic by @makinaro.com w/narration from historians, @colinfanning.bsky.social & Gordon Campbell may be relevant to your interests. Blew my mind. 🤯 maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It features essays by @colinfanning.bsky.social, Emily Zilber who also edited the book, Ann Glasscock, Holly Gore and YOURS TRULY, with beautiful photographs by Joshua McHugh.

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Need one more awesome last-minute Christmas gift? Or like, 10 copies of it? I recommend “The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick” from @rizzolibooks.bsky.social, the sumptuous catalog that accompanies a lovely exhibition on view at the Brandywine and Wharton Esherick Museums through 1/19/25.

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