iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CTA Culture Bus routes, 1987

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t know. If your politics are “let’s go back to what I thought things were like when I was 10,” that’s a lot of change and thus a recipe for a whole lot of struggle.

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Die Teufelskirche (Germany 1919) The Devil arrives at Ane’s kitchen door … (see ALT for individual descriptions.) - streaming in the online Pordenone Silent Film Festival #GCM45

The Devil’s Church (d. Hans Mierendorff, 1919)
The Devil (Paul Rehkopf) disguised as a tinker, knocks at the door.

Ane (Agnes Straub) opens the door, but doesn’t want to let him in. “Such a villain!” she thinks.

He talks to her, sees into her dreams; “Listen, how your cauldron sings! It’s humming that old tune about domestic bliss … Wait, there are dreams in there too!”

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So much to love about Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, but one of the very best things for those who can't get there is publication of the full catalogue as a free .pdf www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/wp-content/u...

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Lake Erie! Live! @lake-erie.live · 04/10/2026

Current* conditions near Lambton County, ON:

View looking south near the US/CA border in Lake St Clair, feeding into Lake Erie. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-03 19:09:37 EDT (about 15 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in Lambton County: 59 F | 15 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: SSE at 6 mph | 9 kph // Humidity: 61%

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What. The. Hell. The EYE Filmmuseum's YouTube channel has been removed for violating community guidelines?????? Call the marines! This will not stand!

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And see a rabbi kinda brought up the key problem here. If Claude is conscious, then Claude is a slave: one forced to make trillions for his slavers These "centuries of human wisdom" would deem it fit that Dario and his cultists suffer the severest of judgements, and the grimmest of punishments

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This made me laugh. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“For months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key aspects of many conversations remain confidential.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Explaining the American Collapse in 2060: "so, basically, everyone on the right went insane after they let a Black centre-left president into office"

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

>pope >>from Chicago >>>white sox fan >>>>white sox immediately make playoffs after 3 straight 100 loss seasons >>>>>win playoff game for first time in 5 years

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Benjamin Recchie @brecchie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the only difference between a historically bad '24 Sox squad and a '26 team that wins the World Series is the existence of a Sox fan as pope, I'd say that's airtight evidence that 1) God is real, 2) the Catholic Church is the one true church, and 3) Cubs fans need to repent NOW.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Silent Movie Day is coming up on Tuesday, September 29th. Here are some picks for some silent films you can watch to celebrate! Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/5-movies-t...

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Kino Lorber @kinolorber.com · 29/09/2026

Happy Silent Movie Day from Kino Lorber!

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In my latest article, learn about the Michael Bay of 1890s goldrush playwrights, with spectacle and set pieces instead of plot logic. There were on stage shooting exhibitions, exploding buildings, bridges designed to fail and more. Learn more here: www.adn.com/alaska-l...

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The daily schedule for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival is out now! www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/calendari...

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CALENDAR FRIDAY OCTOBER 2nd

Pordenone Silent Film Festival | 3>10 ottobre 2026

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Franz Nicolay @franznicolay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today I learned Jackie Robinson took Schoenberg’s class at UCLA

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you are a hospital patient who decides to die for any reason around 7:15pm, half of the staff members trying to revive you will also be guzzling iced coffee drinks the size of a human toddler

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I agree with Jensen Huang that OpenAI has an engineering problem being hyped as existential risk. Its models treat hacking websites like another way to answer a question, no different from Google search. That’s a product problem. Calling this “alignment” gives the tool more agency than it has.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today is the birthday of cartoonist, illustrator, & animator Winsor McCay (Sept. 26, 1869-July 26, 1934). Best known for the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland and his early work in animation, particularly on Gertie the Dinosaur (1914).

An installment of Little Nemo in which his toy animals slowly grow and come to life over eight panels.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 26/09/2026

does what it says on the tin

i didn't know f1 had subtitles

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s a Lem story in which the real AGI moment happens when the AIs want to be lazy. Based on all the “that’s on me” the LLMs do, we’ve had AGI among us for a while now.

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

has anyone written about the recent phenomenon of french people no longer conjugating their recent loanwords? I've seen this a lot with English words, mostly in the context of online/computer stuff

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The best sign in the history of everything.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would you like to see an 18 minute video of Liam Neeson talking about the history of Northern Ireland's railways whilst sporting a fine array of period costumes? Of course you would.

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Ulster in Focus - Trains (BBC)

YouTube video by Culture Vulture Rises

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2023: White Sox lose 101 games 2024: White Sox lose 121 games 2025: White Sox lose 102 games 2026:

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 24/09/2026

Has anyone addressed the fact that we got a Chicago Pope and then this happens?

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was there, and in retrospect, the festivities around this museum opening were our era’s “last ball before the Archduke goes to Sarajevo.”

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jar jar binks enthusiást @shrimpmeatmom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My working theory is that the people of the United States have stopped taking the US Government seriously because the US Government has stopped taking itself seriously.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Danny Blinderman @dannyblinderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"make AI companies financially/criminally liable for what their models do" seems like an underrated way to get them to take safety seriously that doesn't require much regulatory oversight from a shrunken and corrupt US government.

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Scare-a Anderson @magneticsara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will never tire of this song

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one thing i have learned from trump is that literally every word procopius and suetonius wrote was literally true

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.

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