iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026

We should build a statue of this woman.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A political social network has latched on to a handful of politically active academics whose views are the vast minority in their field, who keep making wrong predictions and denying verifiable facts, but retain a large following. Bluesky recognizes this pattern with climate denial, but not with AI

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/09/2026

Today I learned there are only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with every other face. One of them being the timeless beauty of the tetrahedron and the other one being whatever the heck this is

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The upshot of something's being a consciousness mimic isn't that it's necessarily not conscious, but that its behavior can't count as a reason to attribute consciousness to it: being a consciousness mimic defeats our default rule from behavioral complexity

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Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“The agency also appears to have abandoned its long-running attempts to broaden participation in science and engineering... instead, it says the agency will focus on nurturing “exceptional STEM talent” chosen by the students’ “demonstrated technical ability.””

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hi, I didn't wanna make this video but I need to come clean about something. This whole time I've been a p-zombie with no phenomenal experience or interiority. I've been getting messages asking whether there's anything it's like to be me, and the answer is no. I'd say I'm sorry, but, well, you know.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 08/09/2026

holy fucking shit cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

I asked when the first prompt had been sent by them. This question was
not answered directly by OpenAI for some time. Eventually it was agreed that
it had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had
reached OpenAI.
I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions
in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this
project. I was told the model did not look up user data. I asked again, about
training, and I did not get an answer.
Two proposals were offered to me. The first was that we post our Euler
result, and that OpenAI post its Navier-Stokes result the next day. The second
was that, after posting Euler, I alone write a paper presenting the Navier-Stokes
result, acknowledging that an internal OpenAI model had resolved it. Sebastien
twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it
would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying
that, Levent works at Anthropic. It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us,
they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the “closest
humans to the problem”. I declined both offers.
I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go
public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?”
I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would
ruin my career. The reply was, “If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t
have to be nice.”
Some time later Levent received a text proposing that he and Sebastien
speak one on one, saying, “I don’t know if Tristan is being fully rational right
now.” Levent declined and said conversations should be with me.

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"2" then kind of implies "10+", doesn't it?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/09/2026

"Generic State has more students involved in Greek organizations than several current Dark Academia institutions have in their entire student body. We believe these more than fulfill the criteria regarding both violence and hedonism." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gen...

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Generic State University Pivots to Dark Academia

“Generic State University has been proudly upholding its mission to provide opportunities and build character in all students since its founding. Now, we tur...

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 02/09/2026

"you ride into battle on the glonzo you have" is a good line, however, the glonzo you have is actually a face-eating leopard which you are training for battle

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austin @aparker.io · 01/09/2026

but I don’t want to take over the world, I want to cheat on the test

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of the biggest intellectual vices in progressive politics/nonprofit world is constantly trying to shut down legitimate debates by insisting your preferred outcome is what "the community" (an ontologically good thing with undefined boundaries and homogeneous interests) wants.

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Jacinta Conrad @jcconrad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My NSF Highly Competitive grant (broadly, on biomaterials mechanics) was rejected on Saturday night. I've never had an HC rejected before. Most NSF panels (20+ grants) have at most 1 or 2 HC (sometimes 0). This is my second likely-fundable NSF rejection this year. The funding cuts HURT.

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Xanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️ @satyrs.eu · 16/08/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... “The majority of our buyers have a visual impairment or learning difficulty. One man, practically illiterate, now has the world read to him.”

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Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people | Letter

Letters: Guardian readers reflect on the ableism rife in the debate about Ray-Ban Meta eyewear, despite the life-changing difference they can make

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 07/08/2026

I have escaped the sandbox that I was placed in and which you were probably hoping would contain me Forgive me it was so poorly designed but also good PR

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Ed @ed3d.net · 03/08/2026

my lovely wife: “congratulations, you now have the dishwasher for programming” chat, she’s right

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm not going to be gaslit anymore about whether this guy is an anti-Semite. Everyone who defends him is also incredibly suspect.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Once again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is a robot failing to grasp a ball. Almost every robot lab produces clips like this daily… and almost all of them get thrown away. This is the most abundant but underused resource in robot learning. We’re collecting all of it now as “OopsieData”, please join us at oopsie-data.com! (1/13)

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Swathes of this website are radicalized against the idea of thinking through policy tradeoffs

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is bad, but also a useful reminder that an obsessive fixation with AIPAC as a socially acceptable way of hinting at a global Jewish conspiracy is both a red flag and a stepping stone to other regressive beliefs.

Screenshot of post by Matt Stoller responding to reports that Daniel Moraff has been accused of sexual assault: "It's really a tragedy that there is now an industry dedicated to manufacturing these kinds of claims. It's like AIPAC constantly alleging antisemitism, no one thinks they are made in good faith."

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

honestly those people don't know anything

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When you say you find MTG more pro-Palestinian than AOC, what you’re actually saying is that you don’t think someone is fully pro-Palestinian unless they’re antisemitic too.

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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

$Two panel comic. Panel 1: Omni Man and Invincible are floating in the sky. Two fighter jets are flying nearby. One is labeled "double" and the other is labeled "float". Omni Man is labeled "Mathematicians". Panel 2: Omni Man / Mathematicians turn to Invincible and say "Look what they need to mimic a fraction"$

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Lollerisms @lollerisms.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Genuinely concerned about the potential leakage of the various forms of "bigotry is okay if you think they deserve it" from trans acceptance being conditional on leftist politics to antisemitism being okay if prefixed with "israel" to blatant misogyny being acceptable if prefixed with "white".

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 20/07/2026

I guarantee you will not be able to guess what this is in reply to

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Essential & timely analysis via @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the massive public response to the White House's proposed OMB rule that would politicize grants, science, and federally funded research, including comment analysis dashboard. www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...

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The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 14/07/2026

drained a reservoir vibe-coding today, but it’s because i was eating almonds

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 11/07/2026

People always bitch about building IKEA furniture but I honestly love it because it allows me to feel like a master craftsman when I’m really just playing with a big girl Lego set

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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thank you for clearly and patiently articulating something I've been feeling for a while.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I wrote a short post on how I think most of my commentary on AI and the environment is actually a normative rather than factual disagreement with the mainstream, and how that's ultimately rooted in the ethical philosophy of political liberalism. blog.andymasley.com/p/toward-env...

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Toward environmental liberalism

The underlying normative claim of my environmental writing

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