iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h

I keep thinking about how so many different domains are working with vastly foreshortened concepts of the future. There is a radical sort of hope and belief in fellow people that goes along with building something you want to last for generations

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 6h

If you'd like to learn more about the book Bridging Design and Fandom and hear from some of the chapter authors, I will be holding a launch event on 20th October, in Lancaster and online. Please do come and join us! lancaster-uk.libcal.com/event/4574001

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Book Launch: Bridging Design and Fandom, edited by Naomi Jacobs

With her new edited collection Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation, Naomi Jacobs (Design, School of Arts, Lancaster University) opens new...

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 19h

It's really upsetting how many people working on digital products and services have open contempt for the users, and humanity in general. This is all connected.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 28/09/2026

Life Imitates Art

Blue and green watercolor painting with black text: The algorithm creates new problems tailored to your needs

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As much as I despise Elon Musk I also loathe the many journalists and tech and finance professionals who mindlessly enabled his grifting, self-serving bullshit. They facilitated his election interference, his racism and his destruction of USAID. Some continue in their complicity even today.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Posting this @nsousanis.bsky.social mini comic about AI and creative work for no particular reason

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Fall 2025 Syllabi!

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mother in law just showed me her phone & said ‘this is what we used to live like’ & it was an AI image of an over nostalgic street scene with an old lady handing out cakes to kids - typical nonsense. I said ‘but that’s AI, that’s not real’. She said, and I quote: ‘but that doesn’t matter’.

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Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office

ALT: Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026

every time I see someone post about a story and then add the link in a reply I want to brush away a tear and tell them "we don't have to live this way"

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026

Funders expect researchers & support staff to put in an enormous amount of work putting together a grant proposal. Then, they automate the review process, seemingly without forewarning. I can’t get over the profound lack of respect that shows. Disgraceful.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The film Meta removed from Instagram… bsky.app/profile/roel...

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 23/09/2026

The latest Dutch trains include a noisy zone: "The Meet & Greet Zone is designed for meeting others... Seats often face each other, and there are lounge chairs for sitting together. Talking, phone calls and socialising are allowed in this zone" www.ns.nl/en/travel/on...

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Facilities on the train | Travel | NS

Intercity and Sprinter trains offer a range of facilities, including Wi-Fi, toilets, and designated quiet and working zones.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 22/09/2026

I think an adult they trust, telling children that it's OK not to like certain books/stories (and even giving them a simple phrase like "I didn't enjoy that one" like you say) can be empowering. If I remember back, those things stuck with me, that I didn't have to like everything I was given to read

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 19/09/2026

always remember the rhyme: if the steven’s pinker: epsteinian stinker but if the stephen's jay gould: don’t worry, he's cool

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 17/09/2026

Every Natwest debit card I've had since opening an account in 1999(?) has had STUDENT A/C on it. I quite like it, would be a shame if they removed it.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 17/09/2026

Sable Basilisk was always a more intriguing character anyway

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 16/09/2026

How do we 'live with' transformations and transitions? V happy to be part of this by Femke Coops, Kristina Bogner, Timo von Wirth, @jonastorrens.bsky.social, Barbara Kump, Julia Wittmayer, Caroline Hummels, & @floravelino.bsky.social published in new #FuturesReframed journal doi.org/10.63934/ewp...

Images from the paper, including "shrines" in people's homes with drawings and notes, and three detailed drawings with branches, leaves, roots, tendrils

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 15/09/2026

Can you *imagine* @ukri.org doing anything like this in the UK?

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 15/09/2026

What would you do if you knew climate breakdown was coming—sooner than the public thinks? Nonlinear Overshoot is a new short story, published today in @thesociologicalreview.org magazine thesociologicalreview.org/fiction/nonl...

The interior of a Rotterdam metro train, with a scratched perspex panel and the sun rising (in reality, setting) in the distance

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 14/09/2026

Oh actually 14 Sep 1996 was a Saturday, oops bsky.app/profile/danl...

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 14/09/2026

Not sure what the lesson is other than just to remind myself that sometimes it's possible just to do things (as a teenager, I didn't know what I didn't know—I just thought, I will write a book, and keep going till it's done). Also to thank, in many cases posthumously, all the people who helped me.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 14/09/2026

I started work on vol 2, which would have covered Reliant from the launch of the Robin in 1973 up to the end of the company in 2001, but life (the need for a job!) got in the way. Now there's less need: there's a good selection of books on Reliant from people who've done the research.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 14/09/2026

I eventually finished the book, 'Rebel Without Applause', while I was an undergrad—it was published in 2003 by Bookmarque who specialised in books on more obscure cars. Copies sometimes go for silly money www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/... I think the only actual bookshop I ever saw it in was Foyles

The cover of Rebel Without Applause: The Reliant Company
Vol. 1 from Inception to Zenith, Daniel Lcokton

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 14/09/2026

30 years ago this evening (also a Monday) BBC2 showed the episode of 'The Car's The Star' about the Reliant 3-wheeler, which included 13-year old me as a young enthusiast with a terrible haircut, and the book I was writing www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzLn...

Titles for "The Car's The Star", with a kind of robotic arm adjusting the apostrophe

Me in my bedroom as a 13-year old, surrounded by Reliant badges, toy cars, and paperwork, showing the camera the book I was writing

Me driving a Reliant Regal 3/25, filmed from the passenger seat

Head-on view of me driving Reliant Regal 3/25 in a field

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 11/09/2026

Amazing journey from @jonworth.eu here—hope he makes it!

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 11/09/2026

I can't wait for this era of "design" to be over

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 11/09/2026

babe are you OK? you've barely touched your stack of pustule pockets

An AI slop "Brazilian pastry" on a café menu. The texture of the pasty appears to be made from a load of what I can only describe as pustules

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 11/09/2026

Just putting this sign in Ipswich (including the fact it's a dead-end road) on here in case anyone needs it to illustrate a future article about private companies buying up more British universities

A sign in Ipswich, Suffolk with
"UNIVERSITY AVENUE
PRIVATE ROAD
NO HIGHWAY RIGHTS EXIST
OR SHALL ACCRUE"
on it. The sign also has a no through road symbol

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 06/09/2026

would you say it drove graham crackers?

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 05/09/2026

As someone who—for a while—wanted to be a car designer when I was younger, I have to conclude that car design has now diverged so far from any notion of good design that there's not really a way back

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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And here's our final session debrief for tomorrow's Writing the Occult: Time & Place - the grand finale, the one that will close the day. No pressure or anything, @danlockton.com. Dan will tell us how we’re haunted by visions of the future. Yep, it’s one for the hauntologists among you. 🧵⬇️

A text-heavy graphic features the same session debrief as this threaded post, plus an illustration of a black spirit and a red futuristic city

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Speaking as a postgraduate research director, if word came to me that this was happening in my department then I'd be slamming every available alarm button so hard you could hear the sirens from the next county. It's like the set-up for a bad PD James novel.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 04/09/2026

glad to see him face some scrutony

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 26/08/2026

a tribute from an obsolete petrol brand

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 24/08/2026

Wow, this vintage promotional Intel hairbrush is pretty cool

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Looking forward to weather forecasters in the very near future using telling us that a “cold wave” (a week when we are not being evaporated by the sun) is heading our way and everyone being excited about that

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Might pitch "The Great Height Myth" to Channel 4. Oh hang on. Question mark. "The Great Height Myth?" Are some people really taller than others? Have so called 'tall people' measured themselves? I can get a ball into a basket, does that mean I'm tall?

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 16/08/2026

m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPgE... Clive Sinclair did this many years ago — it wasn't very good. The subsequent Zeta 2 and 3 drove the front wheel instead

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Sinclair Zeta In Wetherby

YouTube video by Justin Clapham

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don’t think the old excuse that it’s what the public are baying for holds water: they do this stuff because they want to, and because they enjoy doing it. And if a section of the public does want racist all-media hate jihads against minor public figures, I suggest they shouldn’t be pandered to.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 15/08/2026

Shannon's work, including her course syllabus websites, essays, projects, and collation/curation of ideas and examples, is an endless source of inspiration. There are days when I was struggling with putting together a course, when I would look at her work and think, yes, this is worth doing properly

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Shannon Mattern's generosity, openness, honesty, and incredible perspicacity is precisely what should be happening with everyone on social media every day. If only we all saw participation as deeds for the public good rather than self aggrandisement.

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