iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 29/08/2026

I keep coming back to saying this, but "none of us is free until all of us are free" isn't just a theory about power, it's a statement of the threat to humanity posed by our tolerance for injustice against others.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m significantly less sanguine about this. The belief that trans folks exist and have human rights and can participate in all aspects of society can barely stand on its own and absolutely needs legal protection. Not because it’s wrong or a weak idea, but because our societies suck.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This level of centralised command & control has me pretty convinced that I wouldn’t be able to teach in the UK. Seems like a huge, centralised middle finger to neurodivergent teachers. Disability provisions? Reasonable accommodations? Nope. Slide 1, cold call, slide 2, turn & talk, slide 3, notes.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Really straightforward thread on why we shouldn’t use “biological male/female” when talking about trans folks.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Joe Rogan won’t shut up about it…

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

People who spend too long immersed in sycophancy, get extremely thin skins. Doesn't matter if it's a pedophile billionaire and his hooting entourage, or someone who has outsourced their job to a chatbot. It utterly fucking destroys your ability to deal with being criticized or insulted.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love my boys and try to be a good dad. If they go anywhere near the pervert glasses I will consider myself to be a complete failure as a parent. These devices should not exist and anyone who has them needs to learn very quickly from the rest of us that their use will *not* be tolerated.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I really wish more people knew what non sequitur meant. 🙄

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You could power a continent if there were a way to harness the energy with which my soul pushes away from teaching admin. Rest days are for manifesting cool new teaching/resource ideas. Pretty sure 0 admin=reasonable adjustment. 😋

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Well, we don’t let them vote so how else are they supposed register their discontent? Teenagers remain one of the largest groups that it’s fine to disparage without suffering any consequences whatsoever. Bleak.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Curved? Sure. Round? 🤷‍♂️

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ok, as an Aussie who has zero baggage or concern for Leicester, I can confirm that this shirt bangs. Very nice.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ma’a Nonu performing a solo haka at age 44 before the ABs game vs the Sharks. Any All Black younger than 24 was not even born when he made bis international debut. Epic. Almost mythological. Can’t imagine what it must have felt like to be on the field.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So, rather than planting a flag and defending trans rights you disseminate and bloviate about “protecting” women. Well played, UK Labour. Slow clap.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dude’s an Aussie, right?

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hey, at least there’s a magnum opus! My brain: Ooh! Here’s a 14 hour, 7 episode YouTube series on Cyberpunk 2077 lore. Yay! And sudokus are cool! Weeeee! Wishing you pleasant dreams and the destruction of ICE from 🇦🇺

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That’s nuts! I’ve watched it like nine times in a row and still don’t get *how* he can move his right hand and arm like that while staying in time and maintaining the tone. Man is something else…

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Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I can’t begin to put into words how meaningful (& fun) it has been to get to work on this show. @jamesstout.bsky.social is such a rare talent & wonderful human. open.spotify.com/episode/5Xk2... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... pca.st/podcast/c2ea... www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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Introducing: Natural Causes

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just want *one* person in a position of power produce *one* opinion that hasn’t come from a tech company’s ad copy. Sigh.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Nice to see the AFP’s Social Coercion squad busy trying to jail folks who send emails to their MP asking for something, get the thing, thank the MP, then stop emailing. Ain’t cohesion grand.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Also, I’m like the whitest, straightest, cisest guy I know - so presumably who those posts are whining about. And these caricatures barely even begin to touch on who I am and what literary themes I engage with.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’m thinking about starting a new business: combatting the pernicious effects of gen-AI sycophancy by insulting and/or criticising folks (for a fee). Let me know if you’d like to be my first client… 😉

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I am not by nature a violent person. Truly. But if I encounter a pair of these knockoff pervert glasses in the wild they will be knocked off the wearer.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Depressing that there was such a rush for the knock off pervert glasses. Willing to bet my last dollar that 99.9% of purchasers were blokes.Too many people telling on themselves…

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Makes me wonder if Funky Times used his tracksuit top as inspiration… youtu.be/TfJvA1ZGGls?...

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Jump 'n' Funk by Funky Times - live session

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

His take on the first verse actually made me gasp. So good. I may have been nudged into a rabbit hole…

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I grew up watching acts like the Doug Anthony All Stars on the Big Gig on Monday night ABC. I’ve seen the skit from Race Around the World and, whilst crude, was clearly satire and no worse than a whole stack of stuff that passed largely without comment more than 30 years ago.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Woof.. Got a groan rather than a laugh today. Maybe it’s because I’m in a bad mood because my ex wife thinks I’m German, but I keep telling her I’m not Hermann. I’ll see myself out…

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The change-up at 2:30 is just 😘 Also, old buses and other background giving me strong late 90s Beijing vibes….

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Not sure if it’s weeb shit (perhaps showing my age there) but I usually see them Givenname Familyname when written in English. Which is slightly odd because with Chinese names we usually preserve the original order.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oof. That last sentence made me gasp and the sarcasm of the word ‘ideas’ is so acidic I can see it dripping from the italics. 🔥

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sports admin has been a haven for fascists and grifters for decades. FIFA has always been corrupt but lately it’s getting absolutely ridiculous.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Well, ruism is, according to the Ruist’s website: A vast, interconnected system of philosophies, ideas, rituals, practices, and habits of the heart … [that] encompassed all the possible domains of human concern. So altruism is an alternate form of, er, all the possible domains of human concern. 🤷‍♂️

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

More than doubling international competitions, moving to debt financing and a Kushner company to run commercial operations. And no mention of women’s football. Abolish FIFA. Forever. It’s time to start over with football administration.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The idea that social media is bad for teens is a textbook manufactured moral panic that is not based in reality in the slightest, and it's been pushed entirely by people who have a strong reason to want to end anonymity online and exert much stronger control over the speech of marginalized people.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have an iPhone 7 so I’m immune babyyyyyyy!!!

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

iPhone 7 owners are hard to kill….

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Only because I prefer not to outsource my brain to the spicy autocorrect. ADHD > LLM I mean, the article may not be true but it’s close to what I see colleagues and friends doing. It’s baffling.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I have so many questions but will contain myself to two: 1) What exact criteria does she give the synthetic text extruder to “judge” her performance on? 2) What data set exists in the synthetic text extruder’s training data to enable it to accurately predict which word comes next in its output?

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Or, hear me out: using *all* of the CEO’s pay and remuneration to hire enough workers to etc, etc…

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Chef’s kiss 👩‍🍳 💋

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what work is. Thinking about stuff, whilst not “efficient”, is crucial: Is this the best way to do this? Do we need a Plan B? What will we do if X happens? Pondering, wondering, hard to quantify but take away our ability to do it and see what happens…

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/4101/Ch...

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The (male) principal of a Presbyterian Ladies College says this won’t affect students at all and that their school teaches young women that they can succeed in any field. Any field except church leadership, of course. These men are an embarrassment.

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thoughtful thread from one who reviews synthetic text infected academic writing as part of his job. It’s bleak. The sooner the AI bubble bursts, the better.

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