iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Kate @kateretired.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Feeling overwhelmed by world events? Find a dog, any dog. 😂🥹❤️

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 09/09/2026

I think it's sorta underappreciated that a significant career path for PhD grads is now working for AI oligopolies, grading LLM output on prompts that fall within their subject-matter expertise. Often $100k+/yr (USD, wherever you/your family may live..) to try to make yourself/your peers obsolete.

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How AI Labs Are Hiring People to Train Models

AI labs spend $1B+/year each on human training data. See the 6 roles they

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Scared for health, afraid of death, bored, dissatisfied, vengeful, greedy, ignorant, & gullible–these are the qualities of the ideal consumer. Can we imagine a way of education that would turn passive consumers into active and informed critics, capable of using their own minds in their own defense?

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The end of a short vacation. Back to the US and back to reality.

Photograph of a tent platform with a view of the St Lawrence seaway (fleuve St Laurent).

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The many ways Susan Collins misleads on abortion, part 1. open.substack.com/pub/amyfried...

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Susan Collins wasn’t duped by Brett Kavanaugh

The Many Ways Collins Misleads on Abortion, Part I

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

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Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints

Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Platner's strategist Daniel Moraff from her campaign after receiving sexual harassment complaints against him.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Directing Graham Platner’s campaign

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026

One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We are in the fight of our lives against fascism - a force that seeks to control women - from what we do with our bodies to how we live our lives. The only way to defeat this force is to repudiate it wherever it manifests, whether in legislation, executive decree, or interpersonal action.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I hope they recognize that ignoring, excusing, even celebrating the earlier red flags means that they forced multiple women to go through the anguish of telling their rape stories publicly, with their names attached, in the newspaper. It is their fault Racicot and Fifield are experiencing this pain.

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I feel this. In my first book I used roughly one em dash per page. So I am a (vanishingly small) part of why "AI" uses em dashes, and humans like me and you now feel wary about using them.

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Nothing says “support the troops” like kidnapping their family while also starting a pointless war.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

There's no limiting condition to this bonkers logic. All Trump has to do is bomb somewhere else and Susan Collins will say, 'Welp, we have to go along because not going along would send the wrong message.' Utter madness. #MEpolitics

Sam Stein tweet:

Susan Collins comes out against the War Powers resolution: "Passing this resolution now would send the wrong message to Iran and to our troops. At this juncture, providing unequivocal support to our service members is critically important, as is ongoing consultation by the Administration with Congress.”

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Stacy Parker Le Melle @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Literally the only statement from an elected official I’ve read this morning worth our time. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov take note!! Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social CC: @hebagowayed.bsky.social

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Safe travels. Enjoy California.

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Do you want to help develop new theories for systems that adapt, evolve, and interact? Applications are open for SFI’s 2026 UCR program, a fully funded, 10-week experience for undergraduates, offering mentorship, seminars, and project development. Apply by Jan 14, 2026 www.santafe.edu/ucr

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Applications open for SFI’s 2026 UCR program. Are you fascinated by transdisciplinary questions that transcend or combine disciplines? UCR is a fully funded, 10-week summer research experience for undergraduates curious about complexity science. Apply by Jan 14, 2026 santafe.edu/ucr

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Applications are open for SFI’s 2026 summer education programs, offering research and training in complexity science in Santa Fe, NM: – Undergraduate Complexity Research – Complex Systems Summer School – Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Info: www.santafe.edu/engage/learn...

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Also notable - the Maine Principals' Association has had a policy of allowing trans kids to participate in school sports since 2013, but only now Senator Collins is concerned about it? Journalists should ask her why it was fine for 12 years but is now bad.

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

For undergraduates curious about complex systems research, applications are now open for the 2026 Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program — a fully funded, 10-week summer research experience at the Santa Fe Institute. Apply by Jan. 14, 2026: santafe.edu/ucr

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Once more, for old times’ sake

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Yes. Although I'm a physicist, so I never took analysis. Or Analysis. Power series are somehow primal. Every function (some conditions apply) is, at its heart, a power series.

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Power series solutions will always have a warm spot in my heart. Something so fundamental and satisfying about them.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 01/08/2025

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/07/2025

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

An incredible piece of writing. A tragic story and a beautiful tribute. Thank you for sharing.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Five things to remember about war:

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Well worth a few minutes to listen to. Thank you @leighfinke.bsky.social for your wisdom and clarity.

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Good luck with your next steps. I very much appreciated your hockey writing over the last few years!

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs. Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law. Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more. And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I’d think a lot of people would find this gross, but as a Jewish person with cancer it has, let us say, a special repulsive resonance.

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John Amaechi @johnamaechi.apsintel.com · 25/05/2025

🧵 1/9 It could have mattered. Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds deprived of oxygen should have chastened the world to become allies, and not just for a summer. A man being murdered by those who should protect and serve should have been an indelible metaphor.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Please read and share the League of Women Voters of Maine's fact check of Jared Golden on the SAVE Act. #mepolitics www.lwvme.org/node/3443

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Fact Check on the SAVE Act | League of Women Voters

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

RFK's the last person who should be allowed to run HHS. He's wholly unqualified and his hostility its mission is the very thing he's famous for. Susan Collins helping confirm him breaks faith w/ decent folks who've given her the benefit of the doubt till now. They need to hear about it. #MEpolitics

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Dave Feldman @davefeldman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I am so sorry for your loss. I will hold you in the light. May her memory be a blessing.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/01/2025

An American tragedy in three short panels.

1. During its first week back in office, the Trump administration has targeted the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC).

ASAC is with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The advisory committee was established in 1989 following a terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 the year prior. ASAC counsels the TSA on aviation security, and many of its recommendations have been adopted over the past 35 years. Stakeholder groups represented in the committee include airlines, aviation worker unions, airport operators, and more.

On January 21, ASAC members received a memo stating that their memberships had been terminated, according to the Associated Press. While the advisory committee itself will remain, there will no longer be members to conduct its work, making it defunct. The reasoning for scraping the members was allegedly explained as a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.”

2. Regional Jet Crashes near Washington After Collision with Army Helicopter

3. VP JD Vance Urges Prayers After Mid-Air Collision Near Washington DC

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