iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Tapping the sign…

Screenshot of an old tweet of mine from 4/18/25:

Some of y'all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.

Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/07/2026

> No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone's feedback gets incorporated, that's what often emerges. Risk aversion in corporate environments naturally pushes designs toward familiar, "safe" territory, which apparently means anatomical openings.

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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

lol, no, that's not a thing

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Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

By Lakshmi Varanasi

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/07/2026

my american colleagues: "do you think you might move back to the states at some point?" me:

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Great thread about how healthcare professionals need to switch to treating the body a person has, not the one they’re assumed to have based on where they fall under a male/female heuristic.

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Brooke Pierce @bpie7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

A Brief History of Nobody Reads Anymore 🧵

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Proving that I am not anti-human rights by suing one of the world’s most prominent human rights organizations

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Suno also scraped episodes from roughly 420,000 different podcasts, which was at least ~1 million hours of audio. They had code that specifically sought acapella versions of songs on YouTube for vocal training

Other code the hacker shared with 404 Media appeared to look specifically for vocals by searching specifically for acapella versions of songs on YouTube. The code also suggested that Suno was using proxies to scrape songs from YouTube through a company called Bright Data, which sells scraping tools, infrastructure, and data services. Additional code shows that with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five, 30-minute episodes and sought to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

...the teeth developed not as mouse-like, but as conical reptilian teeth: the developmental program still latent in birds from their dinosaur ancestors tens of millions of years ago. 🤯

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I just came across this astonishing 20-year-old work. By transplanting embryonic mouse gum-forming tissue to the beak-forming region of chick embryos, the researchers showed that the chick epithelium could be induced to make teeth. But the best part is... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Waking‐up the sleeping beauty: recovery of the ancestral bird odontogenic program

Recent advances in molecular and developmental genetics have provided tools for understanding evolutionary changes in the nature of the epithelial–mesenchymal interactions regulating the patterned ou....

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Why are living things different from nonliving? In this piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social I argue that it is because they are purposive and goal-directed: a capacity we can productively characterize as agency. www.quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...

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Is Life Just Different? | Quanta Magazine

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose?

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

1. You can run Doom on any computer. 2. You can’t run Doom on the brain. C. The brain isn’t a computer.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/07/2026

What would a rainbow look like on Tatooine? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8r...

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What would a rainbow be like on Tatooine?

YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Enshittification in in one screenshot.

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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 08/07/2026

Part Seven of For the Record is out at 9pm tomorrow night and here's some of the topics we're going to be looking at. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAbD...

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

the-independent.com

Millionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’

‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/07/2026

1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

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Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime

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Cam Hostinar, Ph.D. @camhostinar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Every dollar invested in NIH-funded research returned about $2.50 to the broader economy — a 250% return on investment.” “…sustained NIH funding has generated more than $822 billion in economic activity, supported more than 3.7 million jobs” academicmedicine.aamc.org/stories/how-...

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Client Challenge

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I've developed a strong aversion to AI-generated slides in presentations. They look so ugly, and seem to discourage economy in how ideas are presented. Indeed, the problems are akin to those for AI text: the hard work of creation is bypassed, and it shows.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Reproducibility is not a goal but a means. I always thought this was too trivial to have to point it out, but maybe I was wrong.

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Podcast alert!!!! Together with Hanna Schraffenberger I am launching the Computer Science Off Course Podcast Today! Computer Science curricula are very very narrow in scope with a lot of math and algorithms, but very little meta science, philosophy or history.

A laptop screen showing our new podcast Computer Science Off Course on rss.com

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Damned inconvenient to have to ask people if you can use their work for your own profit. This comment from Clegg crystallizes the problem, not least because it shows folks in the industry don't even understand the problem. musictech.com/news/industr...

musictech.com

“It would basically kill the AI industry overnight”: Nick Clegg thinks asking artists for use permission is a bad thing

Nick Clegg says a requirement to ask artists for express permission to use their work to train AI models would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight”.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

hahahahahahahahahahahaha ...no

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Scientific progress is improving research practices. Preregistered large scale studies are now the highest quality evidence we can get in empirical research. So we should work hard on best practices for them (Red Teams, Methodological Review Boards, etc). We will always need to keep improving!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is cope. It was, in fact, *incredibly* radical and subversive to be an out gay person for most of American history. Casting yourself as a pick-me and publicly shaming other LGBT people for Doing Activism Wrong is not going to make the bigots like you. You are doing the bigots' work for them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/07/2026

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

insidehighered.com

U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments

The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Do these tech bros actually believe it? I think they kinda do, which is possibly the more disturbing option.

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The Markup @themarkup.org · 01/07/2026

A new state tool lets you tell data brokers to stop tracking you. Will they comply? Help us investigate. bit.ly/4oTT9bn 🎨 Gabriel Hongsdusit

An illustration shows a person using a laptop in front of a blurred California privacy website, with yellow pixel-like blocks scattered across the image to suggest digital data. The stylized artwork uses a limited color palette and visual elements that evoke online privacy and information security.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Oh no. No no no no. GenAI is absolutely NOT about access to information. It is about despoiling our information ecosystem. And the text extruded from chatbots is absolutely NOT expression, since no one is expressing themselves there.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026

“These Meta glasses are anti-social from the jump. If all we have is this ad to judge the product, they’re not about capturing memories with your friends at the bar or a party. They’re about packaging one’s life and then viewing it as an out-of-body experience, like you’re already dead.” 🔥🔥🔥

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Very proud to have co-edited this book with Amie Stager, in partnership with May Day Strong. This tells the story of how, by striking, refusing, and SHUTTING IT DOWN, workers can resist an ICE invasion and go toe to toe with the most powerful people on earth. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2966-t...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Great to see more and more ecology and evolution journals recruiting Data Editors! If you're wondering what a Data Editor is and what they actually do, you may want to check out: The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

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The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It’s incredibly sad that a 25 year old died of flu—a vaccine-preventable illness that can be deadly The big anti-vaccine push by the MAGA and MAHA crew is a deadly one; I don’t know what the final tally of deaths will be, but even one death is too many www.expressnews.com/news/article...

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Air Force confirms first death in Lackland flu outbreak, Rep. Castro says

A flu bug has swept the ranks of recruits at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base, the service's basic training hub. Nearly 300 are said to have been infected.

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