iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default 🇨🇦 Sign up for updates here: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

COURT: Supreme Court of British Columbia, Vancouver Registry

DATE FILED: May 23, 2025

A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Vancouver against Anthropic PBC.

The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training its large language models. Specifically, the plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC downloaded “Books3” dataset. This dataset contains large amounts of copyrighted works, including books and articles by Canadian authors. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC used and unlawfully copied and shared these copyrighted works, and did not license or otherwise obtain permission to do so from the copyright holders.

If you have any questions about the case or information that you think may assist our investigation, please contact us by clicking on the contact button or calling the number below. Any communication is strictly confidential.

Contact: Oliver Pulleyblank
Phone: 604.697.2480 ext. 240

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ekingston.bsky.social @ekingston.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I attended an Author's Guild webinar maybe 2 months ago about the Anthropic Settlement and took notes. I will share them in this long-ass thread in case it helps anyone. Remember: I do not know anything beyond these notes, so further questions are best directed at actual experts (as in: not me!)

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 02/03/2026

Brits: Please scream. This is a Labour govt proposing to hand the property of individual British workers to largely US corporations. @davidpintod.bsky.social

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

writing an intro is a duel between two urges. one tells me I have a very narrow window of opportunity to hook a reader and so I should be compact, punchy, and informative. the other urge I lovingly call "my bullshit"

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Tfw you didn't study much medieval history at school

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026

❤️

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

thegist.ie

Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future

Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/12/2025

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

My wife reading a joke from a cracker: why do they call it the Dark Ages? Me: they don’t Her: because there were lots of knights. Everyone: hahaha Me: ok let me stop you there. Number one…

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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

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Beast of Bourbon 🥃 @jenleepa.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday.
The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal.
"My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Evergreen

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Resting Lich Face @paullicino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?"

The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

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Ruby Lang, Opal Wei, Mindy Hung @rubyopalmindy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU is out now! I hope you enjoy my novel about a magical midlife midwife dealing with generational trauma while discovering her true power. Available in print, ebook, and audio. Info and buy links here: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...

Flatlay yellow background (it's my coffee table) with white circular trivet and a copy of the book in the center. Book is dark blue with a darker blue hand with gold sparks flying from it. Title in gold.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/11/2025

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

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Ruby Lang, Opal Wei, Mindy Hung @rubyopalmindy.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU is out in 2 weeks! rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...

Background: a pile of copies of The Glowing LIfe of Leeann Wu. Book open to dedication page which reads: For everyone who's going through it.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I will happily watch three seasons of a popular sitcom about the two Chicago popes.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/10/2025

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

techcrunch.com

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 03/08/2025

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌑 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 06/10/2025

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The risible thing about these "AI = people" posts is that there would be a philosophical dilemma if we encountered truly sentient AI. There are roughly one million sci-fi stories on this very topic. But they're doing all this for autocomplete. They're doing this for a spellcheck that can't spell.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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ekingston.bsky.social @ekingston.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Once a reader asked me about my character using the word "steel" in 1283 England because steel "wasn't invented there yet." I politely explained that the English fucking language as we know it didn't exist yet, but trade routes did so steel was not trapped in Damascus or wherever for a 1000 years

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 24/09/2025

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

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Bafflegabs @bafflegabs.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

At this fragile moment in history, any noise you make as a politician towards legitimizing these bullshit concerns is just you helping usher the human race down its slippery slope to pure authoritarian control. We’re equal or we ain’t, that’s it. Gay Panic 2 sucks just as much as the original.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

love this so much via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social from Charlie Angus originally

Today the wife and kids were at a store in north Little Rock. 3 Border Control cars rolled up and masked men got at out and ran into the store. While they were inside, a homeless white man let the air out of the ICE car tires!!!! They dragged 3 people out of the store screaming. They were brown. One was screaming with zero accent “I was born in Cleveland motherfuckers!” They locked them in the back of the cars then noticed the tires. While they were looking at the tires, the homeless guy opened all the doors and let the people out, then ran away waving his arms in the air yelling “I’M ROBINHOOD!!!!” A cop came out and the ICE guys looked at him. Cop said “they look fast. Might get a flat chasing them.” He shrugged his shoulders and walked away not

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

just been camping for the first time in my life and i have some valuable camping advice: take everything with you. Everything in your house. Take your whole house with you and live in it. Live inside your house, at home. Stay at home, living in your house with everything in your house.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

They make you HAPPY fuck you

NYT headline: Mangoes are known as the 'king of fruits. What are their health benefits?

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demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

here’s just a list of numbers

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Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

ALERT! If you get an email from someone claiming to be me and wanting to “chat with fellow writers” or “talk about your writing journey” IT IS NOT ME! It’s a phishing scam. BLOCK & REPORT. Some clues: I don’t have a gmail account & I never want to chat. I’ve reported to Google, so fingers crossed.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

the thing is this is like the third thing I've heard a theory of this being a distraction for and I think we need to start accepting the fact none of these are distractions, he's just this distracted because his brain is bread pudding

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