iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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it is mentally, intellectually, spiritually, exhausting to be dealing with the same injustices for an entire lifetime when we know, observe, speak on or report on the structural & societal norms causing & worsening it all. (this applies to many issues & news stories. cornell 7 most on my mind.)

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 29/09/2026

"To fast track their AI ambitions, tech companies are pressuring leaders to accept severe and largely avoidable harms." Coordinated international action from governments is needed to mitigate the health and environmental harms of data centres, @ucs.org www.bmj.com/content/394/...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

AI firms' campaigns to fleece universities (via their software-purchasing administrators) have been wildly successful, from both the standpoints of revenue generation and lapping up a ton of student content why would anyone expect different behavior with the scientific work done at universities?

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Agnes Haus @agneshaus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

in another lifetime ago, 11 years ago, i produced this song for a short lived alter-ego of Penelope Trappes... Priscilla Sharp. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRC5...

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Priscilla Sharp - Floored (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Secret Songs

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My dream is that Europe/Canada and the UK just build all their own tech systems to replace those owned by the US oligarchs. Short term pain for long term “avoiding being held at gunpoint by US oligarchs.”

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse

Fake Bloomberg post:
Meta Harm

Meta Debuts a Device that Liquidates your Internal Organs to Provide
a Sustainable Source of Protein for Mark Zuckerberg's Pet Salamander.

Meta Platforms Inc. just unveiled its new gadget, which is already proving popular among
AI fans who are keen to relinquish not only all their human rights but also their lives...

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The technology isn’t rogue. The people are.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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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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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No matter how justified, you can’t spend all of your time angry about world events. It’s important to take a step back and focus on the little things around you that will also make you angry.

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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 19/09/2026

Hello Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Phrack team was also there, same rules: Send proof to hunt@phrack.org for a chance of getting a Phrack 73 copy! Two of the locations might be quite challenging. And for the ones that found the stickers in London: we got your email and we will be in touch :)

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Euan Briggs @euandbriggs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why is the UN headquarters in New York? It should be in Europe, in Den Haag.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 14/09/2026

A solo activity challenge ladder: Level 1 ramen shop → 2 coffee shop → 3 conveyor belt sushi → 4 karaoke → 5 overnight trip → 6 family restaurant → 7 yakiniku → 8 live show → 9 amusement park → 10 love hotel

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Breaking: The British Public respond 99% 'Don't Know' when asked to review whether the Tokugawa Shogunate's policy of sakoku promoted internal stability during the Edo period.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.

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Euan Briggs @euandbriggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The OST for Ghost in the Shell 2026 was released yesterday (www.theghostintheshell-anime.jp/en/music/ost/). Contains some really interesting music but this is my favourite www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRoR...

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Heavenly Suite Op.2 - Reflections

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hitler to Moses: But you can tell me in confidence Herr Moses. Is it not true that you set the bush on fire yourself? Victor Klemperer, reporting that jokes like this got people arrested and jailed for months.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Als Kind im Deutschland der siebziger und achtziger Jahre hörte ich von den Alten oft diesen Spruch: „Die dümmsten Kälber wählen ihre Schlächter selber.“ #Landtagswahl

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If your magic "tool" is going to be this wrong why on earth use it? I don't get it? If its going to get the materials this wrong, why am I FUCKING WASTING MY TIME WITH IT

I recently used AI to dig through thousands of pages of notes and source material I had gathered more than 15 years ago, for a book on the history of the historical professions. While thinking about a new project on the ways historians adopted new technologies into their work in the past, I used it to scan my sources and it surfaced material I had completely forgotten about and accurately pointed out patterns — such as similarities in attitudes and language in sources written decades apart — that I had missed. Conversely, in that same scan of my source materials, I found the AI drew false inferences from historical documents because it failed to grasp irony and thus inverted the actual point of the author. In other cases, it failed to extract the most interesting material from documents because it was unable to “read against the grain” and capture critical hidden meanings. In each instance, I could recognize these problems only because I’ve spent years working with this material. All of this raises important questions about how to help students develop similar knowledge, experience, and disciplinary judgment, even when this new tool seems, to an untrained eye, to make those things unnecessary.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sorely missing in Europe and the US: political battles over different versions of the future, rather than over narratives of the past, or over who ‘we’ were when ‘all was good’ - for some.

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some things are timeless

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another reason the British media was so rabid about Arday despite being warned he was autistic and vulnerable by Dr Simon Baron-Cohen is because the British media don’t give a shit about people with autism (and neurodiversity in general) A fair number of columnists actually hate us

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Haywain 2026

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

„North Sea Gas“ is like Brexit: Identity politics using the language of economics - with the real economy proving them both wrong. And both with links to Trump.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Meanwhile, everyone wants to breathe and nobody can breathe and many say, ‘We will breathe later.’ And most of them don’t die because they are already dead.” —Raoul Vaneigem, 21 March 1934 – 28 July 2026.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dan Wang and I have written the Weekend Essay at @financialtimes.com and if I can say so myself it's a banger as.ft.com/r/c1054499-a...

An illustration from classic Golden Age era science fiction.

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Technically yes, we know how to decarbonize our society. The trouble is that we have not yet figured out how to politically decarbonize our society and that is what it is going to take.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Brilliant analysis; MAHA blames individuals & ignores structural barriers to better health Also, check out @euandbriggs.bsky.social’s luscious electronic music: hodology.bandcamp.com/album/spindr...

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Euan Briggs @euandbriggs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Shut Facebook app down, just block it in this country. It is an abomination. I feel like my family and friends are being brainwashed by an evil cult-like organisation. Ban it from the app store.

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Euan Briggs @euandbriggs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

People talking about Wesley Snipes today, so I'm linking this beautiful 1994 DJ Krush track from the soundtrack of Blade, because it sounds like the Brownian motion in my mind when I'm doing the dishes in the evening. youtu.be/7SCFWNrTxxE

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DJ Krush - Dig This Vibe

YouTube video by Softflava

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 30/07/2026

The history of cybersecurity to date: 1992-20XX - didn't do any foundational security, used a bunch of manufactured crisis to get security budget, spent it on Darktrace and got promoted to CISO 20XX - got hacked, paid ransom to cover it up, failed up

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 30/07/2026

The entire cybersecurity industry, including governments, are busy giving themselves blowjobs about GenAI when Iran's breaking in by doing stuff which was novel in 1995.

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Video about some #Japanese drug slang I guess youtu.be/bzo6oPZX9Qg?...

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ゴチミヤ 🧊

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

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Euan Briggs @euandbriggs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is the most useful insight I've seen today about why proselytisation exists.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Musk is trying to normalize selective empathy (he’s said that empathy is the West’s “greatest weakness”), because an expanded and inclusive view of humanity is one of the common features of people with moral courage. To recruit ppl to his project, he needs them to think and be small, like him.

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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Government doing good things for people! It can be done.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The winning design. 🇪🇺💶

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Much of the USA is a very hostile natural environment for human beings tamed by extensive and systematic public health efforts. And when they are relaxed …

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Mamdani says that he does not have the authority to execute the ICC's arrest warrant against Netanyahu.

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Euan Briggs @euandbriggs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don't know a lot about US culture. Why are they all wearing identical hats and striking the same pose? Are these people closely related? Is it some kind of church cult?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I feel like it’s a good feel-good moment having Trump reminded that everyone hates him.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Lights out and away we go! #Clacton

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Both the US and UK have new garden arrangements at their royal residences

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Colin Peters (spoopy version) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Making people think government should work like a business and sell you services through your taxes, and nothing else, is a strategy, employed by comfortable and entitled people who don’t want the government getting in the way of them taking advantage of other people.

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