iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 14/01/2026

Feeding the Novelty bias of some people Not for useful or usable things but for magic beans and shiny beads

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 14/01/2026

💯 "Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This. If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This

If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.

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Bex Sander @bexsander.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

What this has done in fact has simply moved content off the timeline and into private interactions with grok. So deepfake porn is still happening, in a less transparent way

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The only way to win the communications war long term is to stop using the tools owned and controlled by those that hate you and want to stack things against you.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This use of Grok isn't personal perversion but political terrorism: it's designed to silence women, make us retreat from public life. Exemplified by the digital desecration of the body of Renee Good: someone prompted Grok to deepfake a bikini on her corpse. "You're next" is the message to women.

Excerpt from "Mother Jones" magazine article reading:

"Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis, as noted by CNN correspondent Hadas Gold and confirmed by the chatbot itself.

“I just saw someone request Grok on X put the image of the woman shot by ICE in MN, slumped over in her car, in a bikini. It complied,” Gold wrote on the social media platform on Thursday. “This is where we’re at.”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/01/2026

“We’re very concerned, but we’re going to keep letting it happen for now.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/01/2026

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

For my dataviz and flag enthusiast friends, here's a project that analysis flags around the world, their colors, symbols, layout, changes, and so much more (too bad the contrast is meh though, hard to read white on light gray). By Ferdio flagstories.co/

Illustration titled Flag Tetris showing flag elements split into geometric shapes and organized by color in horizontal layers from top to bottom: white, yellow, orange, red, green, blue, and black, resembling a stacked mosaic in a Tetris layout.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 21/11/2025

This is an amazing fact

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 03/11/2025

Let's start this week.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

People do not need "AI literacy". They need a gd intro to statistics and probability course.

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Francis Beaudet @francisbeaudet.com · 24/10/2025

So if you're a MS Office subscriber and got a notice that the price went up. It's because are now charging for Copilot. You can opt-out by cancelling your subscription. When you do, they will offer a Office365 "classic" option which is at the previous price and doesn't include Copilot.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 28/08/2025

Check out this excellent reflection by Ethan Marcotte: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

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A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com

A design language, if you can keep it.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

whoever did this, I would be absolutely thrilled to buy you a drink. seriously - dm or find me, I'm the only Cyd Harrell on the internet. I'm good for an excellent beverage & a civic tech rage session. americabydesign.fail

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America by Design Fail

Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Geese in Flight Benjamin Chee Chee ~ Anishinaabe 1976

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Me ten years ago: sure, I'll read your 10,000 word thinkpiece on teletubbies as a modern-day justice league. Me now: it's a 1m57s video and you're imploring me to "watch to the end"? I think not.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don’t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there’s nothing you can do about it.

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Jennifer Wright @jenashleywright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Whenever I see men post this I think about how when women are lonely, it's not pitied. It's used to chastise them for not being nicer to men. Meanwhile, when men are experiencing a "loneliness epidemic" they decide the answer is *also* that women should be nicer to men.

Meme of a group of twenty-something women partying next to an image of a forty something woman drinking wine sadly in front of her laptop. Text reads

DREAMS AT
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No kids, no man, no problem.
Just vibes and vacations!

REALITY AT
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Why are all the good men taken? I guess men Just can't handle strong women...

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 10/07/2025

Friends, please share! Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 08/07/2025

1974 JRR Tolkien calendar does not get very racy in either his poses or clothes

In Oxfam for £25, calendar with Tolkien in green tweed suit lying against a tree

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

When I was young, old people had trouble double clicking Unrelated, it's gotten so my phone has such nuanced gestures that I do the wrong one as often as the right one to accomplish what I want (eg swipe left to the next tab in the app vs swipe edge left to minimize the whole app)

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 27/06/2025

Andrew Stanton's Wall-E was released 17 years ago today. Still one of my fav sci-fi animated movie. 🤗

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Aye, SecUnit, righte ther wyth thee.

SecUnit, from the show *Murderbot,* stands forlornly in an isolated forest. Caption reveals he is saying "I should've downloaded more shows."

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

we have broken the promise of due process

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 23/06/2025

PM Mark Carney has described developing fossil fuel infrastructure as “pragmatic.” But it’s unclear how a country grappling with abysmal air quality due to wildfires fuelled by global warming will benefit from further fossil fuel development. Deborah de Lange writes.

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Mark Carney Is Turning His Back on Climate Action | The Tyee

And Canada is losing a chance for leadership and sustained economic growth.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Learning the etymology of words, because our brains love a good story, is phenomenal for remembering new vocabulary. And morphology (learning roots, suffixes, prefixes, etc) helps with remembering & guessing meaning of unfamiliar words too. #LangSky #etymology Top notch infographic with alt-text

Calques vs Loanwords by @StarkeyComics
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A calque is a word or phrase that was coined by translating the components of a word or phrase in another language.
For example, the English word 'skyscraper has been calqued into Spanish by directly translating the words sky' and scraper', to give rascacielos'.
Example of a calque:
German -> Lehnwort
(morphemes translated)
English -> loan + word
loanword
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A loanword is a word or phrase that was taken from one language to another.
For example, the English word "patio" is from the Spanish word patio, which means "patio". Loanwords make up between 70 and 80% of English vocabulary.
Example of a loanword:
French -> calque
(word borrowed)
English -> calque

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 08/06/2025

This is absolutely delightful

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 30/05/2025

Andrew has posted the full opening credits/theme song to The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon!

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

whocouldhavepredictedthisohyeaheveryone

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 30/05/2025

The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he’d left the position. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/3…

Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/05/2025

It's fascinating how much generative AI has become a reflection of climate change. We know what's happening, but we carry on as usual, regardless of the consequences. The important thing is to save money in the short term, and good luck to those who follow.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 28/05/2025

📢 New video and a big announcement! briefs.video/videos/intro...

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Introducing: Webbed Sites

A video from Webbed Briefs

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Cheryl Platz @funnygodmother.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I mean, we had evidence that physical buttons were better a decade ago, but that wasn’t enough and it was also too late to prevent the years-in-advance line planning delay of most automakers who chased taillights on the touchscreen war without waiting to see whether it was a good idea.

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Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

FINANCIAL NEWS: Tesla is a disaster CUSTOMERS: Fleeing company in droves CHINA: Launching cheaper EVs TESLA: Delays in new model production MUSK: Something something robotaxis (giggle) FANBOIS: Shut up and take my money

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The environmental disaster that is GenAI trucks on, heedlessly. Musk is operating 33 illegal methane generators at this data center.

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Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer

Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers

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