iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

While reading about pawpaws to try growing some from seed I found this gem: "Another pest is... the zebra swallowtail butterfly, whose larvae feed... on... pawpaw foliage, but never in great numbers. The adult butterfly is of such great beauty that this should be... more a blessing than a curse."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If your employer uses Lyra Health for its EAP, please read the fine print. Recordings of sessions are the default, and while coaches and therapists will ask you if you want to continue recording, they will not tell you that a transcript of your session will be used to train AI.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Relatedly, I am appalled by how much this is the case in K-12. It is really indefensible.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This example of LLMs used for "editing" is so powerful as it explicitly shows that genAI does not only deaden language and erase authorial voice, but actively revises an author's intended meaning too. bsky.app/profile/disa...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This story is so absurd that I think it didn’t get enough attention. Chicago police is violating the law to the tune of hundreds of thousands of secret traffic stops that it’s not reporting as the law requires. When Pascal discovered this, they said they’d fix it… but secrecy has only increased!

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/07/2026

"This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss"

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bridges are one thing, but *water plants*!?

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 15/07/2026

Signal boosting this at an hour I am not usually awake! I used almost every good brain hour I had for two months to put together this ask for help. I need to be able to focus on my medical care and recovery again for a while. Can you chip in, or you can simply repost and help get the word out? 💜

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Old School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 02/06/2026

RAS is druggable, my gods. ras is fucking druggable **in human people** it fucking worked. science.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

well, here's a nice metaphor as we work on dreaming the next chapter after this one:

Tumblr post from weasselle arguing that Community should be run like a household not a business- focusing on keeping people safe and healthy rather than turning a profit

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

For folks who *don't* like immigration, maybe consider helping make the places people are wanting to leave nicer places to live? Seems like basic demand side economics.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

*His new Roy Cohn. He had the original too.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is something I've been wondering a lot lately—how much of AI critique (I have plenty myself) is a critique of the larger system, of which AI is only one constitutive element?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"When work is organized so that judgment and skill are appropriated by a managerial layer and the worker is left with execution alone, the worker is being treated as a component." ~Wren

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Mass murderers, holocaust-scale mass murderers, except it was a handful of almost teenage tech bros impersonally crossing out budget items.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Holy mackerel I haven't read an academic paper I expect to be *this influential* (to my narrow field) in quite a long time. It's a pre-print, and I've been asked not to share, so I'll hold off on saying more. But *damn*.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wonder if a direction Colorado could go after this SCOTUS finding is requiring children's affirmative, ongoing, age-appropriately informed assent, with assessment to confirm the absence of undue influence (parental or otherwise), prior to any form conversation therapy.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Odds on whether, if he attends, our president falls asleep during SCOTUS oral arguments?

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Maybe propose an amendment making all forms of valid ID free to the citizen and fast to obtain. Passports too, while we’re at it. If a law is a pretextual de facto poll tax, amend it and put the matter to the test.

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Ben K 🌈 @realbenk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Cybertruck expert here, when they start having twins it, counterintuitivly, means their population is under stress.

A picture of three cybertrucks. One os normal cybertruck and the two children cybertrucks are green and kinda look like dumpsters.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The snow shoveler expansion exemplifies to a different orientation to governance, because the admin began with a standard—sidewalk accessibility—and then adjusted the scale of labor to meet it, with accessibility functioning as the organizing principle rather than a secondary consideration. 6/

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A pressing practical question for Higher Ed: if universities are administering GenAI platforms for student use, are the associated records/logs made available (and how/with what limitations) for, say, FOIA requests, academic misconduct investigations, or HR proceedings?

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A thing I often wonder: when might today’s conservative folks say wealth concentration would be too high. I bet we’d find vanishingly few who believe the .00001% should have 99% of all wealth rather than 2% (which I expect many to endorse). Working backward, where do they start to draw the line?

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

At the International Conference on SDT, the final session has long been a Q&A with Ryan & Deci. The 8th was the first without Deci (he was in the audience). When Ryan acknowledged their lifelong research partnership, we gave Deci a standing ovation and he cried tears of joy. His work is enduring.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This is precisely what polling places were like for part of the 19th century. People often traveled long distances by horse to vote. It was a big deal when folks got together this way.

Painting of a crowded busy polling place in 1852. “The County Election,” by George Caleb Bingham.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

In the purportedly richest country in the world, one possible approach would have been to dismantle the East Wing for reconstruction elsewhere as museum or other form of historical preservation.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/01/2026

Agreed. I think it's even worse: many politicians don't WANT people to do more than give money and vote. They don't want people calling them about issues, questioning their decisions. I strongly prefer politicians who come out of activism, actually care about things, and want to involve community.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Legal minded folks, am I correct in remembering that impeachment after resignation still prevents an individual from holding federal office ever again?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/01/2026

She said she voted Republican for the first time which means that in the past LGBTQ stuff was not a deal breaker for her which means something turned it into a deal breaker for her and I think we should be VERY curious about the systemic issues which shaped that outcome

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/01/2026

WE SHOULDN'T USE POLLING TO TELL US WHAT OUR VALUES ARE, WE SHOULD USE POLLING TO FURTHER ADVANCE THE CAUSES WE VALUE.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Question about gifting Trump the Nobel Medallion: If it's something he's receiving in his official capacity, is it in effect a gift to the USFG, to be retained by the government after he leaves office?

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Those who work in intelligence (and some but not all military roles) are permanently barred from Peace Corps service. Regardless, when I served I was often accused of being a spy. This is the sort of thing that will get innocent Americans killed, not to speak of being immoral in itself.

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Brittany S. @oklasotagal.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time. She is grateful for your support and instead requests folks that want to help to donate to the local organizations of your choice!

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

But Tiny Tim, who did NOT die. escaped, and taking with him a seedling of the Tree he went with his wife and his sons by ship down the River, and they sailed from the mouths of Anduin seeking Elendil.

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My family possesses (marginally) significant primary source documents—from my grandfather’s time as a WWII conscientious objector, and a co-op manager/furniture seller (i.e. docs related to market-based, idealist, pacifist socialism). Hundreds of pages. How many families have similar troves?

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I'm going to try something I haven't done before—live skeeting as I read an article: Leading from behind: How the symbolic self exerts its free will By Sheldon & Sedikides This is coming out of Self-Determination Theory and theorizing on the nature of free will. 1/

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Jakob Gowell @gowellja.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

With Self-Determination Theory moving to a tripartite model, I think we need an umbrella term for need supports, thwarts, and neglect. (I like "need states" for need satisfaction, frustration, and dissatisfaction/dormancy.) Help me avoid typing out "supports, thwarts, and neglect" everything time!

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