iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/

A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 12h

Dear Duolingo: I did three quests yesterday. I did three quests today. In total, you have logged four quests. And the tech bros want me to give them my email, computer, bank logins? When we don’t yet have the technology to count to six?

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 12h

Very very bad idea… but how stupid do you have to be to know this is a bad idea and give it your personal email login anyway? If you have to test this for work, set up a sandboxes new gmail, populate it with handpicked content sent from other fake accounts. Last I was asked for my login: Foundry.

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 01/10/2026

#botober2026 is back by popular demand! This year I used 2015-era char-rnn running on my cat hair covered laptop to predict new entries in a list of 42,000 Jockey Club racehorse names. No other training data was involved. I collected the best horseys for you! www.aiweirdness.com/botober-2026/

Botober 2026
Art prompts generated by a very tiny language model
Trained on 42,000 racehorse names from the Jockey Club

1. Happy Fly
2. Excessive Wet
3. Dust of the Dancer
4. Star You Chase
5. Cat to Cow
6. Rocks of the Wind
7. Expected Shoes
8. Shot Lazer
9. Buttermade
10. Tiger Tricks
11. Bubble Bird
12. Swinging Bedchin
13. Stamp Market
14. Fast Wave
15. Qualitydance
16. Lady Attackpot
17. Speed Puddin
18. Pretty Blubinddem
19. Friend Velvet
20. One Little Bench
21. Hoot Cop
22. Foolish Reserve
23. Boo's Clever
24. Power Noping
25. Silent Got the Cart
26. Thunder Swan
27. Gator Exchange
28. Kitten Market
29. Funny Empire
30. Four Spies
31. Candy Smoke

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Kathleen Cottontail 🏳️‍⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tim Russ posted this on Facebook 🤣 🖖

Someone’s front lawn in front of their house. Someone put out a very good replica of the original enterprise Bridge as a Halloween decoration the difference is all of the characters are skeletons at their stations wearing TOS uniforms.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Northern Ireland Assembly yesterday voted in favour of progressing with a bill that would ban conversion practices, with no religious exemption. A long way to go before this is law, but NI is now further ahead on delivering this key protection for LGBT people than Scotland, England or Wales.

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Victory! Northern Ireland Conversion Practices Ban Bill passes key vote

The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted to pass the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill at Second Stage. MLAs voted 46 in favour and 29 against, with 15 abstentions. Northern Ireland Humanists...

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

anydice is so useful for shit like this btw. curious how Forged in the Dark rolls work? here you go, "chance of at least this level of success" for 0, 1, 2, and 3 skill pips. The fact that success rates increase by 25% for the first few skill dice produce really clean, noticable power increases

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This has been my experience in writing, coding, roleplaying, worldbuilding, music, photography, art: other people say it can do that, skilled practitioners say ‘no way’.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

Israel engaged in the demolition of a city with families still inside the buildings. Real life horror.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 27/09/2026

ICYMI: Shakespeare’s Globe has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive. 👇

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jordan Hill has a great view (and is an important site) but it sadly isn't the most impressive monument for those who've made the trek to it...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

A round up of the year’s best paperbacks, beginning with my latest novel.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And this is where I blink because I’ve never made that connection before: a capacity of 40.000 people means at least twice that number of folks in the area. I suddenly feel an urge to look at average population numbers and settlement sizes again and see how they line up, because fuck, that’s a lot.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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Studio Ranokel @studioranokel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✨ Save the date(s) ✨ Ich durfte für die Universität des Saarlandes eine interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung zum Thema Illustration und Geschichte organisieren – und enthülle hiermit feierlich das Programm 👇 Ich freue mich sehr, wenn der eine oder die andere Lust hat, hybrid dabeizusein! #histillu

Programmflyer zur Vorlesungsreihe Lücken Füllen: Graphic History und der Umgang mit dem Unzeigbaren. Am 26. Oktober spreche ich selber über "Illustration meets History", am 2. November stellt Charlotte Schallié die Arbeit des Survivor-Centered Visual Narratives Projekt vor. Am 9. November spricht Oliver Bruderer über die Visualisierung von Unsicherheiten in der Archäologie und am 16. November endet die Reihe mit einem Vortrag von Esther McManus über visuelle Repräsentationen von Archivforschung.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It appears that once an account gains the rude label, it is rude forever. Which seems like a very bad algorithm to me. I can see that for other categories, but ‘rude’ is so subjective, and should not follow you for months or years. On a per-skeet basis it makes sense. Habitual? Mmh. Forever? No.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I wrote, I know this attorney very well, and he is a long standing supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. He has taken many pro bono cases, and at this point he can't take another pro bono case, but he can be retained. Siobhán needs another 3k for this to happen. www.gofundme.com/f/protect-si...

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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein

Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 23/09/2026

this is also a fair point bsky.app/profile/levi...

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'Nicht mehr oder noch nicht' #FotoVorschlag Kein Teich mehr. August, knochentrocken, dabei ist der gear nicht do klein. Penrhos, Wales.

The dry bed of what is usually a lake, gradually changing from dark shore to greyish bed with rocks in to dried out mud. Green trees crane the scene, and you can look all the way across to the other dry shore, about 20m, and not a drop of water in sight.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

Fifteen journalists led the Arday coverage. Between them they wrote 93 articles about a Black Cambridge professor accused of copying other people's work. Not one of them wrote a sentence about a Cambridge academic under police investigation for how a political party was funded.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

- Jason Arday was a Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism. In the week after he resigned, fifteen national outlets wrote 163 articles about him. - In the week after the Channel 4 film, the same fifteen outlets wrote 14 about Orr.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

Cambridge said it was examining his conduct that afternoon. On 9 September the Metropolitan Police opened a criminal investigation. Two of the secretly funded polls had run on the Telegraph's own front page.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

On 3 September he was shown on camera arranging for a US company to pay for Reform UK's polling, which electoral law forbids. He stood down as Reform's head of policy the next morning.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here is the preprint! "Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories" by Sil Hamilton and David Mimno. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26492 I have seen this one too, but much less frequently than the other one I'm seeing, which I'd rather not describe.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am starting to wonder if *some* people use LLMs for story ideas, but then write the story themselves. I've read so many stories lately that are very very very similar story ideas, but do not come across as LLM-written (though do not come across as well-written either). It reminds me of -

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David W. Pippy @davidwilliampippy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning, Sunrise yesterday morning at Cape Porpoise, Maine photographed by Jamie Grant..

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Muster / Pattern' #FotoVorschlag Risse im Asphalt. Unser Lehmboden hat den Hitzesommer nicht so gut vertragen. Überall sonst sind die Risse linear; hier gibt’s ein interessantes Muster.

Crackelure in asphalt; London Clay 2026.

This is a close-up of a worn greyish path with a hint of an edge to the left and a small patch of greenery (not grass, grass is yellow) to the right. A massive crack, probably half an inch wide, runs from the bottom to the top, smaller incomplete cracks run side to side, and some even smaller run every which way.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 12/05/2025

Saw someone say that LLMs are like parrots for just repeating the input, and having worked with some very smart parrots, I can confirm that parrots are smarter than LLMs since the birds can actually understand the context of words.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn." -Dolly Parton last nights back 40 sleep well my friends🩵

Sunset over a barn with a tree on each side and a roof on each side of them.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was writer in residence at my local library this year. I got a message once from someone saying she had read my book through her library and then went out and bought 2 copies for the academic institution she works for. Libraries pay for books an introduce people to reading which helps writers.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I find this part of the FAQ fascinating.

Can I turn off the AI Companion completely?

Not at this time.

Currently, there is no option to disable the AI Companion entirely. However, Wiley is continually reviewing user feedback and making improvements to the experience.

The AI Companion's display and behaviour are being refined to:

Improve readability
Reduce interruptions while reading
Give users more control over how they interact with the feature

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MovingTrainMedia @movingtrainmedia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And at a location I have been to a couple of times. But on a day when I was in a whole other state. No Regrets. Just Egrets. (from a small part of another state)

An egret launches itself into flight from a bare tree branch that juts up from the lower left corner of the image. The Egret's neck is in an s shape and the far wing is higher than the near wing. One leg is extended straight out behind while the other points down towards the branch. Yellow bill, white feathers, black legs and feet.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Six months from now, another Anthropic employee is going to resign while warning of AI-induced nuclear strikes. …and then we’re going to find out that Anthropic bought a dozen missile siloes for Claudebot as a treat.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

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