iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This may be the favourite slide I have designed for our first year core module this year.

Screenshot of a Powerpoint slide. On the left hand side is the heading 'your voice is more important han the computer's voice, and a list of bullet points explaining that AI generated prose isn't very good. On the right is a photo of a person in a Hello Kitty costume, wearing a pink princess dress, holding a sledgehammer and about to smash a laptop that is sitting at her feet.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 23h

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Ee-Yah Ah-Jhuh-Staw-Dee Along with being an important agricultural food staple to the Cherokee

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is jack o'lantern and pronounced Ee-Yah Ah-Jhuh-Staw-Dee

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 22h

Status report, “Useful Images” dep’t: Sptted on Tumblr: Gifs for fouls in threads & posts. 😏 www.tumblr.com/dduane/8306601090373…

Ref holds arms up. OFFENSIVE FOUL, FALSE DICHOTOMY. THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO OPTIONS.

Ref with arms out. WE HAVE A TROLL ON THE FIELD. PLAYER HERE JUST TO CREATE TROUBLE. PLAYER IS EJECTED. WITH PREJUDICE.

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Alt text included. My apologies for missing it on the original post but I was a mess reading it.

Dear beautiful women,
I've started this letter like ten times and deleted it every time because every time I start I cry. So I'm just going to write it.
Your flag matters to me. It matters so much that it's flying at a lesbian household where anyone walking by can see it.
I'm a trans girl so I'm not sure you can relate but I'll try. Most days I'm doing math in my head like which hallway is safer, who I can sit near at lunch whether it's worth saying something or just letting it go. I'm so tired. I don't think people who don't have to do it know how tired it makes you.
I walk past your house almost daily. The first time I saw the flag I slowed down without meaning to. It was just hanging there like it was no big deal but to me it was everything. It felt like the people inside would see me as who I actually am and I wouldn't have to explain or prove anything. My shoulders dropped for the first time all day and I almost cried right there in front of your home.
I know that living here isn't easy for gay people like you where not everyone is kind about it so putting that flag up means risking stares, comments or worse. You didn't have to do it. It would have been so much easier to stay quiet. You did it anyway, and that is the bravest thing I've seen anyone do. Every day it stays up it tells people like me that someone is willing to be brave so we don't have to be alone.
Now I look for it. Some days it's the one thing that makes me feel like I'm not imagining that I deserve to be here. When so much of the world feels like it's deciding whether there's room for me your flag says there is. Please keep it up. You might not know it but it's helping me get through the day.
Thank you for your courage, and for leaving the porch light on for the rest of us.

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Jooli-AHH! Boolia 👻🍂🎃 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 23h

When later reached for comment, Wienerschnitzel said, "Fuck this. Fuck all of this"

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 20h

Good catch... Looks like if you want those filters to apply to ALL search results, you'll need to toggle this off. bsky.app/profile/pitt...

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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Stacked series of long exposure astro landscape images depicting thousands and thousands of trails from satellites over the conical volcano Taranaki Maunga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 21h

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 8h

Hey! Listen to Jeri. She's pretty cool, and she's right. Vote early if you can.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 5h

*Me spiral." ...This is why I've always admired his writing. He's so exact. 🥰

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 15/10/2026

AI LLMs are (by their perpetrators' admission in currently active lawsuits) trained on illegally acquired material. *How hard is it to say "I will not use, in my work, goods stolen from tens of thousands of my colleagues"?* And to recommend other writers not to do so? ...COME ON. :/

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/10/2026

Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can

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𝙰𝙲𝚄𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚂 𓁣 @bzvowell.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

𝙰𝙲𝚄𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚂

Frog riding and alligator:

I WILL SUCCEED,

BECAUSE I AM INSANE.

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Erin Macdonald @drerinmac.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I meet lots of folks wanting to be science advisors — here’s an opportunity!

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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's time to shake the table this November.

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🦆 Eliza Herndon! 🦆 @ducktwacy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Everyone's rightfully posting the "gay sophisticate" Daffy comic panel, but I personally think this one takes the cake

A comic panel of Daffy Duck bugging a visibly annoyed Bugs Bunny.

Daffy: Teach me how to be a gay irresponsible rabbit like you... will ya, huh? Will ya?

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One last point about trusting machines over African people, writing and scholarship: The fact that African studies programs specifically are being targeted and dismantled around America is also something to contend with. truthout.org/articles/bla...

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Black and African Studies Programs Are Disappearing From College Campuses

Over a dozen public and private colleges and universities in the US have closed, merged, or scaled back these programs.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It is really chilling to see how quickly Black, Caribbean, and African writers and academics have become the global face of AI use and accusations of plagiarism. For such a serious charge, @vauhinivara.bsky.social's article rests on...a Pangram scan. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...

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Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

What chills me more is that the Atlantic article's author not only scanned Kundieza's work, but also scanned 25 years' worth of Caine Prize awardees to check whether they were human. A prize for African writers. It feels like the literary equivalent of doing a non-consensual genital check.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Caine Prize is an award for African writers, judged by other African writers. As a Ghanaian/Nigerian-American, I've followed the Caine Prize for years-- I read African literature. The Atlantic article uses AI to justify overriding the judgment of African people reading their own literature.

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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#RecipeOfTheDay is the comforting Welsh fruited tea loaf, Bara Brith, to be eaten spread so generously with butter that the Danes would call it tandsmør, which is to say, butter spread thickly enough that you leave teeth marks in it after taking a bite! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...

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Bara Brith

I have a particular fondness for Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread. My late sister Thomasina lived and worked in Wales, and my first taste of it came courtesy of her next door...

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

::staring in literature:: did... did people not think blood sucking was about sex

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is good news! I can't wait for the first science images from Roman (though they're so damn big I'm not sure how I'll peruse them). I wrote about this last month, too. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/nancy-grac...

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s very first image released!

The "first light" shot is weird but hints at amazing things to come. Plus: Mercury has more shrinkage than thought

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/10/2026

Rejected Space Mission Profiles xkcd.com/3310/

Comic: Rejected Space Mission Profiles. (1) Jupiter Rover [rover falling through clouds screaming AAAAA!] (2) Voyager 2 Orbiter [Small spacecraft orbiting the space probe] (3) Crewed Pluto Flyby [Spacecraft passing planets. Voice from inside says, “Uh, bye, I guess.”] (4) Neptune Core Return [Rocket pulling core out of planet which is dragging the surface of the planet with it.]

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It amuses me greatly that Scott Jennings must have watched Katie Zacharia's premiere as Press Secretary, a job he very much wanted, and thought, "I was passed over for an inarticulate moron???"

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Hole Chat Podcast @hole-chat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ohhhh what a sexy little book, full of scary little stories, one of which is written by Keelz It'd be super hot if y'all bought a copy and supported @keyleekey.bsky.social

the cover for 'The Scary Tapes', an anthology of horror stories about AI tomfoolishness, written by real people, in support of scientific research to un-fuck AI and support humans.

you want to buy it, you love being scared, and you love supporting Keelz and other cool people

Keelz is hot, also, fyi

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 15/10/2026

…Yet it would’ve been the challenge of a lifetime to make this work. 🥲

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This *is* a fantastic story!

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Kayleigh McKee 🟡, Blinded my a billion brilliant lights @ghaspey.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Californians! Short ballot proposition guide from a measured materialist socialist here- they are CRAZY IMPORTANT THIS YEAR. DON'T SKIP THE MIDTERMS JUST BECAUSE CALI VOTES BLUE. Prop 1- Bond to build housing. Always good, if just a small cork in a big river. Prop 2- Give the state a bigger coffer

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Small Bowl with Mice, 100-500 CE, Ceramic with white and black Slip Glaze

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