iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 11/09/2026

I think about this video essay more and more often. youtu.be/Pp0kRaOv9hA?...

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Literacy is Dead. Consumerism is Forever.

YouTube video by Shanspeare

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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profradii.bsky.social @profradii.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Semi-humerous sidebar to this: when interviewing 'techs' to support the Cluster, I noticed they all took notes on their mobile phones. I asked "What are you going to if you lose your phone?" Blank looks abound. Then I asked "What note did you just take?" Blanks.

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

A display of diseased potatoes mounted in the wall, each in a little coffin

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Martin Clemens Winter @martincwinter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

ja fragt euch mal

Graffiti „but would your thesis defend you?“

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Virginia Helena @v-helena.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Vein finders are revolutionizing patient care by using near-infrared light to map veins in real-time, reducing failed punctures and improving comfort.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A 6,000 year-old pottery bowl with five small hippos and a crocodile. From the grave of a woman and child at Matmar, near Asyut, Egypt. Early Predynastic, Naqada I. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a handmade pottery bowl made from red polished clay. The bowl shape is rounded, tapering to a narrower rounded base, with a wide flaring rim. Attached around the rim there are five small hand-modelled figures of hippopotami and one crocodile. The bowl was broken when found, and has been restored. Diameter: 29.50 cm (max) Height: 13.80 cm.

It was excavated from a predynastic cemetery at Matmar by Guy Brunton circa 1929-31. It was found in grave 2646 which belonged to a female and child.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

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Helen McGilp | FieldFold @helenmcgilp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Becoming a ghost in the vast banking infrastructure - and the value of owning your records. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/y...

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Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11/05/2026

Here's what a day without US tech services could look like: www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Huge win for our colleagues, for the humanities, and for the citizenry of our democracy.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

twenty years ago people attacked universities by deriding “Mickey Mouse degrees” like media studies in favour of “proper” subjects like history, and now universities are skipping that step and simply abolishing everything that isn’t economics

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Government Chief Scientific Adviser will have a year focusing on the theme of ‘Trustworthy Information’. Great role in her office for a social scientist to provide support on this crucial topic and on other projects (£33k - £40k) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Social Science
Adviser
Government Office for Science
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 13th
April 2026
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 14/03/2026

“The issue emerged because journals and funders increasingly require researchers to publish the code they have used to analyse large datasets. When intending to upload code, some researchers have also accidentally published partial or entire Biobank datasets to GitHub.”

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Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians

You see a black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, printed in a book with a wood block. The book titled Robert Fludd "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica..." (1617),
Access the page: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gbbychu2/images?id=gzy3gujm

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Helen McGilp | FieldFold @helenmcgilp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

“In a digital era, entertainment often becomes collective memory.” Distorted "based on a true story" sensationalism survives and supplants as record. (unlocked) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

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Opinion | Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/02/2026

These folks lie with ease and frequency but the text of the emails is also an insight into the megalomania of tech bros. You made a doorbell with a camera bro.

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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Nice and specific, cheers.

'VARIOUS ANCIENT PAPERS' written on an old envelope. The envelope is being held above a wooden table with a box on it.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

They all say this: "Amazon sees this as an AI that can live alongside you as you go about your day..." Their ONLY goal is to get you to SUBSCRIBE and give them your LIFE CONTENT. They keep trying, they keep failing. If you see someone wearing a Bee, act accordingly and avoid them. Like real bees.

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Humane’s Ai Pin could be a repeat of the doomed Magic Link of the ’90s

Both Humane and General Magic were formed by ex-Apple employees. And both companies brought Apple’s blind spots into their products.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/01/2026

When a public good is framed as too expensive it's stopped being seen as a public good. The university is so obviously a place and idea that should be owned by and for the public. 💔

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Helen McGilp | FieldFold @helenmcgilp.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

An expression of hope for peace - ‘Before Another Christmas’ - by Charles Rochon Hoover (c. 1910-20) for the US National Council for Limitation of Armaments, Washington, D.C. (Collection of Library of Congress)

A stylised poster (c. 1910 -1920) with the text “World Peace” at the top. The main image depicts a woman and two children looking towards a Star shining above a pile of discarded military equipment. Along the bottom it reads: ‘Before Another Christmas Still “Less of Armament and None of War”’ — A hopeful message for global peace and an end to war and military buildup.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Flatterers up the *ss of the rich man. Some things never change! Here in 1592 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

So this #SHOT2025 panel has nearly wrapped up. But if you want to read more about historical issues surrounding multimedia and the preservation of born-digital collections, check out this piece on #DigiPres at @theul.bsky.social. (Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @rhiggitt.bsky.social!)

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A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Seren is a young person who lives in a really vulnerable household. Everyone should listen to her story. 💙💜💗 #educationANDlives

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Today, academics, ask yourself: Am I bringing enough of a Flann O'Brien energy to my R&R work?

Image is a snip from Flann O'Brien's letters, reading:

"It is a pity you did not like my beautiful book. As a genius, I do not expect to be readily understood but you may be surprised to know that my book is a definite milestone in literature, completely revolutionises the English novel and puts the shallow pedestrian English writers in their place. Of course I know you are prejudiced against me on account of the IRA bombings."

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Things are disastrous, but we’re hoping that learning together, celebrating public knowledge + the gloriously noncompliant, can be ✨✊❤️‍🩹🌱. We’re hosting our first zoom info session this Friday at noon ET; sign-up @ the bottom of the page:

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Join Us For Misfits: A Fall Course From The Cross-Reference Coalition

We’re thrilled to share the Call for Applications for a fall course from the Cross-Reference Coalition: a new, interdisciplinary community learning project from the Metropolitan New York Library Counc...

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Helen McGilp | FieldFold @helenmcgilp.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A strange case between The Yves Klein Estate and Stuart Semple. For two self-styled ‘provocateurs’ of paint, the infringement outlined seems fairly mundane and petty. For info: gofund.me/41ee201c

Screenshot of the available information (from Stuart Semple), which reads:
Well it's a bit weird - you’d expect it was that l'd spent 10 years of my life making a blue paint as good as his.
But no - they admit my formula is different.
Their problem is me using the word KLEIN on the packaging.
They asked the judge to seize all the paint and destroy it.
Luckily the judge said no.
They also complained about me painting my hand blue as Yves did that too.
They won that argument.
Seems they now have ownership of artists painting their hands blue.

Screenshot of the Wall Street Journal video made on the paint development - which can be accessed via the link in post.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/04/2025

Tons of thoughts about this essay, but parts like this, beyond eliciting thoughts of ELIZA, are striking because of the report that the most profound experience of attention this person has ever achieved is from a bot.

What this student had come to say was that she had descended more deeply into her own mind, into her own conceptual powers, while in dialogue with an intelligence toward which she felt no social obligation. No need to accommodate, and no pressure to please. It was a discovery—for her, for me—with widening implications for all of us.
“And it was so patient,” she said. “I was asking it about the history of attention, but five minutes in I realized: I don’t think anyone has ever paid such pure attention to me and my thinking and my questions . . . ever. It’s made me rethink all my interactions with people.”

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Helen McGilp | FieldFold @helenmcgilp.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Co-constructed realities through Google AI search and response.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Watch the birdie... A fascinating deep dive into Glasgow's early pioneering photographers. While some names, and work, are familiar to me, there plenty new rabbit holes to explore. Top hat doffed to the author, the mysterious 'Cicerone'. merchantcityglasgow.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/g...

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Glasgow & Photography, part I (1839-1844)

Working on the early development of Buchanan Street and identifying its close relationship with early commercial photography in Glasgow at Kemp’s warehouse used by photographer John Urie and notici…

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Oddest eBay description of the day Hundreds--count 'em!

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photo of 17th-century manuscript

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1623 100's of French words in brown ink (400+ Year Old) Untranslated Document!

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Handwritten recipes for dyes used in William Morris’s fabric designs, from the Merton Abbey Dye Book (1882-91)

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/04/2025

“Every morning, Dan Siroker wakes to a flurry of judgment. Not from his spouse. Not from his mother, but from a coin-sized AI listening device on his collar that records every utterance, argument and backhanded compliment.” 🥴

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This disc records everything you say — to make you a better person

Limitless hopes its AI wearable device will be used as a life coach and productivity tool by millions

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