iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Certified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have been inside 129 Illinois public libraries and don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in Sterling: three-story stacks with glass floors to let in more light, original to the 1904 Carnegie building.

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Marguerite Sauvage @margueritesauvage.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Last days to see Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles - a lot of original pieces, notes, drawings, an overview of her career from her debut to her work with John Lennon and after. I really loved her early works! #yokoono #thebroad #losangeles #art #exhibition

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Employees at Simon & Schuster are circulating an open letter objecting to the potential use of AI software to track their work. In a memo, CEO Greg Greeley said there is currently “no company-wide rollout underway or under consideration.” buff.ly/vv3YF8L

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

GIL SCOTT-HERON in 1982 showing the side of Washington D.C. that tourists never got to see and politicians tried to imagine didn’t exist.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

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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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this closes in a few days, if you haven't entered yet! I suspect it'll be the last giveaway my publisher will be doing for the book.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...

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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia

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Angelo Iulianella @aineurolab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good 🧵 on recent fate mapping of mid-hindbrain boundaries using seperate lineage tracers, with authors concluding that we have two separately specified CNS regions. But we knew this for a couple decades now, and there is much more finessing of brain specification than simply “two brains”.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

FRANKENSTEIN! My 4 interconnecting covers. @skybound.bsky.social

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 20/09/2026

The folks who do believe this are taking the bait, all of it hook, line, and sinker. Libraries are not hurting sales. Folks not having enough money to function and flourish in a society that tells them to "pick themselves up by the bootstraps" (at least in the U.S.) is hurting book sales.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unnamed literary agent in @thedriftmag.com's anonymous AI confessional. (love this format.)

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Image: headline and subhead from the linked article, reading: "Alabama libraries face new pressure over transgender book ban. Librarians pushed back after Amy Minton's catalog searches flagged hundreds of titles, including books not shelved in youth sections." Byline: Jacob Holmes, 2026/09/18.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 18/09/2026

FML is one of the most heartfelt and original things I've read in comics in the last decade. Wonderful book by wonderful people.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looking for a free way to support your favorite authors?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Jenn Bennett @jennbenn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have a 80-lb gentle giant golden doodle (half standard poodle), and she does this daily. She’s the same with her toys, which last forever, unlike my late pugs’ toys that would be destroyed in mere minutes.

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Star Wars Explained @starwarsexplained.com · 10/09/2026

I sat down with Delilah Dawson at Dragon Con to talk about her last ten years writing for Star Wars, and what's ahead for her in the galaxy far, far away! Check out the interview: youtu.be/rOPYlTYLZDA?...

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What's Next for Delilah Dawson and Star Wars - Dragon Con Interview

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 10/09/2026

It's here! I'm so excited to share the cover of SUMMER CAMP ROMANCE, a book that is so close to my heart (13-year sleepaway camp veteran here) and perfect for fans of Wet Hot American Summer: people.com/dahila-adler... (and yes, it's a companion to Soon By You!)

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‘Beach Read’ Meets ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ in Dahlia Adler’s ‘Summer Camp Romance’ — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Dahlia Adler’s next novel ‘Summer Camp Romance,’ out next year. The adult romance from the ‘Soon By You’ author follows the relationship between two camp sta...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The Brooklyn Public Library will launch its first-ever craft library on Wednesday, allowing library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery." gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

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Brooklyn Public Library launches first ever craft library

Cardholders can borrow tools and kits.

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Sherry Thomas @sherrythomas.com · 09/09/2026

It's already September and THE VANISHED SISTER, Lady Sherlock 9 will be upon us, soon. Penguin Random House is very kindly doing a giveaway of all nine books in the series (US only, alas). Go ahead and enter and win. sites.prh.com/lady-sherloc...

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 05/09/2026

I remember being told "UK readers just don't like YA." Also, as an American, I remember being told, "Who understands this British humor" as I consumed all in my path. Tom's great. Read his books.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/09/2026

As thousands of authors wait for their cut of the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history from Anthropic, the tech giant that used pirated books to train its A.I. chatbot, some are accusing the publishers of their books of trying to squeeze them out of a percentage of the payout.

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Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement

The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 04/09/2026

New #WriterBeware blog post: The process of resolving disagreements between claimants in the Anthropic copyright settlement has begun, and there are...problems. A look at what's been reported to me, and advice on what to do. Whew. It's been a busy couple of days. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a...

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Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware

This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like this one: Upon accessing the portal (which doesn’t seem to have a formal name, so I...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Updated Dragoncon schedule w highlighted book signings. Look, DC is weird. These signings = the only time that me + my purchasable books will be in the same space. Any other time, catch me like a Pokemon and I'll sign your books + give you a DRAGONCON CARPET PORG STICKER and a Monstera badge ribbon.

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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social · 26/08/2026

hey book/audiobook nerds anyone got recs for a good mystery novel series or three? - no serial killers - not cozy as in "I work in a bakery and also solve murders" - sleuth is not a cop - love histfic + urban fantasy - prefer settings other than London/NYC ~again~ example of one of my faves:

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The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey - First Perveen Mistry novel

Perveen Mistry's first case. Winner of the Agatha Award, the Mary Higgins Clark Award, and the Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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Jenn Bennett @jennbenn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This was such a fun read! Publishes this fall, I believe. Pre-order it!

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Luck, timing, and a solid work ethic. Any one of them won't butter your baguette, but if you can get all three, it's time to party.

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Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’M HERE TO HELP is out Oct 27, and it’s full of rage that can’t be tamped down any longer. I'll summarize it as "A therapist finally loses her shit about the toxic men in her town." victoriahelenstone.com/books/

The book cover for I’m here to help by Victoria Helen Stone. The picture is of a woman sitting in shadows on a couch in a therapist’s office. There is a curtained window behind her and one lamp that is lit. The book sits on top of an open page. The page reads “this one is for the creators. AI can never replace you. It can’t replace the human heart and the stories that sing from it. Your podcasts and books and artwork and songs and essays helped inspire this tale. I hope you like it.“

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Jay Annelli @vorthosjay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh that explains a lot, actually

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