iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The symposium issue on "'Race' and 'Religion' in the Law of Migration: Comparing E.U. and U.S. Contexts" I co-edited with Rose Cuison Villazor is finally out! Lots of it makes for grim reading, but it's stellar scholarship. Have a look (open access):

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Volume 25 – Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In my latest article, I draw on interviews with Muslim 'public facing actors' in Sweden to explain how a particular conspiracy theory—that social services were targeting Muslim children for removal from their families—spread so effectively. ojs.mau.se/index.php/ci...

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Beyond Disinformation, Fanaticism and Interference: The Deep Story that Amplified the Campaign Against Sweden’s Care of Young Person’s Act (LVU): How Narratives Set the Stage for the So-Called "LVU...

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Guilty as charged

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So impressed by the backbone shown by support artists who have cancelled their performances on Ed Sheeran's tour in solidarity with Macklemore's solidarity with Palestine www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore

Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments

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Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I started indexing language and civic integration requirements for my PhD, Ireland and Sweden were real outliers to Western Europe‘s policy adoption craze and remained so for almost two decades. Outliers no more—the last domino has fallen

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The campaign for a more humane migration policy has issued this chart to help you make a more informed decision about who to vote for in the #Swedish elections humanmigrationspolitik.blogspot.com/2026/05/valk...

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Imagine if even 10% of the money invested in the AI industry was invested in making the internet safer and less addictive for children and young people

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/08/2026

Christians who feel their faith is under threat are less tolerant of people with different beliefs … even when they say they support religious freedom for everyone.

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Christian nationalists’ professed support for religious pluralism is often drowned out by perceptions that Christians are under threat

Two political scientists explain why Christian nationalist beliefs endure.

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Dion Forster @digitaldion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Do not fear the one who can kill the body,” says Christ in the Gospels, “but the one who can destroy body and soul.” The assault on Arday was an assault on his soul. - Rowan Williams magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/08/19/t...

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The shaming of Jason Arday

A young man has died. Where was the possibility of absolution?

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Forrest Frank’s latest, 2 Step The Enemy, seems like a response to A Bar Song (Tipsy) by Shaboozey.

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#Amazon buying up huge quantities of rare books on which to train #AI models. In the process of scanning them, the books are destroyed

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/08/2026

One of the many absurd consequences of the AI boom: Asus is struggling so much with expensive memory that it's now selling......battery-powered bike boosters Can't say I'm not tempted though....are these worth it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1omw...

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ASUS Oxiis E250G1 Intelligent Bike Booster | ASUS

YouTube video by ASUS

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.org

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Really sad to hear about the passing of Brian Doerksen, worship song writer and mentor to many other songwriters.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

the footage does not disappoint

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

After Reform brought English nationalism to Wales, isn’t it about time that Plaid Cymru bring #Welsh nationalism to Clacton-on-Sea?

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

for my non uk friends, what's happened is the fascist leader has resigned his seat as an mp just to run for it again in order to dodge investigations + seek attention other parties arent falling for the stunt so arent running against him, so his only opponent will be a man with a bin on his head

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre

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Nick Spencer @nickebs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Writing about Andy Burnham's Catholicism, I've invented something called "The Makerfield Window." See what you think: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

churchtimes.co.uk

Analysis: Andy Burnham’s faith is politically safe

How will a Roman Catholic PM approach religion in public life, asks Nick Spencer

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Re: my previous post...this chart is terrifying

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/06/2026

One of the commentators of the coverage I was watching of England vs Ghana said “there’s some shared history between these two countries” and I thought he was going to go into the English colonization of Ghana but it was about some English guy who coached the Ghanaian national team.

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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Rightwing MEPs chanting “Send them back” after the new deportation law went through. We live in the ruins of European refugee protection.

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Excited to announce that my first academic article in #Swedish is now available for download! In it, I use participatory action research combined with contextual theology to argue for more self-reflection on how we receive newcomers to our churches. publicera.kb.se/hyb/article/...

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Tornike Metreveli @metreveli.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

1/ Last night Russian missiles set fire to the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra — the 11th-century heart of East Slavic Orthodoxy, the very "Holy Rus" Moscow claims to defend.

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm looking forward to joining the #GoNeDigiTal (Global Network for Digital Theology) online conference that starts later today. Hoping to get some inspiration for my new #Postdoc project in September. #DigitalAuthority #QuietRevival www.gonedigital.media/info

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Info — GoneDigital

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

#Gaza #Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Alasdair Stewart @abestew.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

OK, it looks like there is a lot of AI slop in the Milburn interim report. Signed up for Pangram 7 day free trial. Of the main text: - 13% is high confidence AI generated - 3% is moderately AI-assisted - 1% is lightly AI-assisted 17% accounts for **10,451 words** of the main text.

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm looking forward to listening to this interview with my friend and colleague Hannah Strømmen on how the Far Right weaponise the Bible.

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"But my Vice Chancellor told me to!"

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A pet peeve of mine is describing hermeneutical circles as having 'poles'. Today I am proof-reading an article I wrote where I do just that.

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A beautiful analysis of my favourite Guardian column.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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Emma River-Roberts @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"It’s hard to come up with any other explanation for the way the ruling class go into panic mode the moment there's any sign of mass mobilisation, and especially mass direct action, and usually try to distract attention by starting some kind of war." - David Graeber

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Bring back ministerial responsibility

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