iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The next two articles are more critical: John Modern's @johnmodern.bsky.social "Language Is a Virus" expresses concern over the metaphysical consequences of allowing a psychological/scientific account of emotions to sit at the humanities table, arguing that it opens the door to reductionism. 7/

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I am delighted to welcome @suscrockford.bsky.social for Classical Ideas ep 352! In collaboration with @sacredwrites.bsky.social, we discuss the new book "A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change at the End of a World," out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The united states used to be lots of fun

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Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop." AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

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Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop

AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

“Do not obey in advance.” “Prioritize joy.” “Take up space.” “Be in solidarity.” “Organize.” Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.

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5 things Free DC is teaching us

In case you missed the news, Donald Trump has ordered the National Guard to head to our nation’s capital. Claiming emergency powers from the Home Rule charter due to crime, he’s taking control of the ...

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era. AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/05/2025

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

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Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say

An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Lenny bent his knees and spread both arms wide, his mouth stretched in a rictus of gaped and grinning terror. “We’re all gonna die!” He loved this line so much that it was a little unnerving [] which could shatter a urinal at fifty feet. - DD

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Kid Congo Powers @kidcongopowers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

R.I.P. David Thomas of Pere Ubu . Really some of the best concerts I saw in the 70’s . Mind blowing in fact. Absolutely unique individual. Here’s one of my all time fave songs youtu.be/Leax63ullPE?...

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Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact

YouTube video by cookingvinylarchive

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James Bielo @secondhandsacred.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“…Collecting could be (& proudly so) reactionary to an emerging technological order. Collecting as nostalgia trip, performing the pressing claims of a time before this or that indignity…” The latest Collecting Religion essay from John Modern, is live! collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/o...

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On Record Collecting, or the First Time I Encountered the Death Drive

by John Modern I have been a collector my whole life. These days mostly records, digging through crates, haggling, scanning the sites, DMing dealers from Sydney to Cleveland to Athens to Quebec, ba…

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Grateful for this invitation to write around my records

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved: www.saverilawfirm.com/meta-languag...

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Meta Language Model Litigation

The Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of a class of plaintiffs seeking compensation for damages caused by defendant Meta.

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A decent example of what is now sadly passing for critique of technology …. an astonishing amount of work going into ‘divesting’ one’s utterance of reflexivity and the integrity it entails. #fuckofftomars

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

read this one with first years again today: poets.org/poem/anthrop... worthwhile.

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Anthropocene Pastoral

In the beginning, the ending was beautiful.

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Pressing play on Mixtape Metaphysics>>March 5

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

overseen, central Market, Lancaster, PA #loveisintheair

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Institute of the Mechanical Surround @imsurround.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Mixtape metaphysics . . . Coming soon

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

One of my favorite events from last year! Response forms from our CharismaTech workshop at the Vinyl Church, just sent over by @johnmodern.bsky.social. Started by discussing the Charisma Playlist, ended with a fascinating, freewheeling discussion about the who, what, and how of charisma.

A collection of survey response forms, diagrams, and notes about charisma.

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Toward a history of the #selfie . . . The Devil painting man's heart, from Allegory of the Misuse of Worldly Property (1609) by Willem van Swanenburgh #selfietime