iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listen. To. The. Games. On. The. Radio.

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W. David O. Taylor @wdavidotaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Any time that AI vitiates or replaces the creative work that remains central to our human vocation, or any time that it undermines the hard work of human relationship, it must be rejected: “I fear that A.I. is undermining what makes us most human." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

deeply sensible of the shortness and uncertainty of life

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah man, that's how it worked forever. Your job didn't get to dominate your life and suck free labor off of you 24/7.

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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Self-control, not damage control, is a fruit of the Spirit.

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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fruit the Spirit produces in the Christian's life is primarily for others' consumption.

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IVP Academic @ivpacademic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In 'God's Presence with Us and in Us,' biblical scholar Miguel Echevarría explores how the divine personal Spirit has one of the most prominent roles in the Bible. Get the newest volume in the Essential Studies in Biblical Theology series today!

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's architecture column. The building was designed by David Haid "whose most recognized work is the auto pavilion where Cameron Frye’s dad kept that ill-fated red Ferrari in the 1986 movie 'Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.' The architect supervised the repair of the pavilion’s glass after the scene."

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Chase bank shouldn't demolish its modernist Evanston branch

The bank wants to demolish the 47-year-old building designed by an architect whose work appears in a pivotal scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 20/09/2026

Current* conditions near Glen Arbor, MI:

NE view from Sleeping Bear Inn overlooking Sleeping Bear Bay and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-20 08:06:02 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: sleepingbearinn.org // Current Temp in Glen Arbor: 59 F | 15 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NNE at 21 mph | 33 kph // Humidity: 92%

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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William Butler Yeets @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud.

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Jon Boyd @jonboyd.org · 17/09/2026

“Fear cannot be where knowledge is….” —James Stephens, ‘Irish Fairy Tales’ (1920)

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Writing is thinking and much more than a skill. Writing and writing knowledge are methods for thinking through ideas and storing insights so we can return to them later. Writing allows someone to build their ideas & imagination into reality.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

but they were only begun, and never read through

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026

I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.

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Jon Boyd @jonboyd.org · 29/08/2026

Now that’s one literate feline. (photo credit: @annthebrave.bsky.social)

Closeup photo of a gray cat at rest in front of loaded bookshelves.

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Jon Boyd @jonboyd.org · 29/08/2026

“Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, That more to mighty hands then rightfull cause doth trust.” —Edmund Spenser, ‘The Faerie Queene,’ 2.2.28 ll. 8–9

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the thing: if genAI can do the writing you've been aiming to do, I'm embarrassed for you

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How is it that data centres can just “pop up” around the country?

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Solar panels bolted over 2 working irrigation canals in California’s Central Valley cut evaporation beneath them by as much as 70 percent, and the aquatic weed that fouls those channels dropped by about 85 percent”

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

we must account for all our powers and privileges

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

More seriously, there is a professor here who regularly weeps when he reads passages from Barth out loud in class, because he is overcome by the vastness of God’s mercy. A machine can never do that.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 16/08/2026

We tend to think social problems have consumer-side solutions. Don't buy this or that. That's atomizing poison, weakens institution here to make life better. Your consumer behavior won't change much. This is a job for regulatory policy. This is why we have govt. Vote FOR taxes and regulation.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 16/08/2026

Dear readers, the correct figure is 0.4%. Nearly 100x less. www.varsity.co.uk/features/29235

While the proportion of BAME professors has increased from 7.1% in 2016 to 9.4% in 2022, progress remains slow and uneven. Asian academics form the majority within this category, while Black academics remain critically underrepresented at 0.4%. White staff continue to dominate senior roles, shaping hiring and promotion

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

O Lord, make haste to help us.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reading is the greatest act of resistance in an age designed to destroy attention. We are currently witnessing the biggest war over human attention in recorded history.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 16/08/2026

Current* conditions near Grand Haven, MI:

View looking north over Grand Haven beach and its iconic lighthouse and pier jutting into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-08-16 02:06:06 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: earthcam.com/usa/michigan/grandhaven/lakemichigan/?cam=lakemichigan // Current Temp in Grand Haven: 75 F | 24 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: E at 5 mph | 7 kph // Humidity: 86%

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 16/08/2026

Current* conditions near St. Helena Island, MI:

Western view from the St. Helena Lighthouse overlooking the uninhabited island, a small bay and Lake Michigan beyond. // Image captured at: 2026-08-15 23:06:03 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: gllka.org // Current Temp in St. Helena Island: 74 F | 23 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: E at 13 mph | 20 kph // Humidity: 73%

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There are many advocates that need to stop defending e-motos as if they're bicycles. The longer we pretend this scrutiny is unwarranted, the more damage it does to actual e-bikes, which are legitimate tools enabling people to safely and affordably ditch their cars.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"When she explains it to people, she makes it sound fun. She says it’s because she’s an author – her first book is out this year. She makes it sound like she’s adding quality, writerly insights, but it’s random comments like 'lol' written in the margins…" free: archive.ph/OZkJC He's the problem.

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You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop annotating her books?

Julie makes notes in the margin as she’s reading, but Charlie says she’s ruining books he may want to read. Should they get on the same page? You decide

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For $15, I got a used DVD player. It was so liberating to watch a movie with no interruptions. No ads! Nobody trying to sell me dubious meds with more side effects than benefits. I can get DVDs at the library anytime I want! How did anyone ever convince me paid subscriptions WITH ADs were okay?!

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Or put another way, I'm interested in people moving away from discovery/novelty as a stand in for significance

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Jon Boyd @jonboyd.org · 10/08/2026

“Each goodly thing is hardest to begin….” —Edmund Spenser, ‘The Faerie Queene,’ 1.10.6 l. 1

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Dan DeFreest @dandefreest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 07/08/2026

"Deep reading, careful listening, and constructive conversing are harder to do than they used to be...These things have been made harder to do by structural adjustments to our systems of media, politics, and economy on behalf of consolidated power." www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...

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Neuroplasticity As A Praxis

We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

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Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Don't you wish you were here.

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