iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can’t keep up. Is AI god or just a little scrappy company trying to revise its terms and conditions? Anyone have the latest on that?

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More than 1,100 years old: Germany’s oldest tree discovered yenibakisgazetesi.co... #Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Execution is much in the news these days, at least here in the US. By sheer coincidence my graduate seminar discussed Joel Harrington's excellent microhistory "The Faithful Executioner" this week. We had a lot to talk about. #earlymodern

Whitish book cover with an early modern engraving of a man with a long sword. Title: The Faithful Executioner. Author: Joel F. Harrington.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re asking for your help to get Burnham’s Government to act on AI and copyright. Alongside fellow members of the Creators’ Rights Alliance, we’re sharing the We Are Better Than This video animation which outlines the fears and concerns shared by many creators and society at large. 🧵

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Helen Shin @h-x-s.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Tapping the 1970s IBM training manual’s warning again:

Page from a late 1970s IBM training manual that says:
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And I don't think it's necessarily by the year it's written. Ursula K. le Guin was a contemporary of Heinlein's, but her stuff still feels fresh

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

😂😂😂 YES! "Off to the store to buy a new tongue scraper!"

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dutch Bros barista in Oregon: Hey girlfriend! How ya doing? What are your big plans for this beee-you-ti-fulllll day? Me: black coffee, please. **** Any barista in the UK: hiya, what can I get you Me: OMG, are you mad at me

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do I know anybody in the UK doing history, communications, rhetoric or theology of contemporary witchcraft?

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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"All In Together" by Galway poet, Patricia Forde

We were not anchored to the ground once the shops had shut and the traffic slowed the streets were our playground then cowgirls galloped through bowling Green marbles rolled in the claddagh the neighbor's boys built their carts to clatter down hidden valley the winning goal for Galway was struck at the top of O'Gorman's lane while we turned ropes on market Street and our feet beat time to the rain

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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Helen @helenpins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m on p10 and love it already #historyteacher ‘Local history is the foundation of national and global history. When we can recover a story from the past that’s linked to places we know, it’s likely we’ll feel that history personally.’ Quite SHP/HAU, no?

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the only eclipse post you need

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oh my goodness, how unnerving! Hope everything settles down.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

youve heard of failing upwards. well academic careers in 2026 encapsulate the reverse: succeeding downwards. so many talented, highly qualified people, being punished for their achievements

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"a country that worries abt declining birthrates cannot dismiss the material conditions under which women are expected to give birth, recover, earn money & raise children...Before asking why women are...not [having] children, America should ask whether it has done enough to deserve their motherhood"

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My husband usually gets up before me and hangs out with Caribou, the dog we've been fostering. Yesterday, the dog slept in with me, and I found this note with some cornflakes. Apparently, my husband "accidentally" spills cereal every morning, and he didn't want her to miss her a.m. treat #keeper

A note that reads "4 the Dog" with some cereal

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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Public Service Announcement: Google "Jimothy" and he'll run across your screen 🦝 🦝 🦝 H/t @jshermanroberts.bsky.social

Screenshot picture of Jimothy, small raccoon from Seattle with spine deformity, running through a field

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

England and France are only playing for third place, but the winner does get to reclaim the North American fur trade

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Now that Lindsey Graham is dead . . . South Carolinian Stephen Colbert has the potential to do the funniest thing

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 09/07/2026

People of Clacton: you could be legends.

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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Ken Paxton is a snake, And feet love Chacos Please fill my plate with

Black vinyl sign which says talarico's tacos r*dical Texas dot com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/06/2026

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

But the tender sheen over the event quickly dissipated last month when a hodgepodge of musicians booked for live performances backed out at the last minute, saying they were not informed that the Freedom 250 festivities would have a political tilt. Several states also announced they would not participate. In the eleventh hour, the president declared he would headline the fair himself: He was introduced at a rally Wednesday night by transportation secretary Sean Duffy, who started by eschewing the "libtards that canceled on us." When Trump finally took the stage, he lauded America as the "hottest" nation in the world. "Nobody's laughing at us anymore," said the man filling in for Milli Vanilli.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Today I am moved by power of this example of how Black people hold our own history. Without museums. W/o official declarations or monuments. In community. Happy Juneteenth!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is bombshell stuff.

Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This little metaphor greeted me this morning!

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I've gone through this too, and it sucks so much, and I'm sorry that you have to deal with this ♥️

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Jennifer Sherman Roberts @jshermanroberts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

World's Biggest Stitch-n-Bitch Knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, sewers welcome.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Becoming exponentially more religious the more it becomes clear that god will no longer let this man throw a party.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A moment of silence for the MAGAts who were feverishly hoping for violence in NYC last night, and were instead forced to witness hours of unhinged delight, camaraderie, and effervescent weirdness of the sort they are much too squarebrained to ever conjure and much too pissbaby to ever be included in

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“Tomorrow is another day” used to be something people said to encourage each other but now it just kinda feels like a threat.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/06/2026

Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

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