iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a fun time to work in AI if you are on multiple people's list of "emergency women to invite to an event when you remember that not everyone in the world is a man under 40"

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Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reading The Strangers by Naomi Alderman. A truly wonderful, strange - stranger - moving book. Cool but fervid. Page-turner.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Siblings are finally united! What is writing and reading in the time of AI? Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities. @uofmpress.bsky.social

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If we look for a moment at Elon Musk, for instance, you can see the harm he's inflicting is not because he has developed super-advanced technologies beyond everyone's wildest dreams, but because he uses the power he has carelessly and believes he can act above the law. That is the danger.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It was short but oh so sweet Rain - we missed you 💙

An illustration of two women strolling in a park getting caught in summer rain. They are dressed in 1910s fashion, wearing matching skirts and jackets in contrasting colours, one in orange the other in blue. They are both attempting to shelter under one small umbrella.

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Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s actually really raining quite hard.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/08/2026

Does anyone know this outlet or who's behind it? It's the only media counting analysis I can find, but the whole thing stinks really really bad of AI slop which would be an extremely self-destructive pathway to take for this type of analysis that requires accuracy and rigour

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Jason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.

A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked.

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Stella Duffy @stellduffy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

On not dying three years ago today. And existential psychotherapy & philosophy, choosing what we do have rather than what we don't, being honest about how hard it is AND keeping going anyway. stellduffy.substack.com/p/on-a-nearl...

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On a (nearly) death-iversary

or 3 years today since my brain exploded ...

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Actual footage of every penalty run up in the World Cup.

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Emma Grae @emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.

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Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Here’s a good thing if you’d like to read more and scroll less:

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#CriticalAI4.1, Professor James Dobson turns to the work of interdisciplinary AI scholar Nina Beguš to uncover the ways humanists can respond to and make sense of gen AI technologies. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Instead, Beguš shows the possibilities in a deep archive of cultural representations of artificial intelligence. “Representations are too powerful,” she writes, “to be disregarded as mere dreams, fantasies, and fictions; they give us important information on our relation to a particular technology, including possible ways to relate differently and to choose from the possibilities we had created” (211). This is the major contribution of Artificial Humanities. The book joins many critiques of anthropomorphization in disputing “the idea of a machinic intelligence as a humanlike intelligence” (210). It stands out in strongly arguing that fictional narratives provide us with warnings about the inevitable disappointments and disasters when we conflate the two. The primary goal of artificial humanities is to reveal through a reading of literature the resolved contradictions, the knowledge that we've always had about the desire for a humanlike intelligence and its inevitable traps and failures.

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

OTD, 💔❤️✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

wrote an email

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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Dawn Airey CBE has been appointed as our new Chair, starting 1 August 2026. With 30+ years experience across the media and creative industries, she brings outstanding leadership and a deep commitment to arts and culture. Read more 👇 bit.ly/4dVQrgF 📸 Jonathan Phang

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Dawn Airey CBE appointed as Chair of Arts Council England

The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Dawn Airey CBE as Chair of Arts Council England for a term of 4 years starting on 1 August 2026.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The AI-generated podcast paper is out! I generaetd podcasts from four different source documents and an PDF using NotebookLM and found that in every case it translated cultural contexts to a standard, white, American language and context. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

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Martha Henson @marthasadie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Do you know a journalist who might be interested in a story about a plucky little grassroots bootstrapped festival trying to do something positive for the planet? Do you know an influencer who might do a feature in return for a ferry ticket here?

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

First flight since 2019, BA to Cairo. Haven’t been to Egypt for 36 years: In 1990 I travelled there and back by train and ferry via Paris, Munich, Athens. Sadly there are now no ferries to Egypt!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 28/04/2026

If your friends on Substack don't want to read any of the long essays and articles about The Substack Problem, send them this @anildash.com explainer video. (From his @pastduepodcast.com interview.) It's not just Nazis, it really isn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWdS...

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Anil Dash: Get Off Substack Before Someone Buys You | Past Due Podcast

YouTube video by Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

And as I’ve said before, if you disagree with the project of the state of Israel then surely you must be very positive about Jewish people who are making our lives outside Israel. Netanyahu is deliberately stress-testing that hypothesis and proving it false. Antisemitism does his work for him.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Check out the work of - Katy Gero, U of Sydney, also a contributor to First Encounters with AI! - Kyle Booten, UConn, coming to Berkeley soon, - Karin Kukkonen, U of Oslo, with a new book from Oxford UP & - Roger Beaty, Penn State, reigning at the intersection of creativity and cog. neuroscience

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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 10/03/2026

Online playtest of TTRPG "Killer Crips 3000" A game of Disabled Rage using the "Eat The Reich" system. Set in a fantasy world where disabled people fought & won a war against an ableist regime but something ripped open the seams of reality leaking horrors. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-t...

Black background, red icons. A Wheelchair in motion, 2 crossed spoons and a skull. Slightly splattery, messy feel.

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 10/03/2026

As social media algorithms amplify misinformation, Wikipedia's model is now more important than ever. A "Nature" writer calls it an antidote to a poisoned information ecosystem. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)

Close-up of a person wearing a dark T-shirt with the text "I edit Wikipedia", with the word "edit" highlighted in blue. Text reads: Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on. "The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it". Nature Magazine. 28 January 2026.

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Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Recommended re AI safety or lack thereof:

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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 04/03/2026

This case study in hiring a book publicity firm is both laugh-out-loud funny and highly informative. Few people share these poor experiences due to shame and embarrassment. If you're thinking of hiring *anyone* to help you with book publicity, this is a must-read.

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I Hired a Book Publicity Firm for £1,800. Here’s What Went Wrong. | Jane Friedman

One author reflects on how her desire to not just outsource marketing, but to outsource even thinking about it, led to regrettable results.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/02/2026

‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’ Yiyun Li on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

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Yiyun Li | To Remember in America

When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This is the stranger’s case, And this your mountainish inhumanity

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

This is the biggest targeted training
programme since Harold Wilson started the
Open University (note).

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little
as under 20 minutes, the courses will give

founding partners - Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, SAS and Salesforce to take the Al Skills Boost programme to the next level and upskill 10 million workers with Al skills
by 2030.

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Brilliant piece just out on “Inappropriate AI” by Colin Milburn & @ritaraley.bsky.social. A critique of higher ed’s legitimation quest for policies of “appropriate” AI use despite fact that LLMs are by nature inappropriate. They "appropriate" all edu and other materials. uchri.org/foundry/inap...

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Inappropriate AI

Colin Milburn and Rita Raley (AI Paradigm 5/5) explore AI's appropriative processes.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Adelaide and the crisis of free speech iandunt.substack.com/p/adelaide-a...

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

what is a "classic"? A classic is any work where the free sample of the ebook is taken up entirely by an introduction and you don't get to read any of the actual book before deciding if you want to buy it

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Me in 2025: Don't use AI note takers in meetings because they can lead to unchecked errors and unfair and discriminatory outcomes Me in 2026: Don't use Grok in military planning unless you want to accidentally start a war Not a fan of this rate of change

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The first half of this film is as close to perfection as you’ll ever find (and the second half is a lot of fun too.) It also contains one of the sexiest scenes ever filmed. It involves a shoe. If you haven’t seen it, do not miss.

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Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is an excellent if daunting overview:

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia

Filmography
1986 - Stand By zme
1987 - The Princess Bride
1989 - When Harry Met Sally
1990 - Misery
1992 - A Few Good Men

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Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Can’t believe this news. Porter, you will be missed by so many people.

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