iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 04/10/2026

Flippancy aside, failing to examine that is precisely the failure of AI discourse (and much tech discourse before). How to delegate without losing agency is the core question of automation. Fucking it up means missing everything from dynamics of power to the virtuous life.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 29/06/2026

Even if they occasionally get something right, there is no non-dystopian future without significant Supreme Court reforms. The influence of massive wealth shaped the SCOTUS into what it is, and what it is is antithetical to a functioning democracy. My personal preference: add 18 more justices.

time.com

The Supreme Court Doesn't Need 9 Justices. It Needs 27

Such a proposal isn’t unconstitutional, nor even that radical

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Watching ep11 of Pursuit of Jade and it is pretty fun and silly but eewww I don't like that hyper possessive Qi guy. 😒

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Rob from Chicago (Sleeper Service) @robfromchicago.com · 15/06/2026

Guys, you misspelled "no more Chrome."

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

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"the absence of close attachment relationships cannot be compensated for by the presence of social ones" - YES LOUDER PLEASE. Telling lonely people to just 'get out more' is a great way to make us more depressed, not less.

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Karrie @karriehiggins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I need to raise the $392 for insurance premium ... I cannot lose insurance ever but esp. right now-- I cannot be having seizures and lose my cardiac care when I am facing this, too. Please share and thank you!!! Still also need HRT, copays, court costs, B12 vials etc. Thanks!! <3

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/06/2026

This is going to be such a good learning experience for Europeans about why air conditioning is in fact life-saving and not a frivolous luxury

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 13/06/2026

They are preparing.

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Alex Pendragon @alexp336.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Psst, do you wanna read the first two chapters of my next m/m romance, "All That History"? Estranged former-best-friends, small town claustrophobia, city secrets and a splash of kink. It comes out July 16th and you can pre-order now! No download needed for the preview - just click the blue button

alexpendragon.com

"All That History" by Alex Pendragon - Alex Pendragon

All That History COMING JULY 16TH 2026 – JOIN MY FREE MAILING LIST FOR UPDATES! Pre-Order Now: Oli could leave his tiny, claustrophobic home town any time he wants. So if he stays, he can’t be unhappy...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s like, you write this shit and you wonder if it breaks through and then you find out billionaires are just sitting there and positively STEWING about a random article from five years ago. they’re actually incredibly stupid for letting us know how much we get to them. fuel to the fire tbh!

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Dragons. A sapphic knight with a sword, motorcycle, and no magic, in a world where magic reigns… We Seek No Kings: Epic fantasy for romantic misfits who want justice. #booksky #lgbtq

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Westie @westie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I gotchu

Huang Ziteng on set of The Untamed in the Lan Qiren hair and makeup but wearing a tank top that says Pervert and shorts

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 11/06/2026

someone pay me to do what i'm good at

From ‘Classical Chinese for Cats,' which does not exist, Chapter 1: 'The Cat is Important.'

貓黑。貓美。貓強。

These three sentences work the same way — which looks close enough to the way English does it that we will have to slow down and look more closely so as not to be misled. Any English translation will treat the words 黑, 美, and 強 as if they were adjectives, but they are actually verbs: “Cat blacks,” “Cat handsomes,” “Cat strongs.”

Compare:

貓眠。貓餓。貓鳴。

They work the same way, with a simple underlying structure that will be common to every Classical Chinese utterance we see from here on out.

The basic shape of any statement is

Topic + Comment

The most common way of saying “Thing A is Thing B” in Chinese is simply to say “A, B”:

貓，萌交反，猛獸。
 ‘Cats,’ m- + -au, are ferocious beasts.

Often, these constructions will be signposted with a 也, as “A, B 也”:

吾，貓也。 I am a cat.

Now your turn. There’s a gloss on the next page, but you can read it yourself already.

貓黑。貓美。貓強。貓眠。貓餓。貓醒。
人常言。人多言。人常言人言。人言多。
吾寡言。吾言「貓」。
吾名明兒，貓也。
人言貓，曰「黑貓非貓。」明兒，固貓也。
人愚。人甚愚。

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I woke up this morning and thought, rather randomly, "I should just stay in bed today." I didn't, of course! Like a proper adult I got up to get work done. ...and let me tell you, that was the WRONG CHOICE. 😭

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/06/2026

For fans of Talkie-1930 and all the methodological questions raised by historical models, here's a new entrant into the field, TypewriterLM, trained up to 1913. Corpus, instruction-tuning datasets, and event dataset are released. arxiv.org/abs/2606.02991

arxiv.org

Pretraining Language Models on Historical Text

We introduce TypewriterLM, a 7.24B History language model (LM) trained exclusively on English text predating 1913. Developing History LMs requires addressing challenges in data quality and availabilit...

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I write amazing author notes if I do say so myself. 😆 #fanfiction #BastardsOfYunmeng #CQL #MDZS

screen snippet of text in scrivener app: "Reminder that the chickens were not lost, the neighbors took care of them until Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen showed up who then took even BETTER care of them. Xiao Xingchen loves their chickens, they are precious to him. "

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hey, so how come nobody told me about this: anthropeum.com Coz that is EXACTLY my kinda shit! Guess where random Met artifacts are from and when? I am twelve kinds of there for that!

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Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 09/06/2026

the clay you make golems from is language.

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We don't usually see each other's headers. Quote post with yours.

Moonrise (Stanisław Masłowski), 1884. This has been my bsky/twitter header for 15 years solid.

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Men™️ @thepitstop.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Max Nattapol

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 09/06/2026

That One Matt Bors Comic has hit the Kickstarter project goal! Two days to lock in your reward, if you’d like a book or more. Matt and I thank you! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Cartoon panel. Peasant in gray outfit at left carrying bundle of sticks in a strap over his shoulder says “we funded this book.” At right, a man in a modern T-shirt sticking out of the top of a well with a water bucket on its side nearby and a castle in the distance beyond green grass says, "Yet you participate in Kickstarter. Curious. You are very intelligent."

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Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.me · 08/06/2026

AND YET

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Inle 🐉 An Odd Type of Dragon @oddtypeofdragon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I have a new leaf drop in my shop! All the leaf mats below are available, plus More. Personal picnic mats are incredibly convenient - shove one in your bag any time you might need to sit on damp grass or cold floors. folksy.com/find/shop/an... #sewing #sewsky #uksmallbusiness

Pile of leaf mats in the sunshine - red maple, yellow ginko, rainbow elm, blue aspen, green lotus

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Novo Collegian Alliance @novoalliance.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Have you watched it yet????? John Oliver destroys the "New College Takeover" and it's aftermath. The NCA appreciates the hard work done by the LWT team! #NewCollege #NCF #NCA youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU

youtu.be

New College of Florida: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Found in my random notes: "Literary fiction: nothing happens, but it's bad."

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Farnes @farnes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

National Trust Claims There Was Nothing Inside Secret Drawer

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Being back on bsky was flat overwhelming there for a bit, esp. after being off of it for months, but then I remembered the "mutuals feed" and peace is restored!!!! 🫶

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Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"With fandoms rewarding chemistry-driven pairings and fan service continuing to generate enormous engagement," @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social writes, "production companies have little incentive to move away from the formula that helped Thai GL become globally successful in the first place."

fansplaining.com

The Limits of Fan Service in Thailand’s Vibrant GL Genre

Thai “Girls Love” thrives on real-life star pairings—for better and for worse.

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The discourse has devolved to the point where any nuanced take on AI just has people hurling "OH SO YOU HATE ARTISTS AND WRITERS, HUH???" Like, wtf, I wrote 15 books before AI hit the scene. I have skin in the game. Just unfollow/block and save us both the grief.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/06/2026

This article in Bloomberg today about UBI includes a link to my recent article about the importance of universality. I hope it finds a few new readers as a result.

bloomberg.com

How to Pay for a Life of Abundance in a World Without Work

Elon Musk and others are calling for a universal high income as AI job losses accelerate. Think-tank founder and CEO Daniel Schreiber has a plan for funding it.

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, has died (of grief, according to her family). Rest in power.

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I know, I know, I've been MIA for months. My health took a hit, and I've busy soul-suckingly busy even while sick. But now I'm back, and ASKING FOR MONEY! Not for me, though, but @novoalliance.bsky.social! Every donation is matched during the campaign! www.givingchallenge.org/organization...

givingchallenge.org

Support Novo Collegian Alliance | Giving Challenge

I’m ready to support Novo Collegian Alliance on April 15, 2026 during Giving Challenge . Learn more about Novo Collegian Alliance and all the other organizations participating in Giving Challenge ...

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Two days until the workshop and I need to make clear that this isn't just for people who already know they want to serialize. It's for anyone who's ever felt like they're writing into a void. Who has a story that keeps growing past what one book can hold. 1/2

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Things we're covering in the March 4 workshop that I genuinely could talk about for hours (but won't, because 60 minutes): — Why the Product Mindset is failing indie authors right now — What "Dynamic Storytelling" actually means in practice 1/2

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

March 4, free, on Zoom: "State of Change 2026: What You Need to Know About Craft, Tech, and How to Build an Unstoppable Story Engine" I'm talking about why the "write it and launch it" model is a trap, and what Dynamic Storytelling looks like instead. No unrealistic promises, just solid advice!

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The question that rewired my whole brain: "What do I want to have WRITTEN in five years?" Not what how much do I want to earn, or what kind of car I'll be driving, or any other standard "goal". Instead: What stories do I want to exist?

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So here's the question I keep coming back to: Why do we keep pouring months of work into a novel, launching it, and then... moving on to the next one? Hoping this one will be the one that hits? That's not a storytelling model. That's a slot machine.

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Thanks to fanfic, I knew serialized fiction existed. Then in 2020 I fell into Chinese drama fandom and discovered the Chinese webnovel industry and just... sat there with my mouth open for a while. The scale of it. The reader loyalty. The ongoing income. I got a clue, is what I'm saying. 😄

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