iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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OnTheCouch @10000talkers.bsky.social · 3h

This seems like an appropriate time to remind people of the 1990 book, Fraternity Gang Rape, by the anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday, who was my favorite professor in college and unfortunately passed away last year.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

This is why every good monarch story starts with them being poor or secretly orphaned or sneaking out to experience life as a normal boy or girl.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 9h

"What if you were forced to go back to 2020? Huh?! Huh?!?!"

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 9h

All the while these recruiters reveling in the bullsh*t "iced coffee" discourse, they also put 70 year-old professional expectations onto workers that they have no intention of ever reciprocating.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't trust polls and don't ever be complacent with predictions. Vote. Because those margins needs to be even higher.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kali's Rage, second paint layers and first contrast paints done. Highlights next. Then on to details.

My sculpt of Kali Ma in a fighting pose, screaming in rage. The figure is primarily still in all dark colors due to the contrast paints.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when the president of Cornell got so mad at some anti-Israeli-genocide protestors on campus he tried to hit some of his own students with his car?

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The way I typically judge both ideologies and technologies is by what they do. Not what people say they do. What actual consequences they have for people. If they actually make things better, then they can be viewed as good/beneficial. But if all they do is harm, no future promises are worth it.

Headline from Mother Jones: ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror

--and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to "never get flagged again" by OpenAI's moderation systems.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

Headline: Battle of Hospital AI vs. Insurer AI is Pushing Medical Costs Higher.

The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.

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Curt @neoriffic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The purpose of a system is what it does," was coined by Stafford Beer in 1979. The bottom line is, it doesn't matter what a system is intended, advertised, or "supposed" to do. What matters is what it actually does in the real world, what behaviours it influences, and what outcomes it produces.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

There was a time when social media was actively useful to me as a writer because I could think out loud and yes we might disagree but aside from batshit right wingers, it was pretty chill But now people are wound up and feeling powerless and taking that out on each other

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Exhibit A for why I am on BSky *a lot* less:

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

While recognizing that this is partly a reflection of differences between the UK and US models…I do think it’s kinda instructive to think about how this post would play in the world if the author had transposed “history” and “engineering.”

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And look, if you can’t see the extremely clear, direct connection between this (extremely flawed, actually problematic version of) CNC subset and “AI is inevitable, you are the problem if you won’t fall in line” … well, you really need to do some work on consent and power dynamics.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It has become an identity now for "estranged parents." And once that happened, now there are groups, and influencers, and YouTube channels, and online courses, and everything else under the sun for them to maintain that identity within a community of the like-minded.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I talk to my students about this a lot. In short, that Positivistic Science holds absolute cultural authority over "real" knowledge. Which is why STEM fields are equated with intelligence. Thus, any kind of critical thinking that requires reconstruction, interpretation, or experience is dismissed.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to make another point here, that I think Faine does an excellent job of highlighting: there isn't anything particularly wrong with putting on sex parties with consenting adults A big issue here is that women are being pressured to attend in order to network *professionally*

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And you can directly walk this back to Gamergate and before. The argument that women "invaded" male gaming spaces (like D&D and video games), that women only game for male attention, are all derived from the same mentality that got us Ready Player One, The Manosphere, and Palantir.

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I dunno what to tell you, Rolling Stone. I don't listen to Top 40 radio, I don't hang out in shopping malls, and there's no such thing as broadcast TV anymore so I'm not sure how I would have heard it, but if I'm earning cachet points on sesame credit or whatever, sure. bsky.app/profile/denn...

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And where exactly do they think the AI "feels" that pain? What without a nervous system, a brain, a mind, a body, or any sort of neurotransmitters.....

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a whole new short story anthology out! With art and everything! It also includes a spooky skeleton cat, a fae circus, a mad bog witch, and some magical goldfish! shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/by-...

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By The Way

Ever wonder what stories fairies tell about humans? By the Way is a collection of fairy tales with a twist. It flips the script on classic fantasy, exploring a world where mythical creatures are the m...

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading is a practice of freedom.

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Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning...

A deep red, cloudy sky at dawn just before the arrival of the Nor'easter storm in Massachusetts.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

shop.the3littlesisters.com

By The Way

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The vapid, smug expression is because she knows that she'll get confirmed anyway. They always do.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Olde English was not spoken in Shakespeare’s England or in 15th-century Verona. Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English with Original Pronunciation (a version of English that was only about 100 years old at the time).

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The anti-abortion crowd gets why this book is a threat (and are writing badly about it). Would love to see the pro-abortion crowd take the evidence, arguments, and perspective of this book and use it in their work!

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Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End

A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This was Biden's ultimate failure. The inability to see that people weren't voting for Biden because they especially liked Biden. It was because they hated Trump. Now, Democrats are about to make the same mistake again. They think votes for them validate their inaction and their corporatism.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We were poor. But as a little kid, I never really understood how poor. We had an extra EXTRA special treat that my brother and I went nuts for. Sugar Bread. It was a slice of cheap white bread with a little butter on it, sprinkled with sugar from the baking tin.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My advisor once told me, "Your dissertation will be the worst thing you ever write in your career." Honestly, it was the best advice I ever received. Because the point of the dissertation was to demonstrate mastery to your committee. That's it. That's all it needed to do. The book comes later.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fight! Fight now! Fight together!

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stand in front of it. Report on it through every platform. Sabotage, strike, and speak! Fight. Fight now. Fight together!

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The courthouse opens at 9am. There better be an injunction by 9:15 and a 1st Amendment lawyer on the charge. Do not comply. Report from the sidewalk if you have to. Fight. Fight now. Fight together.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Condensation trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft. He's actively advising parents to let their kids die of completely preventable diseases so that he can study condensation.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah, I see. We are now deep into the "I was against this the whole time" phase of election politics.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm an anthropologist who has traveled extensively throughout Europe, South Asia, and Africa. I've also published two academic books and two novels. 20 year-old me would be in tears.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That white-knuckled grip on power will literally only end over their cold, dead hands.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bodily autonomy is not a "single issue" vote. Without bodily autonomy, women die from pregnancy and birth complications, trans people die having been denied healthcare, disabled people die from lack of access, Black people die from systemic police violence, immigrants die in concentration camps....

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"...chose to define the working class as low and middle income voters without a college degree." I'm a college professor with a PhD. I'm working class. As are nurses, teachers, social workers... We have long passed the era of "physical, no skill, low income jobs" defining what is working class.

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