iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks to Scott Aikin for this fun interview. Viewing is recommended especially you want to watch me make a bunch of strange hand gestures. m.youtube.com/watch?v=k76P...

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Vanderbilt Philosophy Interviews - Anthony Chemero

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A revised version of this preprint is now posted on arXiv. The theory section is rewritten, improving model exposition based on feedback we received, we fixed some confusion and errors, contextualized the models more carefully so the interpretation becomes clearer, and improved the overall writing.

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The Difference Between "Replicable" and "Not Replicable" Is Not Itself Scientifically Replicable

Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments as ``replicated'' and ``not replicated''. These estimates assume rarely attainab...

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine what space would look like if we had different eyes, and could see above and below the visible light range.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Men shouldn’t require a daughter, wife, girlfriend or sister before sexual violence against women becomes important to them. Women are enough. And condemning sexual assault shouldn’t qualify anyone for a medal. The bar is on the floor. Step over it."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

I made a video to promote the Philosophy of Mind & Embodied Cognition MA programme at UCD, of which I’m the Director. (Also, apparently this is what I look like now! 😳) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wudT... #PhilMind #EmbodiedCognition

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MA in Philosophy of Mind & Embodied Cognition- UCD School of Philosophy

YouTube video by UCD College of Social Sciences & Law

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

unsolicited brag: dug into the data -> ai -> surveillance pipeline in class this morning and received a standing ovation at the end of class. genuinely did not expect it. now i’m in tears. first time for everything

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

10. if you are defining a process by what it produces, and i am defining a process by how it changes me, we are not talking about the same thing 11. arguing about what tasks LLMs can or cannot do keeps LLMs at the center of the conversation

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

12. it is usually better to focus on people, and why people are doing things a) why are tech CEOs saying these things? b) why are bosses so excited about it? c) why do we write, draw, and make art? d) what is the fucking point?

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 28/09/2026

"The findings indicate that another form of openness is possible, but only if it is approached as commons’ stewardship rather than indiscriminate release into proprietary systems." New article by Katja Mayer on the relationship between AI and open science.

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AI, open science, and the extraction imperative: A situated approach to the normativities of open research data | Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society | Cambridge Core

AI, open science, and the extraction imperative: A situated approach to the normativities of open research data - Volume 2

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Elon Musk, FRS. Royal Society justify not booting him out because, after all, Isaac Newton wasn’t a nice person. And yes, he was doing exactly these things in summer of 2024 when @royalsociety.org first reconsidered his fellowship

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 27/09/2026

It's just so bloody lazy. There are lots of people out there working on improving peer review in careful and productive ways, but the discourse is entirely about whether commercial LLMs can "do it".

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just gave a talk on interdisciplinary yesterday that features a call for interdisciplinary people and not just diverse teams of disciplinary types. Today I read this essay with delight. Viva antedisciplinarity. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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“Antedisciplinary” Science

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 27/09/2026

One of the worst things about the current moment is the complete lack of imagination associated with "can AI do it?" Why not make peer review a social process that's less arbitrary and gatekeeping but generative and conversational?

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Opinion | Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?

A journal editor weighs the pros and cons.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

in case Irish people don't know the context, Stan Cullis played for and managed Wolverhampton Wanderers. in 1938 he objected to a proposed Nazi salute by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 players before a game vs 🇩🇪 and was dropped from the side. he's a club legend at Wolves, the Stan Cullis Stand was where I sat last weekend

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All too often the heroes of such fantasies behave exactly as the villains do, acting with mindless violence, but the hero is on the “right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Haiku for the tech press.

You stupid scarecrow
Under your very stick-feet
Birds are staling beans!

Yayu

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my favourite typos was from the cover page of a student's coursework a few years back

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

evitable
adjective
uk /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.

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uɐʅ∀ (𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚖) @alanbutler.info · 25/09/2026

I was googling for 3d printer filament today and the results popped up these guys. 3d printed cookie cutter shapes. amazon is selling 100s of different ones. it's probably someone's little business. HOWEVER: PSA: DO NOT USE 3D PRINTED PLASTICS TO STORE, CUT, OR CONNECT WITH FOOD. EVER.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 24/09/2026

The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built, or tens of thousands of jobs created across education, health or social sectors, if the resources used to expand data centres were directed elsewhere. jrnl.ie/7165266t

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Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims

The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amongst innumerable absurdities, up front it claimed that “876,000 jobs (32% of national employment)” was “underpinned” by Ireland’s 72 data centres. But at the same time, in the appendix, it acknowledged that their ongoing employment contribution was 9,500 jobs. enterprise.gov.ie/en/publicati...

2010
2020 (peak construction)
2030

Jobs
Capex
1,800
26,300
-

Opex
700
5,600
9,500

Total
2,500
31,900
9,500

Wages (€m)
Capex
76
1,118
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Opex
37
295
504

Total
113
1,413
504

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Faced with energy prices soaring and data centres eating up over a fifth of all the juice in the country, the Govt paid KPMG €100k for a report which made such absurd claims about the employment dependant on them that it could have just been published as an appendix to Mr Frankfurt’s On Bullshit.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yesterday, as well, noyb, the Max Schrems-led group in Austria revealed that the Irish Government had proposed that the rights of big AI companies to collect data on people should be recognised as a higher right that human’s data protection rights. They didn’t lie to us about it. They didn’t bother

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It doesn’t matter that they also have already announced a plan to require a PSC/MyGovID enrolment for the EU’s Digital Wallet plan. The Minister didn’t care if you believed them. They just said whatever for the form of it and then ploughed on.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And here, our Government has, in the last year, taken a harder and harder turn towards Bullshitting as it simply does as it pleases and says whatever, with the two increasingly uncoupled. Yesterday they had a Minister again claiming the PSC becoming an ID card was voluntary.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jeff Malpas at Stirling, discussing why space and place matter. Conversations like this sit at the heart of the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. NEXT Seth Dias on Redfern, Aboriginal Black Power Wed 30 Sep | 11amUK | online Register: forms.gle/U88c9QQ1CJFf... youtube.com/shorts/NycQL...

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Malpas video

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