iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

1930151113

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

661671247

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

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

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

5760611640

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 16h

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps.

Caption reads:
CALIFORNIA POST
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

7387152

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 15h

Picard devops tip: No, you are not allowed to connect your brain to the computer. Learn to type like everyone else.

617632

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

181890406

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17h

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

A
B
I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
erkeley, California
SE GYGES
10 HOURS AGO
8
5
These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

28933324

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 16h

Absurdist medieval supernatural fiction, or "Welcome to Knight Vale"

1216

Mason T. Matchak @masontmatchak.bsky.social · 17h

Am I capable? Cooking: competent. Baking? Awesome. Whistle: sort of Draw: 🤣 Paint: 🤣🤣 Swim: out of practice, but yes English: very yes Dance: 🤣 Sing: decent if prepared Drive: well enough Gifting: sometimes Write: I have written twenty books. Guitar: nope Speaking: If I know what I'm talking about.

010

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

375120333465

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 23h

At this point, if they had the resources, we'd be seeing a massive exodus of trans people from the UK. But most don't, so they're trapped in a country that's becoming steadily more hostile every day. How are we* allowing this to happen? *we = the media and politicians, who we vote for or enable

02811

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 23h

Eowyn: I AM NO MAN. Rohan rider 1: stiddy on cuz, we are mostly wimin here, eh? Rohan rider 3: heaps of wimmin bro. Rohan rider 2: yiss, it's true! They didn't have enough wimin riders so they stuck beard on us, hey. Look at thus beard, it's fake as. Witch King of Angmar:... Fuck.

926857

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

25360851133

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

22796583075

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Wolfy D. Lucca 🌗🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 02/10/2026

man who once had a guy leap at him over a McDonalds counter (Sliwa, an employee at the time) with a Machete, afraid of getting a vaccine. ...and that's okay! and it's okay to hold a another man's hand while he does it! normalize kindness and taking care of each other!

4586

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.zip · 02/10/2026

COMIC: “Autumn Rituals”. The basis for this goofy DUNE joke started with my friend Kevin in the Bay Area. It’s dumb and I love it. More here: newduck.com #comics #webcomics #humor

3329

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey. No one can do everything. But we all can do something. It’s not all on your shoulders alone. Do what you can an hour at a time, heck, a minute at a time. Deep breaths

110631

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

James Hance @jameshance.com · 26/09/2026

“The Monster Of Cookie” 🍪 (Based on René Magritte’s “The Son Of Man”) A new original framed gouache painting on canvas panel up on jameshance.com today. Signed giclee prints are also up on the site, too! ☺️

19438

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.

economist.com

In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

46766226

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 02/10/2026

like for real, I am trans, I didn't come out until decades later, but this knowledge means *this morning* I have learned I grew up watching a trans woman on my favorite TV show as a kid and just didn't know.

828151

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

2564252406

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 02/10/2026

What I don't get with the whole "AI is sentient" slop that they're trying to sell us is--surely if AI were sentient, it would be a living being and as such humans wouldn't be allowed to exploit AI with no pay, no rest and no workers rights?

1617222

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is very infrequent that those calling for more liberation, more connection, or more good things for the people are proven wrong in the fullness of time. But those who sit on the fence always are, every single time.

0144

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.

1024467

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

251512407

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Genuinely, one of the best revision tactics out there is simply to . . . not look at the story for a while. You come back and go "I know what my reasons were for doing it this way -- but omgwtfbbq was that the wrong choice, and I can see that now."

211223

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're a fan of a big media property, a really dedicated and invested fan, you have to learn to respond to criticism of that thing in a calm and reasonable manner rather than as a personal attack. In fact, you should learn to do the criticism yourself, without feeling embarrassed for liking it.

111244282

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/08/2025

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

191741683

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

356206664970

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a lot of us.

116312

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

14558111

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

252082769

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

5464171963

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

441714334

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ask not for whom the Smudge lurks, he lurks for thee

Smudge at the top of the stairs, lurking, face only half visible

231428116

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

This is part of a series of terrible arguments that people make that they think are real gotchas. Yesterday, someone said "I get why women would choose the bear, but then why haven't they? Why haven't all women walked into the woods?"

1070699

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Exactly. THE NIGHTWARD was inspired by Caribbean MYTHOLOGY, yet reviews said they couldn't 'see' the 'Caribbean' in it. I told you it was a secondary world sci fantasy, so excuse me? What even were your expectations? Coconut trees? Beaches? I mean... I'm not a tour guide & this ain't Burger King.

319539

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

9752032126

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/10/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula

10374436

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 01/10/2026

A demon appeared in the summoning circle. It was wearing pyjamas. "I summoned thee to give me knowled-" "Really?" the demon said. "You have the internet these days, the world's knowledge a click away. Nobody's summoned me in years." "You have all knowledge. Why did I summon thee?" "... oh shit."

7487105

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

13674136

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

8648281465

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Writing Excuses @writingexcuses.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SO excited to be partnering with Maurice Broaddus and the Ray Bradbury Center for our 2027 Writing Retreat! Join us in June of 2027 for classes, breakout sessions, 1x1s with instructors and so much more! Head over to our profile to register now!

143

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

11951405

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

1095612802

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

1549179

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Peter V Brett @pvbrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s 2026. Microsoft is shoveling cash into a furnace to create AI that will write a book for you, but MSWord still can’t track changes in a 500 page novel without shitting its pants.

2223

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

311331347

Reposted by Mason T. Matchak

The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

࿔*⸙༄˖° 𓇢

A drawing of a kitten sitting among candles. The caption reads, "let's prioritize comfort for now"

51929668