iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That’s queer, too.

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λόγος @lingualinguans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We posit lingua linguans or language languaging as our first principle and take it as axiomatic that language (noun) does language (verb) and that from that first principle we can derive an ontology, an epistemology, an aesthetics and an ethics, in terms of an academic fiction a la Jorge Luis Borges

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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🫧 Autophagosome membranes don't just grow by lipid transfer. #Yeast cryo-ET shows vesicles clustering around and fusing with the phagophore rim during expansion, a contribution that was previously attributed only to the nucleation stage 🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD 🔬 www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

that famous lexicographer’s uncommon personal bulk more fitted him to compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All the ingredients for soup, waiting for somebody to cook it. All Carlo Magini could do was paint them.

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Keeponsmilin @keeponsmilin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OK From the Court Jester A song by Johnny Cash Called… 💙💙☮️💙💙 m.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPq...

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Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick (07/31/1976)

YouTube video by WilliZBlog

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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/09/2026

A devastating and mysterious algal bloom that hit the coast of South Australia last year, killing more than 600 different kinds of marine life, inflicted such severe damage that a famed population of the giant Australian cuttlefish might not recover. Learn more: scim.ag/4rrVhbz

One of nature’s greatest marine wonders may be about to vanish
An algal bloom has almost wiped out a unique population of giant cuttlefish—and their stunning mating swarms

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agmaxwell.bsky.social @agmaxwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999)

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DGM @notredale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jack Lemon with a broccoli cut and iced coffee

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Age of the Great Dessication is upon us

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 25/09/2026

A long-standing mystery in #neuroscience is how the length of myelin sheaths are matched to the axons they wrap. Marie Bechler &co show that #oligodendrocytes use Piezo1 to sense axon diameter and locally control sheath elongation 🧪 #NeuroSky buff.ly/9HdgiHt

This image depicts a single oligodendrocyte cell myelinating mixed diameter synthetic axons. The myelin basic protein immunofluorescence image has been colorized by confocal z-plane and modified with edge detection to highlight numerous myelin sheaths of different lengths formed by a single oligodendrocyte. The longer myelin sheath formed on a larger diameter synthetic axon stands out in blue-green. Image credit: Marie E. Bechler

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Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Four mugshots printed out on sticker paper. Cut up into pieces. Stuck down on a piece of white cardboard in a mix of weird madness. There are eight eyes and two mouths and it's all muddled. Enjoy...?

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Termitodesmidae is an elusive family of millipede that lives exclusively in the fungal chamber of termite nests where they get to chow down on an all-you-can-eat fungal buffet 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ceylondesmus kistneri in the fungal chamber of a termite mound.

Dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) view of Ceylondesmus escherichi

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2/2 Today's artist without a known birthday is Frans Floris. And here again we have Saint Luke, with ox as footrest (so handy!) painting the Virgin, from 1565.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 24/09/2026

#CitizenScience photographs contain a vast and underused record of species interactions. This Community Page by Bradley Allf, Robert Dunn &co introduces Who Eats Whom, an interactive, searchable food web created from photographs uploaded to #iNaturalist. 🧪 #ecologySky buff.ly/pvY2fex

Examples of observations submitted to Who Eats Whom.
A. Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) feeding on a Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii) by Scott Veirs (PSEMP.net). B. South African giraffe (Giraffa giraffa) feeding on Duiker-Berry (Sclerocroton integerrimus) by MJ Botha. C. Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) feeding on a Six-lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus) by Jody Shugart. D. American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) feeding on a Common Lionfish (Pterois volitans) by Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez. E. Tan Jumping Spider (Platycryptus undatus) feeding on bluebottle fly (Calliphora sp.) by Mirko Schoenitz.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Teaser: whose celestial sphere?

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 21/09/2026

🔭 Cocoon Nebula Wide Field Image Credit & Copyright: Piotr Czerski ap260921

A starfield is shown against a patchy red-glowing
background. Two irregular brown trails occur, the lower
of which culminates in a bright pink and white region.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Keeponsmilin @keeponsmilin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OK here’s a few pics of sunset a couple nights ago taken from my yard 💙💙☮️💙💙 All taken within a 7 minute window- 6:46pm to 6:53pm CDT

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BenRad @benrad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's extremely worth the paltry subscription costs. Hell world reminds me to keep on living.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One year ago this week we lost the great writer Kaleb Horton. I am still very sorry that I won't ever get to read anything new by him ever again. Today his partner @katehascats.bsky.social joins us to write about her experience of loss and grief.

welcometohellworld.com

There is only before and after he died

Losing Kaleb

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Faye Dunaway With A Gun |🏳️‍⚧️|🏳️‍🌈| @electradescending.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hellworld has all sorts of good writing, support writers, not AI slop.

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Correct Opinion Haver @jakebasner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Both depressing and inspiring at the same time, I’m always stoked when a new Hell World pops up in my inbox. Highly recommend checking this out and supporting good work!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's still the newsletter and I recommend it highly.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Leaf ombré my daughter made 🍁🌼🌿

Breach leaves in autumn arranged on a tree stump so their colour shifts gently round a circle

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For those just starting at @ucdavis.bsky.social or for those who are here and not aware of this - the UC Davis Putah Creek Riparian Preserve is a true treasure - beautiful, serene, filled with amazing plants and animals and other organisms and just spectacular.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let's talk about AI in archaeology journalism. NB: Never use AI to illustrate news stories on the ancient world (or really ever). Beyond just ethics, the public cannot tell that this is a fake image of the mummified remains found with a Homer papyrus on his abdomen. These images are taken as real.

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Archaeologists Found a Copy of the Iliad Stuffed Inside an Ancient Egyptian Mummy

They have no idea why.

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lunch enjoyer @hoaagie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tone, you hear about this Kashi thing? They went from making dogshit cereal to letting you bet on if the Jets will win the Super Bowl before World War 3.

Christopher Moltisanti smoking and lifting weights in the back room of Bada Bing

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mbmikebrown.bsky.social @mbmikebrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we lost power early in the morning and I listened to the sparse early morning traffic and it reminded me of all my days of living outside, which were rough but were also sometimes very peaceful in the early morning. Then I woke up and my old account was gone so that's kind of funny

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Rosemarie @roabrams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The first photo shows a BlueJay on a metal bracket which is above the birdbath. It seemed to watching over the juvenile on the birdbath #backyardbirding Today’s #BirdOfTheDay Alt. theme is Corvids

A BlueJay on a metal bracket. It is molting so its head is missing feathers

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mbmikebrown.bsky.social @mbmikebrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My account has been suspended for some reason and I'm not sure what it is because I can't access the old email I used to make the account. Anyway good morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjYk...

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New Potato Caboose (Live at Shrine Auditorium, August 23-24,1968)

YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic

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