iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18h

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)

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 18h

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 8h

Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 6h

NEWS: Governor Kathy Huchol of NY appoints the state attorney general Leticia James special prosecutor in the Cornell rape case, effectively removing the local DA. Hochul cites “serious questions” about the Cornell PD’s initial investigation and the DA’s earlier decision not to prosecute.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026
STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL ON CORNELL UNIVERSITY SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE
Newly released information continues to raise serious questions about the investigation conducted by the Cornell Police Department and the decision by the Tompkins County District Attorney not to prosecute an alleged sexual assault on Cornell University's campus in October 2024. This has, in turn, undercut my faith, and the public's faith, in the District Attorney's ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case at this time.
For this reason, I have issued an executive order appointing Attorney General James as special prosecutor in this case.
As special prosecutor, the Attorney General will investigate this incident and, if warranted, prosecute any offenses arising from that investigation and present evidence to a grand jury.
The young woman at the center of this case deserves to know that every fact will be examined and justice pursued. This action will ensure that the matter is fully and thoroughly investigated without conflict or bias, and handled independently

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10h

I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is.

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 11h

Net-zero brings PM2.5-attributable deaths down sharply by 2050, which would be progress from today but far from zero. You can't electrify road dust or ammonia from agriculture. And a bad wildfire projection can claw back 3-16% of the gain.

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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 13h

This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)

If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14h

I'm unusually irritated to discover that the turnover (samosa, empanada, clanger, patty, sambousek, etc), which is damn near universal, had not been invented at the time of my Mesopotamian game. I was all set to write about Iron Age turnovers, only to find there weren't any. Hmph!

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Share of Americans who have gone on a picnic is down 19 points

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 14h

In Make America Healthy Again news, we're closing in on 1000 measles cases in Pennsylvania and a fifth person there just died. Though the fatality rate is low, measles has a near-unique ability to screw up peoples' immune systems, so every case makes victims more disease-prone in the future.

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Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Fifth Measles-Associated Death, Provides Statewide Update on Outbreak as Cases Reach 943 in 39 Counties

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isaac @sevier.io · 14h

Instead of spending a majority of time talking to and at people who are opposed to my existence and political commitments i try very hard to focus on discussion with people who at minimum think i'm a human person worth talking to and better yet want the same political project to come to life.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 16h

This this this. A dog on a leash is for THEIR PROTECTION.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15h

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15h

Indigenous languages are often hidden to LLMs, for good reason. We speak with Keoni Mahelona about his work on Indigenous data sovereignty, and why it’s worth being skeptical when the “AI" industry says it cares about preserving Indigenous languages. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

“Had it come into effect, someone found guilty of secretly recording others would have faced fines of up to $1,500 and/or a prison sentence. Companies making wearables without a recording indicator or tech designed to block such indicators would have faced fines of up to $2,500 per violation.”

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Newsom vetoes smart glasses privacy bill - Engadget

The language of the bill was overbroad, in Newsom's opinion.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Measles can be eliminated. There should be zero deaths.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/09/2026

One thing to bear in mind about a federal permitting bill is that its mistakes would be essentially permanent - Dems could only reverse mistakes with a filibuster-proof 60-vote supermajority in the Senate. Repubs, on the other hand, could use captured courts to shave off bits their donors dislike.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi everyone! If you’re in the mood for a little seasonal silliness, I put together this collection of fun and funny Halloween-themed videos for folks to enjoy: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/ha-ha-hallow... Open to everyone - cheers! 🎃

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Ha-Ha-Halloween: Enjoy Some Scary Season Silliness to Get Ready for October

Hey, Everyone! I don't know about you, but I am so excited that October is nearly here, just so we can start fully immersing ourselves in all of the Scary Season delights. With that in mind, I spent s...

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was deeply inspired by the good neighbors I met in Minneapolis during the ICE occupation earlier this year. They showed the nation what it looks like to “fight, not fold” by rising up in solidarity when authoritarianism landed on their doorsteps.

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Michael Bono @mbonotheyounger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two of this year's best candidates for our nation's legislative branch

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Significant numbers of leftists think Mayor Mamdani has betrayed the left by putting out an anti-antisemitism plan at all, and groups that claim to fight antisemitism like the ADL are giving Mamdani zero credit because he has not suddenly endorsed Zionism, and I am caught between and I am tired.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

None of the cheerleaders of the Permitting Reform bill are talking about the fact that it establishes a 150-day statute of limitations for lawsuits under *any* federal law challenging authorizations for coal, oil, and gas extraction. Forever. 150 days is no time at all.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just to dogpile here, this isn't what people *want* from music. even if you do want a song written "just for you," automating it makes it 100% less special, doesn't it

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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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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Jack Delehanty @jackdelehanty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In this piece, two social scientists do an exemplary job of identifying substantive problems resulting from writing produced with AI. AI-assisted writing makes unwarranted causal leaps, fails to specify conceptual links between ideas, misrepresents key facts and leaves out essential information.

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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it

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Jake Johnson @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨NEW AD JUST WENT LIVE🚨 I want rural clinics and good schools. Congressman Finstad wants data centers. That's the difference.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/09/2026

Hey don't use this shit.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

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The awesomeness of museums

Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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