iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🍂 If you’re looking for some fall reading, may I recommend the amazing new scholarship published in a second batch of articles from our big special issue on AI and Archives with @universitypress.cambridge.org Forum on AI: Culture and Society.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Imagine if tools did what their users wanted, rather than some of the wealthiest corporations in the history of human capitalism. PS Infosec works by making tools broadly available for the public to defend itself, not by a priesthood who gets to anoint things as safe.

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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

been drafting a talk for next month that is basically “why has there been no great image collections software?” and really thought I’d get away without mentioning AI at all, but…

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026

queen victoria told me the northwest passage keeps eating her poorly planned expeditions so i asked how many expeditions she has and she said she just goes to the royal academy and gets a new afterwards so i said it sounds like shes just feeding ships to the ice and then prince albert started crying

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Ed @ed3d.net · 25/09/2026

this is largely compatible with my own "AGI has been achieved but have you seen a natural general intelligence lately"

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026

Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.

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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States

Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I believe that AI, like any other tool, can and will generate art when used interestingly, and also that almost nobody is using it interestingly yet

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

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♍ Bee 🐝 @sweetbee.vip · 10/09/2026

abliterate me like one of your qwen models

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

got sidetracked talking about a cool thing I made (engineer’s curse) but I have more to say about what’s going on here. 6k line slop PRs and walls of junky text norms are in flux. managers and tech leads need to figure out their role in norm formation

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Surviving Code Reviews in the era of AI

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Ed @ed3d.net · 06/08/2026

LLMs shall be a reckoning for a lot of developers who thought being clever was their ticket because the answer is now to take a really big hammer and point in a straight line and start pounding in tentpegs 'til you get to the goal This will be bad for one's satisfaction but probably good on net

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

a huge chunk of the top talent IN AMERICA is first- or second-generation and from china. the only reason china doesn't completely dominate us here is that american immigration policy is very good at stealing their best research staff. it's a good thing nobody's changing that!

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

surely the *checks notes* country of china is short on *checks notes* engineers and mathematicians and could not possibly compete at the engineering and applied mathematics field *touches earpiece* hold on, i'm getting new information bsky.app/profile/segy...

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm once again begging everyone to update their priors. "ChatGPT is not a search engine." Yes, yes it is. It actively searches the web based on your prompt, and returns active links relevant to your search/prompt. It's a search engine. It is. (Obvs don't use it that way if that's not your thing)

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I knew this data format was old, but this is ridiculous

A stone ruin with the letters MARC visible carved into it.

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

seeing the new Odyssey film in its intended format

The side of a bus with an ad in dark blue and red for the Odyssey, but it is written entirely in Greek

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I still revisit this book every three years or so and it always has something new for me.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

oof sorry, unfollowing now. loved his unique take on religion. had no idea he refused to send troops to Tunip, though Tunip his city wept and its tears flowed and there was no grasping of its hand

A sculpture of Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

one major asymmetry is the way in which defection from the party consensus at the left edge of the party is considered betrayal because it's principed, but defection from the consensus at the right edge of the party is trustworthy because it is presumed to be a dishonest appeal to moderates.

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Kim Stanley Robinson’s MARS TRILOGY predictions continue to hold

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

One of the issues here is that the series, “A Remembrance of Earth’s Past” isn’t structured really like a sci-fi series. Rather, it’s structured & written like a Chinese epic romance, which is pretty much what it’s trying to be, & that’s a tall ask for most non-Chinese readers.

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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Henge epistemology has reached Hacker News victoriaritvo.com/blog/hengefi... @onceatrophic.bsky.social who says DH is dead?

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Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns With Your Street

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Maxwell’s Demon: *ignoring entropy Me: ah-ha! But you CANNOT ignore entropy because you must store information! Maxwell’s Demon: *performs demon magic on the information bc he is a demon and is unconstrained by logic Me: well, nevertheless

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Yet another example that "chat" is just one UI for LLM usage, and usually not the right one for a lot of expert applications!

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Bryan Hilley @bbhilley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

That feeling when you see a Brancusi

Pictures of a joyous Nicole Kidman celebrating post divorce from Tom Cruise

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Not a new observation, but I think discussion of AI + entry-level jobs could better account for entry-level *tech* jobs being a uniquely weird case. Partly that LLMs are especially good at entry-level coding, but also that there was a *massive* increase in new graduates that no other field had.

Time-series graph of CS+CE+I majors from the CRA Taulbee survey, showing increase from just over 50,000 in 2007-2008 to just under 250,000 in 2023-2024.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 23/04/2026

New critical minerals projects just dropped, ty Jessica for doing a thread

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 23/04/2026

People have way over-indexed on the 2023-era view that AI companies want to “train on your data” because human authenticity is scarce and precious. I promise I’m not saying corps are beneficent when I say that a random collection of files and social media posts has at this point small value.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A lot of the new tools and processes appear to work best when an expert in the process being completed supervises or partners with one of these generative tools. That is not a useful classroom tool for most early or intermediate learners.

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D Fletcher Dunham @dfdunham.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

How not to display art, by Michael Govan

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

i like most of the photography youtubers but i've found someone i do not like.

Guy looking at a photo of Andy Warhol holding a Minox 35EL with a flash. Guy is saying, "What the ___ is this? Who is this person?"

Photo of an old 35mm camera with a large flash. Subtitle: "[If] your flash is larger than your camera, you've got something [wrong]"

Back to looking at the photo. Guy is saying, "A Minox. Why wouldn't you just use an SLR?"

The guy. Subtitle:

He's the guy that paints soup.
What an absolutely ridiculous setup.

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

After four awesome years at ITHAKA / JSTOR, I’m taking a needed two week staycation before starting an exciting new gig. The last two days were about household chores, but today is being spent enjoying this stunning Nancy Graves at the @bampfa.bsky.social

A detail of a painting by Nancy Graves showing an abstract sea of shimmering colored dots that form quasi organic shapes

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If you’re teaching DH right now, how are you thinking about your students’ relationship to generative AI? Are you ignoring it? Banning it? Discussing a policy with them first? Encouraging vibe coding? Interested to see how educators across the continuum of opinions are managing it.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 11/04/2026

nyx says welcome home

nyx (black cat) sitting on a soundbar watching artemis bobbing in the ocean

nyx (black cat) sitting on a soundbar looking at me while artemis bobs in the ocean

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The Dude Replies @rawse.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Imagine being in space 30 min ago and now you’re about an hour from In n Out

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Sarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

this is something which, plainly, AI cannot do. journalism is by definition out-of-distribution, and even if you presumed that everyone wanted to read more Claudeprose than people already do, "writing up one's findings" is not the primary job a journalist performs!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse. It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."

I just think it's also important to, like, remember how, how bad it was like, as someone said to me recently, like, I don't know whether we'll call this trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase t, but it definitely like it was to have everyone crying in the office all the time. People had so much anxiety that we would kind of like have to take turns working for. The last few months I was there to be like, All right, you can't handle Today. Today. I'm okay. I can handle today, but you might have to handle tomorrow for me, because I might not be able to handle tomorrow. Like, I've never seen such a thing. You know, one of our younger designers had asked, because it was their first job out of grad school. Like, is this what it's like in the private sector too? Because this is so terrible. And someone's response who worked in the private sector was that, no, like, I've been terrible places, like I've worked at Amazon, I've worked other places where they didn't care about us, but we never felt like our leadership hated us just for existing. And that's what those months felt like, like, not our direct leadership, but anyone above that, and especially the highest levels, just hated us for existing, and that was really hard when, like our we had committed our careers to serving the citizens public.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

losing a war feels way better than i always imagined it would

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