iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CONTROL RESONANT (2026)

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026

NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 15/09/2026

The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well

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Courtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good morning and I hope you’re having a great day. I am about to ruin it with this long form story I did on how private equity is ruining cookies but also people are building shit cookie companies to get money from private equity on @weareravenous.com. www.weareravenous.com/the-curious-...

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The Curious Case of the Soulless Private Equity Cookie

If you’re going to pay more than $5 for a single cookie, it should at least have some soul.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Micah won't say it about himself, but I will. His writing _fucks_. You should pick up this collection right away. I can't wait to dig into these stories. bookshop.org/p/books/vult...

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Vulture Gold: Stories

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionWelcome to a dark country of sadness and wonder. Where a wedding dress turns a reluctant bride into a flock of birds, and families put ...

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 01/09/2026

My book VULTURE GOLD is out today! Available anywhere you get books. bookshop.org/p/books/vult...

The book, Vulture Gold, lying on black feathers and surrounded by lit golden candles. The book cover shows, in sepia tones, a flock of ravens flying down with their mouths open.

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy publication day to 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize Winners Adam O. Davis and Micah Dean Hicks! Learn more about their collections: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize/ @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @micahdeanhicks.com @univnebpress.bsky.social

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

one reason old school Dems are so poor at modern comms is that they really seem to think their audience is the most selfish self centred people alive. The only moral is an appeal to self interest. Anti immigration is bad because who will pick veggies. fighting allies is bad because tourism revenue

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice.

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My biggest frustration with writing is that quite often, the SWOOP that takes a book from midlist to BIG DEAL is pure luck, and I personally can't do anything to make it happen. Publishing is not a meritocracy. It's skill + time + luck, and all you can do is be in position for possible liftoff.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/08/2026

This study followed "26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12." NYC, please visit HeyMamdani.fyi and submit a comment to @mayor.nyc.gov telling him we need an "A.i." moratorium in the public schools, 2k-12, NOW. Kids who get addicted to "A.i." are gonna be left behind. Shut this down now!

We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

stop making me know about joe rogan jesus christ!!! i am a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN i shouldn’t have to KNOW about that my GOD

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 13/08/2026

“To put it simply: I do not like this world where people are using AI to generate art, music, writing, and software. So I will not use AI.”

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oneoneoneone @oneoneoneone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wild times on the UK MOTHS Facebook group.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

setting the record straight can occasionally be done if you get yelled at for posts and want to write an essay explaining yourself fully. but if you get yelled at for an essay you can't correct the record with posts. that river only flows one way

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The practice of AI companies secretly buying millions of old books (some vanishingly rare), scanning them for AI training, then destroying them, epitomises everything that is wrong with today's exploitative AI industry. 🧵 1/2

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just received a lovely copy of Vulture Gold by @micahdeanhicks.com in the mail. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek last year for blurbing purposes and look how gorgeously it turned out! The cover! *Swoon* The stories inside are equally gorgeous too!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

sorry to vaguesky but I saw someone whose work has meant quite a bit to me personally sharing that their accomplishments affirm, for them, only their own feeling of uselessness. In empirical fact when we feel useless it is an illusory feeling. we have to Internalize and know this.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

“You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.

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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Microsoft roadmap: -fire everyone -hit outlook servers with a stick -make a system file on your laptop grow to 500GB after updating -hit outlook servers with a metal pipe

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Hampus Viklander @spookystirfry.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Kill self doubt in an alleyway and hide the corpse in a dumpster, I promise life is so much better on the other side, my art fucking rules

image of a figure staring at camera while holding a drawing in one hand and a baseball bat in the other, a trail of blod leads into an alley way to a body sticking out from behind a dumpster

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Sanctions Kill 🇵🇸 @sanctionskill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

My Mom when I tell her the animal video she sent me is AI

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404 Media @404media.co · 24/06/2026

Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.

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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026

It wasn't just framing. It was who got to speak. As coverage turned, trans voices in the stories dropped sharply while opponents of trans rights rose. By 2026, opponents were quoted more often than trans people themselves. Trans people were spoken about, not to.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

started >>> going

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 12/06/2026

A short, spooky story from my upcoming collection VULTURE GOLD is out today in COMP. Here's a taste: "I was only a girl when Aurelia died. My twin, my heart. We shared the same gold-brown eyes, the same tense smile, slept so close that our wild honey hair would tangle and weave together.

Cover image of the book VULTURE GOLD. A flock of crows falling toward the ground, eyes wide. The colors black, white, and gold tones.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/06/2026

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Because the service had been arranged last minute, the funeral home on a busy street in Atlanta could only offer them one hour.
Orlin wore a long-sleeved shirt and a tan vest with a striped bow tie and matching pants.
The clothes concealed his injuries. A new teddy bear was tucked beside him.
Embroidered into the satin lining of his casket was "Principito," or "Little Prince."
His full name was embossed on the coffin:
Orlin Josue Hernandez Reyes.
McCaffrey and Hernandez's sister had to hold Hernandez up as she walked trembling toward her son. Once she regained the strength to stand, she stood over him and stroked his face and chest.
"I never wanted to leave you," she whispered repeatedly. "I wanted to bring you with me.
My son."

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 19/05/2026

Happy pub day to @mollytanzer.bsky.social for her latest book, And Side by Side They Wander! "An intergalactic art heist by a ragtag group of underqualified misfits. What could go wrong?" bookshop.org/p/books/and-...

Cover art for Molly Tanzer's novel AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 17/05/2026

Living here means neighbors constantly reminding you to watch out for the “rat hole”. You don’t want your dog near the “rat hole”. The “rat hole” is, naturally, a hole in the sidewalk where rats come from. The rats? Apocryphal, and yet: the *hole* is very real. Dare you? Dare you risk the rat hole?

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Chris Lewis Lee - available for work @chrislewislee.com · 07/05/2026

Some work has fallen through, so I need some new freelance work asap. Please share if you can 😊

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 14/05/2026

I follow the U.S. school literacy debate off and on and it's nuts how kids just weren't taught to read for like 20 years.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 29/04/2026

This is going to be incredible. Dying to play this.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The main thing in art and entertainment to keep your finger on the pulse of the fans and what they want, their feedback is so important.

Look it's a really unhinged rant about contestants wearing nose rings. Too long to type. You're not missing much.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/03/2026

Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"*Locus* is a destination, a gathering place, and a longstanding monument in our community, the Times Square or Piazza San Marco of science fiction, fantasy, and horror." @locusmag.bsky.social reactormag.com/locus-is-a-l...

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Locus Is a Longstanding Bright Spot in Our Community - Reactor

Let’s show up and support them the way they support us.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is because I see the harm gAI use/misuse is doing to students in my classrooms that I am so critical of the enterprise. And Im not alone, either. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Working in the trenches, most professors, especially in the humanities, probably didn’t need formal research to tell them what those studies found, when they could easily intuit it by interacting with their pupils. Michael Clune, a literature professor and novelist, lamented to The Guardian that many students are now “incapable of reading and analyzing, synthesizing data, all kinds of skills.” Clune’s school, Ohio State University, recently required all students to enroll in “AI fluency” courses “across every major,” ostensibly to prepare them for a world that is dominated by the tech.

Clune was critical of the push. “No one knows what that means,” he told newspaper. “In my case, as a literature professor, these tools actually seem to mitigate against the educational goals I have for my students.”

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