iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 2h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 5h

I dreamt that Munster, Leinster, Ulster, and Connacht were four people standing around, engaging in some lighthearted banter

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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 5h

Did everyone else know that @anniealtman108.bsky.social is on here, trying to get anyone to pay attention to the first hour of her deposition from the lawsuit against her monster of a brother, Sam? Because I did not. I haven’t seen any news coverage re: the video release either. We can do better

Screenshot of Annie Altman in her deposition, posted on Instagram. I hear it’s on YouTube as well.

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Annie Altman @anniealtman108.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB youtu.be/akjrfwYPvy8?...

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First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB

YouTube video by Annie Altman

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 15h

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 11h

Instead of going to bed on time, I searched “riker twink death” on TikTok to find a half-remembered video, and I’m glad I did

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 12h

I’m going through an alarming number of Fox Glacier Mints on a daily basis.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 12h

I’m so very pleased that there’ll be productions of my play What Every Girl Should Know in New York *and* L.A. in the next six months, more than a decade after it premiered in Durham. 🥰

A promo poster for What Every Girl Should Know in Orange County, California, coming up in November, featuring a red haired woman looking into a mirror.

A promotional graphic for the same play, in February, put on by Out/Play in New York.

A headline from IndyWeek in Durham, featuring a woman standing against a cinderblock wall with a pain expression on her face

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 15h

I’m 44 followers away from 3000 on Instagram. Glory is so near.

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 17h

Here's that list: "The immediate resignation and/or termination of Cornell administrators ... The expulsion or revocation of the degrees of all Chi Phi brothers involved... The abolition of all Interfraternity Council (IFC) Greek Life... And the dissolution of the Office of Student Conduct..."

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From the Cornell community on Reddit: CGSU takes a stance - email

Explore this post and more from the Cornell community

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lilli 🤠 @lillianbf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cornell students have released their demands. More may be added in accordance with JD’s wishes, but for now this is the push.

Cornell student demands from @sdc.now

sdc.now and 5 others
& Public Enemy • Fight The Power
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STUDENTS DEMAND:
1. Cornell to expel or revoke the degrees of all perpetrators complicit in the gang rape of Jane Doe.
2. Rewrite Policy 6.4 to require independent hearings and minimum sanctions for Sexual Assault.
3. An external investigation of Cornell's administration and the return to an Independent Judicial System.
4. Mandatory Sexual Assault
Prevention Trainings for students and Trauma-Informed Training for CUPD.
5. Cornell's full compliance with the
NYS "Enough is Enough" Law.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why yes, that IS me as a teenager sitting at the console of the NASA Apollo-era Mission Control Flight Director! Why was I there, you ask? The answer has something to do with why I’m currently obsessed with one show and one show only: For All Mankind. Read all about here 🌙

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October postcard: The first human on Mars. | Monica Byrne

This is me in the summer of 2000. To my disbelief, the Wellesley network had helped me land an internship at NASA, one of the perks of which

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 17h

Reading other people's preferences is wild to me 😂 I can't read Times New Roman at all! I just immediately think, "oh, an amateur college paper...."

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 18h

Am I the only one who can’t read double-spaced text in Word? I feel like nothing in the text is related to itself, regardless of the content. 😅

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 19h

For all those despairing about the Brazilian election—it’s not over, which I didn’t know. Here’s hoping they can turn this around.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 23h

I’m doing another post office run tomorrow!—if anyone would like a few stickers to slap on their laptop, phone, or office door. Check them out, five varieties, all designed by me (a human)! They also come in both R- and G-rated versions.

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Stickers! | monicabyrne

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Stickers! | monicabyrne

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 05/10/2026

Need a senior engineer in #Aotearoa New Zealand - but not enough to justify sending someone over? I’m available for short engineering assignments. I’m good at practical eng., unusual environs, prototypes, mfg & troubleshooting. Need a trusted pair of technical eyes & ears? Contact me!

Woman in a gold jacket and a drill in her hand.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 05/10/2026

Do you know the wild thing about this? The founder of zionism, theodore herzl wrote books on zionism, and IN EVERY SINGLE BOOK, one of them named "the Jewish state", he clearly described zionism as the white settler colonial apartheid ethno racist ideology that it is. He didn't mince words, at all!

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This GOTdamn scene from Superman III. I was crying so hard I started hyperventilating.

A woman screaming as robotic parts are slapped on her face

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What gets called “restorative/transformative justice” might have some applications somewhere, but it has zero place in cases of rape or abuse. Zero. I said what I said.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have a lot of favorite swimming spots, but this has got to be in my top five. Poll Gorm in Easkey. A human-made pool that fills up every high tide.

Me smiling in a swimsuit, and a backdrop of rock walls surrounding a shallow pool.

A shallow pool surrounded by rock walls, and the ocean beyond.

Another sign that says “remember this is the Atlantic Ocean. Exercise caution at all times. You swim here at your own risk”

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The primary purpose of an Israeli ‘ceasefire’, whether in Gaza ir Lebanon, is decreased media coverage. And Israel was proven right on that.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wondering if those Orangemen on Garvaghy Road may end up accelerating the path to a united Ireland after all.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m wondering what percentage of people in the world can plausibly, safely leave their country of birth. Or what that ability is even called. Not “mobility,” but something like that…..?

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t eat instant noodles often because it’s not good for my stomach, but I have a big jumbo bucket set out for dinner tonight and I can’t wait

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In Durham, 14 years ago today, I made my last tomato-and-mayonnaise sandwich of the season, and cried about it

Me holding a tomato mayonnaise sandwich with a big bite out of it and crying

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Feels like restorative RJ/TJ is the AI of legal theory. Like, it might have been conceived in good faith, and there might be some legitimate application for it somewhere, but it is now overwhelmingly used to disenfranchise the vulnerable.

A tweet that says “the main criticism of RJ/TJ is that whatever it is supposed to accomplish in theory, in practice it usually amounts to mandatory forgiveness chorused directly on the victim. You’re extending that to “since mandatory forgiveness is a forgone conclusion, victim need not be involved at all“

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally finished my TV pitch based on “Golden Rule.” It’s a doozy. For now, I’ll just say: it’s an alternate history wherein Walter Mondale was assassinated during the runup to the 1980 election, so Carter chose Shirley Chisholm instead, and won. Which changed everything that came after.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This begs the question: If you could choose one food to be the Eucharist (aka vessel for your very Self) for the religion you’ve founded, what would it be?

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What gets called “restorative/transformative justice” might have some applications somewhere, but it has zero place in cases of rape or abuse. Zero. I said what I said.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whensoever you eat of Turkey Hill chocolate peanut butter ice cream, do it in memory of me *ding-a-ling-a-ling*

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here is the second part of my Thessaloníki chapter from December 32nd: An Intimate Account of the End of Life As We Know It, my memoir of living on the road, read by me, to paying patrons and subscribers. Your autumn weekend listening is sorted 🤎

monicabyrne.substack.com

AudioFriday: Thessaloníki, Part II.

Aftermath.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy New Meshell Ndegeocello Album Release Day to all who celebrate 💚🩵 This is going to be my fall album.

A graphic of an aqua face and a green face interfacing, with the text, Meshell Ndegeocello: Synonym

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I swear I am part lizard. Lying in a sun puddle for a while just so I can warm up enough to keep functioning.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Free facial: crack open your dishwasher right after it's done and stick your face in the steam

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone close to me just went through surgery, and in looking back through my journals, remembered how pleasant it was to recover from my own (ulnar nerve transposition). Really just laid in bed, watched movies, smoked weed, and slept on and off for four days.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What, in your opinion, is the best cheese for a grilled cheese sandwich? The fall weather is inspiring me to make comfort food.

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