iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 20h

Two cool ladies and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.

A black and white photo of two “tomboyish” looking women with their arms slung around each other, one of them holding a kitten. They're outside and wearing work clothes.

513467365

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Call for Papers - The Medieval Reception of Greek Antiquity The Medieval Reception of Greek Antiquity (CfP) The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call…

0106

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20h

Some enterprising hacker collective could test this: throw some vibecoded OpenAI Astra & Claude Opus bullshit together, train it on stats about student loans & what would happen if they went away, & then instruct it to free up spending power for millions of americans, & just like, see what happens…

9598148

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 20h

In my Gender and Jim Crow class, we have a whole session on lynching images. I don’t show the victims, I show the crowds. We zero in on the faces in the crowds, their expressions, the children, the mothers, the picnics, the jubilation…all of it.

6450120

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19h

absent shared norms, facts, standards of evidence or methods of reasoning, “public debate” is just broadcasting talking points performing “public debate” in that context means tacitly agreeing that whatever’s being debated, however fundamental, is just a matter of opinion even if you win, you lose

15617

Jennifer Sarha @necverbum.bsky.social · 19h

Laughed out loud at that. Clearly your daughter is a comic genius. Also that is unanswerable.

140

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?

1849302

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 19h

📷 Keepsake Portrait of Three Ottoman Officers in Shkodra ( #Shkodër, #Albania), 1912 (Colorized Photo)

0253

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.

1222606568

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye. Ther ys no part of thee that evir koude be wrong.

132188

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rhetoric like this is going to do more to ensure that young generations do not take the Holocaust seriously than any actual denier ever could.

“If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner.

Her role in the relentless, politically motivated demonization of Israel and promotion of the genolie speaks volumes.

Awarding Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a recognition of justice. It’s the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice.

Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell.”

520752

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"You can tell the sun in his jealous sky / When we walked in fields of gold." For #FrescoFriday, the House of #Livia on the #Palatine. Painted c. 30 BCE during the ascendancy of #Augustus, this Second Style wall depicts his Golden Age of perpetual abundance. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FRESCO WITH GARLANDS AND COLUMNS, HOUSE OF LIVIA, C. 30 BCE. PALATINE HILL

A section of ancient Roman fresco displaying the Second Style of wall painting. Though Livia only inhabited this house after Augustus's death in 14 CE, it was decorated circa 30 BCE, contemporary with the nearby House of Augustus. The flat wall is painted to create a three-dimensional illusion, with fluted columns framing a central panel. Suspended between them is a heavy garland of pine foliage, leaves, and round fruits. Crucially, these plants are shown fruiting and flowering simultaneously, defying the seasons. This impossible ripening is a visual manifesto of the Augustan Aurea Ætas or Golden Age of perpetual abundance. The artist painted subtle cast shadows behind the ribbon-tied garland to enhance the depth. Above is a horizontal yellow frieze featuring faintly-sketched, monochrome sacro-idyllic landscapes showing rural shrines.

23511

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Total collapse at Moscow’s airports 🛩 🚫 Ukrainian sources report that Ukraine has initiated its long-promised operation to disrupt russian air traffic. Delayed at the request of our partners, but now finally underway.

952194481

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

McGill are bigging her up after closing her department. Clownshow all round.

18227

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Cécile Bulté @cecilebulte.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pancartes des étudiants de l'École du Louvre @mathildelarrere.bsky.social

1296100

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Update: #US now offically impose new sanctions on the #ICC. The ICC refers in a statement to the sanctions as an "assault on the rule of law and the very foundations of the international legal order". The moral disgrace of the US' actions is unprecedented. www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...

reuters.com

EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.

14134

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 09/10/2026

Yes, it does, IDF. You denied killing U.S. reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022 until evidence forced an admission. Then you murdered hundreds of journalists in Gaza and denied it all over again. Want credibility? Let international press into the Strip.

1124186

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here.

633764

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/10/2026

“All Americans should probably watch this film like their life depends on it.” Sheelah Kolhatkar reviews the new Elon Musk documentary. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

newyorker.com

In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology

“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”

820377

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is very sad news but also marks a huge achievement. Throughout the entire Brexit saga @ukandeu.bsky.social has been the single best source of evidence and academic analysis, and an exemplar of engaged, rigorous social science. Like many others, I'm extremely grateful for all its work.

310036

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

132131305607

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved handle in the shape of a horse! 🐴 ❤️ New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

10624130

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BELIEVE IT! War photographer Lee Miller’s art is driven by the compulsion to get a little too close to the edge. Read it! europeanreviewofbooks.com/believe-it/

europeanreviewofbooks.com

BELIEVE IT! - The European Review of Books

Lee Miller brought surrealism to her war photography. She was humorous, generous and great fun. But « the stench of Dachau » never left her.

021

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New discovery: A royal archive with 184 tablets unearthed at the Hittite settlement of Samuha, in present-day Sivas/Türkiye, sheds new light on the Hittite Empire, revealing records of a deadly epidemic, military threats and royal life dating back 3,400 years. www.dailysabah.com/life/hittite...

436399

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is also fundamental to the publicity regime of capital punishment. Under absolutist forms of sovereignty, public executions were about demonstrating the sovereign’s power to an audience of their subjects.

172

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, and…. As a performance of sovereignty, the purpose of public executions has changed over time with shifts in the nature of sovereignty. The spectacle Hegseth intends is a largely a return to an earlier mode of public execution associated with early modern monarchies 🧵

13816

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nailed it

163041302

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Glory to the youth" Seen in Paris during the ongoing student uprising across the country.

2340113

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

8140231015

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'Rep. Leger Fernández also said that infant mortality has doubled since the Trump administration imposed an oil blockade on the island in January. “I can't imagine any American citizen wants to say, ‘I want babies to die,’” she said.' m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKf1... #Cuba #CubaNews #News #WorldNews

m.youtube.com

U.S. Lawmakers Visited a Cuban Hospital. Here’s What They Saw

YouTube video by Belly of the Beast

043

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nothing voters care more about than AI terminology. Trump is truly dialed in.

Screenshot of a social post by President Donald J. Trump that says: 'The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP'

5350641

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The future of personalized media

Multiple John Malkovich from Being John Malkovich

964893

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

810206584616

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 09/10/2026

A member of the ICC gets the Nobel Peace Prize and suddenly we’re slapping sanctions on the ICC. Just saying

77540

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Non seulement la gauche française est divisée alors que les fascistes n’ont jamais été aussi forts, non seulement la gauche "modérée" donne en permanence un spectacle déplorable, mais la gauche "de rupture" est incarnée par un odieux barbon complaisant (au mieux) avec les pires dictatures Fun times.

2328667

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

18166971951

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize

71003416

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We're literally exhausting the resources we need to feed ourselves, in the soil under our feet...

01614

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whatever else, you can rest assured that Donald Trump is feeling absolutely outraged that a brown woman like Navi Pillay received the Nobel Peace Prize, and he was clearly snubbed. Have a gorgeous day, people. www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...

Originally from Durban in South Africa, Pillay was president of the international tribunal on Rwanda's genocide between the late 1990s and early 2000s

More recently, she was part of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, created by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021

1310523

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. She previously chaired UN Independent Commission on #Palestine: '“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in #Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission."' www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #Israel

ohchr.org

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

16233

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Mark Klamberg @klamberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

as well as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The prize can be read as a tribute to the personal perseverance required to advance international justice, even when the surrounding systems remain flawed.

1438

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Mark Klamberg @klamberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Swedish connections: - Navi Pillay served as a judge in the Akayesu case — the first time an international court convicted someone of genocide. In addition to Pillay, the panel included Lennart Aspegren, a Swedish judge and honorary doctor at Stockholm University. He passed away on 21 May 2026.

1307

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This piece -- and the responses to the post, honestly -- deserve a read

1105

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently it's #WorldOctopusDay! A jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. A lovely weekend to all of you! 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

A beige pottery with two handles and a narrow neck, decorated with intricate dark brown patterns depicting a stylized octopus. The vessel is displayed on a white pedestal in a museum setting.

8424111

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...

881619188

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Prism @prismreports.org · 08/10/2026

“The increase in information access being mediated through AI could result in a real disruption to the business model that lets [abortion] resources stay afloat.” @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports on how abortion access orgs are battling AI overviews to make their sites visible to abortion-seekers.

prismreports.org

How abortion access organizations are adapting to AI

As AI chatbots routinely share misinformation about abortion, advocates are working to make their websites more visible to abortion-seekers who use AI

01511

Reposted by Jennifer Sarha

Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is just horrific. I have gained so much from listening to, and being involved in, Freethinking. Why are we trashing everything that is good and nonstupid?

1188