iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

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Bosphorus Observer @yoruk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,…

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I profiled the startup behind Pangram, the AI detector everyone’s talking about. It works really, really well. I wanted to understand how they did it. and also: why people still don’t trust them. (also, news: Penguin Random House is using it.) gift link! ✨

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The World’s Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human Problem

Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"History shows that when a company starts acquiring the attributes of a state... its transformation can damage the parent country at least as much as the territories it exploits" @willdalrymple.bsky.social with lessons from the past about corporate power www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...

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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)

A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

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Newton Key @newton-key.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yes, more Fable of the Bees needed in my timeline. Vain and like to distinguish ourselves from others. Of course the reductio ad absurdem is The Emperor's New Clothes.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Self-portrait of Isaac Fuller, 1606 – #otd 17 July 1672 Made in 1670 (Bodleian Library Oxford LP 142) Best curatorial note ever: "He holds a torn sheet of drawings of putti. Said to have been painted when Fuller was drunk".

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Newton Key @newton-key.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My grandfather ranched goats, so I knew cattle guards wouldn't slow them down. Sheep showing their own nous in the breakout game!

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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Still time to make a comment. I wrote as loved one of a person with chronic illness, an historian, and administrator focused on undergraduate research in all disciplines. I picked a few areas for focus of my comments. Public conversation has also not captured the language of the rule change.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

this phenomenon enraged SC planters who nearly bankrupted their colony (1703) in one of their attempts to seize St Augustine between 1680-1821

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Newton Key @newton-key.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Every essay and book, even the ones I probably did not understand fully, helped me see the world, past and present, anew.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

bringing this one back because they just keep doing it

Fashion news
Tailors 'were working on advanced fabric so exquisite it is invisible to stupid people'
Reports say new imperial suiting fuelled nudity fears, with courtiers airing their concerns to the board before CEO
Sam Conman's sacking
Hans Christian Andersen Global fabrics editor

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Joe Cozens @joecozens.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

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Witnessing the Weavers’ Rising of 1826

A digital mapping project created by The National Archives and The Open University

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hegseth not only fired the Sec of the Army. He also fired head of Army Training & Command, as well as the Army's chief of chaplains. Destabilizing Army leadership during an active shooting war is another example of Hegseth's incompetence & cannon fodder philosophy www.military.com/daily-news/h...

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Three Generals Ousted as Pentagon Shakeup Hits War Command

Hegseth's move represents a rare leadership shakeup, raising questions about strategy and command stability.

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Was delighted to do an extended interview with the editors at @commongoodmag.bsky.social. This covers many of the major arguments of my @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Greatest of All Plagues. As I told my PUP editor every time I missed a deadline, it's all still relevant!

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Economic Inequality: The Unequal You Will Always Have | Common Good Magazine

The problem of economic inequality owns a long, frustrated story.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I don't need this because I live about an hour's train away, but this is a lovely bursary and targeted at a set of us (mid-career), who don't get much, and whomever gets it, HMU I want to hear what you're doing!

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

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The Dr Williams’s Trust Library Bursaries for Mid-Career Researchers

The Dr Williams’s Trust has generously provided funds to support the work of mid-career historians researching the British Protestant dissenting traditions.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I had a great chat last week with @cward1e.bsky.social, looking back at the growth of open source investigation from when it was just a small bunch of people trying to figure stuff out, how the counter-disinformation community formed out of that, and why it's causing us all so many headaches now.

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Did everyone else know about researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/ already? Searches 7 million records at 1,400 archival institutions all in ONE PLACE

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ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid connects you with archives around the world to find historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US

The Economist →
Weekly edition World in brief United States
United States | Violence without consequence
Another horrifying shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis What happens when armed men are given impunity

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The ICE administrative warrant memo gives its officers authority greater than the general warrants used by the English that the 4th Amendment was designed to prevent. It allows law enforcement to enter homes based on "warrants" that they themselves approve, removing any external check.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/01/2026

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

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Newton Key @newton-key.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

For anyone who has rented a car, Mr. Moylan, we salute you.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is a great post, looking at death, law, mapping, and the physical book itself. #History

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William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"The Improvement Police," my article on a scheme, c. 1700, to force people to use new scientific knowledge to make their government rich, is out in a fantastic issue on Projects, edited by @tedmccormick.bsky.social, Vera Keller, and Kelly Whitmer. journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...

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View of The Improvement Police

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It would have been a wat crime if we were at war, if not, its just murder. As congress gets ready to hear closed door testimony later this week, here’s what you need to know. joycevance.substack.com/p/bulletproo...

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Bulletproof No More

Pete Hegseth: “I watched that first strike live.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The prohibition is rather specific. "The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

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Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

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London Lives

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 31/10/2025

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

There's a *lot* going on in the three different state lawsuits challenging President Trump's federalization of National Guard troops under 10 U.S.C. § 12406. Via "One First," my attempt to break down where things stand, how we got here, and what to expect next: www.stevevladeck.com/p/185-the-st...

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185. The State of Play in the National Guard Cases

It's hard to keep track of the whirlwind of litigation surrounding President Trump's unprecedented deployments of federalized National Guard troops. Here's a quick update on where things stand.

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Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Today’s “One First” looks at how #SCOTUS and its defenders have responded to criticisms of the Court’s behavior in Trump cases either by knocking down straw men or by attacking the critics—without meaningfully defending what the Court is actually *doing*: www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party—and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing—or why? And even if the answer is somehow “yes,” does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it’s doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices’ minds of “defying” the Court?

I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months—let alone all five of them. I’d love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven’t been—and won’t be—holding my breath.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 24/09/2025

No money for USAID, no money for healthcare or Medicaid or rural hospitals or scientific research or schools or libraries, but billions of dollars for a corrupt strongman in Argentina.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 23/08/2025

This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day

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eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Absolutely thrilled to announce that my article on sermons published by Catherine of Braganza's command as queen dowager has today been published open access by English Historical Review: academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... . It has been a long time coming, having originally been 1/

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‘Published by Her Majesties Command’: Sermons Preached before Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager, 1685–88*

Abstract. This article argues that the sermons preached before Catherine of Braganza as queen dowager in her chapel royal and later published by her comman

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