iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 13h

Teaching Bruno Latour tomorrow and this will come in very handy. The work of maintaining the institutions of knowledge is never-ending

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 20h

Just a thread of people with no sense of solidarity or allyship, just ‘positive vibes’. It’s disgusting and infuriating and depressing to see how many people simply do not give a shit about others

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Sorry son, no, mommy can’t get you any painkillers, she’s tweeting about how this whole experience with your broken knee has given her a fresh perspective on gender clinics. What’s a ‘non-sequitur’? Sounds postmodern and gender-adjacent, what are they teaching you at that school?”

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nothing more inspiring than someone saying they cooked up their candidates beliefs in a lab, based on data shocking this stuff doesn’t work

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have new occasion for Vanderbilt-report-related commentary. Allow me to collect it into a thread.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus Christ bsky.app/profile/donm...

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friedersdorf is a paid journalist. This is like a doctor not knowing what aspirin is.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the arc of centrism bends towards right-wing nationalist monoculture. or it would bend that way, if it had started anywhere else

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27/09/2026

I am so sick already of digital necromancy

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

whoa check out the tough guys

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Felix @ostrasyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trans man doesn't receive the care that he deserves and possibly experiences medical negligence. This stupid terf: "Play stupid games win stupid prizes I guess."

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t doubt, by the way, that most people *would* care about this if they were aware of it. If they were made aware of this huge medical scandal by the UK media. But of course the UK media aren’t going to raise awareness of a scandal in which they are deeply complicit.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good lord, what an endless culture of victimhood

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A sentence like this appears in every one of these articles: "Sure I object to everything Trump has ever done, but on the other hand I also disagree with some things about Democrats I made up."

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Luis @loosf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The constant ratcheting. Sure, validating the literal fascist views, perspectives, that won't move the overton window their side, no, it is just PRAGMATIC triangulation after all Ain't like we've seen how it has happened wrt to immigration. Dems are to the right of bush. Of reagan.

thenation.com

The Democrats’ Hard-Right Turn on Immigration Is a Disaster in Every Way

It’s amoral. It’s desperate. It’s politically reckless. It’s wrong no matter how you look at it.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

The one potentially good thing about this utterl, blatantly, Proudly ignorant "super intelligence" bullshit coming from this US executive regime is that maybe it'll finally make some more people go "Wait, what DOES 'artificial intelligence' refer to, anyway?" Maybe.

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Felix @ostrasyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't understand how even mild criticism has become so contentious. "Oh, so you support [right-wing party] then?" "No, I'm trying to prevent [nominally left-leaning party] from enshittifying further."

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Felix @ostrasyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Abandoning those who will most need our care and solidarity in the face of this contemptible regime should be unthinkable to anyone calling themselves progressive. That sort of political expediency doesn't inspire confidence in a party or movement or institution; it erodes it.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

I wrote a paper about this (i wrote a dissertation about this, but the paper is more digestible); it's called "Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic"

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Felix @ostrasyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

dude's never heard the term:

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Felix @ostrasyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is "incrementalism" when you go backwards?

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We should never accept this move.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Excellent thread, and university EDI committees take note: we are neurodivergent (and proudly so).

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

am I alone in thinking that “I need more power. If you don’t give it to me, something terrible will happen to you” is actually the same AI pitch as before

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SazCaz @sazcaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's also just not how buffers work? A buffer isn't a smaller version of the thing it's trying to stop you hit, it's something placed in the way to stop you hitting the bad thing! It's not like we place small cliffs in front of roadside cliffs as a 'buffer' to the real drop lol

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/09/2026

The is about the Lib Dem conference and them voting to reject the EHRC guidance [Mail]

‘Unholy alliance’ on the Left is accused of plotting to undermine women’s rights

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♿️Maestro Fluger (he/him) @nfluger.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I think about this comic almost daily.

A calvin hopped comic with four panels.The first panel has calvin's dad working on a computer.Second one just shows him thinking on a chair.Third one shows him working a computer.Again, the fourth comic panel has calvin.Looking at a box in the background with calvin's dad on a computer.In the foreground.

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It UsED TO BE THAT IF A CLIENT WANTED SOMETHING DONE IN A WEEK,IT WAS CONSIDERED A RUSH JOB, AND HED BE LUCKY TO SET IT.
NON, WITH MODEMS, FAXES, AND CAR PHONES, EVERYBODY WANTS EVERYTHING INSTANTLY: IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY JUST INCREASES EXPECTATIONS.
THESE MACHINES DONT MAKE LIFE EASIER-THEY MAKE LIFE MORE HARASSED.
SIX MINUTES TO MICROWAYE THIS ?? NHO'S GOT THAT KIND OF TIME?A
IF WE WANTED MORE LEISURE NE'D INVENT MACHINES THAT Do THINGS LESS| EFFICIENTLY,

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I introduced my lecture on the genetics of sex determination last week as "one of those topics that takes biology from being a set of facts to memorize to a field of complexity that is a source of wonder", and I stand by that

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Usually Republicans don’t just come out and say they don’t give a shit about anything until it affects them personally.

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Speaking about trans rights in the UK feels like screaming into the void. The most horrific things are being done to our community but nobody outside of the community will even bother to mention it.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Beyond environmental and labor impacts, the bedrock of AI discontent is a feeling that collective life is increasingly unrecognizable, dominated by efforts to automate social relations and synthesize creative expression that seem disconnected from, if not contemptuous of, common human experience."

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just so: also, the disastrous clusterfuck of the War On Terror felt pretty final for future empire wars. But nope, it was just the end of any pretence that the public has a say in foreign policy. They switched in a Democratic president and shifted the wars to brief articles on page 19 of the paper.

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bleakly, grimly hilarious that people my age have been hearing this exact same tune on repeat for very literally our entire voting lives now. I'm 40. My daughter starts seconday school next year.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I get that for some philosophers, it must be a fun time, twice a year, every single year to wait for Lionel Shriver to exit the stage and do a wine and cheese tasting or whisky tasting and say you’re doing public philosophy of sensation, while up next in the wings is Curtis Yarvin or whatever

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes it is like that but still, this act of solidarity is very touching, and it makes me hopeful. Bless this child.

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now I'm just a simple country goose but I feel like "stop doing it or we take everything you own" doesn't require a great deal of intelligence.

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Felix @ostrasyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Foolish and contemptible.

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Ivotian @ivotian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I lauged entirely too hard at this.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In retrospect, we’ll see the key trend of the era was an elite revolt by the very rich, politicians and media employees against the idea there should be *any limits at all* on their behaviour, up to and including strangers publicly criticising them. All presented as The Wisdom Of The Average Punter.

one of those things I feel a little ashamed about for taking so long to clock is that rich people are surrounded by yesmen and consequently delude themselves into thinking their predictable bigotries reflect some suppressed yearning of the Common
Man.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Folks, remember when Geoff Hinton called gpt-2 humanity's caterpillar and gpt-3 humanity's butterfly or something like that? Also remember how he said radiologists were gonna be obsolete in 5 years (but he said that ~10 years ago)? Ok now, he says ChatGPT is an alien being.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Like, you know there's an internal refugee crisis facing the US with trans people fleeing their home states, right? Can you understand why trans people might be more than a little on edge, stressed, angry because of the way we're treated? Perhaps extend a little understanding and empathy.

advocate.com

Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states. Seattle says it’s overwhelmed

Seattle officials say anti-trans laws in red states are driving a queer migration crisis in the Pacific Northwest.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 14/09/2026

For what it's worth this is literally the thing that Nathan Cofnas' research project at Ghent University was about. I didn't know much about him in particular at the time I said this or two years earlier in my panel talk at The World Transformed '23. It's just long been a huge right wing anxiety.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15/09/2026

it’s just wild to me that marginalised people are constantly asked to accept crumbs as part of some long term progress towards change by people in power, who at the same time will give grace and understanding to bigots that isn’t ever afforded to the people that bigots are actively harming

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