iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026

Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats.

A 1970s Air Canada ad depicting a man in a brown velour pullover with a large collar sitting in a book-lined study, assembling model Air Canada jets on his desk. His head has been replaced with the blue, metallic head of a 1950s pulp robot and his skintones have been shifted blue to match.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

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Non-place - Wikipedia

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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All hands on deck! Ross explains how the EU Kids Act could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market! youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g "The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you"

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This could legitimately end Stop Killing Games.

YouTube video by Stop Killing Games

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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〚Ẋ〛 @projectendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In time a new animation industry will form, by our hand. But it'll have to be different. The CEOs, Executives, shareholders, AMPTP, tech bros, do have to drown along with our ship they sank. When the chips were down, they showed they weren't capable of doing better. They are ontologically failures.

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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Social media doesn't just feed you bad information. It trains you in how to treat information: who to trust, how much evidence is enough, what counts as a good explanation. And it trains you for a world that doesn't exist. New @PPR (yay!) and free here: philpapers.org/rec/FLOBMS

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Beyond Misinformation: Social Media and the Sculpting of Epistemic Agency

The dominant account of social media's epistemic harms focuses on the spread of misinformation and the production of false beliefs at scale. This paper argues that the misinformation narrative, whate...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.

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Scavvie Foxxo @scavengerfox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is so many of y'all rn

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ghoulnoise @ghoulnoise.com · 02/10/2026

Deeply disturbing police brutality against an anti AI protest in Montreal, Canada a few weeks back. At this point, if you use AI and LLM, save the little white justifications you make to yourself. This is what you align with, like it or not. williamwilsonphotography.substack.com/p/montreal-p...

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Montreal Police Beat and Hospitalized a Photojournalist (me) at an Anti-AI Demonstration

I was diagnosed with a concussion, lacerations and swelling. Police have opened an investigation into the incident.

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Alioth Fox @aliothfox.ursamajorartworks.com · 02/10/2026

TLDR: Fur Affinity's advertising partners are demanding that they ban adult content. Sciggles and FA want to firmly tell them to go fuck themselves. If they're going to be able to afford to do that, they need the community's help. Pitch in. Keep furry weird. www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143...

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Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding -- Fender's Journal

Hey there Fuzzies!. . Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about censorship of the internet and third parties forcing sites to ...

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Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026

FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.

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Pie Baroness 🔞 @piebaron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was kinda based. Now it would be lewder lol

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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

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Ease🔞 @easenbsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FA is the only anti-ai, ACTUAL functional gallery site left on the internet not ruined by algorythmic bs, support if you can

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Momma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 30/09/2026

A lot of people assume FA is profitable. If that were the case we wouldn't have needed a GFM when Neer passed to keep it out of probate. It's been two years. The funds were used. FA is struggling financially. And I am 🌟s t r e s s e d🌟 I'm scared to ask for help, I feel like no matter how much-

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Pie Baroness 🔞 @piebaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wouldn't be surprised if it inspired Nolan for Interstellar.

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Spicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had to give her a friend

Illustration of two very round bears covered in snow

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Russia sends nuclear warning to NATO as tensions rise in the Baltic" (Reuters, today) Here we go again... 🥱 vatniksoup.com/en/nuclear-t...

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Russian Nuclear Threats Timeline | Vatnik Soup

Vatnik Soup: Your most comprehensive resource on pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda.

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Pie Baroness 🔞 @piebaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey... it's ''The good guy'' pic from that thumbnail.

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 30/09/2026

this is not just a meme btw. solar can't be stopped even when governments are blatantly against it this is the real tech of the future. it's here, it's getting adopted whether idiots want it or not, even if more slowly it just makes sense on an economic level www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

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Byron Donalds says solar power is a ‘fad’ but Florida utilities are expanding its use

Despite the Trump administration’s hostility towards renewable energy, information released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that utility solar capacity — large scale projects that ...

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Fortune 🔜 GFM, MFF @fortunethebun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is funny, it really is. However. I don't think I have any "keep politics out of furry uwu" people following me, but if i do, you need to think about this. No amount of keeping it SFW is going to be enough for him. They will make your hobby political, and owning that is our only defense.

A tweet from Senator Tommy Tuberville that reads "Just a few weeks ago at the 'Furry Migration' convention in Minneapolis, there was an 'aviation furs meet-up.'

Ask yourself...would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?"

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Kaz Coyotl 𓃦 @mow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Feels relevant to the furry fandom too

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Chroma! 🌈✨ @chromapan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Holy fuck Forgotten Island is one of the least deserving animated movies of a box office bomb I'm begging you all to see it

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Swiss Vatnik Party initiative was strongly rejected today! A yes would have greatly reduced Switzerland's ability to sanction belligerent states, such as russia.

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Pie Baroness 🔞 @piebaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cmon big girl ❤️ Can't wait to get my hrt.

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Pie Baroness 🔞 @piebaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

American whiteness? Like, even in Europe they like garlic alot lol

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Jehtt @turbojehtt.net · 27/09/2026

Real question

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Jay Axer @jayaxer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The grind

Axer sits at a desk in a torn open office that overlooks colourful clouds as papers blow away on the wind. Axer looks distraught

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Silver Snep 🌈❄️🐆 @Aqf @snepstuffs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Paws up if you wanna scare Tommy Tuberville >:3c

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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nda🔞 @ndasfw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stop hate watching propaganda made by Nazis, I beg of you all. I feel like a lot of right wing outlets and pundits would’ve gone under by now if not for the attention their opposition gives them for free, giving them more content to feed off of. They rely on you, stop feeding them ffs

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🔞Keesh 🍁🏳️‍🌈 🍁 @rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love whenever furries are brought up by politicians like this cause it lets us hammer home how wrong those who try to "pretty up" our communities are. Furries, queers, they see us as shit, and to them you're just a polished turd. They'll flush you with the rest of us.

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Walden Wilde! 🦝 @waldenwilde.com · 23/09/2026

Possibilities: 1) These guys are stupid and overestimate what they’re making. 2) These guys are sociopaths and don’t care what they’re building. 3) These guys are con artists telling fabulous tales to scare investors into pumping more money into what they’re building. I suspect it’s all three.

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KatoSquigg🐿️🍼🔜BFC @katosquirrel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

my feed on bsky and telegram the last week or so basically

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