iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

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rae @raepoulson.bsky.social · 11h

Shout out to librarian Leslie for helping me renew my card in under 2 minutes, absolute legend

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 14h

The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...

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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him

The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a lie, and it's a lie they've been telling since the 1950s. They push the story that technology will give the white-collar populace 4 or even 3-day work weeks, but that never materializes. 5-day work weeks with exponentially greater output expectations does.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/10/2026

“City Councilmember Tiffany Cabán also condemned the shooting and called for ICE to be abolished. ‘We need to get ICE the hell out of our city, abolish ICE, and hold this administration accountable for the horrors they have inflicted on our immigrant communities,’ she said in a statement.”

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 08/10/2026

We bullied a bunch of vulnerable kids back into the closet with threats of explicit violence and parental abuse. Why do they suddenly feel less secure?

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 07/10/2026

I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

A stack of business cards reads in English and Korean: Generative AI is unethical, annoying, and anti-art. Anything it touches will fail, and be a mark of shame on human history. I do not wish to discuss this further.

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I will simply say I am seeing exactly this situation play out right now in a different field. Work that would have taken about 3 weeks start to finish via traditional methods is now into week 6 and still in what amounts to first draft territory

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.

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The Up Front @theupfront.media · 08/10/2026

This is the thing in aviation too. Almost all the useful “AI” in aviation was what was previously called something else before the bubble. Algorithms. Machine learning. Pattern recognition. Specialised, specified language models. Text analysis. Meta-analysis.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 08/10/2026

Literally all these dudes

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

aaaand now they've suspended Wendy Xu (@wendyxu.bsky.social) again, without an explanation.

chat with wendy xu on threads: hey girl hey can u tell ppl on bsky i got suspended for literally no reason & they didn't send me an email as to why lmao"

screenshot of the bluesky app with a notification that wendy's account has been suspended.

wendy: fucking losers

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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

They're so desperate to make AI happen in everyday life that they're promising 3 days work weeks & think folks forgot that they dragged their workforce kicking & screaming back to the office for 5 day work weeks despite said workforce letting the company know remote work was better & healthier.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even if somehow they *did* see their wives as humans and not subordinate property, it would not change that they certainly see them as beneficiaries of their magnanimity. In their power fantasy, they get to choose the exception to the rule. They get to name who is “not like the others”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Plot to Enslave America requires them to destroy the notion of reality and truth. They will use the legal immunity conferred by the captured courts and the technology the tech oligarchs have developed to hasten this plan by flooding the information environment with fake video.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/10/2026

nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

GRIPPING HOPE HARDER THAN EVER.

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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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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic: The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming”

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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"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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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 06/10/2026

As the Evils of the Failed Artist is on everybody’s minds, I just wanna stress that failed artists are fail at it because they want to be adored instead of just being weird little freaks who cannot help making the shit they feel uncontrollably compelled to make

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

to me this is what a tolerant and open society is

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So Kurtis wiebe is running a rat queens game crowdfunder where a guy who failed to complete on a previous campaign is presented as a hideous gay lich and roc upchurch, who abused his wife (& tanked the comic twice), is presented in a fun hat? That just seems rich to me

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Joshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"We are holding a lot of your people you failed to love and take care of" 🔥

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fun fact: New York City is rolling out pilots to product test AI on high school students, and NO STUDENT WE TALK TO knows anything about it - it's almost like the model also depends on students not finding out. If this is so great, why the cloak of secrecy??

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remember back in the mid-00s when Nickelodeon totally didn’t make a show about a trans girl superhero?

A screenshot of Jenny Wakeman from the animated series “My Life As a Teenage Robot,” speaking to a teacher. A trans pride flag hangs prominently in the background

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

Fascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote a thread earlier today (before even reading this story, actually) about how commonly the “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story are actually procedural distortions made by people in positions of power who are invested in disbelieving her:

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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G! @gpike.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Dear any fellow trans person who sees this: you are amazing and good and more than tough enough to make it through these times. Believe in the me that believes in you, and you that believes in yourself. 🩷🤍🩵

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