iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 2h

And yes, the 'machine' is a puree of ideas and thoughts stolen from you, me, and half the people on this site, so they're actually riding on *our* shoulders 3/3

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 3h

What kills me is that it's no longer Internet randos using AI to cosplay as philosophers, historians or scientists. It's established philosophers, historians and scientists surrendering their hard-won intellectual agency and integrity in a rapid cascade, faster than even my darkest prediction. 1/1

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 6h

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments and no acceptable compromises on trans lives.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 5h

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

if someone wrote an apologia piece like this about my rapist i would be utterly fucking incandescent. i'm sorry this is disgusting we do not, in fact, need to discuss the nuance of raping someone, facing no consequence, and then making tons of money over the next ten years as a public figure

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 15h

Impossible to be a creative of any description and not be overwhelmed with anger right now. I wouldn't trust any kind of artist that thinks this is all fine. They would have to be a total fraud.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

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ceej @ceej.online · 17h

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 7h

The oldest audio TTRPG Actual Plays predate large corporate ad-based file hosting. The oldest I know of had to shut down their original site & slowly port to Patreon hosting because bot activity made maintenance costs unsustainable.

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 15h

Bubba Ho-Tep. My favorite Bruce Campbell movie.

Brown DVD cover with the movie title Bubba Ho-Tep in gold letters that look like stone. A picture of Bruce Capbell as Elvis fills the middle of the cover.

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Stephen Butchko @stephenbutchko.bsky.social · 17h

10/10. No notes.

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 16h

Concert over. Too much energy to sleep. The Midnight were awesome. Live music really is magic.

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 19h

Almost time for The Midnight. I'm stoked.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20h

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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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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 21h

Went out of town to go to a concert and the hotel has a trading card game convention happening. Now I'm wondering what wonders the con might have.

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No better than today to say fuck ai. And also get off Facebook, Instagram, all that Meta shit.

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I see the perennial shitbird that is Vox Day has popped up with ai slop to "disprove evolution" or some nonsense. This fucking guy already ruined one of my favorite TTRPGs, can't he just crawl under a rock and turn to mold or something?

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This. This* is why I don't have much hope that we will escape the "ai era" and that our lives are now just this evil technology forever. * among a million other signs that no one in power actually cares.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jokes aside, this article includes a nice visual explainer to have on hand when your boss asks why you're not using a suite of agents to fill out the coversheet for your TPS reports

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why I need to hear opposing candidates talking about this from a perspective of hard bans and sweeping legislation. But we won't, because ai is a billions of dollars industry and rich people money rots brains as effectively as ai.

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Steam really is just too depressing to visit these days. "We only used ai to make music. We only used ai to brainstorm, we only..." Why is there an 'only' in that sentence? You used gen ai. So that's an instant ignore for your slop.

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A friend got a copy of the B/X Basic set and my world was never the same. That was around 1982.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's continually calling for the murder of anyone he doesn't like He keeps saying that in 10 years you will have no money and ????????? And he wants to build dirty data centers wherever he can And Democrats still want to let him spend hundreds of millions & not make him an issue in the campaign.

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It's US v. Musk

My vote isn't for sale. Make your sign.

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 03/10/2026

We have yet to measure how much better the world would be if people could just do work that MATTERED to them without having to worry at all if it was profitable.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2026

We already have documented evidence that teen boys are using these glasses to harass girls. And that there's very little that anyone can do to stop them. So, if you're vetoing bans on these devices, you're basically telling those boys--yes, sure, go ahead, that's okay. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not having a consistent group of gamers to connect with is one of my biggest disappointments in life - and part of why I gave up on gaming for a while. The other side to that is... my social anxiety won't let me meet new gamers anymore. So, checkmate myself. Yay. #gaming #mentalhealth

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026

This is like I was saying the other day how it is a norm in the VC world to hire college dropouts (and encourage people to dropout) so that tech workers are easily malleable and not curious or knowledgable of the harms they are participating in.

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel so bad for all of the emerging artists living right now who don't have decades of work to fall back on to prove that they aren't AI. Like, I understand why "I was doing this well before 2022" is such a common response, but, God, we cannot just close the door on new artists forever.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

one of the many dangers of being in a cult they don’t warn you about, perpetrating the ultimate cringe like, sure, joining (or starting) a cult is dangerous and isolating but. also. so embarrassing

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Michael Morrison @rhetoricalreader.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Death and the Librarian by Esther M. Friesner. Has never lost its grip on me after reading it the first time more than 20 years ago.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And there it is. 🔥

Comment on Reddit: AI is here so the wealthy can feel talented, while making it impossible for the talented to become wealthy.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One more share for anyone in the night crowd. Thanks to everyone who read and shared today.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The point of the unprofitable AI industry--the billionaires telling you their magic machines will solve the climate crisis--is to drive up energy demands to keep the oil industry alive. 'AI' is not the future but the last gasp of a model that has no future.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

"you'll probably have to fight robots over concert tickets and booking appointments" we already have this problem?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Republicans: We want masked agents of the state to occupy your city and murder you with impunity Democrats: What the fuck? No? Fuck off! Cox: All this polarization is bad and both sides should stop it. @pbsnews.org: Cox just wants Americans to step back ...

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

after the Direct-to-video movies, Ben Affleck proudly invents the Direct-to-trash-bin slop in motion

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gwen 🌶️👹 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

there is no more "not all men" allowed. not in 2026.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 30/09/2026

The idea that "of course AI could do Romance novels they're just paint by numbers" is so incredibly wrong and so incredibly, baselessly snobby, that I'm just sitting here blinking, trying to process what kind of ignorance produced it. (Yes I know what kind.)

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

leaving aside other issues there is no such thing as "machine-made clothes"

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

Joyce Carol Oates
This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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