iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

What's happening is that Republicans are priming Democrats and Democratic voters for more violent forms of transphobia. They're manipulating people into caring about something that is most likely never going to affect them.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.

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Chicago White Sox @notwhitesox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Tamale Guy" delivered tonight's game ball in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Night!

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Ahana the Sun Goddess ☀️ 🌞 @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

reading and writing are being relegated as not necessarily useless skills to capitalism but rather threatening skills when not tamed and channeled through relations of production disciplined by Capital, such as the corporatized media industry, neoliberal university, and genAI.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

having studied such outreach efforts—i think the real secret sauce is Mamdani’s popularity. (sheer number of tickets on offer is also impressive!) Others have done culture passes, discount/free tix codes for first timers, low income, young ppl etc but they can be surprisingly difficult to promote

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

magic touch also includes helping with one of the hardest things to convey through institutional channels which is that this is truly for you yes YOU. you need a certain kind of influencer, even, to not make it feel like charity or what Ralph Locke once called “eating your cultural spinach”

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICYMI: @librariesftp.bsky.social shared a new resource! A snapshot of how 15 library systems across the US are funded + governed. This was led by Azani, @dylanflesch.bsky.social , and a few FTP volunteers + designed by me. You can download the zine here: www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots

Cover for FTP's new zine: Budgets are Values: How Public Libraries are funded in the US

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 18/09/2026

At least my Emotional Support Spies are back

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/09/2026

something is only a “culture war issue” to you if you think it’s not about you; otherwise it’s just “politics” or (maybe) “life”

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 17/09/2026

This piece on how companies (and yes, this applies to higher education) getting rid of middle managers may backfire is well worth your time to read. If the positions are viewed as being too risky to take, there goes your leadership pipeline. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Middle managers often act as informal therapists for their direct reports. The good ones are attuned to what motivates people on their teams and who works well with whom. They also serve as executive whisperers, translating the goals and strategies from bosses on high, while also acting as buffers for those higher up the ladder, sparing executives the headaches of petty issues.

Leaders who expect AI to free them to concentrate on major initiatives will ultimately inherit the personnel dramas and small decisions that deputies used to take off their plates. They may also find their grand plans don’t get executed when there are no rallying forces at the team level.

Get ready for the in-demand middle managers’ comeback tour in a few years’ time. The only question is, when companies realize they cut too deeply, will there be enough bosses willing and able to step up?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Dems should hire out of work creatives (Hollywood, the game industry, and the media have downsized a lot of them) to put together the mother of all propaganda campaigns about the GOP robbing of the country

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

The point is that it's not going to stop with sports. They are using this seemingly ✌🏾reasonable✌🏾 argument about sports to scaffold other forms of discrimination against trans people writ large and cis women too! Conservatives want to push all women out of sports ultimately. What's more:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"They"? What? What's fun about Republicans is that they get to smear an entire political group as responsible for one random person's actions, but they themselves will deny any responsibility for the actions of their own deranged president or the racist billionaire who has bought them all.

They killed Charlie Kirk—one year ago today.

Then they spiked the football, openly celebrating his assassination.

A year later, they’re planning parties to savor that horrible tragedy.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026

A new version of ChatGPT is about to drop. Academics like @alexhanna.bsky.social and Emily Bender have been pointing out for literal years that these scare tactics about how powerful and scary AI is actually work as marketing. At this point, being this gullible is a choice.

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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Library of Congress can move quickly when it wants to classweb.org/tentative-su.... This is from the September tentative LCSH list. They moved swiftly to overwrite Denali and the Gulf of America, too. So much for librarians being freedom fighters. 📚

screenshot of proposed subject heading change:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

they don’t even try to hide the fact that this is not about women’s sports this is about crushing anyone who doesn’t conform to their particular view of gender and what they actually want is to never see the wnba or its fandom ever again

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 04/09/2026

I would imagine that this sound bite + the photos and names of the servicemembers who died would make an effective campaign ad.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have felt abandoned by the way they won't fight for me or themselves. And yet they will fight us and each other if they feel criticized about that.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Why the weird vibe about data centers?” Because the companies. DO NOT. Play by the Rules. Visibly. Repeatedly. Pathologically. We are under no obligations to be marks.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I want to ride the everyone mocks Seth Moulton train until the end of the line

An Instagram post from @salemtrash 01970 showing Seth Moulton's office with a Spirit Halloween sign taped on it

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161 Archive @161archive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

161 Archive is an independent archiving project created for the purpose of preserving anti-fascist sites for historical and research purposes. Check out the collection at: 161archive.tngl.sh We will be periodically posting information about blogs and posts for indexing purposes.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 02/09/2026

Chicago is me.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As somebody who grew up during the era in which there was a massive public push to reduce teen pregnancy, it’s absolutely wild to me to see people on Fox News now complaining that not enough teens are getting pregnant.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Relatedly: “As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director.”

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In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | The Harvard Crimson

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.

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maryrichardson @richardsonm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Good grief. Yes, by their very nature, charities have some sort of ideology. It’s often right in their mission statements.

"I guess I have sort of a contrarian view where a lot of charities and philanthropies are actually net negative on the world. And they get captured. It's actually remarkably hard to find a foundation that has not gotten captured by ideology," Armstrong said.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026

‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article theonion.com/wall-street-journal-de…

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I cannot really explain to someone who hasn't been steeped in this stuff for awhile how sudden and total the "go to college and get a good job" edict has collapsed. It's a vaccuum. And we know how nature feels about those. All we are throwing in there at the moment is A.I.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf

A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One thing I learned from Tim Curry’s memoir Vagabond’ is that a fourth ending was filmed in which Wadsworth did it and boy do I want to see that.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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