iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 13/09/2026

Gunfire as an active agent? Sometimes I really struggle to believe headline writers are still doing this. And then...

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 07/09/2026

Adventures in trying to read Dugin.

No clue how this relates to the fourth political theory. Is this bullshitting?

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/09/2026

How nationalists, religious fundamentalists and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future: ft.trib.al/CNQUWbK

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OK, it's time: my official stance on AI:

Screenshot: Q: Do you think AI will take my job?
A: It depends, but there are certainly some jobs that will be safe from AI. For example, if your job is traveling back in time to assassinate a waitress before she gives birth to John Connor, it’s hard to imagine a robot doing that job successfully.

It's taken from here: https://jdandkateindustries.com/products/ai

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/09/2026

The slop factory is now claiming to have invented iterative, abductive research design… 20th century ethnography would like a word, sir.

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Anthropic coined a new research term: "self healing studies."
Historically, it was hard to adapt research studies after they launch. The researcher writes the study guide, the interviews run, and if users raise something new along the way, it has to wait for the next study.
In a "self healing study", there is a continuous feedback loop between interviews and the study guide. Each round of interviews identifies new topics, they are added to the guide, and the next interviews explore them.
Nothing waits for a follow-up study - the guide keeps evolving with the study.
And the researcher sits above all of it as the guardrails.
The study proposes additional topics, and the researcher uses their judgment to decide which ones deserve exploring.
The term comes from Jane Justice Leibrock's team at Anthropic, from their churn interviews on Claude Code.
Before we even had an MCP, Anthropic built its own plugin to run Listen studies because they wanted them running around the clock.
That's the future of research.

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Nadiia Omelchuk🇺🇦 @ukrainianart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Putting this out into the universe! 🌐✨ I create traditional & modern handmade Ukrainian beadwork with patience and love. 🇺🇦 If you love unique jewelry or want to support an artisan from Ukraine, check my pinned post! Reposts mean the world & help my art reach the right people! 💙💛 #ArtSky #Handmade

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There is no argument for limiting migration between countries that could not be contrived to be an argument for limiting migration between cities.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026

"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

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Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth

Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Android is changing, and not for the better. The software you can run on your phone and who is allowed to write it is changing. A platform that once claimed to champion openness is closing up tight. Goodbye F-droid. Goodbye open source apps. keepandroidopen.org

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Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 28/07/2026

This has been a rough week for AI submissions at the journal, but it's also led to some reflection around why I seem to react so strongly to academics using AI to write their papers and make up references for them. 1/9

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Shannon Monaghan @shannonmonaghan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Great essay from @frhoffmann.bsky.social : "For much of the war, Ukraine’s future was shaped, or at least feared to be shaped, by Western capitals reacting to Russian manipulation of risk. Ukraine now holds the power to manipulate that risk itself." missilematters.substack.com/p/the-state-...

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The State Makes the Missile, and the Missile Makes the State

The power to hurt: Ukraine's deep-strike campaign and the transformation of the Ukrainian state

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 25/07/2026

I am really proud to ed. at a journal where we actively work to retract AI papers when we find them.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The WHCA Dinner used to be an event at which POTUS was roasted by the press, which ostensibly served the purpose of reminding POTUS of the role of the news media as a check on executive power. Now it is a humiliation ritual for journalists, in which their very presence is evidence of subservience.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 23/07/2026

We really are speedrunning 20th century European history, aren't we?

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 19/07/2026

And: if we want to debate conscious/sentient/morality then the animal-rights people are probably going to want to jump that line.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you are papermaxxing with AI and swamping academic journals with claude- or chat-prompted scholar-like content, then you are taking the time and labour of editors and reviewers that others who actually put the work in deserve instead.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Here’s what I’m observing in AI papers: Title and abstract: these set the scene in academic jargon overdrive. You’ve never seen so much over-use of the word “epistemic”. AI-enhanced papers start jargon-heavy and keep at it, exhaustingly, all the way to just within the journal word limit. 2/

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 04/07/2026

I don't know how I would ever get writing done without Typora in my life

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Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) @aoav.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Investigating the Military-Technological Complex 📍 SOAS | 📅 11 July | 10am to 4pm Join experts from AOAV, Airwars, Bellingcat, The Guardian and more for a free one-day seminar on investigating civilian harm, AI and the arms trade. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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Investigating the Military-Technological Complex

A seminar to help understand how to investigate, expose, and hold to account civilian harm from technological advances in warfare.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 01/07/2026

Some highlights from pics taken at South Africa's xenophobic protests yesterday.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Great letter in the LRB on the managerial university and its consequences.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The existence of a trillionaire is a policy failure.

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Tobias Denskus @aidnography.de · 29/05/2026

"VFS now holds visa outsourcing contracts with 71 governments worldwide. (...) VFS has built an adjacent business around selling add-ons such as SMS updates, courier return services & access to premium lounges". www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

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The Visa Empire: Borders as a Business

Outsourcing giant VFS Global has made huge profits by exploiting people around the world whose ‘weak’ passports require them to apply for visas to travel

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 20/05/2026

Fieldwork sketch of pyracantha - ubiquitous on South African highways.

Black and white sketch (pencil and ink) of a branch of a pyracantha plant with berries.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 20/05/2026

I am of course biased, but if you're going to ICA, this is going to be really excellent.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The thing about research which AI will never do, can't do, and wouldn't do a good job of even if it could do it, is that reading your citations can let you discover something that one person said sixty years ago that nobody ever picked up on, but that is revelatory, even sublime.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

10/10 cover.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

THREAD: So you may or may not recognize this little girl, but it's timely to learn about her now, as Iran's Hormuz deadlock is pushing desperate regional & global powers towards alternative trade corridors. This is Ciham Ali Abdu, an American citizen. She hasn't been seen or heard from since 2012.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 05/05/2026

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

"Current AI custom prompt:

You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can.

Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval."

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wow. Where was the president of Cornell and did he know his car was capable of doing this on its own?

NY Times headline: Cornell President’s Car Bumps Into Students After Confrontation Over Gaza
After a debate over the war, students say the university president hit them with his vehicle. He says he was the victim in the incident.

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Natasha Joseph @tashjoeza.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

Happy 30th birthday, South Africa. There's much to say about all that remains to be done; the compromises that let war criminals and ordinary white people alike off the hook; reparations and rage. But, no matter where you stood on 27 April 1994, this moment mattered. Deeply. (Pic Denis Farrell/AP)

An aerial photo of a snaking queue of voters, stretching even beyond the edges of the image.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

it tells us that billionaires have rejected the post-1945 fiscal and social contract and, regardless of what the democratically-expressed will translates into law, have no intention of surrendering any of their oligarchic power or wealth

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 12/04/2026

"objectivity is not the same as neutrality. If there is an aggressor and a victim, a liar and an honest person, a corrupt individual and an honourable one, then your task is to describe all that clearly and forcefully." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel

Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I've just read Octavia Butler "The Parable of the Sower" & "Parable of the Talents", I've skimmed these before in an undergrad way, but so glad to now take time & read them properly. Bleak, hard reading but inspired. Written for our times, literally, was set in the 2020s & on.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 12/04/2026

This reminds me of the Home Office interviewer, in all seriousness, insisting that I tell him what specific date LSE term began or they would likely not approve my student visa. I laughed at what I thought was an attempt at banter. He explained it was not.

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