iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sterling Dodge (aka Justin Eger) @fugitivecourier.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Funny thing, seeing posts all over LinkedIn about how great it is to automate the entry-level jobs (most recently HR jobs), destroying their own development pipelines with no thought to how they'll replace any mid-career people who quit.

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

pitched this to n+1 and they’re taking it (on spec) so let me try again! hive mind, any examples of novels or short stories that use *going viral* in the plot? I have 13 so far going back to 2015!

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

50 is rookie numbers lowkey 💀

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

MRS. DALLOWAY was published 100 years ago today. The following year, E.M. Forster reviewed it in The Yale Review. Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...

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E. M. Forster: “The Novels of Virginia Woolf”

E. M. Forster on “Jacob’s Room” and “Mrs. Dalloway”

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

100+ applications in three hours is crazy 🤡

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

what am I supposed to do as a simultaneously under- and overqualified humanities PhD when every entry level job in remotely relevant fields has hundreds of senior level applicants

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.” Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...

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Edmund de Waal: “The Ragpicker's Way”

The writer and potter on archives as places of memory, instability, and trespass—from porcelain shards to a derelict house in London.

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

hate to be another white dude with a podcast idea but would anyone tune in to “The Adaptation Games” where I’d talk to writers, directors, agents, producers, and other entertainment pros about the process of finding and adapting literature or you can just show me that this has already been done

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

currently starting to apply to editorial and writing jobs back home in 🇳🇱 and I’m realizing I’ve never actually written a cover letter in Dutch 😭🙂‍↔️

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Bong Joon Ho casually chatting with my friends at Yale 😭

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

noticing a lot of novels / stories using virality as a plot device. My preliminary take as to why is that it offers a writer and easy way to raise the stakes and do plot reversals without explaining or motivating actual causes. Virality stands in for classical devices of tragedy, fate and chance

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

apple intelligence summaries 💀💀💀

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

caught my friend’s bengal going sphinx mode

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

an abomination what did Van Gogh do to deserve this y2k ass video game font

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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

i, however, do not miss being a part of a such spineless undemocratic institution.

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

a month after finishing my diss I have had so many creative ideas but still no energy to begin writing any 😑

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 boxd.it/42CQ1

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very excited to get to see this early

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I may not like Marvel superhero slop, but I will defend to the death your right to see it in the cinema

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Coming soon: our summer fiction issue! New work by seven writers reshaping what the story can do. Subscribe before May 5 to receive your copy in print—and choose your free, beach-ready merch. yalereviewstore.org/products/the...

Rachel Cusk
Into the light
Sigrid Nunez
The rabbit’s foot
Samanta Schweblin
Welcome to the club
Scholastique Mukasonga
The edge of the lake
Jenny Erpenbeck
Junk
Sarah Bernstein
The shanda
Bryan Washington
Crossings

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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Hey, so, whoever is running this account should be booted from the industry, immediately and with prejudice. Sharing someone's unpublished work for the sole purpose of inviting public ridicule is unethical and it's tacky; you should be ashamed of how this exposes your own lack of discernment.

Screenshot of post by @un-manuscripts.bsky.social, dated February 7, 2025, that reads as follows:

I work at one of the top literary agencies and I've decided to start sharing the craziest unsolicited manuscripts we receive by the hundreds every damn month.

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I need to stay off social media until I can go see SINNERS this weekend because y’all are dropping too many spoilers 😭

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

currently enjoying the galley of a novel whose protagonist is a student at my alma mater, and i find it so jarring to be in fiction-reading mode and encounter accurate references to our weird little college 🫠

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

For LARB, I wrote about Yellowjackets, a show I love despite (or maybe because of) its flaws: lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

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Rebel Girls | Los Angeles Review of Books

Elizabeth Alsop considers the third season of “Yellowjackets.”

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

if you’re a movie theater owner complaining about empty seats, know this: I would’ve paid a good $20 to see the white lotus finale on a big screen tonight with a bunch of fellow tv nerds

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

when an older Paul Rudd nears the end of its lifecycle, it is consumed by flame and from the ashes emerge an egg that hatches the newborn Paul Rudd

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Some astonishing numbers in here: -OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes -OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026 -To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years -33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI -5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value

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Bubble Trouble

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Onion summer writing fellowship is seeking applicants! It's six months, good salary and benefits. This year's applicants do NOT have to complete the Eating Challenge, as it turns out this does not adhere to Illinois labor law. We apologize to those who have died in the past.

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Writing Fellowship, Summer 2025 at The Onion

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

When I went to grad school I thought I was dedicating my life to higher education. I believe fiercely in its necessity: in the dream of academic freedom, in the work of creating and sharing knowledge, in the promise of a better life and stronger communities grown through teaching and learning

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

it’s real now! see you soon LA ✨☀️🙏🏻

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Dissertation is done. Just gotta write the acknowledgments - the best part !

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Our spring issue is available online now! Featuring Isabella Hammad, Adrienne Kennedy, Sheila Heti, Jonathan Lethem, Audrey Wollen; fiction by Samantha Hunt and Guadalupe Nettel; a folio on the state of reality, and much more. yalereview.org/issues/sprin...

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Macro data refinement is painstakingly creating a dissertation bibliography that nobody needs because that’s why we have footnotes #severance

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our spring issue is here! Adrienne Kennedy returns to childhood. Audrey Wollen opens the handbag and finds a void. Jonathan Lethem holds on to his mother’s ashtray. In a new folio, five writers reckon with the nature of reality. Read the issue online now: yalereview.org/issues/sprin...

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

severance is starting to lose me a little bit with s2e8. Seems to me much of the season has substituted the stacking and opening of puzzle boxes for character and plot development

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

the first handwritten sentences of Édouard Glissant’s address to the Carifesta ‘79 symposium in Cuba 🇨🇺

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Trying to shape up my dissertation within a week, and I’m procrastinating from the mind-numbing formatting work by actually writing new stuff 💀 what is this hack

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

one of my favorite archival finds from the dissertation: Édouard Glissant’s pass for Carifesta in Cuba

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Oregon trail live-action role-play gone wrong

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Thrilled to debut in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social with a piece on the most slept-on show of 2024. You have Jamaica’s star novelist Marlon James write a detective about queer lives in Jamaica. It’s one of the first U.S. productions set authentically in Kingston. Why wasn't there more buzz?

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Abel Selacoe is one of the most electric and innovative musicians to come out of Africa. You have never heard the cello played like this. If you ever get a chance to see him live make sure you go. youtu.be/GhY31ngpnWg?...

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Abel Selaocoe: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Sean Baker said THEATRICAL FIRST and Hulu said JOKES ON YOU

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