iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the way.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No for real. Being asked to test LLMs under the rationale of learn the enemy has been dangerous to students. Do not ask people to use these volatile unstable tools.

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow, do I ever hate it here. #resistAI "'Imagine there are no rules of the road. And you release billions of cars – the AI agents – and you just let them drive through playgrounds, hitting kids. That's where we are,' says Ramesh Raskar" www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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'Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the internet more annoying

Someday we'll redesign the internet for tools like this. Until then, you're in for a wild ride.

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even moreso for those of us on the Anthropic claim whose meth dealer looted our garages for the supplies to cook their meth

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mycorrhizal wong @rrrwong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When politicians misuse language, it's up to everyday people to call these fracked methane gas projects for what they are: a faster path to mass extinction and a violation of Indigenous law: stand.earth/ksi-lisims-l...

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Ksi Lisims LNG: Making Canada Weaker - Stand.earth

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would love that! Can I DM about mailing and payment?

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are you making them??? I've started printing my own, too, so I was immediately thinking about just making one!

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

California company accused of shipping pesticide laden berries to Canada. We can't trust American product we should be able to trust that our government has adequate numbers of inspectors in place to protect us. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News

A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Among other things, this short piece is the author's reflection, several years on, about her remarkable novella WINTER WREN: read the piece, then see if you can't find the book. Wonderful, both of them! #booksky #envhum

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

when you pay for a two week ad on facebook and then many many many many many many things change

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Vancouver Island Local History Society @vilocalhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In this interview now up on our YouTube channel, Professor Brian Thom from the University of Victoria introduces us to the historic E&N Railway land grant, what it means for today, and how maps and ideas of property can inform our understanding of the #VILandGrab. youtu.be/zyY4qWEHqnc #bcHist

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The Great Land Grab Interviews: Professor Brian Thom

YouTube video by Vancouver Island Local History Society

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Are you in Kamloops? Do you have a latent interest in the history of Canadian comic books? Do you really like the little desserts made by university catering contractors? Do you want to come to my book launch on October 16th? tru.libcal.com/calendar/fac...

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Book Launch: The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics

Please join us for the launch of The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics by TRU's Brenna Clarke Gray. Whether you're a longtime comics reader, an aspiring scholar, or simply...

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"In June, the end of summer felt so far away. We were feasting on garden greens, anticipating the raspberries, beans, tomatoes, squash, abundance of basil, the tart grapes, the Merton Beauty apples. The arrival of families, lamb on the barbecue, towels on the railings. Today I can't get warm."

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Jackie Wong @jackie-wong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I haven't been here much lately but I made this just now and my coworkers said I should post it

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Job Amaro @cooljbad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

More and more recently, I've been wanting to say to colleagues "I wasn't asking Claude, I was asking you. I respect you, which is why I asked for thoughts, opinions, and insights. If you feel a chatbot can give good enough or better responses to my questions, then why are you here?"

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The writing, for me, isn't quite Kishkan's usual voice. To some extent, it feels like a story with different audiences than usual, and so she writes from a slightly different position. It's a wonderful read, with characteristically tight prose that flashes out at you, but different! 3/3

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In Kishkan's case, she's writing about many years of intrusive, near-obsessive attention from a painter for whom she briefly posed nude in her early 20s (Jack Wilkinson), so some of her discussion may vary from other women's experiences. But I'd argue that this makes it more valuable, not less 2/3

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You need to read THE ART OF LOOKING BACK, by @fishgottaswim.bsky.social. This memoir offers a wise and nearly unflinching look at the decades of consequences that can flow from being looked at as a young woman, and it's irreplaceable. #booksky 1/3 boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/ther...

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Theresa Kishkan, The Art of Looking Back

Let me do the thumbnail first, because I've enough to say that frontloading the reviewiest bit about Theresa Kishkan's The Art of Looking Ba...

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You're most welcome, Theresa. After taking a few weeks to get it posted, I'm mostly sorry that it wasn't longer. I cut a section about being a fan of your writing, for example, because I couldn't make it fit comfortably enough. Maybe after the next read-through!

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Eric Dyck @ericdyck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Must-read speculative fiction from @premeemohamed.com in this week’s @forwardcanada.bsky.social Alberta newsletter. Illustrations by me. Devastatingly good. Go read it now. forwardweekly.ca/leave-or-rem...

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Leave or Remain | By Premee Mohamed | Forward Weekly

Forward Weekly feature for September 6, 2026.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026

This story is a big deal. Please give it a read, even if you need to sign up for a one-dollar subscription. This tactic — manipulating chatbots as a backdoor to human beings — is only going to get worse, and Alberta separatism appears to be just a testing ground for these people.

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 01/09/2026

“Black pointed to the old courthouse in Bastion Square, which has heritage value & no designation. It has been sitting empty since 2015. “This further reinforces the point that the province has tried nothing & are all out of ideas regarding provincial heritage”” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/o...

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Owner of Emily Carr's boarding house pushes province to assist in repairs

The province says it doesn’t fund repairs for privately owned properties.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wrote about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack following my conversation with @melhogan.bsky.social on The Data Fix this week - more on how it happened, what it means, and why I still see "stochastic flocks" rather than "artificial hiveminds": mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

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Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No undergrad should be using an LLM and it's absurdly irresponsible to suggest otherwise.

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I LOVE IT. Because of *COURSE* this would happen.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

3 swimmers are relay-swimming the entire length of the Fraser River to raise awareness of the need to sae at least 30% of the rivershed to protect the river. All 3 swimmers are women. One is my friend Naomi: oakbaynews.com/2026/08/20/v... Please sign the Declaration (see following post)

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Victoria climate activist joins 1,375 km swim to save Fraser River - Oak Bay News

Naomi Devine is part of an all-female relay team swimming at the Fraser River Challenge

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe Americans should boycott US-made alcoholic beverages too. It really seems to bother Republicans when you do.

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another example of “if you don’t want to do your job (which you were perfectly capable of doing before 2023) then just leave.” “I’m not a professional writer” he says - yes you are! You write articles for your job!!

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Four iconic northern B.C. roadside attractions. Four different centuries. I really enjoy the thematic arc of today's bracket vote, and what is says about our province. cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Search for B.C.'s best roadside attraction: Northern semifinals | CBC News

After more than 300 submissions from across the province, just four roadside attractions from B.C.'s north remain — but which will make the final?

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

STORY: After my 93-year-old grandmother was evacuated from a Summerland seniors home, no one could tell us where she was. My family wasn't alone. I went hunting for answers for how this happened.

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‘They Lost Granny’ | The Tyee

My grandmother was evacuated from Summerland. We spent days trying to find her.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I hate EVERYTHING about how the province is handling this. Within the context of a province's budget, it would be neither expensive nor complicated to deal with this properly. It's embarrassing. #bcpoli @annekangburnaby.bsky.social

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Another community burned to the ground. But yes let’s build another pipeline.

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

But it's not that I'm surprised, exactly. There are some clues in different places (Black Cup and Ikons, maybe some essays in Mnemomic, and maybe Patrin?), but also I'm a prof and a man, so I've seen some things. It's more that I need to get my response right!

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference”

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm thinking hard about what to say about it myself, Theresa: such a moving, forthright, open book!

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A wonderful starred review on the 2 month anniversary of The Art of Looking Back's publication. 🌟🌟

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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

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National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

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Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 29/07/2026

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

"A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information," it continues.
"Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an Al model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated.
The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one."

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 29/07/2026

University of British Columbia "excited to announce" that they are dropping support for human note-takers for students who need assistance, and instead going with genAI that hallucinates plausible but incorrect results. techenemy.com/a/3mrrhqx6fi...

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