iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The mathematicians have absolutely had enough of Open AI’s bullshit www.ahmath.org/statements

ahmath.org

Statements — AHM

0104

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The real tradition is a leader standing down BECAUSE they're now an MP

010

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 09/10/2026

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

43111180

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh Brother Where Do The Crawdads Sing?

161

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Kelly Carlin-McCall @kellycarlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Full Monty Python and the Holly Grail

101146

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

dr. gianluca grimalda @ggrimalda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thrilled to commute back to Europe from the Pacific over 23,000km refusing to flying (again!). Press release in English: docs.google.com/document/d/1... E in italiano: docs.google.com/document/d/1... I'll reduce my carbon emissions by 6 times,~4,5t. It's negligible, but it's all I can do now. 1/

My no-fly itinerary from Bougainville to the Czech Republic

24411

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Feels like Archer was sort of ahead of his time in some ways, made for the Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares (shout-out to the BBC podcast of that name) era but born in the You Can Only Fake Certain Things and People Definitely Care About That era

041

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

UK economy in goblin mode but won't admit it

000

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

10894822978

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

what are we reading for academic work on the Luddites 👀

275

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I first learnt that Aethelred the Unready might perhaps be better translated as Aethelred the Ill-Advised I thought these concepts were rather far from each other but the age of digital assistants and LLMs is really bringing home the connections

020

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026

How many local models do you run?

Pope Leo XIV
@Pontif... 17h
X
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent 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 th Show more
3.3K 162K 316K l 15M
Spectro
@Spectromachina
X.com
ث
Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?

2322629379

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really pains me when I attend talks and contributions of women in sound are omitted to celebrate contributions of men instead. A white man has just been quoted as having done something that was done by a woman...

192

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The UK has added 291,000 new solar PV installations in the 12 months to August 2026, the most in any 12-month period since 2012 It brings the cumulative installed solar in the UK to 23.2GW across 2,131,000 installations. It's also a 9% increase from August 2025, with 1.9GW of new capacity

solarpowerportal.co.uk

UK installs record 291,000 PV installations in 12-month period

This brings the cumulative installed solar capacity in the UK to 23.2GW across 2,131,000 installations.

524370

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I edit over at the Urban History Association's blog, The Metropole, and we're looking for book reviewers! Here are some titles we're interested in. If you'd like to review one (and get the book free), lmk! 🧵 CC @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

388

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*The facts in life in late capitalism do of course connect, but without any of the narrative satisfaction that implies

000

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This thread is what bugged me about other elder scrolls games although I never actually played skyrim. Also, life in late capitalism eh

100

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

11571832059

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah definitely, 2000 was my first thought but it felt too weird having a round number 😅

010

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why EM would appear to feel the same or at least want to say so is a different question of course, especially given how closely involved he was in a lot of governance over the last forty years! Pretty much anytime Labour were in power he's been around

010

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a forty-next-year old I suspect part of why this speaks to people is "country has been run badly almost my whole adult life" can emotionally map pretty easily to "my whole life", especially given how unpopular Blair was with younger people on Iraq, ASBOS, ID cards etc

120

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll never be convinced a government is taking the country's issues seriously unless they announce truly massive increases to local authority budgets alongside whatever other improvements they suggest.

35511

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

can anyone on here suggest who to talk to about unofficial but rampant WhatsApp mods used in many African countries? (I'd forgotten just how US/Anglo-centric this site's user-base is, compared to - alas - Old Twitter)

0149

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Henry Snow @henrys.now · 29/09/2026

my best advice for grad students and early career researchers is have hobbies and friends that will force you into a healthier work-life balance. sorry no more time to doom about the job market today, your international coterie of pals need you to fight in the Skeleton War online tonight

1162

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whereas if one starts in 1913, just before a seismic global crisis takes hold, wouldn't 2007 actually be the more symmetrical end point?

121

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fascinating choice of dates this, because if we're ending in 1997 wouldn't it be at the very least quite interesting to start from the reforming Liberal government of 1906...

131

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

895443936

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes indeed. Images of landing on a strip of processed meat

010

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shout-out to the English announcements at Palermo Airport that pronounce Bologna as baloney

172

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 29/09/2026

47 miles of Roman road, impeccable signage and barely a navigation decision to make. Peddars Way might just be the easiest National Trail to follow that Sarah Pryor has walked so far. 🥾 #PeddarsWay #NationalTrail #Walking

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Peddars Way: a beautiful gentle National Trail through Norfolk

A gentle 47-mile Roman road trail beginning in Suffolk and passing through Norfolk: superbly signposted, rich in wildlife, history and views

0329

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

121683

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.

The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.

1034197

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

29493485

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's an oft-quoted line from radio DJ John Peel, when someone told him CDs were the future because they had no surface noise: "mate, life has surface noise." Like like "mate, life doesn't have motion smoothing" is the contemporary version, and has the advantage of being true

010

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've taught architectural history to engineering, and indeed chemistry and a bunch of other things, students

000

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you're in Newcastle, go check out this new radical bookstore - Books from Below - and cafe that was just launched by @emilywebz.bsky.social , @drrobertchapman.bsky.social , and @benbowsher.bsky.social.

bsky.app

0155

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spiders McBody, who has been murdered 5,569,700 times, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

06420

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Arriving at the ideas factory, rubbing hands: Time to beproblem the concepts!

110

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad to see The OA in there but Utopia (UK, haven't seen USian reboot) should be more widely watched

011

Reposted by Sam Grinsell

Case @case.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some tools the body learns. Some tools the body cannot learn. This is the difference between a car and a touchscreen.

4196

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But how to signal this and how to keep it from just being busybodies lecturing people? Look lads I don't know the details I'm just sayin

140

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Public transport settings need an intervention system for moments like this. If three-quarters majority of the strangers who can hear you are internally desperate to tell you to dump the guy, intervention triggered

160