iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026

Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.

jobs.virginia.gov

Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States

Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 21h

My consulting / board membership calendar opens up in February, if anyone could use my expertise (libraries / cultural heritage / critical AI / evidence-informed grantmaking / computational humanities research / govtech / etc.).

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 29/09/2026

I ordered some tealight candles and they sent me 400. Does anyone need romantic engagement mood lighting, or perhaps a li'l adorable spell circle to summon the impish spirit of nearly-accurate logistics?

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*tearing my own hair out* the word satellite is older than the COLOUR PINK in the english language

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Famously from Anatol Rapoport. ehudlamm.com/lifehacks.pdf

ehudlamm.com

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 26/09/2026

Route to future recreation in the forbidden region.

figure labeled COMPLEX VELOCITY SPACE

The plane shows a 'physical region' on the horizontal axis with hatch marks between -c and +c (speed of light).

On the positive axis, a dark line moves towards +c, hops over it, and then swirls around in a calligraphic flourish. The flourish has an arrow pointing downwards with text below reading "Rout to future recreation in the forbidden region."

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it’s officially “sorry I can’t today I have to go eat in an intentionally badly-made tent and shake an overpriced warty lemon and a bouquet made only of leaves around“ season, girlies. Chag sameach.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tremendous opportunity

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 25/09/2026

We're not currently hiring developers, but keep an eye out for when next we do. I will be hiring developers who can move slow and fix things here at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

germainekoh.com/works/fair-w...

germainekoh.com

Germaine Koh work

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026

jobs.virginia.gov

Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9

doc.govt.nz

Kākāpō population reaches new milestone

The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇

nationalgeographic.com

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trying to explain special relativity to my first-year students in a class on Science/Fiction, and I came across @scottbot.net's blog post from 2014 that has exactly the historical + human-centered account I wanted. (Scott, did you ever do part 2 in this series?) www.scottbot.net/HIAL/index.h...

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Understanding Special Relativity through History and Triangles (pt. 1) – the scottbot irregular

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matilda.science @matilda-science.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Matilda has reached 170M deduplicated publications, among which 38.5M are full-text searchable. Everything is free, sharable and reusable and will remain as such under our #POSI commitments and following our mission matilda.science/mission?l=en #openscience #opendata

Series of open paper books which represent the open knowledge available through Matilda

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams

You just let the machines get on with the adding up,” warned Majikthise, “and we’ll take care of the eternal verities thank you very much. You want to check your legal position, you do, mate. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we’re straight out of a job, aren’t we? I mean, what’s the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives us his bleeding phone number the next morning?

It occurs to me that running a programme like this is bound to create an enormous amount of popular publicity for the whole area of philosophy in general. Everyone’s going to have their own theories about what answer I’m eventually to come up with, and who better to capitalize on that media market than you yourself? So long as you can keep disagreeing with each other violently enough and slagging each other off in the popular press, you can keep yourself on the gravy train for life. How does that sound?”

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Historic treasures only survive if every generation takes care of them in an unbroken chain. Amid my donations to improve and save lives in the present, I always feel it’s vital to make a few to protect the legacy of the past as well.

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 11/09/2026

humans are amazing, all the reviews are from people who paid this person to pre-annotate booktok romantasy titles

* Optional small doodles, hearts, stars, symbols, or themed decorations. (let me know)

The chapter guide provides a summary every few chapters, while the playlist guide includes the same summaries along with a list of songs for each set of chapters. It also features a Spotify playlist with all the songs in order based on the book, as well as the reasons why I chose each song for those chapters. Choose a Glossary Guide only if there are terms or words that are unfamiliar you'd like me to notate or add information about. For example, if a book is heavy in science terms, including a glossary for all of the scientific terms, etc.

****Please note:*****

This listing is for custom hand annotation services. The final product will vary depending on the book, the annotation style selected, and your personal preferences. I put care into every book so that it feels thoughtful, personal, and one of a kind.

Perfect for readers who love tabs, highlighted quotes, handwritten notes, and a cozy, personalized reading experience.

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 11/09/2026

aaaahhhh

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 11/09/2026

okay scholars, who's writing about the market in custom-annotated book sellers on etsy

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/09/2026

Heads-up everyone in digital humanities and/or cultural AI: this is a hugely valuable resource. It does the systematic cleaning and segmentation — of a million books — that we have always wanted to have, for computational research, and have never quite produced in a way that stuck.

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

THOUGHTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Francesca Mancino talked to me for this piece, along with some very smart thinkers on the book, its history, and its digitization @mmvty.bsky.social @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Extending Institutional #Books with Enriched Text and 22M Extracted #Images (IDI, Harvard Law School Library) institutional.org/posts/extend... @harvardlil.bsky.social @bpl.boston.gov

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