iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's Oct 3. The midterms are a month away, but early voting has already begun in some states. Mail-in ballots will start circulating soon. Some of the usual suspects are already pushing the same "rigged election" rumors we've all heard before. This year, you can play along at home. bingo.cip.uw.edu

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"Rigged Election" Bingo

Spot the tropes before they spread. Recognize the common story elements behind election rumors — can you get BINGO?

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

end of an era. a damn shame

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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 23/09/2026

Tomorrow/Thursday! 💫 Join us for a day full of panels celebrating the power of human connection across languages at our 7th Day of Translation! In-person at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY and livestreamed worldwide (rsvp or ticket required). We hope to see you there: buff.ly/EbyZA3b

Day of Translation, September 24, 2026 in Brooklyn at The Center for Fiction.

Graphic featuring headshots of writers and translators, participants of the Day of Translation 2026.

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 20/09/2026

a legitimate subfield of computer science

A bingo card, headed: bullshit mechinterp manuscript bingo
The free space square in the centre says: smuggled priors

The squares are:
Prompt variations produced by LLM itself
LLM-as-a-judge
Tiny model, massive overclaim
We’re not saying it’s X, just that it’s functionally X!
Cherry-picked SAE latents
KV cache mysticism
Ablation as sole proof of mechanism
Prompt hacking
Circular reasoning justified by heatmap
“Peer reviewed” by Anthropic’s Claude
Automated post-hoc feature labelling
Superposition handwaving
Funded by an obscure AI safety outfit
Labelled feature is probably just tracking punctuation
Logit lens fanfiction
An intricately contrived roleplay scenario
Model fine-tuned for the test
“implications for model welfare”
Clever Hans effect is mistaken for situational awareness
Cognitive science terminology used, just as a metaphor of course!
Purported circuit only works half the time
Teleological language
Hyper-specific coefficient tuning
Inconvenient results buried in appendix

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

really weird tone to all the "sex cult" posts tbh. like yeah "rationalists" are super fucking weird and yeah the sankey diagram is hilarious but why are we fixating on the sex part when the cult part is far more concerning

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

Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I want other dems to know that it was trans people and the people who care about us who did it.

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it's "rage-at-the-christian-hegemony" season for Jews again! to kick it off, your colleagues are once again scheduling essential meetings and unmissable events for the high holy days!

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I remember during one of the most productive years of my professional life (finishing a big translation while working full time etc etc) reaching the middle of september and being like wow. this would be great and even sustainable if I could just take the rest of the year off

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the Massachusetts primary election is tomorrow and yes the governorship is uncontested in the Dem primary and also a reminder that you don't have to vote for someone who's refused to fund childcare, forced AI upon state workers, & maintained the only remaining blue state 287(g) agreement

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502

academicjobsonline.org

Cornell University, Department of Communication

Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Eric Fox @ericmfox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the best write up I have seen about why Markey is the far superior choice in his primary against the odious Moulton. I was happy to vote for Ed (again) yesterday.

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

thousands of years of interpretive argument and you want to tell me you read jewish text literally? come tf on

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

has anyone figured out what the scam is of sending authors/writers/translators interview requests or just informal questions about their work? I literally can't figure out what's in it for them

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

utterly beside the point but I'm still upset we weren't called Responsible Integration of Programming TAs (RIPTAs) after rhody's greatest

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

To celebrate the brilliant women on our list, we're offering a 30% discount on titles by women writers or works translated by women. Use the code WOMENOFARCHIPELAGO today through August 31st. Get buying: archipelagobooks.org/books/.

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A thing that is really frustrating me about some of the coverage on this is that 1) "suspicious fires" happen in Montréal often (like, REALLY often—mob, insurance, arson, etc), 2) there seems to be an inability to hold that multiple things can be true at once, and 3) we don't know what happened!

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

my latest subconscious AI writing tell: the adverb "silently" especially prepended to a verb :-/

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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm looking to interview anyone who has worked at an electronics assembly (components or systems) factory, anywhere in the world, before 1990. I can offer $100CAD / hour, though I don't think my questions will run the full hour. If you know anyone who is still able and willing to answer, plz lmk

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

amid all the e. wilson posting I'll just note that y'all gotta hear her recite homer. she is possessed by the booming spirit of the bard when she wants to be, a rather disconcerting contrast to her usual affable britishness

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

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WIRED @wired.com · 20/07/2026

Tech workers, we want to hear from you! 📣What do you think of your job, your workplace, your boss, and your field in general? How satisfied are you? Are you embracing or dreading the AI revolution? Take our short survey at the link below. 👇

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Survey

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish

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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A smoke reminder for for folks in the U.S. and over in Ontario:

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Apatura Ilia @apaturailia15.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Such a blessing to encounter two Mourning Cloaks in Mount Royal Park, Montreal this afternoon @nababutterfly.bsky.social Named after the forest nymphs of Greek mythology (Nymphalis antiopa) and just as enchanting @savebutterflies.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

my name is somewhere it doesn't belong

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

very interesting article and also I clicked on it partially because I immediately recognized this map as paris, and not any of the ones in the usa either

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 30/06/2026

Per last repost, I do think that in the US a lot of people, like a LOT of people, do not realize that if a birth certificate is no longer proof of citizenship then most of us have no proof of citizenship. At all.

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

come collage & dream up resistance with us!!!

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

at facct this week? wondering if "political economy" is a rich collection of intellectual tendencies and critical sensibilities, or concerned that it's yet another academic branding tactic?curious about the background text of this flyer? join us!! sat 7-9 at co-op BMP!!

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

excited for facct researchers to encounter "tokébakicitte" this jean-baptiste

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

printing a broadside on a vandercook t-4 rn would probably fix me

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Readers of #BookSky Announcing The Porter Square Review of Books! Starting RIGHT NOW, the PSRB will publish one review, written by a PSB libromancer or a Writer in Residence every week or so...

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Announcing The Porter Square Review of Books

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🚨 🚨 🚨 THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE IS VOTING ON DATA PRIVACY TODAY!!! Call your Reps and tell them to support the ACLU-backed amendments that make H. 4746 stronger, and OPPOSE amendment 18 that makes it weaker. Reskeet to get this in front of as many massholes as possible!!! FFTF.link/madataprivacy

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Amanda Cerny's Shout Out to Mass-Holes

Alt: Amanda Cerny's Shout Out to Mass-Holes

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shira @shira-a.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

biggest perk of being stateside is being able to use forecast.weather.gov, the best website on the internet

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National Weather Service

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Pantheon Books @pantheonbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” introduced millions of readers to the struggles of ordinary Iranians during the turbulent years around the Islamic Revolution, has died at 56." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...

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Marjane Satrapi, the Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

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