iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 4h

Hard agree - if a claimant files a takedown/copyright strike on however many hundreds of channels but NEVER files suit, they get their right to claim revoked. End of. If there's a strike system for us the same should apply for claimants as well.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

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Spookydoof @doofivirus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the duality of man

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"women never contributed anything to science" and then you look under the hood and it's men stealing women's ideas over and over again

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is concerning enough that I'm going to ask about this or similar policies/practices before agreeing to speak to ANY journalist on or off the record. if you can't promise me in writing that this isn't happening, that's the end of the conversation.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The original Google search algorithm that was wizard magic was machine learning. Same with videogame enemies learning flocking techniques and figuring out how to beat you based on your tendencies. LLM stans fucked this up just let the scam artists define what AI is now because they are dumb.

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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

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 06/10/2026

society if puritans hadn't effectively convinced multiple generations that Women Don't Get Horny

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

Parisians dressed their dogs up for Paris Fashion Week. Video via @reuters.com

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Delaney Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way ❄️ @infinitesnow.bsky.social · 23h

it deeply pisses me off that almost every other essayist i follow on this site, many of whom are women he collaborated with, have to do the additional work of informing people what he did because his post largely flew under the radar and he won't actually address it on a platform with reach

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 13h

Numerous people have already been pointing out for days that western reporting on this is an embarrassingly inaccurate game of telephone, so I'll instead reiterate that it doesn't cost that much to just have a real translator on standby to vet such reports. I know budgets are tight, but come on.

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still think about the conversation I had with an uber driver Him: so what do you do Me: I’m a video game writer Him: wait, video games? They have writing? What do you write? Me: you know when you open up a game and you see the words? Him: yeah? Me: those

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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 17h

The reason people love the Ea-nāṣir story is less the vitriol and more the fact that we couldn’t be more culturally different from a 4000 years dead Sumerian but we can totally relate. It shows us that no matter our superficial differences people are just people.

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normal erik @erik-real.bsky.social · 22h

this is a very thoughtful and nuanced piece. i think this paragraph is especially important to keep in mind. a lot of people are talking about geller as if he has spent the last ten years doing his best to atone for what he did, or asking if ten years of "good work" can outweigh one rape.

Regardless of whether or not you believe that rapists should not have to disclose their histories of sexual violence to their co-workers, I don't think Geller should have agreed to collaborate with me - especially for a video about James Franco - knowing that I've often written about living as a survivor of sexual violence (which I assume he knew because he knew of me and it was the subject of my most popular essay). I feel as though I was a small link in a larger chain of survivors used - deliberately or not - as props in a greater project of image rehabilitation. Every collaboration Geller did with an outspoken victim of sexual assault helped to legitimize his public image, and it seems none of us were given the choice of making an informed decision whether or not to support that project. While it's possible that Geller has deconstructed, his actions don't align with the argument that he's spent the last decade "accounting."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026

hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Have some good news folks!

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026

treating voting like a privilege that can be lost instead of a right and duty of all citizens casts a bad light on the whole system

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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sums up my feelings.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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max schwartz @mightyatom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

gf has spent weeks in platform-approval hell bc her psychological thriller game dares to have prestige streaming show level content and they misinterpreted her key art as having imagery of someone killing themselves (it did not) but that’s awesome

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Elon Musk has never personally killed anyone, why are you attributing all the deaths from destroying USAID to him?” “Ronald Reagan never personally killed any gay people, why are you mad about this so-called genocide of gay people in the AIDS crisis?”

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“JK Rowling hasn’t killed anyone so she can’t be supporting genocide.” You want to bet money on that one? This is like claiming that anti-abortion activists haven’t killed anyone. The policies JK Rowling has been responsible for pushing through have ABSOLUTELY killed trans people.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 04/10/2026

Failbetter reached out to me in the wake of the Bungie layoff in 2024 and asked if I would like to write a story. That offer became my murine husband, The Prince of All Rats. It was exciting, and very fun to write. It was also incredibly uplifting as I dealt with post-layoff stress and self-doubt.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.

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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My friend Nova has been on a surgical wait list for 11 years and might finally be getting healthcare in Spring. She wrote this little piece about persistence and how much worse the NHS has gotten since she was first referred

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something rotten will probably come down. I had to check with nebula before I could do anything though I believe I now have full access to everything. I also haven’t actually sat down at my computer since Wednesday. I’m so sorry to everyone affected. It has been a heartbreaking week.

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I shouldn’t let one crazy email get to me this much but I just want to make it clear: I obviously did not know. I found out at the exact same time as everyone else. It has been extremely difficult to deal with emotionally and I do appreciate everyone who’s reached out so much.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 04/10/2026

⚡️Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia. The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.

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Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia

The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

Fascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can also reject the culture of compulsory confession that online culture has worsened. You don't have to publicly reveal past trauma or experiences to speak. Finally, take care of yourself if you're a survivor.

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Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com · 04/10/2026

Oh Jesus - @letterboxd.social can you help us get this AI slop away from our series?

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am begging people who think they're good at spotting AI prose to learn the difference between an em dash (—), an en dash (–), and a hyphen (-). I've seen "I can tell this is AI because of the em dashes" when they're hyphens twice in the last six hours.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The primary purpose of an Israeli ‘ceasefire’, whether in Gaza ir Lebanon, is decreased media coverage. And Israel was proven right on that.

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Saoirse “Ghost of a Victorian Child” Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All I’m saying is that some people need to be given a little grace for a little while. Allow them some time for their paradigm to shift. Coming to terms with being deceived is fucking difficult for most people.

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Saoirse “Ghost of a Victorian Child” Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m seeing people going after people who reposted the “restorative justice” article, and like…please stop, at least with regards to people who actually knew Geller. A person is not a monster for having a hard time coming to terms with someone they knew being abusive.

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