iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/12/2024

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

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Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

ADHD requires meds that are hard to get if you have ADHD. Making them a controlled substance (no delivery, no one can help pick them up, only one month at a time) is debilitating. Addiction is bad, yes, but under-medicating people has consequences too. (Ex increased traffic accidents)

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Shweta Adhyam @shwetaadhyam.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Eddie Redmayne is the Jackal we all deserve, but I want to see his hyper-competence, dammitall, not his family life ... And don't even get me started on how badly-written Lashana Lynch's cop character is

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Shweta Adhyam @shwetaadhyam.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Clarion West provides writers all over the world with instruction and community, always with a focus on decolonisation. I'm exceedingly proud of the work we do and if you can support us in any way, I would be grateful www.indiegogo.com/projects/cla... #GivingTuesday

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Clarion West Fall Fundraiser

World-class writing workshops for people who are serious about writing! | Check out 'Clarion West Fall Fundraiser' on Indiegogo.

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Expecting people to wait 4 minutes to cross the street is delusional.

City of Leavenworth, Washington

Are you one of the thousand pedestrians walking through the Village of Lights’ LED magic this holiday season? Due to heavy traffic flows anticipated on Hwy 2, expect wait times of up to 4 minutes at the signalized crosswalks.
What can you do with your 4 minutes?
1. Look up the menu for the restaurant you’re walking to;
2. Sing “Christmas All Over Again” by Tom Petty; or
3. Finish that perfect speech to your ex you started in the shower this morning.
As you stroll through our Bavarian Village, please remember to use proper crosswalk etiquette and obey all pedestrian signals. Let’s keep everyone safe this holiday season! Thank you for your 4 minutes of patience and cooperation at the crosswalks.
(post credit: WSDOT)

Photo of a crosswalk sign that says "Crosswalk wait times up to 4 minutes"

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just a reminder to all the new folks that Neil Gaiman has been credibly accused of sexual assault by five different women, and is almost certainly working behind the scenes with his PR firm to bury the story. Don’t let him. And don’t follow him. More here:

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The New Zealand allegations at the centre of a Neil Gaiman podcast investigation

A report on the facts presented in the podcast that is investigating the allegations against author Neil Gaiman.

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Shane Schmidt @authorshaneschmidt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hello new faces and old! I'm Shane and I write fantasy fic that pivots around magic, monsters, and messy characters. I have flash fiction forthcoming from Shacklebound Books and I'm currently working on my debut novel! Would you please share to help me find like-minded friends?

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

5. I believe people can write outside our identities, but if your character is marginalized in ways you aren't: a. Do you think you're being noble? If yes, stop b. Do you understand specifics? E.g. not just Indian but Gujarati? If no, stop c. Do you have CLOSE friends from this group? If no, stop

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Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Clarion West Fundraiser Update: Today's featured perk: A CW Instructor's Book Paired with Wine! Today's is Elizabeth Hand + Burgundy! Discover Wylding Hall in this beautiful signed, limited edition with a hand-selected wine pairing to go with your read. www.indiegogo.com/projects/cla...

Image of the slipcase, first edition book Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand with beautiful dust jacket cover and a bottle of 2022 Côte d'Or Burgundy

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

We've run 80,000 simulations and in every one of them cars ruin everything.

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Shweta Adhyam @shwetaadhyam.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Amazing question and thoroughly brilliant answer. Do yourselves a favour and read the whole thing!

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DJW 🎨 🔞 @djwaglmuffin.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

So, time for not-election stuff: It's Native American Heritage Month and I'll be looking to share and reskeet any and all Indigenous creators I can find. I'd also like fellow artists and writers to share their Native OC's! Let's get this goin'! #art #writing #ocsky #writingcommunity #artcommunity

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 01/11/2024

Dr. Gebru tried to warn us, but too many people who should know better want to talk about whether LLMs can attain sentience (no) and become skynet (no) instead of talking about the real dangers that are not just possible but already here.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Whatever I have to say about how cars ruin cities, @helenczerski.bsky.social has said more elegantly on Mastodon.

$Toot from Helen Czerski: The evidence that cars don’t work as primary mass transport in cities is everywhere: traffic jams, air pollution, accident rates, the shocking fraction of city space taken up by parking spaces, safety barriers/bollards etc. This 100 year experiment should be declared over, and we should put proper effort into the systems that HAVE been shown to work and scale: walking, cycling, e-cargo bikes, cheap/accessible/reliable public transport. This “argument” about LTNs is just lazy delay. #LTN #cities$

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 28/10/2024

I'm researching an article for Writer Beware on editing service Edioak and their new House of Pages promo venture, for which they seem to be soliciting a lot of authors. If they contacted you, I'd be interested in seeing what they sent. My email is beware@sfwa.org . Thanks!!

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

I know it from being queer and trans, not Black, but... it sucks when the only / most common time your work is noticed is when someone else pisses people off enough that they are virtuously looking for a deserving target of their attention for the next 5 mins.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/10/2024

We could, you know, build more public transport.

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Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Savage Mind, an indie Philippine bookstore, was completely decimated by 15 feet of water from Typhoon Kristine. They need help rebuilding! In the link are 18 romance stories written by Filipino authors, all for a minimum of $6. All proceeds go to Savage Mind. They're at $473 as of today.

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

This feels like a good time to share a thread of stories by African authors featured at @podcastle.org since Shingai and I took the helm. Read on for five powerful, vibrant, wonderful pieces of fantasy fiction. 🧵

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/10/2024

To be a good man you have to, kind of paradoxically, reject patriarchal society's conception of a man. I'd love to say this is easier than it is, but it just isn't.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Coming to the heart of this thread now: I cannot but help feel that the reason that these strategies proved so successful in this case was because they offered to people a very easy way of assuaging their guilt, without requiring them to make the effort of actually redistributing power.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

We don't want support withdrawn from BIPOC writers, particularly other writers from the same demographic as retribution and punishment. Please uplift and support writers from African countries. There are many writers living there who are doing incredible work! That's all I got.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

how about instead of robotaxis rich people were taxed more and that money went into improving public transportation

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

“The harms imposed by the Rivian are three times the harms imposed by the Prius, in terms of air pollution and death from accidents, but we are subsidizing the Rivian and not the Prius.” -- Stanford prof Hunt Allcott www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/b...

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Electric Car Subsidies Are a Plus, but Could Be Improved, Study Finds

The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

I teach college, but this is much closer to my experience than the Atlantic article.

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

[Pinches nose] Can't believe we're still doing this, but okay. For reasons simply beyond my understanding, literary agent, Leslie Varney, is again using her Twitter platform to harass, defame, and gaslight me on behalf of her friends in the criminal cult stalking and SWATTing my family. 1/

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

for journalism, i need to talk to a woman who wanted to go back to work immediately after child birth. please reply or DM if that describes you.

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Shweta Adhyam @shwetaadhyam.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Trans people, you are valid and valuable. You deserve to experience your lives fully. No one has the right to question that, even if they act like they do.

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Cars are the real avocado toast -- but, like, in a dystopian world where avocado toast smashes 50,000 Americans to death annually and all of society is built to punish you for not eating avocado toast for every meal every day even as avocado toast alters the earth's atmosphere and kills all life

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

This should be an international scandal: Blinken should be punished for lying to Congress, and Biden asked why he continued to provide state/diplomatic cover for Israel's campaign of starvation, AND continued to arm and fund them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2024

no one read this column but a little whole ago i wrote about the kinds of questions we should be asking presidential candidates (hint: not questions about polling or narrative) www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/o...

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Opinion | What Really Matters Is How Presidents Think About Power

A successful presidency is much more about organization, vision and values than it is the scope of a given legislative package.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Justicia Urbana by Fabián Todorović Karmelić

Artwork titled Justicia Urbana by Chilean artist, Fabián Todorović Karmelić.

The artwork depicts ten people on a bus, people waiting for a bus, and a cyclist, crammed into a small space on the street, while one man in a private automobile enjoys more than enough space.

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Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Today is World Car-Free day and, not uncoicidentally for me, my oldest child's birthday. Before he was born I didn't understand the extent to which a society built for cars is harmful and ineffective for so many people and purposes. As always @tomflood.bsky.social has the graphic ready:

The words "I just wanted to push my kid in their stroller... Now burning down car culture fills my dreams" is on a bright pink background with the silhouette of a woman pushing a stroller.

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

cars suck!!!! they suck!!!! they eat all our space for cool shit!!! I need one to live and idgaf they still suck

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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

In 1907, Congress passed a law that American women lost their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold this act. It was changed in 1940, but citizenship was not restored to those women, nor their children.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Nick Offerman, welcome to The War on Cars. thewaroncars.org

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 18/09/2024

he’s doing it. he’s doing the meme

comparison of a large pickup truck, sporting a saudi arabian flag and a hammer and sickle decal, and a bicycle sporting an american flag. the truck is titled “WOKE transit” and the bike is titled “PATRIOT transit”.

a list of bullet points under the truck:

Needs license/registration so the government can track you
Government regularly inspects it to legally drive
Legally forces you to pay Insurance so they can pay for other people's accidents
Fuel needs big government subsidies to stay under $5/gallon
Government can revoke privilege to drive anytime

a list of bullet points under the bike:

Not required to register
No inspection requirement
Bike insurance optional. Not required
No need for government subsidies
Biking privilege cannot be revoked

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Heavy, powerful cars quickly destroy tires. Tire wear spews tiny, toxic particles that have caused the collapse of fish populations in the Pacific NW. Moral of the story: EVs shouldn't be overpowered and massive. 2/2 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

A pet peeve of mine is when parents don't (gently and age appropriately) teach their kids not to interrupt them, and instead break off conversations at the child's whim. Not only does this teach kids no respect for their parents' time, they then inevitably go on to interrupt other people, too.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

I didn’t realise BlueSky has no algorithm (so you see what’s actually there) - and that you can choose your own filters for feeds. This one’s lovely: people you follow but post infrequently, so it boosts quieter, interesting types. I’ve added it to my feeds and it’s great. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Washington state has no state income tax. Our public schools are in shambles. Yes these are fucking connected.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

*time traveler suddenly appears* “You have to listen to me! I’m from 8 years in the past!” www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

My cherished friend @lpkindred.bsky.social has long been one of the most giving, generous folks in the genre. He's now asking for help as he accomplishes the amazing task of finishing his interrupted education & establishing himself in Chicago. The GoFundMe is here! www.gofundme.com/f/support-lp...

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Support LP Kindred's Journey in Chicago, organized by Clarion Ghosts

The Clarion Ghosts are rallying to support our fellow writer LP Kindred, the Ch… Clarion Ghosts needs your support for Support LP Kindred's Journey in Chicago

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 05/08/2024

It’s good for white people to shame each other for being around Nazis and it’s also fine to check them when they turn to [us] and try to hand out orders

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