iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 5h

Does anyone know of a reverse-searchable Shakespeare concordance? That is, I want to be able to look up Shakespearian words by inputting modern definitions

120

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12h

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.

10261901777

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17h

We are on the same wavelength today

172

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 17h

thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art

6497131

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 17h

I take great comfort in the idea that my individual existence on Earth will someday be erased and forgotten

2141

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜

48328

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

9970106

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Curse eunuch Dildo, senseless, counterfeit, | Who sooth may fill, but never can beget" I feel you there, Elizabethan transmascs

040

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Know you no ball, sir, at long last? Have you left no knowledge of ball?

738352

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No matter what you do in life, no matter how much power you accumulate, you remain something that Joyce Carol Oates can destroy at her pleasure

310811

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

someone explain to me why the fuck the NYT snowfell an opinion piece. What is happening here www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...

000

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Talking to my new Portuguese shrink and had to explain American rape culture to her. She was shocked

1160

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You could also think of this as the Sherlock Holmes fallacy. Holmes' method only works because God (the author) is in on it. When you try it in real life, it's usually impossible to narrow the possible truths down to one certain one. And I've cut myself on Occam's razor so many times.

49713

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think a lot about DEVS, the Garland series about a tech company working on a computer that can so perfectly extrapolate from a set of given data that it can predict the future. I think that's the basic error at the heart of the AI cult

46112

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Michael Waynick @mrwaynick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm going to say this everywhere I think someone will listen: THE ONLY POLLS THAT COUNT ARE THE ONES THAT CLOSE ON ELECTION NIGHT.

1115

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My understanding about Google Books is that it began as an honest "don't be evil"-era attempt to digitize all texts and make them searchable. Now I'm wondering if it was LLM fodder all along or if that was the pivot they did after they found out about copyright protections

2240

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 26/09/2026

Hey, that AMA was terrific! People had really good questions, and I gave official answers that you can read here!!!

reddit.com

From the Beck community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Beck community

0498

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's very weird that in the late 00s I was hanging out with poly techies who told me about going to what I now know were definitely Singularity Institute gatherings. It was a more innocent time

1250

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had tried to avoid marrying a fellow journalist, but from the beginning Josie and I considered ourselves as much a newsroom as a marriage, and that made it work. I am very proud of Riesmanbaum Industries newsroom tonight.

1250

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I always want to know what wounded being stands inside the armor of a myth." dang my spouse is smart

0110

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometime circa 2002 our bureau's night copyeditor got to the office, booted up his computer at the desk behind mine, and then I heard him say to no one: "Well, which was it, Charles, was it the best of times or was it the worst of times?"

1629

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 26/09/2026

You know I had to do it for all the fanfic girlies out there

Section heading from Josie's Beck book:

Five Things Ross, Steve, and Leigh Didn't Know about Beck (and One Thing They Did)

IYKYK

2283

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

3233871259

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

sing us a song, you're the Piano Marsupial

1185

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

just watched a pigeon very confidently walk into a restaurant

2271

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally, in her latest (and best book) The Last Temptation of Beck, she uses the artist as a lens through which to view the disillusionment of the 90s and the culmination of a half-century's worth of men attempting their own desperate reinvention.

1266

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Through Vince McMahon and Ringmaster, she detailed the rocket-fueled rise of the cocaine 80s, an era that redefined the romantic ideal of the American ultra-businessman. Muscly, lathered in baby oil, and in the stage light glow, it was intoxicating.

1224

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To me, @josie.zone's trilogy of biographies has served as a chronicle of culture in the last half of the twentieth century. Through Stan Lee in True Believer, she dove into how counter culture became commerce and how creators' lives became just as big of legends as their comic books.

24110

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 24/09/2026

well that hit like a brick. Brilliant work. Fucking infuriating.

171

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The online discussion of TEMPTATION so far has revealed that a lot of people don't know how biographies work

073

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 24/09/2026

Hoping people agree with Tony here after they've read @beckbook.com

Tony Soprano: IN THIS HOUSE, JOSEPHINE RIESMAN WRITES BIOGRAPHIES THAT ETHICALLY BALANCE INVESTIGATION AND EMPATHY -- END OF STORY"

2418

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 24/09/2026

Ladies and gentlethings, I present to you the first excerpt from @beckbook.com Many thanks to @nymag.com for putting it in print and to @vulture.com for presenting it so beautifully online Please read, if you are so inclined CW: Uh… intense emotional distress? I don't want to give anything away…

vulture.com

Losing Beck

His acclaimed album, Sea Change, was inspired by a breakup. For his ex-partner, it was the story of how the Church of Scientology took over his life.

23294113

Reposted by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social

quigonejinn @quigonejinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oh thank god

Screenshot of AO3 indicating there are 46 works or Grant/Sherman posted

4254

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ok but that 44 % of women who want to date bi guys are also the 44 % of women who write slash. We own the culture

0160

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If someone asks you What is a woman ask them what God is and then point out to them that we've managed for 200 years letting people define that word for themselves, and it doesn't have to be the only one.

3251