iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 1h

And if banning genAI from the arts doesn't happen anytime soon, then the solution is to use our human brains

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 1h

We're delighted to announce our forthcoming poetry list, bringing readers new collections by returning poets Fady Joudah – with the UK edition of Exhibit G: Poems, Essays & Photographs of Gaza forthcoming next month – lisa minerva luxx and Arji Manuelpillai (1/2)

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 2h

It's not so much that we need to be afraid of AI itself, it's that we are afraid of what most *men* want to do with it -- to us.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 22h

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! We’re excited to announce a new paid role with the Comics Cultural Impact Collective. We’re looking for SOMEONE to join us as a Non-Executive Director… Could that SOMEONE be YOU?? 🫵 Full info here: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/Join-Us

Fee: £1,800 paid 12-month appointment.
Commitment: Approx 8.5 days across the year.
Location: Primarily remote.
Eligibility: You must be resident in the UK.
First Board Role? Very welcome.
Application: Written, audio and video applications welcomed, with access support
throughout.

The Comics Cultural Impact Collective
(CCIC) is growing, and we're looking for someone who loves comics and the comics community and wants to help it flourish.
We want to broaden who has a voice and power in shaping CCIC and contribute to a stronger, fairer and more connected comics sector.
For this appointment, we welcome applications from Black, Asian, Brown, mixed-heritage and other racially minoritised people, whose perspectives are currently underrepresented within CCIC's governance.
You don't need previous board experience. There's no single route into this role, and we value lived, professional, creative, community and learned expertise.

Most importantly, we want somebody who cares about comics, believes in the people who make up our community, and is excited about helping the sector thrive.
This appointment is one part of our wider commitment to making CCIC more representative, equitable and accountable, and ensuring a wider range of knowledge, experience and perspectives meaningfully shape our decisions.

Applications open: Friday 2 October
Closing date: Friday 30 October, 5pm

This paid appointment has been made possible thanks to funding from
Supported using public funding by
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND

The Comics Cultural
Impact Collective

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 11h

This is obscene. Destroying something so precious for shitty memes? Just sickening.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h

This is the application of generative AI that is meant to be 'the good one'

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 21h

Today we're honored to publish two short excerpts from the upcoming translation of Palestinian revolutionary and writer Ghassan Kanafani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948–1968, alongside a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. proteanmag.com/2026/10/07/p...

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Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948–1968 [Excerpt] • Protean Magazine

Today we are honored to publish two short excerpts from the forthcoming translation of Palestinian revolutionary and writer Ghassan Kanafani’s "Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

Also, and I mean this with genuine warm thoughts for everyone‘s spiritual and intellectual well-being: I would tell the people who think it’s ok to replace artists with GenAI to eat shit, but instead I’ll just say I hope you think about how to repair having blood on your hands. Forever.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 20h

Freshly printed copies on the way to @ibraaz.bsky.social along with a selection of Coastal Lines' Summer 2026 titles. In store soon!

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Zines From Gaza @coastallinespress.com · 21h

“I write because memory is a form of survival. I write to plant humanity in people’s heart. And I write because Gaza, despite everything, is still my home--rooted in me as deeply as I am rooted in it.” Huda Skaik, author of the zine Planted Genocide in My Mind www.coastallinespress.com/get-your-copy

live olive green background with a line toward the bottom that suggests waves

Huda Skaik

A journalistic writer from Gaza City. She is interested in journalism and writing. Her works have been published with many media outlets such as We Are Not Numbers, Electronic Intifada, The New Arab, The Intercept, Deep Dive, The Nation, and Aljazeera

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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🪞 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 When we launched Issue 14, 𝑀𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑠, in July, we said it would unfold as a rolling publication. Then our social channels went quiet. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁. Behind the silence, our editorial family kept reading, editing, translating and building.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hahahahhahahahahhahahhahahahahhahhahahhaah. I won't look back in anger (except at the toilets).

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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Based on the absolute floodedness of the toilets on the train back from the Oasis show in Edinburgh last summer (I was not at the Oasis show), I'd say it was more like Relieve the Event.

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Gazan journalist documenting the Israeli genocide says every time a witness is killed, another is there to take up their work. hammerandhope.org/article/how-...

Graphic: How the Truth Survives in Gaza. By Hassan Herzallah. Photo showing a bomb crater in Gaza, with Palestinians lined up along its edges, looking into the bottom. Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto, via AP

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Bertha DocHouse @berthadochouse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our Christine Choy retrospective continues on 17 October with her newly restored 1984 film, Mississippi Triangle. An rare and intimate portrait of the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African American and white locals live in a complex world of cotton, labour and racial conflict.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The reductive idea that R&B and hip-hop are the only genres legible to contemporary Black audiences is continuously perpetuated by the mainstream music industry." Kelela and Sesali Bowen on the music industry hammerandhope.org/article/kele...

hammerandhope.org

Kelela’s Guide to Surviving Men and Raves

The writer Sesali Bowen sits down with the artist to discuss sonic racism, “niggas who refuse to read,” and her latest album, “new avatar.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hammer and Hope Issue #12 is out now, available for free in its entirety here. A short thread featuring a few of the articles: hammerandhope.org

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Hammer & Hope

A magazine of Black politics and culture

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

new wire! i rly enjoyed talking to tiiva about imbuing sampled vocals with emotion, sound-making as stimming, and their excellent new album on @bluetapes.bsky.social! i also reviewed releases by julia holter, dina maccabee + sarah belle reid! buy a magazine!

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hot off the press!! New open-access issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social w/ a special dossier celebrating the 60th anniversary of DAISIES! 🎊🎂 quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/oa-is...

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

aha! acceleration arguments create an environment that makes it easier to ignore issues of consent. bsky.app/profile/such...

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DJ, I presume? @computeloop.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

From Meshell Ndegeocello's new album "Synonym": Be Real Black for Me - Meshell Ndegeocello, Lizz Wright, Emily King What a cover 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmx9...

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Be Real Black For Me

YouTube video by Meshell Ndegeocello - Topic

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So much great #SFinTranslation out this month! www.sfintranslation.com?p=17750

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Really proud that my friend Naoko Kurahashi Neilson has played such a pivotal role in IceCube science, including leading the way on mapping the Milky Way through neutrino eyes! She's stellar! Leaders like Naoko helped make today's Nobel a possibility. 🧪⚛️🔭

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Milky Way Viewed through Neutrinos

Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, researchers have generated the first neutrino image of the Milky Way.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Join our online short course aimed at staff handling rights for literary agencies and publishing houses, covering the rationale for selling rights as well as the practicalities ⏰ 12-17 November 2026, 14:00-17:30 UK time 📍 Online (via Zoom) Registration closes on 3 November 2026 BOOK NOW 👇

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Selling Rights Short Course

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

A good day to watch Anocha Suwichakornpong's second film BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK, which centres on an indie film crew making a film about the Thammasat massacre & goes hypnotically into the effects of trauma on memory and the present: player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...

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Watch By the Time It Gets Dark - BFI Player

Anocha Suwichakornpong's mesmerising and innovative treatise on memory, politics and cinema.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's not about what we accept or don't accept, it's their framing, which is writing the historical narrative that we did indeed accept it & all sequelae are our fault, not theirs.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

My point is that they are deliberately using the language of violent domination, which works to attribute false agency ("you accepted it") to those it coerces, while also removing any real agency & laying blame for not resisting (enough bc no resistance is ever enough in their narrative).

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is why I love tchg in public libraries. Of course surveillance creeps in thru security apparatae + digital vendors’ user tracking, but the proprietors of these spaces are generally committed to autonomy + privacy. They’re places of non-compulsory, intergenerational, non-extractive learning.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

all infrastructure erodes consent, sometimes it bypasses it completely this is uncomfortable (& often problematic), but it should not be controversial to point out this fact

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

As I've said, the language/framing of commercial LLM techbros is the same as that of colonial occupation & of rape culture: "accept this is happening (against ur will bc we don't give a fuck about consent), accept bad things (happening to you not us), & be grateful for the supposed positives."

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think this is context-specific: in a chain bookstore, most books on genre shelf will be from commercial publishers only, with a heavy focus on canon & immediate frontlist. In an indie bookstore, there's more interfusion between genre and fiction shelves & more indies/cult/curated titles on both.

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JuliJess @julianajess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Book Launch for "Thinking from Black: A Lexicon" hosted by The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. Opening remarks from Kaiama Glover and readings from several contributors. Truly a revolutionary work of art. "Poetry sustains people and place." I'm very grateful to have been here tonite.

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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Omair Danish spoke with Ali Baluch, a Baloch lens-based artist from Malir, Karachi. They talked about the impact of the Malir Expressway on the Malir River, sandmining, and how development projects have affected the lives of people and animals in the area. lakeermag.com/death-and-fl...

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Annick Ecuyer @annickecuyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love how the answer in the article is to give your employees access to AI tools, because then they won't use the more insecure ones. How about a clear policy to not use AI and sanctions if you do? And it's easy to block the main AI websites.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"they're crazy" guess what rape does to your mental health! "she's broke" guess what rape does to your finances! "he's bitter" guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Next up in our 2026 series of National Book Awards interviews, @vicenteluismora.bsky.social and @rahulbery.bsky.social on CENTROEUROPA, a “brilliant and unsettling” story set in 1820s rural Prussia. Read their interview on the longlisted novel here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

At the top, “Words Without Borders” in white text and “77th National Book Awards” in red text over black textured background. On the right side, images of the book cover of CENTROEUROPA, author Vicente Luis Mora and translator Rahul Bery. Blue and white text on the left reads: “National Book Awards Interview: Vicente Luis Mora and Rahul Bery on CENTROEUROPA.” White text on the bottom left reads: “Other visions followed over the next few weeks, and then I met Redo, the main character, in a luminous corner of my mind. And I said to Redo, ‘Do you want to write a novel?’ Redo accepted, and then it all started.”

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

whats the point of building a life if these extractivist far right motherfuckers can just set up a social media account, get millions of views in months, and then get elected into office and given permission to destroy everything? what is the point?

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.

Are you a trans person of color doing rad art or community organizing work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2026 grant program are open now through October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

We are specifically looking for projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, and/or other marginalized communities, as well as projects that foster exploration and celebration of gender diversity and trans lives.

We accept applications from anywhere in the world. Collectives/groups are welcome to apply.

Grant recipients are chosen by a paid panel of trans judges of color. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2026.

AI-written applications will be deleted.

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Bertha DocHouse @berthadochouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On 21 Oct, as part of #BloomsburyFestival, we’re hosting the World Premiere of What We Were and What We Are, a programme of docs made by first-time directors from the Sahrawi Refugee camps. Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and members of IRSAAn, a health-based Sahrawi charity.

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