iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sylvia Pellicore @roenok.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Seriously. Some of the smartest people in the world are working to make online gambling as addictive as possible. You aren’t immune.

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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“In the crusade to make everything social, Google ended up destroying one of the few genuinely social things it had ever made: the RSS-feed aggregator Google Reader.”

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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 19/07/2026

had this pulled up for my freelancing guide how topical indeed

A screenshot of a tumblr post.

From user radiqueer:
Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget.

From user aromanticduck:
Transactional: everything has to be exactly 50/50 all the time, pay me back for the £5 sandwich or buy me something worth exactly £5, I refuse to make an effort for you if there’s nothing in it for me

Reciprocal: you were there for me when I needed help, and I’m going to do the same for you, it doesn’t matter if one of us needs more or is capable of less, because the point is not equivalent exchange but mutual care

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 09/06/2026

New video! Took like two weeks to make, turns out it's exhausting to make a video explaining why I don't give a fuck about something I don't give a fuck about. youtu.be/bCS-bB8mqCM

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I really just don't think the AI thing matters in the long run to be honest

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 28/05/2026

New video up: academics are all blackmailing each other (metaphorically) youtu.be/IjSjpnL2dY8

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Academics are all blackmailing each other (metaphorically)

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

To be clear, "ignored local zoning" here means, "this land is not part of the city of Vancouver or subject to its jurisdiction," so the Squamish nation can write its own zoning laws. But yes, this is awesome, and the buildings built so far are the coolest looking things in the Lower Mainland.

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

some jokes write themselves

a notification from mlb that reads “alimber santa is the 2nd player in history to pitch in a no-hitter in his MLB debut, joining bumpus jones — who tossed a no-no in 1892”

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🎶 Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and The world's gonna know your name, what's your name, man?"

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mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 26/05/2026

watched the fifth element this weekend and i keep coming back to the fact that the most perfect supreme being in the universe doesn’t touch up her roots… much to think about

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 09/05/2026

There's a reason we use a word for 'illusion' to describe certain jobs—there's a difference between what you see and what's there. & To @scalzi.com's point, in this sense every job has a glamour—though they're not all prettier than the jobs they glamorize.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In general we need to see more things as ends unto themselves and fewer things as mere means to ends.

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 07/05/2026

New video this morning! Taking bets on whether next week I can get back to posting on Mondays like I'd planned to youtu.be/CAIVJRFcc6E

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Wish I hadn't said that

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✨Cloud✨ @princeofcloudcity.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Oh this bill sounds amazing. Please spread the word and call your reps to tell them to VOTE YES for HR 4678 💜 this would be a huge anti-censorship win.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I learned of this today. I generated a class about digital media studies. Myself and 3 of my colleagues had 30 second to 2 minute clips taken from the video lectures from our online classes. The clips are interspersed with text that appears to be generated by ChatGPT (stupid emoji and all).

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"All right chat, thanks for showing up. Got some amazing content for you today" I say from the lectern as the funeral director gives me the dirtiest look ever seen on this earth

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Lenna 💛🩸 @lenna.gay · 19/04/2026

Gender should literally just be a common thing that people *should* examine in order to have a fullness of life, even if nothing massively changes. It should be as common as developing a fashion style or a music taste. Deconstruction of societal imprint, no matter how “far” you go, is freedom.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 13/04/2026

I made a video essay for an independent study. It has been a Process. I have a headache. youtu.be/nNbvhyVP8Sg

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Why don't the Humanities do experiments? (kinda clickbait)

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

That money could’ve ended homelessness in the US, or established UBI for every American, student loan erasure, or supercharged every creative industry in existence to pay artists better, instead of, yknow, blowing it on dead malls full of Elegy of Emptiness statues for rich people I hate it here

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

meta-discursive comment: the incentives of social media where making an incorrect naive prediction is seen as much more embarrassing than making an incorrect cynical one are very bad.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A famous guy I was a fan of sent an email during the pandemic just being like "hey I like your show, great job" and it meant a ton to me. So ever since I've tried to reach out whenever I really like something and just tell the people who made it "I really like this, thanks for making it!"

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I’m not Becoming The Joker, Britain is Becoming Gotham

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 25/11/2025

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/11/2025

evergreen

Tweet from @PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart

Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

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Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

My forthcoming book on K-pop fandom looks at how parasocial relationships in K-pop today can be viewed as asymmetrical relationships -- never entirely one-way, but in many cases, two-way, asymmetric-yet-mutual attachments 💞

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

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"Sweet Man" Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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apache/ @apache.be · 24/10/2025

Hi Olivia, we usually never publish in anything other than Dutch (well, Flemish, as is mentioned in the comments). But... we did just create an English version of the piece! You can read (and share it) here: apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia

Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 22/10/2025

From Kenneth Burke's "Rhetoric of Hitler's 'Battle'" (1941) "The yearning for unity is so great that people are always willing to meet you halfway if you will give it to them by fiat, by flat statement, regardless of the facts."

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

early 21st century americans were so modest that they would regularly censor their own feet in video and artistic depictions, and it was considered improper to expose your feet in public — dismissed with cries of "put those grippers away"

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The Pornhub productivity suite took me out.

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Fan Studies question: does anyone know the exact origin of the term "headcanon"? I know it comes from fic around 2007, but can't find anything more specific than that.

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 08/10/2025

Sold a bunch of shares of ownership in my immortal soul recently, getting them packed up to ship now

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 08/10/2025

The AI bubble is JK Rowling's fault

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 03/10/2025

shit what if i am cringe but also not free

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 01/10/2025

The Overton window isn't real. It just seems like it is because the one-dimensional left/right political spectrum also isn't real. We imagine ideas as more or less extreme *based on* how viable they seem as political agendas then assume that there's something intrinsically similar about them

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 30/09/2025

Who else thinks about the fact that algorithmically customized recommendation feeds create a pressure to self-censor your own media consumption to prevent your recommendations from becoming unflattering?

Tweet that reads "Girl at a party asked to see my YT recommendations because 'it's a good test for red flags' and this was the first recommendation I had." Video depicted is "What if Big Bird exploded in the Challenger disaster?" From the channel AlternateHistoryHub

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 21/09/2025

If there’s one legitimate criticism of postmodernism it’s people who wear “this is my costume!” t-shirts on Halloween

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