iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 11h

Seems depressingly relevant again

The Chaser - Local woman convinced that misogyny is no longer a problem thanks to a man shouting "Not All Men" every time she talks

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m sorry but if there is no Kermit what stops me from murdering people? A genuine internal desire to not harm others? Uh keep dreaming aphibiests

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

bumped into an incredible website gavin-theobald.uk/HTML/Pentagr...

a silver rectangle cut into seven pieces and rearranged into a regular pentagram

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 27/09/2026

Outside of the medical benefit cases, I can see ZERO good scenarios this tech brings. None. Lobby your local councils to make sure these are banned from any public spaces. We now have this in our area. We can still control the outcome of this crap. www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/news/inner-w...

Inner West Council to ban AI Smart Glasses in public facilities

Inner West Council will ban AI smart glasses and other wearable recording devices in its venues and facilities, including pools, change rooms, childcare centres and public toilets.

Council resolved at its meeting on Tuesday night to prohibit the devices and has asked staff to report back on how the ban will be implemented, including conditions of entry and signage requirements.

Exemptions will be provided to people who rely on the technology as accessibility devices.

The move follows similar action by a growing number of councils, including the City of Sydney and Randwick Council, to address the privacy risks posed by AI-powered devices.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just find it kind of baffling how many people seem to forget that they were managing to do their jobs and live and accomplish things just fine three years ago or whatever when they couldn't ask the chatbot to do those things for them

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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/09/2026

this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/09/2026

I said I'd do a thread about my new Space Science Reviews paper, so here it is! This is part of a collection of papers arising from a meeting at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in 2024: a workshop to better understand rocky extrasolar planets. A 🧵:

Interior structure models of Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, the Moon, and Io, all shown to scale and key elements labelled.

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Duncan Christie @astroduncan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Potassium and sodium are significant sources of electrons in hot Jupiter atmospheres, and thus they play an important role in the atmospheric coupling to the magnetic field, among other things. I have a paper out that looks that their thermochemical kinetics. #exoplanets arxiv.org/abs/2609.26432

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Transport and Thermochemical Kinetics of Alkali Species in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Implications for Magnetic Models

Interactions between the planetary magnetic field of a hot Jupiter and the winds within its atmosphere are moderated by the electron and ion abundances. For a solar metallicity atmosphere at pressures...

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📕 NEW BOOK!!! 📕 I co-authored a book for DK, contributing several chapters, including ones on stratigraphy, climate change, and key events in Earth history 🌍 Aimed at a very broad audience, the the illustrations are simply incredible 🥰 I hope I didn’t mess up or leave anything important out! 🙏🏾

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just a couple hundred miles from Mexico's southwestern coast, Hurricane Polo strengthens even further. Polo has recently recorded a central pressure of 892 millibars, making it the second most-intense Eastern Pacific hurricane on record, behind 2015's Hurricane Patricia.

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An incredible satellite view of a monstrous Category 5 Hurricane Polo this morning.

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You know who has mental toll from AI? The people in the global south paid pennies to label photos, the people paid a pittance to label graphic images, the people scrambling for contract gigs to train AI to do their jobs because it’s already killed most work in their field.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 21/09/2026

She’s right. Billions of computations to output just a single token. Then the whole process is repeated to produce another token, and so on. Biological systems, on the other hand, employ continuous processes that operate in real time using a tiny fraction of the energy. #LLMs #GenAI

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Erwin @erwinharkink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Goedemorgen

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse...

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/09/2026

speaking as a science journalist who is also a trained physicist, this is the FUCKING WORST POSSIBLE THING. This is the opposite of trustworthy. You can't trust a damn thing an "AI agent" tells you. An article needs to be unchanged between queries, or any change needs to be documented clearly.

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Burr Ito @ututuy.org · 17/09/2026

No, mathematicians were on the verge of success. Then the bots stole their progress. Read this statement from Tristan Buckmaster: cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... 🧪

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jay-Z is an errand boy for other billionaires. What this Macklemore situation has shown is how the NFL billionaires colluded against Kaepernick

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Maarten Reyniers @mrtnrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Deze avond een opvallende #waterhoos gemeld in Nieuwpoort via de KMI-app! Ook verder landinwaarts was ze te zien.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/09/2026

wow so this is absolutely fantastic and chill and correct about everything especially around the 30 minute mark where she talks about universities

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Helena Sheehan, "World Views"

YouTube video by Critical Theory Workshop

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/09/2026

timestamp: youtu.be/-72xmXl6OaA?... > the emphasis [...] is on [grants] and people just sail [...] to full professor without doing anything of any significance and [by] avoiding teaching like the plague in a way that's a good thing because they've got nothing to offer to teach [...] students

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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trots als een aap ben ik, en eindelijk kan iedereen zien waarom. Van mijn bankenboek is een korte fictie film gemaakt, Free Fall. Echt goed gemaakt, won overal prijzen en haalde longlists en shortlists van Cannes tot de Oscars. Nu staat-ie dan gratis op Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BTF...

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Free Fall | A Trader Sees an Opportunity on 9/11

YouTube video by Samansa US

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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Like look I’m sorry but this is clearly some kind of mania. What in the holy shit is he talking about? This sounds like a conversation he’s had with his chatbot

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A lot of this gets lost in the pivot around whether the machine is meaningfully thinking, and I think a lot of people in today's conversations are pretty sure it is not.
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But I think there's a lot of reason that people would resist the idea that the machines are thinking exactly because that would very much challenge our idea of ourselves and what makes us all unique in the world.
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If that's the case, I'd tell people that they are unique and valuable regardless of what a machine does. I'd also add there's nothing wholly conclusive about the situation, but it does seem that the measures for reasoning are a moving target in popular discussion

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 06/09/2026

Trevor is a regular contributor to a lot of planetary science and an excellent example of how the professional-amateur astronomy community can work with the professional astronomy community for the purpose of science! 🔭

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Burr Ito @ututuy.org · 06/09/2026

Ventana en el museo San Telmo, Donostia, España.

A tall window at the center of the picture, rounded top, rectangular bottom. We can see the blue sky outside, and a small cloud. The rest inside the room is dar.

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Burr Ito @ututuy.org · 06/09/2026

There are waves in the sky. If there's a contrast in density, whether sharp (as at the interface between a body of water and the air above it), or gradual (as in the atmosphere itself, with denser air at bottom, lighter air above), chances are we can see gravity (not gravitational!) waves there.🧪⚛️

Picture of a cloud with wavy patterns and a blue sky background

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

1/x Sometimes, you may want to write about a ship not because she broke speed records, is the largest, or was involved in heroic feats. Instead, you may wish to write about a ship simply because she is beautiful to look at. Allow me to introduce you to the ferry Kalakala.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Collectively, through malevolence, through self-interest, through indifference, the rich world killed the 1.5°C target

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Holy smokes Hurricane Lowell's eye is incredible.

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 04/09/2026

i dont think you need to believe that ai is intelligent or that agi is coming or whatever to be worried about what the hugging face hack could mean for things that rely on computers, like banking and energy and water utilities and like, life in general

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Interesting article about use of NASA ISRO #NISAR to detect thinning/movement of glacier. Does pixel offset tracking still work long timespans ? Pixels would remain stable until melt season started - mid Apr 2026. www.indiatoday.in/science/stor... @ericjfielding.bsky.social @gfun.earth

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Isro's Nisar sent clear warning signs before deadly Nepal ice-rock avalanche

Nisar radar data recorded marked deformation on a Nepal-Tibet Himalayan slope before the 2026 ice-rock avalanche. The observations highlight the potential for cross-border satellite monitoring to supp...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thomas Rose, a 37-year-old assistant professor at MIT and an expert in the archaeometallurgy of copper, has died after being hit by a driver while riding his bike at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Massachusetts Ave.

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MIT professor hit while riding his bicycle in Cambridge last month has died, university officials say - The Boston Globe

Thomas Rose, 37, joined MIT in January and was set to begin teaching courses this fall.

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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 04/09/2026

UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out Mercator projection, which depicts continent as similar size to Greenland, in favour of Equal Earth Map www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Equal Earth projection of the globe, correctly showing Africa and South America as huge, unlike North America, Europe and Greenland

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1/x Everyone knows the story of Captain Schettino leaving the sinking vessel before he made sure everyone was safe. But there's also a story of a captain refusing to leave his sinking ship until the last moment: This is the story of Captain Kurt Carlsen.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy Carrington Event Day to all who celebrate. On Sept 2-3, 1859, a huge solar flare hit Earth with the most intense magnetic storm on record. Auroras bloomed, magnetometers went wild, and telegraph machines sparked around the world. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Carrington’s (1859) carefully executed drawing of his sunspot group 520 on 1 September 1859, the first visual record of a solar flare. The initial (A and B) and final (C and D) positions of the white-light emission are indicated. Solar east is to the right. Below: Enlargement of region 520 from an early solar photograph made at Kew Observatory by Warren De la Rue on 31 August 1859.

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Diana @dianaaceves.com · 02/09/2026

Cuando me enteré de la noticia pensé que no me molaba nada y Ana Peleteiro lo explica perfectamente.

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Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That's the first time that I am happy with my processed image of an observation of Neptune by Hubble, so I am sharing it here too! 🔭 This observation was done yesterday around 6pm UTC. The data come from the 17964 proposal led by Mariarosa Marinelli.

A picture of Neptune as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet appears in dark blue, with some storms near the poles and the equator looking like white spots and streaks.

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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

a Black family dancing to korn with their astronaut relative who just got back from the moon is, quite frankly, the best thing the internet has ever produced

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

...why are we talking about Large Igneous Provinces? Does he understand he's talking about Large Igneous Provinces and the supercontinent cycle?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026

How many students were kicked off their campuses for protesting this stuff? It's not just the psychotic openly genocidal propaganda, it's that the people in power in the US made it so that if you criticize this openly, your life could be destroyed.

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Wouter van Bernebeek @woutervanbernebeek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🌩 Flinke bui met #onweer nadert de Maas! Zojuist boven mijn woonplaats op de grens van Gelderland en Limburg:

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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am in academia only because and till the time it is fun for me. For some people, the thrill of competition may be fun, but all I want to do is sit down with like-minded people and work on interesting problems. Not to beat someone else, but because those problems are interesting to us. [1/2] 🧪⚛️

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Close reading grounds and extends an argument, reasoning from what we all know to be the case to what the close reader claims is the case. You are the world expert in your idea, I would say...the way that close reading is powerful is that it lays claim to power.”

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