iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1h

In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information - Nature

Ataraxos, an AI for the board wargame Stratego, establishes a design pattern for reinforcement learning and search that is effective under large amounts of hidden information, a longstanding desiderat...

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2h

At it's most basic, you want a an eye catching image matched with clear, legible text that provides the necessary information as succinctly as possible, so your target audience gets whatever you're trying to communicate quickly.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2h

Every AI generated event poster is incredibly ugly, but I do think it's interesting that that LLMs have essentially created a house style for flyers, especially one so maximalist and ugly and in contravention of of all convention and best practices established in graphic design over centuries.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 2h

A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 4h

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

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bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 3h

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2h

Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2h

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 19h

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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samantha @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 4h

worth noting that democrats have largely forgiven bush for stealing the 2000 election but not ralph nader for having the gaul to participate in good faith in the democratic process

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 8h

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 9h

“What we are witnessing is a spectacle of computational power staged to acquire market share, and with it control of a landscape that extends well beyond mathematics.” —Dan Rockmore

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The Work of Math in the Age of Artificial Reproduction | Dan Rockmore

There are seven questions in pure mathematics deemed important enough by the Clay Mathematics Institute, a nonprofit foundation devoted to “furthering the

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 3h

Beautiful article about math and AI by Dan Rockmore. The connection to art and photography via Walter Benjamin was very fresh -- definitely worth reading, even if you're tired of reading about math and AI.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 5h

Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 7h

also: remember that mainstream medka played a big role in turning public opinion away from stronger Title IX reforms with boosting bad actors and misinformation

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 8h

most schools do not expel rapists often. hell, it was near impossible for college rapists to even be found responsible back when i was in college. things suck so much now and they sucked way more before!!!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 7h

I hope I don't come across as An Old going "back in my day"—I'm just trying to add context and history to a longstanding problem. mainstream media frequently jumps in to cover sexual assault without a lot of helpful context.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 8h

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 3h

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

show me a democrat that ran in 24 on a humane and compassionate response to the republican plan of ethnic cleansing. there were none

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

show me one (1) article from the 24 cycle explaining in detail that “mass deportation” would mean kicking in doors and ripping people from their families. just a single article showing this would be impossible without using nazi tactics

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

i dont think people deluded themselves really…they were told by republicans that “mass deportation” was criminals and the media didnt fact check and democrats moved right on the issue there was no alternative offered to mass deportation, no one even argued against it

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7h

destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h

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.

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洛兰，猫界大姐大！ @casezhongguo.bsky.social · 14h

Fraternities and sororities serve as social and economic bonding mechanisms for new generations of American bourgeoisie (and petty bourgeoisie). Ritualized abuse, sexual abuse (both within greek society and outside it), and connections for jobs after graduation are all one package imo

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 17h

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 4h

Delighted to say that my paper "E Pluribus Unum: Costly Inference and Fragmented Belief" has been accepted for publication in Mind! You can find the paper at this PhilPapers link. Abstract follows in a reply. philpapers.org/rec/SPIEPU

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 20h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Gülce @gkardesd.bsky.social · 20h

Also, I learned recently that Or Meir gave a wonderfully accessible talk at Cambridge on a recent work of mine with Ben Rossman on chopping games (arxiv.org/abs/2609.01759), and brought together a few strands of top-down lower bounds.

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Prof. Or Meir | On Top-Down Lower Bound Techniques for Constant-Depth Circuits

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 22h

"Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man." (remotely attending the Simons Institute's Karp Distinguished Lecture by @booleananalysis.bsky.social) @simonsinstitute.bsky.social

Ryan O'Donnell's (almost) favorite expander graph

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

despite having only 3k followers on bsky (compared to 250k on twitter), I keep seeing this adam cochran guy snare big and bigish accounts on here with misinformation. definitely a crossover grifter to watch out for

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@adamscochran. bsky.social 3K followers 3 following 331 posts Partner@CEHV, Adj. Prof Data Sci, Nerd, Dad, thread writer.

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

recent hits include wrongly pegging kirk's shooter as this campaign donor, wrongly identifying the kirk shooter's transgender arrows, identifying a breath mint as trump taking drugs, and claiming trump is having constant strokes. all total nonsense

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 5h

guess who's making the rounds again

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

I think a key issue here is that these guys have no idea what 'good' means

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Sickly Sawyer, the Patchwork Purple Zombie @sickliersawyer.bsky.social · 16h

rei kiriyama, a gift for @shogiboyplus.bsky.social donating $100 to my kofi a few months back... i am very grateful... #art #sangatsunolion #reikiriyama

doodle sketch of rei kiriyama from sangatsu no lion. he looks tired. he has long-ish shaggy hair and square glasses. he is looking over his shoulder.

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bic 🦝✌️ @shogiboyplus.bsky.social · 6h

sneaky classroom doodle

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天使くん推す @angeldeviloshi.bsky.social · 9h

So SJ put out a statement that they're ending all ties with Shihei Lin and the company he's established to be independent of Jump for editing work. According to Lin he'll still be overseeing the titles he's acting as editor for though since it's a direct contract w the mangakas rather than thru Jump

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normal-wife @category-fury.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you all for the donations thus far. We are almost halfway to the 12kAUD cost of the visa! Please keep liking sharing and donating. I love you all!!!!!!

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normal-wife @category-fury.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey all I am trying to stay here in Australia (and out of America) permanently but the cost of a partner Visa is a bit extreme. Please help me stay here with my beautiful partner Lucy for good! gofund.me/b264e145f

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Donate to Help Olivia stay in Australia (Partner Visa), organized by Olivia Borghi

Hi all I have been living here in Australia for 5 years now. I came here … Olivia Borghi needs your support for Help Olivia stay in Australia (Partner Visa)

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 23h

A very important message from Omer Reingold to our TCS community, especially us (arg, already) senior researchers: "snap out of it." Please, digest, and share. theorydish.blog/2026/09/29/s...

As for depression: the next time you have the urge to lament, or even celebrate, being “the last generation of human mathematicians,” perhaps keep it to yourself. Contemplating the end of your profession from the relative comfort of an established, tenured career is a privilege, and it comes with responsibilities. Senior academics are not merely individual researchers; we are stewards of our field, and we owe our junior colleagues active leadership rather than abandonment.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It used to be the case that if a mathematician A knew that a mathematician B was working on a problem P and A wanted to work on P as well, it was considered only polite to at least contact B and offer to work together, rather than trying to race to be the first to solve P. …

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bic 🦝✌️ @shogiboyplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i have always wanted to make one of these!

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026

You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character theonion.com/you-can-be-anything-yo…

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