iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 5h

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

boy, the room temperature in this clip *in texas* is something

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 11h

this is pretty disturbing---nightmare stuff

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jalberghini2.bsky.social @jalberghini2.bsky.social · 11h

Excited to hear @waterman.bsky.social (my American lit professor from yesteryear) speak about his edition of these intriguing novels!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 15h

Contrary to billing change over time as our beat, as a historian I'm here to tell you that violence against women is an absolute constant. Not generations but centuries of activism & policies have made that violence only somewhat more public. Our daily news reminds us how and why.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026

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

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(With last Reskeet in mind.) A friend from high school recently asked for a playlist of “my” ‘80s music. I sent him this old show of all 1982 releases, stuff I listened to at the time and stuff not on my radar until later.

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Originally Aired 24 Apr 2022: The Past Is The Future (All 1982)

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oops accidentally deleted a whole thread. 🤦🏽

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thinking about "for you," as marketing and gatekeeping. Some of the best experience you can have with art is with stuff that's not made to appeal to you, affirm you, or sell you something. Let art make you forget yourself and see someone else.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LMFAO the official America.gov AI website uses a Chinese open source model

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 30/09/2026

the cornell perpetrators, the guy who doxxed their victim, and the guy who owns the platform he did it on, are all part of the same repulsive power structure, and I hope there comes a time when these unpeople meet their deserved fates

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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ash @ashvin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump should've called it Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Intelligence

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I noticed some cemeteries only allow you to put super flowers on the graves. (Tryin out the new way of talkin'!)

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have they sold the movie rights to this, though?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As someone else noted (sorry, can’t find it now) it really feels like there was a coordinated campaign to boost Schmitt today, with the Axios piece floating him as Vance’s VP setting up his big gotcha attempt at the hearing. They just ignored the fuckup and moved to stage three congratulating him.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is pretty damn hilarious.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Heartbreaking

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33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the greatest albums ever made is coming to the 33 1/3 series this October. 🖤 Pre-order: geni.us/cures-disintegration

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Girl, I hope you saved a back up of all that shit because you know they destroyed everything

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminder that there are a couple @3313books.bsky.social starter packs out there... go.bsky.app/GMk7wbF

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Joe Bonomo @joebonomo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey friends, a heads up that Bloomsbury is having a #BackToSchool sale! That means 30% off all 33 1/3 titles (@3313books.bsky.social) until October 4th. Now's your chance to get your Bon on if you haven't and to dig other 33 1/3 books!

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I used to think the AI execs had all overidentified with Lex Luthor as children but really they give some heavy Syndrome vibes.

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Syndrome: You Gotta Admit This Is Cool!

ALT: Syndrome: You Gotta Admit This Is Cool!

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh, man. Gonna have to pull out some of the great Sparrow shows Irwin played on @wfmu.bsky.social 20 years ago ... my introduction to the legend.

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MIGHTY SPARROW tribute with co-host Lane Steinberg and (phone) guest VAN DYKE PARKS: Muriel's Treasure with Irwin

Audio & playlist from April 19, 2006

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Lyndon @drtechnical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The difference between books 1 and 2 of the Sakamoto memoir is astonishing. Book 1 is almost flippant, sketchy, races through decades at an alarming rate. Book 2 is the polar opposite, deep, thoughtful, insightful, detailed. The juxtaposition works perfectly, book 2 is deeply brilliant & moving.

Cover of the hardback copy of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s memoir ‘Music sets you free’. Also a pint of beer.

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My only contribution to the song-about-Texas discourse is to note that I’ve thought of the ending of “Lecture on Nothing” a couple dozen times today.

Last lines of John Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing. Apologies that this cut and paste will inevitably be unable to reproduce his spacing:

A lady
from Texas
said:
We have no music
I live in Texas
in Texas.
is because
The reason they've no they have recordings
music in Texas in Texas.
Remove the records from Texas and someone
will learn to sing
Everybody
has a song
which is
no
song at all :
it is a process
of singing
and when you sing you are
where you are
All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes
think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing.

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Taking a look at my inbox after the weekend.

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My only contribution to the song-about-Texas discourse is to note that I’ve thought of the ending of “Lecture on Nothing” a couple dozen times today.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was surprised by that detail and can’t tell whether it meant the training regimen was unpaid or if the races were, which wasn’t my understanding. No question the employers are exploitative. But I do know her primary motivator was the thrill of it all. She knew she was good at it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s a cult. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The midterm elections should be about whether this is the country we want, not gas prices (never mind that fascism has brought us the latter)

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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once the archives become available decades from now, long after I've gone to that great study carrel in the sky, future generations of diplomatic historians will form on the topic of Trump studies, examining how foreign governments analyzed our mad king problem. What is Xi thinking?

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quilters, immigrant rights advocates and an interfaith coalition unveiled the Stolen Neighbors Quilt at the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday to honor Minnesotans detained by federal immigration enforcement - and advocate on their behalf.

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