iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Scanning papers as a science journalist is a really different task than writing a lit review as a scientist — but I have found a use case for LLMs that helps me find papers I could be interested in. But this is NOT just typing "Hey Claude find me papers on XYZ topic" into a chatbot window.

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andi a @andia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Check out @wilkinson.graphics' excellent and useful post on rectifying any of those pesky "Lake America" mentions wilkinson.graphics/blog/2026-09...

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Lake America: The Case for Self-Hosting Your Maps

Its easier than ever, I promise!

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 01/09/2026

"Desirably strange". High praise methinks :)

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 17/08/2026

I'll be talking indie magazines in September!

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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Orbital Studies @orbitalstudies.com · 02/06/2026

Orbital Studies Issue № 0: Ways of Seeing the Living World is available for order now. Featuring writing from Michael Levin on minds ingressing from a Platonic realm, @philipcball.bsky.social on the return of purpose & meaning to biology, @spencer.place on intimate computing shrines. And many more.

A photograph of Orbital Studies magazine, Issue No 0, Ways of Seeing the Living World, in a bed of phlox.

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My heart's full after having attended the launch party for Orbital Studies No.0. It's a beautiful artifact that pulled a fascinating community into its orbit. Looking forward to thinking & working towards a more beautiful scientific culture with y'all! And, of course, #Goethe made a cameo! @wxs.ca

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 22/04/2026

Toronto: come out to the launch party for Orbital Studies Issue № 0 on May 6th! Featuring readings from J.F. Martel and Jaspreet Singh, and live music from local artists Michael Palumbo and Stacks. luma.com/sw5ko1k9

Poster for Orbital Studies Issue No Zero Launch Party

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 19/04/2026

This is basically where I've ended up. Computationalism seems to be a dead end.

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💭 @desmond.network · 15/04/2026

Dream project for the last year: art direction for Orbital Studies. Featuring a brand new Authentic Serif; commissioned work from friends @mynameiseno.bsky.social @rileyjshaw.com; printed on munken and gf smith colorplan citrine; layflat thread-sewn otabind (robinkinross.substack.com/p/otabind) !!!

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 10/04/2026

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now! Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture. Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin... orbitalstudies.com

Cover of Orbital Studies magazine Issue 0

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1RG @1rg.space · 18/02/2026

Adults love to talk about the impact of technology on kids, but we so rarely listen to the kids themselves. Next week's Wayfinding event is trying to change that: a panel of teenagers talking about their relationship with technology. Join us on Wednesday

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Wayfinding: Teenhood · Luma

A panel of teens discussing what they wish technologists knew about being a teenager online. Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in…

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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 11/02/2026

This is one of the only good takes

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 11/02/2026

”The real world is what is left unsaid when we have said everything. What we have said is language and the world is not language. A rock is not a word.“ — Guy Davenport

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 09/01/2026

I'll be doing one of these sessions, we'll take the love of complex patterns and structures which often draws us to work in tech, but instead we'll leave our screens and go for a walk in the woods, foraging new patterns, grounding the abstractions in the natural world.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Frankly amazed that any biology gets done at all tbh

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 29/10/2025

We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science. Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World* Deadline Dec 10: orbitalstudies.com Please share! We pay all contributors.

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❧ Orbital Studies Magazine ☙

Ways of Seeing the Objective World

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Chris Satoor @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Paul Klee The Bounds of the Intellect, 1927

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 18/04/2025

Each type of touch neuron can detect specific sensations, such as vibration or temperature; together they generate our complex touch experience. www.quantamagazine.org/touch-our-mo...

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Boris @bmann.ca · 10/04/2025

Just got handed an invite to Western Toronto’s fastest growing screen free social network PostPost Social The full protocol specification is available if you want to self onboard postpost.social

An addressed envelope with some instructions. Further instructions on the back of filling out an index card and receiving further social messages.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In response to all the ai pushed on us & predictions of replacing professions, I think "Men have forgotten this truth," "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." My images take extraordinary amounts of time for me to make and I wouldn’t have it any other way

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

TIL that most modern heavy metal logos are designed by a guy who works at the Co-Op in Exeter www.devonlive.com/whats-on/wha...

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Exeter's unassuming Co-op worker leads astonishing 'double life'

Christophe has designed logos for the likes of Rihanna

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2025

Periodic reminder that are.na is the best place on the internet. Legitimately somewhere I feel awe/movement, not something I typically get through this little glowing demon rectangle. Here's a great channel on anachronism: www.are.na/francesco-venturi/anachr…

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Anachronisms | Are.na

the anachronistic is a way of thinking about the heterogeneous within time

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 22/03/2025

today is the day

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Layers of information in an archival document: - What is said - What is not said - What is alluded to - What is omitted intentionally (and unintentionally) - What is misleading - What is ambiguous - What is highlighted - What is downplayed - What is weaponized - What is unintelligible today ...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Dear trainee friends (et al.), 'Tis true that parts of the sky are falling & this is distracting. However, if you happen to have done A THING (paper, etc.), we want to support you. Don't hold back from letting us know. So we can learn and 👏. We're still here for the science. Sincerely, Everyone

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2025

By popular demand PostPost.social now includes accessibility features: send us your phone number and we'll read your posts aloud to you! #toronto #socialmedia #mail #accessibility

An index card that says:
Screen-Free Social Network!
Decorate an index card and mail it to:
PostPost.social
#616-2938 Dundas St. W
Toronto, ON M6P 3N8
CANADA
Include $2 for return postage, wait, and soon you'll receive a package of Posts!

Wow!

Billionaire-Free!
Made in Canada!

Then: beautifully composited atop the image, the text "New Accessibility Feature: include a note with "call me:" and your phone number, and we'll call to describe your package of Posts.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/01/2025

A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: scim.ag/4h2K0ID

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I'm going to make enemies, but saying that we know the number of parameters of the brain is akin to saying that you have no clue about the brain. It's a complex multilevel system tightly integrated with the rest of the body. The statement doesn't even make sense, or "not even wrong" as they say.

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2024

"the body agent is using the bioelectric patterns as its memory, and simultaneously, these agential memories are doing their thing while using the physical body as their memory scratchpad" […]

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2024

I try to post my reminders that spaced repetition propagates a soulless and depressing conception of learning at regularly spaced intervals to help people remember.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

They mean instead tasks with a quantifiable performance metric. The notion that these capture the primary characteristics of human cognition/intelligence is not just mistaken but corrosive.

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2024

I wish more words were like "cringe" and pointed directly at a physical experience. Friends have suggested "blush" or "chills" as other solid candidates.

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2024

Just heard the phrase "atpyicality accelerationism" from a teacher.

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2024

Every time I read Jan Zwicky I feel this sense of clarity, she's writing from another world where the poetic and analytical minds are not separate. I recommend her piece in the latest issue of Brick magazine. (Buy the magazine at brickmag.com or at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

George Whalley's Contemplative Mind
Jan Zwicky

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2024

I'm definitely going to adopt this practice: @bret has his preferred contact on his website as a PO box. I would also prefer to engage in high effort/care communication (also why my inbox has 8000 unread emails, I will give you my full attention over a dinner)

screenshot of Bret Victor's contact page saying he prefers PO Box

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