iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I would appreciate anything you are willing to share

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Yes. I already teach a course that covers a ton of this, but there will be a place for both algorithms and platforms

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Starting broad and will narrow as I design the course.

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Yes. Everything from traditional media industries, the move to streaming, new media, social media, generative AI, gaming. Nothing is out at this point.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026

Academic Folks: I’m teaching a mass media class next semester. It’s been a long time. Does anyone have suggestions for textbooks or syllabi they would share? 300 level undergraduate course.

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“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”

insidehighered.com

UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty

The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I’m grateful to share that I received a Dean’s Special Award for Professional Excellence for my work integrating AI into the Magis Core Curriculum at Creighton. I got to see the best in my colleagues during this process and I appreciate just how engaged faculty were in this difficult conversation.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Despite struggling with his health, he remained well-loved by his fellow residents and staff at Rose Blumkin. He was named the 2025 Nebraska Nursing Home Resident of the Year.

Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

George was a resident of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home in Omaha, NE. He fought prostate cancer courageously for over a decade and was also battling Dementia with Lewy Bodies.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing of my father George Franklin McHendry Sr. (1941-2025). He is survived by his children Debra Lynn, Dan, Laura, Heather, Perla, Erin, and Guy.

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Hospital: We sent it to our legal team. Resolution could take up to 2 years. Sigh. Guess I need a lawyer.

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Hospital: Files appeal via third party company. Insurance: Claim denied. Those were not really complications. You just took a few extra hours waking up from anesthesia and needed prolonged mechanical ventilation. Me: Ummm?

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Insurance: That’s better. Me: Goes into surgery and is anxious about insurance. Has rare complication, wakes up in the ICU. Spends a night there and then fully recovers. 3 Months Later… Insurance: Ope you were in-patient so we are denying your claim. Doctor: Ummm complications. ICU!

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Where I’m at right now… Doctor: You need surgery. It’s in-patient and you will probably spend 1-2 nights in the hospital. Insurance the last business day before surgery: Sorry, pre-auth denied. We consider this out-patient. Doctor: Fine we will make it out-patient but it’s not best for patient.

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Even if we accept the notion that AI increases productivity, increased productivity doesn’t mean increased learning. Quantity isn’t quality.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My latest AI hot take is that AI will probably make college harder in the long run. Harder to teach, harder to grade, harder for students. That will probably make the grade inflation crowd happier, but I worry it will create an accessibility apocalypse for students. That’s a huge problem.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Right now I feel like AI “knows” too much to be useless and too little to be useful. It is just powerful enough to tempt us to our doom.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Check your kid’s Halloween candy this year. A tech bro tried to hide AI in my child’s candy bar.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I think this is especially true for unstructured and unsupervised uses like independently clarifying concepts, creating study materials, and [shudders] summarizing readings. Some of the harms here might end up being more acute than the so-called end of the essay.

Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

At the moment I feel strongly that need to respond to generative AI in higher education is its inevitability and not possible educational benefit. I just don’t see the gains in learning yet outside of very specialized cases.

Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Have we settled on a specific translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric? Asking for a friend.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/09/2025

“The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves.”

theatlantic.com

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

The end of critical thinking in the classroom

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Which is to say, it will be what David Lyon calls liquid surveillance. It will melt into existing systems to the point where we stop seeing it as separate or disruptive technology.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

My hot take is that generative AI’s impact for most people will be mundane rather than revolutionary.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

So people supposedly concerned about government overreach are going to buy the Dear Leader branded gold spying device

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My “no people will not ‘literally die’ with the One Big Beautiful Bill” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

An article from the White House that says “No people will not literally die with the One Big Beautiful Bill”

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This is such a good example of how these systems are designed to give a probable answer even if it is wrong.

Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Is Highway to the Danger Zone playing at the airport bar a good or bad omen? Please help, I board soon.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It’s for sure gonna be uOS or some crap.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Unpopular opinion: While the name is dumb and they will inevitably screw it up, Dems are way behind in terms of influencers on social media. If young men keep voting in higher numbers Dems are dumb to not try and sway them.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/05/2025

LLMs are "’extremely good at playing into cognitive biases because of their ability to respond and adapt quickly to the user.’ She [Dr. Christin Chong] likens this to a psychic or medium performing a ‘cold reading’ on a customer to create the illusion of special knowledge about them.”

rollingstone.com

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts

People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Cannot state this enough: These systems are designed to deliver the most probable answer (one word at a time). They are not programmed to admit when they don’t know or to check the truthfulness of an answer.

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Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I’m totally fascinated by the “more objective” part of this story. I see it when my students want to use it for feedback on writing. It is probably why early research shows it’s more effective than humans at dissuading people who believe in conspiracy theories. Artificial-Ethos will haunt us.