iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

just a reminder to give your bodymind good things today. things that could include like fresh air hydration vitamin d proximity to growing things nutritious food stretches your pt exercises your meds your [meditation / breathing / prayer / creative ] practices other things your bodymind likes

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I wish I did it sooner, but at the midterm mark I started incorporating what I call “Functional Literacy Fridays” into my digital literacies class: 10-minute lectures on specific tools and practices. Increasingly, I find that college students often have *critical* but not *functional* literacies.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I dug into Nicki Minaj’s use of the world “neurodivergent” — Where did it come from? What does it mean? And how does a very niche, 25+ year old social justice-y, lefty activist word end up being used on the far right?

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How the term ‘neurodivergent’ moved from activists to pop culture — and politics

Nick Minaj is one of the most recent Trump supporters to identify herself as “neurodivergent,” embracing a narrow definition of a once-niche term commonly associated with autism and ADHD.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

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I don't know where to start with this but... Grammerly is now offering "expert review" of your work by living and dead academics. Yes, dead ones - without anyone's explicit permission it's creating little LLMs based on their scraped work and using their names and reputations. Obscene.
It may be possible to opt out of having YOUR work used to train genAI - https://lnkd.in/eXZB6TY8'
The post includes a screenshot of an option for "Expert Review" in Grammarly from "Selected Experts, David Abulafia, Historian specialising in Mediterranean and global medieval history, author of the Great Sea

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

theverge.com

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch

What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Today is the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, and we want to honor some inspirational Black women abolitionists from the last 200+ years. Swipe through to read! #AbolitionNow 1/2

Text reads Black History Month: Black Women Abolitionists, with pictures of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Sarah Parker Remond, Ida B. Wells, & Angela Davis

A photo of Sojourner Truth labeled with her name. Reads: After freeing herself in 1826, she became a traveling speaker linking abolition & women’s rights. She confronted white audiences, including Abraham Lincoln, about Black liberation.

A photo of Harriet Tubman labeled with her name. Reads: Escaped slavery in 1849, then returned repeatedly to lead dozens of people to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Led a raid on the Combahee River, freeing hundreds of enslaved Africans. Later worked as a scout, spy, & nurse for the Union Army.

A photo of Sarah Parker Remond labeled with her name. Reads: A free Black lecturer & American Anti-Slavery Society agent, she spoke across the North & in Britain to build transatlantic support for US abolition. Later became a physician in Italy.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I keep thinking about how—in the midst of an AI spiral earlier this week (about AI-induced psychosis, the people getting PTSD from training LLMs, its negative impacts on thinking/reading/writing, etc.)—I made a vague post about how AI sucks, and some random person accused me of being ableist.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It occurred to me this week that there may be wildflowers popping up in the campus woods. Normally I don’t see anyone I know there (which is for the best because the woods is where I let myself feel feelings), but I ended up on a trail behind a student who wasn’t in class this morning.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

At this point I'm just waiting for the AI bubble to pop in hopes that one day I will return to my normal life of reading essays with silly human errors and quirks, not worrying about whether ChatGPT is actively harming my students, looking at art that makes me feel something (other than rage), etc.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It's unconventional for an online (asynchronous) class, but I really enjoy scheduling Zoom conferences with my online students. I am 300% more formal in writing than my speaking/in-person affect, and I like getting the opportunity to show that I, too, am just a sometimes-silly human person.

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone. @sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.

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How Political Chaos Is Affecting Americans’ Mental Health - Dame Magazine

As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My contribution to literally every academic committee: "Why are we doing this?"

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives. futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.com

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking

ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

So delighted to announce that today is #PubDay for our book. Every Place on the Map is Disabled is now in stores and available online. Wonderful poets in here including Eli Clare, Ilya Kaminsky, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Raymond Antrobus. #disabilitypoetics #poetry #disability #publishing

A woman’s thumb on the cover of a book titled Every Place on the Map is Disabled. Lavender tassel of a book mark hangs above. Two fists push out into a mountainous territory with the sun rising beyond.

A page of poetry. Text reads as follows:

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Rules had the half-life of ripples
so that the encounter of one set with another would hasten the decay as if the pink of the rose were hypercolor and responded to heat in the breath the girl braided her hair into a ring and saved this relic in a wine bottle her mud-encrusted velvet slipper on his desk clock the speed of her river in helicopters a green ribbon attaches the oak to the elm to the birch to the beech across water we will participate in bondings like yeast if letters could form words by mutual attraction god will be there we will play the part
the garden will contain violets and impatiens the lexicon will assign value and importance this key will be called sharp will be called flat use ice to kill the body in sections a cool body against a warm body before there was glass
insert dance in place of narrative
the memory of heat and light in the shell universe and what gives and what pushes and what pushes and gives open open open open open open open enter
a procession of women holding candles up the mountain
without the women without what is called a woman with an absence at the heart of a life with a life that is life on life life life

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics

In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I often half-jokingly say that this is both my best and worst quality, but my particular mode of neurodivergence means that when I observe someone do or say something inconsiderate/harmful/unjust and I can meaningfully address it, I'm compelled to do so. I consider it my due diligence.

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404 Media @404media.co · 10/02/2026

NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.

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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 09/02/2026

Join us for a free webinar! The Sick Times editors @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social — plus special guest speakers — will demystify the process of writing and pitching op-eds and essays on Long COVID. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ID: A flier for the event reads, "The Sick Times: Free Webinar, The Long COVID Op-Ed. Help Break the Stigma. February 19th, 7-8:15pm ET. Learn how to pitch and share your story with tips from expert guests. Hosted by Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets. Below are the headshots of three guests, Torie Bosch, First Opinion Editor, STAT. Madeline Miller, Best-selling author. Funmi Okunola, MD, Co-founder Long COVID the Answers. A button at the bottom reads, "Comment "RSVP" for a registration link!"

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I had a basic plan for my first class today, so I started class with "moments-of-joy Monday" where I invited students to share things that recently brought them joy—whether personal joys or things they've encountered online. 10/10 would recommend taking 5–10 minutes to start class this way.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/02/2026

people who are saying it's no big deal to be connected to Jeffrey Epstein are soooo close to getting to exactly what the problem is. "we all are friends with rapists and predators!" — yes! that's what I'm saying!!!!!!!

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Yesterday I got a random DM from a student who took several professional writing classes with me during my first couple years as a brand-new professor in Arkansas ~10 years ago. She thanked me for everything she learned in our information design class, and honestly my spirit needed that.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Days after FBI seizes 700 boxes of ballots in Fulton County GA, Trump says Republicans “should take over the voting in at least 15 places.” He’s once again saying quiet part out loud & openly telegraphing his plan to interfere in midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections

After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15 places.”

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Okay since I just finished reading the worst “mental illness memoir” I’ve ever read (scare quotes because I’m not sure after reading this that the author believes in mental illness), who has good #DisabilityMemoir recs for me to cleanse my reading palate?

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Benefits of Zoom class: ✨ It's the only time face-to-face students see me without a mask ✨ I can cut/eat a slice of cake while students are working together I appreciate these little joys, but the fact that universities no longer cancel classes because we all have "equal" access to Zoom is wack.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/01/2026

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

United States Completes WHO Withdrawal
WASHINGTON — January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I want a sticker system for books where a crip collective of disabled writers/readers vet books about disability, then add a sticker that signals to readers if the author writes from a critical disability position or is merely reinforcing ableism. (I'm currently hate-reading a "disability" memoir.)

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Hazel Newlevant @newlevant.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 15/12/2025

The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Okay writing instructors (or anyone who teaches invitational rhetoric or intercultural communication in some way), I have a great recommendation for a game that emphasizes community building and learning about each other through storytelling: Story Stitch! www.greencardvoices.org/programs/sto...

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My morning class is interrupted every day at 11:40 by a campus tour. Today I lost track of time and was dramatically telling a story about a former professor who repeatedly made us watch PETA videos of animals dying. I said, “I was like I’M DYINGGGGG every day in class” right as a tour walked past 🙃

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

My writing process: 1. Think about the topic for several weeks without any research or writing beyond recording a random voice note or jotting an idea in my notes app ~50% 2. Research the topic and/or similar genres ~20% 3. Brain-dump every thought I have about the topic ~10% 4. Revise and edit ~20%

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I love taking snacks to class for work days or peer review workshops. Usually I choose the safest, plainest snacks possible. Recently, my strategy is to buy random snacks from the Asian market in town and watch my students react to random textures/flavors, and it is an absolute delight.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Pretty common thing I get told when I point out an accessibility fail: "They mean well, so give them a break." Unfortunately, that's not how this works. Accessibility is about what is and isn't, not what's intended. Giving people breaks for half-assing accessibility just normalizes inaccessibility.

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I was honestly feeling dread about scheduling a day in first-year writing where we read and talk only about AI, but students had really interesting things to say about what they think the purpose of higher ed is and how AI can facilitate or hinder that, as well as a slew of ethical concerns.

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Aaron Radney COMMISSIONS OPEN (3/7 slots left) @aaronradney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

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Greg Palermo @palermog.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Is this digital humanities?

Screenshot of post from @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

Age 15: computers are amazing! I’m going to do amazing things with computers!

Age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why ChatGPT is not a replacement for Google or the library or friends

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