iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Heather Hill @rollin-academic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saw a monarch butterfly today, a depressingly rare thing anymore, but then I started thinking wow it’s late September in Ontario and I’m pretty sure that butterfly should already be further south. Anyway, it’s possible I might need to go back on antidepressants

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

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Aja McCarthy @ajamccarthy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’ve negotiated salary, start date, PD funds, and an office (not cubicle) space.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The answer to almost every argument for a genAI use case is "what if you just talked to another person?"

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“No one is coming to save us, and that’s okay. WE are going to save us!” @maggietokudahall.bsky.social

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

engineering students built a cool shelf-reading robot — they said they didn’t build it to replace anyone’s jobs but I told them I’d destroy it with a bat if it got out of line

A robot next to shelves of books in a library.

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Tina Coleman @arystocrat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Next week ALA Staff will be voting for our Union - ALA Workers United - you better believe I’m voting a big YES. Library Worker colleagues, I hope you are as excited for us as we are for the amazing victories in your work. Vote Yes because a strong staff makes for a strong ALA for ALL OF US.

Holding up a sign that says “VOTE YES - ALAWU; Strong Staff = Strong ALA”

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 09/02/2026

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS HE SAID CANADA.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 26/01/2026

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

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Bryan Hambley @hambleyforohio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The violence and fear we are seeing in #Minnesota should have no place in our country. We have a right to show up and speak out on behalf of our neighbors and our communities. We have an obligation to take care of each other.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Because we all need a little bit of joy today, I will never forget the little girl who peeked through our bookdrop and exclaimed loudly “mom, why are the librarians hiding back there? Are they NAKED???”

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 11/12/2025

The term “unskilled worker” was invented to make it seem normal that people working 40+ hours a week are still living paycheck to paycheck. It’s not normal AND it’s not acceptable.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If a person's desire to *be* the change outweighs their desire to *see* the change, be cautious of them no matter how virtuous the cause they're leading the charge on They may want credit more than progress

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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This. Absolutely this. "While much has been written about the vulnerabilities of contingent faculty, there has been almost no discussion of the academic freedom needs of one of higher education’s most rapidly growing workforces: third-space professionals." #HigherEd #Staff #AcademicLibraries

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Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too (opinion)

Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“Before you can privatize an economy, you have to privatize psyches. You have to convince people we have nothing in common, there’s no benefit to shared public resources, public space, public transportation, public libraries, public health, public healthcare...” endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...

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The Revolution Will Be Incremental with Rebecca Solnit

The sisters are ecstatic to build with writer, activist and historian Rebecca Solnit. Her latest book is No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays on U...

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Melissa Block @melissablock.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

After Congress stripped away funding for @npr.org and @pbs.org, a lot of us are wondering how we can best support the most vulnerable stations. My former NPR colleague Alex Curley created this "Adopt A Station" website to help you find (and donate to) the stations most at risk. adoptastation.org

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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media

Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

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Stop SB1 @stopsb1oh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

How do I help? ⭐ Sign the petition! - Meet one of our volunteers at the locations listed here: bit.ly/sb1sign ⭐ Volunteer to become a petition signer! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ⭐ Share social media posts with the #stopsb1oh hashtag! We can't do this without you - every little bit helps!

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Airtable | Everyone's app platform

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 08/04/2025

today is National Library Workers Day, and i am asking you to support library workers by -using your library (it matters!); -defending library workers against the ongoing efforts to intimidate, silence, and criminalize them; -advocating for better pay for them. 📚

What is National Library Workers Day?
NLWD is a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers.

On January 25, 2003, a resolution was proposed:
That in order to recognize the hard work, dedication, and expertise of library support staff and librarians that the Tuesday of National Library Week be designated National Library Workers Day; and, that on that day, interested library workers, library groups, and libraries should advocate for better compensation for all library workers and, if the day coincides with Equal Pay Day, these individuals, groups, and libraries should recognize both days together.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The library is the only place that Americans experience the fullness of what it means to remove goods from the market. It pings our consciousness. Hey we could love differently!

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Congress has the power to restore funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Join me in calling your reps!

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Kathryn Reynolds 📚🎨 @cozykathryn.com · 02/04/2025

Let me never become so jaded as to think acts of resistance are pointless.

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