iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1h

When I taught at Colby College years ago, the trustees abolished fraternities, which dominated campus social life & were notorious for sexual assault &rowdiness all around. “Donations will decline,” cried the fierce opponents.Their threats never materialized. Before long it didn’t seem that frats 1/

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11h

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 4h

JCO has clearly met philosophy majors

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 4h

Democrats defend "science," but what they really should be defending is "wissenschaft." No major social problems - from global warming to AI - can be solved without non-commercial research across multiple fields, including the social sciences and humanities. Really wish the party understood this.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 4h

this is my '80s metal, you can take it or leave it www.youtube.com/watch?v=yog-...

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Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys (Official Music Video)

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10h

FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...

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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II

A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).

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

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 10h

We live at a time when the response to rational criticism is “white guy mad!”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h

Brain death of a salesman.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 13h

The scariest thing in Tommy Tuberville’s childhood

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 13h

We live two-factor-authenticationally toward death.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of Trumpism boils down to the belief that accurately pointing out facts to a man caught up in emotion and false conspiracy theories is a terrible wrong, one that demands retribution.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 14h

"Actually, I hold a degree in speech therapy. I was going to get my doctorate but acting got in the way. Pity, I always thought I'd like to do something dignified." The very talented Madeline Kahn, born 29 September 1942.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 13h

This is why all university classrooms are just silent writing exercises

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

I stopped reading after the lie in the first sentence: "Most college professors I know believe that students learn to think — critically, creatively, reflectively, tenaciously — only by writing." "<only> by writing"? Literally, no one thinks this. Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14h

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 14h

But we have Wittgenstein’s whole pedagogical career to inspire us to have good ideas!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14h

My university announced they will abandon Zoom and switch to Microsoft Teams! In their seemingly tireless attempt to make everything harder and more miserable for everyone.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So the UBC Vancouver TAs voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. But does anyone know if then union has actually served strike notice??? Faculty and student right of conscience not to cross picket lines is supposed to be declared within 48 hours of strike notice….

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why don’t they realize that showing this dude asleep at work so often is a big negative?

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026

he can’t do this, it’s completely illegal, it would cause inflation to spike even more, and even promising to do it is an impeachable offense, which is how this should be reported

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why would the President or his party, rather than the nation, have income from tariffs?

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i am the president of the united states. i like to summon governors to come compliment me while i fall asleep on tv. that’s what being the president is all about babyyyy

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is so weird. I was JUST at the grocery store this morning and I thought, "You know what would fix these prices? A new steel mill in Iowa that might be running by 2030." Our prayers are answered! www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

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Exclusive | Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project

The announcement comes as the president is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026

A Canadian scientist says Mark Carney's government is subsidizing the destruction of nature, contravening Canada's global biodiversity commitments. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Carney’s Push to Fund Industry Imperils Canada’s Nature Promises | The Tyee

Canada participated in a ‘historic’ global moment for biodiversity. Experts say we’re not following through.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is great. @aoc.bsky.social understands that the true “existential risk” of AI is not about rogue systems—it’s about AI systems doing exactly what they’re designed to do… eroding our cognitive ability, our agency, & our joy while drowning truth in irrelevance & reifying bias & existing power.

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Acyn (@Acyn) on X

AOC: AI systems want us to be dependent and outsource our cognition to a machine, and they want us to increasingly rely on AI systems so that they can sell intelligence back to us. AI needs two thing...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The more Jensen Huang speaks, the less impressive he becomes.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

$15billion is Roughly 0.05% of US GDP. This is a local press release not a national address.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When you need a machine to make your dinner reservations and the only cost is your entire freedom and privacy.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most exciting project you can have in STS right now is how the Plagiarism Machine is changing the norms of scientific knowledge production.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the average person has no idea what their government does on a daily basis. they just dont know. and for decades the right has used this as a launching point to propagandize the idea that the government simply cannot work. yes, being mayor is different from being president. but people need this.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For people just joining us, here's what's happening. AI types sold a bunch of B2B snake oil to C suites who forced it on employees. The promises they made haven't come true and now they're pivoting to a protection racket trying to scare those same idiots who believed the first set of lies

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am not surprised—many fields in philosophy are organized around literatures that appear largely in edited volumes.

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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Algorithmic agnotology: How systems manufacture and legitimize not-knowing" That's a brilliant lens and tool for looking at how systems of PR, CEO interviews, and white papers work to keep us shrugging in epistemic powerlessness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRJ...

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Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26

YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“This fuckin’ guy” was invented for Trump

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