iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Oh I forgot to put this in my notes before, this is maybe the hook of the "We miss DEI now that it's gone" chapter

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Now that I've finished a new draft piece of writing, I'll wade into the discourse of, the reason you can give a good lecture is BECAUSE you know how to write a paper!!

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I have thought about this every day since the summer.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h

A lot of butt in chair, JUST WRITE ANYTHING time the past week pretty much worked, I've got a draft and now a few reviews to do before I edit...

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So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h

You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 8h

Me on here: "IT'S ALL DADDIES, EVERYTHING IS DADDIES, TECH BROS ARE OBSESSED WITH DADDIES NOW" Academic me: "how existential risk advances hero stories instead of facts to make people fearful of the future"

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 13h

Website live for our new academic conference “New Terrain,” in University of Colorado partnership with the Sundance Film Festival. I’m directing. This year we’re featuring 12 invited talks and a brainstorming session to discuss how New Terrain will grow in 2028. www.colorado.edu/cmdi/new-ter...

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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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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh my god that is the most beautiful book cover that has been produced in DECADES, I have never seen better book marketing. Guaranteed to get it in the hands of its ideal readers.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ms Five requested to watch the Balanchine Nutcracker tonight, who am I to refuse??

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Word of the day is "unserious"

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In writing news, I'm feeling punchy before I go back into mom mode and head to the grocery store: "If the Silicon Valley, California-headquartered big tech firms will have a legacy a century from now, it will most likely be a legacy of exploitation."

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God I am "I remember when Neri Oxman was just making sculptures in the Media Lab with lab-grown melanin" years old

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My icon for the Ethics and Tech faculty page is still Ned Ludd, and for my Feminism and STEM lab this fall, a Wages for Housework demonstration

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feeling like a Gen Xer with my TPS report complaints today.

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Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha *breathes* AHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAA

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

God I was so close to doing this during the pandemic. We took a whole road trip to Maine to look at old farmhouses and I found the perfect property, complete with secret staircases and a haunted room over the stairs with a shrine to dead babies.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was just thinking this morning about left accelerationism becoming popular after 2016 and how the Iran war is a better argument for it than anything we had back then

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On Tues evening we launched our first two Cross-Reference Coalition publications at the Ctr for Bklyn History 🥰 Anyone can download digital copies — libraries (we’ll prioritize Metro members) can request FREE print copies — via the pubs’ respective pages! crc.metro.org/projects/ (📸 by Mina Leazer)

Four people on a stage in a fancy room, with a set of zines projected on a screen behind them

The crowd at the end of the night, holding candles to recognize the equinox. Xinan Helen Ran, a member of the Search & Discovery cohort read a lovely acknowledgment

Our colorful Misfit book and Search & Discovery zine set

A cross-cohort planning team planned a range of activities — like bingo (card displayed here) — to help folks meet one another at the event, to promote social
“cross-referencing” :)

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

ironholds.org

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Want to add that a CUNY branch is one of my neighborhood's many treasures. Do you know how cool it is to walk by on the way home from school with my kindergartner, admiring the book stacks through the window, talking about all the things she can learn and grow up to be???

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know it’s Book Writing Time when I’m writing down outlines and ideas on a Saturday morning

Why (the) engineering (school) needs feminism

1. It’s a cult! Engineering education and “engineering identity”
2. DEI is the lowest bar, and we miss it now that it’s gone
3. Innovation is a scam, care is the real work
4. Without us, harm can scale
5. What’s the alternative? Or, why political economy still needs the small scale

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just found out that there’s a new, and final, installment of ITV’s groundbreaking 7up documentary series. Original creator/director Michael Apted died a few yrs ago so they got Asif Kapadia (dir. of Senna) to do it. Can’t wait to watch & have an existential crisis.

70 Up poster shows pictures of the children from 7up and them currently as 70 year olds

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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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Another beautiful day in Mamdanistan. Today it's the city council speaker going, AI companies, you say you pose an existential threat? Then here's ten new laws regulating your businesses.

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As much as I am a feral feminist professor embedded in an engineering school, I still throw around words like "peruse" and have a section for "errata" on meeting agendas, and write emails in the style of a 1960s Oxbridge professor, and I truly wonder what my students make of it all.

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How many times is it possible to sigh in a day? I feel like I've already sighed a thousand times. Like, every other breath.

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The news is bad, but I just figured out what kind of skirt I want to make this weekend with a random piece of fabric on my shelf, so

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Having a cold as a parent is the woooorrrrrssttttttt

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Another 800 words, bringing the essay to 1500 words (needs to be 1500-2500). The intro is fine but not sure which examples will stay/develop and which will go yet. But I'm too hungry to continue lol It's a lil essay that I'm using to work out ideas for the larger book proposal

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DO IT THE MET IS A TREASURE OF THIS CITY You can go in your sweatpants! Everybody does! Nobody cares!! Aging UWS-ers seriously treat the balcony levels like their own living rooms and it's one of the most charming things to me about going.

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Not just bread but roses too

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