iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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The Dependent Clause @dependentclause.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

[to the tune of “Hot to Go”] 🎶 Frey sign in the boulevard Put that shit back in your yard 🎵

A Jacob Frey sign illegally placed in the boulevard in front of someone’s house

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Alya @alyaimsorry.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

when I say I’ve been waiting *years* for @anniemcc.bsky.social’s book to come out… 😤💯

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...

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Joshua Clover, 1962–2025 – Rosa Press

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Preorder this book now! Rosa author, Rosa fave, Rosa icon, Madeline. Can't wait to read, hype, cite, and love this book.

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · 17/08/2025

The full discussion with @archivesonscreen.org curators @hennefem.bsky.social and Michelle Baroody at the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara in February is up now on YouTube! youtu.be/gKnaGV0qSww?...

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Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Many people have said to me in recent months that they would buy a "print is a rent strike" t-shirt. Well, now's your chance. I reached out to the preeminent critical theory and literary studies printmaker, @allgrim.bsky.social, & he designed this absolute wonder.

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The American Vandal, "Print is a Rent Strike" (double sided)

READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/theamericanvandal/p/against-technofeudal-education?r=4b9icb&utm_medium=ios LISTEN: https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/newspapers-worse-than-dead-but-print...

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All Grim Prints @allgrim.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Honored is an understatement. This moment we’re in is a weird (and scary) one, and we’re lucky to have the Matt and everyone he brings on American Vandal as we figure it out.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

New at PB, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social reviews Emma Cline’s “The Guest” (Random House), arguing that the opacity of the central character is a resistance against the “trauma plot” that has come to popularity in contemporary fiction.

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Mute Compulsion

The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/08/2025

For context: The coal industry employs about 40,000 people.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-internation…

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like

More than four out of five Americans, 83%, said they were concerned about the cost of groceries, with 46% saying they were very concerned. Some 47% said they were worried about being able to pay their rent or mortgage, 64% said they were worried about affording an unexpected medical expense.
About 48% said they believed they would have trouble affording an unexpected $500 bill without borrowing. One in four said it would be "very difficult"
A quarter of those surveyed said they spent at least three hours a day worrying about their finances and ability to afford basic necessities. Another 25% of respondents said they or someone in their household had skipped meals in the past year in order to make ends meet, and 26% said they had fallen behind on their monthly bills over the past year.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

dance like nobody’s getting the ick

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Littleevil0ne @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read" So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This mighty book has arrived and I’m eager for it to be in your hands! It can orient us term by term to past struggles in higher education and the ones ahead. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

a hand holding a copy of a green and yellow book: University Keywords, edited by Andy Hines

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

"Careless people … smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This email from All of Mpls is full of defamation & slander. As the son of immigrants & a council member representing a large immigrant community, our community deserves to know whenever ICE is present. This agency separates families & tears communities apart. People need to check their privilege.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/06/2025

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On

In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

ACLA May 30, 31, and June 1 -- stream A (10:30-12:15) w/ @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @jasonread.bsky.social and many other people I can't wait to learn from

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

ok! good effort. we’re gonna aim for posting normaler tomorrow but you guys hit the showers and rest up

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

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Matt Zandstra @inflatableink.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I played with it for a while in 2024 -- even experimented with writing software that used it.. but then came to the (not terribly surprising) conclusion that, as currently implemented, it's a theft machine. hiddenhat.press/ai-brief-eth... .

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AI: a brief ethical survey

Beyond the magic box. Work, copyright, bias and the environment.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?" www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

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I'm a professor. We're not the 'elite' the powerful billionaires say we are.

Most professors don't have tenure. An increasing number don't even have full-time jobs. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 14/05/2025

I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

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ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Put this on a sign and keep tapping it: "Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours."

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers of all those children.

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 09/05/2025

BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Rumeysa outside, surrounded by reporters and her team.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

And by “replace,” of course, I don’t mean AI will do the valuable work these professional classes perform, merely that these are the professional classes authoritarians wish to eliminate. So they are creating the illusion of a substitute, which will actually practice indoctrination & intimidation.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“Massive #s of students are going to emerge... who are essentially illiterate. Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate + having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” This isn't the only reason AI is bad, but it's why it is bad for students.

It isn’t as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, “the ceiling has been blown off.” Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? After spending the better part of the past two years grading AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, and Cal State Chico ethics professor, has concerns. “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” That future may arrive sooner than expected when you consider what a short window college really is. Already, roughly half of all undergrads have never experienced college without easy access to generative AI. “We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast.”

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 06/05/2025

Last week, we lost the poet, activist, and scholar Joshua Clover. Those who want to pay homage might donate to their local bail fund.

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The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)

How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

You basically just have to babysit yourself for your entire life

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur. It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine. www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

He will be murdering kids with this. He must want kids dead. Absolute horror show

From NY times: “Kennedy Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of
Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/05/2025

love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

spring trend predictions: — 5" shorts — camp collars — recession

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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