iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 20h

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 20h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'In some respects, what we are seeing resembles a form of collective grief. Not only grief for colleagues who have left, but grief for ways of working, professional identities and communities that once gave meaning to academic life. This creates an important challenge for university leaders.'

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The loss of staff belonging in higher education

Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(3/3) Dolly called and asked if there was any way to help with this tragedy. Abumrad replied she was on a vaccine research team but it was expensive and they were still seeking grants. When Dolly heard this she replied "Well I have money" and donated $1m. Abumrad's team produced the Moderna vaccine.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hypothesis: One of the reasons universities are struggling to adapt pedagogical policies and curricula to an AI world is that the vast majority of university administrators do not teach classes. It’s much harder to solve a problem you haven’t encountered yourself.

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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag

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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The New Zealand Institute of Physics has its AGM today. I have to write a president's report. This is part of it.

Fourthly, the recent changes to the science system and our science funding are going to have a generational impact on research in New Zealand. From one perspective our discipline stands to do well; “space”, “quantum” and “AI” are all favoured areas in the new scheme, and all of these have a big component of “physics” – it is worth remembering that key AI technologies were awarded the physics Nobel, and it is a reminder that the impact of our discipline is often felt far beyond its immediate domain. On top of that, our Prime Minister said on Thursday (25 June) that he wanted to see professors become millionaires. So as both a professor and a physicist you might expect that I would be happy.

In reality, though, I am deeply concerned that the government does not have the competence or vision needed to make good decisions – the idea that public support for science leads to better outcomes for the community (both economically and more broadly) is one that I, and the Institute, fully embraces – delivering these benefits is one of our core objects as an organisation. However, it is not clear to me that the current government policy settings will achieve their stated goals and in many ways they appear to work against them.

We will continue to speak on this but we are being buffeted by forces that are much larger than us. And it is striking that while funding systems in the United States are similarly in turmoil the total change until now in the United States is less dramatic than it has been in New Zealand – but there it is the focus of heated debate, whereas many of the changes here have been poorly signalled and are receiving little attention in the media.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The first is Very Catholic but the second is just Very Good.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/05/2026

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

gotta love when a whole education system makes itself vulnerable by making a large number of institutions dependent on a proprietary lms whose continuity or reliability they have no control over *chef's kiss* now let's do it again, but bigger, with ai

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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I think this is true for just about every industry that *can* be made more efficient through AI. And it's something that those of us who teach face as a challenge, too. I tell my students they need to develop expertise before they can use AI tools effectively. But what if they never get the chance?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 06/04/2026

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

At first I thought, "How many people saw this and did not notice?" And then I thought, "Maybe no one?" In the era of deploy AI copyeditors, enshittification abounds.

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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Co-authored with recent UNSW Psychology Honours student, Nathan Clout. This study echoes a claim I made in a 2024 TEDx talk: technology and AI may excel at spreading knowledge, but human connection is key for nurturing curiosity and joy of learning. 4/4

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Teaching and the vanishing art of connection | Steven Most | TEDxUNSW Salon

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I try not to be intense about it, but I am an e-bike (particularly e-cargo bike) evangelist. Ask me about my bike, and I'll go on and on about how everyone should have one. In am average week, 1 person asks about my bike. In the past week, it has been 10. E-cargo bike riders: this is our moment!

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

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An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"

Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/03/2026

How quickly we forget. We must never allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding for society.

Google query: When did the US first invade iraq?

AI answer:

March 19, 2003
Following a failed attempt to appeal to the United Nations for a mandate to invade Iraq, the United States, along with forces from Australia, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, and Great Britain launched Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 19, 2003.

(The 1991 invasion is conveniently forgotten.)

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The AIP stats team has released its latest data of physics & astronomy PhD trends, with breakdown by gender. What is extraordinary to me is how clearly the overall trends exhibit an important gender dimension, and that that story is quite different between physics and astronomy.

Chart of Physics doctorates earned from 1978 to 2024, with a steady increase in the number of women but overarching trends closely tracking the number of men earning PhDs

Chart showing doctorates earned in astronomy from 1978 to 2024 with women making steady gains and closing in on parity, and an overarching increase in number of PhDs earned linked to the increasing numbers of women entering the field.

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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

They interrogated a 9 year old child without her parents.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved

After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A key goal of the Children's March in Birmingham was provoke the police to brutalizing non-violent *children* and capture that on camera. The organizers knew what would happen. I wish this was consistently taught in schools.

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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

World Cup and the Olympics are going to go so well.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/10/2025

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit. Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes" We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Experts along with 5th graders who just learned the definition of percentages.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 21/09/2025

> OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems. An observation I made in my book, even in the first edition two years ago, was that research gave us reason to believe that hallucinations got worse with increasing model size

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

OpenAI “admits” what literally anyone with any training in the subject always knew. Generative AI models work like this. They are built like this. “Hallucinations” is all they do all the time.

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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

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Google search bar: “how to clean a rescued pigeon”

Al Overview

Pigeons are usually clean, even wild ones.
You can try these steps to clean a rescued pigeon:
• Remove the label
• Remove the head
• Make a small incision in the wing and snap to join
•Cut off the wing
•Remove the legs
• Clean the top bone

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed." They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It's "great" to see my employer releasing names and information about *alleged* behavior to the Trump admin, without even telling the people who've been accused what it is that they're accused of. Utterly reprehensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

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Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

look Charlie Kirk started, maintained, & promoted turning point usa’s professor watchlist I’ve been on it for over a decade and until this year I was the *only* UVM professor on it which means his life’s work = my death threats

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 12/09/2025

butler's literally jewish and has written extensively about this topic come on

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.

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