iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 35m

When I get down about what has become of journalism, of speaking the truth, I think of Jamal. I lost my Washington Post job. Jamal lost his life. Both of us — all we wanted to do was write and help people.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 35m

SLMath Seminar Mathematical A.I. Safety: What is it, why do it, how is it looking? Jacob Tsimerman Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI) I do not speak Roman dialect, but "ce stanno a pijà per culo" might be appropriate. Or maybe we can all just go back to read 1984.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 1h

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Hendrik De Bie @debiehendrik.bsky.social · 2h

Here it is: (I shared it with all my students) www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/AIm...

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 5h

Australian foodies: where can I find clotted cream in Australia?! I always love to have some when in England, but that means it's a long time between tastes!

Top of a tub of Rodda's classic Cornish clotted cream, with stylised picture of a Cornish lady in traditional dress, carrying two buckets full of milk

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 6h

"can AI stand for humans? No" seems the most obvious of the obvious duh

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 22h

In the year I've been working w/ air pollution regulators on data center on-site emissions, I've seen almost no acknowledgement of this trend from energy-side advocates of data center buildout. This isn't just bad actors-it's a corporate playbook and a roadmap to a future of unconstrained emissions.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 7h

I DID A THING this morning. A piece of burocracy related to my dad's passing last July. It took 20 minutes (actual time: five minutes, plus figuring our how to use a scanner). I choose to view this as a sign that my do-things part of the brain is coming back online.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 16h

Sparrowhawk at the school of wizardry on Roke after his accident with the shadow.

A drawing of a young Sparrowhawk with his otak in his hood in front of a mural of a dragon.

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Paulo @pjasimoes.bsky.social · 15h

limited to 2 paper submissions per month? good! (for reals, I barely have time *read* 2 papers a month; who writes +2/month??? it can't be serious research)

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 13h

"Like it or not, gambling is the future of watching sports in this country, and our students are definitely doing it already, so we must teach them how to gamble on sports honestly, efficiently, and effectively, to prepare them to maximize their earning potential" - someone utterly deranged

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Prof Christelle Vincent @xl772.bsky.social · 20h

Hello #MathSky! A while back there was a study showing that it was better to include more support in a calculus class for underprepared students rather than have them take more prerequisites, I believe because of the attrition associated with taking more courses. Anyone remembers and has a link? 🙏🏻

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23h

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 22h

"web browser written from scratch in C" looks inside It's Claude all the way down. My guy, that's not from scratch, and isn't built in any particular country, but from all the sources Claude stole the regurgritated code from. come-from.mad-scientist.club/@algernon/st...

come-from.mad-scientist.club

Because you happen to be absorbed; whereupon.

Them lay the buildings.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

Warning: the whole page is done by Claude scraping the arxiv. Cheers.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23h

Happening now. At our "Lampedusa keeps on happening" event, @meron.bsky.social is telling us the stories of the people who perished. The stories of the human beings behind the statistics. You can still join us by registering at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Meron, with a photo of an Eritrean woman and her children. With a caption that says "Helen, who died alongside her youngest three children in Lampedusa."

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I worked in the UK, it would be much easier for me to apply for grants, and there would be many more grants I could apply for. On the other hand, I have had tenure since 1990*. I'd rather have that. *Technically 1993, the first three years were tenure track.

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Jo Sharp @jofeanelwa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you could point out that it's nonsense to every institution and every funder that counts "years since PhD" for anything, that'd be great.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Made a new meme about Bluesky

Butterfly meme
Reply guys
Black woman posting information about problems
Is this my punching bag?

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alright, gonna ask a question aloud into the void here and I already regret doing so but: For women especially, what’s the first age you recall being sexualized, by men? I’m a trans dude but I’ll answer (in brief, writing a longer thing on this): I was about 7 …

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

California just banned child marriage! Yup: until recently, California was one of only three states - along with New Mexico and Mississippi - with no minimum age to wed. A child could marry as long as they had parental consent and a judge’s approval. calmatters.org/politics/202...

calmatters.org

California bans child marriage after 9-year fight to outlaw the practice

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law prohibiting marriage for people under 18. Liberal civil rights organizations fought previous efforts to ban the practice.

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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Strongly disagree. I'm 1000% opposed to the ideology of "AI", the industry, all of it. I'm also someone with experience of mental illness/distress. But this neoliberal narrative of choice (blaming) individuals seeking help, when none is available, plays into their hands, and reproduces ableism

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jeannie Ehaloak shared some of her experience as a survivor of residential school, including being so young that by the time she returned home for the summer after her first year at the school, she had forgotten who her parents were.

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An ERC committee member said in front of a crowd that there was already a triage of applications based on the applicant's CV. Now he expected that AI would be used. Preparing an ERC takes MONTHS, you have to work out the financial plan as well as the science. Imagine being doomed from the start.

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hill I'm ready to die on: whether for grants or articles, review by AI is not *peer review*. Review based on a 1st scan by AI without actual reading of the grant or manuscript is not peer review either.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I feel like I’m usually the cynic but I definitely read more generously (maybe in a way more cynically??) because I was like “you poor sweet innocent souls who don’t understand politics” lol

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#TodayInQueerHistory Sept 30 (1897) Charlotte Wolff (born #OTD) was a physician, psychotherapist & sexologist. Her work on lesbianism (Love Between Women, 1971) and bisexuality (Bisexuality, 1977) was groundbreaking at the time. She also wrote novels & a biography of Magnus Hirschfeld.

A black and white photo of an older woman

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today I was trying to explain to colleagues why knowing the answer to a question isn't necessarily enough, or even relevant, and now the comparison between AI and the foretelling in The Left Hand of Darkness is stuck in my thoughts. There is always a price to pay, and it can be very high.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/09/2026

For LOTS OF REASONS I don’t think it is ever okay for a professor to date a student in their own department. It’s an obvious power imbalance and potentially disastrous for the student’s education and career. So it is real jarring and not fun to see it portrayed as a cute happy romance in a novel!

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サッカー bones @doctorbones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are hiring for two TT positions, one in Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry and one in Math Ed. Come work here! www.mathjobs.org/jobs/Virgini...

mathjobs.org

MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society

Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today in "people tell me things": a couple of months ago a mathematician from a EU country had their visa* (and thus, intercontinental trip) to a country I will not disclose canceled two days before departure, no motivation. Happy travel planning! *an affordable online visa is a visa.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

The working premise of the paper is that the option to submit a preprint before peer review is harmful to early career researchers (again, no evidence presented to support this claim) But this also ignores the way that peer review sometimes functions as *unprofessional* gatekeeping????

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a message to all personnel in an Italian university I do not work at da alcuni giorni, diversi siti web dell'ateneo sono oggetto di pesanti scansioni non autorizzate con conseguente forte rallentamento But sure, AI use isn't plagiarism.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a little ritual where I watch this video every year and then I have to spend a portion of my day thinking about how I've allowed space for creativity into my work. This inevitably leads to me identifying new ways to incorporate it in the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZgd...

youtube.com

Meet the 2026 MacArthur Fellows

YouTube video by macfound

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

with claude, an ai agent can fuck my wife while i scrub grout

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ChûgFromABigHûgMûg @bghgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

we need to start treating people who use ai in math like scabs.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Those who haven't yet read it, it's still timely

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Nicole Seifert @nicoleseifert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Heute ist Hieronymustag, der internationale Tag des Übersetzens, und wir Übersetzenden fordern von den Verlagen, dass sich unsere Arbeitsbedingungen endlich ändern. Es reicht. #weilesnichtreicht

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minimaliste13 @minimaliste13.cpesr.fr · 30/09/2026

Vous voulez une revendication simple et unifiée que vous comprendrez tout de suite @bfmtv.com ? Pas un établissement public d'Île-de-France avec une dotation horaire par élève et une subvention publique par élève inférieure à celle de Stanislas ou de Saint-Jean-de-Passy. Voilà, ça va comme ça ?

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will be giving the 2026 Moyal Medal Lecture today at 18:30 at the Macquarie University campus 👉🏼 www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-s...

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Dr Tacey "dumb blonde" O'Neil @densitypoint.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

how to write alt text

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

America's Biggest Problem By me and @valigarmander.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels. The same bespectacled, bearded man appears in all four.

PANEL 1

The man walks past several masked ICE agents. Two agents are dragging an older man toward the open back of an SUV. Nearby, a distressed woman stands with a small child who is crying. An ICE agent is pointing a gun at the child.

MAN (thought): Hmmm.

PANEL 2

Outside the Supreme Court, several Supreme Court justices in black robes are drinking and celebrating around a bonfire in which the Voting Rights Act is burning. The man walks past in the background, watching them.

MAN (thought): Hmm.

PANEL 3

At a bus stop, a woman is reading a newspaper. The man stands beside her, leaning slightly to read the front page. The newspaper’s main headline says: ANOTHER COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED UNNECESSARY WAR

MAN (thought): Mm-hmm.

PANEL 4

We see an open laptop. On its screen, the man is appearing on a TV interview show, grinning as he holds up a copy of his book, Polarization: Both Sides Did It!

MAN: America’s biggest problem is… POLARIZATION!

CHICKEN FAT WATCH
In panel 2, the burning Voting Rights Act is depicted as the “I’m Just a Bill” character from Schoolhouse Rock!

In panel 3, the newspaper is called The Daily Gab. Under the enormous war headline is a much smaller headline: "Study: No one reads smaller headlines or studies." A sub-headline says "'My life is pointless,' says sub-headline writer."

On the wall in panel 3, graffiti includes tags from all eight captains from Star Trek shows (Pike, Kirk, Janeway, Burnham, Freeman, Picard, Sisko, and Archer) plus Taggart from Galaxy Quest. Other graffiti includes “Skitter Lives!” with a spider; a huge "BG," for "background"; and “Never obey! I order U not to obey!” It only occurs to me now, writing this transcript, that I should have made it "not 2 obey." Oh well.

In panel 4, behind the laptop, a large orange cat is sleeping. Curled up asleep on the cat’s tail is a tiny mouse wearing a sleeping cap.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But We Mustn't Ruin HIS Life By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

Four-panel cartoon with a tiny kicker panel below.

PANEL 1. A Black delivery worker stands beside her van, holding a package. She looks downcast.

WOMAN: Everywhere I went I was terrified I’d run into **him**. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t concentrate…
WOMAN: After I failed two classes I lost my scholarship.

PANEL 2. A girl in pink sits on a bicycle on a residential street, looking down.

GIRL: He sent the video to everyone in school. **Everyone**. I had to be homeschooled until I could get into a different school.

PANEL 3. A woman sits in an apartment armchair, holding a baby who pats her face. She looks sad.

WOMAN: It’s been ten years… My therapist says PTSD isn’t ever cured, but it’s something I can learn to manage.

PANEL 4. A hand holds a phone showing a male podcaster at a microphone.

MAN: Nobody feels worse than me about what happened — but we can’t ruin these young men’s lives!

KICKER. The podcaster speaks with Barry, the cartoonist.

BARRY: What sort of thing would “ruin their lives”?
MAN: Being expelled. Or being publicly criticized. Or made to switch dorms. Or to switch a class. Basically, anything he might notice.

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minimaliste13 @minimaliste13.cpesr.fr · 28/09/2026

Les lycéens : demandent des profs et des établissements décents. La police : les gaze, les shoot au LBD et les roue de coups en garde à vue. @lemonde.fr : Le blocus oppose La France Insoumise et le gouvernement

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/09/2026

Black people don't report crimes to the police, especially the NYPD, for reasons that I have shared on here many times. But in the event of a hate crime murder? The victim usually has no choice to not report. Others report the body. And in New York, ~10X more Black people die in hate crime attacks

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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