iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I highly suggest replacing "understanding" with "mimicking" when discussing A.I.

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Minnesota Sheltie Rescue @mnsheltierescue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Years ago, a talented artist painted this treasure. Don’t use ai. 🤎🤍 #SableSaturday #Shollie I don’t know if they still do commissions of pets - here is their site: clemintinearts.com/commission-a...

Painting of a sable and white Collie Sheltie mix.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

I keep seeing people say "this is similar to a subsidiary right" about the Anthropic settlement, and it is not.

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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

OK, School Library & Education folk: Who can we forward this to/tag to get this going? 'Cause I think EVERY state needs a careful School Library Census. I know some of ya'll are professors of various sorts - how do we get this to happen? #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The AI Literacy we get: "Here's a piece of software founded on theft, labor exploitation, and environmental devastation. It consistently produces bias and falsehoods, so be sure to use it ethically and responsibly!" The AI Literacy we need:

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Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com · 28/08/2026

I wonder if @bcdreyer.social might have something to say about this. It's not exactly a copyright issue, but Dreyer *knows things.*

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Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com · 28/08/2026

For all who followed my English-teacher to school-librarian to inquiry-teacher journey, here’s the sign I’ll be posting on Monday (the first day of school!) outside my new classroom. #edusky #tlsky #skybrarians #inquiry @slj.com @neanh.bsky.social

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is my theory of most of our problems right now, and specially, the oligarchy and AI intersection of problems

Two posts: it’s really hard for people to look at any insanely rich person and understand that they might be dumb or malicious. Because we have a national myth that smarts and hard work lead to success, but conversely if you have success you must be smart and have worked hard

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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ok, back story. The Wild Horse & Burro Act passed in 1971, under Nixon. Horses are FERAL in North America, not wild. They evolved here, migrated to Asia, died out here. The Spanish brought them back & turned them loose.

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Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com · 21/08/2026

This summer my rising 8th grader (13) said he wanted to learn #karate. He’s an introvert, so I was excited. We visited several dojos and decided on one. (1/7)

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Under Trump, protected wild horses are going to slaughter. A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (Gift Article)

A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026

Never let a writer help you move

A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh, honey, please.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

People say this every week and it makes me so happy. It's also proof that you don't need gen AI to make posters or whatever. No matter how "bad" it is, homemade has an energy, magnetism, and sincerity that gen AI can NEVER match.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/08/2026

For those of you following along in Bartz v. Anthropic, I gave some guidance as to when we might see money, and said in that guidance that it all depended on whether there was an appeal. Semi-bad news: there is an appeal. Want to know who is appealing? Do you, do you?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are trapping language yn nonsense realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Good language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake, leave honest heartbreake footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Cherish them.

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Lynda Mullaly Hunt @lyndamh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

An ARC giveaway ! Please comment to enter. Sharing would be appreciated 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Ends 8/18 #mglit #kidlit #Howtobuildamiracle #mgGrit #CapeCod

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Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com · 15/08/2026

This month I talked with author Rosanne Parry ( @rosanneparry.bsky.social) about her newest book, A Raven of the Wilderness. We talked about what students can do to help protect their environments, and how she found her voice as a writer. www.benjaminludwig.com/blog/raven

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Interview with author Rosanne Parry — Benjamin Ludwig - Author

Rosanne is the author of A Raven of the Wilderness (Greenwillow | HarperCollins), the latest installment in her Voices of the Wilderness series. I met Rosanne last year (2025) when we chose her bo...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Since AI became a big concern in education, calls for evidence of its effects have been constant. But what evidence exists is mostly awful. So now we're seeing competition over what kinds of "policy-relevant" evidence of AI should count in education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/e...

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Evidence experimentation in AI evaluation in education

Photo by Bozhin Karaivanov on Unsplash The introduction of generative AI into school settings remains highly controversial almost four years after the launch of ChatGPT. One source of growing publi…

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

all we are teaching students is dependence and superficiality; that deep engagement does not matter; that they can rely on Big Tech to tell them what to think and do; that they cannot trust themselves; that learning anything does not matter or count.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 10/08/2026

And that, is our opening salvo Because we know exactly how to fix this The science is in The problem is the politicians taking bribes from the corporations to keep themselves in power and us, out of the loop Its a club And you aint in it And that's what needs to change the most

Grizzly bear looking broken and defeated in a concrete pit cage with the headline reading

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Between the FB Bond villain’s essay on the future of AI and the OpenAI piece on task crossover (linked below), it’s clear they see deprofessionalization as a good thing. Of course they do: devalue knowledge and labor, then profit. Superyachts don’t pay for themselves. about.fb.com/news/2026/08...

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The Future is for Everyone

A letter from Mark Zuckerberg on the path to a positive AI future.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/08/2026

Hey, I made a video for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Please, @mayor.nyc.gov, don't let the billionaires get their hands on our kids! Give us a full 2 year "A.i." moratorium for the schools - for students and teachers, 2K-12! (PLEASE share - and tell the mayor what YOU think at HeyMamdani.fyi !)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today’s Civics Lesson Dr. Fauci honoring a congressional subpoena and then taking the Fifth Amendment: an example of someone respecting both Congress and the Constitution. Jim Jordan ignoring a congressional subpoena: an example of someone showing contempt for Congress. Lesson over.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just thinkin' about the best film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_M...

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Sesame Street: Making Crayons

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 31/07/2026

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

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Hank Green Admits To Using AI After Fan Backlash Over Recent Video

'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Hank Green

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Kamala Harris: I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular, we need to revisit the electoral college. We need to revisit the point of expanding the court. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.

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SNHU Online MFA @snhumfa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Writers, if you want to have a career or just be able to look at yourself in the mirror with dignity and self-respect intact do not use AI. For anything. Ever.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Students anted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings+complex ideas. They didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to gen AI. They wanted to do the work.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

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Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We do not neede no Generative A.I. tooles We do not neede no Thoughte control

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Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com · 29/07/2026

Very true. We might not be able to discuss politics peacefully, but we can usually discuss a movie or book peacefully. Doing so shapes our political ideas and establishes common ground.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I am getting this email like once a week at this point and I tried to be quiet but enough already. It is not smart to turn to Amazon to supply the library with books. Amazon already has an outsized impact on the book market. They need LESS power and influence, not more. Amazon is not our ally.

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Okay, this is a thing many of us can do something to fix.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Had a chance to sit down with three people behind this conference to learn more about what sets it apart from so much else—full conversation with them here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The AI Conversation in Education

Podcast Episode · The Broken Copier · July 24 · 51m

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yn a worlde where the humanityes are being systematicallye defunded by both the righte and the lefte, the internet ys one big seminar about the meaninge of *The Odyssey.* Ther ys a lesson yn thys somewher. And the lesson ys: funde the humanityes.

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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"When You Share Claude Chats, You Might Be Sharing Them With Everyone" "...[C]onversations with Claude can be crawled and made searchable on Google, essentially readable by anyone who comes across them." #AiIsTheProblem #TechLiteracy #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians gizmodo.com/when-you-sha...

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When You Share Claude Chats, You Might Be Sharing Them With Everyone

Not the open source anyone was asking for.

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Nicholas A. Emmanuele, PhD (he/him/his) @naemmanuele.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Since not everyone has my fancy hardcover copy & since most people have no reason to read a full dissertation, you can listen to me talk about my research (and day-to-day teaching) on @marcusluther.bsky.social’s #TheBrokenCopier podcast! #inclusion #disability podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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More supportive and inclusive classrooms

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Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com · 27/07/2026

Exactly. Unless there's an opt-in/opt-out, it becomes part of the scenery, then no big deal, then perfectly acceptable, and then The Obvious Way To Do Things.

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Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com · 27/07/2026

When are schools going to wake up and realize this is a problem?

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