iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 13h

The Glass Essay, then? The glass essay

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

stating that Israel is engaged in an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people is a basic fact. It's uncontroversial. It's true.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Right, so. I’m with Ketan here: the theft I refer to with AI isn’t so much training data (which sucks) but the ways that it enables an entire culture of permissible theft maintained by folks who don’t see the harm in what they do.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fall colours in Vancouver are generally disappointing, but there is this row of very gay trees on a street named for the Canadian poet Earle Birney.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Works Progress Administration was created in May 1935 as part of the New Deal to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression. One of the WPA’s most idealistic goals was to send books and librarians to areas where there were none. Read more: bit.ly/4hkgtNC #ALA150

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘“The money should be granted as Congress intended, and essentially, they’re ignoring what Congress did,” said Representative Zoe Lofgren.’ The Trump White House is instead redirecting the money designated for basic research towards pet causes like AI

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Nacho @nachonachete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The AI-forward education platforms are expected to provide indispensable systems for surveilling and disciplining two despised populations - educators (especially unionized ones) and young people - who remain durably resistant to fascist propaganda".

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Those losing their health benefits who were previously eligible include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, and interpreters who risked their lives assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan..."

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US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health News

The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shut every fraternity down.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.

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All Grim Prints @allgrim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Committing to getting back on my printing game. It’s been a few months, and I’m ready to be back. Finishing the Morris soon and starting a new monster (already chosen).

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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Currently...

On a flooded Bangkok street, water splashes from a motorcycle carrying a small family.

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dusty dirty @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

charles wright

ARCHAEOLOGY

The older we get, the deeper we dig into our childhoods, Hoping to find the radiant cell
That washed us, and caused our lives to glow in the dark like clock hands
Endlessly turning toward the future,
Tomorrow, day after tomorrow, the day after that, all golden, all in good time.

Hiwassee Dam, North Carolina

Still 1942,
Still campfire smoke in both our eyes, my brother and I
Gaze far out at the lake in sunflame
Expecting our father at any moment, like Charon, to appear
Back out of the light from the other side,
low-gunwaled and loaded down with our slippery dreams.

Other incidents flicker like foxfire in the black
Isolate distance of memory,
cross-eyed,
horizon-haired.

Which one, is it one, is it any one that cleans us, clears us,
That relimbs our lives to a shining?

One month without rain, two months third month of the new year, Afternoon breeze-rustle dry in the dry needles of hemlock and pine.
I can't get down deep enough.
Sunlight flaps its enormous wings and lifts off from the back yard,
The wind rattles its raw throat, but I still can't go deep enough.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI is the largest theft of labor in history, but the case doesn't go far enough -- AI steals not only from journalists and researchers but from authors throughout history, from policymakers and legal writers, from photographers and artists in every medium.

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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Novelists Kathryn Davis and Ann Joslin Williams are reading at UMaine Farmington on Thurs, Sept 24, 7:30 PM at The Landing. The reading's free and open to the public. We're reading Davis's brilliant The Silk Road and Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir in my classes now. #Booksky #WritingCommunity #Maine

A photo of novelist and memoirist Kathryn Davis

The cover of The Silk Road, a novel by Kathryn Davis, featuring a spiraling shape in white and light greens on deep greens with a faint grid behind the words, "a novel"

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

SAT, SEPT 19, 1–3:30PM: Praise Day for David Henderson, a “Community Gathering, Reading, Celebration & Memorial” at St. Mark’s Church, 131 E 10th St. His children, Najuma Henderson and Imetai Henderson, will be present. Free and open to all. centerforthehumanities.org/event/praise... #poetry #NYC

Instagram post from CUNY Graduate Center/gcpoetics about Praise Day for David Henderson at St. Mark’s Church in New York City. A black and white photo of Henderson is featured.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...

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Erinrose Seon Mager @erinroses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Started a writing workshop with @alecniedenthal.bsky.social called Nightwork, and registration for our online classes is open now :)

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nightwork

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is the way!!!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/09/2026

Occasional reminder that the right-wing attack on higher ed, including the push for "viewpoint diversity" and "civic education," is largely a racist backlash against an increasingly non-white college-going demographic.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/

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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My dog heading toward the library in Farmington, Maine.

A dog in an orange halter walking across a large lawn toward a brink library

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The American Postal Workers Union @apwu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Stand with postal workers. Tell Postal Service leadership to do their job and protect the people's Post Office.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/09/2026

Data centers are torture devices.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On the one hand, the press hound a black scholar to death, on the other hand, on this one, where the academic fraud is front and centre and the dude is an Epstein pal... crickets... www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“There’s so much fear right now around making a living...How do you channel the fear into something productive? I don’t have an answer for you, but I think there are a lot of people who could find common cause who wouldn’t have in the past.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming

In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I stopped buying the whole "omg we hate Trump but we just *have* to do what he says!" shtick a long time ago.

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