iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 8h

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

UC Press’s designers make books that are beautiful and conceptually sharp, and we're looking for a Senior Book Designer to join our Oakland-based team. Love typography, visual storytelling, and books? We’d love to see your portfolio and resume. www.ucpress.edu/about/careers

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Catherine Cocks @catherinefte.bsky.social · 4h

For #bannedbooksweek #feedingtheelephant spotlights projects preserving datasets that researchers rely on--and they offer ways you can help: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 14h

This week is #BannedBooksWeek. The #FeedingTheElephant team is honoring its spirit by focusing on specific attacks facing academic research: the retraction of grants, defunding, and the disappearance of key datasets. Read on for resources! 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.

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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I asked Chat GPT why the buildout of AI requires facism, and it gets it…

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's Slime Mold Autumn, and the book tour for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD starts this Tuesday 10/6 in San Francisco! Join me to hear more about sentient slime mold graduate students who travel across the galaxy to visit ancient Pompeii. I'll be in Chicago, Boston, NYC, Burlington VT, and Ottawa!

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026

This corruption must be investigated.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

Rich Democrats who love Heather Cox Richardson should know that history is being defunded and cut in public higher education everywhere. You want voters to be historically informed? Endow some faculty lines at your local public university. Spend the money! The Right certainly is!

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. She's never captured. She died in 2023, in New Zealand. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 🗃️ 1/2

photo of Phyllis Latour during the 1940s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If this is what SCOTUS says OMB can do, then not only do we need to completely reform SCOTUS (👇), but we also need to abolish OMB & close every single aircraft carrier-sized loophole in every law allowing the president to invoke magic words like "national security" & act like a dictator.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This change (back) means COVID vaccines are covered by insurance.

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In 1848 Boston attorney Robert Morris challenged school segregation in court a century before Brown v Board of Ed. In 1787 Black Bostonians had petitioned for equal education as well. Morris fought for the rights of his Black & Irish American clients & was appointed a magistrate by the governor.

Studio portrait of a man in a suit, with watch chain, gazing directly at the viewer.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trump's Iran War has sent mortgage rates skyrocketing. His trade wars have increased the cost of construction. His mass deportations have decimated the home-building workforce. And his HUD cuts have devastated affordable housing programs. "Make America Affordable Again."

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Literacy is load-bearing, y'all. Not AI literacy, not digital literacy, not media literacy. Literacy literacy.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For the third time, the Supreme Court has blocked Trump-backed Missouri congressional maps from being used in the 2026 election. Missouri will use its 2022 congressional map in November.

nytimes.com

Supreme Court Once Again Blocks Republican-Backed Voting Map in Missouri

A federal appeals court had sided with Republicans seeking to use redrawn congressional district boundaries to give their party an advantage in the midterms elections.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm going to hell. 🤣

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is one of my favorite types of stories. Get an expert who is a Good Sport to talk about something that's popping in pop culture & explain what we know about history / science / murder / etc. and have a fun conversation:

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's still time to register for “Hashtag Humanities: Scholars, Social Media, and Knowledge for the Public Good,” on Thursday 10/1, 2-3 PM ET with Dr. Xavier Buck (@historyin3), PhD student Heather Colley (@heathercolleyauthor), and Dr. Dan McClellan (@maklelan). Register at bit.ly/4AciCCo

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Eight U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during its extended deployment, according to a letter from acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao obtained by CNN. None died.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Murder is also the #1 cause of death of pregnant and postpartum women. Related: Denying people access to abortion care forces them to remain trapped in abusive relationships they often would otherwise leave. (among other harms)

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The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So you have signed a book contract, and you realized that you are on the hook for indexing your work. @emily-elliott.bsky.social provides our #FeedingTheElephant readers with advice on indexing their work baed on her experience indexing a co-edited volume. 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Tips for Indexing Your Book | H-Net

A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.Post by Emily Joan Elliott, associate director of research and publications, H-Net.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is my favorite vaccine poster. Make your flu shot appointment before Halloween. It's sPoOkY to not get your flu shot!

A ghost shining a light on with a flashlight and it says boo to the flu. Get your flu vaccine by October 31.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time. It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created.” Obvs, but thanks.

futurism.com

Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Usel...

A Microsoft executive admitted that AI companies like itself were plundering websites without giving them in return.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What an incredible statement for the fucking US to make about SOUTH AFRICA, my country. I'd be annoyed if anyone said this BUT FOR THE FUCKING UNITED STATES - with it's literal concentration camps, Gulag gathering thugs, abortion bans and hatred of Black and Brown folk, while funding a genocide...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't be fooled into thinking that a "free market" only exists when corporations get to "self-regulate" and do whatever they want. And don't be led to think that the government is "intruding" into the market when it crafts laws to protect the public. The real issue is power — and who has it.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026

“We don’t actually know if [automated license plate readers are] functioning in the way that they’re supposed to in terms of helping public safety, but we do know that they are definitely invading people’s privacy,” EFF’s @sairahussain.bsky.social told @lancasteronline.bsky.social.

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Lancaster County lawmakers support regulating Flock cameras

Across Lancaster County, video cameras are recording the license plates of passing cars, along with their vehicle make, model and paint color, and storing that information in searchable databases.

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University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's so cool to see a seminar come out of one of our books! "Across Continents" author R. Benedito Ferrao is teaching a class based transnational Asian/American perspectives at CUNY this fall! Read more: aaari.info/2026-2027-cu...

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2026-2027 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Asian American / Asian Research Institute

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

Btw this is also why the “humanities are cheap” argument for funding never works. It has never worked. We need to stop using it. Nobody you’re trying to convince cares.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

just a reminder that Enbridge spilled more than a million gallons of natural gas liquids in Wisconsin and it didn't even make national news and then they restarted the line over the objection of state officials because fed regulators no longer do their job. Nbd. wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/09/15/l...

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Line 5 reopens after spill despite DNR warning • Wisconsin Examiner

Enbridge Line 5 went back online Monday, three weeks after a spill released 1.3 million gallons of natural gas liquids.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders

Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.

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

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Success this time comes down to two things: did we drive the largest early vote in the history of the republic, and did we recruit and train a grassroots force capable of repelling Trump’s sabotage? #NoKings

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The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#FeedingTheElephant continues to celebrate #PeerReviewWeek. This morning, @emily-elliott.bsky.social considers how @h-net-journals.bsky.social's embrace of novel forms of peer review and innovative publishing practices has affected volume, speed, and quality. 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Capacity: Volume, Speed, and Quality at H-Net Journals | H-Net

A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.Post by Emily Joan Elliott, associate director of research and publications, H-Net.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Consistent with his well established business practices, Trump has driven the Kennedy Center into bankruptcy. Just like his casino, hotel, steaks, university… And now he’s trying hard to bankrupt the country.

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Kennedy Center says it's close to bankruptcy and will not be able to pay staff "within weeks"

In two board resolutions made public Monday, the arts institution says it is in a dire financial and physical state —– and that only President Trump can "rescue" it.

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can’t say this loud enough: Environmental issues are working class issues

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