iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Goodnight, Hookland. Dream deeply.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AI chatbots have democratized billionaire brain worms by allowing everyone—not just the very rich—to experience total insanity-inducing sycophancy

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kieron Gillen's *Once and Future King* has an interesting take on this: maybe Arthur's awakening *causes* Britain's darkest hour....

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

Join the U-M Library to celebrate the culmination of a decade-and-a-half long project to fully catalog the library's extraordinary collection of Greek manuscripts and our forthcoming companion volume! Stop by Hatcher room 660D on 10/23 to learn more about the collection and volume: buff.ly/WNqgzdt

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The Greek Manuscripts of the University of Michigan: A Celebration of the Collection and Its Catalogue

Three scholars offer complementary perspectives on the study of Greek manuscripts.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The crane pics in this exhibit are *amazing*.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not to mention the environmental costs of training and operating them.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Older than that, even: "Let there be light!" I've also seen some references to creation-via-language with respect to the Egyptian deity Thoth/Djehuty, but nothing I can immediately track down for citing purposes.

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wizardkitten @wizardkitten.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"It is estimated that nearly 1,000 representatives from all 12 Anishinaabe Tribal Nations in Michigan came together Monday to stand for the water and against the continued operation of the Line 5 pipeline." This was the group leading the walk. It appears MLive is the only outlet to report on it.

mlive.com

Michigan tribes lead Mackinac Bridge Walk in united stand against Line 5 pipeline

Roughly 34,000 people participated in the 2026 Mackinac Bridge Walk on Labor Day.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026

…How does Young Mads look like if David Tennant, Keanu Reeves, and Trent Reznor had a baby?

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"that even my half-deaf ears can hear the spirits of place talking" - I feel that.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Evidence of a superior intellect!

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In case you’re in the mood for some queer R&B: youtu.be/g4GzbxKovEE?...

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Sekou - Does She Know

YouTube video by SekouVEVO

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Or someone's not expecting the oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz to improve for the foreseeable future, in which case this might actually look like a sound investment.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Farewell to the great Wendell Berry. Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.

DO NOT BE ASHAMED
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you will be a wall you never saw before.
It will be clear to you suddenly that you were about to escape, and that you are guilty: you misread the complex instructions, you are not a member, you lost your card or never had one. And you will know that they have been there all along, their eyes on your letters and books, their hands in your pockets, their ears wired to your bed.
Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them.
And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you.
They will no longer need to pursue you.
You will pursue them, begging forgiveness, and they will not forgive you.
There is no power against them.
It is only candor that is aloof from them, only an inward clarity, unashamed, that they cannot reach. Be ready.
When their light has picked you out and their questions are asked, say to them:
"I am not ashamed." A sure horizon will come around you. The heron will rise in his evening flight from the hilltop.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

10 acts you've seen as support acts Dar Williams Matthew Sweet King Woman Goatsnake Chelsea Wolfe Inter Arma Helms Alee Earth Sub Rosa The Atlas Moth (The last three were at two different Boris shows, and in neither case did I stay for the headliner.)

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you‘ve seen live. Ani DiFranco Living Colour Bill Frisell Wardruna Barenaked Ladies Angelique Kidjo Baroness d3adm4us SUNN 0))) Tori Amos

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

ICE is still operating *where you are* regardless of whether it’s in the news. Join a local immigrant’s rights group. Please keep fighting back.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And Tolkien gives Frodo the thing that wasn’t available to his traumatized WWI contemporaries: a morally-acceptable form of suicide.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I‘ve lived in Michigan all my life. That’s Lake Ontario. IDGAF what Trump calls it.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also, the “theory” being offered is text from a special exhibit at the UChicago Library. 😒

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“…and thus prevent them from aspiring to any real autonomy” seems like a pretty important phrase here.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points:
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Remember: the new mnemonic is SHAME.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The federal government maintains the geographic information databases that the major mapping services use to assign names to geographic features.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The new mnemonic acronym for the Great Lakes is SHAME.

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Can we just be done with this week?

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Using research as an opportunity for learning-by-doing may produce seeming ‘inefficiencies,’ but that’s a feature, not a bug…the process of education is necessarily a productive struggle, and that the most important product of their education is not a GPA or a diploma but themselves“

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Urgently need to #Unlearn hubris We know so little: Genomes are not 'machine blueprints'; biology is far richer & more complex than acknowledged. "Genetic diversity is shaped not only by inherited factors but also biological processes that vary from person to person" phys.org/news/2026-08...

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Unexpected source of genetic diversity found in human sperm

Scientists have identified an unexpected source of genetic variation in human sperm that occurs earlier in sperm development than previously thought. Published in Nature, researchers at the Wellcome S...

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Good grief. How would one choose?

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We will always love you.

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Kate Saylor @ksaylor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you are thinking about suicide, worried about a loved one, would like emotional support. Help is available 24/7 across the US. Call 988 988lifeline.org/get-help/

988lifeline.org

Get Help

Using the 988 Lifeline is free. When you call, text, or chat the 988 Lifeline, your conversation is confidential. The 988 Lifeline provides you judgment-free care. Talking with someone can help save…

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Related, here’s one that I’m actually watching for the first time today.

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Beheaded Green Knight

Alt: Beheaded Green Knight

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