iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 13h

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 16h

“I won’t tell you who I am and I don’t have boundaries” is… bad

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 16h

for me the game was “it” (south east London) but for my lad (Sheffield) it is “tig” if playing the standard version or “tiggy off ground” when playing the version where you can’t get got when climbing something weird replies by people who have no idea that the game has different names though

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

you know how new tech often influences the metaphors we use for the brain and then people come to use the metaphor to understand how the brain itself works (“tools to theories heuristic”) - have people just not done that with LLMs?

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the work of art in the age of mechanical production

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh good, six laws of history (what a new idea), and a rejection of the idea that “ history is not composed of solid events linked in a causal chain” (what is a solid event?). Instead it is “fluid processes”, a bit like this word soup…

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love how this makes it look like Roberto Mancini's full name is "Roberto Mancini Sparkleglow"

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

my t-shirt saying that I "categorically reject any finding, conclusion or implication that suggests I have ever been involved in improper commercial arrangements" despite me not being named in the redacted public report, has people asking questions already answered by my shirt

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the number of ethical, privacy-based, and practical problems with feeding grant applications into LLMs for triage without human confirmation is dizzying “a machine can never be held accountable, so a machine must never make a decision” has never been more apt

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

every detail of the attempted Christa Pike execution is horrifying, and the system that allows this should be burned to the ground

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.

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AVAILABILITY FOR WORK

Hello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ...

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 30/09/2026

Brad Pitt is - by the accounts of his ex-wife and children - not a good person; so like let’s not participate in his redemption story, huh.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the state pension is good actually and should be higher and we need some political fucking courage in this country to argue that people deserve to live decent lives and have support

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's always "the army needs more money" and never "the army is catastrophically wasteful with a frankly enormous budget". Guess it's not the NHS!

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish there were more people saying “the problem is the sportswashing, not the competitive integrity of the premier league” the idea that the premier league has any moral high ground when it comes to financial skulduggery is laughable - an organisation founded on wealth at all costs

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the HE sector is so depressed an nihilistic people aren’t even asking for the basic conditions in which to survive let alone thrive, they are asking for certainty about how much they are to be suffocated, which risks condoning the devastation

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is a great thread on the impact of “AI” as a source of damage to cultural production, not because it replaces the outputs, which it doesn’t, but because of all the investment it hoovers up for no appreciable gain

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the true calling of the millennial. To ride that razor thin line across the decades, staying jussst online enough to get all the jokes but not so online that you crack, shatter and spill out towards the darkening horizon.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

for me to drink iced coffee at an interview is a big no-no because my schtick in general is slightly manic, disorganised, but hopefully friendly, and i drink iced coffee too fast because it is cold and I would also make that slurping sound when you’re mostly down to the ice, but come the fuck on

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

anyone had experience with debate website “Geo”? it looks a bit sus to me - one of the PGRs I supervise was approached by them to contribute to a debate - and I’m getting the ick from the shiny “debate me” vibes (and the third video I saw featured Steve Fuller, whom I’d not thought about in years)

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

people wore masks in public before covid and still do after covid - and some public places require them and some don’t. why do people get so annoyed at other people’s choices that don’t hurt or even affect them in the slightest

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is beautiful and important - and this bit especially chimes with me: “we ought to explain ourselves clearly — our interpretations and choices, our priorities and principles — to all who read or listen to us” human reasoning about the traces of the past has always been important

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This headline has been written In the passive voice Which was probably being wondered about Because it is a cumbersome way to speak Forgiveness is asked for The racist thugs must be distanced from their actions Things happen And can be said

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wonder how many of the wealthy newspaper opinion writers who kick universities for “being woke” or alternatively being “elitist” and proposing apprenticeships have non-university-educated offspring over the age of 20

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"English is an ethnicity" is one of those propositions where the logic is so flimsy it tends to collapse the whole category it's trying to reinforce

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

seems to me quite bad that we are relying on class snobbery and the state’s monopoly on violence to turn the tide against Thompson and his racist mob - people calling for the full violence of state (which will never happen) against these thugs are risking legitimising it

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

re: these racist thugs in the channel, and racist villagers declaring independence: they are not seen as a threat because they represent an intensification of both border violence, & fantasies of purity - but at some point the fact that this intensification is beyond control of the state will bite

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the requirement that people do some semblance of the reading before leaping into a scholarly discussion is what makes a discussion scholarly

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

changes in, and differences between, suicide rates look very different to anyone who has studied coroners’ courts over any length of time

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

speaking “as a person with a mind” is a whole new level of experience / positionality (I don’t know what this argument is about but that turn of phrase jumped out at me.)

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the faultlines in society is between people who think we should prioritise making sure everyone who's eligible for something gets it, and people who think we should prioritise making sure that nobody who isn't eligible for something gets it

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"boy let's not talk too much" hits different now

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

some light relief from the unending doom of the academia discourse - this is what peak male self-citation performance looks like

Various accounts of my diagnosis and treatment for schizophrenia have been published elsewhere [superscript numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.] These publications give details regarding my experiences...

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation,[between 2016-17 and 2023-24] increasing only 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX [measure of inflation]” Substantial real terms pay cut, which continues a trend existing years before that…

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Cost of undergraduate provision and qualifications in England

A study of the full economic cost of providing undergraduate-level higher education and other qualifications in England.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the thing that fries my brain is that the whole HE fees system is utterly broken, everyone who knows anything about it knows it is broken, and nobody who can do anything about it (legislators) seems to want to do anything about it

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

OOOOOOO! Stefan Collini is to give the Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture! On 12 November at 6pm, @qmulsse.bsky.social is the place to be! Excuse to re-read his What Are Universities For?

Picture of a paragraph from a book. The underlined text reads: one rough and ready distinction between university education and professional training is that education relativises and constantly calls into question the information which training simply transmits. In this sense, education encourages the student to recognise the ways in which particular bits of knowledge are not fixed or eternal or universal or self-sufficient. That may be done about almost any subject matter though it can only be done through engagement with some particular subject matter, not simply be ingesting a set of abstract propositions about the contingency of knowledge.

From: Stefan Collini, What are Universities For? (Penguin, 2012), p. 56

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Let go. Let. Go. For fuck’s sake, take a deep breath and let go.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I want to mash these people over the head with hardback copies of Daniel J Wilson's scholarship on the history of polio, the experience of living with polio, and the development of post-polio syndrome...

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Living with Polio

Polio was the most dreaded childhood disease of twentieth-century America. Every summer during the 1940s and 1950s, parents were terrorized by the thought that polio might cripple their children. They...

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this bit from Jonathan Liew's piece on the very sad recent events around Raheem Sterling, and of *children* playing profession football, hits me right in the fucking gut

And by any measure, Sterling is one of the lucky ones. The teenager who made it, who scaled the peaks, won 82 international caps, four league titles, worked under one of the greatest managers of all time, who tasted the manna even if it eventually choked him. How many other thousands of lives you will never see have been fruitlessly and callously bent and twisted towards this world: skills you will never witness, names you will never hear? [Highlighted in yellow:] How much humanity are we prepared to fling into this machine in order for it to provide us with entertainment?

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trying to describe what it’s like working inside British universities at the moment is very hard. One small vignette: not a single week of my teaching this semester looks the same as any other. We have virtually no courses/modules that are taught by

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NINETY programmes, fucking hell

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣 Excellent new resource for academics, ECRs, PGRs & students interested in #historyofexperience. Fully OA & drawing on rich experience of colleagues in @hexhistory.bsky.social it includes oral history, ego documents, institutional records, fiction & photos. #skystorians 📣

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Sources and Methods for the History of Experience

This open access book explores what kinds of sources and methodologies are needed for a history of experience.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

More artists withdrawing from the Ed Sheeran tour over his decision to drop Macklemore for his pro-Palestine stance

finneas
Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed.
I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran.
I stand with Palestine and its people.

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We have made the decision to depart as Ed Sheeran's band on the remaining US Loop tour, following the silencing of Macklemore by zionist lobbies.
We are a traditional Irish band who never saw ourselves playing in stadiums of that size and that opportunity is not lost on us. We have been friends with Ed for over 10 years now and will continue to be. We believe in dialogue as a means of progressing the plight of the Palestinian people.

aaronrowe__
I have made the decision to withdraw as a support act for Ed Sheeran's 'The Loop' North American Tour.
I don't take the decision lightly. Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life, I could never thank him enough for this.
But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation.
I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children.
I would lose all respect for myself to carry on as normal.
I need to be true to myself and my ancestors who resisted colonisation, and fought for a freedom that I enjoy today in Ireland.
FREE PALESTINE
AARON
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“If we only focus on shouting the loudest, nothing will ever change.” thanks Ed what should we do instead? “I know who I am, both as a person and as an artist, and those who know my heart know my values too.” Ok. So don’t shout loudly, keep your secret feelings to yourself? That’ll do it.

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