iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

not a conspiracy and other researchers are documenting and developing www.theamericanvandal.com/p/against-te...

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Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

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Chris @cristobal55.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Processing GenCon fomo through attempting to get back into mini painting… I’ve been working on her on and off for the better part of two years.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/07/2026

New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."

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The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

this is a very good essay on where we're at, and how Boomer nostalgia won't likely make things better. The last lines are brutal in the best possible way.

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Chris @cristobal55.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Check it out! My 5.5e adventure based on the legend of La Llorona is included here, plus a whole host of other amazing games.

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Carlos Salazar ➡️ Gen Con @carlosmakesgames.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just 5 days left to get the Power Word Unity Bundle! BIPOC spaces are shrinking throughout the United States. Give us a chance to cultivate them itch.io/b/3744/power...

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Power Word Unity 2026 Bundle by cccsalazar and 38 others

Power Word Unity 2026 Bundle: 64 items for $10.00

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

The Most Versatile Majors Chart, TOPPED BY ENGLISH and VISUAL&PERFORMING ARTS

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Félix G. Ríos 🔜 SAGA BCN Game Fest @iamfelixrios.itch.io · 14/05/2026

Para mi ya no existen los osobúhos en una mesa de rol. Solo conozco a las jaguarpías de ahora en adelante.

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Scream it from the freaking rooftops: "The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself. Today’s decision is a step toward honoring the will of Congress and our mission as a nation — to seek the truth, know ourselves, and build a better future on that knowledge.”

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I was going to tell this story to someone who replied to one of the many threads, but I've forgot who they were, and it's been spread wide enough that I just can't be bothered finding who it was for. So you're going to all get the example of what I did the last time I made a cynical loner.

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Chris @cristobal55.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Oop, it just happened, a student used the phrase "back in the late 1900s" in an essay draft. Excuse me while I crumble into dust and blow away.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Really good post from Ben on the masks falling off the “edu” division of OpenAI.

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Open the Gates Gaming @openthegatesgaming.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Check out this Digital Short from @vpm.org on @pbs.org ! Perfect for #AutismAcceptanceMonth @musicologist.bsky.social talks about being #ActuallyAutistic and the origins of OtG. Bonus: we play D&D with @cristobal55.bsky.social ‘s mom! bit.ly/OtGonPBS

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Noé Leyva ✍️ @noeleyva.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

But also, if you are rich, like Mesoamerican-inspired fantasy, and want to fund my personal project, in whatever form it takes, hit me up! I'm in the process of revamping it. Here's the main character redesign, along with one of the monsters. #portfolioday

Character concept art for a Mesoamerican-inspired fantasy personal project.

creature/monster concept art of a corrupted warrior holding a spear. he has been cursed with the obsidian curse.

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Chris @cristobal55.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I wonder how much trouble I would get into if I bought one of these and hung it up in my office. (This is truly an academic question because I’m going to do it anyway.)

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Chris Hopper Accessibility Consulting @chrishopper.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

More history books should start with this kind of outline 🧵

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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

ANTIPOPES! ANTIPOPES! ANTIPOPES!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If you give Einstein your credentials to log in, then it can access ALL of your campus portals: your financial accounts, transcripts, email, health records, &c. because all of that is under one umbrella. Literally the only way to your LLM is through your campus login. The security risk is massive.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Just gonna say, we are all #LowerEd now and it was never ever a doubt.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Can't help but think of Sara Ahmed's powerful analysis of "diversity work" & what she described as the gap between the university’s symbolic commitment to diversity & the lived & often exhausting reality for faculty & students of color & other underrepresented groups on campus.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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Chris @cristobal55.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Still processing getting interviewed by CNN, DC's NBC/Telemundo affiliate, and the Associated Press about Bad Bunny's halftime show this past week. I somehow got quoted alongside two scholars who literally wrote the book on Benito. apnews.com/article/bad-...

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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show celebrated America – all of it – with a message of unity

Bad Bunny concluded his historic Super Bowl halftime performance with a few English-language words. He said “God Bless America” and then proceeded to list countries in the Americas including the Unite...

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LANana #🟦 Punk Bitch @lanana421.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🧵 Very long but critically important thread. It's a tough read. It left me in tears. Please, do not look away. Read the entire thread, and when you get to the last post, help if you are able and amplify regardless. 🥺💔🧵 ⬇️

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Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za · 10/02/2026

“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Re-upping this interview with @biblioracle.bsky.social from earlier this week which helpfully made me put some shit that had been burbling in my head to page. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...

JW: And how do you view the academic freedom aspects of these conditions?
MS: They are so multitudinous, it's hard to know where to begin, especially in a Q&A like this, where a bit of brevity is required. Earlier, I said that one way of thinking about technofeudalism's origin is through the collapsing distinction between information and money, which coincides with digitization. Well, at least inside and between the technofeudal enterprises, I think that collapse is almost complete.
Proprietary data and/or capta is a currency unto itself. So, if capta (and especially capta in natural language form) is the reserve currency of technofeudalism, you can expect the technofeudal enterprises to be protective of the control they currently enjoy over that currency. They are the money printers. And it is in their interest to enclose existing corpuses of information, to monopolize the creation of new information, to crush competing or new entrant information producers, and to use their monopoly powers to create artificial shortages which drive up exchange values.
Colleges and universities are an existing, durable infrastructure for creating information. Many of the sources of value for technofeudalists, from computer networks to encryption to LLMs, were made possible by the U.S. public university infrastructure. From a feudalist or monopoly power perspective, that is a rival that cannot be allowed to continue to persist unmolested. It must be colonized, absorbed, controlled, or destroyed. If you accept that premise (and I know not everybody will, so many of the threats to education, let alone academic freedom, follow directly and almost become self-explanatory.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.

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Okami 🔜 PAX Unplugged @keichiokami.itch.io · 25/01/2026

Speak up. I did and I still chase joy all the time in the TTRPG space, yet I still take the time to speak truth to power. If you have thousands more followers than me? You can too! With a big platform so much good educating and advocating can be done. The world is dark, be a light.

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a man is sitting in front of a sign that says " titan "

Alt: a man is sitting in front of a sign that says " titan "

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Okami 🔜 PAX Unplugged @keichiokami.itch.io · 25/01/2026

UPDATE I refuse to spread misinformation. He did have a gun. He did not draw it, it remained in his waist band while they beat him, pepper sprayed him the face, and then shot him. He had a concealed gun permit issued by the State of Minnesota. Alex Pretti was a Nurse who treated Veterans.

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Okami 🔜 PAX Unplugged @keichiokami.itch.io · 24/01/2026

I just watched a man trying to help a woman who slipped in the snow that was filming ICE, then get beaten up by ICE Agents and shot to death. CNN is lying, he had no gun. DHS is LYING. I had to bear witness. Fuck ICE. Abolish 🧊. They are murdering innocent people for a racist immoral agenda.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

We are increasingly being encouraged to integrate generative AI into research and teaching. Individuals use it for writing, planning and teaching; universities are experimenting with embedding it into curricula. However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I talk about everything as risk management. It’s especially important in work because the political economy changed — sometimes literally called risk shift — while our cultural practices still assume known knowns & predictability. What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.

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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

simple, common sense advice (that i’m sure we give all our students), and yet…

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

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A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas

In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

When my business school colleagues insist that ChatGPT is “just another tool in the toolbox,” I’m tempted to remind them that Facebook was once “just a way to connect with friends.” But there’s a difference between tools and technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate. As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth.

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