iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

It's also pretty much my favorite thing about the encyclical on AI that it starts with several chapters on the two thousand year history of why commenting on it is totally in his lane.

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Great thread about a pretty technical point of manuscript analysis. But the thing is, the problem with this is a problem with how LLMs see everything. The Internet and the rest of the training data are convenience samples.

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And paraphrasing @jayrosen.bsky.social, polarization is what you get when both sides are extremists. Or when one side is and one side isn't.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Polarization is not the problem. "...the people who are the most “polarized” in the U.S. electorate are those who -are- racist and sexist, and those who -oppose- racists and sexists."

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summa potestas diversitas est

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tip from a college librarian: if there is a liaison librarian for women's or gender studies, get in touch directly and ask them to add it.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“In these spaces where everyone has dirt on each other, putting skeletons into one’s own closet serves to bolster one’s loyalty to the group and vice versa, and can therefore even become the price of admission. “ See also : tech firm sex parties

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GUEST ROOM | Cornell's Dereliction of Duty

Dylan Jackaway '24, M.Eng. '25 calls on President Michael Kotlikoff to answer to the Cornell community and the Board of Trustees for his mismanagement of the Title IX investigation of the alleged Chi ...

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't name-check stochastic parrots without engaging with either the argument it makes or its authors.

Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Intelligence is about making value judgments. Machines can't.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Training machines to hack into systems and lie to cover their tracks is encoding a very particular set of human values. The humans are still responsible for the outcomes. Better targeting doesn't fix the moral disaster they've created.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

See, this is the kind of detail that city folk like me don't appreciate--the care and planning that goes into herd management.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some of the best reporting in the country is coming out of student newspapers (also the Harvard Crimson, the Daily Bruin, The Daily Orange, Daily Princetonian). The collective action 🖊️ of the editorial board banding together and standing behind this statement is bravery.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On the NYTimes list of top 100 TV shows of the 21st century. Read the much better thread on the real problem. My little take: I don't watch huge amounts of TV, so it is telling to me in maybe a slightly different way that I've heard of all but one or two of these.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you don't want to read it, don't. But someone else's summary is unlikely to tell you what's important to YOU.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The idea that there are a limited number of "takeaways" from any given document that are the same for every reader is a complete misunderstanding of how texts and readers and summaries work.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tangenting off of a good thread: the main societal problems caused by the web and social media are about the reactions of adults to it, not children.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

show us the three existing applicable regulations or penalties you’ve enforced before you propose a new solution challenge:

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Love to work in an industry where it's assumed that the experts have no expertise. "I know that educational research supposedly shows this, but...I am generally skeptical of the rigor of a lot of educational research."

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"we have to be nice to AIs because what if AIs are people" no. wrong. stupid. get your priorities in order. if AIs are people, a group of human beings knowingly created a class of sentient slaves, and we must hunt the human creators down because they are a threat to our society

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Quote of the day: "What's wrong with the White House beat is that it's considered prestigious...." And I am also hearing @jayrosen.bsky.social yelling "Send the interns!"

Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was totally clear on that by age 12. No one stops the bully but you.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also that switching to electronic assumes that everything is available in that form to libraries. It's not. Particularly in the humanities. Good thread on college textbooks.

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the original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse · 15/09/2026

Not even joking here, we are all slowly rebuilding a social ecosystem devastated by austerity, oligarchy, and the pandemic. When you show up to events that speak to you, you are reinforcing the scaffolding of our shared reality. We build shelter for ourselves and structures for the future.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Quote of the day. If you're working really hard to avoid saying anything that attracts attention, maybe just don't.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it must be infuriating to be a New Yorker today listening to all these 9/11 tributes from conservatives who don’t believe New York counts as America on any other day of the calendar

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very tired of reading people's attempts to launder their own reputations with memories of 9/11. It was not about you until you tried to make it about you.

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 11/09/2026

I rarely talk about how I was 6 blocks away from the WTC on 9/11. & it's less bc of the trauma and more the sheer shame of how the US turned that trauma into grist for more killing. here, I talk about how the attacks became a formative moment in my political life www.coyotemedia.org/september-11...

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I Watched the Planes Fly Past My Classroom Window. Then Came 25 Years of Grievance

For Soleil Ho, September 11 was their political origin story.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is political rhetoric judo.

Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I could laugh at the women's fashion ads appearing at random in military history podcasts. But in context with everything else, it's not that the advertisers are dumb, it's that they are using the math of direct mail and spam. It's contempt for the audience as individuals.

Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Podcast ads have gotten so much more depressing now that they're automated. It's an endless stream of the same generic insurance and drug ads, regardless of the topic.

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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Podcasts should go back to being audio only.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Proquest Dissertations is currently using AI to summarize abstracts written by the author, which indicates that Proquest has not thought at all about what it's actually doing.

I'm partly deaf. I can see how this could be helpful for me. This was not designed for that. It was designed to let people tune out while they pretend to listen.

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And, a machine summary is unlikely to actually help your memory because it's not you doing the summarizing. So I get recorded so you can disrespect me by not paying attention.

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I've been shrugging at the new features in Apple keynotes for several years now because none of it's been for me. This feature is for someone else's convenience at my expense. And the mitigation features they've added make it worse, not better.

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I suspect it's not and that I am about to start having really uncomfortable conversations with the Apple watch wearers in my life.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Appreciate the rigorous coverage.

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There's a site that offers a suite of ai modules "write like authors" x, y, z, including me, and let me tell you that is the devil's work. And also I don't write like me book to book, so good luck with that, fucko demon sloppers.

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Fighting is only one of the skills required to be good at war. It's also the most teachable. Democracies are better at all of it. (much smarter thread up and down from this post)

Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I would be totally OK with returning to ancient Roman timekeeping. Computers would haaaaate it though.