iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Mary Rice

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
X.com
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

1970142264

Reposted by Mary Rice

NPR @npr.org · 21/09/2026

The fall equinox, which arrives Tuesday in the U.S., brings shorter days, and chances to witness alignment between Earth and the sun. It's a modern version of ancient observances of a celestial shift. n.pr/4hAS5XX

n.pr

What the equinox 'henge' effect tells us about U.S. cities

724953

Reposted by Mary Rice

Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 09/09/2026

This is a terrific and straightforward explanation for partnering with a bookstore, and it's similar to the process I followed. It's most likely to work if you have a traditional publisher but I've seen it work for indie authors, too. From M. Stevenson.

janefriedman.com

How to Partner with a Bookstore for a Preorder Campaign | Jane Friedman

In this excerpt from It Depends: An Author’s Practical Guide to Debut Year, M. Stevenson shows how indie shops can contribute to a traditionally-published book’s launch strategy.

06023

Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I flew home from a conference in Europe early because so I could drop off and pick up from school on the first day. Even if it’s a good day it’s traumatic for kids.

010

Reposted by Mary Rice

KOSU @kosuradio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Representatives from twenty tribes gathered for the quarterly United Indian Nations of Oklahoma meeting Thursday. Prediction markets were a big point of conversation, with some feeling they threaten tribal sovereignty.

kosu.org

Tribal nations in Oklahoma: prediction markets threaten sovereignty

Representatives from twenty tribes gathered for the quarterly United Indian Nations of Oklahoma meeting Thursday. Prediction markets were a big point of conversation.

1216112

Reposted by Mary Rice

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

TLDR; using generative AI (even in supervised educational contexts) is allowing students to complete tasks quickly but greatly impeding their actual comprehension Duh

economist.com

Does AI stop children from learning?

New data show the peril and promise of the technology

76720

Reposted by Mary Rice

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Care AI" may promise to decrease women's workload, but it may increase it by raising standards & expanding responsibilities. Because tech is laid over existing cultural beliefs & social relations, it rarely fixes social problems. @mariannecooper.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...

time.com

Can AI Free Women from the Mental Load of Caregiving?

Innovation has not brought about women’s liberation, writes Marianne Cooper.

073

Reposted by Mary Rice

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

As I told @monicatorrr.bsky.social of @huffpost.com, "As [women] grow older and more mature in their careers, they lose some of the fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that." www.huffpost.com/entry/age-di...

huffpost.com

Data Reveals An Infuriating Reason Women Over 40 Are Held Back At Work

A recent study exposes how insidious age discrimination is — and it should make you mad.

48251

Reposted by Mary Rice

Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ An asteroid crater in Arizona. Dramatic enough you might think, but look how close it came to hitting the Visitor Centre 😱

Aerial view of an enormous asteroid crater in Arizona, with rough yellow circle around the visitor centre at the edge of the crater

1581420149

Reposted by Mary Rice

Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bering Land Bridge between Siberia & Alaska at the end of the last ice age, some 13,000 yrs ago. But recently, archaeologists working at sites across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico have found evidence suggesting that humans arrived in the Americas up to 30,000 years before the present day.

news.arizona.edu

Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed in new U of A study

A new paper agrees with findings that footprints discovered in New Mexico are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old – much older than the previously known earliest signs of human culture in the Americas...

230286

Reposted by Mary Rice

Doc Sportello ❌👑 @digyoursoul.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Graduation rates at America’s tribal schools have climbed from half to four-fifths. Across the 183 Bureau of Indian Education schools, on-time graduation rose from just over 50% in 2015 to a record 79% in 2025. apnews.com/article/nati...

apnews.com

Innovation, data fixes fuel Native American graduation gains at federally funded schools

The U.S. agency that oversees dozens of schools serving Native Americans is reporting more on-time high school graduations than ever.

13012

Reposted by Mary Rice

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

share.inquirer.com

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

18585691580

Reposted by Mary Rice

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Sirens in the Odyssey aren’t about sexual desire or what Nolan decided to have them be about (desire for what we’ve lost), they are about knowledge. That is what they have. The unbearable need for knowledge is what sends sailors plunging to their death. This is a promethean issue.

From Emily Wilson’s translation “and when we were in earshot of the Sirens, they knew our ship was near, and started singing.
'Odysseus! Come here! You are well-known from many stories! Glory of the Greeks!
Now stop your ship and listen to our voices.
All those who pass this way hear honeyed song, poured from our mouths. The music brings them joy, and they go on their way with greater knowledge, since we know everything the Greeks and Trojans suffered in Troy, by gods' will; and we know whatever happens anywhere on earth.

1018424

Reposted by Mary Rice

Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 23/07/2026

Wow, Google's free cash flow is negative for the first time in over 10 years because of their relentless spending on AI products no one wants "Alphabet's spending on AI is now expected to hit as much as $205b...Alphabet's combined quarterly revenue hit $119.8b." www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs

The company said earlier this year it expected to spend as much as $190bn on AI investments.

50512198

Reposted by Mary Rice

That guy @stuartbayens.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

ctvnews.ca

Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay authors about US$3,000 per book.

25468021957

Reposted by Mary Rice

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Here's @greenwell.bsky.social with maybe the best arguments I've seen for teaching whole books. Fuck the tech companies and their snippets. www.wired.com/story/missis...

wired.com

Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read

Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.

216943

Reposted by Mary Rice

Every Day Is Juneteenth @everydayjuneteenth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Since the Democratic Republic of the Congo is not trending but should be, we recommend reading "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives" by Siddharth Kara. Sincerely, The BLACK-Owned Online Bookstore ✊🏾📚 #booksky #blackbooksky #politics shop.mrwelltravelled.com/products/cob...

shop.mrwelltravelled.com

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Paperback)

by Siddharth Kara Description Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told thr...

1144

Reposted by Mary Rice

Colorado Charter School Watch @cocharterwatch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Denver has long been friendly to charters, encouraging high performers to add more schools as districtwide enrollment grew. But now that enrollment is shrinking and the political winds have shifted away from education reform, more charters have closed recently than opened." #COpol #COleg

chalkbeat.org

If Denver closes low-performing schools, no charter schools will be waiting in the wings to take over

No charter schools applied to serve as replacements for district-run schools that might close under Denver’s new School Transformation Process.

121

Reposted by Mary Rice

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Flexible work is possible even in blue collar fields like manufacturing. GE Appliances has a pool of 900 workers who sign up for 4-hour shifts via an app, and choose what kind of work they want. Employees can also become full time with benefits if they want. www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...

npr.org

This factory was severely short on workers. Then it offered flexible work

A GE Appliances plant in rural northwest Georgia was short hundreds of workers amid COVID-19. A flexible work option where some workers can sign up for shifts through an app has eased the pain.

0135

Reposted by Mary Rice

Sheba @shebainpdx.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Buried in the 21st paragraph: The classroom marks a new venture for Realbotix....In April 2024, the company acquired Simulcra, the parent company behind RealDoll, which has spent decades creating hyperrealistic sex dolls and sex robots that remain on the market today. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n...

nysfocus.com

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

4127

Reposted by Mary Rice

Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Japan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract lithium from dead batteries with 90% recovery rate. This brilliant technological leap guarantees Japan's absolute economic security.

19493132189

Reposted by Mary Rice

Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A few hundred Prince William County neighbors spent years fighting the largest data center ever proposed—23 million square feet next to the Manassas battlefield. This week the last developer standing gave up. Big Tech had billions; the neighbors won anyway. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-does...

532205667

Reposted by Mary Rice

Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

bangordailynews.com

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

6666422477

Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Local School leadership is trained and selected into the role for a disposition of “we have no money; we must make cuts.” They do know how to operate in a funded environment and I feel many would prefer not to.

010

Reposted by Mary Rice

Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Boston is suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The city says the companies deliberately designed addictive features like endless scrolling, notifications, and algorithms that harm kids' mental health. The lawsuit joins more than 1,500 school districts nationwide.

17485882116

Reposted by Mary Rice

Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

'...govt has announced it is scrapping mandatory public consultation for major infrastructure projects including data centres, wind, solar, reservoirs & nuclear plants' “Cutting the ability of the public at large & more importantly the local inhabitants...1/2 thedeveloper.live/reportage/go...

thedeveloper.live

Government scraps public consultation on data centres and major infrastructure projects

Scrapping mandatory pre-application consultation requirements for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects will “disenfranchise” locals and “embed resentment”, experts say. Christine Murray repo...

12417

Reposted by Mary Rice

Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

THE COMPUTATIONAL COST OF AI NOW EXCEEDS ACTUAL HUMAN EMPLOYEE SALARIES Nvidia executives and revised Anthropic cost metrics confirm that the immense computational power and token consumption required by advanced AI agents now cost significantly more than employing human workers.

093

Reposted by Mary Rice

Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Trump's Justice Department stood before the Supreme Court and argued you have no privacy in where your phone goes. 6-3, the Court told them no. What that means for every phone in America: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-went...

410430

Reposted by Mary Rice

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 05/07/2026

The word "algebra" comes from the 820 book Al-Jabr by Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi, while "algorithm" comes from the Latinized version of his name. By Space Daily Editorial Team spacedaily.com/d-the-word-a... Books about Algebra at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #mathematics

Pages from a 14th-century Arabic copy of the book, showing geometric solutions to two quadratic equations.

A double-page spread from a medieval Arabic manuscript, densely written in black Arabic script with red ink highlighting key terms and headings, and featuring small geometric grid diagrams with numerals in red at the bottom of each page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr#/media/File:Bodleian_MS._Huntington_214_roll332_frame36.jpg

1135598

Reposted by Mary Rice

Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

When an artificial intelligence memorizes your phone number, your address, or your medical history during training, deleting that information later turns out to be much more difficult than it seems.

sinapti.ca

AI seems to forget sensitive data, but a new test reveals it doesn't - Sinaptica

When an artificial intelligence memorizes your phone number, your address, or your medical history during training, deleting that information later turns out to

0154

Reposted by Mary Rice

Civic Grit @civicgrit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

250 years ago Thomas Jefferson recorded the temperature in Philadelphia a few times throughout the day. The high was 76 at 1 PM.

Thomas Jefferson's recording of the temperature on July 4th 1776.

1236384

Reposted by Mary Rice

NPR @npr.org · 04/07/2026

A new national poll reveals a striking paradox in public sentiment ahead of America's 250th anniversary: a disconnect between Americans' strong patriotic pride and their lack of civic knowledge.

n.pr

Nearly half of Americans surveyed don't know what America 250 commemorates

A new national poll reveals a striking paradox in public sentiment ahead of America's 250th anniversary: a disconnect between Americans' strong patriotic pride and their lack of civic knowledge.

74505159

Reposted by Mary Rice

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"An AI just carried out a cyber attack without any human oversight for the first time Autonomous ransomware attacks marks major milestone for artificial intelligence and cyber " www.independent.co.uk/tech/securit...

independent.co.uk

An AI just carried out a cyber attack without any human oversight for the first time

Autonomous ransomware attacks marks major milestone for artificial intelligence and cyber security

5136

Reposted by Mary Rice

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"It is not a stretch to imagine that some library vendors will pivot to a platform with a non-optional AI component and then charge a premium for their AI-powered resources." This right here is a work fear that keeps me up at night. 📚 americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/06/01/5...

americanlibrariesmagazine.org

5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about AI | American Libraries Magazine

We must measure emerging AI platforms against our library’s tried-and-true resources to gauge which ones truly add value.

1209

Reposted by Mary Rice

Organ Mountain News @organmountainnews.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Residents in three New Mexico cities say their names were used without permission on public comments supporting Project Jupiter’s air quality permit. They told @sourcenm.com they opposed or questioned the data center when approached by canvassers.

organmountainnews.com

New Mexico residents say their names used without permission to support Project Jupiter data center

New Mexico residents say their names were used without permission on public comments supporting Project Jupiter’s air quality permit application.

36534