iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I loved this! I was like “well it can’t be as good as the first one but I’ll read it anyways” and then it was, in fact, just as good.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another vote for Duck Duck go. It’s not perfect but it’s better than Google by a lot

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My school admin is leaning into AI a lot less than at the more prestigious schools. We have always been late adopters and i think that’s serving us well in the current environment. (I would give the pope credit for this, we’re Jesuit, but we were slow-rolling AI before he came out against it)

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of my neighbors has, instead of ye standard home depot 12-footer, a statue which is the top 1/3 of a skeleton seemingly pushing itself out of the ground ... and it is also 12 feet high. THIS IS THE FUTURE.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It has a sequel! well, ish. Short story, maybe novella length, revisiting same characters many years in the future. “Tears waiting to be diamonds.”

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you are correct, this is the Best Book. And maybe i need to reread it too. Hmm.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Damn, that's some persistence! My cat only ever manages two or three licks before realizing that he'd actually prefer to be biting.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Boooo to that. I hate that everything sucks now.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i hit this point last year and have switched to Duck Duck go and been happy. It’s not “google circa 2005” levels of good but it’s at least Google circa 2015 imo.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, when you only have two words they have to cover a lot, sigh.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cozy and dark are THE only two adjectives that exist in publishing right now.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think way too many authors get caught up in "oh my god I can't say "said" ten times on the same page!" and i want to shake them. You sure can! I won't even notice!!

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ooh yay, this is my "you learn something every day" sorted. There's a fire tetrahedron there too!!!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I suppose there is something impressive about coming up from first principles with literally every bad, dumb idea about technology that anyone has ever had. But not the good kind of impressive.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am a broken record on this topic, but: The decimation of education has been the Republican party’s goal for a long time, because they know that history (and reason and science) prove them wrong on every count.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Both are good options to be sure! But if I had to pick one it would be greens.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dawson's Creek walked so that Crew Girl could run

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I adore their willingness to serve me vegetables with breakfast! yes i want eggs AND toast AND bacon. Yes I also want tomatos AND mushrooms AND greens.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The notation in this paper is GIBBERISH. "Just write a K and then put *anything you like* in parenthesis afterwards!" WHO MADE THESE CHOICES I HATE THEM. (it was me.) #mathsky

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is not hard to understand, and yet! My phone needs to be smaller than a piece of toast. My women's pants pockets were not engineered for pieces of toast.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seriously. In 2007 I was f***ing reading stuff in research papers and then turning around and writing wikipedia stubs based on that. Wikipedia wasn't *perfect* but it was useful!

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That is a fascinating string of words that I’m about to become obsessed with

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did you put some cinnamon sugar on it at least?

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tell me you’ve never done math without telling me you’ve never done math. Wikipedia is the GOAT.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I bet that's more true for teens than adults! I like thinking but by 8pm my brain is toast, bedtime reading is about slowing the spinning down enough to sleep. My teenager however has infinite energy the whole time she's awake and probably doesn't mind thinking before bed.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Came here to say this, hah. It's the best by miles, no other flavor is close.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The only time i feel smug while exercising is when i see people running in weighted vests. They had to buy at a store what god gave me naturally.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ahhhh so excited! But I think you (or more accurately we) broke libro.fm and now I can't get my preordered book 😭 it's OK, as long as they're back up by this evening I'll be OK. I do have, like, work to do and shit ...

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash from MLP: friendship is magic

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Don’t tell me to rise and grind, i earned these bedsheets.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tbh i think it probably does have some value but struggle with “if a tool has 10% really cool applications and 90% of use cases are for deception and trickery … does the 10% master?”

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What I’m going to try (starting next week 😭) is frequent reminders that the number one role of homework is to help them learn, and i can’t stop them from using ai (and honestly, most of these math problems can be done with a calculator) but they’re not going to have an ai or a calculator on tests.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

But *jazz hands* AI! AI is gonna get us to the moon. Somehow. If we just trust it.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes I love this! Equally good is putting a library hold on a book by an unknown author and forgetting everything about it until your hold *poof* arrives in your mailbox six months later. Sometimes it's shit but when it's up your alley it's so fun.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yup, glad it’s not just me

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The only good faith interpretation of this that i can come up with is that the author thinks that writing is important and working with data isn’t. And while that’s his choice, it’s ludicrous to claim that to make any other choice is malpractice.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s hard for me to take that claim seriously. evidence shows that when people outsource a skill to AI, they start to lose it. This is a bargain that an adult might feel is worthwhile; but to force that bargain on your students is to cheat them of the education you’re meant to be giving them

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Like, i teach calculus without calculators. This does not mean that my students won’t be able to solve calculus problems requiring calculators when they encounter them in their engineering classes.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My feeling is that students don’t need to be “taught” to use AI, they can (and do) figure it out pretty quickly on their own.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Percy Jackson season 3 should be releasing a new episode on Christmas, i will look forward to that! It’s the only current show that my tween, my teen, and the adults in my house all enjoy.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

For #caturday please enjoy the beans and spots on Link's feet <3

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I think you're right that "it's not as fun now" is the actual heart of the complaint. "I'm not king of the mountain anymore so I'm taking my toys and going HOME."

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I think that particular scene was from "The shortest way to Hades," which is the second Hilary Tamar book.

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

(I wonder if the answer to this is that there is sexual violence in *Shards of Honor* and that made people think she wasn't appropriate for teen readers. I admire Bujold's willingness to write MilFic that doesn't shy away from SV but it also makes her a little tricky to recommend.)

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Emily @eepbeepbeep.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I spent much of the 80s and 90s skulking around public libraries reading *everything* on the scifi and fantasy shelves, and I had to find out about Bujold from an NPR list in 2020?! Ridiculous! Why didn't someone hand me *Warriors apprentice* in 1994 and change the course of my entire life???

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