iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't see the most effective method listed. Where is "eliminate poverty"?

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Amy "Thunderjam" Chase @amythunderjam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I simply do not care what "small useful" purpose you've justified for using these chatbots. Extricate yourself from them. Ban them.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Library friends: you absolutely do not have to become AI users. Anyone telling you that you have to is either trying to sell you something or is preaching from a place of fear.

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Mitch Gerads @mitchgerads.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Maybe we just pull the plug on all Ai and just go about our lives? There’s all this talk about you can’t stop technology and it’s bullshit. We actually can.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My latest for Knowledge Quest - come for the Princess Bride references, stay for the take-down of the "AI is inevitable" myth! knowledgequest.aasl.org/the-vizzini-... #TLsky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat #TLChat

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The Vizzini Problem; or, Why AI Is Anything But Inevitable | AASL Knowledge Quest

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Given the coverage in the New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, and several other venues on how TIFs mostly *divert* revenue from projects that would happen regardless (away from schools and basic services), the Atlanta Public Schools should reject Mayor Dickens' proposed 30 year TAD extension. 1/2

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Revenue or revitalization: Mayor’s legacy project hinges on school board

The Atlanta Board of Education will cast the deciding vote on Mayor Dickens’ idea to extend taxing districts, sacrificing revenue for revitalization. They are in no hurry.

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🫀nenetto [🌳 Deku edition ▿] @nenetto.com · 17/08/2026

By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 24/08/2026

New York Magazine says in response to criticism of its latest issue that “genocide” is “an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza [...] and that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages”

Some objected to the magazine’s use of the term genocide to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. Close readers will recognize that this was not a decision specific to this series. This past fall, after an extensive review of genocide scholarship and interviews with multiple experts in the field of genocide studies, the magazine’s editors decided the term was an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza, that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/08/2026

All of the LLMs stole from me. Most of the big "A.i." billionaires are horrifying right wingers. Consumer-facing generative "A.i." "writing" and "art" tools deskill people, cheat kids out of real education, spread falsehoods and disinfo, and violate privacy. So no, I ain't using that shit.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

AI is absolutely NOT inevitable. When enough people understand the many harms caused by AI, companies will have no choice but to concede that their rush to jam AI tools into every facet of digital life is a turn-off, not a lure. #AiIsTheProblem #TechLiteracy www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

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✨priya @ DICE Oct 3 @priyahuq.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026

quickly made up some posters you can print! i choose to believe that most HP fans are ignorant about jo rowling's hatred and if educated, would choose better. i don't think this education can be stretched further online. it's up to us to share our knowledge irl. left is letter, right is A4

handwritten/handwriting font black and white poster that says
"HARRY POTTER FUNDS TRANSPHOBIA. If you support the new HP show, you are directly harming trans people and helping destroy ALL of our human rights. J.K. Rowling hates trans people and funds efforts to criminalize our existence." with a QR code to an advocate article about it. 8.5x11", free to print and distribute

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The only comment any Democrat should make on locker rooms is "Republicans want to examine your children's genitals because they are weirdos who do the bidding of a rapist" and nothing else.

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Stephen Owens @stephenjowens.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you live in the city of Atlanta and want to join a grassroots movement to oppose the TAD extensions and shore up finances for our public schools then please sign up for our emails below Also I'm not in love with the name I came up with so if you have a better name lmk forms.gle/zHxWJ3eanfuF...

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A TAD Too Far

If you're interested in staying connected and possibly joining the effort to oppose the diversion of billions of dollars worth of property taxes away from Atlanta Public Schools, please put your conta...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

resharing Charles' excellent piece in light of the new casting news

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12/08/2026

The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Please vaccinate your kids. Please.

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Some of you

Cover of "I Really Like Slop" by Mo Willems

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What's fun about the guidance is if you take it seriously, there isn't a single AI product that aligns with library values

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Students whose teachers had access to the AI tool rated their classes as less enjoyable, less interesting and less important than students in the control group." 👀 This seems...important? hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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Teachers save time with AI. Their students may pay the price

Students say AI-assisted classes feel less interesting, less enjoyable and less important

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There are STILL Democrats and Republicans who say we need ICE. Why? Why do we need this lawless, violent Gestappo that kills innocent people?

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Sad I didn't snag a physical galley at ALA, but just flew through this stunning prequel. Just as good if not better than the originals. Loved every page. @ssedlib.bsky.social

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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

FYI: This is not hyperbole. As someone who watched progressivism save lives, I can tell you regressive bullshit will eliminate lives.

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@claratgreen.bsky.social a month after speaking very clearly about the danger of APS joining the TAD expansion/renewal during the forum you moderated, Lisa Bracken is now leaving APS for "a new professional opportunity". I sure hope I'm not reading too much into this....

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@kelseabondatl.bsky.social on FB: (link follows) "...we fought against a well-funded PR machine...we saw real estate interests, developers...speak out in favor of siphoning away money from our city, schools, and county general funds to subsidize private development under the guise of “equity”

Yesterday, I was one of two no votes against extending six of Atlanta’s tax allocation districts. For months, we fought against a well-funded PR machine, funded using our own tax dollars (including the Housing Trust Fund) and an effort to astroturf support for this scheme to make developers richer. For months, we saw real estate interests, developers, CEO’s, and business interests speak out in favor of siphoning away money from our city, schools, and county general funds to subsidize private development under the guise of “equity”. TADs are not an equity tool, they’re a development tool. I’m not just afraid that this administration has over promised what can be achieved using a tool limited to just capital projects and geography, but also that this tool may continue to subsidize the displacement of many residents in the same way we saw with the Beltline TAD.
We’re taught to identify scams when something is being sold to you in a rushed way, with unexplained urgency. Maybe they wanted us to rush so we forget that $8 billion is a lot of money? That we’d forget that with the increment returned back to APS they could fund universal pre-k for 3 and 4 years olds? That we’d start to wonder why so many businesses and developers seemed to have a vested interest in this initiative? That we’d catch on how many public commenters and keyboard warriors were PAID to be there? This admin has had four years to start this work.
No matter what, this proposal still requires approval from APS and Fulton. No bonds can be taken out without a redevelopment plan. The fight for transparency, accountability, and equity continue.
I want to thank all the regular, NON-PAID Atlanta residents who have taken the time to engage in this process, learn more about their local government and complex policy. Democracy should always mean mass participation from the start, not half-baked plans rammed through Council without deliberation.

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Anytime food that is wet. Soup, stew, chili, sauces, condiments, creams. Get them all out. Also casseroles. They're gross looking.

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Julian Bene @julianbene.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The stakes are clear in tomorrow's runoff for Fulton County. You can choose Pitts & Morris to protect our tax money from Dickens's TAD developer scheme. Or you can choose their opponents and face a 20% tax increase to cover the Jail redo and S. Fulton hospital.

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Julian Bene @julianbene.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

In plain English, Mo would hand over Fulton TAD taxes to Andre. Creating a budget crisis for the Jail redo and big tax hikes for residents. She’d leave Big Commercial underpaying by hundreds of millions. Pitts would retake the big TAD $$$ and has already hit data centers with proper valuation.

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social galley just went up on edelweiss yesterday. Tell your librarian and bookseller friends.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/06/2026

Plundering our affordable housing trust fund to line the pockets of lobbyists to conduct an astroturfing campaign to defund Atlanta Public Schools should be a career-ending scandal anywhere outside Atlanta. Don't let your city become Andre Dickens' Atlanta:

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Charles Soule @charlessoule.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Using AI to do stuff at your business is like hiring someone you would fire in the first week because they screw up all the time. And they’re more expensive and they ruin the environment and sometimes they tell people to kill themselves.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

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Julian Bene @julianbene.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Kelsea's thread succinctly diagnoses what's wrong with the Atlanta Way. Most local pols work for the billionaires, not for residents, either affluent or low-income. The Mayor's current TAD extension plan should be viewed in that light, sadly. Council has power to improve it. Will they? #GApol

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Stephen Owens @stephenjowens.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Welcome to Georgia! One of the richest people in our state just wrote in his own newspaper that we shouldn’t have rail on the Beltline. Two other of our richest citizens are running for the Republican nomination for governor both on the platform that we don’t need taxes. Our minimum wage is $5.15/hr

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Beautiful new 100th anniversary edition of The complete Winnie-the-Pooh from @penguinschoollib.bsky.social

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

hey georgia, today's the last day to register to vote -- even if you THINK you're registered, check your registration! mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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Elections Portal

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026

1. Firearms are a devastating technology. 2. Advanced LLMs are devastating technology, too. 3. Limit tech that murders. 4. Human users of such tech to murder MUST be held accountable.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/09/2025

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

One side posted that they don't like white supremacists or Christian nationalists. The other side is threatening to kill people because they said they don't like white supremacists and Christian nationalists. Stop pretending domestic terrorists and the people they terrorize are the same.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I hope I can live long enough to see Stephen Miller prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced for his numerous crimes against humanity. I hope we can all see him sniveling and crying as he's taken to prison.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence. You can do both.

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