iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Kingfisher about to get the drop on a Great Blue Heron with Puget Sound in the background. #nature #birds #nokings #love #pnw #Seattle

Close-up of heron's face and neck on a pier with a post behind her. Atop the post sits a Kingfisher looking down.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There are really only a few kinds of bird: adorblers, flutterbutts, darkwings, noctuvians, diveflumers, and the lesser & greater sonickers. leatherfeathers, blunderwings, and thrasherdoodles

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'm thinking about creating some kind of online series about how to deal with technologically produced mis- and disinformation . Which is this? Letting AI put together "learning modules" from vast stores of unrelated course materials seems, at best, unconcerned with accurate scholarship.

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This was the sign I should have made. bsky.app/profile/book... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... Ruby-crowned kinglet photo by Cephas, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-..., via Wikimedia Commons

Small gray bird with bright red blaze on top of head, sitting on a tree branch.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

Photo of a black pillow in a black chair. Two slightly angry looking cat eyes stare out from the pillow’s lower half

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Whenever I buy a bottle of aspirin or whatever there's always a panel on the label called DRUG FACTS. It's never, like, a fascinating deep dive about Timothy Leary or the guy who inspired Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne". I keep hoping in vain.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Two (2!) essays, one written, one as video, on the complexities of "biological gender" from Julia Serano. For, you know, extra credit. And learning! juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-... youtu.be/ZymYiwoRoC0

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Transgender People and “Biological Sex” Myths

NOTE: In 2024, I released a talk-length YouTube video entitled Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says that covers this…

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

And some encouragement to speak out against attacks on trans rights from Rebecca Watson, geekily famous cisgendered woman: youtu.be/mbyNLXgrgIw

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Trans People are Under Attack and We Must Help Them

YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Character limits can bite my.. If the template on commenting on passport policies for trans folks looked as garbled to you as it does to me, just go to the link in this next comment:

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Crosspost from FB, slightly condensed: I would say that if you give a damn about trans folk then it is time to speak up, but truly, if you give a damn about anyone who is being targeted by this administration, it is time to speak up. Because it will not end here. www.facebook.com/genderlib/po...

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Gender Liberation Movement

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD: until March 17th, the public comment period is open on the changes to gender markers on passports. Let's FLOOD the State Department with comments expressing why accurate...

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It's Black History Month no matter who says otherwise. Here is a short film from 1970 on James Baldwin. It will tell you whether you'd like to read more of him or not. Myself, I have watched it more than once: I fall in love every single time. blackfilmarchive.com/Meeting-the-...

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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris — Black Film Archive

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris The tension between the filmmakers and James Baldwin in this short documentary is deeply distracting. However, the...

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The NYT article does not link to the report itself, so I went looking. Here is the DOJ announcement with a brief summary. A link to a page where you can download the full report is in the first sentence. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

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Justice Department Announces Results of Review and Evaluation of the Tulsa Race Massacre

The Justice Department issued a report today on the Tulsa Race Massacre. The report documents the department’s findings, made during its review and evaluation of the Tulsa Race Massacre, undertaken pu...

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Cheer Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 22/12/2024

This is excellent and worth reading right now that you just got a boring Wrapped that didn’t even do good numbers. It is relatively painless to move your playlists to another streaming site and they’re all, every single one, superior to Spotify.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

San Franciscan since 1980, regular user of public restrooms, probably shared them with more trans women than most people out there, also nothing to report. We're fine. Wrote about that four years ago. All still true. Damn this persecution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trans women pose no threat to cis women, but we pose a threat to them if we make them outcasts | Rebecca Solnit

Growing up in San Francisco, the loudest, proudest queer town around, made it clear to me that gender was what you made of it

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Five minutes after I created my first email address (1994, I think: catdoc@u.wasington.edu, which is no longer a functioning domain, much less an email address) I checked my inbox several times to see if the internet would find me right away. It did not. I maybe should go eat lunch.

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Erik JM Schneider @erikjms.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I suppose I should say something so it is apparent that I am here. If I believed that I were anywhere--or anyone--in particular, this would be much easier. So: "Hi. I am called Erik." That's all I got at the moment. Oh. It's raining in Seattle. Also, I have never done short-form posting well.

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