iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 18h

Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 18h

I had avoided learning too much about the Cornell case but finally read Kate Manne's piece. I haven't taught in a college classroom in eight years but it all came back so vividly. So many women asking if they could close the door, they wanted to tell me something.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19h

There are a lot of legal and illegal stimulants in the world but few of them can match the feeling you get when someone passes you like a real jerk and then gets stuck at the next light alongside you.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19h

It has been an interesting few days in my feed, but one fascinating thing is people telling me that historians have caused as much damage as bad bridge builders, but the idea seems to be that anyone who makes claims about the past is a historian and son that just ain’t true.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are from Connecticut and aren't following the #NutmegSky feed well you're missing out on relevant content from me and the five other people who use that hashtag so FIX YOURSELF.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops' gubernatorial candidate comparison sheet is interesting, because the way it describes policies uses the least inflammatory language possible for issues where David Jolly's policies disagree with Catholic Church stances. files.ecatholic.com/11291/docume...

FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

GUBERNATORIAL COMPARISON

DAVID JOLLY Democrat

BYRON DONALDS Republican

Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes it feels like the main sin of the humanities in this moment is to think humanity is fascinating and worthy of study.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What does it say about the coming winter when there’s a dead wooly bear at the bottom of the cellar stairs?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are from Connecticut and aren't following the #NutmegSky feed well you're missing out on relevant content from me and the five other people who use that hashtag so FIX YOURSELF.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two fun things upcoming at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social if you're into it. Visit marktwainhouse.org/events/ to get tickets. #NutmegSky

A red square with a skull in the middle. in glowing letters it says Ghost Story Writing Workshop Friday October 16 5:30-7 Mark Twain House

A red square with a hand holding two tarot cards in the middle. in glowing letters it says Tarot Poetry Workshop Friday October 23 5:30-7 Mark Twain House

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People are really mad at me being a big snob about liberal arts education but this was really a desperate plea for engineers to stop thinking every other field but theirs is for dumb babies.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s good when a program gets booked so much that the materials wear out and you have to make new stuff. It’s even better when the federal government is still helping you pay for it.

A bunch of 3 inch wooden blocks lined up on some tables with small piles of paper in front of them

A bunch of 3 inch blocks of wood with paper in front of them. Each block has a photograph of a different kind of food glued to it The foods are things like bananas, summer squash, coffee, and rhubarb.

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"And now dear Jane as we have concluded the business part of this concern I am going to volunteer some advice - you have of course considered the trying position in which Jane will be placed as regards her religious opinions and her views on slavery"

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Indeed she is a sweet companion in those hours which would but for her be not only solitary but full of the keenest regrets & most gloomy forebodings." JMSI to LDM, 9/27/1821, SFP 28:18

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The baby grows ugly & good - she suffers me to read & work with her very comfortably so that I never find her company the least irksome"

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Gatsby Movie The Great Gatsby Caper Gatsby Takes Manhattan The Gatsby Christmas Carol Gatsby Treasure Island Gatsby From Space

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what happens when you think about history as content not skills. This is also what happens when you teach it that way in intro classes--or when you're forced to because of the way your institution makes you teach.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

AP and dual enrollment. And convincing students that these HS courses are not like a real college course, mostly because they are full of HS students, is so hard when they’ve been sold the message that “good” students can do college in HS

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Historians of science seek to understand bygone worldviews in their full complexity, however strange, sometimes laughable, or downright reprehensible those might be . . . It’s a vital tool for seeing modern science as part of—not liberated from—a still-unfolding story.“

contingentmagazine.org

They Thought What?

Unpacking the history (and present) of science

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This name has floated in and out of my visual range for the past few weeks and now I’m not sure I ever need to know more.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a wild ride for the bad interview discourse today. Read to the end, whew.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes it feels like the main sin of the humanities in this moment is to think humanity is fascinating and worthy of study.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two days of great sunsets in preparation for several days of not seeing the sun at all.

A brilliant red and orange sunset over a formerly industrial Connecticut suburban skyline

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Do write to me soon; a letter from you always makes a gala-day, and leaves a long track of light on my path." CMS to Mrs. Frank Channing, 9/5/1821, L&LCMS.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is so good to see @reportermatt.bsky.social, who was in like 80% of my classes in college, become the most influential reporter in Massachusetts. He just loves the place, and you can tell in everything he does. A truly wonderful man making the whole state better.

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"you could keep the french banknotes as you could not sell them for more than twelve cents to a frank! I think you do well to keep them as unless the french nation is entirely destroyed I think they must later be worth more than that." Jane to Hal, 9/24/186?, SFP 86:2

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

* timeline cleanse * Please enjoy this adorable CBC video of a preschool class in Baltimore taking an imaginary trip to Canada 🥹🇨🇦

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know what season it is.

A barn space with a cement floor. There are gourds piled everywhere.

Looking out of a barn full of gourds onto a greenhouse full of mums

The front of a farm market. There is a set of shelving running the full length. Four shelves full of gourds

A close up of an old wagon full of big and small and twisty gourds with some pumpkins on the ground. They are lit up in the sun.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our finalists for the 10th MT American Voice in Literature Award! The winner will be announced next month and will also join us as a panelists for our symposium "Creative Writing in the Age of AI"

A graphic showing the finalists for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, with headshots and covers: Lydia Millet/Atavists, Susan Choi/Flashlight, Joyce Carol Oates/Fox, Kiran Desai/The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Winner announced in October
Award Weekend November 6-7 Hartford CT
marktwainaward.org
The Mark Twain House & Museum

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m not saying it would have prevented this, but what if we’d come down on Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse at some point?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I finally looked up Harris’ appearance with El-Sayed to see what the hullabaloo was and I heard something that shocked me, something I was surprised to hear on the campaign trail in 2026. Mention of maternal mortality.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every podcast and YouTube video now has ads for AI workplace stuff that sounds like it's only useful for TV sitcom office jobs. This week, Chandler trains AI agents to compute the WENUS and the ANUS so he can goof off with Joey--but what happens when the agents want to have a little fun?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our finalists for the 10th MT American Voice in Literature Award! The winner will be announced next month and will also join us as a panelists for our symposium "Creative Writing in the Age of AI"

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Jane’s mercury has risen and fallen with the Hungarian cause - she & Grace Ashburner have been chief mourners over the death of Hungarian freedom." JMSI to LDM, 9/20/1854, SFP 28:9

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My mother won a peck of apples from someone’s tree in the church picnic raffle because that’s how we do it in #NutmegSky

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Several people have been asking me when this one was going to be up on the feed. Lauren Goodlad (of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) and @jeffjarvis.bsky.social really delivered an evening convo to remember at the 2026 Quadrennial Conference on the State of @marktwain.bsky.social Studies.

theamericanvandal.com

Critical AI & The End of Mass Media (Vandal Live @ Elmira College)

with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Jeff Jarvis

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One goal for 2029? Let’s see if we can get the Oval Office back to

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Apparently this was recovered and I didn’t know till I saw it on my mother’s kitchen shelf just now. We shall see.

A green cloth covered book that says recipes on the front in embossed gold letters

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have been re-watching Voyager and there’s a very early episode about beliefs about the afterlife, eugenics, and cultural encounter that ends with Janeway making Harry take a couple of days off to process the experience. She explicitly tells him to do this by writing or otherwise creating art.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you are on the east coast of the US, you will get your books from them so quickly! (this may be true for other parts of the country as well, but I don’t know)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You know that thing where people thought Elon Musk was brilliant until they heard him talk about a thing they knew a lot about and then it burst the bubble? It’s weird that ChatGPT (genericized trademark) doesn’t seem to follow the same pattern for people. Or maybe just the people I know.

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