iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

abolish the death penalty

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) @aacu.org · 23/09/2026

What happens when the White House press pool loses access? What are the lessons as we educate future journalists? Veteran reporter Tara McKelvey weighs in. bit.ly/4pt3vxD #LibEdMag

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Civics Lesson | AAC&U

Educators prepare future journalists and do what they can to shore up democracy

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Automated grading of student writing should have been a clear no-go from the beginning. I wrote this over three years ago and I can't believe how many faculty have allowed themselves to be seduced by this. Students rightly see this as betrayal. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Do not leave grading to the machines

Some lines we shouldn’t cross. This is one.

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The Floating Men @thefloatingmen.bandcamp.com · 21/09/2026

GA Ticket Price Drop for 3rd & Lindsley November 21st. www.ticketweb.com/event/an-eve... Ain't gonna make us ain't gonna break us. Current GA ticket holders will get early access to seating 10 min before general public doors.

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Tickets for An Evening with The Floating Men

Find tickets for The Floating Men showing at the 3rd and Lindsley - Nashville, US Saturday Nov 21, 6:00PM Tickets starting at $24.61

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Occasional reminder that pedagogy should be eccentric and calibrated to the uniquely bizarre access you have managed to cobble together in order to crack open a complicated form of understanding.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 16/09/2026

Student: if we just stop trading with countries where we have deficits we'll make more money Econ Professor:

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The Office: I'll Kill You

ALT: The Office: I'll Kill You

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

Has anyone considered orienting college education around the practice of sitting together and discussing real books, read on paper? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Understand this. The US has at least 200 Concentration Camps. #FDT #Pinks

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More than 70,000 people are currently in more than 200 concentration camps in the United States.
What? You say: We don't have concentration camps in the US.
Ah, but we do. Historians define concentration camps as sites of mass civilian detention without trial, based on group identity. Our "detention" centers ARE concentration camps.
We need to shut them down.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Private equity is looting our communities. It's everywhere—our healthcare, our food, our housing, and our businesses. It's unacceptable. We need to get private equity out of our lives now.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026

Ireland has spoken. They REALLY don’t like Trump. 🇮🇪 Dear Ireland, his approval rating is in the 30s. We don’t like him over here either!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“AI IS INEVITABLE AND YOU BETTER ACCEPT IT AND IT MIGHT MURDER YOU BUT ACTUALLY SLOW DOWN SO WE CAN MANIPULATE THE MARKET A LITTLE MORE” this is all such bullshit.

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Ugh 🏴‍☠️👻🏴‍☠️ @ajaxatax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think the point is more we don't know if such future risks are real, but we know the people in charge of it are causing REAL life harm now, already, that should be regulated...and that esp we should stop assigning it agency or responsibility for doom, because a person made those harmful decisions.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It took four reporters at the Financial Times to put this Trump campaign press release together and none of them could bother to note that this proposal is wildly illegal.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh my gosh, the best political video on YouTube just got updated after a decade and a half and it's still just perfect! It visualizes something that I've talked about a lot since the first video came out: The real problem is the billionaire class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxl...

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Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)

YouTube video by politizane

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/09/2026

A tale of two Labor Day messages today

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Astounding that somebody could write "Are We Engineering Physical Activity Out Of Daily Life?" and not be talking about decades of making cars the easiest way to get around cities

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yale’s Office of Public Affairs banned reporters from Yale’s campus today. It’s corroborated by Francie Diep in her story for the @chronicle.com. This was an attempt to squelch press coverage today of the rally protesting Yale’s attacks on freedom of expression, their pending deal with Trump. 1/

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AAUP @aaup.org · 31/08/2026

In an era of relentless authoritarian attacks on higher education and our democracy, neutrality is not an option. The AAUP is fighting back. Join us.

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Is Todd Wolfson Destroying the AAUP — or Saving it?

His partisan, combative style has remade the century-old organization. Not everyone is pleased.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.

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Scot Evans @evanssd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

or having a spirited argument with a peer (rather than getting ‘the’ answer from AI),” the committee wrote. “That’s why it matters for students to go to college!” www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

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MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, Social Learning

Artificial intelligence is upending the MIT education, a committee has found. Students, instructors and administrators will need to revisit nearly every part of that experience to respond to it.

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Scot Evans @evanssd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Learning works when it’s both challenging and social; knowledge is built through cognitive friction, whether that’s disentangling the steps of a mathematical proof with your study group, adjusting an experiment over and over until it works,

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 29/08/2026

They never want to ideologically balance out their institutions by intentionally hiring Marxists or Indigenous scholars. I wonder why that is

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

No Response to DOE Letter Without Faculty Governance Involvement static1.squarespace.com/static/67f6d...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cool, cool, I have a couple quick questions -- who's in charge of preventing food-induced illnesses right now and how good a job are they doing?

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Scot Evans @evanssd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Tell Congress: Protect workers from extreme heat 👇 Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Protect workers from extreme heat

Contact Congress today!

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The Floating Men @thefloatingmen.bandcamp.com · 27/08/2026

Join us for a free listening party on 9/1 to celebrate the spooky season and the Bandcamp release of The Haunting (2004). Jeff, Scot, and fellow stage and studio cats will be on hand to chat about the songs and the making of the album. thefloatingmen.bandcamp.com/merch/the-ha...

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The Haunting Listening Party from The Floating Men

Listening Party from The Floating Men.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky

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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026

The AAUP & AFT condemn the recent directive from the War Dept that publicly places 30 universities under suspicion & gives them 2 weeks to investigate years of academic activity. The directive represents another threat of funding-based coercion that undermines scientific research & innovation.

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Department of War Directive Undermines Scientific Innovation. It Should Be Rescinded.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Images of striking Dutch bike infrastructure

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Live your life like Dolly Parton

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Scot Evans @evanssd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If we’re being accurate, it would be renamed Lake New York and WHY THE FUCK AM I TYPING THIS??!!?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/08/2026

> Anyone willing to die on the hill of academic/intellectual freedom is on the wrong hill if they are defending Cofnas. > Generously interpreted, each academic signing these letters seems to have failed the most basic test of what supports their own rights to be members of the academy. 11/n

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Literally every university: "we are in a deficit and must shut down programs and fire faculty/staff" At the same time: "let's pay millions for this AI contract that no one asked for!" *SCREAMING INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY*

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They're literally doing the meme.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/style/eon-huntley-dsa-bergdorf-goodman.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Instead of spending money on the tech that steals our work, makes our students dumber and serves no purpose at all, they could instead use it to hire more actual instructors.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026

If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.

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The Floating Men @thefloatingmen.bandcamp.com · 23/08/2026

We’re a co-owner of @subvert.fm join us subvert.fm/the-floating...

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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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