iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again inviting you all to enjoy dinner with community in the beautiful fall weather, with entertainment and family-friendly activities 4pm - 6pm TODAY! southside unicorn peace garden (3044 Minnehaha Ave) It's free!

Longfellow Rising
HARVEST CELEBRATION
Sunday, September 27 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Southside Unicorn Peace Garden - 3044 Minnehaha

FOOD
Laotian Flavors from
JAIDEE FOODS

MUSIC
members of the
LONGFELLOW VILLAGE
KLEZMER BAND JAM

POETRY
EXQUISITE CORPSE Poetry Creation
ERIN SHARKEY
DAVI GRAY
MICHAEL KLEBER-DIGGS

COMEDY
by ward 12
Councilmember
AURINCHOWDHURY

+ Crop Art creation, VR Longfellow
History, Bubbles AND info booths with Midwest Farmers of Color, Farm Buds, Midtown Farmers Market, and others!

THIS EVENT IS FREE!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dems should also be *trying now* -- not waiting for the midterms as some sort of perverse carrot.

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The NIH is proposing significant changes to their current peer review process. Let's get into it. Learn more below and let the NIH know what you think: rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...

rfi.grants.nih.gov

Request For Information

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Even in these wild times, it's wild to see that this is hosted at a .gov site. Hope we get through it; history suggests a thorny path.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is not “revisionist,” which implies new evidence has been found, which might change the historical narrative. These are LIES. Lies. No truth in it

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Honestly forgot Destiny's Child (when they were barely famous but amazing) -- which tells you how good the others were...

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live" leads w/😭 re: missing Rakim in '16 when I had tickets but had to work. Lauryn Hill Busta Rhymes Black Star (Talib/Mos) Gillian Welch Big K.R.I.T. Earth Wind & Fire Gladys/O'Jays Steely Dan Bright Eyes KRS-One Mobb Deep & Dylan, Stones, Kanye, meh

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can't believe these Ivory Tower academics left merely because the American government decided it should arbitrarily revoke research funding and visas, dictate what scholars publish & teach, and send students & assistants to concentration camps.

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Amazing list, also too bad they overlooked the R&B & funk of that year!

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Stereoithaca missed Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Al Green...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The August moon glitters in the kitchen - Yannis Ritsos, “The Meaning of Simplicity”

The Meaning of Simplicity
I hide behind simple things that you may find me; if you don't find me, you'll find the things, you'll touch what my hand touches, the imprints of our hands will merge.
The August moon glitters in the kitchen
like a pewter pot (it becomes like this because of what I tell you
it lights up the empty house and the kneeling silence of the house-
always the silence remains kneeling.
Every word is a way out
for an encounter often canceled,
and it's then a word is true, when it insists on the encounter.
Yannis Ritsos (translated by Kimon
Friar)

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Curious to see how these Meta glasses make an appearance in the upcoming academic semester... 🙄

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 16/08/2026

There are jobs for college instructors. They do require degrees. But the pay and the benefits are abysmal. Another take on the state of the academy:

thenation.com

Adjuncting Until the End of Time

Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16/08/2026

These AI detection programs are starting to look an awful lot like fire extinguishers sold by arsonists

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I guess they won't suffer from nostalgia in middle age?

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think some of it has to be venues'/institutions'/other liability. Like since the 90s people and places hosting things have been sued when things go wrong. But (in some very specific, non-comprehensive ways/ways exclusive to partying) those were the days.

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This makes me laugh and cry. The partying was so, so real.

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Watch the part where they go inside the center, around the 2:50 mark. Looks like about 2-3 people running things. The rest is plastic and metal (and drinking water). www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wDr...

youtube.com

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

YouTube video by WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The one thing I can still take refuge in is John Bonham's drum performance on "Dazed and Confused." Let me have this one thing, world!

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'll never forget co-teaching a Truth-telling course (w/a historian) in 2018. We reviewed the anonymous NYT "resistance" editorial (MT) telling us they were working behind the scenes to temper DT's actions. We asked the students for rxns; the smartest ones talked about how reassured they were... 😭

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Folks are really into their secondary sources methinks 😂

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

One of the fields in which the ones who *do* are respected (and paid) less than the ones who *study* those who do...

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Patricia Caspers @patricia-caspers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Nothing flies well in this wet night heat: not moths, not fat gold June bugs, not / bullets, not owls, not souls.” I miss Jennifer Martelli’s presence in the poetry world / the world. This is the first book I’ve read for the #sealeychallenge. And now I want to write all the poems.

Book cover. Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree.

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's looking like "redesigns" can't hide the essential downward trends in US SAT scores...from the 'Harvard Gazette': news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"I have no idea how to get around this" kind of says it all.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/07/2026

Nope. No, you haven’t.

r/WritingWithAl
u/Dazzling-Major-5620 • 13h
ChatGPT not letting you emulate specific authors anymore
Prompting
Join
I've been writing my book for several months now, paid for a more advanced model. Took a break. Came back.
Now Ms. GPT says she can't generate content in the style of specific authors. My prompts were soooo specific and I got exactly what I wanted out of them. For example,
'rewrite in the literary style of 'author here' with abundant dialogue and detail avoiding staccato prose. That was my go-to. Or 'please write and flesh out in the style of
'author' etc. they tightened the ropes. I have no idea how to get around this other than maybe feed it prose I already edited that's technically mine? Fuck.
& Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

March in Madison from where Corey Ruiz was shot by a Madison police officer to the police department

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Beautiful poem up at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social. "There Are Lights to Turn On After Dusk" by Lindsey Wayland, chosen by Matthew Olzmann.

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 24/07/2026

17 years ago today, the federal minimum wage was increased to $7.25—17 years ago! That was last time we had a federal minimum wage increase. It's past time we change that.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

having lived in (and seen my students living in) SO MANY SHITTY HOUSES in the past ten years I can confirm

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

...and it has "One must be very rich to dress as badly as you do. The poor are forced to dress well." Assuming JS fictionalized this in 'Travels with Charley', which is a bummer. (The trip itself didn't take place until 1960, though the anecdote with the handyman could have taken place earlier?)

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Any Steinbeck scholars out there? I found this and was bummed at its implications. One of the most memorable lines for me from 'Travels with Charley' has always been “You got to be awful rich to dress as bad as you do"--supposedly from JS's handyman. But 'East of Eden' came out ten years earlier...

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. -- Steinbeck

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Good Lord. All those people in government, and not one can raise a flag on this?

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Happy birthday! "Imprisoned within a cage of my own desires" reminds me of Calvino in 'Invisible Cities'. Great moment!

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/07/2026

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

newrepublic.com

Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home

The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.

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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What a coincidence! Well, great minds, you know.

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