iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 23h

New blog post on refusal.blog: "Shame, Moral Displacement, and Tone Policing in a Time of Sycophantic Chatbots" "often, the same people who complain about ‘shaming’ [AI use] do not hesitate to engage in shaming themselves" refusal.blog/2026/09/29/s... @nobugsnous.bsky.social @rcmeg.bsky.social

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Shame, Moral Displacement, and Tone Policing in a Time of Sycophantic Chatbots

Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia UniversityMaggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of Arkansas Wire Bound by Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN /…

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day one of nature writing at the Greenway with comp students

Sun through tree and the river lined with trees

A crane on a rock with millions of little bugs

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 30/09/2026

US Media: HEARTWARMING: Local robotics team pulls together to build a miniature bicameral legislature that successfully passes legislation to protect the public from health insurance cartels! Team captain says they "felt a duty to step up since no one else is doing that work."

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 30/09/2026

"The new 'Religious Affiliation Codes' exclude more than 180 of the 211 previously existing codes, including atheists, humanists, and Unitarian Universalists."

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 29/09/2026

Punditry isn't as important as the NY Times thinks.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI Slop Coming to a University Library Near You Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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AI Slop Coming to University Library Near You (opinion)

Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 29/09/2026

Huang: "There are a lot of skills that don’t matter." Cognition does not equal "skills." And cognition is what generative AI as currently used is displacing.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Laura @lkhnknz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aurora city council meeting at the one hour mark of public invited to be heard, a vote is cast and passes by mayoral tie breaker to continue and allow the remaining 47 speakers to be allowed to be heard Incredible turn out of ppl speaking out against Trident data center asking them to resubmit 📝

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 29/09/2026

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Debt is wealth.

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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As is the case in virtually every actual housing "abundance" policy fight that has ever occurred in a U.S. city not named SF or LA, it's conservatives and centrists standing in the way of upzoning/density and progressives and "the groups" organizing in support of it.

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After proposing a citywide upzoning, Denver scales back ‘Unlocking Housing Choices’

Council members said their neighborhoods weren’t ready for density, while housing advocates decried the change.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026

This is why the Vanderbilt/WashU report cannot be understood apart from both institutions‘ massive investments in AI. Their leaders needed to discredit those disciplines and forms of knowledge asking hard questions about the cultural, social, political, and environmental costs of AI.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like. I have said it before and I'll say it again: when your industry's founding pitch is "what if there was a tool with human-level intelligence that didn't have human rights," then regardless of whether the tech is actually sentient (which it isn't), nothing downstream of that will be ethical.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As we've learned from studying 100s of rumors across 3 U.S. elections — including those that fed the "big lie" in 2020 — many false rumors & conspiracy theories take real election issues & wrap them into a false/misleading story by falsely assigning blame, exaggerating impact, & ignoring remedies.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

For most Leftists, what is in the public interest is nearly always at odds with the hoarding of private interests. But when crafting financial objectives + strategies, we rely on concepts designed for private finance. To serve public ends, public finance must develop a new language and logic. 🧵

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/09/2026

These are places that get workers used to the faces of one another *and* of their stewards/ organizers, be nodes in trusted information networks, build a pipeline of union-vetted candidates, and provide safe physical spaces for GOTV/ campaign events.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/09/2026

Counterpoint: the rise and decline of union halls

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 26/09/2026

Can tech oligarchs feel empathy? They at least behave as if they can't.

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 26/09/2026

Share your thoughts on the @thorntonco.gov Colorado Boulevard protected bike facilities project. #Thornton #Colorado #biking #CityPlanning www.thorntonco.gov/city-service...

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Colorado Boulevard Protected Bike Facilities

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 25/09/2026

Reforms that are unpopular with management? Or reforms that are unpopular with students, staff, and faculty?

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of universities will be facing big deficits and looking to cure what ails them. I just want them to be thoughtful about it.

Screenshot of article which reads: At the same time, new job-focused majors may not be sustainable — and can even backfire. Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, pointed to the rise in computer-science degrees in the 2010s. At the time, they seemed like the best way to secure a high-paying salary after graduation, she said. But with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, computer-science jobs are increasingly hard to find, and enrollment in such programs is falling significantly.
“When you tie the viability, the financial viability in particular, of an institution really tightly to jobs creation on that scale,” especially as a four-year institution, she said, “you have to be really careful, because you can find that in 10 years that program that you poured all your money into — worthless.”

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 25/09/2026

Latest Update: 7/21/2026 Months since the April 2026 security breach, Instructure has still not disclosed any information to students about what was stolen. "Messages" is very vague. Were these private messages? Group discussions? Instructor announcements? 🤷‍♂️ www.instructure.com/incident_upd...

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Security Incident Update & FAQs

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Budget activism in higher ed now! Force budget transparency, get documents. Circulate. Change strategies to address cuts cuts cuts ideology that's taken over everywhere. Change public conversation from efficiency + cuts to "why are we accepting less and less while these dudes get richer and richer?"

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 25/09/2026

6-7 is just someone reporting a bad day on the Bristol Stool Scale.

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 24/09/2026

You need to carry it because it too lacks legs.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Students in my AI & Society class were poking at our university chatbot (which I did not even know existed until last week) and well...

Buff Bot:
Hi! I'm the Buff Bot! How many I help you today?
I'm worried that AI might kill us all.
Sorry, it's taking me longer than expected to come up with a response.
It's understandable to be concerned; we encourage responsible, informed AI use and considering its risks and impacts.

Is there a class you recommend I take?
Sorry, it's taking me longer than expected to come up with a response.
Consider INFO1511: AI & Society - it covers how AI works, its limits, and societal impacts.

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 22/09/2026

We were supposed to deep fry the memes, not our minds.

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

new data up at my #copolitics following the money site www.followingthemoneyco.com

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#FollowtheMoneyCO

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

áyA Con, Colorado’s Indigenous comic and art festival, is back this October for its fourth year. It has a new home at the LVC CoBank Arena in the National Western Center, with a four-day schedule and a few events on the edges. redpopnews.com/indigenous-f...

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Indigenous Fashion, Cosplay and the World's Only Black Light Powwow: áyA Con Is Back and Bigger Than Ever

áyA Con, Colorado's Indigenous comic and art festival, is back this October for its fourth year. It has a new home at the LVC CoBank Arena in the National Western Center, with a four-day schedule and ...

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 21/09/2026

11 airports and how many permanent full-time union jobs with benefits?

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Todd Battistelli @fromtherostra.com · 21/09/2026

Building power (so that more and more people have an equitable say) vs. Consolidating power (concentrating power in fewer and fewer hands)

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some Boolean logic we can all get behind.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When a social breakdown or impasse surfaces, which social arrangements are treated as set in stone, and which are expected to adjust or be destroyed? I think versions of this question can be addressed to institutions of austerity and carcerality. Both create harm to avoid reorganizing power.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you are an organizer and have been wanting to get more skilled at conflict transformation, our next Communiversity session on Saturday 9/26 might be of interest. We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Strengthening the Relationships that Sustain Our Movements is facilitated by Adaku Utah

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Communiversity Catalog: Abolition, Incarceration, and the Rule of Law — Interrupting Criminalization

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 19/09/2026

A Montana advocate is working to protect direct democracy: “People are really frustrated with the government right now, and it is a really important time to protect the ways that voters can have a more direct say on the laws that impact their lives.”

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To Protect Direct Democracy, Two States Mull a New Approach: Name It As a Right - Bolts

Ballot measures in Missouri and Montana would strengthen citizen-led initiatives. Democracy advocates in each state are going on the offense after facing years of attack.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The largest theft of labor in human history is an unprecedented enclosure of the thought work cultivated in the near miraculous shared achievement of the internet that is being strip-mined in parallel with the trillion dollar data center build out meant to make full use of that violent extraction.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s no version of turning our classroom technology into panoptic surveillance and turning our policies into moral bear traps that will lead to successful new educational paradigms.

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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 19/09/2026

When an instructor exclusively designs opportunities for shallow practice, it's nigh inevitable that the learners will feel unprepared for deeper extensions/applications of what they're learning to do. It's unconscionable that the irresponsibility of AI companies is disrupting so much of education.

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