iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.

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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

8 hours for rectangle that makes you money. 8 hours for rectangle that makes you sleepy. 8 hours for rectangle that makes you sad.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Which ‘controversial truths’?” “Oh, you know the ones…”

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A panel drawn for today’s Ottawa Comic Jam

A cartoon of a total dweeb giving a press conference, saying, “I’m pleased to announce WE’VE DONE IT — we’ve achieved A.G.I.! Now, let’s see what it has to say…”

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Downtown Ottawa has some very committed narcs who black out posters they don’t like. Nice to see a little pushback.

A small flyer poster to a light post. The text reads, “YES! to Political Posters / Elites may control our media… BUT WE CONTROL OUR STREETS / Corporate and state media control our communication as well as spread lies and propaganda / PROTECT FREE SPEECH / PUT UP POLITICAL POSTERS.” There’s a drawing of a circus clown messing with a poster on a post much like this one, and he’s labelled “YOU! Taking down this poster.” To the right is another poster that someone has attempted to black out key information on.

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mad-swilliams.bsky.social @mad-swilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very anxious about posting this, but I feel strongly compelled to share. I know it’s a lot to take in for a Saturday morning and I appreciate anyone for taking the time to read it.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every week this feels more urgent and I first said this during my keynote at a grad student conference in Kent in 2022 as they were gutting their American Studies degrees.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes i google Ally McBeal — that 90s legal drama where all the bathrooms were unisex and nobody cared except to think it was so cosmopolitan and cool — just to make sure i didn’t make all that up.

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Like that story about kids turning Google Slides into a rudimentary forum to get around their schools blacklisting social media sites, life … finds a way.

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m encountering more examples of published text using different quotation marks for scare quotes / words as words and for quoted speech or text, and that is why I will become “the Joker.”

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They just can’t figure out how to square that circle.

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Granted, prospective grad student inquiries have always been a little scattershot, but they increasingly resemble the book club scam emails.

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“That puts OpenAI in a powerful position to broker the relationship between students and employers. It can help shape the skills employers want, while becoming increasingly involved in how students learn those skills and prepare for work.”

theguardian.com

Big AI is trying to own the pathway to work. Universities shouldn’t play along | Ella Hafermalz

Universities need protect their position in education so that students have an independent pathway to employment.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They are creating the New Stanford Prison Experiment from the famous psychology experiment, "don't ever do the Stanford Prison Experiment again"

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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Brandon “Bouncing Beebles" Kirkman @kirkmanbrandon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The year is 2026, you wake up and look at your pain rectangle to have it blast in your face with bright text "THEY'RE MAKING BREAD FOR MEN!" You take 3 psychic damage

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Making another batch of chili crisp.

A bowl and several measuring cups laid out on a kitchen counter. The teal bowl in the foreground contains chili flakes and other spices, the measuring cups have sliced shallots, minced garlic, and fermented black beans.

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today, in honor of Gloria Steinem (and in an effort to reckon with my complicated feelings about her legacy), I read the full first issue of Ms. It's a messy, passionate portrait of a type of feminist purpose I wish my younger self had known. Like Steinem, it ain't perfect. But it is powerful. RIP.

The cover of the first full issue of Ms. Magazine, depicting Wonder Woman and declaring "Wonder Woman for President."

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎶 Proofin' on a Sunday afternoon 🎶 Really, these are due too soon

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*clears throat* It's the cars.

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.

Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling small business owners printing a new menu:

Screencap from an episode of I Think You Should Leave. A man in a restaurant pours a tall glass of water onto a steak, saying, “Let’s slop ’em up.”

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"The more I see these headlines, the more I feel like one of the last living humans on an internet increasingly written by machines for machines. What are we even doing here, when headlines aren't being written for the people reading the website?"

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Join us for the revived Ottawa Comic Jam this Sunday! We were a small but mighty crew at the first jam last month, and it would be great to have more hands on deck cranking out pages. #Ottawa #YOW #OttawaArts #OttArts

Poster featuring a slightly grotesque human figure with big old-timey cartoon eyes shouting, "The Ottawa Comic Jame Wants YOU to Make Comics," and pressing a button on a strange device.

"Join us for some laid-back comic making. Comix creators of all skill levels are encouraged to attend. Last Sunday of Every Month, 12:00–3:00, Beyond the Pale, 250 City Centre Ave."

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ATTENTION TORONTO-AREA NERDS: If you're going to be at FanExpo on Sunday, TVO is premiering a new documentary, "For the Love of Star Trek", featuring interviews from our archives with Trek personalities. Airing Monday Sep 7/Tues Sep 8 for the rest of us.

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Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This seems awful and like it could also have an impact on lots of other musicians, cartoonists, etc?

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Most of the time I find 5 reviews of a book but not the book itself and the library doesn‘t even have full text access to the reviews.

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks to Doug Ford and Paul Calandra, 80,000 elementary educators have to order classroom supplies from Staples this year instead of from their school boards. I decided to do a little comparison shopping for school supplies many of us will have to order over the course of a school year. 🧵 #OntEd

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Hans on the Bike @hansonthebike.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If the **Canadian** Press writes that the Indy car race comes to the nation’s Capital, I assume they talk about #Ottawa.

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it)

A flock of maybe vultures circling ominously

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s telling that a eugenics loving racist gets a petition with hundreds of important academics that sign on and our faculty member fired for teaching queer lit is ignored. This is not about academic freedom….

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My new edited book is out today! And it's open access so you can all read it for free! I'm so excited to share what all these amazing authors have to say about work that crosses design research and fan studies. I'll be highlighting chapters over the next few days. www.emerald.com/books/edited...

emerald.com

Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation

Fandom studies and design are both relatively young disciplines both of which are familiar with interdisciplinarity, and with co-production and participati

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mesk @meesk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's syllabi season, so let me point you to Writing About Screen Media, 2nd edition: short, hands-on essays about teaching students to analyze a wide array of media. I wrote about my use of ArcGIS Storymaps to make my Comic-Con research more tangible. www.writingaboutscreenmedia.net

writingaboutscreenmedia.net

Writing About Screen Media | book and resources

An essential guide to writing about a broad range of media objects – including film, television, social media, advertising, video games, mobile media, music videos, and digital media – in an equally b...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For those that love things organised neatly — some pages from The Illustrated Catalogue of Ornaments (1919). More organised delight from the catalogue here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p…

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Anno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank God my mother-in-law gave us a felted wool cat cave so that our cats would have a pleasant enclosed space in which they can feel safe to take a nap. It’s not like they could feel safe sleeping in a paper bag that this week‘s CSA came in, perched precariously on top of a box—oh

My seal point cat Pippin peering sleepily out from the bowels of a large paper bag perched precariously on a cardboard box.

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