iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

There's no way in hell DJT ever thought or typed "'territory' of doubt" lol Also—redundant to note this at this point—but absolutely unhinged capitalization throughout

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Bob Dylan - Summer Days (Official Audio)

It hits me like yearly how hard he was spitting on this song lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVS...

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YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

Know Your Enemy: The Long Struggle Against Equality in America - Dissent Magazine

Catching up on recent "KYE" eps, and this one with Kim Phillips-Fein is great: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... Interesting to hear her mention—and write about in the book—that there were around 250 communities that refused Carnegie libraries. Literally had never known that before. Fascinating.

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Matt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss's 1953 book, Natural Right and History.

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kinda wanna start a highly-a e s t h e t i c booksta account and then just put stuff like this on it lol

Walt Crawford & Michael Gorman - "Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, & Reality"

William F. Birdsall - "The Myth of the Electronic Library: Librarianship and Social Change in America"

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People designed genAI so it always replicates our existing injustices. To take an already underrepresented group & just replace them w/ chatbots trained on centuries of anti-Indigenous writing, esp when reporting immediately affects their communities, is revolting. There MUST be real consequences.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Randomly skimmed this piece a week or two ago (onl00p.substack.com/p/bad-nonfic...), and I haven't been able to get the phrase "Verso slop" out of my brain.

onl00p.substack.com

Bad nonfiction, part 1: Verso Slop

the three main subcategories of Verso Slop: (1) slam poetry/memoir????? (2) manife(slop)to (3) literature review but bad

joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sick as a freaking dog this weekend, but still excited to be reading "CJAL" paper drafts for our issue! There are some bangers, folks!

joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good piece on "History News Network" by Jordan Sand on GenAI and primary sources using a really good, specific example from his own class: www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...

hnn.us

AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spent way too much time on this while sick this week lol "AI in Higher Ed Bingo"

BINGO card with the following in the spaces:
- reference to calculators
- "cognitive offloading"
- reference to Ethan Mollick by superfan
- "the toothpaste is out of the tube"
- reference to "backward design"
- AI is claimed to be value netural tool "like any other tool"
- "agentic engineering"
- reference to importance of "critical thinking"
- "what is the necessary friction?"
- urgent revival of '90s/'00s "digitial divide" discourse
- "augmentation not automation"
- individual responsibility emphasized through need to consult academic integrity policy and/or course syllabus
- Free!
- "garbage in, garbage out" (GIGO)
- "context engineering"
- "prompt engineering"
- glancing reference to bias concerns
- "human in the loop" (HITL)
- glancing reference to privacy concerns
- glancing reference to environmental concerns
- reference to autocorrect/spellcheck
- "I just know AI-generated text when I see it"
- caution expressed/urged about AI detection
- "postplagiarism"
- "the horse has left the barn"

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(x.com/seattletimes...) lol

Seattle Times post on X with picture of Ichiro Suzuki pitching:

"At age 52, Ichiro just threw a 127-pitch shutout with 17 strikeouts during an All-Star game against the best high school girls in Japan."

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/ichiro-at-52-throws-127-pitch-shutout-against-all-star-girls-team-in-japan/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned_echobox_tw_m&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1789663772-2

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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For the morning crowd, this gift link should work.

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Bob Dylan - Went to See the Gypsy (Official Audio)

I really love how weird and shambling the arrangement is on this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4d...

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YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

Kim Cattrall scatting with an upright bass - HQ

"NES" resumed it's "Do Look Back" series today and they just compared "If Dogs Run Free" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH6V...) to this lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBmt...

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YouTube video by Teigan Reamsbottom

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(Huge shoutout to Dr. Dagmar Monett's list, which has been invaluable: monettdiaz.com/books-critic...) If anyone has any suggestions for additions, please let me know!

monettdiaz.com

Books Critical AI

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Tired: prompt engineering/agentic engineering Wired: ~ontology engineering~ lol

Graphic describing "Ontology for Agents & RAG"

From: https://lnkd.in/p/eDn3H8Wh

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026

It's amazing how this is literally just re-staging the "digital divide" discourse of the 90s/00s.

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Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

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Joni Mitchell should've written a sequel to "For Free" where, instead, it's about a guy playing "real bad, for free"

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(My review of R. David Lankes' "Triptych: Death, AI, and Librarianship" is set to go live tomorrow.)

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I'm doing a session for our Library Tech diploma this AM! (I've never actually taught in anything library related outside of guest lecturing at U of A.) Pretty excited to geek out with fellow Library Heads today. Never been this amped to mention or teach about ~federated search~ history lol

joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The greatest utility AI has for any Fortune 500 company is the dispersion of responsibility." - Felix on new "Chapo"

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Humans are reading your ChatGPT chats. Just like humans are behind your food delivery robots and various other applications of automated technology. Usually underpaid humans in other countries.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Soul-draining Jays loss but ... at least Kaz might hit 40 HR this season???

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🔥thread! The dichotomy that you identify is absolutely EVERYWHERE right now. I was just grousing to a colleague last week about this. In addition to everything that you've said, I find it irritating because it doesn't acknowledge what automating those early processes might preclude/foreclose.