iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if historians are not going to justify the enterprise of sorting through information and helping students form verifiable narratives about it beyond memo writing who is

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 23/07/2026

Please that's my emotional support emergency pie

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 20/07/2026

trying to fly my dog with us to europe in august is going to turn me into the joker, i swear

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/06/2026

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

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Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)

SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 11/06/2026

Chat, is it good to have an unretracted crane directly behind your house during a tornado watch

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 28/05/2026

and now a fourth! when it rains it pours, I guess

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 27/05/2026

Something I would find useful would be an undergrad-friendly history of AI, from perceptron to transformer, explaining the rise of different ideas, the “AI winter,” etc. I know of encyclopedia articles that don’t quite do that and books that tell the story at length, but I need a v concise version.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 27/05/2026

fellow academics! want a silly fun community for writing this summer? join me in @thrivephd.bsky.social summer camp! www.thrive-phd.com/summercamp

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summer camp — Thrive PhD

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 26/05/2026

if I have to have one more contradictory, confusing, or evasive conversation with a contractor about our heat situation, I am going to explode (alas I have to have probably a thousand more because the universe hates me, this house, and heat pumps)

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 22/05/2026

I don't wear glasses often -- I'm just a skosh farsighted so I only wear them for computer eyestrain -- but wow turns out having a prescription that is from this decade really does make a difference

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm a busy person with an aversion to admin work. it's so easy for me to default to just staying with the same email service I've been using. but they are trying so hard to push me into doing the FUCKING WORK to leave.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 15/05/2026

The Denali sled dog puppy cam is currently a load-bearing part of my stress management system. www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

a pile of five of the fluffiest, cutest puppies you could possibly imagine. they are asleep

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 12/05/2026

why does every goddamned account need 2FA? why does a website with no financial or personal information require this level of security, I genuinely do not understand

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 07/05/2026

waited so long to finish this book that my iPad somehow erased any evidence I’d ever started it? disconcerting. but at least this cafe is nice!

a small table with an iPad displaying a book page, a plate with a delicious cornmeal-strawberry danish, and a mod-looking mug full of tea

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 29/04/2026

foolishly, I thought this dissertation drafter was the closest to being a decent book draft chapter. instead, I have found that past-me somehow made it maximally NOT chronological, where every paragraph contains something that is out of order from the paragraphs around it, for no discernible reason?

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 27/04/2026

my late grandma picked up quilting when I was a kid, and was a self-described shitty quilter. Her supreme enthusiasm for her shitty quilting has really been a model for me in doing my own occasional shitty quilting! i say this with complete earnestness! readfoundobject.substack.com/p/we-turned-...

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You Can't Even Relax Correctly

Why nothing fun feels fun anymore — and why doing it badly might be the only way out.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

You can cleanly pinpoint the advent of 'modern warfare' as the moment when medical science and state capacity improved to the point that an army could keep most of its soldiers from shitting themselves to death before they've even seen the enemy.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 21/04/2026

Few things make me feel more powerful than signing my kid up for parks district activities that have dozens of people on a waitlist within two minutes.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Remember that whole conversation about eugenics and "real science"? Well, this is for that.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Both situations should be a reminder that our job as historians is never to decide what history is worth doing based on what we imagine might be "relevant" in some hazy future.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2026

so far in hungary, Vance has stumped for a kleptocratic dictator, regurgitated putinist propaganda, and is now indulging the gutter racism of his hosts. it really is an unvarnished look at what the ideological character of the trump regime is.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 08/04/2026

tempted to do a @davekarpf.bsky.social style live-post of this article

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 08/04/2026

reading something in the NYT and getting extraordinarily angry, like one does (it's not even about the news! i was already mad about the news! now i am just mad about the NYT!)

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 07/04/2026

one of these days i'm gonna give in and write the ozymandias-but-arctic novel that won't leave me alone, so I'm gonna go ahead and toss this on my teetering stack of books

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 07/04/2026

I know I am not alone in feeling particularly powerless right at this moment. Feeling both very small (awe-inspiring) and very small (terrifying)

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 04/04/2026

it is sometimes a bummer not having come from a Jewish family and thus not having any family traditions or recipes (other than what I borrow from my in-laws). but on the other hand I get to make whatever the most delicious version of anything is

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 27/03/2026

Famously nothing is as reliable and unbiased as a primary source

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

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How Fast Was the Mail?

Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 25/03/2026

It is pretty mind-blowing (and hilarious) how extreme the slicing and dicing can get when going from dissertation to book -- even when keeping most of the same basic content, if not the exact prose. Everything is turned inside-out and sometimes also shredded and then reconstituted like hash browns.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 24/03/2026

reposting this once more for the week!

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 23/03/2026

I cannot fathom the personality it takes to make a huge bequest to a university and then insist (or even just acquiesce to!) a large institution being named after yourself.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 21/03/2026

I just realized yesterday was Match Day for medical residents! If you're curious about what the hell Match is, read this article I wrote about the algorithm behind Match and its history: www.kernelmag.io/5/shapley

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Kernel | Playing with Matches

Sometimes mathematicians give their theorems cute names. The birthday paradox. The traveling salesman problem. The four-color...

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 21/03/2026

Absolutely horrific nightmare events here. Utterly predictable and utterly inhumane. Cannot fathom what it was like to deal with this.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 16/03/2026

I went to a DOD school in Naples (Italy) for K-3 and every year we took a field trip to the fish market. I have a very vivid memory of my kindergarten teacher letting an octopus seller put a live octopus on her arm.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13/03/2026

where’s Carmen Sandiego when you need her

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 11/03/2026

this morning instead of writing i am opening approximately 100 tabs of heirloom tomatoes

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 04/03/2026

I just bought a dozen eggs for 75¢ like it’s 1970

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A functional country would yeet polymarket and kalshi into the sun

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