iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

for the New York Times, I wrote about AI invading the creative writing classroom (including students using ChatGPT for memoir assignments) and all the reasons we need to value the acts of writing and thinking on their own terms www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...

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Opinion | Sorry, Sam Altman, A.I. Is Not Good at Real Writing (Gift Article)

When we let computers write our stories, we lose something essential.

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 06/03/2025

i wrote about being at war with my own brain www.late-review.com/p/the-hairsh...

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the hairshirt doldrums

on having a brain injury

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

(from Mary Oliver’s ‘In Blackwater Woods’) “To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

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Jordan Ballard @jnballard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"It is jarring, to try and live with this new molten feeling, and to realize that you'd spent the past three decades operating in just a tiny slice of the full emotional spectrum humans could access." Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain - defector.com/rafael-nadal...

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Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain | Defector

Nadal was the destroyer of context, the man who played every point in vacuum, through comebacks and blowouts with the same equanimous mind and full effort.

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Jordan Ballard @jnballard.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Taking too much personal / civic / historical solace in Shelton vs Tiafoe

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