iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 5h

In all seriousness I wish every professor on here would post their reading lists each semester

Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 4h

Predictably painful Facebook discourse: A commenter describes how her parents met: Her mother was drunk, so her father saw her home, put her to bed, and slept on her couch. The mom was “so amazed with his chivalry” that they became a couple. Amazing Chivalry=Not raping someone?

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 5h

Business people are very smart and took lots of economics classes, so they naturally thought that during a nursing shortage, they could make nurses bid to work for less money. Makes perfect sense. Supply and demand, etc. Also, girlz is dumb and can’t do math. www.theassemblync.com/news/health/...

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The Gig Is Up: UNC Health Does an About-Face on BidShift

UNC Health dropped the software Bidshift after a plan to make nurses bid against each other for extra shifts caused a social media firestorm.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 5h

I've been mowing around these beauties, leaving them for the bees (and for us).

Purple asters in the foreground, pasture and a reddening patch of sumac behind them.

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 5h

Meta has been training people for years to reject most of their new products. I expect Muse’s decline and fall to be quick. Meta is the last company people would trust to create a safe agentic AI. They can barely be trusted with baby pictures.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 7h

OMG! Eric Schmitt was WARNED that the texts were unvetted. He used them anyway! Also, it sounds to me like staffers are understandably trying to cover their *sses on this one. And what better way than to shove the boss under the bus! www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...

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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.

As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 8h

It isn't misandrist to want men to stop raping women and communicate loudly that they should stop. It is misogynist to want women to stop communicating their desire not to be raped because it radicalizes some men into supporting and voting for rapists.

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 10h

Today on my commute, some people are driving like they just got their first license this morning and have been downing celebratory drinks ever since.

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 14h

Conservatives used to love to talk about our Constitutional rights as coming from God, not from the government, and I guess it still works, if they consider Donald Trump to be God.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

I think it’s also about attention and credit wanting to be treated like you’re a writer without doing the work, wanting to seem knowledgeable about books without reading them, wanting to brag to your friends about the vinyl collection you’re curating because an algorithm told you to

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Kathrin @puzzledpeaces.bsky.social · 23h

I'm always struck by the absolute fucking JOYLESSNESS of it all. They don't want to browse and explore and spend time actively pursuing a hobby they might enjoy. Instead, they want to click 5 times and then go "Behold my stuff" to an empty room because they have no actual friends.

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 22h

Pedestrianisations and cycle lanes are often accompanied by huge controversy right up until they are implemented, and then they become enormously popular. Part of the reason is the positive change is so immediate and tangible. In the Paris mayor election this year, one candidate wanted to reverse...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

Have been listening to a whole bunch of climate week panels and in so many of them, people word sentences in chatbot-structure. "It's not X, it's Y", weirdly punctuated sentences. It is SO SO WEIRD once you notice it

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One good rule if you’re an elected official is not to allow your aides to do 100% of their “research” on Grok.

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google had best hurry up and change the results for “Artificial Intelligence” like they did with the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario! They must make haste to please their master.

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Tim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hi all - can you help us out with a survey? Trying to put together some higher level education resources on comics and graphic novels in education. We’d super appreciate it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Graphic Novels in the Classroom - Teacher Survey

Good day, would you be willing to provide insights regarding your use of graphic novels in the classroom and your interests in pursuing additional education to learn more? This survey is part of a re...

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 29/09/2026

Help our defacto foster kid/first gen college student get through school as a biochemistry major: We now only have a funding gap of about $10,000 - $15,000 dollars to cover tuition, housing, & insurance costs for Fall semester 2027.

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Donate to Helping Avery Get Through University, organized by Martha Crawford

Greetings to all those that this reaches, This is Martha Crawford LCSW, and I… Martha Crawford needs your support for Helping Avery Get Through University

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Manic Pixie Librarian @mncpxilibrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Other disabled people- how do you do anything but cry all day? Do I need a stronger dose of my anti anxiety medication? Antidepressants? How do you cope with not being able to do anything by yourself?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone notice how Pete Hegseth spent the first few weeks of the Iran bombing campaign in front of the cameras telling us how awesome it was going and now we haven’t seen him for months?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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

Utah added SEVEN more books to its state-mandated book ban list. Six of those titles are by women. 44 are now banned. This comes the week after a judge permitted a lawsuit brought against their book banning law to proceed. It's the busiest banning year for the state. bookriot.com/utah-bans-44...

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Utah Bans 7 More Books From All Public Schools; 44 Titles Now Banned Statewide

Last week, a judge approved a lawsuit against Utah's state-sanctioned book bans. This week, the state banned seven more books.

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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mike Lawler has voted SIX times to rubber-stamp Trump’s war while 19 American service members have lost their lives overseas and gas is up to $4.50 a gallon here at home. Mike Lawler votes one way, Donald Trump’s way, no matter the harm it causes all of us. #NY17Debate

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Emily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was at a cardiologist appt today for a family member & noticed that the MD hadn't asked for permission to use AI/AI scribe & was typing everything for himself, and I said, "Ah, you're not using AI for this" and he said, "No, I don't like that technology at all." Bless and keep that man.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 28/09/2026

This is appalling. We need to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ students -- not weaken them. Remember: In New York, LGBTQ+ students are still protected against discrimination in schools by state laws that go beyond Title IX’s and the federal Constitution’s protections.

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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe you haven’t seen a student in a niqab and chador riding an electric scooter to class, but I have!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love working with all students, but today, I've worked a lot with returning adult students, and they are a particular delight--focused, hard-working, and fearless!

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 28/09/2026

More enthusiasm tea leaves in Kansas? Almost twice as many Kansans registered as Democrats than Republicans this month.

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St. Chris @stchris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Leading AI chatbots cite partisan websites masquerading as independent local news outlets nearly half of the time when people ask about candidates and issues that the partisan sites have covered in the midterm campaign, according to a new audit by NewsGuard.”

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‘Pink Slime’ Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms

Partisan websites disguised as independent, local news outlets are shaping chatbots’ responses about key races.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3/ "Trump’s order would have forced postal workers to serve as gatekeepers, deciding which ballots would be delivered and which wouldn’t. Beyond that, it would have inexplicably handed authority over the plan’s execution to Commerce Sec Lutnick, who has no formal oversight over the Postal Serv"

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"As for why NPR in particular, [Ira] Glass...was given the kind of unvarnished answer that a middle schooler would give: 'Um, I think we just, like, looked for podcasts that didn’t have many comments.' 'I tell you, buddy, I do a public radio show, and that hurts a little to hear.'” 😅

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 28/09/2026

Oh my god, it looks like a Russian bot forgot to pay their Claude bill but was still configured to reply to posts about Putin

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We WANT men to be the best people they can be. That means BEING BETTER HUMANS. It means being more pro-social, more empathetic, better able to communicate. We want them to connect with their feelings, and learn to identify all of the gradation of emotion, that it comes in more flavors than ANGER.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When Betsy DeVos took over the Department of Education under Trump in 2017, she immediately began lobbying to make it more difficult to hold rapists accountable for their actions under Title IX. Many, many women wrote about it extensively at the time, including your truly.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.

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