iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

wouldn't be a day collecting data on an internet subculture without a random antisemitic jump scare.

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Exciting Friday night: data everyone thought was gone is actually still available if you know where to look. The Internet truly is forever.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being on the north side of campus means I get to have lunch at the good dumpling place. But I forgot the good dumpling place takes a long time to make them special for each order, and I have to teach soon. 😬

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What did these people do before? Were they content in their lanes, only writing things worth their time? Were they actually putting in the work and just stopped?

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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...

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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Campus AI leadership say their new tool is "working very well" because "we have seen tremendous uptake" of it. Love when the quality metric is actually popularity.

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

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Preparing to motivate a student tomorrow: "This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will. Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name"

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fascinating interview - Turkle basically pretends her work from the 80s and 90s doesn't exist, leans into psychology and "hard wiring" rather than her old sociological / ethnographic approaches.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Most weekends the local fire department parks a big shiny ladder truck by the grocery store and then just hangs out and chats with families that have small kids. Adorable use of public services.

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Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com · 18/09/2026

do any of my theory / sociology heads know the story of what killed functionalism? not *why* they critiqued functionalism; I know that. I want to know who took down parsons in the pages of the ASR or theory and society or whatever?? no one ever cites a piece or anything when talking about it

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Troye living his best life, done with working, just getting by on sampling Madonna and hiring good costumes / choreographers.

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Troye Sivan - Party (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TroyeSivanVEVO

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hmm, why is this shared server acting up all the sudden? Definitely not the student running "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions"

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It really is wild the extent to which "my AI did it" has been accepted as license for things we'd otherwise consider unacceptable.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyway, the "what if we're not smart enough?" crowd might be onto something.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The fear, if they believe what they say, is intelligence itself. To be unable to anticipate, and thus helpless to stop, an intellectually superior being. By definition they can't give a practical scenario, because they worry they're too dumb to imagine and survive whatever it thinks up.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

the vibecoders are not responding well to vibeposting. i'm sorry if the reality you constructed is better represented by a joke i fired off beore 8 am this morning

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not ComfyUI showing up in Reacher. 💀

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hmm these people who don't want a wealth tax sure have a lot of excess money to spend on ads.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ughhh come on universe, don't make my writing about gay neonazis relevant again.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Made an "if you seek amy" reference today and baffled no fewer than 4 people. 😭

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Interesting he didn't have Claude write it.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I recall also the case of E.O. Wilson, who kept his public writing polite and didn't openly say these things. When he died and his personal papers came out, of course he had been privately endorsing and assisting extreme race science people all along.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Lol he promised to study "the future of liberalism," by which he presumably meant how it's bad, and the university is holding him to the letter of that and saying he wasn't hired to talk about illiberal things like his racist agenda.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/08/2026

certain social psychologists: we used LLMs to test simulated participants in our research study, so that we can make even more discoveries about the human mind the rest of the field:

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