iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 17h

I love this quote so much.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

mistakes were made

california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I haven't fact checked this, but if this is true, it's ridiculous. Every professional team (MLB, NFL, MLB, WNBA) has won 5 games in a row at some point since 1994.. except the browns. Even the Sonic, who haven't been a team for over half that span.

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New post by Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social: Privatization and the return to separate and unequal education The public school system is the only one legally required to accept all students and the only one blamed for what that costs. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/09/30/p...

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Privatization and the return to separate and unequal education

Nick Covington: The public school system is the only one legally required to accept all students and the only one blamed for what that costs.

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Gary Hoppenworth @garytho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It turns out someone posted a third polyhedron with this property to arxiv a week ago lol arxiv.org/pdf/2609.177...

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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

YAY! I couldn't be more excited than I was hearing that @dingleteach.blacksky.app is keynoting #MathinAction! Woo Hoo!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are about to see an avalanche of AI generated animations. I think all those low-quality children's animations can already be replaced, which suggests they will be soon. Opus 5.5 is incredibly powerful and cheap. The weirdening is accelerating. Like, this isn't even obviously AI.

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Christopher Danielson @triangleman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

With gratitude to colleague Tony, I am Now puzzling over what counts as a board game. www.mentalfloss.com/geography/st...

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Every State's Favorite Board Game, Ranked By Most Popular

See which board game holds a monopoly in your home state according to new ranking data.

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s easy to forget that mathematics is play

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Matt Zucker @mattz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This fall I am co-teaching a brand-new class – ENGR 009: Fabricating Tessellations and Tilings. It's roughly equal parts math and design, filtered thru an engineering perspective. The syllabus and all assignments are freely available to the public at mzucker.github.io/e9_f2026/

A hexagonal tile with a chamfered edge and an interacting sawtooth pattern.

A 9-triangle polyiamond shown tiling with symmetries *x, 22x, 632, 22x (again), and 2222.

A snippet of decorative tiles from the Alhambra.

GRT Architects "flutes and reeds" tile system

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David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t usually engage with things that don’t have alt text, but I am nerdsniped by this one. So I will #TryMathsLive on this problem from @ridermeister.bsky.social: Rationalise the denominator of 1/(√2+√3+√5).

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 12/09/2026

Hi! I deactivated to lower my digital footprint bc it’s scary over here. But I’m back!

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Moreover, high PISA scoring education systems seemed to have a more authoritarian orientation...Additionally, PISA scores have been found to have a negative correlation with student wellbeing..."

nepc.colorado.edu

Yong Zhao: The PISA Illusion

PISA is a masterful magician. It has successfully created an illusion of education quality and marketed it to the world. In 2018, 79 countries took part in this magic show out of the belief that this ...

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MInnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) @mctm-mn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The 10-part ‘Defining the MN Math Standards’ Webinar Series begins Wednesday, September 16th at 7am. Webinars are 30 minutes in length. You must sign-up for the entire series at MCTM to receive ZOOM links to attend. #mctm

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Edward Vogel @mathartforall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Saturday afternoon at Math On A Stick at MN State Fair with art by @acidlich.bsky.social and the kind assistance of @triangleman.bsky.social Abstraction in Art and Math - Let's Go! Hands on activities demonstrating the practice of abstraction in art and math as a creative process for both. 1/4

Table with two hands coloring a dual tiling with crayons. Lots of pink flower like petal arranged like a six pointed star figure prominently.

Text Box lower Left - Dual Tilings Lizzie KodpuakSeptember 2026
We say a tiling T1 is dual to another T2 when it is possible to set up a
particular sort of one to one correspondence between the tiles, edges and vertices of T1 and the tiles, edges and vertices of T2 such that the inclusions are reversed.
By this we mean if T1 contains a given tile with a certain vertex then in T2 the corresponding vertex is contained in the corresponding tile.
References: Tilings and Patterns by Branko Gruenbuam and G.C. Shephard, 2nd Edition

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Shasta @theshastaone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm not really a praying man. But I can make an exception for Jeff Browning, who apparently suffered a heart attack during TDS. I shared a couple miles with Jeff during the Cocodona training run in April, and he was as kind and chill as you can imagine. I hope he pulls through.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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X - 608 Soccer (formerly Talkin' Flock) @608soccer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Did you know the guy who keeps saying “Goooooooalll Ryan Carmichaaaeeellll” and “YOU! SHALL! NOT! SCORE!” has a masters degree in journalism from the prestigious Medill School? We asked what he brings from the journalism world to his work in the booth. Check out the whole interview on the pod!

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Every map slices the ocean apart to keep the land whole. This one does the opposite: on the Spilhaus projection, every ocean on Earth is one connected body of water, with a year of real satellite-tracked currents flowing across it. Data: NASA OSCAR + NOAA OISST #oceanography #cartography #dataviz

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT engineers develop a breath test that detects pneumonia in minutes no X-rays, no lab wait. Just a single breath Two MIT engineers, Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg, have developed a breath test that can detect pneumonia in minutes.

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Context

Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 30/07/2026

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

theguardian.com

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Watching the Internet starting in the 90s has been like a multigenerational, 100 trillion dollar, galaxy-sized "this is why we can't have nice things."

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Meet a Mathematician @meetamathematician.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

MEET Latrenda Knighten! 🥰 youtu.be/CBd9APOfmPE Alt text: this is an image of Latrenda Knighten holding the Meet a Mathematician sign

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MEET a Mathematician! - Latrenda Knighten

YouTube video by Meet a Mathematician

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Dave Kung @dtkung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you haven't seen #CountedOut (documentary about mathematics education), here's your chance - from the comfort of your own home! (Aug 8, 4pm) watch.eventive.org/countedout/p...

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Fawn Nguyen @fawnnguyen.substack.com · 24/07/2026

So excited to share I found a way to keep visual patterns up for good—and it got a great new makeover too! Check it out: fawnnguyen.substack.com/p/visual-pat...

fawnnguyen.substack.com

Visual Patterns, Rebuilt

Going on its third and final (yes!) version

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 19/07/2026

Our Nonbinary People's Day Celebration continues with one more day of speedruns!!!!! gdq.gg/live 💛🤍💜🖤

Nonbinary People's Day Celebration day 2 schedule listing times, games, categories, and runners

Schedule text reads:
1:00 PM Day 2 Intro
1:03 PM Pokemon Emerald Full Item Randomizer Chafee
4:08 PM Child of Light Any% LaserTrap_
5:57 PM Quest for Glory III: Wages Of War Thief Any % Sefhighwind
6:17 PM Momentous: Monumentum All Gold organMike
6:45 PM The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure Any% Akio
7:23 PM Hollow Knight All Grubs All Glitches [Race] "aggymon
BlossomtheCellist"
8:11 PM VVVVVV 100% Metallama
8:31 PM Day 2 Outro

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 10/07/2026

Donate now at gdq.gg/donate during #SGDQ2026 to help @doctorswithoutborders.org continue to be independent and respond where it’s needed most!

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Ken Schelper @kwschelper.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@motivickyle.bsky.social Good luck to you and David Ayala at Hardrock 100 today! Looks like beautiful weather out there!

TV showing the livestream of Hardrock 100 endurance run on July 10th, 2026.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 09/07/2026

We are so grateful for our community. You all make it possible to help support such a meaningful cause like @doctorswithoutborders.org. The importance of their work is immeasurable, and we could not do this without you. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. #SGDQ2026 @greeblesss.bsky.social

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robertfathauer.bsky.social @robertfathauer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Over 5,500 mathematical artworks can now be browsed in an attractive new gallery-wall layout on the Bridges website, thanks to the efforts of Nathan Selikoff: gallery.bridgesmathart.org/gallery?seed...

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Another year, another reminder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA4Z...

Facebook memory from 8 years ago

"Happy 4th of July all... and while you're out celebrating America, please remember the founding principals of our nation and be kind to each other.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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Matt Enlow @unsolvedmre.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In each diagram, the green area and blue area are equal

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 29/06/2026

MSF intends to progressively engage in medical humanitarian support at the rapidly growing number of informal displacement sites throughout the Caracas metropolitan area, where thousands of people remain without shelter following extensive structural damage. #Venezuela #earthquake

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Ken Schelper @kwschelper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The most serendipitous day - fly to Austin,TX for a math conference for @wested.org, get a chance to meet @zachweinersmith.bsky.social at a book signing for his latest publication! Thanks for hosting, @bookpeople.com !

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kubasoccerfan.bsky.social @kubasoccerfan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Soccer folks, there's an awesome opportunity to take on the reins for Forward Madison's social media accounts. If you know anyone who loves the domestic game and wants to build a career in digital, a USL1 club is a perfect place and Madison is a fantastic city www.teamworkonline.com/soccer-jobs/...