iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

gadgetreview.com

One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

8236092170

Lindsey Decker @lindseydecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Having finally watched TSaDaCM, and being sorely disappointed with a lot of it (though those opening credits rule!), reading this was a breath of fresh air amid the crush of tripping-over-itself praise. Worth a read regardless of how you felt about the movie, imo.

120

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 07/10/2026

Look, you say “Disco Elysium” or “LucasArts” I pay attention. You set your game in my hometown and take your title from one of the most vivid local television personalities of my childhood, you get my cash.

0251

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

4354198

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is effectively a new $100k tax on international students, and will destroy the market. Which is killing the golden goose -- higher ed is one of the most successful exports the US produces

1132972

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov

6327150

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May.

Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.

10952273

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?

211134364

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can you die of too many open computer tabs

62739127

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

2854363350

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

paidforby.info

Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

301772760

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

1335721331

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

8436861438

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch.

131077215

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

do phasers work against cthulhu

1321128

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

203649736

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

308122342244

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

1087383989

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 02/10/2026

"Nora is without exaggeration, one of the most surgically complex characters ever put to screen, and in my opinion, the first true morally gray Black woman in television." I think I saw this link via @theferocity.bsky.social, who is for sure how I heard about this show.

cateyoung.beehiiv.com

Furious Makes Black Women's Bitterness A Badge Of Honor

In Hulu's Furious, the "bitter Black woman" is a sign of virtue rather than shame. Nora Washington isn't likable, but she's devastatingly human.

0707

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026

"We understand that it is our responsibility to teach Cornell collegiates what a good Rape Essay looks like. Rape Essays 101 is the best manifestation of this commitment that our most tenured minds could come up with." buff.ly/5na4oMY

buff.ly

Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

47428

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sure, it’s cheaper to have big classes and to give each adviser 1000 students while rushing students themselves to graduate as fast as possible, but less learning will happen as a result.

215313

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are TWO Solar Opposites Halloween Specials on Netflix and Hulu! THIS IS THE MONTH TO WATCH THEM.

A blue alien screaming in terror at a legally clearable Crypt Keeper.

Solar Opposites Halloween Special promo art featuring animated aliens dressed in classic halloween costumes. tag line is Sup, Witches? Which I don't hate but it's for sure not what I would have chosen.

610019

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.

Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“

271503365

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Newsom keeps sending the vibes of being a kinder and gentler Trump, not realizing that still makes him a massive asshole.

198

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵

4203104

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From this WashPost article on the long term effects of the flu: “When there’s potential for viruses to cause neuronal damage, then ‘we have to prevent getting infected as much as possible,’ [neurobiologist] Hosseini said.”

washingtonpost.com

Column | ‘Long flu’ can linger for months. Here’s how to reduce your risk.

Persistent symptoms can harm the lungs and other organs, including the brain.

14216

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026

Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

121936261

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

11571792058

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

trib.al

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

164983668

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Studies find that universities see an INCREASE in applications and donations after bad press about mismanaged sexual assaults. If you’re a Cornell alum, you should write to your alumni association and vow not to donate. Redirect your funds to your local rape crisis center instead.

sciencedirect.com

Any press is good press? The unanticipated effects of Title IX investigations on university outcomes

Since 2011, when the landmark “Dear Colleague” letter declared that the Department of Education (DoE) would use equal-access requirements of federal l…

15723

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

331890304

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what makes me scream to the void every time ceos are like “students arent trained in workday or sap or our EMR system or” Motherfucker that is YOUR ROLE TRAIN YOUR WORKFORCE Universities make adults, not machine cogs

35614

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 27/09/2026

This betrayal might seem confusing. Some kind of aberration or mistake. A few bad apples. The reality is so much more disturbing and I implore every campus worker and student to read @nbedera.bsky.social. www.nicolebedera.com/_files/ugd/c...

I Can Protect His Future, but She Can’t Be Helped: Himpathy
and Hysteria in Administrator Rationalizations of
Institutional Betrayal
Nicole Bedera
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
ABSTRACT
It is well-established fact that sexual assault survivors who
report the violence they endured are retraumatized by the
reporting process, but there is limited research on how these
institutional betrayals are enacted. The current study draws on
ethnographic observation and interview data to explore how 24
administrators use gendered rationalization frames to justify
betrayal in Title IX cases. Specifically, administrators invoke
himpathy to define their primary role as protecting the futures
of young men. To defend this view from critique, they condemn
how survivors use Title IX by casting them as hysterical women
who are either mistaken in labeling an experience as sexual
assault or suffering from trauma too severe for a Title IX process
to repair. Taken together, these frames portray institutional
betrayal as moral, even as these ideologies reinforce gender
inequality.
ARTICLE HISTORY
Received 12 November 2021
Accepted 23 March 2023
KEYWORDS
Sexual assault; institutional betrayal; himpathy; hysteria; victim blame

03314

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

20820327

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm always fascinated by this Great Noticing of estrangement, when pretty much every generation prior has a Great Aunt Jemima who stopped talking to everyone in 1978 or whatever. This isn't new!

712817

Lindsey Decker @lindseydecker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This kind of saga is what social media is for, imo. Harrowing! At times absurdly hilarious! A visceral indictment of capitalism!

000

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 25/09/2026

Big day for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, where local partners are hoping for donations in honor of 9/25. (Allow me to introduce my dad, Not That Tom Friedman, co-founder of the Imagination Library of Greater Houston)

tiktok.com

This week I found out my dad wasn’t just volunteering with the Houston branch of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library— he’s the President & co-founder. Really proud, so please enjoy this clip (& support...

TikTok video by Dr. Em Friedman

111337

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

6537751488

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many professional class whites seem to have decided that the moral of Nikole Hannah-Jones' NYT piece is that she was wrong to care about the education of disadvantaged Black kids in the first place and nothing can be done.

1147466

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

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.

322236587

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it

222303645

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...

9733491039

Reposted by Lindsey Decker

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

164113092110