iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finished the website for our fall Public Study class on alternative schools, radical pedagogy, and learning communities! Need to fix one little technical glitch in the chronological session listing and upload my intro lesson with theoretical framing :) crc.metro.org/course/publi...

Screenshot of the class webpage, featuring a header with an illustration of cubist kids painting, followed by a chronological list of our class sessions

A grid of images -- one for each class sessions; each image features a lined-paper background and a public domain image capturing the topic or vibe of the day

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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 29/06/2026

Third-wheeling a lesbian couple? You mean Phoebe Bridging?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I feel like digital humanities was this great 15 year moment of techno-optimism that created solid resources and showed how old media connected to new media. Whereas AI is going to introduce a period of techno-cannibalism designed to devour digital humanities labor and anyone else in its proximity.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Yesterday Chancellor Kamar Samuels said he plans to start beta testing AI in our schools. @nycdoe.bsky.social, our kids are not your guinea pigs to experiment on. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Mamdani, we need a moratorium NOW. @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @gregpak.net

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Lisa B 🩷 🦷 @lisabrundage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'm looking forward to our screening of @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social on Thursday, with discussion led by Macaulay undergrads. Still a few tickets left! openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/cali-mhc/202...

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Ghost in the Machine, June 11 – Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay

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Lisa B 🩷 🦷 @lisabrundage.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

✨“I’m not a hater based on vibes. I’m a hater based on facts.” ✨👏👏👏

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

academics trying to normalize acceptance of AI hallucinated citations in their field: do you seriously expect me to show my work and check my work me, baffled, a naïf, a fool: yes that’s why it’s called *your* *work*

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CipherNomad @ciphernomad.net · 08/05/2026

It’s not being treated as bigger news because it’s being framed as a vendor breach. The story is structural: 9,000 schools share a single point of failure they don’t control. Educational infrastructure has been quietly privatized, and the failure mode is now an active extortion crew.

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I'm reading a university report that begins, "According to EAB," and I need the world to understand that this is like saying "According to Microsoft," to introduce your ideas about teaching and learning DON'T DO THIS

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/04/2026

This is absolute trash. Kids are submitting their original art for AP Studio Art classes. Claiming copyright over that work is genuinely evil.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

more seriously: both an adult life spent teaching and an adult life spent on message boards and sites like this one have underscored to me that reading and communicating about reading is very much not a trivial skill. the recent tech developments further underscore this for me

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Lisa B 🩷 🦷 @lisabrundage.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This year has really taken it out of me.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

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Kelly L. O'Donnell 🖖 @drkellyodonnell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

NYC Open Data Week 2026 is here and the NYC City Nature Challenge will be featured at THREE events! 🌱 For more info: linktr.ee/citynature_nyc #OpenDataWeek #GovTech #CivicTech #DataLiteracy #NYCSoData #citynaturechallenge

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

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The Verge
https://www.theverge.com› Al> Tech, Reviews:
"Cheat on everything" Al tool
Apr 23, 2025 - Two 21-year-old Columbia University dropouts are proposing a new $5.3 million twist on the concept: use their Al tool Cluely to "cheat on everything." Read more
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https://www.theverge.com» » Microsoft›Al› Tech:
Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again
22 Aug 2024 — Microsoft is getting ready to rebrand its Copilot for its business Al efforts. It's part of an effort to push Microsoft 365 Al tools.
The Verge
https://www.theverge.com› Wearable Science Tech:
Dexcom Stelo hands-on - OTC Continuous Glucose Monitor
Aug 26, 2024 - The $99 Dexcom Stelo is an over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor designed for Type 2 diabetics who don't use insulin.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

People often defend Grammarly when I lump them in with the rest of the LLM crowd, but this is why: their model of consent is no better than OpenAI's or Anthropic's.

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Grammarly is using our identities without permission

Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Are we really going to blame a philanthropic group for supporting underrepresented topical areas in response to a rightwing movement to defund public education?

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Remember how during the pandemic masking eliminated an entire flu strain, well guess what ? Large health systems including mine are back to recommending masking for visitors + healthcare personnel in hospitals and clinics due to the very high levels of flu we are seeing currently & because it works!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/12/2025

Many get sick while traveling. One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions. To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

RFK Jr. says you shouldn’t get a Covid vaccine. All doctors and research results say you should. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

idk man i've been shoved into what basically amounted to high pressure sales seminars for block chain, MOOCs, NFTs, and god knows how many CMS tools every year since i started this job. in some ways unis are resistent to change and in a lot of other ways they are the most gullible mark in the room

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/07/2025

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

The Human Toll

The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.

If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!

To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco

Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Repost to help share my new course! Fall 2025 @huntercollege.bsky.social I wish I could have taken a lab class on Native American x African American science and history as an undergraduate. So now I’m teaching one as a prof and yes, we’re whale watching in Manhattan. And learning to DJ.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...

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CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure

Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/06/2025

Major decision out of the Northern District of California. AI training on copyrighted material is fair use under the copyright act. This will have major implications for the AI industry and artists having their work stolen by AI companies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/06/2025

If New Yorkers are wondering who will fight back against Federal overreach, we have visible evidence today that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander are the candidates that you should rank 1 or 2 Lander literally resisted federal overreach and Mamdani showed up immediately to have his back Fuck Cuomo

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/2025

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

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Lisa B 🩷 🦷 @lisabrundage.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

“THE “ARTIFICIAL” IN AI is a MacGuffin. The taproot of this ideology is intelligence: that is, an intelligence that can be measured and ranked, an intelligence that is both quantifiable and presumptively quantified.”

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Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results. AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.

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Anti-Transgender Disinformation in the Age of Algorithmic Search Summaries

Recently Google introduced a feature in its search engine that algorithmically creates summaries of one's search results. Though it could be viewed as a useful tool, researcher Anna Beers argues this ...

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