iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don’t listen to the mayor or the district downplay the reliance on AI in the classroom. Listen to the DONOR’s own priorities, which are driving the adoption of this policy. “We want to be deeply in the classes,” [Paul] English said, “and ultimately, we want every teacher to be using AI.”

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Boston is embracing AI in its public schools, unlike NYC and LA - The Boston Globe

The fast-moving technology has some educators, parents, and students worried, even as others argue there’s room for experimentation.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m also a big fan of seeing 1 (or both) LIs explore their feelings about the other (and about whatever barriers the relationship is going to face) through interactions w/secondary characters. Don’t tell ME stuff, tell your friend/mom/cousin/grandpa/neighbor!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

JUST IMAGINE A SPINDLE COVE SERIES MY GOD a seaside town full of unmarriable ladies who are there to literally just hide from having to talk to men gets invaded by a militia full of dudes who are all conveniently Hot Weirdos and there are dinosaur bones & shooting and absolute chaos!!!!

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I watched less than half the movie, so I am not entirely clear on its prevailing moral. On the one hand, the tech CEO was transparently evil-coded. OTOH all the child characters were generally thrilled with their personal robots and there was a lot of anthropomorphizing.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last year, one of the classes I work with earned a movie day, and they picked an animated film where all the kids had personal robots that looked pretty much like this mascot.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope this email finds you still registered to vote

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As many words do! Always interesting!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know it's sports, but I think it's a factual beyond that, too.

bluesky trending topics that says "eastern michigan upsets wisconsin."

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(Why words are spelled the way they are is my special interest; this is coming from a place of enthusiasm. I saw this post and immediately took to the Etymonline app, because I needed to know.)

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Since the “a” appears to be based on the spelling of the Latin root, we can almost certainly blame white men for this. (By and large, the white dudes who drove the standardization of English spelling were extremely enthusiastic about trying to bring English spelling closer to Latin where possible.)

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow! Makes sense that with the enduring popularity of those series, having a solid stock and replacing regularly would be vital.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Can you please share a ballpark number, I am genuinely curious, because as an elementary school teacher, I’m fairly certain I have acquired approximately 10 zillion copies of Dog Man since whenever the first one came out, and the number of copies I currently have is still somehow 0.

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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When it comes to ballot questions, follow the money. The funding for Question 3 isn’t coming from democracy advocates. It’s coming from private equity execs and venture capitalists who bankroll education privatization, conservative Dems, and Republicans across the country. #NoOn3

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The best time for New England to adopt Atlantic time was 40 years ago. The second best time is now. This is bullshit, is what it is.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In the vocabulary of my childhood (upper Midwest), it’s a deck. In the vocabulary of where I live now (New England), I think I’d call it a porch. I find it too large to be a balcony.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 02/09/2026

"If you don't use chatbots, you will be left behind" friend, I am an elder millennial, I have fully embraced being a cultural cul-de-sac whose frame of reference becomes narrower and more archaic as time goes on being left behind is not a threat; it is a promise of staying the course straight ahead

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Isa Leshko @isaleshko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

MA residents must register (or update their registration) within 10 days of an election. This deadline creates an unnecessary barrier that disenfranchises college students, unhoused people, & low-income families facing housing insecurity. Vote YES on Question 4. We need Same Day Voter Registration.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO VOTE FOR SETH MOULTON THEN YOU MUST BE SETH MOULTON BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE DID.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Gonna be funny when Markey eventually endorses Ayanna Pressley and she does this all over again to Seth Moulton

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My post mortem on Seth Moulton's campaign

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Okay MA-06, now that we have dispensed with that clown, let’s have made good choices please. I would love to bully my next congressperson less.

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy Seth Moulton Loses Day to all who celebrate!

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Years ago, another teacher at my school described learning to search for how-to videos on YouTube as a life skill, and I still think about that at least once per week.

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck

This 11,000-Year-Old Statue from Turkey Shows a Man Riding a Leopard.
Archaeologists Aren't Sure
Why
The strange sculpture reverses a recurring Stone Age motif of humans confronting dangerous predators.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 31/08/2026

"Who cares if everyday Americans can no longer eat bread without chipping a tooth or bleeding internally from all those shards of glass? They can eat cake. The same goes for fresh greens. We have it on good authority that a layer cake is considered a salad in most of the Midwest." buff.ly/epPztWX

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Relax, If Food Is No Longer Safe to Eat, Just Eat Cake

“Liberals can grumble all they want about ‘affordability’ and ‘access to food that doesn’t leave them doubled over on the toilet begging for death.’ This is ...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 31/08/2026

"When I was young, I left my major city and moved all the way to a redlined suburb fifteen minutes outside that city, built specifically for people who looked like me. If I can do that, young people should be willing to live on an active Superfund site covered in broken glass." buff.ly/03WTZvh

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Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else

“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sure, feedback & pacing can be built into tech, but as you point out, the relationships at the heart of teaching & learning mean that human mediation frequently makes both of those things better.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Voting against Seth Moulton was every bit as satisfying as I imagined it would be. (As was voting for someone much more progressive to fill the MA-06 seat.)

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don’t want students “inquiring” about silent e. That’s not interesting! I want them to be able to read & spell words with silent e so that they can encounter & share & inquire about ideas that are worth reading and writing about!

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes, exactly. And I think the bit right before that is really telling, bc it is within our power (and indeed, is our obligation) to make sure that foundational knowledge base is built & strong, so that students have that resource for inquiry.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

All of which are interactive experiences that both student(s) and teacher(s) have a role in! Tech can’t match the way we give feedback, the way we honor the understandings our human students bring or are developing, the way we make adjustments in real time.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And when I say I’m in favor of repeated practice, I don’t mean answering multiple choice questions on a computer, I mean applying what was just learned so it sticks. Read and spell words with that vowel team, identify some nouns, write a topic sentence.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Rather, I’m talking about explicitly teaching things like phoneme-grapheme correspondences, spelling conventions, syllable division, standard grammar, mechanics, etc. Even up to knowledge of writing at a really basic level, i.e. what is a topic sentence, a paragraph, etc.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

When I say I think explicit instruction matters, I’m not talking about taking experimentation out of science class, or going back to teaching social studies the way I learned it (read a textbook, listen to a lecture, do a worksheet, take a test).

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think my biggest immediate takeaway is: it remains important to be specific about my own beliefs when communicating w/others, & to continue to be critical about how those practices I value are being co-opted by actors who are trying to extract 💵 or usher in changes that undermine education.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This was interesting to me as someone who very much believes in the value of explicit instruction and repeated practice in learning, but who is also unenthused about most edtech and rejects the idea of students as empty vessels.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

get a covid vaccine as a tribute to dolly parton challenge

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