iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘You can see why all the freaks / end up in the desert. / Saint Anthony, Manson, / Brigham Young.’ Poetry by Michael Robbins. granta.com/people-keep-...

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People Keep Finding Bodies in Joshua Tree

‘The author claims that “bodies / don’t bury themselves” / but the late ’90s taught me / otherwise.' A poem by Michael Robbins.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

NYT up to its usual fascism-laundering

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is on par with the dumbest things my students have written over the years. At least they were willing to learn!

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Many thanks for UMich for parenting this book

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Bret Stephens wants reparations for woke.....

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“The effortful mass-production and maintenance of reading circuits in the brains of community members is a necessary precursor to collective conscience and therefore to democratic governance. This mass-production and maintenance is not automatic.”

theamericanvandal.com

Neuroplasticity As A Praxis

We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's you, Ross! You are the bad guy. Helping usher all this in and then pretending you are above it all.

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dr. Iván Chaar López: “If you want a productive university…that supports the state, its citizens, its neighbors, I’m not sure that you want the workers in this institution to be nervous, to be looking over their shoulders… Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled.”

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Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I usually post about poetry or running or who knows what. But here are some demos I finally gathered together. Seemed worth sharing if for no reason other than the fact that they exist. Thanks for listening! phantomst.bandcamp.com/album/demons...

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Demonstration Tracks, by Phantom St.

11 track album

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's hilarious to me that the announcers talk about Congo as being these massive underdogs yet every time someone for DRC touches the ball they're like "he's had a great season with such and such Premier league team".....like maybe they are evenly matched?

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When satire and reality look at one another over a razor's edge.....

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/06/2026

"Many of you have asked why an institution with a $46 billion endowment is freezing salaries, rescinding job offers, refusing to adjust tenure tracks, and laying off staff instead of using an endowment the size of Iceland's GDP to keep our community afloat."

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A University President Responds to Those Who Have Suggested the School Should Dip Into the Endowment

“We hear you. You are valid. You. Matter. Secondly, and no less importantly, let me make something clear: The. Endowment. Is. Not. For. You.” May 11 2021 5/8...

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I'm in Paris and, super fun and all, but no goals scored from the field is a pretty lame way to win the Champions League

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"The LMS isn’t necessary. It never has been." - Audrey Watters. Speaking from my experience, it became clear over my 20 years of use that the LMS was an active detriment to my pedagogical goals and my students' learning. Disempowering for all. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ed-tech-depe...

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That Damned LMS Dependency

For the second time in less than a year, a major disruption to the learning management system Canvas has prompted cries (and headlines) that “we can’t do school!” In the fall of 2025, an Amazon Web S...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Strong oped that adds to my thinking on the mechanisms necessary for achieving a new Reconstruction generally and in higher ed particularly Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

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Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The way hubris drives the boomer gerontocracy can't be underestimated. It's just so infantile and exhausting.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sorry nytimes, any list of greatest living songwriters that doesn't include Randy Newman or Mark Eitzel is just unserious poptimist garbage

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A student stopped me today to say he'd been listening to a band he thought I'd like. He asked, "Have you heard of The Silver Jews?" .....

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I love so many things about this

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A great talk with James Jackson Toth & @tylerwilcox.bsky.social in the Neil Young "All One Song" series on @aquariumdrunkard.com "I don't think I would like Neil to be like the fan service guy. I don't want Neil to always deliver. I want Neil to fail..." aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/15/a...

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All One Song :: James Jackson Toth on “Thrasher” - Aquarium Drunkard

And here to talk with us about “Thrasher” is ⁠James Jackson Toth⁠, a terrific songwriter whose career matches Neil in terms of eclectic, exploratory and highly personalized vibes. He’s been a man of m...

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I could watch the clip of the Boozers goofing like a bad high school team in the backcourt and then Duke losing on endless repeat!

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

hey bsky North Carolina heads: Toth is playing a rare solo Wooden Wand set at the Three Lobed anniversary party in Durham this Saturday. Second WW gig in the US in maybe a decade or so, so who knows when the next one will be. Come on out.

Three-Lobed anniversary poster: Bill Nace, Wooden Wand, Verity Den, and Ribs at Duke Coffeehouse 2.28

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The second one here is a Valentine's poem. Seemed worth sharing. www.newletters.org/two-poems-by...

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Two Poems by Nathaniel Perry – New Letters

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Hearing Greg Bovino has been carried off by a hawk

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Does anyone else make cream cheese vampires every time they open a box of cream cheese? My kids are always unimpressed

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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

UBU DEBUT - 50 years ago tonight.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My 17yo asked Santa to bring this....

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Anderson ( and Pynchon) would like a word with reality about stealing their ideas....

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Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

When Israeli forces captured Jaffa in 1948, the municipal archives vanished, erasing Palestinians' legal proof of land ownership. @philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history. press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...

Book cover for ‘Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays and Conversations’ by Philip Metres. The cover features an abstract geometric composition of overlapping rectangular blocks in various colors including blues, reds, greens, yellows, purples, and browns against a light gray background. The blocks appear layered and fragmented, creating a mosaic-like pattern that suggests themes of fragmentation and reconstruction. The title and author name are displayed in clean, dark typography at the top of the cover.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Did you need David Thomas, David Sanborn, and Loudon Wainwright tonight? Yes, you did. youtube.com/watch?v=Ogl6...

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Pere Ubu "What Happened To Me" Night Music (1989)

YouTube video by eclecticalchemy

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Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

@longrules.bsky.social reads Scarbrough's line about loneliness arriving "like a bouquet out of the evening," then watches his kids reach toward fleeing guinea fowl, finding poetry and parenting in the same impossible gesture. Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It) press.umich.edu/Books/J/Joy-...

Book cover for ‘Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)’ by Nathaniel Perry, published in the Poets on Poetry Series by the University of Michigan Press. Dark blue background with black organic shapes. "Joy" in colorful letters (yellow, coral, blue), subtitle in white. "POETRY & PARENTING" in yellow, and author's name in white at bottom.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Trump is a historically weak president. Let's see if we survive him

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/08/2025

Fact-Checking Trump On Crime theonion.com/fact-ch...

Claim: The National Guard is being deployed to crack down on crime.

False: The National Guard is being deployed to give Stephen Miller an erection.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Just realized it's The Everly Brothers singing backup on "Graceland."

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

In choosing between Taylor Swift and Sabrina or Olivia Rodrigo I still choose Pere Ubu.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

A Charlie Kirk tweet that says "Deport!" with a picture of seven awesome dudes aura farming in front flaming waymos, brandishing a Mexican flag, in front of the big Dale's Donuts sign.

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Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Here's a poem I wrote about the things we do.

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"I know you think that evil always fades / like grass." In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social‬) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility. buff.ly/0ryxkls

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37 (Song, with People on the Street)

NATHANIEL PERRY <br> I know you think that evil always fades / like grass, that even when it spreads itself / like a bay tree, or cobwebs on a shelf, / time will turn it back, as sun with shade, / or…

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 01/08/2025

It is remarkable and astonishing that the entire apparatus of the Republican party -- the entire organization and every single person who is part of it -- has been converted into a cover-up operation to protect a single pedophile rapist. Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?

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