iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 23h

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The hosts did note that, actually, most students dislike AI too. And it’s quite clear that instructors do. But the president likes it, or in any case wants it. So the university is abdicating all responsibility for managing or regulating it. That falls on us, with no new time or resources.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“At the Rashad Shawa Cultural Centre, its collection of nearly 50,000 books was entirely lost. At the Holst Library, around 10,000 books were lost after the centre sustained partial damage”

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

so true bestie, but I think we need to stay focused on an even earlier betrayal; the first sea creature who crawled onto land, cursing the human race to terrestrial existence. How fucking dare they

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Max Scherzer just made me cry at sports for the first time in my life. I said I hope one day I can meet him and say “you helped a middle aged woman finally get interested in baseball” and my husband rolled his eyes and said “yeah like he’s never heard THAT before”

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ll fix it. I’ll solve the crisis in higher ed by starting my own college and showing you how I’d do it. I’m at least as qualified as the glad-handing dandies and real estate goblins running things now. Give me a shot how bad could it be

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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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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

can't wait to see which specific social conditions these two economists will discover to be ideal for encouraging creativity lol

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tough time to be living in greenfield massachusetts 😭😭😭stop texting me about it, we’ve suffered enough

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Colleges & universities violated basic free speech, association, & assembly rights & caused serious harm when they summoned police. They directly or indirectly made it easier for the Trump administration to crack down on student activism, causing long-term damage to higher education.’ Major report:

ACLU / AIUSA
RESEARCH REPORT
Student Speech Under Attack
Suppression of Pro-Palestine
Speech and Dissent on Campus

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 02/04/2026

“It is a striking indication of the social and cultural decay inherent in the final stages of capitalism, when elaborate scientific methods begin to be used, no longer to promote, but to eliminate intelligence from among the workers, because intelligent workers become Communists.” R. P. Dutt (1934)

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026

Exclusive: Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter, with OpenAI’s chatbot fueling the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More on class-action suit against Columbia which my daughter is part of, including the news-to-me that CU (in the shameful tradition) actually hired Pinkerton thugs to crush their students’ peaceful protest. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/09...

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Pro-Palestinian student protesters sue Columbia over Butler protest crackdown

Three Columbia students filed a federal class action lawsuit Friday over the University’s handling of the May 7, 2025, pro-Palestinian protest at Butler Library, alleging Public Safety officers locked...

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know people can care about multiple things at once but the fact that "thousands" feel compelled to physically protect an arts center while concentration camps are being built and filled all around us with nowhere near this level of massed direct intervention makes me fucking sick

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i‘ve also been driven insane by the computer but in a normal way

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this is literally unbearable lol

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

UMass is spending tens of millions of dollars on AI while defunding the Institute for Social Science Research & the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute; the Centers for: Research on Families; Diversity Sciences; and Latin American Studies; and canceling outright the entire Arabic language program

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Palestinian folk songs do more than entertain, they document occupation in real time. Serena Rasoul launches the Palestinian Folk Music Archive: a free digital collection of 800+ songs gathered from Palestinian families everywhere. Yezen Saadah reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

we got a new insanely complicated Star Trek board game that takes 3.5 hours to play. today we played it three full times. We started at 7:30 a.m., took one break to go to the gym as fast as we could, then kept playing til just now (6:30 p.m.). A beautiful tale of madness and obsession

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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 06/09/2026

Gaza held a funeral today for 100 Palestinians, including around 70 children, nearly three years after they were killed beneath the rubble of their destroyed homes in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood. 🧵

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 05/09/2026

People who think Harry Potter is good writing have never read Lenin

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:

Auchincloss (MA) Frankel, Lois (FL) Mannion (NY) Scholten (MI) Titus (NV)
Castor (FL) Gillen (NY) Moskowitz (FL) Schrier (WA) Torres (NY)
Cisneros (CA) Golden (ME) Norcross (NJ) Sherman (CA) Vargas (CA)
Costa (CA) Gonzalez, V. (TX) Panetta (CA) Soto (FL) Vindman (VA)
Courtney (CT) Landsman (OH) Perez (WA) Stevens (MI) Wasserman Schultz (FL)
Cuellar (TX) Latimer (NY) Riley (NY) Suozzi (NY)
Davis (NC) Lee (NV) Schneider (IL) Thanedar (MI)

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this is honestly in some ways one of the craziest things I have yet seen. it's so close to the joke somebody made about Democrats proposing a bill to let you keep the bullets the cop shoots you with

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This appears to be the ninth wedding that the US has bombed since 2001.

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Things are dire but at least Seth Moulton is currently unhappy. I’ll take it

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're in Massachusetts please vote for Ed Markey. We cannot let this centrist spineless fucking turd Seth Moulton win. Also please vote against Katherine Clark if you're in the 5th like me. Jonathan Paz is pretty good. www.pazforthepeople.com

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Jonathan Paz for Congress | MA-5 | 2026

Jonathan Paz is running for U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts's 5th Congressional District in 2026, fighting for working families, union workers, and everyday people.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Seth Moulton has voted for resolutions blaming Black Lives Matter for the death of cops, expressing gratitude toward ICE, and commending Border Patrol agents as they held immigrants in deadly conditions.” #Massachusetts #mapoli

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

christopher nolan's the odyssey

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Another day another dollar at the Dipshit Magazine for Dolts

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s crazy how Islamophobic the Democratic Party is lol. Just unvarnished gutter shit from even top officials and they toss it around like it’s nothing

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Also interesting to think about the very different degrees of economic power these two groups of workers--differentiated first and foremost by gender--can wield by threatening to withhold their labor

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just saw the Whalefall trailer. There’s a part where the whale breaches completely out of the water, and the guy inside it takes the opportunity to scream HELP MEEEE! out of the whale’s mouth. But even if someone randomly heard it, they’d just think it was the whale screaming

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton taught me it was ok to be universally beloved

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There are already plenty of stupid morons in academia but what the racists are demanding is that being a stupid moron should itself be a recognized academic discipline

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 23/08/2026

This is the 8th semester-long course on Marx that I’ve made available for free. You can take any of those past courses here: davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

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Reading Capital

Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

got on yelp to look for a bar to go to and the only one that was both open and within walking distance had hundreds of 1-star reviews including one making the terse observation that “in this place no one is respected”

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 19/08/2026

The Silence of Western Feminists Over Gaza Exposes Their Fraud What exactly is global feminism about if it doesn’t care about the fact that miscarriages tripled in the Strip this year, or that Palestinian mothers are so malnourished they can’t feed their babies? Read now: zeteo.com/p/the-silenc...

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The Silence of Western Feminists Over Gaza Exposes Their Fraud

What exactly is global feminism about if it doesn’t care about the fact that miscarriages tripled in the Strip this year, or that Palestinian mothers are so malnourished they can’t feed their babies?

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today land defenders on the Mexico side of the border joined in on the tree sit-in protest, halting construction of both sections of the double wall. A banner hangs between the trees on each side of the AZ-MX border reading “From Minnesota to Mexico resistance is fertile.” Support them here:

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Protect Lochiel

Help us stop them from destroying ancient cottonwood trees and cultural sites at the border

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

They should invent news about higher education that doesn't drive you insane

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