iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"We’ve been developing forgeries and fakes for years – in hieroglyphs and runes, letters and telegrams, faxes, emails, drawings, paintings, pictures, and tweets and posts. We’re attached to all of that, charlatans that we are." — @pbkauf.bsky.social Read on: mailchi.mp/mit/mitp-rea...

A banner (a black rectangle with the MITP colophon and "In Brief" in the bottom left corner) for "In Brief," a new Q&A series by the MIT Press. Below that, the jacket cover for Peter Kaufman's book "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" alongside a photo of the author.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just Out: My @nytimes.com op ed on how AI companies are eating higher education. As educators, we have a duty to defend — and advance — human intelligence. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A brilliant essay on what graduate historical research can be. Reminds me of the late great Adam McKeown and what might have been. Luckily the title is hyperbolic. The Last Intellectual www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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The Last Intellectual | Michael Casper

Years after defending his dissertation, perhaps unable to adapt or evolve, he appeared stuck in an eternal limbo that would give any student the night sweats. On the other hand, John seemed an extreme...

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Curious about nuclear weapons, covert ops, or govt surveillance? Now you can ask questions in plain English —no need to guess the "key words."

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Columbia’s History Lab just launched History Lab AI — the world’s largest AI-powered archive. It's built on top of +5M declassified govt docs, and was unveiled just now at the Federal Depository Library Conference. Explore: lab.history.columbia.edu/history-lab-...

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History Lab LLM | History Lab

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'm having a hard time deciding: Is the problem that some of our young people might be taking humanitities courses, or is it that they are spending thousands of hours playing first-person shooter games?

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Columbia students showing what real leadership looks like. They are displaying more maturity than many professors. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A receivership would have meant replacing the chair of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies with someone who would not answer to its faculty. In a real receivership, faculty are deemed incompetent to govern themselves and are not allowed to vote on personnel and other important decisions.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Thank you for asking! Appointing someone to rethink our regional and global centers – much as other universities have been doing since the end of the Cold War – is not a “receivership.”

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Can I come out now?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/columbia-university-boycott-trump.html

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This moment in our country's history is depressing, but it's also illuminating. We're finding out, in real time, whom among those in power will hedge their bets, trade complicity for personal preservation, and retreat into cowardice in the hopes they'll be spared. And we will remember their names.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others

And they knew perfectly well what they were doing

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The Cruiser USS Columbia didn't back down even after taking heavy damage, and neither will we. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social is firing back—defending academic freedom, open inquiry, and the pursuit of knowledge. Who else will join the fight?

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

have been wondering a lot at what point we have to conclude that Americans don’t care about our Republic as much as South Koreans, or today Hungarians — big dif being that Koreans rushed at once into the streets en masse & resisted the troops, whereas Orban has got away with it for a long time

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The CFPB has survived, so far. For military history buffs, it's a bit like the Battle of Coral Sea. WE HAVE TO START CELEBRATING VICTORIES, even partial victories www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/b...

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My colleagues at Columbia and I are waiting for more of our friends to start showing some solidarity. That does not mean attacking our administration, based on partial or incorrect information. It means organizing and lobbying to support us. Thank you @ryanenos.bsky.social for stepping up.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Damn right. People doing nothing to help and can’t even get their facts straight: “Columbia University has been given the names of other individuals who have engaged in pro-Hamas activity, and they are refusing to help DHS identify those individuals on campus.” (WH statement)

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We at Columbia -- where layoffs and lab closures have already begun -- are wondering when we will hear some, any, message of support from other universitities.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

There is a lot of misinformation about what is happening at Columbia. But I agree that everyone who cares about the First Amendment needs to tell their own institution's leaders, scholarly societies, and elected representatives to show solidarity and resist.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Who could have seen this coming, RFK, who?

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michael 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @monkeydesign.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Gerardine's right -- It's masterful.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Don’t F*ck with the Catholic F*cking Church

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Say something to your representatives

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Five years ago today Trump toured the CDC and said "Anyone Who Wants a Test Can Get a Test." His bungled rollout of Covid testing meant we were flying blind about where it was spreading, couldn't take a targeted approach, leading to national lockdowns (that helped Trump get reelected).

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Diplomatic malpractice. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

For the first time, Trump is underwater according to @fivethirtyeight.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy. America, what took you so long?

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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

CNN: Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics

Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I’ve been suggesting on TV and podcasts—without actual evidence(!)—that it may turn out that DOJ will wind up not having enough lawyers to defend all the lawsuits challenging this administration’s illegal conduct. Turns out it seems already to be true. 👉

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Trump and Vance wanted Zelensky to thank them for an aid package that Vance voted against and Trump opposed.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I'm thinking of starting a "today in (recent) history" feature, reminding everyone of all Trump's idiot moves during the one major crisis of his first administration. But then I already missed February 27, 2020, when he said "it's like a miracle, it will disappear"

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Find out more about our MPhil in Global Risk & Resilience here: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...

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MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience - CSER

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Caroline-of-the-Cornfields @ahoycaroline.com · 26/02/2025

I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE. Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!? secured.heritage.org/the-heritage... Please share with a friend or a thousand :)

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Every sentence here is made possible ONLY by the careful & consistent collection & publication by government agencies of public health information. But since RFK & Trump want to impose anti-vax policies that these statistics reveal to be literally lethal, they will aim to kill these gov’t agencies.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My father fought to desegregate the lily white fire departments of Long Island. He was arrested in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Most of his family at the time thought he was a fool, or crazy. We need that kind of courage now.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 20/02/2025

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I just don’t understand how this already horrible timeline keeps finding a way, literally every single day, to get worse.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

How much time do you have?https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674034600

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If we were watching Casablanca, instead of this crappy movie, this would be the part when Humphrey Bogart gives permission to resistance hero Victor Laszlo to lead everyone in singing La Marseillaise.

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Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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