iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

About half way through Katabasis and I’m pretty sure the only reason I’m loving this so far is because I’m in academia. It’s so grating that I’ve laughed out loud several times - a rarity for a book labelled dark academia.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A few times a year I remember the Kingkiller trilogy. Realise that it will be TWENTY YEARS in 2027 to when I first read Name of the Wind. Try to convince myself that the third book is likely to never come out (The Wise Man’s Fear came out in 2011). Have my heart broken all over again. Still hope.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My anxiety really can’t handle all this virtual queuing up and presales and whatnot with ticket purchases. I very much prefer a physical queue with a human at the end tyvm.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Irony. Reading an interview from 1997 with Paul Gilster, the author of ‘Digital Literacy’ (1997) advocating against virtual instruction models, while Adobe - on which I’m reading the article - tells me to ‘save time with a document summary’ created by their ‘AI assistant’.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Feeling so much better about the flu shot because I got a lollipop. Normalise candy at all medical visits for all people!

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I can’t, for the life of me, write good introductions to my chapters. #PhDSky

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

There’s a world of difference knowing that most of remaining records about precolonial Sri Lanka comes from the colonisers, and actually reading them. “…monarch as head of State and Church” is an outsider reading of the island where they could only sense make through the European lens.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Wondering what sort of chaos I would unleash if I had chosen to check my emails as usual today, which is once a day. (There’s an assessment due in a few hours, and students have *questions*) Instead, I’ve made sure to check my emails every 30 min or so just in case.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Reading an article by Bates from over a decade ago (2012): “Myth 4: Computers personalize learning No, they don't. They allow students alternative routes through material and they allow automated feedback but they do not provide a sense of being treated as an individual.”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Talking with first years today on using GenAI to create art was beautiful. We had everything from “it is still a form of expression, which is art” to “that’s called commissioning an artwork; not creating it” to “what *is* an artist though”. Even had I,Robot cited and what it means to be human. 💛

Detective Del Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece? Sonny: Can *you*?

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I really hope schools teach The Hunger Games; combined with Sunrise on the Reaping, they are strong narratives of the power and possibilities of propaganda.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A reminder that the greater danger of AI to teachers is less that the technology will replace us and more that it will deprofessionalize and disempower us.

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Melbourne Press Club @melbournepressclub.com · 21/03/2025

Guardian’s Stephanie Convery takes home the award for Reporting on Disability Issues at the #MPCQuills. Her exclusive report shed light on the fact people with a disability working in supported employment were legally being paid less superannuation. Sponsored by Victorian Government.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Here's an article arguing that using ChatGPT in educational settings can enhance social justice, and what they're actually saying is that in the context of austerity, ChatGPT might plug some of the gaps left by chronic defunding. This is coping, not social justice.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Rereading @danmcquillan.bsky.social and: "What's at stake with AI is not merely bias and unfairness but assimilation into far-right political projects. For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI's tendencies towards epistemic, structural and administrative violence are not flaws but features."

A photo of my hand holding Dan McQuillan's book "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence".

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

When did we condition our students to base their (intellectual) pursuits on fear and not curiosity? How have we created a young people who stifle their curiosity and intellectual risk taking because they are too afraid of something even they can’t explain?

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/03/2025

society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party has sent my university and several others a strongly worded letter asking, in twenty different ways, why we have allowed so many Chinese people to work here.

selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov

Letter to Dr. Darryll J Pines (President of the University of Maryland) On Transparency from Universities on National Security Risks Posed by Chinese Nationals in STEM Programs

Dr. Darryll J. PinesPresidentUniversity of Maryland 1101 Main Administration BuildingCollege Park, MD 20740Dear Dr. Pines,

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12/03/2025

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

It both saddens and scares me that the first thing we teach students now is about GenAI. Biesta’s responsive or responsible education argument has never been at the forefront for me more.

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Ally Brown @behinddreaming.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“Libraries are the last place where you don’t have to buy a coffee to sit down.” #Libraries across Australia are safe havens for vulnerable people – so some are hiring social workers to help www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

theguardian.com

Libraries across Australia are safe havens for vulnerable people – so some are hiring social workers to help

Other services are increasingly telling clients that their local library can help them, and staff there are coming under pressure

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

After nearly five years of solid work, my Kobo seems to have reached end of life. Going to try the Boox Go 6 this time around, simply for Android OS, so I can use all the different apps used by the library. Boox has big shoes to fill.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Watching Abbot Elementary (finally), and it’s SO good! Such harsh realities of failing education systems (no matter where in the world they are, when it comes to schools in low socioeconomic places they are quite similar) delivered with wit and humour. I cried. I laughed. Brilliant!

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We’re hoping to adopt a cat, and I’ve been going down ‘catproof your apartment’ to the point where I don’t know how the cat and I can both live in the same place… Context: Never had a cat before, don’t know much about cats (I know dogs better)

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

A good day of cricket today. The last session definitely picked up #AUSvIND

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Tom Hockman @tomhockman.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Khawaja giving his wicket away so he doesn't outscore Konstas good teammate #AUSvIND

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Can Smith shake things up, is the question. #AUSvIND

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The most exciting thing to happen since Konstas got out was the beer-cup-snake in the pavilion. #AUSvIND

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

🏏 #OnThisDay 26 December 1866, The Aboriginal cricket team who played the Melbourne Cricket Club on Boxing Day, captained by Tom Wills. In May 1868 the first Australian cricket team arrived in England for a series of matches. The team consisted of 13 Aboriginal men from Victoria

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

My top 3 funky shirts of the day: 1. Vegemite 2. Fairy bread 3. Tinnies #BoxingDay #AUSvIND

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Amazing as it was to see Konstas’ fiery half century live, it’s getting a bit sleepy out here now #AUSvIND

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Jarrod Whittaker @jarrodwhittaker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

What I really want is to see another ramp, but I’d settle for either of these two finding some rhythm and getting a score #AusvInd

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Claudia Monea @hypostrophe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Whisper is that Kid Konstas could be sanctioned for elder abuse following the contact with a feeble, bewildered old codger earlier today. #ausvind

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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Well done to Konstas on a brilliant debut and shame on the most hated man in cricket Kohli for more of his usual petulant behaviour. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

abc.net.au

Kohli shoulders Aussie debutant as Konstas rattles India at MCG

One of the most blistering starts to a Test career rattles India in Melbourne, with Virat Kohli appearing to run into Australia debutant Sam Konstas deliberately.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Konstas was a delight to watch. Great debut! #IndvsPak

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I’d forgotten test cricket can get tense in the best way. #AusvsInd

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Figuring out ways to include some of this essay in my teaching and course design. Brb.

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Minoli (she/her) @minoli.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hoping to write a paragraph or two when I finish a book in 2025. ‘Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong bookshop’ is giving me ideas.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Perfection.

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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"These days, new technology tends to provoke in me more skepticism than excitement. One can almost always predict it will be used by some segment of capital to extract profit in a novel way, at the ultimate expense of workers who already don’t have much left to give"- Wendy Liu in the Boston Review🔥

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