iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This explains a lot. When discussing AI agents with other faculty it’s the folks teaching in fields tasked with producing bureaucratic subjects (Business, Education) that have been the first to bring AI into their classrooms.

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mary worth is lit @wilburwurthless.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I made lots of money trading* on sports that I can now buy a new water pipe** used specifically for tobacco*** at the local smoke shop

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI? In this political economy?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026

The US higher education system is not equipped to correct for the effects of systemic injustice and underfunding at the high school, middle school, and elementary school levels.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A lot of people seem to think that reason, intelligence, and consciousness are widely agreed upon terms for well understood phenomena. Either that or they’re just sloppy thinkers.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“American Intelligence “ (AI) is sitting right there. Dude has truly lost a step

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh so when Marion Cotillard does it it’s impressive but when a made up cartoon lady does it because she glitches out while being interviewed by a ham sandwich it’s no longer cool ok

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You can compare the addictive properties of social media to cigarettes, but I’ve never enjoyed using social media as much as I enjoyed smoking cigarettes

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Occasional reminder that pedagogy should be eccentric and calibrated to the uniquely bizarre access you have managed to cobble together in order to crack open a complicated form of understanding.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I call dibs on the formula for the grease they use to slick the pans

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sometimes the semiotic square articulates a relation of concepts that are synthesized in things; sometimes it articulates a relation among things that resolve as concepts. How can it be both? Because the semiotic square is a cootie catcher

Jameson's version of a semiotic square from Nostromo. Abstract terms duplicate character names and general categories

Krauss's version of a semiotic square to grapple with minimalism

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/09/2026

It's not hard to understand why appeals to the "center" (which just means the right wing) come at the cost of votes on the left. This seems baffling to many of the "political strategy" minds on here whose apparent plan is to have their cake and eat it

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For people just joining us, here's what's happening. AI types sold a bunch of B2B snake oil to C suites who forced it on employees. The promises they made haven't come true and now they're pivoting to a protection racket trying to scare those same idiots who believed the first set of lies

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Telling students they can use AI sometimes and for certain things makes as much sense as telling students in a health class that unprotected sex is fine so long as it’s “just the tip”

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am sad for all the talented students who assured me it was a clear path to a better life for them as they discarded study plans they loved and studied coding instead.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Loveless” by My Bloody Valentine

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Rhetorician: To say that the cup is half full depends on the possibility that it’s half empty

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Pixies are an inauthentic person's idea of an inauthentic band. Huge existential red flag to be a Pixies hater

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/08/2026

lol, someone's check didn't clear

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 17/08/2026

I’m not gonna let that crusty bitch ruin getting a bunch of dumb tattoos at a rapid clip because you just need to feel something

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Cool to see a bunch of folks on my timeline using a suicide as a data point for their pet theories

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If Woke 1 was as bad as these dumbasses say we’d be doing our own struggle sessions and we wouldn’t need them to make it happen

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Weird, it's almost like these "prediction markets" are just the random bets of inveterate gamblers who are reacting to breaking news without any actual insight or skill

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

centrists who only read each other have convinced themselves that woke 1 was essentially stalinism

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

She’s running, so I’m trying to get used to these discursive moves. But it’s a bracing reminder of just how retrograde our current political moment is

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

When I lived in Pittsburgh (circa 2010) the mayor drove around town while a news crew filmed him complaining about the potholes. It seemed weird at the time, but it presaged the next decade of the Democratic Party’s approach to politics

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There are probably worse candidates for a compact edition, but given the original dimensions and lettering of 200AD (not even going to get into the problem of downsizing the art) I’m hard pressed to think of any

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Counterpoint: If you spot a movie trope you’re the hack, but if spot 3 movie tropes the filmmaker is the hack

“Christopher Nolan calls out amateur movie critics who think spotting a movie trope means the film failed “

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you’re obsessed with the lab leak theory you’re gonna absolutely go wild about this theory that the sitting US president in 2020 helped Xi cover up what was going on with Covid in China and then willingly pumped out propaganda on the internet running cover for the Chinese leader

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

“Rosenzweig, who… helped develops new AI learning module required for all first-year students” was among those laid off

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

And, Bryan Cranston as The Emperor of Ice Cream…

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is a trick question… the only thing he could do to inspire an objection would be to not invite the attendees in the first place

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It’s not the charts, it’s how people present the charts… people need to get their heads right about this or we’re fucked

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 15/03/2026

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Insert (celebrity from your youth) + insert (says/does something that flatters your political and/or social preferences) = Attention

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s in this hot AF part of the summer, surrounded by wildfire smoke from thousands of miles away, unable to eat lettuce that I find myself thinking maybe we should’ve made some different decisions.

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

That’s what the world needs now. More STEM robots

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The thing is that Mitch was dead, but he’s been reanimated by his cyclospora parasite

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Nate A @natkinson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

He shit himself to death

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Zak Kinsella @zakkinsella.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hi. So your boy needs a kidney & I’m officially on the #transplant list. Please share this as it would mean a lot to me to get a living donor.

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