iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

without saying too much, the question of whether digger is deeply cynical or moreso wrestling with it made me think of these last lines in auden’s moon landing

Our apparatniks will continue making
the usual squalid mess called History:
all we can pray for is that artists,
chefs and saints may still appear to blithe it.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 22h

when I go back south I can never tell if I seem gay to them or just like an academic

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I tire of explaining eacc/doomers/groypers to my superiors

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“the multiverse” is just dressed up counterfactual reasoning for people that still want a universe

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

bill ackman have you heard of conceptual atomism

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

all literature is stink lines coming off the alphabet

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind.

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

icebreaker: what’s wrong with you?

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I taught some friends about woke 1 & 2 and anytime anything happens they ask if it’s woke 2 or 1

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Permit data artistry with your stunning info? 😃 🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀 ✨ Surrender my personals ✨ 🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀 🤮ᵃˢˢᵉʳᵗ ᵐʸ ᶜʳᵘᵈᵉ ᵖʳᵉᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᶜᵉ🤮

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI can have the em dash sincerely, run-on sentences and overused commas gang

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

fnl.mit.edu

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

peer reviewers hate it when you experiment with form

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it’s 2026, high schoolers should have to read fodor

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

fuck it, concepts could kill us all and it’s high time we acknowledge that

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

hate that I went to grad school cause now I can’t wonder what would happen if I went to grad school

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

well I guess technically I’m looking forward to anything that will happen

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 21/09/2026

Imagine if all the evidence for climate change was "a bunch of guys on a website thought very hard about it and agreed it was very bad and might happen" instead of empiricism.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

call me a syntactician the way I love movement

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

why is pinker reheating herb clark’s nachos?

cover of pinker’s new book “when everyone knows that everyone knows” with title in a thought bubble inside another thought bubble

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I WALKED AWAY FROM OMELAS AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS T-SHIRT

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it’s not lore if you know it happened, that’s just facts

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

yeah you could say I work with my hands

depiction of aten, sun with many small hands coming out as rays

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if all these incentive structures are wrong then clearly there’s a problem with the incentive meta-structure

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

how many concepts is too many? asking for a friend

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Far be it from me to deny that a subject matter or field may have special uses to which AI can be put and which some instruction can promote. But none of this requires every course to waste precious class time on this task."

chronicle.com

Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane

When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this is disgusting, is this what we’ve come to as a culture? don’t they know this doesn’t replicate?

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

cognitive science is a boomer

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

students are always scandalized when I say I don’t believe in free will

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

you don’t even need that good of a personality to be a personality hire in academia

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

unless you have some cool points to make about intuitionist logic, "I'm not saying p, I'm saying not-not-p" gets a block

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

started lucid dreaming again by accident because I realized if a tooth falls out I’m in a dream

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

southern cognitive scientist: I study how folks reckon

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

rip wittgenstein you would’ve loved big walk

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I saw a post on reddit about someone "studying AI at princeton" asking why the trust the expert people now suddenly don't care what experts want to say (about AI rather than COVID)...

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Catherine 🌷 @catebridget.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ford came out with a new pickup truck. now i have to teach MLA format and Ford, library research and Ford, grammar and Ford, rhetoric and Ford, editing an

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/09/2026

this is, I think, one of the inherent problems with LLMs using natural language interfaces: they are a statistical tool *that looks like* a logical tool statistical approaches can be a useful way to find related information! BUT for it to be useful you have to *know that's what it's doing*

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is beautiful… I’m using this in intro COGS right after I throw down a hard difference between logic & statistics

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i found it the best post

Amy Hoy (reply to post not in screenshot)

but that's an error right there.
they don't follow rules logically, they follow them statistically.
statistics doesn't reason.

Paul Frazee Y @pfrazee.com
• Account Muted
Oh word? You're ready to throw down a hard difference between logic and statistics?

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you’re telling me a data drove this model?

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

need an oral history of the mit bcs/ling beef

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don’t even know how you’d begin to quantify nonverbal communication

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talking lion (hauntological) @talkinglion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I embraced *so much* new technology due to Covid for new course modalities--Notability, Jamboard (RIP), Discord, Zoom, video recording programs; it's absurd to call professors who did this technophobic because we correctly recognize the threat AI poses to education

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