iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

A reminder that someone created a bot on here that just skeets out lines from Redwall books describing food. And that's great.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am doing an online workshop next month for BCcampus about ethical practice and genAI tools. If you want to come hang out in a space where inevitability discourse is verboten, consider registering: bccampus.ca/events/the-f...

bccampus.ca

The Future We Opt Into

This session will explore the ethics of GenAI in teaching and learning practice.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 14h

Oooh Brother, I'm way ahead of ya

Photo of a Brother electric label printer with "heckin maybe!" Typed on the screen

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 15h

Mike, do you need a vacation? Do you and the fam want to come out to Vancouver and crash in our place for a bit? We can make it happen.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 22h

Looks like hagelslaag is back on the menu, boys! 🧌

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Rebus @rebus.foundation · 15/09/2026

Find Rebus at #OEGlobal26, Oct 7-9 at MIT & online! 🌎 Come learn how the Luminary Fellowship was designed, how our Fellows are sustaining education leadership, and how OER can strengthen workforce pathways. Online registration is still open! Explore the Rebus lineup: 🔗 buff.ly/xG9opSb

OEGlobal Conference 2026 — Cambridge, MA & Online, Oct 7–9, 2026; promotional banner showing the event name, year, location, dates, and website conference.oeglobal.org over a soft pastel illustrated map background.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 30/09/2026

The grapes of wrath WERE heavy, heavy with the vintage.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 29/09/2026

Some people choose to wear white balaclavas and sunglasses & go harass indigenous folks & people of color. I choose to spend time trying to be a more informed and decent person & explain to my 4yo why we wear orange shirts today and tomorrow, and help others do the same. You always have choices.

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OEGlobal @oeglobal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎤 Closing Keynote | Fri, Oct 9 | Livestreamed "Future Thinking: Sustaining the Field" Nicole Allen (SPARC), Dr. TJ Bliss, Prof. Jackeline Bucio-García & Prof. Luc Massou close #OEGlobal26 with an important question: how do we sustain this? twp.ai/S9FVx0 #OpenEducation #OER #OERPolicy

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 29/09/2026

People underestimate the power of #mariachi. I'll always get misty eyed thinking about that time I was at a conference at UNAM in Mexico City & they closed it w/the uni's mariachi ORCHESTRA walking into the auditorium playing/singing Cielito Lindo & everyone in the auditorium joining in 😭

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 28/09/2026

Pretty cool to learn about @emdashcms.com! Hopefully at some point it'll find its way into cPanel so us simpler folks can get it set up.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 28/09/2026

Hello and welcome to Monday, everyone! I hope it's kind to you, and if it's not, I hope you're kind to yourself.

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Take a stand on the National Day of Action Against AI & Tech-Enabled Scams (Sept. 30)! Then join @aspenpolicyacademy.bsky.social for a Scam Fighters Workshop to protect your community from fraud: unitedtostoponlinescams.org

unitedtostoponlinescams.org

United to Stop Online Scams

National Day of Action campaign page for United to Stop Online Scams.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 24/09/2026

Oh my goodness I remember thinking back then about how I was going gray... my beard was so consistently dark! Anyways, libraries pay publishers SO MUCH money for ebooks.

youtube.com

E-books at Libraries: Worth the cost?

YouTube video by Stacks & Facts

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 24/09/2026

Not to brag or anything but I'm happy to report that I didn't impulse buy a penny whistle at 4am this morning

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Are you in Kamloops? Do you have a latent interest in the history of Canadian comic books? Do you really like the little desserts made by university catering contractors? Do you want to come to my book launch on October 16th? tru.libcal.com/calendar/fac...

tru.libcal.com

Book Launch: The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics

Please join us for the launch of The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics by TRU's Brenna Clarke Gray. Whether you're a longtime comics reader, an aspiring scholar, or simply...

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 24/09/2026

I'm glad you're here! Your website made for great reading at 530am in a bout of insomnia. ... Probably I could have just read something on my Kobo Clara BW though. Meh, a win either way!

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 23/09/2026

$30/day or $80/all three, 50% off for students, registration link at the schedule above, or directly at site.pheedloop.com/event/oeglob... c/o BCCampus. Make sure you register NLT Sept 30 so that we count you for food! Hope to see you there.

site.pheedloop.com

PheedLoop

PheedLoop: Hybrid, In-Person & Virtual Event Software

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 23/09/2026

We're providing breakfast & lunch each day, leading great activities & giving y'all plenty of time to meet/greet/find opportunities to collaborate. Would especially love to make connections btwn @dwebyvr.org, @z-space.ca, and our local #OpenEducation folks in attendance!

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 23/09/2026

Day 3: - innovating beyond textbooks with library-led support - implementing UNESCO's capacity-building practices - #open as resilience: collaboration, storytelling, and solidarity in contexts of crisis. And that's just SOME of it -- check the whole schedule to see the great program. (hint: very)

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 23/09/2026

Day 2 will lean more in-person: - the importance of disclosing AI use (and how) - making the case for OER as a sustainable practice (and how to make it so) - the case for Open EdTech in a proprietary software world - Connecting the Opens in Europe: #OA, #OER, #OSS, &c... - OER for Workforce dev.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 23/09/2026

Day 1 streams: - how OER is meeting people where they are -the tensions and intersections between OER and indigenous knowledge -the value of giving students ownership of their learning outcomes -@aacu.org's naming OER the 12th High-Impact Practice

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 23/09/2026

Exciting times, #Vancouver friends! We've got the streaming & in-person line-up pinned down for #OEGlobalYVR at @internetarchiveca.bsky.social (pictured here) Oct 7-9. A great mix of folks in the #OER / #OpenAccess / #OSS communities! Sched @ sites.google.com/iskme.org/oe... Here's a lil sample:

sites.google.com

#OEGlobalYVR

Image credit: Vancouver Skyline Sunset from North Vancouver photo by Luke Lawreszuk – Sprayedout.com shared under a Creative Commons CC BY license

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The optimistic version of this story is that bookstores can do some of the work that schools and libraries are being prevented from doing." I appreciate this article, as a reader, a bookstore lover, and someone who wants more community spaces... but I wouldn't call this vision "optimistic."

lithub.com

A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline

I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 18/09/2026

Thanks @calmatters.org for being robustly active on bluesky and helping me make informed decisions as an overseas voter.

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 16/09/2026

A lawsuit has been filed against Padlet, alleging they share student data in real time to 160+ third parties (including data brokers, Meta, and Google). Padlet is heavily used in K-12 as well as higher education with students who have no choice. Read the complaint: drive.google.com/file/d/1OGPe...

drive.google.com

Padlet Lawsuit.pdf

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 16/09/2026

Little do they realize: I might have spent 17 loom's worth of money on notions, but only $12 to $20 at a time. Anyway, the important takeaway is that nobody should judge me for buying that 15 mm set of needles that I'll probably never use because I didn't buy the $120 loom. Yet.

static.klipy.com

Jeb Bush's Iconic 'Please Clap' Moment

ALT: Jeb Bush's Iconic 'Please Clap' Moment

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 16/09/2026

Instagram ads have figured out that I'm a perfect candidate for the knitting to weaving pipeline based on the tidal wave of #ADHD relatable content I bathe in daily. "He used to click on a lot of yarn ads but we haven't seen a single photo of something finished. SEND IN THE GADGETS!"

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Evelyn @kandake.africa · 16/09/2026

I recently did a ATprotocol onboarding for some developers that was well received. I've published the entire slide deck so others can benefit from the structure, slide notes in the corner of each contains useful links to dive deeper into each topic. atproto-intro.atverkackt.de#/

atproto-intro.atverkackt.de

ATProtocol: Data Ownership for the open social web

A practical AT Protocol architecture deck for platform developers.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 13/09/2026

Pretty bold of Blizzard to assume there will be a 2030 to release the new StarCraft game

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 11/09/2026

Grand! I set up a website with deets and can send you the URL (or you can get it from our mutual friend)

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 11/09/2026

I just finished listening to Dolly Parton's America by Jad Abrumrad @radiolab.bsky.social and it's the best podcast I've listened to in my life. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

wnycstudios.org

Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 11/09/2026

@vangarderen.net if you're free tonight and wanna come over for dinner, send me a DM and I'll send you details. It'll be simple and yummy and in New West, what more could one ask for?

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 10/09/2026

That's not to say that there are also examples where using AI increases the mental load; e.g. folks who use it to code extensively (or review a ton of AI-generated code) get burnt out from having SO MUCH MORE code to review than before. ...Which can lead to less code being reviewed, which... Bad?

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 10/09/2026

Examples of findings: AI use in writing atrophies people's skills in writing. Classroom AI use may lead to higher grades on assignments, but lower scores on assessments. Higher AI use leads to higher loneliness, especially (but not exclusively) through voice modalities.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 10/09/2026

This is a great example of "my experience conflicts with others' experience, therefore others' must not be true." Which is a very human response! But the thing is, there's plenty of research showing that AI *does* impact people's cognitive and psychosocial well-being and abilities.

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 10/09/2026

I won't tell anyone if you do -- heck, I won't even know if you decide register for AT LEAST a week! But they say to shoot your shot, and here you are, rolling up in my feed all the time, so why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ site.pheedloop.com/event/oeglob... -- I'll see you or I won't! :D

site.pheedloop.com

PheedLoop

PheedLoop: Hybrid, In-Person & Virtual Event Software

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Peter Musser @petermusser.com · 10/09/2026

Dear @greatdismal.bsky.social: I'd like to officially (as official as one can on bsky) invite you to an event my org is cohosting with BCcampus at Internet Archive Canada's space in downtown Vancouver. You still have to pay the regular rate to get in, but I think you'd like the people who show up.

social media image with details about a satellite event in Vancouver that's companion to OEGlobal's 2026 conference at MIT. It has a vector image rendering of vancouver's skyline, dates and details, and a QR code to scan to register.

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