iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 12h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 12h

In addition to this announcement Princeton will have 1 postdoc in cultural AI posted soon keep an eye out . . .

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15h

The best advice for grad students is to have them picture an enormous fire. Their work is on fire. The buildings are on fire. The fire has consumed all and its flames reach into space and consume even the cold and silent moon. Also don’t enter your original work into a chatbot.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15h

And that person’s name was Dorothea Brooke

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18h

It's arrived!! I gave this book everything I had and I hope there's something in here for you. It's not officially out until 10/20, but @yalepress.bsky.social seems to be shipping orders now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A white woman with dark hair holds a book called Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics, by Miriam Posner

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22h

Impossible to overstate how much physicists throughout history have loved ghosts

Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 21h

every single one of these linked processes stems from thinking of education in general, & higher ed in particular, as a resource frontier: a virgin territory or untapped resource of as-yet uncaptured potential wealth that now must be harvested / optimized / extracted. this mindset is our true target

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22h

When they are amazed enough they’ll give it a ghost name from “spectral lines” to “spooky action” it’s a centuries old love story

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22h

Impossible to overstate how much physicists throughout history have loved ghosts

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22h

Enters into its own interpretation of applied metaphysics

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22h

Just last week the AI bros signed a voluntary, self policing safety pledge. Today here's yet another attack that -like others before it - "would likely result in criminal charges being filed had human hackers taken them."

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23h

This is why I love tchg in public libraries. Of course surveillance creeps in thru security apparatae + digital vendors’ user tracking, but the proprietors of these spaces are generally committed to autonomy + privacy. They’re places of non-compulsory, intergenerational, non-extractive learning.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To AI proof assignments begin by locking work browsers and activating work history. Then slowly lower each classroom computer into the nearby pool of molten steel. Next locate Cyberdine Systems Corporation. Your job is not complete until you have eliminated every trace of the machine. You’re free.

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At the end of Middlemarch, we’re told everyone thought Fred’s farming book was written by Mary, and Mary’s book by Fred ‘In this way it was made clear that Middlemarch had never been deceived, & that there was no need to praise anybody for writing a book, since it was always done by somebody else’

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Solomon: cut the baby in half Mathematician: good. Now cut it in half again and continue cutting it in halves until the partitions are small enough to fit smoothly along an irregular curve. The number of cuts will approach infinity as the sum converges to the exact definite integral

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mathematically speaking you can cut the baby in half and then reassemble it in such a way that it produces two identical babies. Perhaps this is what King Solomon was going for, originally.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Love this idea.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Solomon: I’m not sure that will solve the problem here Mathematician: good luck differentiating another way

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Will never get over the generational bait and switch of student loans. By the time the loans are declared impractical for the purpose of funding meaningful learning, who will even remember that they were put in place to facilitate mass cuts to public goods?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Daylight Savings is actually totally anodyne. The reason it's so objectionable is because twice a year we get reminded that our social form would rather mess with our sleep than shift work hours so that we could have both the sleep and sunlight after working hours.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was just considering the psychic fatigue of continuously evaluating slop and it struck me that this is aesthetically contiguous with the often invisible mass labor of content moderation.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ready for you to pitch this essay somewhere so that I can teach it

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A consistently pernicious framing of student experience is that they are not in the “real world” yet, as if the debt they’re accruing and incessant punitive surveillance of their labor and speech isn’t entirely of a piece with the broader cultural moment.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 05/10/2026

State higher ed share of budget and total higher ed budget as share of GDP over time showing massive increase following WWII until… you guessed it… Reaganism. Has declined significantly since about 1982

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every jeremiad on the urgency of demographic cliff effects on college budgets requires an enormous caveat regarding the defunding of colleges and the teetering predictable catastrophe of the student loan system

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We built a modern information ecosystem on an infrastructure supported by inflicting unimaginable invisible trauma of third world data processors and now wonder why its outputs and manifestations feel life and meaning destroying

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 05/10/2026

This is a very necessary provocation that should probably be common sense but isn't

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every article I’ve ever read on content moderation is like the Torment Nexus joke but with the experience of living through Clockwork Orange style intentionally mediated brain damage

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was just considering the psychic fatigue of continuously evaluating slop and it struck me that this is aesthetically contiguous with the often invisible mass labor of content moderation.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What if educational spaces worked to become one of the few places in life our students are not constantly surveilled under constant threat conditions?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sometimes I think when Tech Oligarchs forecast the end of the world, they’re specifically projecting their own particular variety of eschatological paranoia

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lot of people like to reference Asimov’s I, Robot in tech discourse, but seem to fail to remember that the collection ends with the robot singularity becoming fully manifest in the destruction of fascist political projects

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No greater threat to attendance than bosses who ignore boundaries

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What if educational spaces worked to become one of the few places in life our students are not constantly surveilled under constant threat conditions?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I apologize for the lack of content warning 😅😅😅

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How is this not the answer for EVERYONE???

Nightmare horror death bunny from Watership Down

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