iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...

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Phil Choong @philchoong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Honestly, it's pretty funny to be rejected from the last CCCC #4C27

Email from CCCCevents@ncte.org that informs me that my proposal was not accepted for inclusion in the 2027 CCCC Convention program

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 15/07/2026

created an infographic to explain why arguing the hypocrisy of fascist talking points only helps erode your point. don't fight bad faith with good faith. don't engage with their point. don't meet them where they are. they're killing people. eat their frame.

an image using sprites from Kirby's Adventure from the NES

two series of animations

1st series. Kirby standing still and then runs into a star and gets injured. it is captioned "negating a frame reinforces it"

2nd series: Kirby encounters a star, eats it, and then blasts it out as a fireball. it is captioned "eat their frame"

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

just leave me behind then! no problem! don’t let the door hit ya! www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...

If an Al future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and experting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says !! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.

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Phil Choong @philchoong.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just got back from the new Spider-Man movie! I enjoyed it overall. Felt like it really lived up to the potential promise of movies set in a cinematic universe and also several moments and characterizations felt like they followed nicely from the last film. With that said… (SPOILERS IN NEXT POST!)

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21

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Kendall Gerdes 📚🐦‍⬛ @kendalljoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thank you to the leaders of @rhetsoc.bsky.social for their Letter of Solidarity with the members of CCCC. Read it here: mailchi.mp/rhetoricsoci...

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A Letter of Solidarity from the RSA Executive Board

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Phil Choong @philchoong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It often feels like institutions of higher ed are slow to make progressive change but very quick to go forward with bad & harmful changes. Anyway, here’s the sticker I was buying at an art fair when the news dropped that NCTE voted to de-charter CCCC

Black and white sticker with black text that reads “May we all continue a practice of refusal as a necessary form of resistance survival and refuge”

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A new project educators can use to teach the many ways AI resistance takes shape: "Now people around the world are mobilizing to resist the empires of AI and to nourish visions of the future that work for all of us. Amid an onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope."

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AI Resist List

AI Resist List website

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/05/2026

hating ai is a pro-social activity

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/05/2026

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Caption via The Tennessean:

Rep. Justin Pearson D- Memphis attempts to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms on the second day of special session concerning redistricting at Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.

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singlecatlady23.bsky.social @singlecatlady23.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

i am not 100% sure whether @wesaketchak.bsky.social is the original maker of this mash-up but i am 100% sure that it is brilliant and was crafted for my enjoyment particularly

A multi-panel using the style and characters from Calvin & Hobbes, but with dialogue and art referencing the book "House of Leaves."

In the first panel, Susie Derkins approaches Calvin and asks "Hey Calvin, you want to play "House"?" but the word "house" is in blue text.

Second panel: Calvin respond "I don't know. How do you play?"

Third panel: From our POV we see a doorway, through a doorway, through which another doorway is visible, through which is visible another doorway... between rooms, Susie can be seen moving laterally.

Panel four: Susie is walking through a massive hallway. Other doors, turns are visible. She seems so small, as though the ceiling is several dozen feet above her, as though she has been reduced to a child's toy in a house.

Panel five: Calvin is in the dark, in his pajamas now, holding a flashlight which seems to have found a large hole in the floor.

Panel six: Calvin is running downstairs in the dark, a vague shadow in pursuit of him, as he yells "HELP HELP! IT'S AFTER ME!"

Panel seven: Bird's-eye view of a typical-looking house.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/05/2026

Lots to appreciate about this piece. Among them, a careful answer to the question of what in God’s name university administrators are thinking in the headlong, apparently suicidal rush to embrace AI. +

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

amazing that our own small creations connect us directly to the moment of our universe erupting out of nothing and the unfathomable power of existence itself and yet we look at our drawings or stories and are like 'this is bad.' bud it is not bad it is the leading edge of a billion years of beauty

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Elliot 🫪 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Went to Korean BBQ for birthday dinner and saw one of my favorite things in the world: inexplicable signage

Photo of the wall of a barbecue restaurant, with text printed on the wall that reads: “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what kind of MEAT for Dinner”

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#TalkAboutHumanities We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together. youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ...

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Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities, Emily M. Bender

YouTube video by Simpson Center

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J. Margot Critch @jmargotcritch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Appeal to romance readers! My gift to Romancelandia is this:

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Jon "J Onwuka" Wuka @nearzone.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In my opinion, the main task of exploring propaganda is not demonstrating that it works, it's convincing people who are assured of their own intelligence & free will that it could work on people like them

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Games are a unique art form. They are direct instructions, with an audience primed to follow them. They are unlike music. Unlike graphic arts. Unlike fiction. Game design is about how instructions focus us, inspire us, outrage us, motivate us, reveal us, help us connect to each other.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

and it is still infinity times better to be the kind of person who loves monarch butterflies, and the mosaic tilework on an ancient mosque, and kids whose names you'll never know running around a field kicking a soccer ball, than the kind who views them with indifference, but it is also painful

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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"To Asia, Africa and Oceania, we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you, too. Ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other.” Artemis II Astronaut Christina Koch 🌕🌎

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

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Babybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

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James Galbraith @gulbruth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

As one of the authors of this thought I’d share a bit about how we got here and how you can do what we’ve done at you institution. Over the two years I’ve been at the University of Edinburgh I’ve grown increasingly concerned by fellow academics uncritically using LLMs, especially OpenAIs’s ChatGPT.

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The push to make syllabi “public” is not about transparency. It’s about creating conditions for outside intimidation and manufacturing pretexts for censorship.

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/03/2026

this is so perfect as a phrasing "AI asks that you buy into the idea that more data means being closer to The Truth." I also explain this and take pains to really hammer home this is NOT EVEN TRUE in science, more data is NOT a better theory or account!

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I wrote about AI -- but, really, about the close proximity to psychosis it brings us all to... a trillion dollar project to detach us all from reality, one way or another... disjunctionsmag.com/articles/end...

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The Ends of AI

Sycophancy and psychosis

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Also: being "in the loop" in context of evaluating output seems like quality control in an assembly line-- only works when you know what the output is supposed to look like. But with writing you so often don't know whether that is what you would have thought/said if you had done the thinking.

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/03/2026

anthropic: I have made AI tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 28/02/2026

How I wept tonight. “We can endure this, & be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here.”

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Good thread. There are disabled people in the future. The only reason you wouldn’t see them is if that society has gone full steam ahead on eugenics and they’re unable to live freely or be accommodated in public.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Pretty much every article I read about "integrating" AI into the writing classroom brings me back to the conclusion I work through here: We should teach writing, not document production. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Writing Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided Production

If we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/12/2025

I feel certain that bluesky could immediately compile a syllabus. Feel free to reply with it now in fact

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