iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23/04/2025

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

Welp... Ohio.
THE VL
ERSEY BE
TOLEDO
CONTACT SUBMIT A STORY
In compliance with S81, UToledo is suspending admissions beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to the following undergraduate programs:
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Africana Studios
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Asian Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Data Analytics
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Disability Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle East Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy
• Bochelor of Arts (B.A.) in Religious Studios
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Women's and Gender Studios
Al these programs remain available as minors for stud
In compliance with SB1, UToledo is suspending admissions beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to the following undergraduate programs:
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Africana Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Asian Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Data Analytics
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Disability Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle East Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Religious Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Women's and Gender

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/04/2025

love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Remember when the U.S. government declared a citizen — a Puerto Rican man from Chicago — an “enemy combatant” and proceeded to absolutely brutalize him and trample his constitutional rights under the guises of fighting terror? No? Seems like it might be relevant. www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/1...

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Jury finds Padilla guilty on terror charges - CNN.com

Former Chicago gang member Jose Padilla was found guilty Thursday of supporting Islamic terrorism overseas.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

trump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism. jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.

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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Exactly. This is why they want to ban Ethnic Studies from schools — to keep people ignorant of this history and to keep alive the myth of American exceptionalism. This isn’t just stuff that happens “over there.” If you want to talk about Nazis you need to talk about what they learned from Jim Crow.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

60 MINUTES: “75% of the men sent to the El Salvador mega-prison had no criminal records… the only evidence Trump’s government presented against Andrys (a gay makeup artist) were pictures of his mom & dad tattoos…” Horrific. In all of our names. 🇺🇸 www.facebook.com/share/15wy7b...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."

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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/04/2025

DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Our movements are facing compounding and intersecting horrors at the hands of the US and Israeli governments. And our power comes from our ability to keep organizing — and that’s why we’re not stopping.

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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Donald Trump is withdrawing medical research dollars from some of our top universities. This is a disaster for medical breakthroughs. He says it is about Anti Semitism, but criticizing Israel’s policy in Gaza is not per se Anti Semitism.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Kickass statement from Dean of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design Full text at link mailchi.mp/04bd06b0c03c...

M STAMPS
SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Dear Colleagues,
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design because our academic program and DEl initiatives are legally compliant, in alignment with our university values, and an extension of the mission of our school.

What I have offered informally and formally in the past two years remains: we are living through a historically difficult moment, perhaps unprecedented. Difficulty defines our era. And yet difficulty must be confronted. Difficulty is at the center of our methods as artists and designers, which seeks to materialize new knowledge, ideas, and interventions to heal ourselves, our society, and its relation to the land. The path ahead will continue to be difficult, regardless of presidential, national, or university politics. By continuing to commit to a space with the widest possible freedom of speech, we can ensure that all subjectivities, all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can coexist and be debated through the most generative and healthy way possible, our work.
Our work in the studios, our work in the community, our work together in supporting students, our work generating new knowledge and ways of being...our work is what will see us through. I call upon each of us to reaffirm our work, which includes a commitment to building healthier futures, which requires generating communities that are diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This is your regular reminder that if Trump actually cared about anti-semitism he would be advocating for more, rather than less, DEI since it is DEI staff who have always been on the frontline of challenging all forms of bigotry on campuses including anti-semitism.

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Institutions can close every office/end all initiatives. They’ll do harm and it’ll lead to setbacks, but I know as a DEI professional that institutions have dedicated staff, faculty, and students who will fight for DEI even in the face of institutional cowardice. That gives me hope during dark days.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

You've got 64 teams, the vast majority of which are public, community-serving, primarily non-elite students. Every single one of them is at risk. If you love college sports, you've got to defend our colleges and universities! Some of these schools may not exist to play in next year's tourney.

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yesterday, Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident abducted by ICE last week, shared a powerful public statement that he dictated over the phone to his legal team.

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Palestinians are not statistics. There will never be a way to account for the lives, aspirations, and dreams lost by those whose only wish was liberation and to live in peace and with dignity.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/03/2025

Israel has resumed its heavy bombing of civilians in Gaza, marking the single deadliest day since the start of the genocide. The attacks are a major violation — and potentially unilateral ending — of the already-fragile ceasefire and captive release deal.

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Israel Kills Over 400 in Gaza, Resuming Carpet Bombing After Months of Ceasefire Violations

Israeli forces have unleashed an intense assault across Gaza, killing at least 174 Palestinian children, reports say.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Mahmoud Khalil Is One of the Most Upstanding People I Have Ever Met” Absolute #mustread for Zeteo from Jonathan Ben-Menachem, who also argues that “we cannot allow fascists to use the pretext of Jewish safety to attack our communities.” Read/share/subscribe:

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I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Mahmoud Khalil Is One of the Most Upstanding People I Have Ever Met

We cannot allow fascists to use the pretext of Jewish safety to attack our communities.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/01/2025

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

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Against Anticipatory Obedience

While administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

The subjugation of universities to state power is a hallmark of autocracy. Columbia University’s immediate submission and betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that seems intent on destroying US higher education.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you as an American Jew do not want to be used as the excuse for Trump's destruction of civil liberties and basic democratic protections, the time to speak out is right now

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

on the one hand youd hope ivies would be better positioned to stand up to the government, bc theyre well funded and prestigious. on the other, they're beholden to some of the most evil donors of all time and their ultimate goal as an institution is to produce yet more evil donors

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If a university where I lived/worked/studied as an international student allowed ICE to come onto campus to kidnap a student with a green card, I would never feel safe ever coming back to said campus. Ever.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

BRB, checking the history books to find out whether “tyrant starts redefining peoples’ citizenship status” usually ends well for the Jews

ADL twitter statement offering support for wildly unconstitutional action to detain and strip status from a green card holder for pro-Palestine protests

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

ICE’s arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is an unconstitutional and egregious violation of the First Amendment, and a frightening weaponization of immigration law. (1/4)

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@DrJenHo @drjenho.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

For anyone working in Higher Ed concerned about the anti-DEI Dear Colleague letter calling on colleges to rid themselves of DEI programs, please read this letter by law professors who KNOW THE LAW--it's a good rejoinder to the letter and over-reach of this admin. cdn.ymaws.com/www.copaa.or...

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