iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 14/05/2026

Destined to be a classic

Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Translation of this technocratic brainwash: since we've already killed public education, we're going to use the scraps that are left to make your kids real tasty for the lions. Anyone going to public school at this point has basically no hope for a meaningful future anyway. So 🤷 🍽️

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Fascinating new initiative. Anyone can participate! globalconstitution.org

globalconstitution.org

Global Constitution

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Finally read this 😳 A co founded 3 yrs ago by three 19-year-olds, now billionaires, entraps once gainfully employed professionals to atomize, instrumentalize, rubric-ize + obviate their expertise — "explain humor using clear, logical language, incldg refs to... slang, trends + social norms" 😫

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

A solid strategy of theirs. But find confidence in you being on the right side of history, and in resisting where you can ✊🌹

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Hahaha that one certainly doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily. Still noble though.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Added to "AI Haters". I feel seen and honored. #StopAI

Bluesky direct message reading "antiantiai.bsky.social has added you to the 'AI Haters'moderation list" today at 8:26 AM

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/03/2026

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Feeling hopeless? This is worth a listen. (And if you're *not* feeling hopeless, where have you even been?) Worker-ownership is the future (if we humans are going to have a future at all). So proud and excited for this movement to be gaining momentum in #Cascadia rss.com/podcasts/new...

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Building Wealth for Working People | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

Join Roger and Tom as they explore the benefits of Worker-Owned Businesses and how this concept fits into the New Story Spokane Pattern Map to strengthen Local Economies through the promotion of Local...

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I just read the phrase "progressive billionaire" in @theguardian.com and laughed out loud. "Liberal" I'd accept with a smirk. But hoarding money and assets while the rest of the world burns is just not compatible with progressive values. Like, at all. Smdh

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Need some food for thought today? youtu.be/eKlEeKC8qLk?... Martin Hilpert has you covered. 👇 #BLinguistik #linguistics

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Is Academia broken?

YouTube video by Martin Hilpert

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Starting from next year, my current department will have a mandatory "Writing with AI" course for first year students. And in a way, I'd like to thank them. Because if I still had any whispers of regret about leaving academia, this silenced them for good. Byeeeee

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I've never been so amused and horrified simultaneously. Recommend reading with a cat on one's lap for emotional resilience. #CliFi

Hand holding up a brightly colored paperback book entitled "Venomous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman. A black cat lays quietly below the book on the lap of the reader.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A kind quiet stranger on the train gave me this tiny duck. Shortly after, I snagged the last ticket on the last Eurostar to the Netherlands that wasn't cancelled for the day. Free upgrade to first class no less. So, I believe I've finally met my fairy godmother. And this duck is my glass slipper.

A small yellow duck figurine held on the palm of a hand.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 11/02/2026

The meaning of words is to be decided not by their use, usefulness, or history, but by their commercial benefit to the most powerful lobby groups. I have a recipe for almond milk in a cookbook from 1226. It has been used as a term in English for hundreds of years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK

Supreme court makes ruling after Swedish firm’s long-running battle with trade association Dairy UK

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Plus the aesthetics of Fitzcarraldo are perfect and basically make every publication of theirs a kind of fetish object. So darn beautiful on a dark stained oak shelf...

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If you think about a PhD not as a step in a career, but as your last real chance to get paid (a teensy tiny bit) to think and be creative and do something that actually interests you, getting a PhD still makes sense. Admittedly, in a very very sad way.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Finally. Since hearing the buzz around it, I had a hunch it was probably more linguistic trickery than a cognitive reality. (with flashbacks to grad school and learning about the whole absolute v. relative spatial cognition debate)

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Holy crap. That's not a parody account? Such desperation. 🤦🤦🤦 Either they really think we're all incredibly stupid, or they are incredibly stupid. Probably both.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

How are we still doing the "no first person" thing in academic (humanities/social science) writing? The researcher exists. Their interpretation is a part of the research, and their experience as an individual contributes to that. Own up, be honest. Grumble positivist delusions grumble grumble

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A couple weeks ago a friend, who knows my objections well, asked if I would be willing to train an AI to summarize humanities papers better (blood money good pay too). And the first thing I thought was... You realize that's like trying to pay a vegan to work for a meat lobbyist, yeah?

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Sidra Collaborative @sidracollaborative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Should you use AI for that? Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no). It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices! sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...

An AI decision tree that explains why you shouldn't use AI - because it doesn't make work faster, because it's bad for IP and privacy concerns, because it hurts the environment, and because the content is not reliably accurate.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Yes! And here's a good article on that with strategies and a starter list (though they also highlight that smaller regional businesses like hotels housing agents make very effective targets) www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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Dell ($18.8 million contract with ICE for Microsoft software licenses, expiring March 2026)
UPS ($90,500 small-package delivery contract with ICE, expiring March 2026)
FedEx ($1 million delivery services contract with ICE, expiring March 2026)
Motorola Solutions ($15.6 million tactical communication infrastructure contract with ICE, expiring May 2026)
Comcast ($24,600 Internet services contract for ICE Seattle office, expiring May 2026. This could be a great fight for newly elected Mayor Katie Wilson to take on.)
AT&T ($83 million IT and network contract with ICE, with a potential end date of July 2032)
LexisNexis ($21 million data-brokerage contract with ICE. This company is particularly vulnerable to pressure from university students and professor unions, since much of its revenue comes from colleges.)
Home Depot and Lowe’s are using AI-powered license plate readers and feeding this data into law enforcement surveillance systems accessible to ICE. Their parking lots are also regular sites of ICE raids targeting day laborers. (Update, 1/16/26: A spokesperson for Home Depot told The Nation, “Like many retailers, we use license plate reader technology in our parking lots. These cameras are used for the purpose of detecting and preventing theft and protecting the safety of our customers and associates. We do not grant access to our license plate readers to federal law enforcement.”)

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Hard to find a more fitting metaphor for the state of the USA than the federal government murdering a VA ICU nurse on the street

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

As academic publishing seems more and more pointless, at least poetry still feels alive and meaningful (perhaps to the detriment of any chance I have left at an academic career. Ah well) Excited to contribute to this eco-poetry project 🌿🌳🌞 natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/the-live-oak...

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The Live Oak's Defiance - The Nature of Our Times

Language does two things too well — it categorizes and organizes. I walk out and say, this is a tree. That is the sky. A rock, a dog, a child. And in adhering this string of symbols to a thi...

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The government is shooting unarmed civilians in the streets. We’re gonna hear from the NRA any minute now, right?

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

If you're in need of something nice, just something easy and good, a kind of spiritual hug, an existential cup of tea, I recommend Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot. Ideally read with a cat on your lap, in a comfy chair, with a real physical cup of tea within reach.

A person holding a green paper back book called "Monk and Robot" over a cat who is curled up on their lap

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Outside My Window @outsidemywindow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

New year, new windows! outsidemywindow.org/everyone-eve... Today though, Lexy's window reimagining feels especially important. Undocumented immigrants are our neighbors, friends, lovers, and helpers. The domestic terrorists are the ones shooting us in the head in broad daylight on the street.

A collage within a window frame showing people arriving via boat and train into a garden. On the windowsill sit lemons and potted plants. Below is a handwritten title "Refugees welcome"

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Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

How do classic stories teach us to read certain bodies in limited ways? Drawing on Paulo Freire, this new article examines how narrative traditions keep reinforcing narrow interpretive paths. Read it here: doi.org/10.25189/267...

A rectangular social-media card with a light beige background and minimalist design.
At the very top, a thin horizontal line spans the width of the card. Below it, in small uppercase text, it reads: “READ IN CADERNOS DE LINGUÍSTICA” in gray.
Centered on the upper half of the card is a small illustration. The illustration shows a stylized, cartoon-like dwarf standing inside a rustic wooden cabin. The dwarf has a large round nose, a white beard, and a blue hat with small dark dots. His arms are crossed, and he has a stern, displeased facial expression. The background includes warm amber lighting from a window, wooden barrels, shelves, and simple household objects, all drawn with bold lines and earthy tones.
Below the illustration is the title in bold uppercase letters:
MEANINGS THAT REDUCE BODIES
Under the title is a block of text in gray, aligned left, reading:
“Across adaptations of traditional narratives, dwarfism is often framed through exaggerated features: large ears, an oversized nose, a protruding belly. These elements operate as semantic cues for comic effect, shaping how audiences interpret these bodies and constraining the meanings they are allowed to carry.”
In the bottom-left corner of the card, there is a small minimalist decorative icon composed of short radiating lines, resembling a stylized fan or burst.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Yesterday we sent physical copies to our wonderful zine contributors - artists, activists, and academics across 3 continents and 7 countries! It feels very special for this little mycelium network, grown from a random idea with a couple of friends into a small conference last year, to reach so far.

7 bundles of zines arranged on a wooden table. The zine title reads "Climate Hope: Growling Better Worlds". A small card, tied to each with twine, reads "May you find hope in action, art, and community in 2026!"

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Feels pretty incredible to have our #ClimateHope zine finally out existing in the world. Here's to hope, not as a passive state, but as a call to collective action! 🌳🌻✊❤️🌻🌳

Hand holding three zines up in front of a leafy plant. The zine covers read "Climate Hope: Growing Better Worlds"

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

At least the idea of getting someone discount airport parking as a gift made me giggle. 😂

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I truly feel that the COP summits have become actively harmful. (And don't really believe they were ever particularly helpful)

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I was a mature and independent 15 yo. So when I started hanging out with men in their 30s, family and friends thought "weird, but that must be what she wants". I don't blame my family and friends. I blame people like Megyn Kelly who perpetuate discourses that excuse men groping their way to power.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Lesson from my marketing students (I don't teach marketing. They are my students nonetheless): apparently a TikTok influencer asking their viewer to subscribe is now called a "call to action"? First I was confused. Now I'm thinking it's one of the most cynical phrasal borrowings I've encountered.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

If you earned 2 million dollars PER HOUR, working 40 hours a week, for 85 years, and didn't spend a single penny, you'd still not be as rich as El*n M*sk is right now. Not even close. And now he's calling his critics "terrorists" for saying that maybe he doesn't need more money.

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The cognitive dissonance between believing that grading is a tool of oppression which should be thrown out with the bath water and absolutely refusing to consider re-grading an assignment because can't you just respect me dammit, I have other things I need to be doing.

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 05/11/2025

the race to declare that this is not a game changing victory is in full force. the biggest trolls, shit stirrers, naysayers, and oppositionally defiant idiots will be out in force today trying to get you to temper your joy. fuck them. hold on to your hope

MAMDANI'S VICTORY IS LESS SIGNIFICANT THAN YOU THINK (new york times opinon, ross douhat podcast)

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Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Exactly zero of the fifty university students in my class today knew who Kurt Vonnegut was. That's wild right? ... Right?

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