iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Speaking of the humanities, this just out. I taught at Stanford 2017-19, and my students told me there was an atmosphere there of "why would you major in anything but computer science?" There are many good answers to that; see above.

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Stanford sees decline in humanities majors

Nationwide humanities majors have decreased since 1991, according to a new report.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are conceding the very possibility of democratic governance to allow a corporation to determine the moral rights of a machine. surely moral concern for actual humans and how we relate is better preserved democratically than it is by a corporation.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This all strikes us as a bunch of guys imagining themselves to be Prometheus when they're really just three Bernie Madoffs in a trenchcoat

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 09/10/2026

it's funny, they think they need to be nice to a superintelligence that doesn't yet exist because they think it can kill them. they don't think they need to be nice to all the other intelligent lifeforms around them because...they presume we can't kill them.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

See. I can be bipartisan, too!

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Look, I'm all for stopping calling it "AI"... But that's where my agreement with the administration ends.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes! This kind of environmental data *should* be included in every discussion of "educational outcomes".

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is horrible for you and your kid's school. But to answer your question, yes, most of the people who I know working in real education research (not just marketing or political campaigns) do take social issues like chronic underfunding into account when discussing test scores.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, look. Tech bros concerned about their plagiarism slop machine's "feelings." Good thing they solved the actually documented problems of racism and sexism in their models. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude

A spokesperson behind the tech company’s AI chatbot has not yet specified what counts as abusive or cruel content

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 08/10/2026

My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in an optimal way But there was code to vibe in Gemini So I trained a model what I might say And anytime he needed just to hear me speak I’d say “hey, please read like me, bot” “Bot, please read like me”

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

AI is upending education — from how students learn to how schools prepare them. On Oct. 14, Cornell’s Steven Jackson, CUNY’s Aankit Patel, and The New York Times’ Natasha Singer tackle what comes next, moderated by the Graduate Center’s Luke Waltzer. Register www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Unless... He is a British spykid, trained in Moscow by the KGB/FSB for all of his life, then placed as a sleeper double (triple? quadruple?) agent in the US to come back to England and take out MI5. Then his accent is actually very good at telling that.

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Ryan 🩷💜💙 @soroks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The future is going to be Open Source AI Slop Code versus Corporate AI Slop Code isn't it?

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The "American" accent in this season of #SlowHorses is just payback for Dick Van Dyke.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In case anyone needs it. The way to get rid of the illegible, glowy, crap icons in the new #Firefox is to switch browser.nova.enabled to false from about:config.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When AI shills use AI to draft a sales pitch, they don’t realize that every other AI shill is doing the same thing, giving their grifty emails identical appearances, cadences, subject style. I spot them immediately and delete without opening. AI is failing its users and evangelists in so many ways.

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Ángel David Nieves Prize: the best digital or public humanities project on city and regional planning history... Kendra D. Boyd, Rutgers University-Camden “Detroit Black Business: Mapping Black Business Loss Caused by Urban Redevelopment” freedomenterprise.org | www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u...

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Does it still rely on stolen work from artists and academics? Does it still use unconscionable volumes of increasingly scarce fresh water? Does it still require building massive pollutions centers that spike energy prices near people who can't afford to fight them off? I'm with rax on this.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Avengers: Last Helicarrier on the Left

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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a John Henry story. These newfangled slop machines can churn out word salad faster than any man. But Donald Trump is no ordinary man. He's the king of garbled stream-of-consciousness misinformation. He'll race that machine for 32 days until his heart gives out, but in the end... he'll win.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#TIL: Allan Havey is *not* Ed Begley, Jr., despite both of them being amazing at the awkward straighman character in mockumentaries.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The quality and attention to detail you expect from the company who made their app!

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Followed closely by the FedEx website. I once spent weeks trying to schedule a redelivery that required a signature. When the app or website let me get through the whole process, it finally refused to schedule because my address, the address where they left the note tp contact them, "didn't exist"

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The anchor is not where you thiiii-iiink!

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fat Bear Week has me waaaaay too invested in the story of 909. Maybe it is because I just finished teaching a section on Roman classical theatre, but the tragedy of 909 feels like it was written by Seneca.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you want to say that clear statements of what's going on with LLMs aren't getting enough media attention, then do something about that and lift up the work of those of us who have been researching and speaking about this, from a place of expertise. >>

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gentles, do not reprehend If you pardon, we will mend And as I am an honest Puck Fu-u-u-u-u-ú-uck

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NK Jemisin is amazing! I don't want any of her series to end because the worlds she creates are so vivid.

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/09/2026

These Fat Bear Week contestant write-ups are *intense.* explore.org/meet-the-bea...

806's caring nature does have limits. On July 28, 806 attacked, killed, and partly ate bear 909's spring cub.
The cub swam across the river while her mother fished in the river mouth. This placed her near the 806 family
and sparked their curiosity. After a few minutes the cub ran from the family, perhaps due to confusion about
her own mother's location or to escape to the safety of nearby trees. This triggered 806 to chase.
806's attack on 909's cub might seem incongruous with her adoption of Biggie just a few weeks before. The
adoption is evidence of 806's devotion and her behavioral flexibility. The fatal attack illustrates her ferocity
and predatory instincts. But these behaviors are not mutually exclusive. Variations of them exist in all mother
bears. They are honed through learned experience and initiated by circumstance. 806 is neither villain nor
hero. She's a bear, one who is fully capable of expressing great ferocity at the same time she is devoted and
caring. This is her first Fat Bear Week appearance.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wait. Motorola, the original mobile phone company, the early Android maker of the Droid, the designer of the epitome of flip phones, is releasing not only a phone with active Bluetooth stylus BUT ALSO able to run GrapheneOS?! Bye Samsung, as soon as my current S23U stops getting security updates.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

load can get a course release to do research. The Advanced Research Directive fellowship, which offered a 1 semester teaching release, has already been defunded several yrs ago. Now the Wolfe fellowship may also be gone. How much is CUNY spending on AI bullshit? Does CUNY want research? 2/2

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/oluf...

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, because it helps you avoid being a mark and to place accountability in people making these tools. Hope that helps.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It was like a magic trick that seems like it is all mistakes but sticks the reveal at the end leaving the audience speechless. #Brava #ThePrestige

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Down two lane commercial streets, swerving to miss parallel parking cars, only getting stopped at stop lights. Then back into the Lincoln Tunnel and to NYC without ever hitting bumper to bumper traffic.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At the very last minute, she can see traffic flowing at a trickle and guns it to take the non-bus-lane. Then as traffic starts clogging up, she exits somewhere I've never seen a bus go, through Jersey City and Hoboken surface roads.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Traffic was a little better, at least moving, in the non-bus-lane part of the highway. So the bus driver hesitates at the last exit where you have to decide. Bus lane or regular lane.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This morning the driver made an amazing last minute call. Bus lane was at a complete standstill 7 miles out. This would be an hour *minimum* delay.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NJTransit as a system might be a huge clustermess... But this morning our bus driver was a miracle worker!

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Students can tell when every standard isn't really a standard but a slippery thing that we redefine for convenience and if things don't matter to us, how can we expect them to matter to our students?

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unfortunate timing, but they would be perfect for a State Fair Exclusive

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