iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.

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Dana B @day-nuh-bee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

HOLY SHIT WE DID IT!!!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin, but there really is not a Wisconsin Republican Party any longer. When three people are paying for 90% of a gubernatorial campaign and 80% of legislative campaigns, you have a club, not a political party, owned and funded by billionaires.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The GOP has put $2 million to this campaign, and the billionaires have put $23 million in. Their contribution is 92% of the money Tiffany raised.

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Sameer Deshpande @skdeshpande91.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

these people are going to roll up on some aunties and are going to catch some hands real fast

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Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m hiring for a new psychology and cognition coach! If you get excited about cool results like in this thread and want to find ways to apply this back to players before games, in the dugout, and after games, check the posting out here: www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...

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Psychology & Cognition Coach - Cincinnati Reds

Title: Psychology & Cognition CoachDepartment: Baseball Operations – Baseball Analytics - Psychology & CognitionFLSA Status: Salary - ExemptDate Created: 10/28/2025Date Reviewed: 10/01/2026Minimum Req...

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International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ISBA has released a statement on compulsory Article Processing Charges (APCs). Open access should remove barriers for readers without creating new ones for authors. We call for publishing models that are both open and equitable. Read more: isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it is so amazing to be lectured to about the importance of the foundational texts of western civ by a bunch of voluntary illiterates

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Dana B @day-nuh-bee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dak and Williams are cookin.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Let’s not let these chuds poison a perfectly useful mode of analysis about the world 🤣

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can do this as long as you finish the game with five sacks, you can do this every game if you keep that up

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Learning to analyze, to question, to pursue knowledge, to build arguments based on evidence, and to discard sophistry: these are values that the sciences, social sciences, and humanities share. And we share the battle to protect this style of inquiry from barbarians who would destroy it.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

If we let the current crop of "AI" people stay in charge, we are not gonna make it; not because of "superintelligent AI," but because of what the MIT study terms "cognitive surrender": offloading and deterioration of critical skills. And it increasingly feels like that's exactly what they want.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

AGAIN! You do not need to fear "superintelligent AI" "going rogue" & killing humans, when HUMANS keep putting regular, everyday shitty-assed, extremely error-prone "AI" into potentially life-&-death-crucial systems. It does not have to be "powerful" to do that! It can do that & still be very shitty!

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Dana B @day-nuh-bee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeah that’s not a TD…

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Dana B @day-nuh-bee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today’s game plan: Get the ball to CeeDee Lamb! 😤

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Dallas Cowboys Ceedee Lamb

ALT: Dallas Cowboys Ceedee Lamb

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026

Cluster analysis can be applied to these, and clusters will be found. But that doesn’t mean those clusters are meaningful.>

man to computer: Find clusters
computer: >CLUSTERS FOUND
man: oh my god.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Made a few small changes to the AI Crisis Flowchart

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New DC lots of new pieces but golly this is an underwhelming performance from the Dallas defense. Same tackling issues, same massive holes in zone coverage.

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Dana B @day-nuh-bee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nasty hit from Downs!! 😮‍💨

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like

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Mike Piellucci @mikelikessports.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hey, we got a conversation with Dirk on the site today, by way of our dude Brian Dameris. There's a lot of good stuff in here, from being a youth sports dad to Cooper Flagg to Don Nelson and much more. Enjoyed this window into his TV preparation, too. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Serious problem 3: some people will argue we don't need anymore mathematicians, and we don't need to teach mathematics anymore (nor history, litterature, foreign languages, etc). Fight, so that these things are still taught. We need them.

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The model can do more than a person, because it’s a machine. It can read about every software vulnerability and probe your system to see which ones you’re vulnerable to. Lying ass Sam wants you to think Skynet gained consciousness when it’s more like a robot that can brute force a combination lock

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026

Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.

Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sean West ... WHAT A PUNT!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This isn’t exclusive to AI, by the way, though it includes AI as presented in hundreds of tech journalism puff pieces and finger-wagging Chronicle sermons. My history classroom is not your “sandbox,” and your suggestion that it should be only tells me how unqualified you are for this conversation.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

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SportsDataverse @sportsdataverse.org · 01/09/2026

Another 172 ESPN functions were added since last release, while adding a full coverage wrapper for the CollegeBasketballData.com API (s/o @collegefootballdata.com), as well as a handful of other providers. Read more on all of the changes here: hoopr.sportsdataverse.org/news/inde…

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Changelog

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Well, make my shit the chronic, because I always assumed it was the struggle to create something that gave it a chance of being good. Anything without struggle wasn't what it could be.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

An existential fiscal, research, & teaching crisis for UW & so many other universities, on top of the existential crisis posed by cuts to federal funding. The entire business model fails without foreign students & federal $. Where are our leaders in public explaining this? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A simple guide to public engagement for professors: Good engagement > No engagement > AI slop If you are too busy to do it well, just don't do it! That's fine!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s a bit ironic that the more academia is treated like a business, the more we run into business problems (“branding”, etc.), and then the business problems are held up as proof of long-standing and deep-seated problems of academia

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