iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 18h

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Felicity Shutitdown-Already xx 🏳️‍⚧️ @meladyfreshness.bsky.social · 19h

Fucking hell so so this

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only today connected the marking assessment boycott, the turn to AI and the never let a crisis go to waste attitude right now of management with the hardest of hard HR in Higher Education right now.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Matthew Syed says we need more bankruptcies and unemployment; unclear if this extends to Sunday Times columnists.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Instead of continuous administrative reorganisation of academic units under size and shape exercises, this is where universities should be focusing time, thought and action. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Students turn to lawyers to fight AI misconduct accusations

Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the major points he makes which is very interesting is that the archive (and let’s think about that as ‘history’) is only actually understandable in the future.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What do we think of accounts that repost and virtually never post their own images?

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nurdles collected today on North Shields Fish Quay beach by one of the paid clear-up team (who also works ridiculous hours as a volunteer; his video). This gives some sense of the scale of the task, 10 weeks after the spill.

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 29/09/2026

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RG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re gonna rock down to The inland revenue They’re winding up Man City

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The Surrealist Fridge @surrealistfridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was watching The War Game but I lost the threads

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The Surrealist Fridge @surrealistfridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The war game is just edited highlights of managerial incompetence

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grimly ironic precursors to later events

In 1888 this "gateway to Asia" was discussed vis-à-vis Russian attempts to secure that country's southern borders, and London outlined scenarios whereby the Ottomans might be made to give up the waterway to Russian influence after the arrival of a hostile fleet. 9 England solicited the opinion of German engineers on where to place gun batteries astride the Bosphorus in order to avoid this, information which was then circulated between different branches of the British empire in dispatches. 10 One of these engineers, Von der Goltz Pasha, outlined how existing emplacements were basically death traps, and would easily be taken by any real Russian aggression in the region.
Eric Tagliacozzo
In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama
#kindlequotes

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every single time I see the "Every Fringe Event At Party Conference" graphic I howl.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I feel like digital humanities was this great 15 year moment of techno-optimism that created solid resources and showed how old media connected to new media. Whereas AI is going to introduce a period of techno-cannibalism designed to devour digital humanities labor and anyone else in its proximity.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘While Hamlet delivers his soliloquy, the ghost of his father hoovers in the background’.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also, often people on those kind of professions will end up self employed/running a business, surely that’s something that needs to be covered in their training too?

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James Handscombe @jameshandscombe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All subjects link to workplace because being able to concentrate, follow instructions, acquire new skills, read, listen, write, talk are all useful across a huge range of careers.

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Paul Frightlaw Meets the Wolf Man Uptown @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's something: Dennis Potter's rarely seen Play for Today from 1974, Schmoedipus, will be repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 7th October at 10pm. It's their tribute to Tim Curry, who stars alongside Anna Cropper and Bob Hoskins. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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BBC One - Play for Today, Series 4, Schmoedipus

A strange young man turns up on Elizabeth’s doorstep and makes a frightening claim.

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eventually we'll all just be influencers advertising stuff to people who can't afford to buy it

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One even said that the transition to becoming vice-chancellor was so challenging, “some days I really regret that I [applied for the role]...." They said they still battle “imposter syndrome”, and that they feel like “someone is [going to] march me down the corridor any moment now”. 🎻redundancies 🎻

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V-cs hit by ‘shift shock’ when they take on top job, leader says

Vice-chancellor turned PhD student says university executives can feel ‘isolated’ and are seen as having gone to the ‘dark side’

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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 20/09/2026

the difference between fine art and illustration is nothing more than the economic class of the artist making it and that of their patrons.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/09/2026

The lesson from this week is that most of the UK media thinks Hot Fuzz is a horror movie about a woke city cop destroying a perfectly admirable local community.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got the formal notification of my half-sacking. Apparently congratulations are due!

'Your appointment is subject to a variation to your contractual terms and conditions. Your substantive contractual hours will reduce from 1.0FTE to 0.5 FTE, equivalent to 18.5 hours per week effective from 1st October 2026

Once again thank you for your valuable contribution throughout this process and congratulations on your successful appointment to your new role.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I tend to agree. Way back in the pandemic I saw fraying of the social contract & just put it down to the stress of the times. But it’s persisted. It’s like weird moral showmanship

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Live from DUP HQ

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

students absolutely need to spend time reading difficult texts (assuming anybody taught them to read in K-12, and not just three-cueing). writing, absolutely, is thinking. i believe in all of that as much as i also believe technological tools can let us do new cool stuff on top of that foundation.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The professors and instructors who turn classrooms back into spaces for reading and discussion, are going to leave the biggest legacies in this world. Everyone one else will disappear into LLM wallpaper proxies and derivatives.

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Alex Stewart @afhstewart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Millennials figuring out which perfectly nice hobby they’ll have to try to monetise next to satisfy the machine

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As with Bletchley Park in WWII, this will open up opportunities for those with 'redundant' skills in languages, linguistics and maths, no doubt, to decipher the code.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Peter Serafinowicz in Parks and Rec talking with Chris Pratt's character

Pratt: What else does your family own
Serafinowicz (AND DAN SNOW IN REAL LIFE, THIS IS THE JOKE): Well, um, have you heard of Scotland?

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"You have to fucking care a lot to not give a fuck" -- Liam Gallagher in "Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger" I laughed at first and then I thought about it for a while and I'm prepared to accept that there is real wisdom in that.

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Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Generating slop with machines just to charge humans to scrub the machine smell off the slop is peak economic innovation.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Everyone knows AI-written academic papers are embarrassing now, including their "authors", which is why even the publishers - who stand to benefit most from AI-amplified publication volumes - are now offering "Affordable human expert editing for AI-drafted or AI-edited manuscripts" 🤯

Screenshot of T&F editing services, reading:

Editing for AI-Assisted Manuscripts
NEW
Affordable human expert editing for AI-drafted or AI-edited manuscripts.

Starting at $0.031/ word

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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 12/09/2026

Not sure I’d want to bet on only people who have been to university being able to build, think, write, reason, and make. That strikes me as a logically indefensible leap.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Many of the major questions that AI raises are old questions in new clothing. How do labour markets absorb technological change? How do we govern how institutions make decisions about people?”

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 09/09/2026

Watching the Apple launch event and I thought this was interesting: a feature called Apple Reference Image makes an unalterable original version of each pic you take, so you can prove it was real and what it actually captured if AI fakes start circulating

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One thing I’m seeing in the amnesia of a lot of GenAI-era tech criticism: they’ve abandoned the smart cities / digital geographies discourse’s gestures twd inclusive citation from a decade ago. We’re back to all-guy reference lists — including books by guys who didn’t bother citing anyone at all.

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