iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

All the trends in public higher education are going in the reverse direction, it seems: demands to increase enrollments and majors without increasing faculty lines, the invasion of ed tech, seemingly permanent austerity conditions

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

I’ve heard three talks in the last couple of months by very prominent skeptics of AI who have all argued that the solution to the problem of AI in education is smaller classes and more teacher/faculty attention. I don’t know how that happens without a massive, massive investment in public education

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A US court acquitted former Col. Alfonso Plazas Vega of responsibility for the death/disappearance of a Colombian magistrate during the 1985 siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogota. colombiaone.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Plazas Vega Acquitted in US Over the 1985 Palace of Justice Recapture

Colombian Colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega was acquitted in Miami over a judge’s disappearance during the 1985 Palace of Justice recapture.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My man looks like the inspiration for the FBI’s relaxed stance on bestiality

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sometimes I think about the fact that the dramatic ‘you can’t handle the truth’ speech was about the grave threat posed to the U.S. by…Cuba.

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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

With generous assumptions, a new faculty line costs about $180k a year (salary, fringe, overhead). $47 million annually would pay for 250 tenure lines. According to the UMass 2025-2026 fact book, the university has about 1,100 FTE tenure-line faculty and spends about $430 million on academics.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Extremely important story. Predictive policing is a euphemistic way of saying DHS is doing pre-crime, because of its improper access to your data. As @jakelaperruque.bsky.social says here, this takes a sledgehammer to the concept of probable cause of the commission of a crime. It can’t be reformed.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 01/09/2026

There were only a handful of portable studios then -- I think three in the US -- so few soundboards, and almost nobody had a tape recorder with batteries. So stuff that got recorded is basically only gigs that got broadcast on underground radio stationa.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 20/08/2026

like, I'm not saying you should take the advice of "super crusty cyclists who've been hit multiple times and/or done some truly brave/stupid stuff on a bicycle" for EVERY thing, but when that crowd, in unison, looks at YOUR little front wheel scooter rig as a death trap....

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @broadwell.eu · 18/08/2026

if you as a company have a parts database for repairs and such then I am begging you to please add the specifications of those parts

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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Most of my followers here will be familiar with what is in this piece, but Adelmann does a good job of pointing out that adjuncting requires expertise and (often) an advanced degree. We know this, but it sometimes gets cut from the discussion. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Adjuncting Until the End of Time

Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11/08/2026

sing, google maps, of the local vibe at the metro waste transfer station

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

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The Disappearance of the Public Bench

Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Applications are due by end-of-day ET this Friday, August 7! Please join us — and please share!

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 02/08/2026

Imagine if the yellow stars that the Nazis forced Jews to wear had continuously reported the locations of those forced to wear them.

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @broadwell.eu · 30/07/2026

I like my cars to be stupid. Stupid cars are well-behaved. Cars that try to be smart are like dogs that are too smart: they go mental because they're smart enough to do things that they are not smart enough to realize they don't understand

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Normalize the idea of hiding refugees from fascists

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Tim Noble @timothynoble.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains

Front album cover image of Fugazi’s In On The Kill Taker

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The skye above the port was the color of parchment, as yet unmarked by a scrybe.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I wrote this for Chicago magazine about the U.S. government's plans to close the National Archives branch in Chicago:

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can’t keep the libraries open, but can keep the data farming and the cameras on 24/7

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@higheredheist.com once again has the goods. This time detailing the conflicts of interest that abound in the corporate structure of DeSantis’s accrediting agency, The Commission for Public Higher Education, Inc. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Do You Have Any Idea Who You Are Getting Into Business With—Or What Business You're Getting Into?

For the General Counsels of the Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas Public University Systems—Et Al.

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Lee @vaneekara.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not to sound a million years old, but there are 80s & 90s flyers made out of literal garbage, with scissors, a glue stick, a sharpie marker, and the crappy copier at someone’s day job that still look hot as fuck. Just do that. Xerox art flyers are still valid.

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

NEW: SFPD exposed its live police drone feeds to the open internet. Color + thermal, 5,000 GPS points over 44 miles + pilots’ names and emails. No authentication. Found by a routine scrape of the manufacturer’s domain.

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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

FOIA is 60 years old! Can the legal right to know survive while the practical ability to exercise that right steadily erodes, and when the President claims White House records are his personal property? nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/20...

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Freedom of Information at 60

Washington, D.C., July 9, 2026 - Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson reluctantly signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into law, Americans enjoy a national transparency treasure in th...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, takes a deep breath* so do we have ANY idea how many living US Senators there are right now?

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/07/2026

Mamdani should declare a random Sunday Sacco and Vanzetti day just because.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I think there’s a lot for Critical AI to learn from the mass society / propaganda roots of comm studies — and radical publishing + radio — of the early 20th c; the TV critics + radical media collectives / community media centers of the 60s + 70s…

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Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

No they were competing products. There was a bunch on non-asbestos products with similar names, including furnace and glass waste, more similar to modern Rock wool.

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Tim Noble @timothynoble.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Encounters with the exquisite on the way to wherever you were goin’

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

it is hard to describe unless u actually saw them but many paper maps were probably among the highest quality printed material u could buy for cheap or even free just incredible details

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/07/2026

"Horseshoe theory" (the idea that the far right and the far left actually bend around to meet each other) is bullshit: pluralistic.net/2024/02/26/h... 6/

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Pluralistic: Incomplete vs. overshoot (26 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

👇🎯 My frustration at the near-total lack of loud, public collective action by university presidents is precisely because of this. The idea that we can just ride out a year or two & it will all be fine & back to business as usual is head-in-the-sand denial. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/07/2026

when you actually read the docs

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Tim Noble @timothynoble.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Very pleased to have discovered @tropy.bsky.social for organizing, metadata management and note taking on archival images! Finally my ~6k images of documents (from like half a dozen archival visits) have a coherent place to live and get annotated.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

bsky.app/profile/holl... Quick while they’re distracted

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Not sure why so many Europeans assume we’re rooting for England today. Todos somos americanos

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