iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10h

lord preserve us from think tanks

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 14h

ProQuest, Wiley, etc.: I am not EVER going to want to ask your chatbot about an article or book. I do not want their summaries. I want the option to hurl that part of your user interface and experience into the blackest depths of the loneliest abandoned mine on earth.

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

The Fugitive Slave Act reveals the limits of the South's defense of states rights.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the trial scene from Pink Floyd: The Wall but it's a guy on trial for buying books even though he already has unread books at home and the wall is in fact made of those books

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

imagining a Papal imprimatur for the 21st century: sine intellegentia artificiali FIAT

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Alberta would like to swap countries with New York State I suspect we’re open to starting that conversation.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

new theodicy challenge just dropped

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I find it strange how often the history of Jews in Europe more broadly is treated as a niche or specialist topic, rather than being part of the main stream of European history. It’s a *choice* to leave Jewish history out of the story.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Random Q: anyone know of any woodcuts which clearly show andirons / firedogs in use in a fireplace?

Pair of wrought iron and brass firedogs (or andirons), Italy, 16th-century. V&A. They consist of a long piece of black iron piece of iron in a rainbow shape. Horizontal bars of iron stick out from the top of the rainbow shapes with a shorter piece of iron at right angles to it to balance the structure.

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It really is interesting how we don’t call, say, a journalist who wrote a pop-sci book on galaxies an ‘astrophysicist’, or a retired banker who wrote a pop-psych book on personality types a ‘psychologist’—but the media call any rando who writes a book on something in the past a ‘historian’.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."

Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”

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JewWhoHasItAll @jewwhohasitall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

**ChaiGPT-18o** **User:** hi i teach 2nd grade in public school and i have 2 christian students this year. can you help me write a letter to their parents about how we're honoring their holiday St Francis Day on 23 tishrei? i want it to be respectful. we're off for simchat torah anyway lol 1/22

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Borrowing costs of 6% were imposed on newly independent Caribbean & African countries by British administrators, creating a debt trap they’ve never been able to escape: alanlester.co.uk/blog/britain... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Global bond sell-off intensifies, as UK long-term borrowing costs pass 6%

Fears that US deficit is unsustainable drive Britain’s 30-year bond yield to level not seen since 1998

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something I find myself saying all too often these days is “remember when this used to work?”

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course it’s viewpoint discrimination.

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italapas.bsky.social @italapas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ugh. It's not even romance discourse season yet! They're supposed to wait until February when the bunkers are all stocked.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a map company has the opportunity to perform the greatest bit in cartographic history

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Studio portrait of a father and child taken in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan around late 1920s, early 1930s. Almost certainly Chief Joseph Dreaver (WWI veteran, Military Medal recipient, and Indigenous leader), other photos match his appearance as a young man, of Big River First Nation. The child

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Put it on my tombstone.

"and as there is no modern translation, I’ve made a best effort."

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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In case anyone needs to hear it, making references to Simon of Trent as if the legends about him have any basis in reality puts a big red flag on you that says "antisemite." If you don't understand why that is, I recommend reading a damned history book. Like this one maybe:

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

honestly feel bad for Tuskeegee students who find their institution in such, uhhh, august company

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cue the executive order changing the name.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” (To pillage, to destroy, to seize under false titles is empire, and where they create a desert, they call it peace.) (Why yes, I am talking about the Pax Romana in class this morning!)

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The same type of process that decides potatoes and water coolers are the optimal package deal for consumers also decides whose job application gets considered and whose does not, or whose mortgage gets approved and at what interest rate.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the honestly most perplexing phenomena to me is students arguing about grades when they turned in an absolutely zero-effort submission.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘The Gulf of Intelligence’ was right there. I give up.

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“What should we do to fix American schools” except we ask historians of education

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are Black Democrats not a thing or…

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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No bibliographical sinning on my watch!

A table tent that says pages drying but pages has been struck out with the correction “sheets!”.

Sheets of letterpress printing drying on a wall of shelves.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

YouTube pushing me a “history” channel that appears to be AI-generated Indonesian-language videos dubbed in English by a different AI. O tempora! O mores!

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Egyptology hive mind: there is an image from the New Kingdom depicting a black Vizier with his Egyptian wife and family from a papyrus/ tomb and I cannot find it anywhere. Help! Thank you.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My high schooler has a teacher who requires that all assignments be submitted by typing answers into the speaker's notes on Google Slides, in case you're scratching your head over the baffling formatting choices in your college students' work.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Resister @chrissmithmuso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perfect.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't want to be known as just an American Some Guy guy so let's talk malfunctioning blimps, social liberals, and the closest Canada has ever come to a Newfie PM. thread

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Law schools have figured out the trick here. Just publish articles as long as books and then make them read the full articles. 😌

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just heard a radio report refer to the Orange Order as "strong supporters of remaining in the United Kingdom" which, while not inaccurate per se certainly feels a little inadequate as a description

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the future of education is literally getting history from cartoons while learning zero research, analytical or writing skills but 5s on AP tests

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

i wasn't gonna say it but i've got a pretty good theory about how you could break into the louvre if ever you needed

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hire seventy biz profs and put them in a new building with a cafe and working doors and at the same time I hire two historians and make them share an outhouse I hire a contractor to nail shut. a year later, there are more biz students than history students. Q. has the market spoken

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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