iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 13h

Just listened to this episode and highly recommend it. You're doing amazing work, @mattseybold.bsky.social

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Female groundhogs will not tolerate males in their burrows. If one tries to move in, she'll kick him out. Just saying.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyway it is very obvious that this tech gets us further from not closer to the flourishing envisioned by those who dreamt of time to cultivate learning, movement and self-expression. It just gets us closer to consuming simulacra of these things — along with health, wealth and security — on a screen

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Proud to share the fall events in the Open Book, Open Mind reading series I co-chair for the Montclair Public Library. Come by!

Flyer of the book events for fall 2026 in the Open Book, Open Mind series. These include Heather McGhee on Wednesday, October 14, Patrick Radden Keefe on Tuesday, November 17, and Hernan Diaz on Monday, December 7.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Absolutely. Someone posted in one of my local Facebook groups about how we should talk to our kids about rape culture-- and already there are toxic responses blaming the victim and saying we should not believe all women. It made me nauseous to read those responses.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I live in a swing district. While I see lawn signs supporting local (town council) Republican candidates, I see virtually no one publicly supporting the Republican congressman (Tom Kean Jr.) Hopefully that's indicative that this House seat will flip blue.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is my father's birthday, my first without him. Not an hour passes without my thinking of the love and support he'd be providing me right now. And he relished a good conspiracy. If you missed the story about him, please read it today. He was such a decent, interesting man. I love you, Pop.

nytimes.com

He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.

Ben Riley was already writing about the risks of chatbots when his dad started trusting A.I. over his doctor.

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Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trailer for The Oldster Radio Hour, a video/audio podcast you can subscribe to on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. youtu.be/JwSnVcNi5Es

youtu.be

Oldster Radio Hour Trailer Final fixed

YouTube video by The Oldster Radio Hour

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You guys are getting job interviews?

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ok now I want to hear everyone's interview stories. Once on an interview (campus visit) I was sent on a campus tour that was clearly designed for prospective undergrads (I was a professor). "this is the laundry room in the dorm for first-year students!" Not highly relevant.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The scholars who guest edited MLN's French issue (just published) sent me flowers in appreciation (even though managing the journal is my full-time job). I am a single mom constantly working and taking care of other people, so gestures of appreciation like this overwhelm me-- in the best way. ❤️

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One week to submit abstracts to NeMLA (in Rhode Island, March 2027). Here is a session I am chairing on the invisible labor of women in shaping the canon (unacknowledged translators, editors, writers, research assistants, etc.) cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

cfplist.com

View Session

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And there it is.

ScrollEd is following a freemium model, combining a free consumer feed with a paid ScrollEd Pro subscription and annual institutional licenses. Institutions pay to deliver educationa material through the platform, in exchange for reports about engagement, lesson progress, and other data.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Working on edits from the school parking lot (waiting for my daughter). As one does. I'm thinking about how Doireann Ní Ghríofa recorded a promotional video for A Ghost in the Throat (a beautiful book!) from her car bc that's where she wrote much of it-- while waiting on kids' activities.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CFP for the 2027 NeMLA Convention--for a panel I'm organizing. Deadline Sept. 30. Join me in March in Rhode Island! cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

Screenshot of abstract, which can be found here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22368

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Having kids look at some Twain aphorisms as a warmup today, and remembering that last year when I asked what these quotes suggested about the author’s age, they uniformly agreed that he sounded like “a millennial”

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm very proud of this issue-- especially because it says "September 2026" on the cover and it printed this month, in September 2026. Until my hire (in 2024), MLN had not had a managing editor since 1910. It's taken me two years to get on the production schedule and I am not relinquishing that.

Cover of MLN French issue, vol. 141, no. 4, Sept. 2026. On the work on Marie NDiaye

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My 6 y.o. just told me that she wants to have a lemonade stand but instead of lemonade, she wants to make (write and illustrate) books-- and instead of selling them, she wants to give them away. She's already marked publication day on her calendar. poor girl- so much like her mom (me!)

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Coinciding this week: copyediting deadline for my book w Bloomsbury + production deadline for my editing job at Hopkins + requests from another publisher- for a new edition of a book I translated and which I'm now revising. I need to make time for hobbies that don't require more editing work.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great essay by @zeblarson.bsky.social on the Federal Writers Project, democracy, and diversity. Larson writes: "Robert Cantwell said that 'The America that’s emerging from the Writers’ Project books is like nothing we’ve ever seen…it is a grand, melancholy, formless, democratic anthology.'"

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I find it odd how many of my daughter's teachers go by "Mrs." It seems so anachronistic. It's an honorific I never once considered using.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW REPORT ON ALPHA SCHOOL Last week, I reported on troubling activities at Alpha School's boot camp. This week, I report on the broader activities going on at Alpha School, and its culture. What I found is deeply disturbing. Children are at risk. I will now share some of what I uncovered.

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

“It’s pretty dystopian if you think about it”

New report on Alpha School’s activities and culture

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"[S}olving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal"... mathandai.org

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Less than a quarter of Americans expect A.I. to have a positive impact on K-12 education, arts and entertainment, how people do their jobs, the economy, personal relationships or happiness over the next 20 years." (also, the image that accompanies this article! Perfect)

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not sure who created this, but how fitting

Scenes from the Matrix. Red pill-- AI will kill us all. Other pill-- AI will solve it all
Question to AI researchers:
Did you just take both pills?

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm honored that my essay "The Disappearance of the Unclear Question," co-authored with @jeppestricker.bsky.social, is part of this volume just published by UNESCO. Just announced at the opening of Digital Learning Week in Paris. It's open access, so please share. unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

Cover of The Algorithm in the Room: Seeing and Confronting the Implications of AI for the Future of Education. Open access here: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000399335

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am a slow, reflective writer. The idea that holding viewers' attention for one minute via AI-generated video is a mark of creativity is beyond depressing.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I first saw the tweets that purported to be from kids at Alpha School, I didn't think they could be real. But even if not real, they are being shared by the school to promote its approach, which they repeatedly claim is so much better than "normal" school. Worth reading this entire thread.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A friend just brought me this anniversary edition of Grande Sertão: Veredas. Interesting choice to not make the title visible on the spine (it’s there— but not easy to decipher when shelved with other books). Instead, the spine shows the way the book is bound-- stitching and signatures.

Cover of Grande Sertão: Veredas, 70th anniversary edition

spine of the book, which shows stitching and the binding of the book

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just got back from a neighborhood block party—a warm and welcoming group and diverse in every respect—many backgrounds, cultures, languages, and ages. I’m thinking now about the importance of in-person community (also the I have the best neighbors ever).

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gross! Extractive capitalism. Their goal is to "make content from them." And Polyakov’s YouTube channel is called "Neo-Orientalist."

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This book is a blast—moving, inventive, thoughtful, compassionate. Had the great fortune to see Noel teach kids at a writing workshop we worked at in the Bronx—he electrified them. Books don’t always have to exude a writer’s personality, but sometimes I’m glad when they do.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CFP for a session I'm chairing at the Northeast Modern Language Association convention. Abstracts due Sept. 30: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

See https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22368

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm looking forward to learning some Yiddish with @mlnjournal.bsky.social's new Yiddish & Hebrew issue (edited by @samspinner.bsky.social and launching in January). I'm already getting emails like this from authors 🙂 One of the best parts of my job-- constant contact with many languages!

Screenshot: As we say in Yiddish, di velt iz a shtetl...!

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i have questions.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This morning I counted four goldfinches in the overgrown wildness of my garden

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

5 a.m. train to Baltimore. Happy start of the semester to all who celebrate

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I understand "America" to be the entire continent-- including Canada and all of Latin America

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I lost my mother to pancreatic cancer when she was in her 50s (I was in my 20s) so know very well the prognosis of patients with this cruel disease. Happy to see medical advances like this.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Reposting with @404media.co's follow-up to this story. So much violence in the ways in which Amazon is destroying these books: www.404media.co/inside-the-w...

404media.co

Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training

An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New MIT report on AI calls for less emphasis on grades, more on project-based learning, recognition that programs for undergraduate research assistants are educational experiences that should not be replaced even if AI agents can do the research for less $$, more emphasis on community. /1

aiandeducation.mit.edu

Report – AI and Education

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I just signed a contract for an article I have in a journal with a bigger publisher and they are charging nearly $3k for open-access (which I obviously can't/won't pay). @mlnjournal.bsky.social has been making articles freely available (no APCs).

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