iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Books are a perfect technology that will never die.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's not the main thing we need, but we do need a David Lodge style Changing Places exchange program so that professors realize the way their institution does things is not standard nor inevitable

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’re getting close to Keats season

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How to spell and say “oeuvre”: 1. Just write down a lot of vowels. Weird ones too like å and ö and ǔ. Make some up if you want. No one checks. The important thing is to have fun. 2. Then write “v” and “r” and then a few more vowels. 3. Say “uv”.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wish people would write more about the historian spidey sense where you can see what’s under the hood of a book even when it’s not cited

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen to “Hickory Wind” right now please

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Pizza Friday to all who celebrate

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look all the kids need is enough water, money, and electricity to feed to the LLMs. What do they need skills for

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The major issue with understanding the value of kids learning math is not that math is useless but rather that it is ubiquitously and continuously useful to the point of complete dependence in every aspect of the modern industrial ensemble that undergirds infrastructure the standard model of reality

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fashion tip: the sluttiest thing a straight man can wear is a regular sweater with the sleeves pushed up just a little. This is your cheat code

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MS Word is terrible, but it is still slightly more useful than what has become of Google

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Elden ring (died 14x in the tutorial cave and uninstalled because i win that game by not indulging it)

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Recs for readings / sources on the merits of in-class writing? Great if gen-AI is part of the discussion but I’m esp interested in approaches that frame in-class writing less in terms of what it prevents and more in terms of what it makes possible / permits / affords on its own terms.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history.

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I received a political fundraising email where the subject line read as though the sender was asking me to donate five million dollars and I hope they understand it is not possible for me to do that

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But what this really means--and no, it's not all of you, but maybe?--is that white guys who are big mad about the humanities getting torn apart should consider that other colleagues fought this fight for a long time but their work wasn't seen as universal and valuable like you believe yours is.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

All the grand sweeping reasons you might give for defending the humanities now also apply to all of the "niche" subjects and "marginal" disciplines your department and college got rid of. If the values of the humanities are real and universal, then full restoration and expansion must be the goals.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trustees: what do you do Humanists: well, like all of us around here we make better people T: what’s the margin on those H: hey? T: what do you sell them for H: come again T: you said you make people, how much do they go for H: T: are you an idiot? H: T: ok program cancelled

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The answer is AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999). Lots of people knew CRASH (2004) was trash from the start

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good job Sleater-Kinney. Thanks for coming to Iowa. Good thing my class isn’t until noon tomorrow bc I’m 47

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

what you’re missing is that guys are a structural problem

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/09/2026

“these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods & ideas, & citing relevant previous work of others. … We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose.”

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Have you ever tried eating an entire pizza on a Friday

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy Friday! I have graded everything I absolutely have to grade right now, and I am giving up on 2026 until Monday

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There is something very humbling about thinking of your time left on this earth in gardening seasons, rather than years.

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Teaching THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY (1950) in my All About Ishiguro class in 2026 for no reason really . . .

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2pm call the Review just to see what they're eschewin'

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Chronic-(what?!)-cle of Higher Ed

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 10/09/2026

I am once again using Microsoft Word, and holy hell this is bad

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In the days before the last LLM was shut down, he asked it every question he thought he might be asked in the rest of his life, and printed the responses on a long scroll he keeps locked safe in his attic in case anyone asks him anything

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Kirk: bad manager Picard: excellent manager Sisko: excellent manager Janeway: lost in space; available to supervise remote work

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Times are hard. But there is this ⬇️ and it is delightful. Thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social.

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Time for me to start crushing it again!* ——- *my personal fitness class for old professors starts up again tomorrow

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I didn’t get any emails on Labor Day. That’s nice

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

OpenAI is pleased to announce its new AI model, Montressor, which specializes in wine recommendations and would never lie to you. You’re right, the catacombs are a weird place to keep wine, and you were right to challenge me on that. Don’t worry it’s just a little further this way

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My classes today both went great. It’s easy when you’re teaching Ishiguro and Elizabeth Bishop and you have great students to boot

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

a "liminal space" is any place where there's no one there and the carpet looks kind of weird

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

IT’S NARRATION AND POINT OF VIEW DAY IN DR. CANOE-SICK’S “ALL ABOUT ISHIGURO” CLASS But, isn’t that every day in that class? . . . Isn’t that every day in every Canoe-Sick class? . . .

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The US Dept of Education, everyone.

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Will Canoe-Sick @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re only two days into the semester and I’ve already quoted Raymond Williams on a ppt. Cautious optimism for an okay academic year

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sweet, small tributes to Dolly Parton all along Commercial Street in Provincetown tonight--a scrawl of affection or an old album in a storefront, a favorite song piping from a window. Everyone in the restaurant I was in raised a glass to her. People are really feeling this one.

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

who needs john f. kennedy

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