iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The arrogance towards interesting humanities research is soooo frustrating. STEM isn’t everything.

Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Tech women! My friend is doing a study on women in tech and information systems. Interview and a few diary entries, easy. All tech connections welcome.

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fairshare.help @fairshare.help · 23/09/2025

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not. Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2025

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Fair enough and kudos to you for the strength you show in doing good in this world. The trees are a hell of a legacy and undeniable fact.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

There’s a good chance your ancestors explicitly walked in the teaching that we carry seven generations before us and seven generations ahead. Which means you were loved and honoured by the ancestors who would never get to meet you directly. They cared.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

If this is out of line, rage at me. But I’m haunted by this and it might help? I was taught about it by an Anishinaabe woman who was stolen, whose bio parents and grandparents were tortured by the residential school system.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The plausible bullshit matching reality is a *uncontrollable and inconsistent* side effect.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

We can care for each other.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It’s got to be terrifying as parents, knowing there’s a treatment that can make a lifelong difference and needing help to make it.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I like the monocropping parallel. And it hadn’t occurred to me before how doing eugenics is essentially saying that the genes you prefer can’t win without help. Like the whole anti-woke movement is straight up admitting you can’t thrive unless you keep everybody else down.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/08/2025

Data are necessarily biased because they consists of observations of particular phenomena taken by specific people, from specific vantage points, using specific instruments, for a specific purpose. Data are literally the encoding of particular biases—that’s what makes it data.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

It is *tremendously* irresponsible of the article to use the word “persuasion” for interacting with a plausible bullshit generator. It does not “believe” anything. It’s even worse than simply statistical word frequency - it’s that skewed towards what people wanted to hear in artificial tests.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/08/2025

Huh maybe if they weren't kicking all the Palestinians off the app there would be more users Maybe if they didn't welcome Jesse Singal there would be more users

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I’m finding myself raging ever more at recaptchas. Not so much that it’s meaningless, because the data is absolutely being used to train models, but because I did not consent to this labour and they are lying about why it’s there.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Oh this is true in work too. It’s amazing how debilitating it is once you start to suspect your workplace of demanding meaningless work.

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 05/08/2025

Billionaires could solve world hunger but instead they are making a Ring to enslave Middle-earth.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Even here we have people getting urgent care while meeting basic needs can’t be done. I can’t imagine how it feels in Palestine, having only limited glucose solution to treat ongoing starvation. Everyone needs food. Everyone should have food.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I’m so, so sorry you have to do this to survive. I so very much want you to survive and be well and have your humanity and right to life protected and celebrated.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Dr Menna’s campaign page now has a note reassuring donors that if the entire family is lost the money will go to help others. 💔 What a thing to have to consider, how *I* will feel about my money after *you and your entire family* is murdered!!

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Problem with writing, or any art, in an information-commodity economy is that you're trying to pursue contradictory goals that in a better world would be aligned: art should be free; artists should have the means to live securely and with a modicum of comfort. Above all with free time to make art.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/07/2025

At a time when the world can seem so grim, @danmcquillan.bsky.social’s work on decomputing can provide a ray of hope. We don’t just need to reclaim control over technology, but of our collective vision of the future.

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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 29/07/2025

The other 50% is iteration. GenAI is TERRIBLE at iteration in general, much less precise iteration. We're astonishingly far from prompting, "use what you've generated as a new basis and just change [element]" and getting anything useful back. It's just not how LLM dot-connection works natively.

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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 29/07/2025

A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If someone asks a question about "AGI", the only reality-based response is to demand a definition of "AGI" before replying. #acl2025

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

1/8 of a tiny squid is not a lot of protein, and starvation is unjust.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Shouldn’t have to *pay* for a Covid test!!! Worrying about it is bad enough and checking if you have it is a freakin’ public service. This timeline sucks. I want society to do better by people.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/07/2025

We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that: cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Never let it be tired of helping! So sorry that my action or inaction can be life and death, and that my country isn’t mobilizing at scale, and that you have to work so hard for a chance to survive. Too many people are dying on our watch.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I’m so sorry you and she have been put in danger. Sent a bit, with love.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I get overwhelmed with how many people need help and furious that our governments are actively hurting people. But I also think of that scene at the end of Schindler’s List where Schindler looks at his fancy clothes and watch and is anguished that he didn’t do more. Because I can do more.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Reasonable people can disagree about the best ways to achieve Jewish safety, self-determination, or liberation. Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Unless you’re a billionaire. Then please also use it for legal and lifestyle advice. It’ll be fine, your buddies promise.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

That is heart-breaking. Words matter. Adoptees matter.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A wealth tax would probably help with this. Ah, well, anyway.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This never occurred to me and it should have. Thank you and I’m going to watch for it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Nobody really believes the “oopsies” on repeated war crimes but… Even if it isn’t your *plan* to kill civilians, aid workers, journalists, children—the fact that you keep doing it means you are too incompetent to control weapons. Evil or accident, the child is dead.

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

An unexpectedly frustrating aspect of this AI “revolution” is how much the *obvious, consistent, and fundamental* problems with the tech are just…not stopping institutions from adopting it. Sure it can pass a bar exam. And then disbarred every time the real work was called for.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

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