iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The authors of "Rewiring Democracy" explore Crownshy, an innovative approach to participatory democracy led by civic technologists in Scotland: www.democracyrenovator.com/p/rewiring-d... @democracyrenovator.bsky.social @schneier.com

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Rewiring Democracy: Citizen Science Leads to Civic AI in Scotland

“Rewiring Democracy” returns!

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“The Gartner survey found that execs who slashed staff to invest in AI have seen the same financial gains as those who held onto their employees” futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly

Many companies bet big on AI and laid off hundreds of employees to do so. Now, a survey reveals they're barely breaking even.

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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 04/05/2026

Due settimane fa è arrivata la più importante notizia dell’anno, o addirittura del secolo. Ma dato che i miliardari possiedono il grosso dei mezzi di comunicazione, la maggioranza delle persone non ne ha sentito parlare. Leggi l'articolo di George Monbiot.

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Una catastrofe in arrivo di cui nessuno parla

Alcuni scienziati sono convinti che il sistema di circolazione oceanica abbia una buona probabilità di collassare Leggi

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Yes, they are. And it’s demonstrably worse since 2023-it’s genuinely alarming. Think about how big tech has control over how and what this generation thinks, and how they make decisions. And it’s why I think AI free classrooms are necessary and anyone who wants to tell me otherwise can kick rocks

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying

Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

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AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review

If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Last year, 49,521 companies did not provide details of persons of significant control (PSC) or any PSC statements. Anonymous companies are central to illicit financial flows. Only 13 companies and 13 directors prosecuted and fined . What if they were benefit claimants?

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Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power

Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 27/05/2025

I'd seen a million links to this great @dansinker.com piece over the last few days and finally had a chance to read it. Really resonates, especially as I'm trying to create and share more dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

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The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

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Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford @ecioxford.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🌍 2024 is the first full year global warming exceeded 1.5°C. What does this mean for our planet—and who's most at risk if emissions don’t fall? Oxford experts ECI's Prof Myles Allen & Prof Nathalie Seddon break it down. #ClimateCrisis #NatureBasedSolutions #1Point5Degrees tinyurl.com/5n939ypc

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What will happen if emissions aren't reduced?

YouTube video by University of Oxford

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24/04/2025

A youth mobility scheme with the EU could support economic growth across Europe, and provide young people in London and the EU valuable opportunities to work abroad and gain a deeper understanding of our respective cultures.

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Labour MPs urge Starmer to back youth mobility scheme amid EU trade reset

More than 60 MPs sign letter calling for time-limited visas for 18- to 30-year-olds to travel freely

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Examining a recent batch of AI ads from big tech companies, @jwherrman.bsky.social notes that the ones getting the most backlash aren’t the ones explicitly about work, but the ones that position "the experience of being a person as a sort of job itself.” nymag.com/intelligence...

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Big Tech Companies Can’t Quite Figure Out How to Market AI

Is AI supposed to write emails or replace your personality?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“Never before has the danger of climate change been so evident and the response so cavalier.”

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The great climate disconnect

New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time

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Anti-Corruption Data Collective @acdatacollective.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Great to see the corruption-climate nexus at the heart of @anticorruption.bsky.social’s #CPI2024 analysis. Our joint report ahead of COP29 in Baku laid out how corruption and undue influence can undermine urgently needed climate action. acdatacollective.org/blog/from-ri...

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From risks to reality. How corruption and undue influence undermined multilateral climate action at COP 29 – ACDC

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Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Read this really cool report on cultural preservation from the Internet Archive (@archive.org)! It dives into how streaming + licensing are erasing our shared cultural memory. As always, here's the link and scroll down for the TL;DR 🧵👇 archive.org/details/vani...

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Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record : Luca Messarra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

At The Verge, @lopatto.bsky.social reports on how AI-generated answers to search queries are feeding into “the large-scale degradation of our information environment,” and asks: “What good is an answer machine that nobody can trust?” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

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Stop using generative AI as a search engine

Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 11/12/2024

"Everything we do—from what we prescribe, the investigations we order, to the referrals we make—seem governed by predefined pathways." Doctors’ diminishing clinical autonomy can have a series of knock-on effects, writes Zaid Al-Najjar from NHS Practitioner Health www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New EY ESG investor survey: 📈92% of investors reluctant to sacrifice short-term gains for [perceived] longer-term rewards of ESG investments. 📈Only 55% believe climate change will have an impact on their investment strategies. 📈36% are unhappy with progress on nonfinancial reporting.

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Investors shun long-term ESG rewards in quest for short-term gains

LONDON, 10 December 2024. A blinkered view of climate change and sustainability has taken hold across the world’s investor community and is fueling a focus on short-term performance at the expense of...

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Denisse Rodriguez-Olivari @denisserolivari.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Today, 2-3 pm CET @bridgegap-eu.bsky.social webinar: Join our Chase for Oligarchs with New Tools presenting Follow the Money and the T-Index with Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Noé Letourneux, Mykhailo Koltsov and Ben Schmidt corruptiondata.eu/bridgegap-we...

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BridgeGap Webinar Invitation: Celebrating International Anti-Corruption Day

Topic: Follow the Money and the T-Index: Mapping Political Power and Hidden Networks with BridgeGap Date: 9 December 2024 Time: 14:00-15.00 CET Where: Online Registration: https://us06web.zoom....

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