iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Ice is ai, ice is facial recognition" goes so hard

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

José Esteban Muñoz taught us that queerness is futurity People trying to freeze queerness in time don't understand the phenomenal fucking gift that queerness is giving us by refusing to be frozen and contained

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

i think creating situations where people have to negotiate their sexual orientation and gender identity with public fora of strangers who aren't personally invested in their well-being is bad, actually, and we are not harmed by the complexity of people's internal sense of self and labels

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

There is obviously a whole body of scholarship pointing in this direction so forgive me for saying something so obvious but the media needs to treat tech executives like the leaders of hostile governments because that is exactly what they are

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Huge congratulations to our colleagues at @iccl.bsky.social on this win! In a landmark ruling on 25 Sep, the ICCL secured a precedent that will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in GDPR class actions that impact their operations across the entire EU enforce.ie/digital-data...

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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce

Landmark ruling will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in court for EU-wide GDPR class actions

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 4h

OMG I just routinely update Firefox and all of a sudden everything looks like someone vomited stale salmon on my screen. What the actual fuck. All the corners rounded and transparent gradients for scrollable overflow. Is 2013 back in style? I've so had it with these fuckers.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 9h

Whenever a tech propagandist says 'AI' will kill us all (or, as Gates recently said, a billion people) they're lying as part of a profit gambit *but also* telling everyone that western elites are willing to wage nuclear war rather than relinquish a micron of power.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14h

"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 9h

Writer Katherine Rundell on The New Society podcast. A powerful and eloquent statement of why rigorous *thinking* matters in the age of exploitative billionaires pushing AI on all of us. Watch the whole thing. It's definitely worth three minutes of your time. 👏👏👏

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 15h

The only ones experiencing torture are the humans who are being intellectually bludgeoned by these delusional weirdos. Also theory of mind... its a waste of precious time trying to speak directly to these guys. They are either too far gone or too malicious for any kind of moral appeal.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is my data politics collection. I’m not saying it’s exhaustive. It’s growing almost every day. And several volumes (like “The Nerd Reich”) are scattered elsewhere & in use. But my point is: I have one. And I think you should too.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 22h

So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The end times religious fervor of it all is absolutely real. :)

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The system seems to be able to calculate, with increasing precision, the upper limit of what she will pay." Superintelligence risk is a distraction from the harms affecting real workers and consumers today.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of my pirmary objections to GenAI- beyond the concerns about labor, environmental justice, and intellectual property rights- is that I understand privacy to be NETWORKED and contingent. My information is only as secure as the weakest link in my social circle.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is pervasive and more people are going to come forward. These men don't understand consent and that's reflected in products we use on a daily basis. Rape culture is culture and it's in large part digitally mediated. Yet, we're letting men who think they're building a machine god self-regulate.

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11 more women allegedly abused by tech honchos come forward after Post’s Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ expose

“We need another MeToo movement for the tech community,” one tech worker told The Post.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"There’s a prevailing sense that campus culture is rape culture, especially in fraternity houses... " I don't care if it's not all frats, it's enough frats. Ban them as the easy first step.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

it's also an incredibly, unreasonably charitable alternative to burning down the university.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

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Surveillance Watch

This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Additionally, be aware of responsibility washing. See e.g. 📝 Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Cover image of Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway, yall know all this stuff. The real point is that we all know this stuff but they keep making this AI thing that pretends we don’t know this stuff. the word for that is power.

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How can we build an organized force for tech justice? Oakland Tech Week is exploring the possibilities. DAIR's @timnitgebru.blacksky.app will be there in conversation with @parismarx.com and others. Event is sold out, but visit the OTW website for info on virtual options: urlvanish.com/6fe70bc9

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I totally understand this frustration, & it especially enrages me how many insubstantial puff pieces have been published about Alpha & its founders, including by pubs that should’ve seen through the bullshit. That said, my essay is built atop investigative work done by others. Ben +

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All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This school just keeps getting more and more horrific. It needs to be shut down, why are Benjamin Riley and Matt Seybold the only ones doing real reporting on this blatantly abusive sham? Is anyone trying to help these kids?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People are really mad at me being a big snob about liberal arts education but this was really a desperate plea for engineers to stop thinking every other field but theirs is for dumb babies.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

Basically, whether on LinkedIn or Instagram, there is a push among white people in rich countries to do post-hoc rationalisations for their chatbot addictions taking a fascinatingly similar form to the same thing where high-carbon lifestyles are rationalised bc "BP invented the carbon footprint"

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A Frogs Gent @frogsgent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Does the rationalist movement have a misogyny problem?" is a question with a pretty clear answer. Just look at what Yud's willing to say out loud.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalist leader and AI advisor to Bernie Sanders (whose partner, Gretta Duleba, is mentioned as an instructor on the Slutcon 2026 program), wrote a rather notorious scifi story with some curious ideas about rape back in 2009: www.polemics.md/that-time-el...

In a conversation with the ship's leader Akon, the Confessor dispenses wisdom he's gained from witnessing the transformation of humanity into a space-faring race. During this conversation, he reveals that the act of rape is completely legal during Akon's time and had been legalized by humanity during a turbulent period in its past. Akon responds with shock, calling the ancient human civilization "prudish":
The Confessor held up a hand. "I mean it, my lord Akon. It is not polite idealism. We ancients can't steer. We remember too much disaster. We're too cautious to dare the bold path forward. Do you know there was a time when nonconsensual sex was illegal?" Akon wasn't sure whether to smile or grimace. "The Prohibition, right? During the first century pre-Net? I expect everyone was glad to have that law taken off the books. I can't imagine how boring your sex lives must have been up until then - flirting with a woman, teasing her, leading her on, knowing the whole time that you were perfectly safe because she couldn't take matters into her own hands if you went a little too far

"You need a history refresher, my Lord Administrator. At some suitably abstract level. What I'm trying to tell you - and this is not public knowledge - is that we nearly tried to overthrow your government."
"What?" said Akon. "The Confessors! '
"No, us. The ones who remembered the ancient world. Back then we still had our hands on a large share of the capital and tremendous influence in the grant committees.
When our children legalized rape, we thought that the Future had gone wrong."
Akon's mouth hung open. "You were that prude?"
I don't believe in condemning people solely off fiction, but this is the type of thing that one might find on the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own behind many tags and warnings.

Three Worlds Collide, however, isn't hosted on Archive of Our Own. It's hosted on Overcoming Bias, blog of George Mason University economist 1l Robin Hanson and the original home of LessWrong before it moved to its own website. Hanson is an economist at the notoriously libertarian George Mason university who has been repeatedly criticized for his views on women - one notorious blog post of his compared cuckoldry to "silent gentle rape" and he was dubbed
"America's creepiest economist" in a piece about his incel-adjacent takes.
Three Worlds Collide is over 15 years old, but it is relevant to current event. The Rationality community that developed around Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong has been marred with multiple allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct. These allegations were also the basis for a protest against a Rationalist organization by Ziz, the leader of the so-called
"death cult" that formed in the community and is currently suspected to be involved in several murders, including the recent killing of a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. I

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

An interesting comment in a recent Reddit thread about the “AI sex cult” and Slutcon: www.reddit.com/r/SFbitchesw...

overheadSPIDERS • 9d ago
My abusive ex bf (who works in tech) goes to Aella's sex parties through Red Means No (RMN). I contacted them to give them a heads up that he smothered me with a pillow on two occasions and probably shouldn't be allowed at CNC focused sex parties.
They acted like a woman was investigating...a woman who'd been fucking my abusive ex.
Nate Soares personally contacted me when I got some traction in the community and tried to tell me that I was the one in the wrong. He wrote various things on a Google doc that was publicly accessible about me that were false. He eventually informed me that he was going to publish portions of our correspondence (but only his responses and summaries of what I said, lol) to the entire membership of Red Means No, which is over 200 people.
So yeah there's a dossier about me that a bunch of CNC obsessed rationalists can see and I don't even know what it says.
+ 36 & DReply

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Ismael K.G. 🇩🇿🇨🇦🇪🇸🧀 @hermeneuticist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We've published a sneak preview of our report and are seeking reviewers! For almost two months, we've been wrangling the 300+ sticky notes from workshops on Crafting Participatory Tech Futures. We have comments on everything from governance frameworks to mycelium, but we found four major themes!

Crafting Participatory Tech Futures. Call for Reviewers! We're writing up a report and designing a zine with findings from our FAcT, London Data Week and online workshops, and we'd love your help! To get involved, simply fill out the form at https://bit.ly/46JS8uq

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Guys in big tech: "Why won't you sleep with me?!? 😣" Women: "The company you work for is empowering the genocide of my people." But seriously though working at Meta/X/Palantir/Google is like working for IBM in the 1930s. The only blowjob you should be thinking about is whistleblowing.

Helen’s family is from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, whose population, beginning in 2020, was subjected to a prolonged period of human rights abuses. “When I started thinking about questions around genocide and the technology that kills or tracks or excludes,” Helen says, “I realized that the things these people are building are secretly, or under the surface, really nefarious, and I could not personally be with someone who is a puzzle piece in that tapestry.”

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026

are we finally going to accept it's all a scam, a "mechanical turk", it's all humans?

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This university has a 3% surplus, this is not a school in a funding crisis! Yet they're making £140 million in cuts with £90 million in staffing budget cuts. You wanna know what they have plenty of money for though?

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy. An LLM is not an aircraft requiring years of training to operate.” www.chronicle.com/article/harv...

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Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane

When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

On the record, I DO think AI has the potential to be extremely dangerous in terrifying ways that we need to research and anticipate: I also want a truly diverse set of people who aren’t all part of the same millenarian Silicon Valley doom cult doing that research and safety work.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

@lydiaxzbrown.com has a fundraiser coming up on Tuesday. I know a lot of you were stoked about their campaign and primary win, and this is a chance to help out before a crucial fundraising deadline. Check the link for more details:

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just about water consumption, but also water quality and pollution which are entirely ignored by these debate me bro cultists.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 28/09/2026

Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-para... How the very design of social media supercharges misinformation and harm.

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Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can't understand the AI doomer shit without understanding that it is a way of **not dealing with climate change**

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

It absolutely sucks, but I am going to have to start building clauses into my freelance contracts about not feeding my draft work into these software systems. Aside from my stuff being plagiarised, it's also just exposing work to potentially millions of other people

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