iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My first zine is done! It is about how AI doomerism is marketing for AI companies and you can download it here! aylataylor.itch.io/whos-afraid-...

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Who's Afraid Of The AI Apocalypse? by aylataylor

Why "AI doomerism" is just Pro-AI Marketing

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The next workshop I am running is on October 10th at the Evanston Public Library at 4pm as part of Cook County Digital Inclusion Week! Because digital inclusion has to include being able to say no to harmful technologies. luma.com/ll15zp6r

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Rejecting AI: Digital Inclusion Means Knowing When To Say No · Luma

Part of Cook County Digital Inclusion Week! While often sold with the idea that they will "expand access", the AI products that are being pushed on people are…

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rewatching this and this stupid meme is just stuck in my head 😂

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is well past time for me to leave my job. I hate the corporate environment, and I REALLY don't want to work with AI anymore. I am just not sure how to find (paid) roles for my interests and background. I have SO many project and research ideas but I unfortunately need money to live, which sucks.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Alias Messier @amampersand.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Last week, I provided students with my Reasons to Hate AI mini comic, & now you can have it, too. Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for suggestions & so many for the accumulated info, esp. @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social , @dairinstitute.bsky.social.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm going to be at the @socialismconference.org this weekend, if anyone wants to chat about AI resistance!

Selfie of a white woman with brown and purple hair, purple glasses, and a white face mask, in a sleeveless blue shirt. She is in front of a large sign that says "Socialism".

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Two more workshops this month! One on 9/9 at 6pm and one on 9/26 at 3pm! The last one went great and I hope to see people there! luma.com/calendar/cal...

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Chicago Resists AI · Events Calendar

View and follow events from Chicago Resists AI on Luma.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"AI turns everyone into tiny dictators". My sister said my new favorite way of describing the impact of sycophantic AI. It makes sense that the tech billionaires love it, given that they think it is normal to be surrounded by yes-men who tell them all their stupidest ideas are genius.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026

I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

A two panel info graphic showing energy consumption is mostly from generative

But climate benefit claims are mostly traditional AI

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

There is no meaningful use case for Google’s new “faking satellite imagery with AI” product.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For anyone in the Chicago area: I am going to be running a workshop on Aug 1st at 3pm at the Bucktown-Wicker Park Library about How To Say No to AI! www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-say...

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How To Say NO to AI

A community workshop on how to resist the narrative that AI is inevitable.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

llms don't and can't love, hate, feel, care, think, imagine, dream, hope, fear, believe, reflect, aspire, wonder, empathize,... fix your your anthropomorphising language

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nathan J Robinson: Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

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How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People

Former USAID global health official Nicholas Enrich explains the catastrophic human toll of DOGE's cuts to the agency.

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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The fight against AI has to involve addressing the societal problems that AI is being used as a shitty bandaid for. Pointing out how it sucks is not always very compelling when the status quo sucks too.

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It is so hard to argue against AI at work when you work at a very corporate job, because you end up quickly running into the brick wall that is Corporate Logic

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

We are going to win! This stuff can and will be brought to a halt. None of it is inevitable. Anthropic cannot afford to slow down. It has to grow to at least $100bn a year in revenue or it doesn’t have a hope in hell of paying its compute bills. Same for clammy little Altman.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I saw someone referring to the booing of commencement speakers talking about AI as a tantrum from students who don’t understand technology. That made me think that I bet machine breaking was also perceived as a tantrum. Anyway, here’s some thoughts about the Luddites.

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Here's an example of a linguistic fact that I think should be straightforward and obvious when pointed out, but which a lot of people seem surprisingly resistant to: Colloquial Latin never died. In fact it's spoken extremely widely across the world. 🧵

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I did the same thing every time someone who I recognized came on 🤣 I annoyed my spouse being like "ooh I've read that person's work!" constantly

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The stink of desperation is so strong.

Screenshot from an article: "If you're worried you're falling behind on AI, developer Sigrid Jin has some advice: Use AI so much that your monthly bill rivals your rent.

Why it matters: Jin argues that tokenmaxxing, the practice of using as many AI tokens as possible, is the best way to understand the value of AI. He would know: Jin said he used 50 billion tokens in a single year.

What they're saying: The "majority of people" aren't experiencing how much AI has to offer because they're using free or $20 subscription plans, Jin told Axios onstage Monday at the opening ceremony of Web Summit Vancouver, a major tech conference.

Those using basic versions of AI are missing out on the "higher intelligence" available through $200 plans, which he said produce clearer returns on the initial investment."

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

There is a big difference between "people who are 'scared' of AI and don't want to learn new things" and "people who have deep moral objections to AI's underpinnings, impacts, and the systems of power behind it." It's wild to me that institutions pushing AI adoption don't seem to understand this.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It's surprising how quickly Sanders has been taken the existential risk bait. It took less than a year for him to start doing events with Hinton and Tegmark. He should perhaps pause to consider how groups like FLI are so well-resourced, and what political function x-risk narratives serve.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

What goes through my head every time I hear nonsense claims about imminent AGI

A picture of Regina George from the movie Mean Girl, with the text “Stop trying to make AGI happen. It’s not going to happen.”

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I have a lot of conversations with random people about AI and this is REALLY common.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

One of the most successful things the tech industry has done since the 1990s is lead the citizenry to believe that because a technology can do something means that something can’t be legislated away. And since the 2010s they used their lobbying powers to defang the legislators who know otherwise.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I've been thinking a lot about "AI literacy" and how I think a lot of people who know a whole lot about AI (maybe even build it) don't have it. (At least based on what I think AI literacy should mean.) I know a lot of people think it means prompt engineering, but I'll propose instead...

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 24/04/2026

As soon as you defend a product with "it isn't useless" you're doing the thing the maker wants you to do. NOTHING is useless. It's the lowest bar for anything that exists, including a rock. What you're looking for is "it is the best thing that exists for this concrete purpose" then we can talk.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It has always struck me as deeply pathetic the way the ultra rich are TERRIFIED of having even slightly less money. Like they can't survive the hardship of having a less fancy private jet. It's just so immature. Grow up and learn to deal with mild inconvenience.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

When faced with the exploitive reality of huge AI models, people often react with helplessness, comparing it to other exploitative industries (meat, fashion, etc) that they feel powerless to resist. But AI doesn't yet have society in a stranglehold and we still have the ability to reject it.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/04/2026

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future. It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

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Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future

How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/04/2026

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

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