iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 6h

This is really fantastic and more than well-deserved - congratulations, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, you're an inspiration!

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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 17h

The 2026 Right Livelihood Award goes to women and women-led organisations challenging entrenched power structures: 🏆 Jalila Haider @jalilahaider.bsky.social 🏆 Rural Women's Assembly 🏆 Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association 🏆 Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app rightlivelihood.org/2026-announc...

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arthaus @arthouse06.myatproto.social · 11h

invaluable website for those of us affected by AI/tech surveillance in r/t (+realizing how metastasizing VC funding is within surveillance~globally)

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

More and more I feel like I need to end these conversations by saying "it sounds like you've made up your mind to rationalize your choices despite knowing what the harms are, and that's very unfortunate because I thought you had better judgement than that"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
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Elon Musk
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 21h

I hope everyone has a Hussein

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 22h

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/06/2026

The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19h

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 · 23h

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29/09/2026

Folks, I'm happy to announce my next game will use up all water, destroy humanity in a global blaze, & lose $8 billion weekly. IPO starts at a 20 gazillion euros valuation based on me counting the amount of zeroes wrong. Upon checking the prototype I realized bigger number is better. Supersentience.

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Benjamin @benjami.no · 23h

Christopher might be my favorite ranter: this time tackling the news media in Norway's embarrassing use of AI and the discourse around it. Being a tiny country, we are lucky to have such eloquent and clear-viewed critics.

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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Har rantet litt om en debatt som gjør seg dum – og oss dummere.

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Benjamin @benjami.no · 23h

From what I understand: Instead of YOU having to prove that a tech company DIDN'T follow GDPR obligations, The tech companies now instead have to prove they actually DID follow GDPR. Burden of proof is on them. They cant just blanket deny everything. Huge if true! Nice one @iccl.bsky.social

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

unsolicited brag: dug into the data -> ai -> surveillance pipeline in class this morning and received a standing ovation at the end of class. genuinely did not expect it. now i’m in tears. first time for everything

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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

De vil kappe av oss beina så de kan selge oss hjul. De vil stikke ut øynene våre så de kan fortelle oss hva vi ser.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026

These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes 'reclaiming' is not ceding ground that need not be ceded.

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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

The frequency of this being the case is also bloody nightmare inducing. Please treat others and their labour like you want yourself and yours to be treated.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I’ve heard from a bunch of people in our field who say, ‘Uh oh, are they training on my prompts?’” Dr. Shipman said. “We can’t not think about it.” ... '[A]fter Anthropic’s announcement last week, he is winding down his projects with Claude.' “I’m shutting down everything,” [Dr. Mestre] said.

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

Categorising these tipy tech people pro data centre talking points from a party in Washington DC - Function displacement (most growth is AI data centres but they focus on streaming, emails) - Technopromise (AI will solve engineering, science, medical problems.......at some point)

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3rd Voice: 158th Scene: An obstruction. www.rice-boy.com , www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/3r... , tapas.io/series/3rdvo...

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 27/09/2026

Imagine replacing people with tokens for plagiarism slot machines. This is why I take the extreme position that LLM-fuelled papers are not research, should not be read or cited, and should definitely count in one’s CV, but negatively.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 01/09/2026

These people use concepts like "creationist" & "flat earther" for everybody but themselves. It's the DARVO of the AI addict, manifesting as everybody else being a conspiracy theorist & wingnut, much like how Chomsky said there's no value in assuming global networks of anti-scientific forces.

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Man. Due to the lingering nerve issues from the gunshot, I got hard-filtered by Peace Walker's button-mashing QTE torture sequence. It is physically impossible for me to move my fingers, hand, or arm that quickly rn. And this is after getting soft-filtered by the new Onimusha for similar reasons 😔

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026

Extremely sexist and unhinged superficially so-called anti AI people and spaces exist. Probably because loads of sexists exist, but we don't have to tolerate them. Being anti-fascist should be a low bar, and being against sexism isn't difficult to maintain at a community-level unless it's tolerated.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026

Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.

1. The "Explosive Growth" Slide ControversyIronically, the most direct and explicit example of this occurred during their very first "Calling Bullshit" lecture at the University of Washington.The Setup: Jevin West presented a slide to the class showing a graph that purported to show the "explosive, hockey-stick growth" of web traffic to their new Calling Bullshit website. The graph utilized standard marketing axes and compressed timeframes to make the project look like an unmitigated, runaway viral sensation.The "Bullshit": Carl Bergstrom actually had to step in and call "bullshit" on his own co-instructor's slide. When the data was displayed honestly without selective axis truncation or creative smoothing, it showed that while traffic was high initially, it heavily ebbed, flowed, and plateaued over time.The Criticism: While some praised this as a playful, planned pedagogical moment to show that "anyone can fall prey to bad data framing," critics viewed it as a perfect illustration of the double standard: when it serves a personal or professional promotional narrative (like proving your own course is a massive success), the temptation to use flawed, hype-driven metrics is incredibly high.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026

Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”

Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s funny but very sad. The worst people you know will get rich, and after they win, media outlets will quote their ass opinions and then after their name write “winner of the 1M carob trust prize, awarded to brave academics”. Just another avenue for billionaires to launder influence

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s interesting to think about this fake award on the same day that nature published the story on fake academic societies. Billionaires creating new awards for ideological capture and to launder their reputations is also a scam, but its not treated as such and gets a ‘Newsvertisement‘ in the WSJ

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I found login credentials for a US government website and accessed it, I would go to jail. Just saying

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

It is literally the same rhetoric and it was entirely predictable that that’s where it would go, just from seeing how entwined this stuff is with autism conspiracy theories too.

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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fins det noe stusseligere enn de lave ambisjoners selvrettferdighet? Bare bruk KI som "sparringspartner" til det tyter tokens ut av alle porene dine, du. Men ikke forvent applaus for den kognitive kapitulasjonen din, eller at folkevalgte og den fjerde statsmakt ikke får motstand når de fronter den.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 26/09/2026

Yes, the internet, foss, society, and the climate got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we didn't even create a lot of value for shareholders because AI was never actually profitable.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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RossMinor - Game Accessibility @rossminor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is my pleasure to announce that on September 28th, I will be joining @naughtydog.com at their studio to celebrate The Last of Us Day and participate in a charity stream to raise money for AbleGamers! www.twitch.tv/NaughtyDog #Blind #Accessibility #TheLastOfUs

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.

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Benjamin @benjami.no · 25/09/2026

If we allow these parasitic ghouls like Amazon pretend they are part of the solution to the climate crisis (while building more gas plants), then we are just signing off on our own death sentence.

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In fact their own spokeswoman Margaret Callahan's explanation for the gas plant was that the world looks different now than when they made the pledge. Correct, Madge. It's hotter. Which was the whole point of the pledge in the first place.

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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