iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/12/2025

There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you. Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games: "There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/11/2025

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/11/2025

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

All of these things, deeply underpinned by the most ridiculously spun misnomer. We should stop calling it artificial intelligence and describe it as IA or ‘Intelligent’ Automation at best.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/11/2025

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 02/11/2025

Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes

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Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores

Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Welcome, new users. Posts on Bluesky are called skjörts. If someone re-skjörts you, that is a doppelskjört. If you respond to a doppelskjört, that is called a Trifect, and you cannot skjört again for nine hours. If you do anyway, that's a Time Clench. It's all very simple.

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The knowledge was already free!! Open textbooks and libraries exist!! The benefit of a professor is having an expert teach it to you in a structured manner with assignments for practice and assessments to keep you accountable. Profs aren't keepers of secret knowledge. We are essentially tutors.

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 06/10/2025

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This was published the day after the Heaton Park terrorist attack. I find its grim combination of antisemitism, conspiracy fictions and agrarian populism deeply worrying, as this is how it all kicked off a century ago. 🧵 farmsnotfactories.org/articles/zio...

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Zionist Money Rules • Farms Not Factories

The purpose of our newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media. “The way... Read More

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Just an occasional note that … the less you use social media, the less you need to use social media. 🕯️

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

it’s funny* when i consider that the wars and mass deaths nobody really gives a shit about are also in the regions that will be most adversely affected by climate change and how much that plays into our doing fuck all to reduce emissions. *not actually funny

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

my teacher brain is exploding. so now in addition to marking i must generate an anonymised summary of work to prepare it for the AI so the AI can synthesise constructive feedback … based on the summary??? and then I still have to customise the AI feedback. and yes on the turnaround window thing.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I see so much of this in academic funding calls ‘we are looking for projects that explore how AI can help to solve … hunger, violence against women and children, poverty, etc.’ But there’s no space in there to say: ‘um, what if AI is not the right tool for this’

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

There is so much real news, in so many countries, that there really is never any need to repost AI generated fakery (even if it hooks in to your personal rhetoric). Repost journalism not algorithm.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

some foreign western person in a faraway land (with, at best, a social media-based activism and education) telling other people in their own countries that what they are doing is ‘not good enough’ is … well, a far too common feature of this landscape.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 03/09/2025

AI evangelism is like being in a cult. you abandon any sense of reason and go out of your way to defend it even when it makes no sense

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

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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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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

GIVE THE MONEY TO TEACHERS NOT SAM ALTMAN

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Really this is one of the reasons it’s so hard to write contemporary dystopian fiction.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 07/07/2025

Worrying news coming out of the #WestBank where the #IDF have arrested Dr. Nasser Laham, editor-in-chief of the Palestinian Ma'an news agency. This continues a troubling pattern of suppressing press freedom in the region: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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IDF arrests Palestinian newspaper's editor-in-chief in West Bank, outlet reports

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Support independent media, support local media - you can also do this in countries where you don’t live but follow the news. Particularly countries where you complain about ‘the media’ not covering stories. The stories often are being covered - just not in the media you know about. 🌍

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 15/07/2025

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

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What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT

“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Looking for (new, academic or pracademic) class reading suggestions for Ai, ethics and journalism - postgrad class.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Social media (even this one) positions every issue as binary, with the only available discussion limited to x-characters or maybe threaded posts. Let’s remind ourselves that ‘blurts’ are often devoid of context or mitigation, and that polarisation is an algorithmic goal.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The news cycle loves drama. Rather: Support local journalism across the Levant - not just the syndicated centralised names or platforms sending in correspondents. Support the journalism that’s breaking stories, taking daily risks in their own homes. Subscribe, share, amplify.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I know the world is a flaming shitstorm but … starting off the day with a positive peer review response is quite nice ☕️😎📝

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I kind of like that everyone arriving at or attending Bezos’ wedding looks … ordinary to awful. Like the light was bad, and the paparazzi ungenerous. Nobody’s outfit looks good, nobody’s skin or hair or makeup looks immaculate.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

‘… we must not fall into the trap of mistaking the outputs of writing (which are increasingly substitutable through technology) from the value of the cognitive process of writing (which hones mental development and cannot be substituted by a machine’

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Also, constantly describing Netanyahu’s (and others) warmongering as merely ‘Zionist’ simply obscures how they exploit Zionist nationalism to pursue *personal* power and money objectives. Call it what it is. Say: The Israeli government, or Netanyahu, or Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, etc etc.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

War is abhorrent but rushing in to suddenly argue the case of why the Islamic Republic should be defended is an unrequired level of short-circuitry.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This foolish throwaway that ‘well nothing works as a deterrent anyway except having nuclear weapons’ is positively stupid in the same way as arming more people with guns will not reduce gun violence. Why let yourself be tricked into a rhetoric trap? Honestly.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

this is actually good advice for quite a lot of things.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The US has denied the visas of all 12 members of the Senegalese women’s basketball team who were scheduled to travel to the country as part of their preparation for the Afrobasket tournament that begins in August. Afrobasket is also the African qualifiers for the Olympics. #wnba

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Hilde Kuehne @hildekuehne.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Most of us know that LLMs, VLMs, foundation models etc. are just statistical language models trained in big data and that they neither have emerged capabilities nor are they able to really reason.

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Notably universities and most faculty will ignore the *entire group of people* already charged with teaching information literacy on their campuses. I bet you have at least one librarian who has a lesson plan ready to go.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/06/2025

Big tech is here to derail and destroy education GenAI is a problem and not a solution to anything

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I know there’s a lot going on in the world but an Air Tag literally just saved my luggage - someone waltzed off with my suitcase (which looked like his *except without the ID sticker & overweight tag on HIS bag 🙄*) and was 15km away from the airport when the airline called him back 😅

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Here is a list I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Defense of democracy seen as basic to the job.

Symmetrical accounts of asymmetrical realities seen as malpractice.

“Politics as strategic game” frame seen as low quality, downmarket, amateurish— and overmatched.

Bad actors with a history of misinforming the public seen as unsuitable sources and unwelcome guests.

Internalizing of the “liberal bias” critique seen as self-crippling, a historic mistake in need of correction.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/05/2025

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan” just fucking shoot me

Through the case study report, "Ask Amina" and "Ask Abdalla" – experimental agents representing a refugee in Chad and a combatant in Sudan – participants will gain insights into how these technologies might transform field operations while navigating complex ethical terrain. The workshop will address critical questions about representation, power dynamics and data rights. Participants will:

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/05/2025

I’m lost for words here… what really is the point of asking a bot “if she and her children have eaten” or rather “when they last ate”

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