iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Jackie Elward @jackieelward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This campaign is worker powered. Thank you to the Sheet Metal Workers, CFA, CSEA, my own union, Young Democrats, Project Super Bloom, and all of our community volunteers who walked with us today. One door. One conversation. One voter at a time. That’s how working people build change.

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“If OpenAI and Anthropic really want to help advance science, there is one obvious way they can do so: They can spend a tiny fraction of their vast fortunes to fund the kind of humble but essential research that’s increasingly starved for resources.” 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

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Opinion | Why A.I. Is Dangerous for Science (Gift Article)

Beware the flashy but unproven A.I.-powered advances.

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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Overnight, a small ICE Air jet (max 16-18 passengers) landed in Yangon, Myanmar, marking the fourth deportation flight to the country. The flight originated in Mesa, Arizona, with the journey lasting approximately 24 hours.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me, talking to future children: When the internet started, it was a place to worship cats. That was good. We had forums. Those were good. Then they ruined it. They ruined it all

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.

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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#tdih 1958, Gov. Orval Faubus closed all Little Rock, Ark. public high schools for one year rather than allow integration to continue. He ordered HS football games to go on. Teachers were fired for NAACP membership. More ⬇️including documentary. #Reparations www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/li...

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Sept. 12, 1958: Little Rock Public Schools Closed

Governor Orval Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas public schools for one year rather than allow integration.

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Luke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Our new Office of Metascience will rigorously assess the effectiveness of new initiatives, scaling what works and retiring what does not." 🙄 www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-lea... Our age of science is collapsing.

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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science

The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"GoldenTicket to empower individual reviewers to champion proposals that may not survive panel consensus, surface ideas too divisive for committee consensus, attract reviewers by empowering them to exercise independent judgment" = MAGA "reviewers" w/ a pass to fund shoddy MAGA research. Right?

Screenshot from NSF letter via Brian Stone, Performing the Duties of the Director:
NSF will experiment with various proposal review mechanisms, such as providing "Golden Tickets" that empower individual reviewers to champion exceptional proposals that may not survive panel consensus; employing distributed review to reduce administrative burden and speed
time to decision; and developing new measures to identify and support novel research. Our goal in this experimentation is to surface high-potential ideas that may be too divisive for committee consensus and to attract higher-quality reviewers by empowering them to exercise independent scientific judgment, while ensuring every funded proposal meets a level of scientific rigor appropriate for Gold Standard Science.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Resignation / warning posts from Anthropic and openAI researcher who just quit bc “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Seems fine and normal. (I downloaded and logged in to the awful place to read this so you don’t have to)

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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.

A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?” At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk.

Accepting this race and entering the “endgame” is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company’s Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.

I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities.

If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because “it’s happening anyway” - or take this moment to call for different conditions?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A Nazi salute from a far-right activist at an AfD election celebration following the party’s victory. @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"If the proposed Treasury rules become policy, risk-averse schools will further eliminate programs to fix historic inequities, and there will be fewer students of color in US colleges and universities." "That’s clearly what the president intends." @victorerikray.bsky.social states it plainly:

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🚨 YOSEMITE 4,497 letters. That's the only reason anyone outside the Park Service knows this deal exists. Add yours and let's find out what 5,000 does: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway

Contact Congress today!

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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 03/09/2026

Today I was made aware of the most laughable and dangerous white paper I have ever fucking seen published by this Government! 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵 Before I link to the paper we will be going through it together because you need to understand why this was published and how to dispute it because maga.

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“My life should not suddenly become more valuable because I am an American citizen — and yet, that’s exactly what has happened. The attention my family has received is a reflection of my passport, not the righteousness of my fight”

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026

This is Matt Bradley's news package of armed Israeli settlers assaulting him, his colleagues, and a Palestinian woman, as shown on the NBC Nightly News Instagram page Monday night.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026

feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post

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1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker

1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Good decision that undermines Marco Rubio's appallingly broad claims that he can deport people if he dislikes their speech.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dolly Parton visited a music pub in Ireland in 1990 and did a spontaneous performance of “Coat of Many Colors” for the crowd. It’s worth a listen—and the guitar player’s face is fun to watch:

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google maps changed Lake Ontario to Lake America. What does it say for people based in Canada?

Screenshot ofLake Ontario labeled “Lake America” on Google maps (while based in US).

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

⚠️ CHILDREN IN CHAINS 🧒🏽⛓️ 🧊✈️ KANSAS CITY: A shackled man watches above as two boys climb the stairs to join him on an ICE flight (GlobalX – N319NV) Friday to Louisiana 👀

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/08/2026

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

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CNN @cnn.com · 29/08/2026

Canada has recruited dozens of academics from American campuses as the United States cracks down on prestigious institutions. cnn.it/4xyvuRC

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

More people should be able to afford college. Learn what you can do to help! emergency-campaign-to-support-higher-education.solidarity.tech/september-vi...

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September Virtual Town Hall - Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

While Target has stayed silent on ICE’s ongoing operations in MN, its own hometown.,communities across the country are fighting back, shopping local not Target for back to school This is our ad in the NYT today.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 24/08/2026

School’s in. Target’s out. This back-to-school season, America’s unions join @aft.org in asking families to shop locally instead of at Target, when possible—and put their dollars behind businesses that stand with our communities. www.shopsmart.aft.org

New year. New gear. No Target. Put your back-to-school dollars behind businesses that stand with our communities.

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Join Stanford law and medical school professors in a conversation about escalating pressures on universities (and their humans!) via the federal government, and what we can do about it. August 27, 5-6pm Pacific. bit.ly/CardinalCour...

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Jennifer Miller @jennmill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stanford alumni can provide Cardinal Courage against politicized attacks. Join us online Thurs Aug 27 @ 5pm PT: Academic Freedom on the Brink: A Conversation with Stanford Faculty. Register at bit.ly/CardinalCourageConversation w/ @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @hankgreely.bsky.social + Bryant Lin

Image shows photos of 3 Stanford faculty panelists and moderator Audrey Shafer (Professor Emeritum). The webinar is hosted by Cardinal Courage, a coalition of Stanford alumni and allies uniting to defend academic freedom and institutional independence.
Thursday, August 27, 2026, 5-6pm Pacific Time
Register: https://bit.ly/CardinalCourageConversation

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This goes hard

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Also: this isn’t just about science. This will devastate the entire federal grant funding process, which means all academic research grants, arts grants, community project grants, agriculture grants, conservation grants, etc. Please leave a comment opposing this change.

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Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“Was silence not an option?” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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NPR @npr.org · 01/07/2026

Federal agents went to a Rochester man's home to warn him that an email he sent five months ago could be an illegal threat. He was on vacation but another agent found his hotel hundreds of miles away. n.pr/4eR3u39

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Months after he sent a harsh email to ICE, agents tracked him to his home and a hotel

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“let a 1st gen Black student succeed & suddenly merit becomes a national obsession. Black trainees thus are not allowed to be seen as future physicians, scientists, or colleagues, but as ideological intrusions into spaces imagined as belonging to someone else.” www.the-scientist.com/on-being-a-b...

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On Being a Black Trainee in Medicine | The Scientist

Legacy students and children of faculty have never had to prove they belong. Black trainees, even when we exceed every standard, have not been afforded the same privilege.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In Afghanistan, USAID cuts closed 400 pregnancy clinics, leaving at least 30 women dead. They each had names and families www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

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BBC Audio | The Global Story | The cost of USAID cuts to women in Afghanistan

Over 400 health clinics have shut. The impact on pregnant women has been devastating.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In 2025, USAID stopped funding clean water in Goma, DRC. Goma then suffered the worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, with 1,479 deaths, a 361% increase. Every one of those people had a name www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...

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What USAID did, and the effects of Trump's cuts on lifesaving aid

More than one year since massive foreign aid cuts and the eventual closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Oxfam outlines what USAID did and the ripple effects of losing it.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In Cote D’Ivoire, 70% of HIV medication was provided by USAID via PEPFAR. Over 2,000 health clinics have closed globally due to USAID cuts. In Somalia, child malnutrition has risen 73%

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/06/2026

Gender-based salary inequity also remained a central finding. Across all full-time faculty ranks combined, women earned an average of $21,386 less than men (or 83.6% of men’s average salary). The widest within-rank gap remained at the full professor level: a salary-equity ratio of 87.3. 2/

Graph showing average full-time faculty salary by gender from 2015 to 2025 showing disparities of $21.3K

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