iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 13h

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 14h

just got an ad for our republican candidate for governor and the ad said both that he's "following trump" and "defending data centers" and like dude read the room lol

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 17h

My favorite part of autumn is thinking about everything I've ever loved and lost, and pumpkin spice lattes

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 21h

'let's talk more about this later' is academic for 'never speak to me ever again'

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, and this is literally why AI sucks at writing. There are specific things that writing needs to do in each genre that AI cannot do because it's not a human capable of making organic connections & synthesis between sources or, more importantly, continually reiterating the purpose of the writing.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/10/2026

The majority of AI data centers are being built in red, rural areas. The result? It's pushing these Republican voters to the left.

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Voters near data centers are ditching the GOP in droves

Most data centers are being built in red, rural areas. They're pushing voters to the left.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

wild how there is just no expectation that the current president of the united states will have anything to say about the murder of three little children at an elementary school

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Oh boy, if anyone could have predicted this these C-Suite guys would really have egg on their faces. Thankfully no one saw this coming so they couldn't possibly be held accountable

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One thing I'm noticing looking at AI funding is that there is a class of researcher who relies almost solely on industry funding and *doesn't* report it anywhere; rarely having a CV. You just find it in like university announcements.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The promise of slavery has had a long-standing presence in AI and Big Tech, where boosters and researchers have been steeped in eugenics and white supremacy for generations now.

An article from Mechanix Illustrated with the headline "You'll Own Slaves by 1965"

There is a drawing of a robot dressing and feeding a man"

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

for people who do not know what i do: i used to be a music journalist and i also do a lot of general cultural critique. i am an anarchocommunist & i write from a tradition of marxist cultural analysis. i come from left feminist/punk zine/blog world. also am trans fwiw

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m especially frustrated by the piece uncritically repeating Pangram’s “no false positives” claim when I know writer friends who have run their own work through & had it flag their 100% human-written sentences as machine-generated. We must doubt any company’s claim about its product having 0 fails.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 14/10/2026

Despite Seattle's reputation as a trans haven, the University of Washington has reacted to escalating attacks on trans rights with silence — even after a trans student was murdered. But trans academic workers, unionized with UAW, are fighting back. Our latest, from @thefreeradical.org.

transnews.network

How a Union Is Fighting for Trans Rights for Trans Rights at University of Washington

At the University of Washington, an academic workers’ union is fighting a silent administration that refuses to protect trans rights, even after a trans student was murdered

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026

lol gen x erasure continues

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tante @tante.cc · 14/10/2026

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance Before Shutting Down CCCC" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... @rcmeg.bsky.social @nobugsnous.bsky.social @writesantonio.bsky.social @voleuseck.bsky.social @biblioracle.bsky.social @insidehighered.com

Screenshot of IHE opinion essay, "How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance, Before Shutting Down CCCC"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026

Am seeing a large number of these 'ethical use principles' or some variant cropping up, many with reference to UNESCO's principles. Extremely vague, loose, and clearly intended as a post-hoc rationalisation for unlimited use Akin to a 'sustainable private jet use' guideline document

OLICY AREA 5: ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEMS84.Member States and business enterprises should assess the direct and indirect environmental impact throughout the AI system life cycle, including, but not limited to, its carbon footprint, energy consumption and the environmental impact of raw material extraction for supporting the manufacturing of AI technologies, and reduce the environmental impact of AI systems and data infrastructures. Member States should ensure compliance of all AI actors with environmental law, policies and practices.
3185.Member States should introduce incentives, when needed and appropriate, to ensure the development and adoption of rights-based and ethical AI-powered solutions for disaster risk resilience; the monitoring, protection and regeneration of the environment and ecosystems; and the preservation of the planet. These AI systems should involve the participation of local and indigenous communities throughout the life cycle of AI systems and should support circular economy type approaches and sustainable consumption and production patterns. Some examples include using AI systems, when needed and appropriate, to:(a) Support the protection, monitoring and management of natural resources.(b) Support the prediction, prevention, control and mitigation of climate-related problems.(c) Support a more efficient and sustainable food ecosystem.(d) Support the acceleration of access to and mass adoption of sustainable energy.(e) Enable and promote the mainstreaming of sustainable infrastructure, sustainable business models and sustainable finance for sustainable development.(f ) Detect pollutants or predict levels of pollution and thus help relevant stakeholders identify, …

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️

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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Maybe we should all just get off the internet

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 08/10/2026

My university released a statement that no materials used in the tenure and promotion process can be evaluated using an LLM, which is good, because I keep hearing about people using AI in peer review and what garbage that all is but haven’t seen much about banning its use in this domain

Recommenders are NOT to place any material they did not create into any artificial intelligence prompt, etc

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Femininomicon ex Mortis 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 @ofvick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This isn't funny, corporations only start celebrating LGBT holidays again when they're extremely distressed

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
Text:
Gadget Revieu_

HOME Y

EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
Diesel Generators for 24
Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

+

Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

review

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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🎃 Norah “Cabin in the” Woodsey 🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 10/10/2026

*Anthropic releases a dozen coked up squirrel monkeys into times square* “Wow, look at them act on their own!!”

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Alex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle) @theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The absolute state of trans ally journalism

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been talking to journalists a LOT recently, and it was particularly delightful to get to speak about questions of linguistics, language change and prescriptivism, for once: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

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AI Is Not 'Super Intelligence.' Why No One Should Use Trump's Term - CNET

Commentary: Words evolve based on public use and technical precision, not because a president orders people to adopt them.

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

really excited about this paper. discourse articulates with material conditions to do political work, that must be met with political responses. you can pick apart the ridiculous claims in AI hype all you want but that is not a strategy for contesting the AI entrenchment that hype helps to organize.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Y'all denied her tenure

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No, you deserve questions! Questions about your ideas, about other ideas you may not have considered, about where you want to go from there. You might not be getting them already, but if the answer is this, then there is no point in the whole enterprise.

Know you’ve aced it before you
hit submit
Upgrade to Grammarly Pro today, so you can turn in papers you’re proud of.

Your big, brave ideas deserve credit, not questions from professors. Submit work you can stand behind, knowing your writing is clear, original, and policy-safe.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's too easy to call this cluster timely. Indeed, what they show is that feigned surprise at Epstein's sordid associations with prominent university men is designed to disguise continuity as aberration. edited by @kwazana.bsky.social & @tavia.bsky.social socialtextjournal.org/periscope_to...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026

This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've found recently that repeating "Efficiency isn't one of my values" as a kind of affirmation has been really freeing.

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Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic literally has more concern for their imaginary friends than for the actual literal people being exploited and traumatized by the creation and use of these awful products www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s great watching people simultaneously claim the GOP is at an all-time low in many regions while liberal pols in those same regions rush to abandon us as quickly as possible to scoop up every last vote anyway.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself

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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Claude AI increases productivity 0% study shows

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

and that salary is significantly more than I make

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

you guys my university is hiring a fucking diversity fellow for "applied ai in business" www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

higheredjobs.com

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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When I was in library school, we all had to make a Second Life account; because it was The Future! The only person I ever met/ talked to during my mandatory time using the game was someone in a different library class doing the same thing.

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hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches @riothobbit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘Skrewdriver has some catchy tunes’ will get you run out of town with bats and that’s actually fine

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