iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Internet Archive has a museum for the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️ It’s called GifCities. Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first wave of the web. Glitter. Dancing. Cats. Strange little loops that survived. 💾 Go find your perfect retro GIF 👉 gifcities.org #ToolsYouCanUse

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 21h

BREAKING: I obtained this exclusive picture of Elon Musk designing the new Tesla Roadster

A picture of a toddler with a Hot Wheels track that goes in a vertical loop. The car drives through a dinosaur’s mouth before doing the loop.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A few countries across the world are heading towards elections. Imagine the type of targeted political ads people can get on ChatGPT.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Sounds nuts, happy you didn't get scammed in the end. Really recommend the TV show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed on ApplyTV about sextortion... youtu.be/_8KOzyMYgiw?...

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Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed — Official Teaser "The Spiral" | Apple TV

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We deserve good news! 🥲 For those who don't know Prince Charles Cinema is an iconic independent London cinema that shows old/quirky films that was under threats by the landlord who wanted to build a hotel in the heart of London! We need more special cinemas not hotels! londonist.com/london/film/...

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The Prince Charles Cinema Has Been Saved

Legendary Leicester Square venue secures its future.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

😆 "many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI. I believe so much". And this is why you need social sciences to not make up wistful thinking assumptions anout people's intentions from their actions.. www.cbsnews.com/news/shyam-s...

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Transcript: Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 11, 2026

The following is the full transcript of the interview with Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir, a portion of which aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Oct. 11, 2026.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Could this be the first physical attack against bots?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If voters aren’t better off by the next election, we’re screwed’: Labour insiders voice fears over budget. What would the Chancellor do? Nationalise water/energy Levy wealth taxes Increase income tax allowance End profiteering End corporate welfare Redistribute wealth Budget is a crucial watershed

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‘If voters aren’t better off by the next election, we’re screwed’: Labour insiders voice fears over budget

Some say party risks ‘looking twee’ by focusing on small fixes amid growing nervousness that budget lacks ambition

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can read more of my interview with Frances Haugen here. It's taken Hollywood a full DECADE to even try to tackle Silicon Valley. The Social Reckoning is long long overdue & a chilling reminder of why we HAVE to regulate these bros. 6/ www.thenerve.news/p/frances-ha...

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‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen on The Social Reckoning, Zuckerberg, and Facebook's growing fragility

The whistleblower whose explosive revelations about her employer inspired Aaron Sorkin’s new film tells Carole Cadwalladr that, despite Silicon Valley’s power, ‘we have the ability to change a lot of ...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Totally get you, and this is why I said I'm not sure who is the audience for that. I hope it will be on one of the streamers, but I doubt it with the current climate.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I feel conflicted about that because I do want to support film makers who have the courage to criticise tech bros and the richest man in the world but I feel like it is a bit of missed opportunity because he could have gone way further. Maybe if it ever comes to one of the streamers (no way) 😉

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I should say that of course now that Larry Ellison has also purchsed HBO I can't imagine we will ever see it there.... 🫠

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know, both friends who came with me said the same criticism. It's wild to me that no one told him this will not be well received 🤷‍♀️

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Was in a hurry to get this out before the mid term elections, and I do still appreciate the effort behind this. So overall, worth the watch but would have been better as a limited series while drilling down on TESCREAL and consequences.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Especially since HBO are involved that it could have been a limited series. Because at the end of the day the general audience is not going to sit for 4 hours (10 minutes intermission) to watch this. So a better format that could have explored these issues is a series. But my guess is that Gibney->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Explored or explained. Yes, there are mentions of Teslas crashing a bit about Grok undressing and about DODGE cutting USAID but the whole data centres issues and other environmental consequences to people, for example the data centre he has in Memphis, was not fully discussed. 6. Overall, I think->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All the TESCREAL (Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism) umbrella was not fully explored including one of the key components driving Musk and his followers of the manosphere. 5. The consequences of Musk's actions are not fully->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

2. For people who are interested in tech and follow what Musk is doing you won't find that many new things. 3. There is a chaotic jump between topics and times which makes it difficult to follow the thread oftentimes. 4. A few key issues related to Musk were not fully explored including his ->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Created an AI Elon Musk image that is "being interviewed" based on every interview he previously gave because Musk declined being interviewed. I find that an extremely problematic decision especially because the documentary is criticising Musk's use of AI and synthetic data (Grok undressing kids) ->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ok came back home from the Musk documentary, I give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️ because while I think it is very important to have it out and it does have some good elements it has many problems. A short 🖱 with spoilers-> 1. One of the biggest issues of the film is that the director Alex Gibney ->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thanks for the info, it makes a lot of sense as the second part is actually better imo as it's more about politics!

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am on my way to see the Elon Musk documentary as part of the London Film Festival. Wish me luck as I discovered only after buying the tickets it's 4 hours 🥲🫠 youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Documentary

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Powerful statement from mathematicians around the world. “We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.” The backlash to AI is only just beginning. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/a...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good thread on the need for, but very real limits of, media literacy, and the fundamental need to outlaw the surveillance adtech business model.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

but make no mistake that it's NOT what is going to solve all the social, environmental, economical and cultural harms platforms and AI companies cause.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It has to come with strong regulation on platforms and AI systems, stronger regulation on monopolies and importantly - making the surveillance adtech business model that these platforms rely on illegal. So media/data/AI literacy is part of the solution ->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is an over emphasis on kids, which is understandable, but what about the rest of us? Older people are often left out of this conversation although they also get harmed by platforms and AI systems. 2) Media/data/AI literacy is not the one solution that will save us all. ->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Importantly - how can they exercise their rights as citizens around these harms? I wrote about this here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I want add two important things to the letter: 1) Media/data/AI literacy is necessary FOR EVERYONE, not just kids and young people ->

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Building data citizenship and learning to resist in the datafied society

This paper explores what literacies people need to challenge big tech companies. We selected key digital rights practitioners, who mediate between policy and public awareness and have diverse exper...

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But as my research has shown - when people don't know what's happening to their data, let alone WHAT ARE DATA, how can they navigate in the extremely toxic, and addictive design that many platforms have created with confidence while keeping their mental and physical health? ->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very proud to be part of this super important letter led by the incredible @mollyroseorg.bsky.social and @Internet Matters! Media/data/AI literacy is always written as an after thought, an add on, or lip serve in many digital/data/AI regulations -> mollyrosefoundation.org/resource/joi...

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Joint letter on media literacy | Molly Rose Foundation

Online safety, education and media organisations and experts wrote to the Government calling for media literacy to be urgently made a national priority.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

to things that get prioritised because they bid or they are products of these companies. By doing so they continue their gatekeeping powers. And as we saw, even when Google's adtech was recently discovered as a monopoly nothing was done to properly regulate that. www.techpolicy.press/google-ad-te...

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Google Ad Tech Remedies Show Need for Legislation

The AMERICA Act is bipartisan legislation that gets at the heart of the problem of monopolistic digital ad tech, writes Public Knowledge's Patrick Gallaher.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the back-end they trade your data and shape your experience. This means, directing you to products, options, services that bid in the back-end. All of these new AI assistants will direct you, just like we saw with Google's search, Amazon's market place and Facebook's ads ->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here we can see basically what adtech, which META is one of the leading one, been doing for a long time, spy on you and your networks to build profiles. In the front end they pretend to give you a slick and smooth 'service' personalising your experience to what you 'want'. ->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I said it before and I'll say it again - web-cookies, the adtech industry and business model that developed with it - are the origin sin of our online experience and it has been morphing into different directions.->

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely, there is a big pushback against the digital games, which they clearly did to be able to do the dynamic pricing so it will be interesting if they will get hit by this decision.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It seems that dynamic pricing is starting to go to more industries, McDonals started this in their physical branches and now PlayStation. So this is a reminder that it's all possible thanks to the surveillance adtech business model, and this should be illegal. www.techradar.com/gaming/ps5/i...

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Sony was caught testing dynamic pricing again on PS5 — yet again proving why digital-only games are a terrible thing for gamers

Sony just gave us yet another reason to hate its digital-only strategy in the form of dynamic pricing.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My partner and I are watching The Golden Girls and wow, for a show that was aired 40 years ago they are so progressive! In just a few episodes in season 2, Sofia was watching porn, Rose was dealing with menopause and Dorothy's lesbian friend was welcomed in the house. I absolutely adore this show 😍

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The Golden Girls Hug: Thank You For Being A Friend

ALT: The Golden Girls Hug: Thank You For Being A Friend

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My personal view is that synthetic data goes against everything we do - ethically, morally and scientifically. If you don't care what people think, feel or do, then don't do surveys, focus groups, workshops. Otherwise what's the difference between me just inventing answers and using synthetic data?

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We just had a discussion on this in our editorial meeting of Internet Policy Review. It would be great to hear from other academic journal editors what are their policies around researchers using synthetic data. -> www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

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Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So it’s a PR campaign to try and make stuff like the pervert glasses and ‘always listening devices’ seem cool? Yeh, no thanks.

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