iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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Edward L Platt, PhD @elplatt.com · 07/08/2026

Also, endless arguments between people talking past each other about capitalism (private ownership of capital and the means of production) and capitalism (anything vaguely related to money)

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Alyssa Smith @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.

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Edward L Platt, PhD @elplatt.com · 04/08/2026

To understand the limits of GenAI, you need to know a little bit about how it works. Second post in my series about GenAI in Research. citizensandtech.org/2026/08/stat...

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Statistical Inference and (In)correctness - Citizens and Technology Lab

GenAI's deceptively plausible outputs make it dangerously easy to overlook its limitations.

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Edward L Platt, PhD @elplatt.com · 26/05/2026

Arguments for using #GenAI in critical applications like science often fundamentally misunderstand how the technology works. Using it without a clear understanding can result in scientific misconduct. First post in a series aimed at helping researchers understand what GenAI can and can't do.

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Reliable GenAI and Perpetual Motion - Citizens and Technology Lab

Researchers rushing to adopt AI without understanding the limitations risk committing scientific misconduct.

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Edward L Platt, PhD @elplatt.com · 26/05/2026

Hello, BlueSky. I'm more of a fediverse guy, but I may share some things here.

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