iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

'I hope that she will center the idea that art is for everyone in this city'... Vij said she believed her apptmt 'affirms that NYC celebrates — not punishes, not just tolerates — the audacity of artists + cultural orgs to take on the urgent questions of the day.'" 🤗 (thx, @arunadsouza.bsky.social!

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Continuing the pattern of: Amid Apocalyptic Federal News, Some Very Good News in New York City: Diya Vij is our new cultural affairs commissioner. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/a...

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Mamdani Is Naming New York’s Next Culture Czar

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Sulu @codenimm.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If you're curious about Theatre of the Oppressed and want to train with Julian Boal in NYC, Register for Nov 1-2. Early bird price until 9/30 www.tonyc.nyc/events

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Events happening at Theatre of the Oppressed NYC. RSVP for a show, learn about how to get involved!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers. We'll also make a rad book...

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

McCarthy “introduced a whole new political style. As a noun, McCarthyism was a mode of politics rather than an ideology. It meant hitting hard, moving fast, telling lies, and grabbing headlines along the way.”

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How the Red Scare Reshaped American Politics

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/03/2025

Scientists collecting water, air and soil samples in Los Angeles neighborhoods ravaged by fires say they’re concerned about long-term health risks for residents.

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L.A.’s Clear Skies Conceal a ‘Toxic Soup’

Scientists collecting water, air and soil samples in neighborhoods ravaged by fires say they’re concerned about long-term health risks for residents.

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Cornell University’s Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture initiative seeks a postdoc with exp in data-driven or computational methods in the humanities. INFO academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746, contact @lindsaythomas.net

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Cornell University, English

Job #AJO29746, Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, English, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Thrilled to have Jason Stanley (Yale University) join us this week for a talk about "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future about" Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 12:10PM-1:30PM - SLB 128 DM for Zoom details

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

if your state or city doesn't have a digital services group or office of innovation, one thing you can do is start advocating for one.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 01/03/2025

"It is no longer enough to say, 'The other side is really bad, so vote for us because we’re slightly less bad.'" In this op-ed, Angelita Morillo calls on fellow Democrats to stand up to Trump. ⤵️

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This Young Lawmaker Went Viral on TikTok for Calling Out Dems Voting for Trump’s Agenda

Angelita Morillo wants Democrats to grow a spine.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Call for papers: A special upcoming issue of Social Text invites critical and cultural theorists of the colonial era to engage the ways in which their scholarship is foundational for tackling the problems of this digital era. Abstracts due March 1. socialtextjournal.org/call-for-pap...

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Call for Papers: Colonial Studies of the Platform – Social Text

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gracefullypunk @gracefullypunk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Dangerously, I've also discovered that small presses have book clubs! @haymarketbooks.org has a $10 monthly subscription for every new Haymarket title released *and* 50% off all other titles. I got "Can't Pay Won't Pay" from @debtcollective.bsky.social for free today, and a couple others 🥳

Can't Pay, Won't Pay by Debt Collective book cover
A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier book cover

Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba book cover
Haymarket eBook Club subscription

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NPR @npr.org · 20/02/2025

NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

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NPR host Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend who died in D.C. plane crash

NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

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Jessica Johnson @jessicajohnson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hey, @teenvogue.com has launched a sustainability series—featuring vintage and thrifted finds, a sustainable fashion glossary, and more. Wish every fashion publication could do this. www.teenvogue.com/the-last-sto...

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Welcome to Teen Vogue’s The Last Stop

As we head into fashion month, we’re taking a step forward to also highlight the impact of our clothing with The Last Stop, a package emphasizing the long journey of our discarded clothing and their o...

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 16/02/2025

Nex Benedict’s death was confirmation that anti-trans policies and rhetoric have a body count. Is anyone listening? Read more here ⤵️

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A Year Without Nex Benedict

"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

For more on the Compton's Cafeteria Riot and the legacies of anti-carceral activism at the intersection of Turk & Taylor Streets, this essay by @susanstryker.bsky.social is worth a close read: "The crossroads of Turk and Taylor challenge us to envision — and build — a future where justice dwells."

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Susan Stryker on resisting carceral power in San Francisco’s Tenderloin

How might the legacies of resistance manifested in the Compton's Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco be mobilized for social justice struggles today?

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 11/02/2025

📢 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is under attack. Trump and Big Tech friends don’t like the CFPB and its work to protect consumers and their rights so they're trying to take it down. Take action now to help save it fftf.link/cfpb

Esther Kang, Ph.D. @eykang.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#LAFire The story of how the fire impacted my friend, Everard, and his family is captured in this episode (micro-documentary) of Just Fix It In Post! with one of his former students, Sean Rice. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0kz... #LA #ACCD

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Everard Williams: Instant Minimalist

YouTube video by Just Fix It In Post!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2025

🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.

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WIRED @wired.com · 12/02/2025

The work freeze at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is putting Big Tech regulations 'on ice'. The cease-work order won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.

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The CFPB Work Freeze Is Putting Big Tech Regulations ‘On Ice’

The cease-work order at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Seth Meyers created led a project that explains #Project2025 in comic book form to break the 900 page document into a digestible format. stopproject2025comic.org

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Stop Project 2025 Comic

Trump's Project 2025 is a detailed plan to shut you up, and shut you out. Don’t let it do either. Read on, then vote.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/02/2025

The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America’s troubled history of racial and gender discrimination. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…

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Esther Kang, Ph.D. @eykang.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

CFPB exposed me to the importance and challenge of design and technology's role in public innovation (for good), particularly in developing systems of accountability. Hopefully, this is a short term halt ...

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Esther Kang, Ph.D. @eykang.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

#LosAngeles #LAFire Please consider supporting the Open Air Worker Emergency Fund by donating through their GoFundMe page. This effort is led by a Boyle Heights-based org, and aims to help outdoor workers, such as "street vendors, landscapers, and recyclers" .. www.gofundme.com/f/cash-aid-f... 1/

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Donate to Cash Aid for Outdoor Workers Impacted by LA County Wildfires, organized by Inclusive Action for the City

Our hearts are with community members, families, small busine… Inclusive Action for the City needs your support for Cash Aid for Outdoor Workers Impacted by LA County Wildfires

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Esther Kang, Ph.D. @eykang.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Special thanks to my colleague, Dr. David Pate, for inviting me to run a two-day workshop with his undergrad, master's, and PhD students on the practice and politics of policy analysis. His class explores the ways policies shape the interiors of family life and livelihood. 1/

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Waxy.org @waxy.org · 07/02/2025

GovWayback: access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" govwayback.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/02/2025

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive
Language English
Item Size 98.5G
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A historian (Dan Bouk) taught me that history doesn’t repeat itself. It simply ripples. This forces you to look for the threads. And the entanglements. And to remember that interventions also create ripples. You can’t simply repeat a previous intervention when you see a connection. Context matters.

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is erasure of people entirely. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Learn more about the program, and if you’re interested in collaborating, get in touch: climate@datasociety.net. 4/4 datasociety.net/research/cli...

Against an orange and purple sky in a somewhat surreal illustration, we see people of different races, genders, and ages coexist and interact with different kinds of climate tech and elements of the natural world. A group of people hold protest signs, another attends a meeting, one person holds a megaphone, another scales a wind turbine. Two people hold a solar panel, others plant a tree and work in a data center.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/01/2025

In the villages of Isaan in northeast Thailand on Thursday, five families hoped that their loved ones were finally being released from Gaza, after 15 months as hostages in a conflict whose contours they do not fully understand.

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Thai Families Wait in Anxious Hope for Gaza Hostage Release

Five families hoped that their loved ones were finally being released from Gaza after 15 months as hostages.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I don’t really have the energy for politics right now. So I will observe without comment: Executive Order 14110 was revoked (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

$A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.$ $Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.$

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Carl Lee @drcarllee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The staggeringly prescient essay 'The Fire Boom' by the late US urban geographer Mike Davis on the frontier of LA suburbia with the chapporal fire risk is reproduced here by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

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The Fire Boom | Mike Davis

In this excerpt from Mike Davis's classic book Ecology of Fear (originally published in 1998), he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy "Los Angeles frontiers" and the massive public resources dedicat...

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