iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

omg. i love this version so much

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.

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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

“Telling people that they need to compromise on privacy is a polite way of framing a nonconsensual takeover; calling a community opposition movement ‘terroristic,’ however, gives the game away.”

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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

As Imani Barberin said on another site: “Your broken bodies are profit centers.” “The disabled people you let die to ‘return to normal’—it was for nothing. Because at the end of the day, [Democrats] are prepared to treat you the fucking same way.”

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Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Why have the internet if it can't tell me exactly the thing I need from a random academic text that I can't locate in my own mess?

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Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

the latest from @asia-not-aha.bsky.social and @rosmith.bsky.social is here! it's so rigorously researched, beautifully written, and, obviously, necessary in this (but truly every) moment in history! go get your copy now from @nyupress.bsky.social [and maybe avoid Amazon 😉]

Black and red book cover. In white letters: The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas that Created a Movement. By Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Homan went on CNN to complain that ICE’s attempts to arrest Chicagoans has been hampered by the people’s knowledge of policy—largely because of the city’s “Know Your Rights” campaign. Fascists rely on your compliance. On your ignorance. They depend upon your fear. Disappoint them.

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'Well-educated': Donald Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan criticises migrants' knowledge of rights during ICE operations - The Times of India

US News: Tom Homan, President Trump's border czar, expressed frustration over ICE challenges in sanctuary cities, stating immigrants are educated on 'how to es

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025

Not getting into it today, but the deepseek thing is primarily amazing for how deftly & completely it proves the entire Western LLM-based "AI" market is overvalued & over-hyped; like, it's already bodyrocking the ppl who truly thought this shit was somehow worth *$200 A Month*. Which? We told you 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

currently trying to track down the origin of the "250 word discussion post and two responses" paradigm. where tf did this ever-lasting assignment come from?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Of course, Hegseth is unqualified. But describing this as “affirmative action” or “diversity” gets it precisely backwards. White supremacy has *always* promoted unqualified white men over everyone else. This is the *exact opposite* of affirmative action policies designed to end discrimination.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 22/01/2025

Educators: We have to steel ourselves against the urge to consume everything, everywhere, all at once. The next four years are going to be long and hard; some of us will not make it. Protect your heart. Protect your peace. Protect the children.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

Never believe that anti-
Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Owners’ box

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“Difficult questions” is an odd euphemism for overt corruption.

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Leia @galaxyrabbit.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/01/2025

That was fast.

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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The ceasefire deal can be celebrated while also not being nearly enough to ensure long term Palestinian sovereignty and peace in the region

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Igneous Sigil 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @igneoussigil.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If he's "privately" pro-queer and publicly, materially anti-queer, then he's actually anti-queer no matter what he says or thinks.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/01/2025

i don’t think it’s queer peoples fault for not supporting corporations and capitalism enough that’s leading to this shift. i think it has more to do with the continued decades long project from the right to demonize queer people from public life

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Walmart Effect

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2025

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

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Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

cruelty continues to be the point.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

this cluster started as a little writing group idea over three years ago. @banvillemorgan.bsky.social got to work with brilliant authors, and we hope you "talk back" with us. wac.colostate.edu/peitho/archi...

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Volume 27, Number 1: Fall 2024 - The WAC Clearinghouse

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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Mister Rogers never misses

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/01/2025

this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

“The current state of humanities funding abridges academic freedom… Misconceptions about humanities research and its funding must be openly acknowledged and addressed so that it can come to have public effects that reflect its actual intellectual achievements.”

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Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Texas republicans never send their best.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Both the Obama and Biden administrations showed they would rather make technocratic tweaks at the margins than effectively come to the aid of student debtors—even those who are victims of fraud, disabled or destitute, or elderly and out of hope. We write in @thenation :

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

the grift will continue until the consultancies and ed-tech partners have destroyed every.single.public.university. "$51 million dollars. That’s how much money the UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group between 2019 and 2023." www.wortfm.org/uw-system-sp...

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UW System spends millions on consultants - WORT-FM 89.9

The UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group $51 million between 2019 and 2023, WORT found through an open records request.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/12/2024

Incredible news! Montana’s Supreme Court just affirmed that the state’s gender affirming care ban is likely unconstitutional. This makes the state the first state Supreme Court to rule that trans medical care is protected. This applies REGARDLESS of what the US Supreme Court does.

targets, the District Court reasonably concluded that the balance of the equities tips toward
preliminary relief pending full consideration of the merits. Its analysis of the last two
preliminary injunction factors was not arbitrary or unreasonable. The court did not
manifestly abuse its discretion, and its injunction was not overbroad.
156 Finally, both parties have submitted notices of supplemental authority, citing recent
cases considering challenges to various laws regarding gender-affirming care. Without
exception, the additional authority pertains to claims grounded in the equal protection
clause or otherwise based on alleged unlawful discrimination. Some of the authorities also
reference new developments in research and evidence that was not part of the record
presented to the District Court in the preliminary injunction proceedings. Because, on the
record here, the District Court's conclusions on Montana's express privacy protections are
sufficient to uphold its preliminary injunction, we affirm on that basis. The parties will
have the opportunity during the merits proceeding for full development of the record, where their experts may offer insight on any new research, and for briefing on the current case law relative to their claims.
CONCLUSION
157 The District Court made no error of law and did not manifestly abuse its discretion.
We affirm its grant of a preliminary injunction on the basis of Plaintiffs' right to privacy claim. The case will proceed to trial, at which point the District Court will finally resolve the disputed facts and issue a final determination on the constitutional issues presented.
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/S/ MIKE McGRATH
/S/ LAURIE MCKINNON
/S/ INGRID GUSTAFSON /S/ DIRK M. SANDEFUR
/S/ JAMES JEREMIAH SHEA

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Faculty don't just know things. They do things. This is why we should be thinking of the labor of teaching and research, not just the products and outcomes.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For profit healthcare is a crime against humanity.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

"It is only in the last couple of centuries that we have begun to grasp that our existence might one day cease to exist forever." Because who isn't thinking about extinction on this Sunday evening?

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How Humanity Came To Contemplate Its Possible Extinction: A Timeline

It is only in the last couple of centuries that we have begun to grasp that our existence might one day cease to exist forever.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/12/2024

this only suggests to me that everyone needs to keep being meaner to those in power. the wealthy elite need to be scared

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Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

some of y'all still have pearls to clutch? uhn...interesting.

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Gavin Johnson @gavyj.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

interested in surveillance from an intersectional feminist and queer perspective? join @banvillemorgan.bsky.social, me, and authors from the forthcoming special issue in Peitho for a discussion THIS THURSDAY at 2:00 pm est. Register at tamuc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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