iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ISOC LIVE @isoc.live · 23/09/2026

WEBINAR 8 OCT 15:00 EDT / 19:00 UTC: ILSR - Sustain, Empower, Evolve: Planting Local Seeds for Digital Equity isoc.live/22181 @communitynets.bsky.social + NDIA: Digital Equity Act update, Seattle tiny-home wireless case study, digital navigators. #DigitalEquity #DigitalInclusion #DIW26

Blue, orange, and white promotional graphic for a “Building for Digital Equity” Digital Inclusion Week special. National Digital Inclusion Alliance and ILSR logos appear beside a stylized cityscape with buildings, construction cranes, a house, and Wi-Fi symbols. A dark blue banner across the bottom reads “Sustain, Empower, Evolve,” with the event scheduled for October 8, 2026, 3:00–4:00 PM ET. Utopia Fiber is identified as the sponsor.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mixing critical & conceptual reflections at #4S2026 #4S26 w/ learning, skill development, & experimentation in public, creative, & not-academic contexts is my ideal version of a conference. Sometimes one can get both, like at many #DH & #CivicTech conferences. #HASTAC2023 was like. #DIW26

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fellow #4S2026 attendees & presenters: who else is going to check out some of the very interesting sounding panels on digital literacy, media literacy, and AI literacy? It's also #DigitalInclusionWeek, & TPL is hosting a ton of events & workshops: tpl.ca/programs-and... @4sweb.bsky.social

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Digital Inclusion Week

Home &gt; Programs &gt; Program Series Digital Inclusion Week 2026 In today's digital world, access to…

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We're doing one of my fave activities in class this week: Looking up FDA warning letters (it's vitamins & supplements week) and then using the wayback machine to see the before and after results. 2020-2021 is a great time frame for this.

A screen grab that says corona virus, and suggest that vitamin C would be a great way to help treat it

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting excited about #4S2026 and all the interesting sessions to attend, as well as those I'm presenting in.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the stranger aspects of being in academia are the sometimes frequent moments of being accepted, awarded, or invited into something you feel really excited about, and immediately having to figure out "where and how add this to my CV?" for the next application in the pipeline.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📣 New! Today we’re excited to launch Worker Lens on the AI Economy: a timely and ambitious new research project that will foreground workers’ experiences with and perspectives on AI, and identify opportunities to expand their power. 1/4 datasociety.net/research-lib...

A pink and yellow abstract image of an office with people working, chatting and walking around. Above their heads are clouds of network connections. It was painted with guache and drawn with pencils.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social describes her team’s research on Pennsylvania’s industrial lineage, the mythmaking that builds on it, and the pushback that defines this moment. “We learned that it takes a lot of work to make an AI factory seem inevitable,” she says. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgA...

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[Video] The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania

YouTube video by Data & Society Research Institute

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

"AI" makes every day stupider than the day before case in point 👇

One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like "torture" and

"pain" experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the Al is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about Al consciousness and the idea of "model welfare," which is essentially worrying about the "mental health" of Al bots and agents.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea.”

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who else in the Blueskyverse is also going to @4sweb.bsky.social's 4S conference this October? #4Sconference #STS

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ooooh, going to enjoy reading this.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is fascinating. I'll also be at 4S.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm going, also first time at 4S (and at an STS conference). A colleague and I at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social are presenting on this panel on 10/9 at 3:40pm. Happy to chat!

Resisting the Datafied University: Technosolutionism, Austerity, and Higher Education 2
Fri, October 09
3:40 PM - 5:30 PM
Chestnut West
Mezzanine
Open Panel
Session Chairs
Panel Organizer
Emma May, PhD Student, Rutgers University

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Britt Paris, britt, Associate Professor, Rutgers University

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

4/ I believe this is the proper framing. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would love a list of which UN delegates did not walk out on Netanyahu just so we’re nice and clear on where everyone stands on the topics of genocide and crimes against humanity.

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking brisket away from Texans might be what turns Texas blue

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is Pub Day for "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"!!! ::bounce:: Please support me by buying a copy of the book or asking your library for a copy! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I cannot read news about some person from Stanford who pushes the right buttons & uses the right tools to create speculative large scale computational research to get the awards, funding, & attention that continues to perpetuate SV hype cycles & ideology without just feeling pissed off.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

exhausted by discourses of technosolutionism & mystification by the sublime object of AI. These tools and techniques can be genuinely useful & meaningful, & prefer to engage w/, critically practice, & encounter technologies as a way to understand them. But is maddening living in these times.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know who to contact to look into this and get it fixed pretty quickly, but the simultaneous experience of seeing yet another puff piece about the "AI train has left the station" combined w/ the actual train falling apart - or being broken by continued updates - leaves me infuriated and once again

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

as a model of something to get "on the map" and get funded in the coming years. Same morning, I try to look at something I created using my university's local AI inference, finding the user interface and back-end changed, and the URL no longer works. No explanation about changes, just broken.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Academia in late 2026: Woke up this morning to an email from a well-meaning mentor sharing a NY Times article about a Stanford researcher who uses Claude & local LLMs to run a "virtual lab" of 37k agents running simulations. Said mentor encouraged me to see how I might learn from this in my work

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I attended a meeting today organized by my union on AI in higher education and I was encouraged both by all the work being done to protect members against AI in our day-to-day work *and* a desire to collectively fight AI surveillance on SUNY campuses in the form of Flock cameras.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If only a US senator had agency and the ability to vote in a legislative body on this matter.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last month, @gillianbrockell.com reported that not only does ICE abuse immigrants by shackling them for hours on end, they also torment them with mockery and denying bathroom breaks.

Then a man from Eritrea or Somalia, Barry isn’t sure which, began to beg the guards to let him use the lavatory. Barry chimed in with an appeal to decency, telling the guards, “Please consider us as human beings.” But the guards were boisterous by that point, he said, and they didn’t appreciate the man’s increasingly loud and desperate pleas crashing their party.

Barry watched as a guard turned and looked at the man dead in the face and said, “You. Can pee on. You.” Another guard laughed.

“After seeing that, I just kept my head down,” Barry, 52, told me over the phone last week.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes, the Department of Education is explicitly making it harder & harder for student debtors to make due on existing promises and programs for forgiveness. This is intentional. Glad to see some attention is coming to this & hope Congress has a spine here. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

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Student-loan borrowers are facing 'drastic changes' to repayment that require lawmakers to step in, 89 organizations say

Nearly 100 organizations are calling on Congress to hold an "emergency hearing" in light of major student-loan repayment changes over the past months.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 21/09/2026

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fascinating video on beach house abandonment and collapse, shore erosion, and the very broken Federal flood insurance system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=71qc...

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Why are doomed beach homes left fully furnished?

YouTube video by NPR

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the outcome of the “you do you” approach to public health that so many people favor

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Important study. Strangely absent is the effect of this class ceiling (& intersectional disadvantages) in an increasingly scarce academic job market and under increasingly precarious, casualized and corporate conditions. Worth reading the actual paper: www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 21/09/2026

et voilà, a portrait of Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock, rendered from leaked Flock license plate camera images. Plates were redacted before rendering.

Bust of a man, outdoors. In the background, sky, telephone pole, Flock safety camera and solar panel. Rendered from a mosaic of smaller images.

Tight zoom of a mosaic of license plate camera images featuring a swath of red vehicles and an empty street in other areas.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Xenogears, hands down. It was also my favorite game so maybe I'm answering this incorrectly, but I think it can be both. Nothing defined my relationship to video games quite like sleepless nights wandering through to the end of this beautiful, messy, dark JRPG. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenogears

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Grahf Xenogears

ALT: Grahf Xenogears

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Like so many other men in the Epstein circle, Pinker has rushed to distance himself from that whole sordid nightmare. But if he’s in denial about his past, that past nonetheless bleeds through the new book’s thank-yous." www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...

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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way

The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And so it’s come to this: ornamental fascism is actually just an ammo dump.

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This, so much this. Caring about immigration as an "issue" means different things. The monstrous deportation machine must be stopped.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I tire of these parasites. They do everything in their power to destroy the democratic governance and regulatory systems of the countries that enabled them to grow rich, but they always come running when it's time to foist the costs of their reckless decisions onto taxpayers. See also: SV Bank.

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