iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

substack executives gave him a big cash advance to post on the platform

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We’re gonna learn the hard way about abusers and drama stirrers in community And how privileged people will use the press as a weapon

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

As a result, we can access our written past only by paying for ChatGPT's mangled misunderstanding of it. But we can't see the original writing on the Internet Archive, a free online library without ads or algorithmic feeds. Do we really want to starve a library to feed billionaires? (3/3)

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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Robot dogs with missiles. AI systems building kill lists. And at the top of every chain of command, a person who got there partly because their personality makes this feel acceptable. PsyberSpace this week is about the psychology of leaders who choose war. 🎧 psyber.space/episodes/wired...

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PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | Wired for War: The Psychology of Leaders Who Choose Conflict

War, Power, and the Psychology of Leaders: Dark Traits, Moral Disengagement, and AI-Driven Distance Dr. Leslie Poston argues that war is a predictable failure of leadership selection: the traits th...

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The Bearded Educator @literarybeardo.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

This legit makes me sad

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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can't participate? Sharing helps! #Research

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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wayne was my MA thesis and PhD dissertation adviser at Mizzou. He is kind, and good, and represents the best of what Mizzou is and has to offer. The Missouri state law that seeks to criminalize even the discussion of DEI is shameful, and so are those who support it. abc17news.com/news/educati...

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University of Missouri investigating professor after video alleges DEI sympathies

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is investigating allegations of staff violating federal and state laws against diversity, equity and inclusion practices after a video reportedly showin...

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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've cited Terror Management Theory on the show before as one framework for understanding authoritarianism. In this episode I go deeper, including the replication problems, the neuroscience, and what the evidence actually supports today. psyber.space/episodes/fea...

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PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | Fear, Politics, and Getting the Science Right: Terror Management Theory Revisited

Terror Management Theory, Replication, and How Science Updates What We Think We Know Dr. Leslie Poston discusses Terror Management Theory (TMT) as a framework for understanding how death anxiety sh...

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Awareness & outrage about extractive technology is at an all-time high since I began working in the digital civil rights space. It’s exciting. We’ve got work to do: www.freepress.net/blog/surveil...

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As Surveillance Ramps Up, a New Campaign Amplifies Ways to Fight Back

The Solidarity Over Surveillance campaign is designed to counter the rise of authoritarianism by uniting communities to put an end to the extraction, storage and use of our data.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is so important. Those of us who have been around for a while have seen this happen in cycles: someone with middling scholarship latches onto the newest thing, deploys it in a malicious self-serving way, then moves on, leaving the rest of us to play clean up and discover resources depleted.

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Col. Will Porter @dinosaursheriff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Early studies of autism weren't about improving quality of life. They were about determining whether people were "functional" enough to justify their survival. It wasn't diagnosis. It was grading, like fruit or vegetables. This is not a new trend.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sharing from Internet Archive: “Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the web Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

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BET.com Article Explorer

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here, Dan makes a point that all the articles (and individual scholars) lamenting the supposed turn to activism in sociology miss. The problem isn’t sociology. The problem is all the fascism.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/08/2026

Broken swing sets? Missing basketball nets? Have no fear, Renew Crew is here. Neighborhood parks are meant for recreation — not frustration. If it’s broken, this crew will fix it. If it’s run-down, they’ll renew it. Renew Crew: Coming soon to a park near you.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814

recruit.ucdavis.edu

Director of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of Psychology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seeking participants for our study on identity! Participation will be an interview conducted by video or phone, but it is ANONYMIZED and identifying info is not retained. Share this if you know someone that has a story to tell about this. #AcademicSky #Identity #Psychology bit.ly/4fCx52d

Red square graphic with a link button talking about an IRB approved study on identity and TikTok. Under a post that says "Seeking participants for our study on identity!

This is qualitative research, so participation will be an interview conducted by video or phone, but it is ANONYMIZED and identifying info is not retained.

Do share this if you know someone that has a story to tell about this.

Link is: https://bit.ly/4fCx52d "

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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Both the movie and the song entitled "9 to 5" are essential pieces of pop culture because they achieve the (not so easy task) of depicting the oppressions of class and gender through very digestible popular art.

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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good. Keep donating. Let's keep her legacy alive.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/08/2026

This is what the fake "free speech" advocates have built: an administration that harasses critics. Produce research showing the expensive National Guard deployments didn't lower crime? Get sued by Trump's lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic

It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The president is threatening to sue a think tank for $5 billion unless they retract a report stating that his National Guard deployments to American cities under the guise of fake emergencies didn't make those cities safer. It's like a Con Law exam question about executive abuse of power.

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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic

It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“This is a setup for obscuring the impact of the political review of grants, which is fixing to be massive,” wrote Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the University of Arizona now with the advocacy group Defend Public Health, on Bluesky”. 🙌🏼

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NIH plan to keep peer-review scores for grants secret draws concern

Under “binning” proposal, applications’ numerical ratings would no longer be used for final funding decisions

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just cancelled Mongolian publication deal for something of mine because the translation would have been done by AI.

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There’s a debt crisis brewing. The President is pivoting and making billions off crypto. The Vice President has talking about “de-dollarization.” Does anyone else see something wrong with this…???!!!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/08/2026

Do not ever wear these fucking PervPods around me.

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s. baum @transvestigations.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have a dire update on this story. I have reason to believe my source, Aurora Rush, was taken by the federal government as a political prisoner. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

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Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A design flaw of contemporary workplaces is that the people who decide how much is reasonable for us to have to dick around with computer stuff, are people who themselves have an abnormally high tolerance, and even liking for dicking around with computer stuff

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026

Marc (egghead) Andreessen « The universities are at ground zero of the counterattack since they are BOTH actively discriminating against us [...]. They declared war on 70% of the country and now they're going to pay the price. » www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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The combination of DEl and immigration

Systematic discrimination against the Trump voter base.

The Trump voter base has figured this out. I have not yet found anyone in university leadership who will engage on this

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I was born in 1971 in lowa and grew up in Wisconsin. My cohort of citizens was told that we just had to put up with this as a cost of prior American bigotry, even though the discrimination was now aimed at us. And for the most part we did. But then the insanity of the last 8 years and in particular the summer of 2020 totally shredded that complacency. And so now my people are furious and not going to take it anymore. The universities are at ground zero of the counterattack since they are BOTH actively discriminating against us AND primary origin points and propagation vectors for this worldview and these policies. They declared war on 70% of the country and now they're going to pay the price.

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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.

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SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When Microsoft tried this with Recall, it turned out to be their most reviled release in years.

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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Research shows that commenting on someone's body in the name of health concern produces the exact physiological stress responses that contribute to poor health outcomes. The "concern" doesn't help, and can make things measurably worse. psyber.space/episodes/spe...

Screen grab of Jenna Ortega's Esquire video interview, which is currently receiving massive amount of body policing, the inspiration for today's episode of PsyberSpace

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tech/AI companies have tried the same tactics to defend AI models built from the unauthorized use of creative works—arguing that their products aid artists with disabilities. But is that really what’s driving hand-over-fist investing in AI capacity? They don’t want us to use our brains—or hearts.

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