iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not a bad idea

A Twitter post reads: "Today I'm coining a new internet slang term: ai;dr. AI, didn't read. Start using this to reply to comments that are obviously written by AI and watch what happens."

19733173

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Today’s wisdom: get yourself a spouse who knows how to argue properly

000

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.

7265115

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

207125843124

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I grew up on Brown's Dump in Jacksonville. So yes, this is personal. And let's be clear about corporate greed. A lot of companies bake the fines for violating EPA standards right into their costs. Somebody needs to be held accountable. #AngieForFlorida

517068

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How come Wikipedia is doing better than academic publishing? Btw love that icon: 🚫🤖 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmat...

This article may incorporate text from a large language model, which is prohibited in Wikipedia articles. It may include hallucinated information, copyright violations, claims not verified in cited sources, original research, or fictitious references. Any such material should be removed. The reason given is: see the explanation at Special:PermanentLink/1368212033#Query (August 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

535899

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“To say Margaret Hamilton was… ahead of her time would be a dramatic understatement. She was a software engineer at a time when it was in its infancy, & not only developed advanced code but also led a team using that nascent technology to develop [a] complex system” #RIP news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

news.mit.edu

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

111633

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

projects.propublica.org

More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

20959551

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tonight’s Wordle clue: the Best Kitty Ever, and her people miss her.

000

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Words cannot express my loathing of Vanity Fair right now. This man can’t see the future, or people. He can only see marks, and wow are you easy pickings

711522

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/03/2025

I don't remeber who first said it, but "May your research be relevant" is an underrated monkey's paw curse

219940

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it’s very weird to be someone who wrote a theology dissertation dealing in part with this AI/Singularity H+ bullshit, and twenty years later is reading NYT articles about top theologians getting bullied by Anthropic to say Claude is possibly conscious.

020

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

6402116

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All right this is absolute blasphemy now, stay away from my sacred canon

011

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By which I mean the adrenaline-shakes penalty I pay throughout and after, not at all pleasant. Still. At 50 years old.

000

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh that feeling when you have to flatly contradict a man who’s said a demonstrably false thing in a meeting in front of peers

100

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not

361357

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡

928673

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

disconnect.blog

The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

271737589

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

5542441630

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

930686

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now.

028624

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.

4927169

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 22/09/2026

Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender say the latest AI breakthroughs and hacking scares aren’t what they seem.

trib.al

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

15325

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social

213743

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And in related news, am teaching - special-topics feminist & queer theology course in the spring because I decided to take a risk and ask.

000

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Working my way toward making a real move toward transforming my liminal institutional space into an ironic cyborg agential space and I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic about this move but I am trying to be hopeful

200

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People ask “Do you still play Don’t Let’s Start?” And the answer is YES.

22683121

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office

70388842581

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"It's just machinery (and just like any machinery, it turns people into its appendages)" would be much more appropriate

0135

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This framing is everywhere in higher ed

66013

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lord, have mercy on Thy servant Kara!

030

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

In the philosophy game, we call this "Begging The Question," the real version: The Premise of your argument Assumes that the Conclusion of your argument is already proven. It's circular reasoning, and every sungle argument about "How Dangerous Superintelligent AI Is" depends on it.

310336

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

You know how I keep saying that "AI" people since the 90s & 2000s all have the same metaphysical commitments & that the best way to understand them is through the lenses of comparative religious studies in new religious movements, mythmaking, & occult studies? I am not now & nor have I been kidding

9379103

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/09/2026

I'm honestly so sick of constantly saying it's not an algorithmic system really because it's got human-in-the-loop and people being like "but it's automated"

611935

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.

bloodinthemachine.com

The End Times Fascists of AI, ft. Naomi Klein + Astra Taylor

Listen now (64 mins) | A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about “end times fascism” in the tech industry.

420665

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

A short thread on "Rogue AI." About 5 yrs ago, just before "gen AI" hit the public didcourse, i wrote "I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way." It's mostly about how corporations seek to offload culpability for the harms of systemic prejudicial bias…

afutureworththinkingabout.com

I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way

I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way by Damien P. Williams I want to let you in on a secret: According to Silicon Valley’s AI’s, I’m n…

3330116

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

Toby Ord, Cofounder of the Effective Altruism movement, longtermist who believes humanity's goal is to create vast amounts of digital beings to colonize the cosmos, is the one advising your lawmakers on "AI".

Toby Ord tweet: 72 lawmakers in the UK have sent a letter to the Prime Minister, calling for an immediate ban on the development of superintelligence and the championing of an international treaty to do the same worldwide.

Quote tweeting

Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley
@alexsobel's tweet:
With 71 colleagues I am calling on the Govt to work with us on my bill to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI and champion an international agreement

We can then lead on preventing the extinction risk posed by superintelligence

6239101

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So much respect for these guys. Love this historic moment and how beautifully they inhabited it

000

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Watching this US Open men’s semifinal and gosh I’d forgotten how much I really love tennis, and watching tennis

100

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is why I learned to knit my first year of doctoral study. (But I didn’t really grasp my own embodiment till pregnancy and while that was a lovely epiphany it really should not have taken *that*)

111

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m actually really invested in good insult habits, particularly because a whole lot of us were trained into reaching for words like “stupid” and “dumb”, and will still go there immediately as a knee-jerk response. The best thing you can be with your language is intentional.

3374

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

22673631386

Reposted by Jeanine Thweatt

Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 09/09/2026

Personally of the opinion that AI techbros come in two flavors--Rokko's Basilisk Cultist, and Grifter. Since categories are fake, there is of course a third category, Grifting Rokko's Basilisk Cultist.

520134

Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Overheard: “ontological,” “utilitarianism,” “let’s start with each other’s names again, I think we skipped that last time”

000