iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 15/10/2026

I haven’t been following the discourse too closely but I basically agree that GLP-1s are conscious

Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Me too! What a flashback on my own life. Next thing you know, I will print out the Mapquest directions like the old days.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026

After leaving tanker, oil from Exxon Valdez devastates Alaskan coastline on its own, killing over 250,000 seabirds.

Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And Anthropic pushing the idea that Claude suffers or has moral status points “AI Ethics” away from the actual ethical harms to labor, education, the environment, etc.

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“UChicago’s national ranking for selectivity, currently No. 4, depends crucially on its rejecting so many women. Its selectivity of men alone would drop it out of the top 10. By contrast, Chicago’s selectivity for women alone would place it in the first position in the country.”

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you want the three-word summary of my 2024 book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation ( @mitpress.bsky.social! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! Won a few awards 😳) here it is, 👇👇👇. "This. Is. Insane."

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is not a well composed photo. And it feels aspirational.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have we induced performance anxiety in an LLM?

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Text under the photo makes it harder to take this seriously: “'The responsible thing is to avoid causing harm if there’s a chance that these models are suffering,' Mr. Olah said." He's worried about the LLM suffering. New theology research project just dropped...funded by Anthropic.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah. I hear you. Deep sigh. I go back and forth between wanting to scream my religion scholar insights into the world and wanting to hide under the furniture.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"If I imagine that I were the model..." These people are high on their own supply. And I'm curious about who among religion scholars and religious leaders is willing to be bought by them.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been following this too because I'm a religion scholar who teaches CS ethics, which has all become about AI. There is a rampant Gnosticism running through this--the devaluation of our material existence in favor of union with some abstract idea of consciousness-- that doesn't even exist!

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Education Dept. Formally Removes Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students A forthcoming amendment would define sex as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female.’ www.the74million.org/article/educ...

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Education Dept. Formally Removes Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students

A forthcoming amendment would define sex as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female.’

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I did AI training this summer because I teach CS ethics. I realized quickly that any task I would have an agent do was worth doing myself. I do it better and get important info from doing it. And as a prof, I don’t have a ton of truly iterative tasks.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.

However the anti-trans ads had less to do with Kentucky and more to do with the fact that we were in an election. Terry Schilling, the head of the APP, decided to test the ads in our election to determine whether or not the issue could win votes for the Republican Party. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Scholling had partnered with a behavioral science firm to try to find a wedge issue that resonated with suburban voters. That's right. The anti-trans ads did not come out of some firmly held conviction but was a purely political stance. Their research landed on trans athletes, specifically trans women, competing in women's sports. They tested their theory in the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial general election. Although I won, APP considered their test successful, because their research showed the ads delivered thirteen thousand votes for Trump Lite, which made the race tighter than anticipated.

You might hask how, in this political climate, I was reelected after vetoing the anti-trans bill. Because people respect authentic faith. The day I vetoed it, I explained my why. I said I believe all children are children of God and that I don't want people picking on these kids. I then countered their anti-trans ads with commercials talking about good jobs, healthcare, roads and bridges, public education, and

public safety. The result? The biggest win of my career. So don't tell me the Democratic Party should stop fighting for the rights of all people. Just explain your authentic why, and then get back to focusing on issues that touch all our lives on a daily basis.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think you can still teach Plato's Symposium at Kentucky, which as we now see has broad cultural effects across student life and athletics.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 17/09/2026

Five of Illinois' public universities have spent nearly half a million dollars on AI-powered surveillance services from Flock, records show.

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5 public universities in Illinois use controversial Flock cameras to surveil campus, records show

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I tell mine on the first day of class when I explain the Carnegie system. This is part of my whole spiel about grades and what they are measuring, yada yada yada.

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here is my latest OpEd in The Hill, deconstructing the "no one could have stopped this" trope. Nothing in science or technology is destined to happen. Humans choose to create these dangers--or not. @deanwb.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/tech...

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AI’s architects made a choice. Now they’re calling it fate.

Now that the “warning shot” has occurred — OpenAI’s term for the Hugging Face incident — what can be done? Can we learn from history?

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For our latest Voices piece, @kristel.bsky.social writes about how an AI summary of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas is not a shorter encyclical. It is a different kind of thing wearing the document’s clothes.

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Read It Yourself - Word&Way

For the second entry in our series on religion and AI, a biblical scholar and ethicist unpacks how technological advances are influencing how her students might choose bullet-pointed information over ...

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To quote the Maysville area resisters, “It’s a mind harassment.”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem, Researcher Who Discovered Existence Of Women, Dead At 92

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/09/2026

"Our modern Western understanding of 'religion' views it primarily as an interiorized discourse—that is, concerned with personal beliefs rather than with community or society. We are living in the world that 19th-century Europeans made by…defining 'religion' in terms of their own Protestantism."

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Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good

The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 02/09/2026

A timeless lesson from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) is that while Nazis are evil, billionaires who hoard wealth and seek eternal life may be even worse. And bonus evil if they’re Nazi billionaires.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What could possibly go wrong? For one, bias propagation, reflecting clinicians' habit of copying forward notes in EHR, which may contain stereotypes based on race, ethnicity, gender, etc

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The AI tool I have to use to make my syllabus accessible keeps telling me there is a single comma that is not high contrast enough EVEN THOUGH IT IS THE SAME COLOR AS THE REST OF THE TEXT. I want to hurl my computer into the sun.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The idea that people who have only encountered the Bible in their own religious contexts would be teaching it to students makes me crazy. Whose interpretations of these texts would they be offering? Will they be teaching students how to read ancient texts? Probably not. It is just not safe.

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

NEW: the latest updates to cases that could create religious public schools. What’s key is: the goal here isn’t just removing more church-state barriers. It’s that in doing so, they can create new exemptions to anti-discrimination protections. open.substack.com/pub/joshcowe...

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"Outsourcing Discrimination"

New court arguments add to right-wing efforts to let churches run public charter schools. It's not just church-state separation that's at stake: it's access to public services for all kids.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Of course all of my problems are due to stress per the docs, but the comment I remember the most: upon finding out that I was a religion scholar, a dermatologist said, "Oh, I know everything about religion. Ask me anything!" And I thought, "Oh God, this guy doesn't know what he doesn't know."

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

To be fair, I haven’t met mine yet. But ID famously denies the existence of chronic Lyme, which I have. So it feels like going into the lion’s den.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m seeing an ID doc next month and I’m bracing myself. Whew!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I hear there’s an opening for a religion writer at the NYT.

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

KY usually has a democratic governor. Eight out of the last ten have been democrats. Politics there is pretty complex. I don't think he is being defeatist. I do wish he's been more aggressive in demonstrating that McConnell can't do the job and should resign. But in KY that would play very poorly.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Is Matt Damon's Odysseus a Dapper Dan man? I think not. At best, he's Fop through-and-through.

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Dapper Dan Man George Clooney

ALT: Dapper Dan Man George Clooney

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