iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is eugenics

Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

See a small sample of @cyn-k.bsky.social ’s many relevant works too (below original post).

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Grateful to the folks on the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions who put all this together. Resources include a zine, procurement playbook, bargaining tracker, AI/tech divestment guide, state policy tracker, FOIA guide, explainer for ditching Palantir, & AI/tech audit guide

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Toolkit for Activism on AI

The AAUP ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions developed the following toolkit resources to fight against the top-down adoption of technology by colleges and universitie...

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it.

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 16/09/2026

Colonizers using terms like "self-determination", "autonomy", and "sovereignty" is odd to me. They don't understand how their "sovereignty" is based on the continued subjection of others, even if they, as individuals, are "good". Whose land does the Internet depend on? www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could Be

The term “digital sovereignty” has become ubiquitous. European officials invoke it in debates about cloud infrastructure, AI, semiconductors, and platform regulation. Governments throughout the global...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Something I'm concerned about that I haven't really seen anyone addressing is how "AI safety" regs could end up being super authoritarian. Like, if you truly believe that AI could kill all humans, it seems totally reasonable to install a government backdoor in every smartphone and computer.

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WIRED @wired.com · 14/09/2026

With 24 Emmy nominations tonight, “Hacks” has set a new record for the most nominations for a comedy series in a single year. Revisit our conversation with creators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello. 👇️

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The Creators of ‘Hacks’ Really, Really, Really Hate AI

Ahead of the hit show’s finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they find AI “deeply disturbing.”

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Don't let the best be the enemy of the good' is appropriate advice for someone struggling to finish a small, low-stakes project. This is not the right advice for how to regulate a field of tech with wide and well-documented harms..

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore's statement on this is well worth a read

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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

How did he pass is job interview? The same reason he's all over the press & everyone in the "left" is captured by these people. I'm gonna call it like it is, once again, its ******RACISM********* Y'all can't imagine that WE are the experts.

100GB+ frontier models aren’t 50KB virus you could pass around by emails. As if there are tons of H100 sitting idle with inference stack ready everywhere.

How did this guy pass the job interview at Anthropic as a “researcher”?

Quote tweeting a tweet that says:
Rohan Paul
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Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned)

"We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating."

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

emerging from a social media sabbatical to share one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen from the global tech market. inherently alienating and solidarity-destroying at its core. Prediction markets are among the most dangerous platforms out there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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My son has cancer. Kalshi wants you to be able to bet on his medical future | Joshua Pederson

The predictions market is planning to allow betting on clinical trial results and regulatory decisions as our family fights for his survival

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I am thrilled to see Jayden Nelson get out on the pitch. Big ❤️ from and for the childhood cancer community. 🥹 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqch...

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Jayden Nelson's journey to the 2026 FIFA World Cup

YouTube video by TSN

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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 09/06/2026

Ward 3 Hamilton City Councillor Nrinder Nann has placed a motion onto next week's Council agendas to use the Planning Act's Interim Control powers to temporarily ban new data centres in Hamilton. Vote will be next Tuesday at Committee, then June 24 at Council. #yhmcc #hamont

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

While cutting all prison librarian positions. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Female professors at post-secondary schools in Toronto earn significantly less than their male counterparts. In Ontario, every major university paid male professors more than female professors, with average wage gaps ranging from 5.7% (University of Ottawa) to 13.5% (McMaster University)

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Female professors at post-secondary schools in Toronto earn significantly less than their male counterparts. Here’s why.

Female professors in Toronto are earning as much as $23,000 less than their male counterparts, according to Statistics Canada.

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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy” Wab Kinew in his announcement that Manitoba would not be continuing with the Île-des-Chênes data centre.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 05/06/2026

A sober take from @shachikurl.bsky.social of Angus Reid Institute of how Canadians are not on side with Mark Carney’s enthusiastic approach to AI or data centres. They aren’t uninformed or illiterate; they simply experience the sides of AI the government prefers not to focus on.

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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 04/06/2026

PHOTO The audience celebrates following the Committee of Adjustment decision to deny Steelport land severance. #hamont #yhmcc

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

‼️ This is a success in the long process of Hamilton #hamont resisting a proposed new data centre. Please share with anyone keeping tabs on community resistance to data centres.

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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 04/06/2026

DENIED Hamilton's Committee of Adjustment voted 3-0 to deny the Steelport land severance application. #yhmcc #HamOnt

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Huge disconnect between the federal government’s ’AI for All’ announcement today and the many, many thoughtful and well informed voices of opposition to the proposed data centre in Hamilton. Almost as if the ‘All’ are not for ‘AI’. #hamont

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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I would also like to say that most of the government's emphasis on First Nations and AI (as well as the leading AI institutes) is on education. I think it is paternalistic to imply that distrust of these systems stems from insufficient understanding of them.

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Peak Hamilton. 💕 I am one of over 1,000 who submitted comments in writing.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Reading through the government's AI marketing strategy. Notes as I go. Starting on a positive note, the NDP under Avi Lewis is already paying dividends and exerting influence -- in this case, on surveillance pricing.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 04/06/2026

I am once again asking on whose land is all this "AI" infrastructure gonna be dependant on? ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

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Canada’s national Artificial Intelligence strategy: AI for All

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Skylee-Storm @skylee-storm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In the strategy, First Nations are mentioned twice, once as a group vaguely consulted, then again as a group being served by health AI research. To be clear, all submissions made in the development of this strategy (not consultation) were analyzed by AI. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

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Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy

Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched AI for All, Canada’s new national AI strategy. Over the next five years, this strategy will introduce new legislation, investments, and programs that e...

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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 04/06/2026

More photos inside Hamilton City Hall where hundreds of people are expressing their opposition to AI data centres as the Committee of Adjustment debates an administrative routine (from a legal/planning perspective) land severance for the former Stelco lands to facilitate data centres #hamont #yhmcc

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

💥 A must read report on Bill C-22, the Canadian government's "lawful access" bill (the one that if passed would cause Signal to pull out of Canada because of the federal government's forced surveillance)👇🏻 Huge kudos for your work on this @cyn-k.bsky.social @kate-ro.bsky.social @digitalprivacy.ca

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Litigation and lawsuits are extremely imperfect. And, I am very here for the use of litigation as one angle to disrupt corporate surveillance networks, where governments consistently fail, or are complicit in building them.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The preliminary ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a sobering reminder that the harms of colonialism are not confined to Canada’s past. (🧵1/4)

June 1, 2026

Statement by MP Gazan Regarding Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Ruling on Canada's Continuing Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples

On June 1st, 2026, Member of Parliament Leah Gazan issued the following statement:

The preliminary ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a sobering reminder that the harms of colonialism are not confined to Canada’s past. After hearing testimony from survivors, families, experts, and advocates, the tribunal concluded that there are clear indications of an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, rooted in the residential school system and sustained through continuing patterns of state action and inaction.

Witnesses detailed the devastating intergenerational impacts of forced family separation, cultural destruction, physical and sexual abuse, and the trauma that continues to affect Indigenous children, families, and communities today. The tribunal found that Canada bears legal, moral, and political responsibility for these harms and identified a continuing pattern of denying Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and accountability under international law.

These findings come at a time when the federal government is cutting funding for residential school survivors, families, and communities seeking truth, justice, healing, and the recovery of missing children. At the same time, it is rolling back investments intended to address the ongoing genocide of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people, despite the Calls for Justice of the National Inquiry and repeated warnings from Indigenous organizations and human rights experts.

In 2023, I put forward a unanimous consent motion in the House of Commons affirming that what happened in residential schools constituted an act of genocide. That motion received the unanimous support of all members of the House. Unfortunately, this acknowledgement has been met with callous cuts.

I strongly urge the government to reinstate the funding that has already been cut to mental health and wellness and healing programs, the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, and to table my Bill C-254 as a government bill to ensure that survivors, families, and communities are finally protected from growing anti-indigenous racism and residential school denialism.

Reconciliation cannot be achieved through words alone. It requires action, accountability, and sustained investment in survivor-led healing, community-led investigations, and the protection of Indigenous rights. When governments reduce support for those most directly impacted by these atrocities, they undermine the very work needed to confront the truth and build justice.

The testimony heard by the tribunal reinforces what survivors and Indigenous communities have been saying for generations: the legacy of residential schools is not over. Canada must stop retreating from its responsibilities and instead fully support the work of truth, justice, healing, and Indigenous self-determination.

Contact:
MP Leah Gazan
leah@leahgazan.ca

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 01/06/2026

This is what I mean when I say that students often just need a permission structure to refuse AI. If you discuss the environmental, equity, political, economic, etc problems with them, many (in my experience) just say no. (And many are annoyed that universities are shoving it down their throats.)

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 01/06/2026

magic beans for everyone!

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Said with a grain of salt because this is a new story about just the draft strategy but… it remains unclear to me what the liberal government means when it refers to “AI” The focus of this strategy seems to get more generic over time. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News

A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

Title: Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity

abstract: Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. The well-functioning of regulatory and oversight structures and processes that govern the industry thus have paramount ramifications for everything from fostering public trust in systems marketed as AI, the credibility of scientific knowledge, educational and healthcare services and products, information ecosystems, the environment, rule of law and integrity of democratic process. In this paper, we first develop a taxonomy of mechanisms enabling capture to provide a comprehensive understanding of the problem. Grounded in design science research (DSR) methodologies and extensive scoping review of existing literature and media reports, our taxonomy of capture consists of 27 mechanisms across five categories. We then develop an annotation template incorporating our taxonomy, and manually annotate and analyse 100 news articles. The purpose behind this analysis is twofold: validate our taxonomy and provide a novel quantification of capture mechanisms and dominant narratives. Our analysis identifies 249 instances of capture mechanisms, often co-occurring with narratives that rationalise such capture. We find that the most recurring categories of mechanisms are Discourse & Epistemic Influence, concerning narrative framing, and Elusion of law, related to violations and contentious interpretations of antitrust, privacy, copyright and labour laws. We further find that Regulation stifles innovation, Red tape and National Interest are the most frequently invoked narratives used to rationalise capture. We emphasize the extent and breadth of regulatory capture by coalescing forces — Big AI and governments — as something policy makers and the public ought to treat as an emergency.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 14/05/2026

Wrote about the proliferation of metaphors of "empire" and "colonialism" to describe digital capitalism and what it might get wrong about both empires and digital capitalism. I suggest there are three missing Cs: comprador, creole, counter-colonization. www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/05/2026

“For three years, everything that happened in the entryway of Willie Banks’ Westbrook home was captured by his neighbor’s security camera.” “What he didn’t realize until recently was that a state drug officer was using the camera feed to watch him in real time without first obtaining a warrant.”

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Police watched a suspect through a neighbor’s camera for 3 years

Until last week, an attorney believed the camera just happened to catch the shooting. Then she learned there was more to the story.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The only good A.I. would be one that finds the phrase “pick your brain” in people’s emails and replaces it with something less gross like “get your input” or “hear your thoughts.”

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

OpenAI was sued this week over a mass shooting in Florida and the overdose death of a college student in California. They are among two dozen cases filed in the last year that claim ChatGPT should be subject to consumer product safety laws: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/t...

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After Deaths, Lawsuits Against A.I. Companies Test a New Strategy

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