iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

came home to partner watching the last 20 minutes of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

even a game entirely about self-personalization—The Sims—has capitalist boundaries, because it’s a commercial video game. its development is also entrenched in antagonism: players fought for decades for compensation + life-representative bitmaps + affirming mechanics just for EA to sell itself out

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 16h

best bar in bridgeport if Maria’s is too overstimulating. Stingo (wednesday night bingo run by bar owner Steve) is a must

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

more on information dis-access further expanding / entrenching this idea with Jameson’s cognitive mapping + Berlant’s cruel optimism for future work (+ presentation at Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene Colloquium II next March @ UC Davis)

slide 3 from my 4S presentation, book cover on left is Alyssa Battistoni’s FREE GIFTS: CAPITALISM AND THE POLITICS OF NATURE, my text on right:

The library is not a free gift

Suprasumption of capital: the "fact that both physical and social processes always exist in excess" in the valorization of labor. The interruptions, "rough edges," and "fitting of disparate components into a continuous and finely tuned whole," abdicate stability of the physical and financial patterns "associated with many natural processes, while still profiting from the fruits of others' labor" (p. 98, Battistoni, 2025).
• Suprasumption helps to describe information dis-access as representing "the places where the material labor process spills beyond its containment by capitalist social forms" (ibid).

Information dis-access

Instrumentalizing high-temperatured, highly-gas-dependent, highly-charged-affective-infrastructures, capital stretches out the possibility of neighbor-to-neighbor interaction

Imposition of data centers are consequential for the visibility of an environment of information dis-access

Access to information is aesthetic, requiring those interested in the information at hand to be lucky enough to know the right codes, to be in the right place at the right time

OverDrive's private equity, ownership represents that stretch between information provided through service-centered operations and cannibalizing politically economic systems that "hoard full control" for themselves (Greenwell, 2025)

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

AI doesn't "bring the archive to life" or to even "show what this looked like in color." The medium is the message, in the sense that there is never life in a photo, there is a material object with artifacts that memorialized technology as much as any moment. It's all more imagination avoidance

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

really nice time presenting at 4S about - information dis-access: my theory that capitalism “suprasumes” (per Battistoni) information, capturing excess of labor to continuously preclude access to info - workshops abt AI for the public - Library Freedom Project’s AI in Libraries survey results

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this cover! if Fellini made a movie called Library

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Shreya Chowdhary @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New #AIES paper w/ @benzevgreen.bsky.social & @tisjune.bsky.social - "Deconstructing AI Hype: A Playbook for Resistance"! Read here: shreyachowdhary.net/files/decons... We argue that AI hype is a problem not because it misdescribes AI, but because it facilitates AI entrenchment.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

so wish i could be there!! sending love!!

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

refusal in the information economy!

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

see me (virtually transmitted) + many other wonderful scholars here saturday morning :)

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

theguardian.com

Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The sooner you accept that the people carrying out these atrocities sleep very well, the better. The fantasy that they don't has you looking in the wrong directions.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“fine libraries” it’s true!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When some of you say "there's no money for public libraries etc..." I hope you know that there always is and it's just not prioritized.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

on bluesky, it could be anyone!

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

don’t kill me but disciplinary and methodological differences are okay—good, even—especially when approaching consuming and complex social problems that require varying levels of tactical response

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

someone hmu when there’s an essay on the Muse Meta object theorized thru Ngai’s aesthetic categories

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(in a conference or proceedings, i mean)

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

observing this thread as a public library worker doing critical studies + believe many library workers would love active inclusion here :)

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

tomorrow is for reading all of The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's nonfiction release reveals how policing is less about managing crime than about governing possibility. "At once an expansive study of the framework of policing and an indictment of its logics." —Simone Browne R. Joshua Scannell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lS9... @frannyrecounts.bsky.social

Book cover for The Carceral Surround by R. Joshua Scannell. Image of a shirtless man with shaved head, eyes replaced with blue light, cut into thin columns unevenly aligned on a concrete background.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

pope leo thank you for blessing the chicago white sox but i would also like to be able to get an abortion if so desired

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if you liked this idea, but scholarship isn’t the best way for you or community members to access ideas, that’s okay! watch this webinar featuring Hannah Cyrus about practical ways to refuse AI in the library: www.nicheacademy.com/blog/webinar...

nicheacademy.com

Webinar: Refusal as Instruction: Talking to Patrons about AI

In this free webinar, Hannah Cyrus covers how to frame generative AI in ways that are aligned with library values.

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All good things come to an end: FINAL (!) black feminist theory summer institute in August 2027. Please share with grad students and encourage them to apply.

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Melissa Wong @melissawong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As editor in chief, I'm excited about Library Trends' first symposium! Join us for a thought-provoking keynote by @africahands.bsky.social and three panels featuring guest editor Kathy Wisser, issue authors, and invited guests. Come for the afternoon or drop in to a session of interest!

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/10/2026

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They cannot "run" a program, because they don't have legs

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Co-Opting AI: Archives examined how archives and archiving—as infrastructure, epistemology, and social practice—relate to contemporary AI systems" dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

dtdlab.virginia.edu

Co-Opting AI: Archives - DTD Lab

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

manifesting this job to magically appear in Chicago, Illinois in about 5 years from now

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

2000 words to cut, but at least we have words to cut

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026

emulsions… very “enemies-to-lovers”

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

still thinking about NPR playing the Wii Menu music as a show transition this morning

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

good lord this cover! beautiful

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

everyone hates AI. everyone loves the library

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the lack of style she has should be studied

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I spend a lot of time on "Cool idea- without evidence and research you cannot make a historical/cultural argument based solely on what you see/interpret through your personal experience" when facilitating interaction with archives and it is a specifically concerning type of literacy crisis

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Individualization like this has led me to this recurring issue - highly educated academics [phd students etc] confusing crit fabulation with imaginary extrapolation when interacting with primary sources- " I can extract affect and intent from looking at a single image" MY interpretation/instinct MY

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

shoutout to the freedom to read for all

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 26/09/2026

Our judicial election guide has information about professional history and notable cases for every single Cook County judge on your ballot this fall. No endorsements, just the facts you need to make an informed decision. buff.ly/jpBxfAa

buff.ly

Cook County November 2026 Judicial Election Guide

Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

they’re calling it The Frankfurt School UNO Reverse Card

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

smash that like for any of the following: white sox in the playoffs, halal chicken plate, covid+flu combo booster

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For @lpeblog.bsky.social I wrote about why "bring your own power" is a false solution to the problem of datacenter energy demand and why municipalization (public ownership and control) of regional transmission organizations is necessary to protect ratepayers and accelerate decarbonization.

lpeproject.org

The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis

To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. But this approach risks privatizing the power grid…

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