iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 17h

Data by Design will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social on Tuesday, October 20 and you are all invited to celebrate with us at one of our book launch events! Join the celebration: dataxdesign.io/events

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Men can generally be bad dept citizens as long as their research is valued, but women can’t." "Meritocracy is really just a way [to support] the status quo of a dominant white, male envrnmnt…I thought that if I worked hard enough, my work wld be recognized. But [that's] not how the system works."

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Devaluation underlies gendered US faculty departures across disciplines and institutions

Abstract. Women faculty experience academia differently from men in many ways, which can lead them to consider leaving their positions. Using a large-scale

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It true! We just finished pretraining this week!

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

APA* invites you to the first in a series of public talks in collaboration with orgs creating possibilities beyond the limits of our existing institutions. Register at bit.ly/APeoplesAcademy 🤓

A People’s Academy post titled “Reimagining Leadership Institute” Saturday Oct 17 at 3:00pm.

Register at bit.ly/apeoplesacademy

Cohosted by Black Birthing Futures. Black Girl’s* Guide to Surviving Menopause. Bloom Collective. Climate Justice Universities Union. CLLCTIVLY. Circles ofCourageous Commons. Critical Internet
Studies Institute. Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. Immigration Justice Collective. Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.
Options Program Inc. Powerful Pathways. Therapy Fund Foundation. School for Poetic Computation. School of Radical Imagination. The Privacy Center at Georgetown.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/10/2026

The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how much of the modern internet still depends on the volunteer work of individual people. 4 billion phones rely on the time zone database, a text file edited by just two people in their spare time. [sheets.works]

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The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Employers are navigating a flood of errors and low-quality work that are sapping employee time, raising privacy and security risks and pushing up costs. 90% of executives say AI efforts have yet to translate to productivity gains." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes to this history and thank you to @miriamposner.com for sharing this tremendous amount of pedagogical labor with the world

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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Chapter 3 of Data by Design focuses on the subject of “People,” considering how we as designers, often brought into projects partway through, might design visualizations in ways that enable the *creation*of knowledge without the *extraction*of knowledge.

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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One work that we highlight is Birch Bark (2022) by contemporary artist Sarah Sense. Here, Sense employs her own ancestral basket-weaving techniques as a way to interrupt the unidirectional process of knowledge extraction, redirecting some of the map’s meaning-making force.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺

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Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus

This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ok this is a delight for anyone who loved Katamari Damacy (via @kottke.org) www.funwithcomputervision.com/weball/

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weball

roll, grow, win the internet

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bumpbumpbumpbump (thump).

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

FIND POSTCARD OF FIND CONTACT LENS AT BOTTOM OF SWIMMING POOL; or, my child would like a word with Ed Ruscha

Photo of a postcard of an artwork by Ed Ruscha, which reads: FIND CONTACT LENS AT BOTTOM OF SWIMMING POOL. A small child has written the word "the" between "at' and "bottom" and the word "a" between "of" and "swimming."

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Congrats, and very glad to know about this! When you have things to share, please do, as I'm also really interested in this convergence and (provisionally) working on a project in this space!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

First time I've written a new thing since the start of the semester--about feminist attention, for the MOSAICS symposium happening next week--and you guys, it feels so so good! cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...

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MOSAICS Symposium

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Was teaching about this in my LLM class yesterday. Glad to know about this paper!

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*That’s* a headline.

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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Join us for the second event from ➡️ Technofascism, Feminism & Democracy ⬅️ , our open, free learning community! This month, Dr. Jeanelle K. Hope and Dr. Bill Mullen will be exploring fascism with an emphasis on the Black Radical Tradition. 🩵Event is on Oct. 20, 12pm ET🩵 JOIN: lnkd.in/gJVwRx3U

An image that says "Technofascism, Feminsm, and Democracy: Fascism 101 with an Emphasis on the Black Radical Tradition, featuring Dr. Jeanelle K. Hope and Dr. Bill Mullen; Season #2 October 20, 2026

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I refuse to listen to my own voice, ever, but according to the subtitles I maybe said some interesting things about the book?!

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In addition to this announcement Princeton will have 1 postdoc in cultural AI posted soon keep an eye out . . .

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you! You were there at the very beginning!!!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats Miriam! Cannot wait to hold this book in my hands!

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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🥳🥳🥳 Come celebrate with us live at one of our three book launch events in Atlanta, New York, and Boston: dataxdesign.io/events Data by Design will be available on October 20 from @mitpress.bsky.social.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's here, it's here! DATA BY DESIGN is here in my hands, and it is beautiful!!! So much gratitude to @mitpress.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social and the (not on bluesky) rest of the team for making this book a reality!

A photo of Lauren holding an actual MFing printed copy of DATA BY DESIGN!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks so much, Scott! The sad reality is that the book *is* the content now!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Glad this hot take ca. whenever it was is now immortalized forever!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is John Cage’s handmade paper, composed of milkweed, cattail, pigweed, honeysuckle, saffron, and more — at the NYPL

Very fibrous handmade paper with different colored globs and flecks from various plants

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Book postcards are here! Dm me your address and I’ll send you one!

Four colorful postcards of data visualizations displayed on a wood table

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really appreciated the combination of textual/moral/technical clarity and actual facts!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This one is on EU time and has a live stream, for anyone who wants to learn what DATA BY DESIGN is about!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Opinion-havers! Historicists! Nerd friends! Leftists! All/none of the above! Submit a proposal to GENERATIVE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, a new volume on AI and DH to be edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org and me! Deadline 11/1. Please share!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thrilled to launch DATA BY DESIGN into the world with @shannonmattern.bsky.social at P&T Knitwear in NYC on October 29th! Also feat. @chronictanvi.bsky.social and Silas Munro and maybe even an art show if we can get our acts together!

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