iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 17/09/2026

ALL OUT CONTRE L’IA - manifestation contre l’IA réprimée par la police de Montréal. / Protest against AI repressed by police in Montréal.

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

earlier today I told the @thewalrus.ca that "I do think that we are on the cusp of an AI revolt". Case in point: AI/data center protest today outside a major AI conf/trade show in Montreal

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Great read by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social on the economics and power concentration in the AI industry, developing the ideas of intellectual monopolization and epistemic totalitarianism.

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@paglen.studio's thoughtful and provocative book on AI, excellent work as always (been following him all the way back to "Torture Taxi" on rendition flights) - Nth reminder that artists bring real value to policy discussions.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 06/08/2026

Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, a professor at the University of Montreal, says “we need to mitigate the risk of extinction” with regulation and moratoriums to halt the development of AI’s computational power and complexity.

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Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”

Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, ...

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yes YES The tiger is out

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A North Carolina teen was arrested for using abortion pills as a "deadly weapon," in an alarming case of cops trying to make taking abortion pills a crime. (It's not.) No state abortion bans currently criminalize the abortion patient or criminalize self-managed abortion:

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North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”

The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️

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UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.

American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A window into ongoing research about the corporate structure of AI labs. stay tuned for full report coming soon play.maroussia.ai

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've learned so much from the brilliant and kind Martha Minow, and could not have done this without family, friends and colleagues. Onwards!

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Spot on. Data center opposition is a powerful bulwark against the feds' top-down deregulation narrative. Resonates with what I (& certainly many others) call "interstitial AI governance": nano/micro resistance emerging from the cracks, linking up, making a difference. Gvts are complacent, ppl aren't

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Meta's tax rate for the first quarter of this year was negative 23%. That's in large part because Zuckerberg's company received a tax benefit from the government of $8.03 billion.

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NonZero @nonzeronews.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

how much of adulting is just going to be pasting messages from one Slack channel to another? be honest.

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

real love is spending Sunday morning prepping fiscal briefings for your financially illiterate family.

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

As I'm putting the final touches to my dissertation, I'm deleting "controversial" content. truly breaks my heart. won't go into details but just want to say academic freedom is now a joke, retribution is real, ppl self-censor way beyond obvious hot topics & we all lose from this beige landscape.

a woman with red tape covering her mouth. image: shutterstock

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Anthropic's weapons ban has always been on a collision course with the Dpt of War. They are fundamentally misaligned. For the past 7 months, I've been working on a report analyzing AI companies' practices. Here's my take (pre DoD renaming and current kerfuffle)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 29/01/2026

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

www.ledevoir.com/actualites/s... extremely dope project. Have the privilege to see how they work and this is proof that small scale, deliberate, slow AI is indeed possible.

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L’IA au service de la culture inuite

Au Nunavik, une petite équipe a mis en place le projet AI! pour sauver la langue et la culture inuites.

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

two excellent choices because let's be real turkey is bland

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In 2022 I started an AI working group at Berkman Klein. Tom Zick and Shira Gur-Arieh joined to co-lead, and over the years we've had many great discussions across disciplines and viewpoints. Here are some of the sessions we had with @brooksben.bsky.social, @schneier.com @mehtab.bsky.social ...

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Got this beautiful book for a gift and ended up keeping it for myself!

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Je suis très reconnaissante envers le @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca et le @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social pour avoir soutenu ma recherche au doctorat. Merci d'appuyer les chercheurs canadiens et québécois à travers le monde!

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

So thrilled to join this stellar cohort - in this uncertain times, Canada can play an important role both domestically and internationally.

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Artists are always three steps ahead of everyone else. Inspiring conf this week touching on frugal, artisanal AI, data sovereignty and the importance of full-stack agency. sat.qc.ca/en/events/sy... video: @dadabots.bsky.social

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

parking the term "feral government" here for a future article describing decivilization, points of no return, and the annihilation of the rule of law - longstanding phenomena tracing back to at least the War on Terror but rapidly accelerating.

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

"We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma and bureaucratic red tape, as the Administration has done since Inauguration Day. Simply put, we need to “Build, Baby, Build!”

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White House Unveils America's AI Action Plan

The White House today released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, in accordance with President Trump’s January executive order on Removing

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Claude is the COS of AI who disagrees

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

compelling piece on the distance between the rhetoric and the reality of sovereign AI

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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Shylock is among the most quintessential antisemitic stereotypes. This is not an accident. It follows years in which Trump has normalized antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories — and it’s deeply dangerous.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Bots all the way down

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

did I ever show you this perfect angel

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Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The report, "Little Tech Goes Global," echoing the term popularized by the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, which highlights the tension between innovation and regulation: home.coworker.org/little-tech-... @restofworld.org coverage: restofworld.org/2025/employe...

Front page or cover for the "Little Tech Goes Global: The Expansion of AI and Workplace Surveillance" report by Coworker. The illustration features a masked worker staring into a phone. Their image dissolves into the background.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain

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Maroussia Lévesque @maroussia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I had a chance to discuss the future of AI policy and Canada-US tech relations along with @vassb.bsky.social and Renee Black, thanks ‪to @viacristiano.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social for the invitation. and check out their call for contribution: www.techpolicy.press/call-for-con...

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