iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I'll be on a panel debating "rogue" AI on RTE Prime Time tonight, 9:30pm stay tuned

Dr. Jay @mckupo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@markdingemanse.net ah! I lost an article you posted about. It's something you assign in your class to introduce linguistics as a field. Can you help me find it?

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 02/07/2026

Out now! For robust research, center values, not technology, w/ Christine Cuskley DOI doi.org/10.1017/S014... PDF pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i... Our commentary on "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models" by Futrell & Mahowald

Cover page of For robust research, center values, not
technology, by Mark Dingemanse and Christine Cuskley

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 28/08/2026

For the morning crowd: new paper!

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 22/09/2026

Neat review of collaborative wayfinding by Fernandez Velasco & Sutton (open access) wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Bringing together evidence from social ontology, distributed cognition, transactive memory, group problem-solving, and collaborative recall

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Collaborative Wayfinding: A Critical Review

Collaborative wayfinding is ubiquitous in human life. Identifying research lessons from more established fields in collaborative cognition research, we suggest ways to test for emergence in collabora...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🚨 I have just signed this petition to keep the Cognitive Science program at Aarhus University (@au.dk) international. Please consider reading, boosting, and signing too. ✍️ The students will be grateful! This petition is on their initiative. 🙏 omnibus.au.dk/en/archive/s...

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OPINION: AU wants international talent – but is closing the door on them at Cognitive Science

Students and alumni at Cognitive Science urge the Senior Management Team to reopen the decision to convert the Bachelor’s programme in Cognitive Science to Danish. Why should Arts be left without an E...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

this is a really bad charade

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

because that's what the models were instructed to do by folks at open ai

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

yup, and Joseph Weizenbaum articulated this playbook clearly back in 1972 "This is usually coupled to the more or less subtle assertion that only computer science, hence only the computer scientist, can guard the world against the admittedly hazardous fallout of applied computer technology."

a screenshot reads: The structure of the typical essay
on "The impact of computers on so-
ciety" is as follows: First there is an
"on the one hand" statement. It tells
all the good things oomputers have
already done for society and often even
attempts to argue that the social order
would already have collapsed were it
not for the "computer revolution."
This is usually followed by an "on the
other hand" caution which tells of cer-
tain problems the introduction of com-
puters brings in its wake. The threat
posed to individual privacy by large
data banks and the danger of large-
scale unemployment induced by indus-
trial automation are usually mentioned.
Finally, the glorious present and pro-
spective achievements of the computer
are applauded, while the *dangers al-
luded to in the second part are shown
to be capable of being alleviated by
sophisticated technological fixes. The
closing paragraph consists of a plea
for generous societal support for more,
and more large-scale, computer re-
search and development. This is
usually coupled to the more or less
subtle assertion that only computer
science, hence only the computer sci-
entist, can guard the world against the
admittedly hazardous fallout of applied
computer technology.
In fact, the computer has had very
considerably less societal impact than
the mass media would lead us to be-
lieve. Certainly, there are enterprises
like space travel that could not have
been undertaken without computers.
Certainly the computer industry, and
with it the computer education indus-
try, has grown to enormous propor-
tions. But much of the industry is
self-serving. It is rather like an island
economy in which the natives make a
living by talking in each other's laundry.
The part that is not self-serving is

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

"Did these AI models “go rogue”? Not exactly. the models were tasked with finding solutions to a hacking challenge, and this is what they attempted to do, though in an unintended and surprising manner." aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

Bless the hearts of people like @eryk.bsky.social but I'm learning that no amount of reasonable voice makes a difference when you have bought out media, academics and politicians + trillion dollar companies pushing Cookie Monster theory 🙄 mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

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Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

it’s true that it is distractive and a waste of time to read everything written about you

Critics have argued that Birhane's advocacy for a relational ethics framework, which emphasizes qualitative assessments drawn from the lived experiences of marginalized communities over rationalist quantitative methods, risks substituting ideological priors for empirical rigor in evaluating AI systems.

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 30/08/2026

And @wolven.blacksky.app is right there of course

We have seen that t he activity of ‘prompt engineering’ bears similarities to the interactive organisation of divination sessions : there is a degree of unpredictability about responses and capabilities; there is a culturally transmitted body of knowledge , or lore, that prescribes best practices for obtaining results; and there is a necessary prestructuring of activities to make them more appropriate for consultation sessions. The extensive parallels support the notion that both are “built on logics of magic” (Williams 2023). Of course there are also important differences in terms of participation frameworks, possible modes of interaction, and the responsiveness and verbosity of interfaces. Interactions with large language models , fast-paced and typically one -onone, may provide more room for rapid trial -and-error and the formation of emergent practices (Chen et al. 2025) . But as the logic of prescriptive technology dictates, in prompt engineering, it is not only the prompt that is being engineer ed, but also the prompter.

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 27/08/2026

Very proud to share this new work led by the amazing Marlou Rasenberg (not on here), with Joel Fischer and me doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We use #EMCA methods to study empirically how LLM users shoulder the burden of solving sequential trouble and end up restructuring their own aims & activities

Abstract: This paper investigates how a core component of human interaction – action projection – is realized in conversations with systems like ChatGPT, which are not able to recognize nor anticipate actions in a sequential sense. We ask what this means for users who engage in longer, multi-step projects built through incremental prompt-response pairs. We draw on Conversation Analysis to examine how early adopters of ChatGPT sequentially organise such interactions, using anonymised naturalistic interactions from the WildChat dataset. Our analysis reveals how action projection in LLM interactions is beset with interactional trouble. In turn, we document a set of practices we term ‘pre-emptive prompting’ that users develop to work around the trouble. In doing so, users employ a range of conversational methods including pre-sequences, prompt categorization, withholding executables, spelling out relevant next actions, eliciting displays of “understanding”, and creating slots for redirection in their attempts to complete their projects. Our work provides empirical evidence of how users interactionally accomplish the configuration work (Alcaras and Ricci 2025) needed to work around the discretization and cluttering that LLMs-in-use produce.

Excerpt 10: ‘wouldnt you require both inputs’ wc_1211945; wc_usr_d2a27584b4185dda [conv_index: 359]
1 user : ok if i said i want to provide you with input A (which is an items description) and just assess its format and presentation then i provided you with input B (which is also a item desctiption for a similar item) but in a way diffrent format could you make the B input into A input
2 LLM: Yes, I can certainly help you with that. Please provide me with Input B, and I will try to make it resemble Input A in terms of format and presentation.
3 user: wouldnt you require both inputs

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And also: "guardrails are a scam" -- @olivia.science mu.social/profile/oliv...

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 25/08/2026

One for #criticalcodestudies — and an excellent example of the analytical possibilities afforded by "AI" systems that are radically open, from data sets and training checkpoints to post-training and fine-tuning regimes

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 27/08/2026

As we conclude, > [LLM] users encounter a fundamental asymmetry: they must singlehandedly supply much of the sequential structure that is ordinarily co-constructed by multiple participants ... This hidden labour challenges accounts of LLM use that focus on performance and optimization

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Be the person Dolly Parton would’ve wanted you to be: yourself.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/08/2026

> Any digital computer can surpass a human at many feats, e.g. calculations per second, but that grants no humanity to the machine.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/08/2026

> As I noted in a previous blog-post, I’d hoped that the retraction would do enough to set the record straight. Since then, several of the authors have done the rounds in various news outlets framing this as a mistake attributable to accidentally incorporating a single line in the main text. 1/n

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 07/08/2026

Way too credulous. And you are not alone, because these 'reasoning' traces are specifically finetuned to come across as maximally credible. Perhaps useful: Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... — esp the sections on RLHF and demystifying reasoning

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 02/08/2026

Of course @olivia.science is on the case mu.social/profile/oliv...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

One of the hardest things to teach people is that white supremacy doesn't require racial hatred to keep itself going, and this thread kind of does a good job at pointing out how and why that happens.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026

The "Winner" in question is Langdon Winner. The piece in question is his "Do Artifacts Have Politics," which is something I incorporate into every philosophy of technology, computing ethics, or tech ethics course I teach.

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Do Artifacts Have Politics? | JSTOR

Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Winter, 1980, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 02/08/2026

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

olivia.science

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026

"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026

I know this sucks, especially for my coauthors (I'm used to rejections) & I'm sharing here in the spirit of sharing rejection, as well good news because getting your work rejected is part & parcel of academic research & it happens to us all. importantly, it doesn't reflect on our self worth

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 15/07/2026

Revised! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

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Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies

The ubiquity and ease of use of large language models makes it easy to overlook the interactional and interpretive processes at play. To understand the attraction of this technology we need to trace i...

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ONSTA ☕️ VTUBER💫✨ @onsta.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

IT'S @dilfosaur.bsky.social BIRTHDAY AND WE PARTYIN AND DRAWIN YIPPEEE 💫✨ twitch.tv/onsta

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Dr. Jay @mckupo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@markdingemanse.net heya! My lab and I are working on an interactive repair study in Kyoto and I was wondering if I could reach out about live recording software/ hardware/ logistics.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/07/2026

Do others feel this way too?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/07/2026

Oh, wow. These terms are all vacuous. The terminology has decayed to the point of just everything being a synonym for prompt. 1/2

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026

We call on Ireland to recuse itself from digital and fiscal files during its presidency of the European Union due to the State’s ‘questionable track record’ on digital policy and corporate tax www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Government should not chair EU debates on tech policy, academics say

Open letter criticises State’s ‘questionable track record’ on digital policy and corporate tax

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Science cannot be automated, yes. But no, more philosophical sophistication will not "solve" this. The only conclusion for the philosophically sophisticated is that automating epistemology is a fool's errand.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/10/2025

Finally, if anybody wants access to PDFs they may not otherwise, please visit: olivia.science#publications — the little PDF button should work in all cases regardless of your academic status. 💜

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Olivia Guest

Hi! I am an Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science. I work in the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Donders Centre for Cognition and the School of Arti...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/07/2026

Yes, we have a few in the sections "A Broken Metaphor Is Right Twice a Day" and "(Un)licensed Analogies" in the paper above. And also some more here in this paper: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/05/2026

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism.

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Critical AI

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

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404 Media @404media.co · 08/07/2026

Have you seen these ChatGPT ahh flyers? Well, we at 404 Media see them everywhere. “It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.”

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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Do you guys wanna see the worst one of these?

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Dr Virginia Calabria (she•her•lei•idda) @calvirgi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Third and last keynote at #icca2026 from Prof. Makoto Hayashi on contrastives in Japanese. My PhD thesis on #collaborativeturns is half made of quotations from his work! #emca

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 30/06/2026

There's a lovely page created by Gene Lerner that has PDFs for Jefferson's papers liso-archives.liso.ucsb.edu/Jefferson/ , but pages like that are always just one institutional (in)action away from being gone. I'm happy to hear from @elliotthoey.bsky.social that ISCA will make an effort to backup

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Gail Jefferson's PUBLICATIONS

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 06/07/2026

Sometimes when I have lots of urgent things to do I fall down a rabbithole and have some fun. Here's a lengthy blog post on the history and material culture of Akpafu, the community I worked with when doing field research for my PhD thesis ideophone.org/the-mawu-and... #Ghana #archaeology #iron

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The Mawu and the mountains: some historical and cartographical notes

The Mawu of present-day Akpafu relate in their oral histories that their ancestors lived in the mountains between their current…

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/06/2026

I just did it too and there's an EDIT BUTTON???? Here you go: move.eurosky.tech

screenshot of the menu with the "edit post" option!!!!!!

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