iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/12/2025

Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

When I-35 first sliced through Austin, Texas, homes and businesses in the path of construction were forced to relocate. No archive was kept of the lives that the highway upended. As TxDOT now moves to expand the interstate, photographer Liz Moskowitz records the stories of people being displaced.

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Along a Path of Impermanence

A documentary photographer records some of the people and places being disrupted by an expansion of Interstate 35 through the center of Austin, Texas.

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Wintry Mix @wintrymix.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Starbucks strike begins TOMORROW—don’t cross the picket line!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/11/2025

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived. (Published October)

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 02/11/2025

Final two hours: please share 🙏🏾 In the vision of hope—that together, we can transform people’s ability to survive—is also an ongoing duty, one we must cling to as world powers seek to erode our will. Help six families with food, shelter, emergency healthcare: 322/1000

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters. gofund.me/09619a41e

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Donate to Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa, organized by Sudean Peters

My name is Sudean Peters, and I am the Executive Director of … Sudean Peters needs your support for Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is an organization trusted by someone I trust who's providing on-the-ground aid to people in Negril and Kingston, two cities people will likely be sheltering in as they flee the direct path

"Dar Al Islam Jamaica is preparing to aid vulnerable communities as hurricane Melissa nears. Alhamdulillah we currently serve families through meal programs in Kingston, Negril. Donate to help provide emergency & hygiene kits, hot meals & food packages, relief for families in high-risk areas. info@daralislamjamaica.org"

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

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How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out

It's a little hidden, but there is a way to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 26/10/2025

Every year, my OES chapter provides college scholarships for Detroit high school students. If you’re so inclined, please support our DoubleGood fundraiser. Thank you! popup.doublegood.com/s/l7t9x6o8

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Ebony’s Pop-Up Store: 4 Days Only!

Click here to buy our delicious popcorn and 50% of your purchase benefits this fundraiser. #doublegood #dgpopup

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

All politics is local. Election Day is in a couple weeks. That new official might be the difference between ICE coming to your community and terrorizing you and your neighbors

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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Remember our Dirt in a Cog zine gives you handy dandy ways to incorporate pushing back on alt right authoritarianism into your everyday life. Check it out on our website below. invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...

Cover of a zine called Dirt in a Cog small ways to resist fascism that make a big difference bt Invisible Histories

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

If you gotta tell the lie machine not to lie, maybe there are more fundamental issues

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 10/10/2025

Shares please. You have been an incredible light to young dad H and his toddlers—keeping them housed for almost a year has saved them from deadly cold, exposure, shrapnel. For kids, this isn’t trivial. Sit with that impact and keep it going. They still need that support. 18 hours left. 23/640

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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islsnews.bsky.social @islsnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Second and final deadline ISLS2026 extension announcement!! ISLS2026 submissions (all ICLS & CSCL formats) now due October 20, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE, in recognition of ongoing academic and personal challenges. See call for proposals for each format at 2026.isls.org

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ISLS Annual Meeting 2026 | Home

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 06/10/2025

3 HOURS LEFT, please share! 💛 for my birthday, I’ve given us a modest task: help high school kids take their exams this week—yes, in Gaza, yes, in the north. They’re still studying amongst bombing & invasion. Help Spark Space’s youth volunteers bring these students electricity: 824/1000

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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 05/10/2025

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 21/09/2025

🚨 Please share - two young women and their families need to evacuate from under fire - 8 hours left 🚨 Mai’s and Ghadeer’s families are relying on us. They are blessedly alive and this is their ask of us. So it’s our duty. 4767/5000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

A white banner. On the right is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from the side. His wings are partly open and his head is turned towards us. He is about to take flight. On the left is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. There’s a big red banner that says “Urgent evacuation needed.” In the bottom right corner in green text is the link tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We are hiring for two tenure line positions at @penngse.bsky.social The first is an open rank position in preK-12 educational leadership: apply.interfolio.com/173436 The second is an open rank position in counseling & human development: apply.interfolio.com/173459 Please spread the word!

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 13/09/2025

Students are STILL studying in Gaza! Here’s how to help them! Over a hundred kids are taking their secondary exams for the first time in two years, and the Spark volunteers are helping with shelter & electricity—WE help with the cost. 36 hours left—0/500 chuffed.org/project/spar...

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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 07/09/2025

MATCHING £400! Today, we highlight Nya’s family of eight, most of them children suffering from malnutrition. They lost their home and remain in the north, moving from one place to another. They need a tent. Give / find her link here. 476/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the left is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." There’s a big green banner that says “the next £400 matched!” In the bottom left corner in green text is the link tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

As we try to figure out how to respond to AI in education, we shouldn’t romanticize the pre-AI age. For example, some are calling for a return to “blue books” which I am remember cramming for and then completely forgetting about within the course of a week. Is this really want we want to return to?

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DJ, I presume? @computeloop.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025

You're going to tell me the same technology that cannot even identify Black folks as human is going to be able to do my hair?

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DWRL @dwrl.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

DFMI 2025: ENERGY - DAY 4 On Thursday, DFMI participants logged and introduced energy through cyanotyping. Check out what @martheawebber.bsky.social, @mez-rperez.bsky.social, and Jered Mabaquiao are working on!

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Southern Environmental Law Center @selc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

BREAKING: Elon Musk’s xAI facility is polluting South Memphis, we’re taking action. Get the latest: www.selc.org/news/resista...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2025

Trump is starting the dehumanization process to get the military ready to fire on US citizens on US soil. To get the military to that point, they must see fellow Americans as enemies and less than human. These are the seeds of mass atrocities.

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sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 All that bending and twisting he did to bow down, and they ain’t hire him. I’m cackling!

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 02/06/2025

This is such a beautifully generative question. I hope folks are asking themselves this too. And if they don’t know where to start, look at folks already doing the work. It’s happening.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 16/05/2025

At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆 Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW. Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The relentless pursuit of AI by the elites has nothing to do with efficiency or progress, and everything to do with the control of information and the manufacturing of consent. This is an existential threat to humanity.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

complaining about my day means I’m in a decent mood. if I say some shit like “just practicing gratitude today” I’m probably at rock bottom and contemplating illegal activity

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

saying "well my heart's in the right place" if there's too long of a silence after something I said in a group setting

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/04/2025

My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation. I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism. Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community. kettering.org/do-not-compl...

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Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks

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