iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Agreed! And for more on troubling "the digital divide" and how it "has allowed the complex power dynamics at play at the intersection of computing and public life to escape scrutiny, obscuring larger, structural forms of inequality that are not so easy to solve," see this piece from Roderic Crooks:

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Toward People’s Community Control of Technology: Race, Access, and Education

This field review explores how the benefits of access to computing for racialized and minoritized communities has become an accepted fact in policy and research, despite decades of evidence that techn...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I *hate* this "digital divide" framing for AI; even libraries marshal it to justify their "AI literacy classes," ensuring all have "access" for self-actualization and economic opportunity. Maybe instead some folks are sufficiently literate, and they're instead choosing *principled refusal*.

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thank you for sharing your research, Matt @mnbui.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to have you at our conference.

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Matt Bui @mnbui.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thrilled to be a part of this panel at @kingsdh.bsky.social The Digital Conference on reimagining community & to hear about @elmcitytree.blacksky.app 's current work on Blacksky! Still ruminating on some ideas around buliding community amid platform-racial capitalism.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/06/2026

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Paolo Cardullo @kiddingthecity.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

AI bubble exposed by the generation thought to be consuming it most - digital natives 👀

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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

#OutNow in #iCS Ong and Jackson draw on insights from over 100 Global South civil society leaders to argue that mainstream counter-disinformation funding models are often disconnected from local priorities and can reinforce donor power asymmetries. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

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What counter-disinformation funders got wrong: Global South critiques of the field

Inspired by decolonial frameworks and South-to-South methodologies in media studies (Chakravartty & Roy, 2017; Medrado & Verdegem, 2024) and sociological critique of the aid industrial complex (Kra...

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In February, a farmer went a few seconds over his time at a city council meeting when speaking out against a datacenter. It's a $200 fine for trespassing, but he's vowed to fight it. We've also got the police report from the incident.

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Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight

Darren Blanchard went a few seconds over his three minute time limit and found himself in handcuffs.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work

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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas

Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 09/03/2026

🚨NEWS: @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org just filed a lawsuit on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social challenging the Trump administration's policy targeting social media researchers and trust & safety workers for visa revocation and deportation. More: knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

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Technology Researchers Challenge Trump Policy Threatening Deportation for Work on Social Media Platforms and Online Harms

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Almost every dystopian outcome warned about/fought against by thoughtful observes of digital media & machine learning systems over the past ten years has come to pass, of course I'm fucking cranky

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

BROOKINGS: Our survey results lend themselves" to some conclusions: ".. professional AI use is far from ubiquitous and many respondents expressed skepticism that it would be as revolutionary as some experts expect." @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

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How are Americans using AI? Evidence from a nationwide survey | Brookings

Brookings scholars Alikhani, Harris, and Patnaik break down the latest evidence on how Americans use AI, both personally and at work

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

In the AC Hotel, we got word from a staff member that the agents were staying here and questioning the workers—the workers that were cleaning their rooms, the workers that were making their food. They were questioning them and asking for their ID and in a very aggressive way.

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"We got alerts that ICE was staying in some of the hotels here in Pasadena," said Jose Madera, director of the Pasadena Community Job Center.
"Organizers and community members went around to verify, and we identified that in the AC Hotel, the Westin and in Hotel Dena, there were immigration agents. In the AC Hotel, we got word from a staff member that the agents were staying here and questioning the workers—the workers that were cleaning their rooms, the workers that were making their food.
They were questioning them and asking for their ID and in a very aggressive way. So that's why our community organizers came here to say we don't want ICE here. We brought elected officials and urged them to not let any ICE agents here."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..

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Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The situation in DTLA to which 700 Marines have been deployed is a couple dozen interfaith clergypersons leading a small crowd in prayer.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 09/06/2025

NEW: Over a thousand people are rallied in Downtown LA in support of SEIU, after SEIU President Pres. David Huerte was arrested days ago after an ICE raid (ABC7) Won't be able to be as active with the updates today, but I'll do my best to provide some

Hundreds of protestors on a lawn carrying signs and flags

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/06/2025

No kid’s education should be defunded to pay for giant tax giveaways for billionaires.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“The increasing role of consumer-oriented technology companies in warfare has implications for everyone — not just those who are targeted by AI weapons,” write Brian J. Chen, Tina M. Park and ‪@pasternack.bsky.social‬. www.techpolicy.press/booming-mili...

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Pope Leo on Pentecost and a Spirit that opens borders: "Where there is love, there is no room for prejudice, for 'security' zones separating us from our neighbors, for the exclusionary mindset that, tragically, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Pentecost Sunday - Holy Mass in the Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities (8 June 2025) | LEO XIV

The Holy Father Leo XIV presides over the Eucharistic Celebration on the Solemnity of Pentecost - Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities, 8 June 202

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

ICE crossed a line in LA

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/06/2025

Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation. It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop. Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

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Palantir’s Collection of Disease Data at C.D.C. Stirs Privacy Concerns

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Speaker Robert Rivas @caspeakerrivas.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

tinyurl.com/4hdvp85b This is unconstitutional and vindictive. We're the nation's economic engine and the largest donor state, and deserve our fair share. I'll use every legal and constitutional tool available to defend CA -- we must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes.

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Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

It’s legitimate cause for a tax strike. Money from California is going all over the country to help support states that, through hundreds of years of mismanagement, haven’t managed to lift half their populations out of poverty. And they get spit on for it.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Pleased join @markey.senate.gov today in a discussion about protecting our rights and opportunities in the age of AI. A 10-year freeze on AI guardrails would abandon the American public and ignore its concerns. *Truly* innovative technology must be just and fair. www.masslive.com/politics/202...

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Markey, advocates call out ban on states’ AI oversight in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Enacting a 10-year moratorium on state laws regulating the growth of artificial intelligence is "dangerous and unprecedented," experts warned Wednesday.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 04/06/2025

Republicans snuck an AI regulation BAN into the “Big Beautiful Bill.” That means companies like Real Page can use AI to get around price fixing laws and RAISE YOUR RENT. BUT this policy violates the Senate's budget rules. I'm calling foul — and fighting back to reject it.

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Republicans snuck an AI regulation BAN into the “Big Beautiful Bill.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The head of FEMA reportedly said during a briefing that he wasn't aware the U.S. had a hurricane season, leaving staffers "baffled" and "confused"

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FEMA Head Said He Was Unaware Of U.S. Hurricane Season, Sources Say

It was not clear to agency staff whether he meant it literally, as a joke, or in some other context.

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget proposes to terminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/4kEnEPo

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS." Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes. bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...

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The 2026 Federal Budget Proposal Shutters The Institute for Museum and Library Services

The details of the 2026 federal budget proposal spell out the goal of shutting down the Institute for Museum and Library services.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We published a piece in March saying the real Trump/Vought/DOGE goal was to bring universities to their knees, and now they’re just … saying it out loud. From our blog: altnih4science.substack.com/p/trump-is-a...

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Trump is attacking NIH because politicizing funding can force universities to become conservative thinktanks

It's bad, folks. The real war is on free thought in the United States.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 30/05/2025

Someone hacked the personal cellphone of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and impersonated her in texts and calls (possibly with an AI voice clone) to leading Republicans and corporate executives: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In my first op-ed for @nytimes.com, I argue that the alliance between Silicon Valley & the US government is a threat to democracy. The Republican tax bill now up in the Senate, which would ban states from regulating AI for a decade, will only cement that trajectory. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"The local newspaper still publishes with events and local happenings, but without a newsroom equipped to hold power accountable. If many of the community newspapers owned by Times Media Group aren’t able to fill that critical local watchdog role, what exactly is being preserved?"

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This owner thinks newspapers are better off diminished than dead

“It's just kind of the way it is. Do we have the watchdog role? Can we do that now in all these areas? No. I think that's obvious."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students. *They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase *Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

Higher education is, effectively, a major American export — and one where the foreign students consuming it do so in American communities, also spending money on housing, groceries and books there. More than 1.1 million international students contributed about $43 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-24 academic year, most of it on tuition and housing, according to an analysis by NAFSA, a nonprofit association of international educators.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/05/2025

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

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Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews

More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.

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