iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 9h

What happens when an AI researcher challenges the direction of the industry from within? Meet @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, one of the 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates — a pioneering researcher confronting concentrated power in artificial intelligence. rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 4h

ILLEGAL USE of copyrighted material - unethical to the core.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14h

a common misogynist pattern we've seen from oldschool twitter and of course offline misogyny: they seem to strip us of our job titles, degrees, even names and genders in some cases to help buoy their claims we're not experts nor scholars... I don't care that much personally, but it's a useful tell!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 11h

This is my data politics collection. I’m not saying it’s exhaustive. It’s growing almost every day. And several volumes (like “The Nerd Reich”) are scattered elsewhere & in use. But my point is: I have one. And I think you should too.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's missing? is that women make 25% LESS than men, that women with a college degree historically earn the same as a man w/ a high school degree. Project 2025 aims to reduce the number of women going to college & in the laborforce. This policy is DESIGNED to make it harder for women to get loans.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 1965 Ralph Nader published "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile." Switch out the end to "American Ai" and we are repeating history (sort of). Unethical to the core, knowingly unsafe as a product.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't anthropomorphize. Read this if you haven't already ⬇️

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don't allow other products on the market which are only 70% safe or which commit FELONIES. All of this crap should be isolated in a lab and come out in a 100 years when it is actually properly and ethically developed.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's intellectual theft, data theft, and plagiarism. Unethical to its core.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The criminal rogue broligarchy

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026

"Which social groups are harmed? What natural resources are consumed? Who makes profit?" If you're not asking this in discussions about technology then the answer to what will happen is predictable (see above): unhinged misogyny, eugenics — supposedly all the things you were trying to depart from.

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Investigate DOGE @investigatedoge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Elon Musk and his DOGE operatives ran roughshod over our government...& created real-world disasters that impacted 100s of thousands of lives. We need lawmakers who will commit to issuing subpoenas & launching immediate investigations into Musk’s actions...” www.aol.com/articles/adv...

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Advocacy Group Demands Congressional Pledges To Investigate Elon Musk’s DOGE - AOL

An advocacy coalition known as the Investigate DOGE campaign is urging congressional lawmakers and midterm candidates to commit to formal investigations into the Department of Government Efficiency, t...

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saw this film today. It was brutal. Nearly 4 hours. Felt like a captive. Producer Nick Shumaker spoke beforehand. Mixed feelings about it as a film, but came away even more repulsed by the megalomaniac.

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Musk Official Trailer (2026) – Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk Documentary

YouTube video by Trailer HQ

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An award for helping us move toward epistemic collapse, fascism, and all of the oppressive patriarchal isms.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My favorite time of year - the Zurich Film Festival! This year I am seeing several documentaries on the theme of so-called artificial intelligence.

A poster for the Zurich Film Festival with abstract art of camera lenses.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm afraid the Doomer discourse has persisted for another week (UN "AI" briefing, etc) so in case you missed this when we first put it out earlier in this bananas news cycle, I'm reposting it: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fakepedia just makes crap up. Read this thread.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When the water breaks through a dam it’s not because the water is smarter than the dam. It’s that the engineers didn’t design the dam right.

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Dam Break: Massive Water Release

Alt: Dam Break: Massive Water Release

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All we can expect when trying to scale up AI systems is diminishing returns and devastating environmental damage. Calls for `slowing down’ can conveniently hide the diminishing returns, while still convincing people that the tech is “all powerful”.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

... and eventually there would be no new original books.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Called "strategic ignorance" in the history & philosophy of knowledge, they pretend certain inconvenient "uncomfortable knowledge" doesn't exist in order to divert & frame the conversation in ways convenient to their bias & position. But there is a mountain of critical scholarship from all angles.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We call it "strategic ignorance" in the history & philosophy of knowledge whereby they pretend certain inconvenient "uncomfortable knowledge" doesn't exist in order to divert & frame the conversation in ways convenient to their bias & position. Read the thread for sources of critical knowledge. ⬇️

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Sarah Handley-Cousins @sarahbelle721.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Joan Scott's "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" turns 40 this year! Do you assign it? Has it been meaningful for your work? We want to hear from you!! Please submit reflections & remembrances to Nursing Clio & we'll compile a celebratory post! 🗃️ nursingclio.org/2026/09/23/a...

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Anglo-American Gender History turns 40!

Joan Wallach Scott’s 1986 article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” turns 40 this year. Published in the American Historical Review, this article laid the ground on which Anglo-Ame…

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Archives belong to the people!

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These plans impact everyone, not only Dutch folks. #Skystorians, spare a minute, take a read and sign if you might ever use the Dutch National Archives.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"If AI is 'inevitable,' neither market forces nor the immutable tides of progress [make] it so.... A [few] firms are exploiting their economic and political power to impose a new technology in the face of two developments: mass resentment and muted demand for paid (and unsubsidized) AI services."

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is infuriating. A while back, I found out that the Irish government had quietly changed the interpretation of copyright law in favour of genAI development. Here again, we see our own government sneakily putting commercial interests ahead of those of their citizens. Typical of them. #SpeirGorm

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Politicians everywhere selling out citizens to corporate/billionaire interests at the expense of the planet. Canada doing the same with its "AI for All"...mutton-dressed-as- lamb plan. From neoliberalism to nihiliberalism.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Keep your sense of humor for your sanity while we put out the fires of insanity.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A quick read with a great list of sensible and critical resources - books/readings/film/podcast

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Epistemic collapse is the goal and politicians & administrators are complicit.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Think of the combined CENTURIES of expertise lost here, the creativity, the knowledge, the depth and breadth of cultural learning and understanding, the generations of minds enriched and enlightened, the sheer weight of history that led to the establishment of these programmes. Purged. Destroyed.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Let's see, misogyny, male egotistical solipsism, white supremacy, eugenics, economic elitism, and false claims of objectivity ... and that's just the start of what the two groups have in common.

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