iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

UMass is spending tens of millions of dollars on AI while defunding the Institute for Social Science Research & the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute; the Centers for: Research on Families; Diversity Sciences; and Latin American Studies; and canceling outright the entire Arabic language program

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This paper needs to influence HCI in a major way. Included these findings in a teacher AI literacy workshop this summer and it is one of the lasting impressions the teachers took away. They really empathized with seeing other professionals lose skill and identity and I think it shocked them.

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Dylan Paré, PhD (they/them) @mxdylanp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Post 2 of Unearthing the Cloud is live! 🖥️ PA is an AI hot spot, but what does rapid data center expansion mean for communities? Dahye Lee explores power, water & industrial legacy. 👉 sites.psu.edu/aidill/2026/... By AI & Data Infrastructures Lab (PIs: Natalie Rae & Dylan Paré) @psuedu.bsky.social

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Why Pennsylvania? – AI & Data Infrastructures Learning Lab

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Cool new project from @mxdylanp.bsky.social and Natalie Rae and their lab: it’s a blog series titled, "Unearthing the Cloud: Civic Action in the AI Era”. The first post explores the question, “'[W]ho gets to have a voice in decisions that shape the places where people live?'"

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Unearthing the Cloud – AI & Data Infrastructures Learning Lab

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Dr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Over 800 wildfires are burning across Canada right now. Canada also holds more than a quarter of the world's boreal forest and is warming at twice the global average rate. The smoke is the part getting attention. Here is everything else. 🧵

A severe crown fire burns through a boreal forest at night. Tall conifer trees are engulfed in intense orange and red flames, with charred trunks visible in the foreground against the wall of fire behind them. Photo by Stefan Doerr.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/04/2026

1. Trump has weaponized the FCC to control the media under his autocratic rule. Now, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is turning the agency towards his next target: transgender characters in TV shows. He seeks to change the rating system to penalize trans characters. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Trump's FCC Targets Parental Rating System Over Transgender TV Characters

The FCC is seeking comment on whether the TV Parental Guidelines rating system needs to be changed to penalize shows for transgender or nonbinary content.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

An American physician, now practising medicine in Canada has some useful reflections "In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me" canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/15/i...

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I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the…

The differences hit me immediately, and are profound.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Why did I think they simply canceled all of them. Nope it was discriminatory

As evidence, the filing notes a list Mr. Fox compiled of what he called the "craziest" and "other bad" grants, which he planned to highlight on DOGE's X account. He used three dozen keywords, including
"L.G.B.T.Q.""BIPOC," "tribal, "ethnicity,"
"gender," "equality," "immigration
"citizenship" and "melting pot." (A majority of the two dozen grants deemed "craziest" related to L.G.B.T.Q. subjects.)
In the deposition, Mr. Fox said the list reflected his "subjective" judgment about whether a grant might be out of line with Mr. Trump's executive order.
"Crazy' is one way of saying it," he said.
"Most incriminating' is another way."

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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 @mxdylanp.bsky.social looked at how #transyouth used #VR painting to envision livable and joyful futures for themselves, showing how #BigTech technologies can be used "towards liberatory ends". Read more: tinyurl.com/nkwwj38t

This article examines how transgender youth used virtual reality (VR) painting to critique harm and imagine more livable futures. Drawing on a 2018 linear and 360° documentary with three trans youth, I analyze their 3D VR paintings and narratives to show how they moved from recounting exclusion and constraint to envisioning futures grounded in joy, kinship, and belonging. I frame these creative acts as virtual world-becoming – a process of pivoting between lived histories and imagined futures while creating virtual worlds. The analysis brings together trans-queer phenomenologies, studies of trans joy, speculative approaches, and restorying to explore how youth storytelling resists erasure and constructs counter-narratives. While the project is presented through Big Tech infrastructures, the youths’ stories emphasized cozy, accessible, and communal technologies rather than sleek corporate futurism. Their visions highlight the importance of collective spaces where trans and queer people can thrive. This work contributes to educational research on fiction and digital media by showing how digital storytelling can function as both critique and possibility: revealing how technologies are entangled with inequities while opening space for collective imagination and trans-queer joy.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Our article on populism is published in @socquarterly.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Based on 52 interviews with populists and anti-populists during Trump’s first presidency, we make the following contributions 1) We demonstrate the centrality of emotions in anti-populist politics

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Populism, Emotions, and Boundary Work Among Political Activists in the Trump Era

How do emotions shape boundary work among populists and anti-populists? Based on 52 in-depth interviews, we analyze how political activists construct their positions through “emotive contestation.”...

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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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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Deadline for this is in three days! Learning scientists, consider also being artists! #isls26 #isls2026 #learningsciences #learningscientists

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doctor of softboyology @vea.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

✔️ 14 original manuscripts ✔️ 14 response papers ✔️ 1 synthetic commentary And now… ✔️ 1 editorial by us Our 30-paper special issue on affect and emotion in science education is complete. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

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Deborah Fields @stareyes.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

An absolutely amazing opportunity for senior doc students and postdocs. An opportunity for community and mentorship in academia that includes non-academic career paths in industry, nonprofits, policy, etc. I have only ever heard fantastic things. Organized by @luismn.bsky.social and Cecile Sadler

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 11/08/2025

hey just an FYI: we're not yet at the part where AI companies and the state are so closely intertwined that disclosing energy usage would constitute a threat to national security or some other such bullshit, making transparency into the environmental impact of data centers all but impossible

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Dylan Paré, PhD (they/them) @mxdylanp.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

"What is most outstanding about frugal innovation is not just that its technologies are impressive, but that it might actually prompt systemic change by showing people that tech can be developed locally, and not just imported from Silicon Valley."

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Caroline, doing the work @carolinethegeek.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We got a visit from @seattletimes.com on Monday at KidsTeam. You can try Aayushi Dangol's AI Puzzlers for yourself! @hcde.uw.edu @ischool.uw.edu @juliekientz.bsky.social @jasoncyip.bsky.social

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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

One of the best parts of this job is reading, teaching, and learning alongside of fabulous doctoral student colleagues. This open-access article, led by my fantastic advisee Kyle P. Smith, looks across two years of data generated in a class we co-taught at our previous institution.🧵 (1/3)

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Heather Toomey Zimmerman @heather2mezimm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We are hiring Teaching-Focused Postdoctoral Scholars for our academic programs at Penn State: a) Lifelong Learning and Adult Education, b) Workforce Education and Development / Organizational Development and Change, and c) Learning, Design, and Technology. Apply by July 11. tinyurl.com/22cv7z9u

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Teaching-Focused Postdoctoral Scholar in Education

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Rina Chandran @rinachandran.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Call it clickwork, crowdwork, data labor, or ghost work - they are all poorly-paid, precarious and traumatic jobs that make AI possible. Read an excerpt from The AI Con by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social on @restofworld.org . restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor

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The hidden labor that makes AI work

Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book, The AI Con. Below is an excerpt on the invisible labor behind some AI tools.

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The recording of my event w/ @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @xriskology.bsky.social w/ @datasociety.bsky.social is now posted. Emile & I are planning a Fall event on how the conversation on AI, Big Tech, Eugenics & TESCREALism needs to include others beyond tech researchers. Stay tuned! lnkd.in/g9Q_gffq

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Reid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I wanted to provide a thread here of some of the things I've been involved with in the fight against unethical generative AI for easy reference, starting with my work with @GaryMarcus.bsky.social. Our article shows irrefutable evidence of blatant plagiarism 🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Here come the lawsuits. Workday AI hiring lawsuit over disability and age discrimination. Uber pays out over its AI uses with racial bias in UK. Estée Lauder ex employee win after being sacked by algorithms. Disney and Universal sue midjourney. One of many ... www.ibtimes.co.uk/workday-hit-...

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Workday Hit With Lawsuit Claiming Its AI Shuts Out Black, Disabled, Older Jobseekers

A lawsuit alleges Workday's AI-powered hiring tools discriminate against Black, disabled, and older job seekers, automatically rejecting applications within minutes.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I've been working on something! It's not nearly done yet, but I thought no need to gatekeep the work in progress. This is an AI ethics "syllabus" based on a post-hoc curation of hundreds of short form videos I've made for social media, to make the content more accessible. bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...

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AI Ethics with Professor Casey

AI Ethics with Professor Casey bit.ly/ai-ethics-syllabus For nearly five years, I've (Casey Fiesler aka Professor Casey) been creating social media content (largely on TikTok and Instagram) about art...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

As I've been saying over and over on our book tour for The AI Con, the inevitability argument (including in the form of "AI is here to stay") is an attempt to steal our agency. We don't have to accept that and I encourage everyone to refuse it.

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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Anyone surprised by this, though? Very few people, especially the privileged, are willing to cut back for climate/ environmental reasons

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/06/2025

Remembering Dr. Alan Hart for Pride, trans man from the early 1900s. He revolutionized the detection of tuberculosis, saved thousands of lives, and died using his name, as the man he always was meant to be. We have always been here.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

By 2028, the researchers estimate, the power going to AI-specific purposes will rise to between 165 and 326 terawatt-hours per year. That’s more than all electricity currently used by US data centers for all purposes; it’s enough to power 22% of US households each year. That could generate the same emissions as driving over 300 billion miles—over 1,600 round trips to the sun from Earth.

The researchers were clear that adoption of AI and the accelerated server technologies that power it has been the primary force causing electricity demand from data centers to skyrocket after remaining stagnant for over a decade. Between 2024 and 2028, the share of US electricity going to data centers may triple, from its current 4.4% to 12%.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Hey #EduSky, if you're entering the long weekend w/ thoughts of summer reading, I recommend @bcmerchant.bsky.social's "Blood in the Machine". Last year, @anterobot.bsky.social, @philnichols.bsky.social, and I considered what the Luddites offer educators in the struggle against automation in schools.

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Inspiration from the Luddites: On Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Three educators find inspiration for fighting automation in the classroom in Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech.”

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

3. The narrative of ‘AI futures’ is used to refocus educational outcomes around the automation of intellectual work, stunting the development of young people’s capacities, and preparing them for work that will be precarious, exploitative, and algorithmically disciplined."

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025

It's not regulators curving tech in a less harmful/damaging direction or big tech prioritising conscientiousness over profit that'll shape the technological future of society but rather it's public backlash that's going to be key. the tides are turning www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey.

The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending time on social media. Half (50%) would support a “digital curfew” that would restrict their access to certain apps and sites past 10pm, while 46% said they would rather be young in a world without the internet altogether.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

And if he and his tech bro buddies fail to replace us, then they may succeed in deskilling and disempowering us in order to realize their vision of education as a Skinnerian surveillance hellscape that serves their shareholders and the ruling class.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

It's been a long week. Yes I know it's Tuesday.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This may be the last report on greenhouse gas emissions in the US and it was released thanks to a FOIA request by EDF. The data show that the US is making progress, but much more climate action is needed to limit the climate crisis. Full report here: www.edf.org/freedom-info...

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

things this could lead to in healthcare: - AI making treatment and prescription decisions without oversight - insurance companies using AI without oversight to deny treatments and placement in rehab facilities - AI triaging who get organ transplants, ECMO, ventilators Possibilities are endless

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Superb thread reasserting the importance of higher education in the context of AI - much here is transferable outside of legal education

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

OpenAI's "most powerful system" makes shit up more than half of the time. For its "o4-mini" model, the rate is ***79 percent***

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Because it's #EarthDay, I'm resharing my open library Against AI and Its Environmental Harms at: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI... Educators, as we consider our work and commitments to our students and their futures, how are we teaching about AI's climate impacts? How are we resisting AI hype? #EduSky

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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Bingo. ChatGPT doesn't give you knowledge, it gives you confident lies. If you accept confident lies, you are a fool.

I was on a podcast where kids quizzed two people to decide who was a fake and who was a real expert. The host said early on the kids thought the fake was the expert every time because the actors answered every question confidently and the experts would hedge or even sometimes say "I don't know". They eventually told the fakes to be less confident so the kids would pick the expert sometimes.

It just occurred to me this is now real life with chatGPT, but nobody is telling it to back off.

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