iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026

Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.

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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States

Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As an erstwhile book historian and current digital humanist I need the Bluesky community to help me solve a mystery: we've all read the spine chilling (pun intended) reports of anthropic and others chopping up books to scan, but I have some questions:

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reading this I've just realised what AI hype discourse reminds me of: a proud indulgent parent whose precious offspring can do no wrong; the tone in almost all reportage is breathless gushing, and never "yeah, so what?"

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Showing your workings is a profoundly feminist act. youtube.com/shorts/R9VQn...

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AI does the math

YouTube video by Oxford Mathematics

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As the hype cycle around recent declarations around the eschatonic potential of AI escalate, I want to bring people's attn: to this doc by one of the so-called "fathers" of AI, John McCarthy: www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/slides/d... That first sentence sums up almost everything abt these narratives.

www-formal.stanford.edu

dartmouth-sli

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 21/07/2026

Bellingcat has been monitoring student protests in India. Police initially denied reports protesters were met with violence at a July 20 march, although later acknowledged injuries to protesters and officers. Social media videos showed tear gas deployed and batons used by police against protestors.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Millions of people in China have lost access to their AI partners after the government moved to impose harsh rules on emotional relationships between humans and machines ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

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China bans AI relationships with humans

Users lose digital partners as Beijing tackles declining birthrates.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What's with the tumbleweed here #indiasky?

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just finished reading @randomwalker.bsky.social 's brilliant & sensible talk (here: www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...) where he talks about human creativity as evidence of superintelligence that can be possibly enhanced by AI, but poorly emulated by it.

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What will be left for us to work on?

ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

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Digital Civics @digitalcivics.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you're trying to understand how some of the major players (people & companies) fit together in what is unfolding in tech & politics right now, this is a really useful resource from FES Future of Work. #EduSky #AIEthics #TechEthics #DataPrivacy #Politics #TechPolitics www.authoritarian-stack.info

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The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 08/07/2026

Yesssssssssssss

A screenshot from the preprint (next post in OP's thread). The highlighted sentence reads "The term artificial intelligence does not refer to a coherent set of technologies and it never has."

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Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

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How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.

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Anime Feminist @animefeminist.com · 08/07/2026

Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia – Episode 1 – 2 A beautifully-rendered, heartbreaking double premiere about the horror and tragedy of war and invasion… and one girl’s grasp for her own agency in the middle of it all. www.animefeminist.com/jaadugar-a-w...

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Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia – Episode 1 - 2 - Anime Feminist

A beautifully-rendered, heartbreaking double premiere about the horror and tragedy of war and invasion... and one girl's grasp for her own agency in the middle of it all.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm putting together a database of indigenous initiatives that have been using AI for different use cases here: chivalrous-carpet-76a.notion.site/47e033ca4c5a... please do let me know if you have recommendations for initiatives for inclusion!

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Indigenous Initiatives Using AI | Notion

This is a database of indigenous initiatives using AI for their own communities: please drop me a note at padmini@designbeku.org if you have suggestions for resources to be included, comments or amend...

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm currently working on the idea of untranslatability in the age of AI: looking at machine translation as an act of violence - and I'd love to hear about any models that cluster related concepts from different languages together. Already working on a prototype w/ a friend but tell me more!

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is big, and it took the global publicity that was warranted by the BBC to get them to *finally* take cognisance of Meta's continuous flagrant disregard for community guidelines and takedown requests.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hello! I’m in the UK from the 23rd of April to the 22nd of May. I'll be in Cambridge / Edinburgh / London / Birmingham and Bristol and I’d love to be connected to folk who are interested in/working on:

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/02/2026

The enshittification guy not just embracing enshittification tech, but defending it through strawman arguments that seek to misdirect his readers is quite the move. Yes, I’m talking about Cory Doctorow (very poorly) defending his use of LLMs, as @tante.cc expertly breaks down here:

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Acting ethically in an imperfect world

Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Genuine question: does the #digitalhumanities need gen AI? Or is our work to imagine alternatives (psst, that's what I'm trying to do but I'm open to other ideas)

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A message for you all to carry through the year

Image is a popular astronaut meme. An astronaut is looking at the earth from space saying wait, I am worthy of love? An astronaut is behind him holding up flowers and saying always have been

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

enshittification intensifies. google now throwing up wrong timezone difference information. what is additionally bizarre is that it links to the correct result in from the linked snippet (worldtimebuddy.com)

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Realising the academy only has itself to blame for the AI driven student plagiarism problem (at least in the humanities and social sciences) still largely entrenched in ossified modes of making knowledge available rewarded by systems like tenure made it easy for formulaic templates easy to emulate.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

What are we doing about the semantic drift of the word data? In my explorations of indigeneity and data sovereignty, the word data feels less and less adequate for what it represents in this context. Ironically, data anchored in its original etymological context: what is given - is most appropriate.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

At a cultural sector conference + got into an argument w/ a self proclaimed technoutopian: after I declared capitalism is always inevitably corrupt: I was asked what the alternative is, accused of being socialist - I realised the model I want to see is not communist or socialist but *feminist*

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Srsly why won't people realise that gen ai is just the most obsequious customer service dressed up as information making you believe it's knowledge

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Fossilized Tree Sap @amberrl.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Yes hello I need to speak to the manager of native Minnesota raspberries

Variety
Himbo Top™
Berry Color
Red
Ripening time
Early-mid
Description
Large fruit with good
flavor. Hardy to zone

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr

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The Machines Are Not All Right: Rethinking (Artificial) Intelligence • In Plainspeak

Can AI truly understand human experience without our language, identity, and history? This piece explores how current models fall short and where hope lies in community-driven, inclusive approaches.

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

is it my ignorance that leads me to believe that the early groundbreaking work of Alison Adam in feminist rethinking of the epistemological basis of AI is really not as central to teaching and research in the field as it should be?

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It’s no longer possible to argue that social media giants aren’t publishers. Algorithms are being juiced to favour particular voices and worldviews. They are not even playing fields.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

question for the hivemind: are there any countries where there is implemented regulation that compulsorily requires digital products to declare that a customer/user is interacting with an AI agent and not a human?

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 20/04/2025

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Rothko room at the Tate modern, London. Several dark red / purple canvasses with a rectangle or two painted on them.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hello! I’m in Nova Scotia between the 25th of April & the 8th of May - I’m interested in meeting people who work in the fields of design justice, feminist ethics and technology as well as disability justice. Do put me in touch with anyone who might fit the bill - and if this is you, pls do say hi!

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Guillen @kolenyo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#OSINT tool share as first bsky post :) Do you need to analyse gory videos for visual clues? Run them through this tool to blur human forms so you're slightly less exposed to distressing material: colab.research.google.com/drive/1l6W52...

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The memory hole is something I've been talking about for a while and a reason why I urge everyone to archive their social media as well as published work and not depend on the cloud or websites that are doomed to disappear.

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Chance Kubesh™ @itskoob.mov · 19/12/2024

If you guys miss the old internet, you can join in and contribute at any time. Sign up at a static host like neocities or nekoweb. Make a shrine to some random shit you love, and other people will love it. It doesn't have to look good, use barebones html, plenty find it endearing. It screams Human

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

I'm glad to see more conversations about what participatory design for AI might look like, especially in the context of the Global South, and I wanted to share this paper that I wrote in collaboration with Shohini B. at Point of View and Sasha John from Digital Futures Lab. #aiethics

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

New series of Succession just dropped.

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