iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"An instant classic. [Data By Design] celebrates data visualization while also casting light on the dark parts of its history ... with rigor and grace." — @albertocairo.com "Data By Design" shows how visualization can lead to a more liberatory world. Out Oct 20th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

3D image of "Data By Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science" by Lauren Klein. With Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, Shiyao Li, Marguerite Adams, Nicholas Yang, Dan Jutan, Jianing Fu, Anna Mola, Zhou Fang, Yang Li and Silas Munro

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 19h

Exatamente, sem necessidade. Falou tudo.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 14/10/2026

Só mesmo o Lula para fazer com que a esquerda demonize a IA mas, ao mesmo tempo, faça um uso corriqueiro e tão banal de tal ferramenta. Considero-me de esquerda, mas certas contradições não podem passar despercebidas.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 13/10/2026

The fact that this protocol is designed to be “open” adds no real value in itself.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 13/10/2026

Well, I think a lot of this comes down to the lack of private accounts on this platform. These days, people value even a basic level of privacy. Even on social media, not everyone wants to share their thoughts with the entire world. +

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 13/10/2026

Well, I can see that, unfortunately, we won’t be able to have even a minimally civilised conversation. It’s a shame that even marginalised people can treat others with such rudeness and disrespect, doing nothing but amplifying the toxicity that is already inherent in social media.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 13/10/2026

Yes, but at no point did I say otherwise. I just asked if I would be blocked. 🤷‍♂️

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 12/10/2026

People often follow someone simply to keep up with their posts, not because they endorse the opinions expressed on that account. Preventing someone from following you or blocking them simply because they follow a controversial figure is also a form of intolerance.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 12/10/2026

Can I express my opinion politely and respectfully, or will I get blocked for it? Well, I think this is nonsense. People should have the right to follow whoever they want on social media. +

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How can artificial intelligence facilitate gathering, analyzing, and interpreting dreams? Maja Gutman Mušič & Kelly Bulkeley wrote about the challenges and opportunities that come with utilizing these tools in dream studies on the SUP blog: blog.sup.org/digital-proj...

A dark blue rectangle with an image of Jacob’s Dream or Jacob’s Ladder by William Blake (1805) in the center.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 12/10/2026

In short, every social media platform is a financial asset. The companies behind them and their investors are the ones who benefit, even if it comes at the expense of teenagers’ and young people’s mental health.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 12/10/2026

The answer is obvious: Big Tech, corporations like Bluesky PBC, and their VC investors seeking returns, whether by selling user data down the line, sharing it with “partners,” or already using it to train their AI models.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Edward Hopper: Squam Light, 1912

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026

its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 10/10/2026

Well, it seems obvious to me that you’re taking an isolated case and using it to call every single trans person a “piece of shit.”

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 10/10/2026

In a world that constantly seeks to occupy our attention, the ability to stop is not an escape. It is a form of self-government.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 10/10/2026

O Bluesky me sugeriu sua conta. Achei curioso porque também sou tricolor. Esses algoritmos são terríveis... 😅 🤔

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 09/10/2026

A esquerda usando IA sem reclamar apenas porque lhes convêm. Seria contraditório...

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

Sorry, but “humans” and "Nostr" definitely don’t belong in the same post. I had the misfortune of creating an account there recently, and I can confidently say it’s one of the most dehumanizing online environments I’ve ever encountered.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

Either way, demonizing a tool is still far less harmful than demonizing the people who criticize it.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

And again: > "demonize" mathematics, technology, and machine intelligence... That’s simply not true. People are criticizing the exploitation of these tools by the capitalist market, *although they often don’t know how to articulate that clearly*. +

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

It takes some empathy not to distort clearly anti-capitalist ideas into hatred of AI, especially on social media platforms where character limits make it difficult to express more nuanced arguments.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

You have to understand that, often, people don’t know how to articulate what they actually mean. AI is basically just software; it’s not the greatest invention since sliced bread. (1/2)

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

You just choose to label these people (many of whom are themselves marginalized) “anti-AI” instead.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

Yes, but it’s funny how you only seem to apply that argument when it’s useful for defending AI. The same logic works both ways: what you call “anti-AI” is, in 99% of cases, opposition to the capitalist structures surrounding its development, deployment, and commercialization. (1/2)

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

O caso do Roberto Alvim realmente foi escandaloso, assustador.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

Possibly, but probably not in terms of how big tech companies would train on and monetize our personal data, or how that technology could be used to surveil, profile, and manipulate marginalized communities.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

É isso aí! Independente de viés partidário, agora não é hora de isentar-se da responsabilidade que temos pela frente. Ou atira-se ou morre, ainda que sejamos contra matar quem quer que seja. E a vida é assim, ela às vezes não nos dá escolha; e não escolher já é, por definição, uma escolha.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

Um abraço pra Portugal. Tenho alguns bons amigos por aí!

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

Ah, okay, Alex! Those are called communities. Please focus on private accounts.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Beyond Abolition is out now In this pathbreaking work, Linette Eunjoo Park tackles a core crisis in modern thought: how to critique antiblack violence without inadvertently preserving the violence itself ow.ly/YzC550ZULZi

Book cover of Beyond Abolition: “Self-Lynching” and Its Afterlife by Linette Eunjoo Park

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 08/10/2026

A conta de vocês é monitorada ou um bot? Se não for automatizada (bot), considerem usar texto alternativo nas imagens, pessoal.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 07/10/2026

It wouldn’t be a matter of “selling blue checkmarks,” but rather offering legitimate verification—perhaps using the same kind of verification already used for age verification or by Meta’s platforms.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 07/10/2026

That’s an interesting idea for monetizing the platform. However, have you considered making account verification a premium feature? Most platforms already offer something along those lines.

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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice comes out today! I wrote this book with the mission to transform data science and AI into fields that genuinely work in service of the public interest. I hope that you’ll join me! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 06/10/2026

patience = 🧘‍♀️🕰️ patients = 🤒🤕

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"My goal is to tell the optogenetics story... It teaches people about the value of basic science, of understanding everything about our world for its own sake and everything that can come from that: the unexpected, the powerful, the transformative."

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‘Feeling Is Part of Memory’: In Conversation With Nobel Laureate Karl Deisseroth

The newly named Nobel laureate reflects on using light to probe the brain, the relationship between science and art, and the deep questions that have guided his work.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 06/10/2026

E ser "inclusivo", sobretudo na Internet, começa com um bom texto alternativo, pessoal.

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 06/10/2026

Life is simultaneously the most important thing and deathly serious while also being completely pointless and inconsequencal. Reconcile this paradox to discover why we are here.

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Bruna Carvalho @brunatranslates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yesterday I traveled across the country and stood on a huge line to vote in the Brazilian Elections. Now I’m hearing I shouldn’t be allowed to vote because I don’t currently live there. Guess which side is trying to censor the other

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Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD @pcsiqueira.academics.blue · 01/10/2026

Essa é a grande questão que lhes deveria parecer óbvia: TODOS devem e têm de ser investigados, doa a quem doer. De Mendonça a Moraes. Da mesma forma que a justiça é cega, quem preza por isonomia também deveria ser, seja pessoa física ou portal de notícias.

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Desenhos do Estevão @desenhosdoestevao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rascunhando com bic.

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