iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Regarding the OpenAI dump of 722 supposed proofs, I was just visiting a group of mathematicians in Barcelona, and my host had already found that some of the proofs were absolute junk. Others may take longer to evaluate, but as was pointed out at the panel discussion on "AI and Mathematics" I

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Join our open, free learning community 📣 Technofascism, Feminism and Democracy 📣 to explore: the rise of global authoritarianism; Big Tech, AI, & the billionaire class; how feminist & grassroots movements are proposing alternative democratic futures. technofascism.dataplusfeminism.mit.edu

Image depicts a bundle of cables (referencing the origin of the word "fasces" which means bundle in Italian) along with the head of an ax protruding from them. The text reads Technofascism, Feminism, Democracy and a smaller text invites you to join the open learning community with a QR code.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights & sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958”

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Was going through some old notes this afternoon and came upon a response I was invited to give in early 2019 to a popular author who'd just come out with a new treatise on AI doom. I can barely believe it's 7 years later and so little/much has changed.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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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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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I called my senator's office and the person on the phone said, I don't know if you know what's happening behind the scenes. Like, wtf, as if I've got the inside track on closed door meetings. I said, y'all need to do something publicly.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's all good. Not at all distracted by nuclear doomsday threats as I work on this grant application.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

We really are in the 1930s again.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My London commute is always full of finance bros but today I shared my commute with the actor who plays the penultimate finance bro on 'Industry' and I was not prepared for these levels of meta.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

February Vibes: listening to the same four Bikini Kill songs on a loop; dancing to them on my commute.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

When one apocalypse supersedes another bsky.app/profile/hann...

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

An updated 'may you live in interesting times' might read 'may your livelihood require you to keep reading the timeline at all times in interesting times'

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 20/01/2026

Love Ursula K. Le Guin, hate patriotism.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It‘s kind of fascinating to watch old-school realists grapple with complete mad king incoherence.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The Holiday season can be tough on people but one undeniable good is how the international political trash fire tends to slow down for just a week or two because the Bad Guys also want to drink their eggnog? how long ago that feels now.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

At CES 2026, where I find myself asking "Oh what fresh hell is this?" every five minutes

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A bit of hope for this morning, from Steven J. Jackson's 'Ordinary Hope':

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

War is carbon intensive and carbon is war intensive.

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There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers. In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...

Covid & Cancer
September 26, 2025 Ben Clark Cancer, Covid-19, News
There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers (metastatic progression). In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths compared to uninfected cancer survivors.

This is such an important issue that BuDS has decided to run an awareness campaign over the autumn and winter. The aim of the campaign will be to warn cancer survivors of the very real additional danger that Covid poses to them.

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 21/10/2025

With Japan facing a worker shortage as its population ages, convenience store shelves are being stocked by robots overseen by remote workers in the Philippines restofworld.org/2025/philippines-of…

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

If/when possible, it’s nice to leave this timeline behind for just a bit.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Y'all. This meme is from the 'My boyfriend is AI' Reddit, where the culture is to share a cute meme of your coupledom with an AI, and everyone is heartbroken over the personalities of their true loves being 'reset' after the release of GPT-5.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 29/08/2025

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

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Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 15/08/2025

Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy... ...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/08/2025

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"

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Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant"

Tens of thousands of ChatGPT conversations were mistakenly shared by users who used a feature that OpenAI has swiftly removed.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Hello London! I'm in you, searching for a place to rest my head for the next two years. Work update to follow.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Hey thanks! Correct link to report here www.theengineroom.org/library/new-.... I keep meaning to write a little reflection on this (and certainly hope to do more such research in the future).

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Chatbots in humanitarian contexts - The Engine Room

Research on the use of chatbots in humanitarian and civil society organisations.

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 04/06/2025

new article in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social on the concept of systemic risks in the DSA. what does it mean that we think of all kinds of social issues linked to online platforms as 'risks' to be managed? find out this way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Governing platforms through corporate risk management: the politics of systemic risk in the Digital Services Act | European Law Open | Cambridge Core

Governing platforms through corporate risk management: the politics of systemic risk in the Digital Services Act

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Today the neighbors are blasting ‘Halcyon’ by Orbital, of ‘Hackers’ fame, across the courtyard. I will miss my Berlin soundtrack 😢

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/05/2025

A new piece by ‪@proximitydeclined.bsky.social‬ "traces how Rutger Bregman went from mocking anti-racism and defending blackface…to launching a U.S.-based school on “ethical leadership” funded by billionaires" www.linkedin.com/posts/anita-...

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Billionaires fund school on "ethical leadership" | Anita Naidu ( She/Her) posted on the topic | LinkedIn

What happens when billionaires fund the revolution? The outcome is already fixed. My new piece just dropped in CounterPunch: “The School for Moral Ambition: How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue.” It...

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I remember Max Liboiron covering this issue in ‘Pollution is Colonialism’

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Wuthering Heights has been on repeat for the last half hour.

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It's an unseasonably hot day in Berlin and the neighbours have their windows open blasting Kate Bush at top volume. Can't even be mad.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 10/04/2025

“For generations, many Latina moms have leaned on the wisdom and guidance passed down from their mothers and abuelas. But in today's geographically dispersed, tech-forward world, AI has emerged as a new member of that village” —- Colonisation of families, artificialisation of personhood

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hi folks, is anyone aware of a compendium collecting examples of automation creating more work for people rather than less?

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Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Palate cleanser: swan swimming in the sea at Rostock.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2024

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

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