iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026

The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky

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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax

There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026

"You may not deadname superintelligence but you should deadname trans people" is now 100% real US policy

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

sometimes you've gotta put the watercoloring brush down and give ruining the world another go

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Manuscript submitted! 🎉

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am going to become the Joker

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

honest question: how do people cope with the state of the world/your field that is normalising being run by clowns

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I need to cut 330 more words from this manuscript. I already cut 1k 🫠

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not my problem

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Me to my coauthors when I send over this draft:

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Made substantial progress on a draft, refined the outline of a paper with a coauthor, and finished a bunch of scheduling emails. Now for a happy night of spinning. ☺️

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026

The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 04/09/2026

Dietram Scheufele is a sex pest and currently teaches at ASU

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

And this is why we need to help people stop focusing on a brand name and start hating the surveillance state as a whole.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What's the ratio of op-eds about Claudine Gay paraphrasing someone vs op-eds about Ariely just straight up fabricating data

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Bless my mentors who will rage with me!

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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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lady jae grey @mariahscary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I literally work in medical infosec and uh, what the hell

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am so fucking angry about this.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like I’m going to throw up

Screen shot of an Instagram post that says the academy of natural sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At least 25% of my bed is covered in dog toys.

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ooh so I’m not an incompetent loser who can no longer write coherently. I’m just sick 😅

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just had a wave of flashbacks about this. I had completely suppressed using notepad++ in two different jobs. 😖

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have missed the sound of rain 🌧️

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An absolute #1920s favourite by Madeleine Vionnet, creating a cascade of different shades of green in every increasingly loops of colour. The vermicelli style embroidery and jeweled trim is the icing on the tippity top #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of a loose sleeveless dress in shades of green from emerald in the centre to pale at the outer edge. It has a long curved train and is trimmed with green gems and metallic embroidery

Front view of the 1920s loose sleeveless dress with scoops of metallic embroidery and gems decorating the different shades of green

Fabric detail of the loose sleeveless dress in different shades of green. It highlights the jewelled embellishment and metallic embroidery

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My spinning wheel survived the move! Back to my fiber delights!

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Chronic pain spikes my anxiety every time. And every time I’m searching for a different source of that anxiety and land on “maybe I’m not working hard enough.” One of these days I will learn.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Daily bunny no.3424 meets a strange old fellow

A bunny diving in the ocean meets an ancient squid-like creature, with a spiral shell, close to the seafloor. He reaches out his paw as if to shake the hand of the squid

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I understand this feeling. Relief at a human-bad essay instead of a machine-bad essay. I can work with human-bad! Machine-bad is an insult to my humanity.

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When you’re having such persistent computer issues you’ve developed a shorthand with the IT manager. We saw each other across the building, he gave me a thumbs up and shrugged. I gave him a thumbs down. We both sighed.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕

Dolly Partons IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
Dolly

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Be the person Dolly Parton would’ve wanted you to be: yourself.

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Euphemisms for the federal decimation of higher ed, as offered during my new faculty orientation: “Dynamic funding environment” “Unique political moment” “Tough administrative priorities” “Challenging times”

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There is so much people-ing to do. And I’m not even teaching this semester 🥲

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Qubit @qubituary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Biggest lie I tell myself almost daily: “I’ll answer those emails tonight after I get home.”

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gary, Indiana has been without power almost 2 weeks.

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