iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Earlier this month we hosted our 2nd annual CTMF Research Showcase, this year featuring our early career researchers! The Showcase demonstrated the excellence and interdisciplinary spirit of our research community.  Read about the CTMF Early Career Research Showcase 👇 edin.ac/4xAHlyF

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Showcasing our CTMF Early Career Researchers — Centre for Technomoral Futures

‍Earlier this month we hosted our CTMF ECR Showcase, bringing together members of our vibrant research community to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our early career researchers!

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 17/06/2026

Absolute joy to present with Sarah Immel the paper we wrote with @neelrajani.bsky.social - Stepping Into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs for Public Exploration Through Discursive Design at @acm-dis.bsky.social in Singapore. And we won an Honourable Mention!

Sarah, Rayo, and the session chair posing for the camera holding the Honourable Mention award. Above them, a projector screen says "Stepping into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs to Public Exploration Through Discursive Design"

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 15/06/2026

Also where is the investment in spaces for kids, etc etc Okay time for my own social media curfew

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A discussion about the social media ban on under 16s. BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 15/06/2026

The most vulnerable kids will lose access to vital information, social media will stay a cesspit for adults, and everyone has to give their biometrics or credit card data to commercial companies or use a VPN. If platforms are not willing to moderate acceptably then they should not exist at all

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 15/06/2026

Arghhh maybe if you actually tried regulating the companies instead of the children you would get somewhere

"Tech companies have had countless opportunities to keep children safe, yet they have failed to act," said technology secretary Liz Kendall. "That is why we are taking power away from the tech giants and putting it back in parents' hands."

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 10/03/2026

Claude cannot actually feel, it can't think, it doesn't have opinions, it isn't self aware, it doesn't have context outside the immediate window you are using it with. By asking for its comment on war crimes you are legitimizing the idea that it can be used autonomously or for war at all. Stop it.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Philip Pullman said that anything that a child might encounter in their childhood is appropriate material for a children's story.

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oli @olil.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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Nicola Osborne (they/them) @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Delighted to be at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social today with our #DesigningResponsibleNLPCDT sharing our brilliant students work as part of Doors Open Day!

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 27/09/2025

I have a little stall at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Doors Open Day today! I’m sharing some early research around children’s views of AI at school. Come say hi if you’re around!!

A free poster boards displaying children’s drawings behind a table with colouring materials

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

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Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes

Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

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dan @danabra.mov · 21/07/2025

i genuinely think that part of the problem is people don’t have the mental model for how the “chat bubbles” map to autocomplete it doesn’t help that the chat interfaces actively hide what’s going on and make the illusion opaque

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 23/06/2025

Yay I’m at @acm-idc.bsky.social in Reykjavík this week! I spoke about my PhD plans at the Doctoral Consortium and am so excited to get to know everyone this week :)

Rayo standing in front of a projector screen with a slide that says “Children as Creators of Real-World AI-Powered Tools for Education”

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 17/06/2025

It was absolutely wonderful to work with the Digital Leaders at St Francis Xavier’s Primary School. Thanks again for having me!

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MattieBoomBirthdayboy @mattieboombattie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from: - #germany (49.9%) - #sweden (49.96%) - #Netherlands (94%) - #austria (25.5%) - #Slovenia (83.14%) - #portugal (24.46%) If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

eci.ec.europa.eu

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 12/04/2025

Thankfully people have realised that wasn’t enough and actual programming is part of the curriculum again. Would be great if we could not make the same mistakes again when it comes to AI!

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 12/04/2025

There was a similar push in the 2000s where computing lessons in schools shifted from teaching basic programming to teaching MS Office as that was deemed to be more important. And instead of teaching something fundamental about how computers work it became about prepping kids for office jobs

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 12/04/2025

Co-opting the term literacy for corporate AI lessons is particularly devious because it’s hard to argue against. Everyone thinks literacy is important! But in the chaos of schools trying to adapt it’s easy for the actual meanings of these words to get confused

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 12/04/2025

If literacy is the ability to effectively understand and interpret text, to me, AI literacy is understanding the limits of AI output, knowing why LLMs can hallucinate, being aware of the risks of model biases, etc etc. Not “how to use AI to offload your thinking”

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 12/04/2025

I get so frustrated with the dilution of the term ‘literacy’ - in no world should ‘AI literacy’ mean ‘prompt engineering classes’ but apparently here we are

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Design Informatics @designinf.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Join us at AI for All during Edinburgh Science Festival! Discover how we make #NLP shape our daily lives in a fair, accountable and transparent way. Explore exhibits, activities, and meet the next generation of researchers. 📅 Fri 11 Apr ⏰ 10am – 4pm|Free / Drop-In 📍@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 04/04/2025

Okay enough ranting for tonight. What? You thought I was about to offer that solution? Haha very funny vier april kikker in je bil

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 04/04/2025

Look this is hardly the biggest problem in the world but every day I see so many people write about the dangers of genAI in education and like I hear you and probably agree with you 100% but at a certain point you gotta offer an actual alternative solution

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 04/04/2025

For example, CodeCademy makes it super difficult nowadays to get to their free courses. And on the other side the new RPF code editor doesn’t let you add external links (anchor tags) to HTML files because “safety”

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 04/04/2025

They are genuinely brilliant, got everything they could out of Scratch and are hungry to learn more complex stuff. But intro to coding resources are either aimed at kids and super restrictive/linear or aimed at adult learners and, well, also restrictive plus you need a credit card

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 26/03/2025

This is so cool. Have been wanting to get into PoE properly for so long now and I think this might actually do it

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 24/03/2025

A really fun reflection, I thought, not just on AI but on the purpose and origins of language in general

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 24/03/2025

“We are not in fact in danger of the machines overtaking us in what we do best. What we do best is to mess with mom, and to whisper sweet nothings to our lovers. But we are in grave danger, at present, of misidentifying what we do best”

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“AGI” Is Impossible

Either That or Defining It Is Entirely Arbitrary

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There are *good*, positive use of GenAI. But forcing it on people -- particularly as a massive technology corporation with its fingers in many aspects of billions of peoples' lives -- creates more risk than potential benefit. Let people opt-in as they see fit, don't force it down their throat.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 07/01/2025

They must've calculated the optimal way to space out these words. Like, at the exact spots people are most likely to stop using the app they drop one of these to lull users into a false sense of "oh, I guess I *can* learn this language!"

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s cool that humans have been eating bread so long that when we touch a loaf for a moment we can sense ah this is going to be awful bread. Like badgers sensing vibrations underground through their claws.

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 02/01/2025

Beat BG3 in Honour Mode last night and honestly this might be where 2025 peaks for me

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antonio vergari ⚔️ short-circuiting @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

OpenAI and tech bros, take notes (this slide is worth the intercontinental trip to #NeurIPS24)

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 01/12/2024

Hence "down the line"... Am curious to see if/how it evolves

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 01/12/2024

Just updated my handle to @rayo.dev and this bring-your-own-domain thing might be my favourite part of Bluesky. Feels like an elegant (if not entirely complete) way to do verification as well as enable more decentralisation down the line without the up-front complexity of Mastodon

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 27/11/2024

Hi just found this, that's amazing! Would you be able to add me? 😊

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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 16/11/2024

so I've technically had this account for months now does that still make me a bluesky hipster?

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