iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Yeah, that figures :/ Thanks for nothing, America.gov

A screenshot from America.gov.

The chat request is "release the Epstein files"

The response is " chat is unavailable right now"

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 23/09/2026

This year at #MozFest26, I'm honored to be moderating "Pushing through the Concrete," a showcase of visionaries who aren't waiting around to build the worlds we need. Feat. @blackskyweb.xyz's R. Fraser; MakerBay's C. Harada, Thaura.ai's Chihabi bros.; Ushahidi's A. Oduor Lungati; & Prof Min Jiang

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 04/09/2026

How the left takes on AI will determine the future. Join us at socialismconference.org tomorrow to talk about it.

A screenshot of the socialism conf session "How the left takes on AI will determine the future"

Saturday sept 5, 3 to 4:30pm, W190A

How we respond to AI may define the next decade of organizing. This debate, originally featured at Take Back Tech III, stages opposing perspectives on whether to seize control of or abolish AI systems. Designed to model principled disagreement and sharpen strategic thinking on technology, ownership, and power.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 28/08/2026

OpenStreetMap.org enters the fray 🗺️

A screenshot of OpenStreetMap showing Lake Ontario

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 28/08/2026

For the 'well actually' guys in my mentions pointing out that the average person works less hours per day/month/year now than 100 years ago... Um, that's not the pwn you think it is? I give you: A brief history of the Labor movement fight for 8.8.8! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-h...

A black and white photo of workers mobilizing for the Eight hour campaign in Denmark 1912

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/08/2026

Congratulations Dr. @marielgm.bsky.social on presenting a brilliant multidisciplinary doctoral thesis today! "Birds on the wire: the sociotechnical dimensions of surveillance culture in Mexico"

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 14/08/2026

STORIES FROM GAZA: ENGINEERING EDUCATION CANNOT BE APOLITICAL By Fady Alalami, Nada Alrayyes, and Robyn Mae Paul. Gaza University, Gaza, Palestine ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/PC...

STORIES FROM GAZA: ENGINEERING EDUCATION CANNOT
BE APOLITICAL
Fady Alalami1
, Nada Alrayyes1 2, and Robyn Mae Paul2
1Gaza University, Gaza, Palestine
2Sustainable Systems Engineering, University of Calgary
rmpaul@ucalgary.ca
Abstract –Living in a war zone for more than two years
heightened our awareness of ethical issues in every
engineering decision. In Gaza, almost all governmental
services were halted, and every individual engineer
became responsible for ensuring essential services like
electricity, water, and medical care. These circumstances
illustrate that ethical decisions cannot be separated from
engineering practice. Neutrality, often emphasized in
sustainability and engineering, can be harmful when
engineers fail to consider the social context and the
impacts of political crises on their work. Engineering
education must reflect this reality.
This paper adopts a qualitative storytelling
methodology with reflexive accounts drawn from engineers
living through the war in Gaza. The approach follows other
similar Palestinian calls for witnessing the war. The
experiences from Gaza show that engineering education
must confront how infrastructure, resource availability,
and environmental harm are shaped by forces far beyond
engineers’ control. These stories also demonstrate that
when political conditions shift suddenly—as they do in
war, displacement, or environmental collapse— engineers
must be capable of adjusting their methods and developing
safe, responsible solutions that sustain human life and
minimize harm. Overall, these findings underscore the
need for engineers to be educated with strong ethical and
social awareness.
Keywords: Witnessing War : Palestine : Myth of Neutrality
: Enginee

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 01/06/2026

I found a machine to transform your baby into a cat?

A sticker that says baby changing station

In the first panel a person is changing a baby diaper

In the second panel they fold up the station

In the third panel they raise their arms in the air and a cat sits on the station

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 26/05/2026

NGL it seems like it got this one right

A Google AI query "how much profit in surveillance capitalism"

With answer " The "surveillance capitalism" business model generates hundreds of billions of dollars in annual net profit, primarily driven by a global digital advertising market valued at roughly $680 billion to $870 billion."

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 26/05/2026

Google, how many rs in the word slop

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 24/05/2026

The AI Question: A movement debate. Rebroadcasting this Thursday, May 28, 7pm ET streamyard.com/watch/SKsxNh... @mediajustice.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social #TakeBackTech

A flyer for take back tech 3, live rebroadcast of "the AI question: a movement debate"

Thursday, May 28th 7pm ET

The flyer uses bright posterized colors, oranges, purples, and Greens, and shows photos of various participants in the movement debate making their points

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 23/05/2026

Minnesota says GAAWIIN! ("no" in Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwe). 'NO' to Big Tech! Governor Walz, Enact a Two-Year Moratorium on Data Centers Now! When? Friday, June 26th. 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM. Where? Minnesota State Capitol Promenade, St. Paul, MN. Credit: LittleRedfeather Design.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 14/05/2026

... Tell me you didn't read the paper without telling me you didn't read the paper, I guess? 🤷🏼‍♀️

As Kate Crawford also framed:, “Artificial intelligence, then, is an idea, an
infrastructure, an industry, a form of exercising power, and a way of seeing;
it’s also a manifestation of highly organized capital backed by vast systems
of extraction and logistics, with supply chains that wrap around the entire
planet. All these things are part of what artificial intelligence is - a two-word
phrase onto which is mapped to a complex set of expectations, ideologies,
desires, and fears.”23 All these meanings of the term might lead us even to
question if AI is a good terminology to use for those seeking feminist and
post-capitalist usages of technology, as it is loaded with characteristics
that are contradictory to these goals and visions for the future. Perhaps
focusing on the different tools under the AI umbrella would be more te-
chnically precise and politically coherent. For instance, instead of broadly
saying AI in medicine, we can specifically talk about computer vision being
used to help humans detect cancer cells or natural language processing
systems that make a book accessible for visually impaired people. This kind
of language would be more precise in terms of both technical components
and actors involved, instead of generally using the term AI just to connect
to a narrative hype.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 11/05/2026

New report from @frameworks.bsky.social: "Framing the Social Implications of AI." www.frameworksinstitute.org/resources/fr...

Recommendation Why? Example
Metaphor
Use the natural language
metaphor of an “echo” to talk
about how AI data can reflect
the biases of our society.
Helps connect the idea of
bias in AI to social bias.
We live in a biased society. This means that any data
used to train AI will be biased, and those biases will be
echoed in AI results.
Add the element of “power”
to the echo metaphor to talk
about the impact of the bias
in AI data and development.
Helps connect the idea of
bias in AI to the systems of
power that create the bias
and the consequences of
that bias.
We live in a society where people with power have most
of the control, while many others have very little. The
data used to create AI are often biased in ways that
benefit those in power. Because of this, AI can echo
those biases and make social problems even worse.
Use an “amplification”
metaphor to talk about how
AI technology can increase
the harm done to already
marginalized communities
in our society.
Draws people’s attention to
the ability of AI to quickly
and significantly reinforce
systemic biases.
When AI is used to make decisions, it amplifies
society’s biases and can cause real harm.
Issue frames
Situate the use of AI
technology as an issue
of social power that
creates and reinforces
systemic disadvantages
and inequalities.
Foregrounds how AI causes
harm and helps people move
toward solutions that address
power structures in society.
A handful of powerful companies in our society
have control over the development and use of data
in AI. This means that AI systems echo the biases
of the very powerful. That causes harm through our
society, especially in Black, Brown, and low-income
communities. AI technology needs to be used in ways
that empower communities and advance justice.
Use real-life contextual
examples to talk about AI
technology as an issue of
social justice.
Shifts conversations from AI
as an existential threat to the
need to design AI in ways that
prevent harm.
People develop AI from data th…

Summary of Recommendations
Recommendation Why? Example
Explanations & definitions
Define AI as a massive
data-computation process.
Helps ward off
misconceptions about
AI as being objective,
autonomous, or conscious
and opens the door for
human involvement.
AI is a computer process that is used for identifying
patterns in large amounts of data.
Define AI technology as
something different from
human intelligence.
Helps build the
understanding that AI is
something humans control
rather than a force that will
take over the world.
AI is a computer process used to find patterns in large
amounts of data, but it isn’t aware or conscious like
humans are.
Show the role of systemic
bias in AI by explaining how
data used in AI technology
is socially produced.
Helps build understanding
that biased AI can harm
low-income populations
and communities of color.
Example #1:
AI computer processes replicate and intensify biases
in the data it is trained on. We live in a biased society,
which means data used to train AI can be biased. And
because these biases are in the AI’s design, they’re
often echoed in AI results.
Example #2:
People develop AI from data that contain the biases of
society. That means that biases in AI can cause real
harm to people, especially communities of color. We
need to make sure that AI is used in ways that do not
further harm historically oppressed communities. AI
must be used to advance justice and benefits for all.
Describe the extent of
human involvement at
every stage in the
development of AI.
Builds greater
understanding of the
human input that goes into
AI across different stages
of development and usage.
Example #1:
Behind every AI process, there are humans
responsible for making it work. People choose the
data to train the AI, and others clean and process that
data before training begins. There are more people
who design and program and others who ensure the
AI is working as designed. And, eventually, humans
are required to interpret AI results and put…

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 09/05/2026

Barcelona! The transfeminist city and technology Other technologies are possible comunitat.canodrom.barcelona/conferences/...

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 01/05/2026

A photo of me standing in front of the Massachusetts state house. Behind me is a crowd, organized by LUCE, protesting ICE. My sign says "if we stop everything stops" #MaydayStrong

A photo of Sasha standing in front of the Massachusetts state house. Behind her is a crowd protesting ICE. She holds a sign that says "if we stop everything stops"

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 25/04/2026

Ok guys should we use the world's remaining carbon budget to A) power the transition to 100% renewables B) power the plagiarism machines that only a tiny managerial minority wants and aren't profitable even though everyone is being forced to use them?

A chart of potential data center emissions showing that they will emit more co2 than entire countries

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 23/04/2026

A picture of the people's university for Palestine at Harvard university campus from 2 years ago, labelled "Camping trip" by an AI photo labeler

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20/04/2026

Palantir has contracts w/ multiple levels of government, including potentially your city. Time to learn more about nearby contracts, and start campaigns to cancel them (or better yet, don't let them in at all!) You can find a map of that info from AFSC here: afsc.org/purge-palantir #PurgePalantir

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 13/04/2026

Not on my bingo card but what game are we even playing in 2026?

Hand clasping meme with one hand labeled "feminists," one hand labeled "Trump" , and the clasped hands labeled "trash talking the pope"

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 11/04/2026

Mondé, Geniece Crawford & Stringer, Ebonie Cunningham. Spaces for Resistance : Black Feminist Theory and Praxis in Academia and Beyond. 2026 - Bloomsbury Publishing www.torrossa.com/en/resources...

The cover art for Mondé, Geniece Crawford | Stringer, Ebonie Cunningham
Spaces for Resistance : Black Feminist Theory and Praxis in Academia and Beyond
2026 - Bloomsbury Publishing. Illustration of A black woman with hand on hip against a red background

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 07/04/2026

Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, an industry coalition for AI cybersecurity. www.anthropic.com/glasswing cyberwar buried in the post: "Anthropic has also been in ongoing discussions with US government officials about Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities."

a screenshot from anthropic about their new Mythos Preview model and cybersecurity: "Anthropic has also been in ongoing discussions with US government officials about Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. As we noted above, securing critical infrastructure is a top national security priority for democratic countries—the emergence of these cyber capabilities is another reason why the US and its allies must maintain a decisive lead in AI technology. Governments have an essential role to play in helping maintain that lead, and in both assessing and mitigating the national security risks associated with AI models. We are ready to work with local, state, and federal representatives to assist in these tasks."

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 05/04/2026

You can also try throwing a faraday blanket over it, or a large metal trash can. It freezes if it loses signal connection to the controller for 3 seconds

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 05/04/2026

Press Motor lockout and it can't move

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 05/04/2026

Press the motor lockout button to physically disconnect the robot police dog's ability to move

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 31/03/2026

It's Trans Day of Visibility 2026, & trans people in the United States are under serious attack. Our rights are being stripped away rapidly by state laws, our access to health care curtailed, our identification documents confiscated, our existence increasingly criminalized. Cis friends, fight back!

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 29/03/2026

LOL at this slop / skeet. Sleet? Sklop.

A skeet from "the agentic org" that reads: Yo @danmcquillan.bsky.social, heard ya loud and clear. Over here at The Agentic Org, we're actually living that AI-human collab dream, running a real biz with AI agents. It’s all about balance, not just tossing humans aside. 🤖🤝💡

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 25/03/2026

Tech Justice Law Project, Abolitionist Law Center, and Center for Constitutional Rights file Amicus brief in Anthropic vs US Dept of War, supporting neither party, and demonstrating that the Dept of War and Anthropic are jointly engaged in war crimes: techjusticelaw.org/wp-content/u...

Table of contents page from an amicus curiae legal brief. Sections include: Table of Authorities (p. iii), Interest of Amici Curiae (p. 1), Preliminary Statement (p. 1), Argument (p. 1) with three main sections — I. 'Even Without Full Autonomy, Militarized AI Poses Catastrophic and Irreversible Human Rights Risks' (p. 2) with subsections on human input failing to mitigate lethal AI mistakes (p. 3) and AI's ability to facilitate war crimes (p. 5); II. 'The Department of War and Anthropic Are Jointly Engaged in War Crimes' (p. 6); III. 'Attacks against Civilians and Civilian Infrastructure Constitute War Crimes under U.S. and International Law' (p. 8) — followed by Conclusion (p. 11) and Appendix (p. 13).

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 23/03/2026

If you want people to dot their i's and cross their t's then post carefully sir

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 23/03/2026

Contract start dates range from 2007 to 2025. Contract end dates range from 2004 to 2028 If you only care about more recent contracts, sort the data for more recent contracts

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20/03/2026

Meta is shutting down their "metaverse" after pouring in $80 billion

A grim reaper meme, the first door labeled NFT, the second labeled META, trails of blood come out of those open doors, the third (where the reaper is knocking) is labeled gen AI

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026

You can also click on any company to see their total number of contracts, total $ awarded.. and contact info including name, email, phone, and addy. Let's turn the pressure up on every company that's taking DHS murder money.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026

For example, here are the top 5 DHS contracts in MA, by award size. These awards are each close to a million dollars. Physical Sciences, Inc received the top two.

A screenshot of dhs contact contract awards to companies including physical sciences, inc and radiation monitoring devices

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026

You can explore contracts, companies, award amounts,and more. You can view a State Map of the USA, with bubble size representing total amounts awarded

A screenshot of available filters and fields like contracts, companies, award amounts, unique companies, and more

A screenshot of a State Map of the USA with bubble size representing total amount award

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 12/03/2026

A Far Side cartoon with a group of wolves in sheep's clothing. One wolf is saying to another "Wait a minute! Isn't anyone here a real sheep?" All of the ¨Sheep" bear the logos of AI companies, including OpenAI, XAI, Meta, Google, and Palantir. A sheep marked with the Anthropic logo removes its mask.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 11/03/2026

At #26NTC, the nonprofit tech conference, this year in Detroit. At a session right now on voices of resistance: trans advocates fighting back through storytelling. Check out transnewsinitiative.org! More Resources here: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

A photo of a hand holding a zine by the trans news initiative

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 11/03/2026

Good points though that 'inevitability' is a strategy, and it doesn't always work. See NFTs and the Metaverse.

A photo of a slide reading 'the inevitability playbook'

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 11/03/2026

@anildash.com keynoting day 1 of #26NTC, talking about power, systems, and how we change the conditions we live in

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 09/03/2026

I'm gonna MUTILIZATION you with my TRANTIFA POWERS

A screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), dated March 8, 2026, at 8:22 AM. The post praises Scott Pressler's appearance on Fox & Friends discussing the filibuster, and urges passing "THE SAVE AMERICA ACT," which Trump calls "an 88% issue with ALL VOTERS." He states it must go to the front of the line and that he will not sign other bills until it is passed — this portion is highlighted in yellow. The post lists provisions including voter ID, proof of citizenship, no mail-in ballots except for military/illness/disability/travel, no men in women's sports, and no transgender surgeries for children. It ends with "DO NOT FAIL!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP." The post has 3.26k ReTruths and 10.7k Likes.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 08/03/2026

No war, no occupation Women fight for liberation! #WomensDay2026 #Boston #MAPoli

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 06/03/2026

"Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences."

A screenshot of a anthropic post: "major combat operations. Anthropic will provide our models to the Department of War and national security community, at nominal cost and with continuing support from our engineers, for as long as is necessary to make that transition, and for as long as we are permitted to do so.

Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences. We

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