iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The abundance of doom on this app is so overwhelming why am I even on here

TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Ok friends, “x trait is a symptom of y mental illness/disability” DOESN’T mean “if you exhibit x trait, you definitely have y mental illness/disability.” You can exhibit some of these symptoms and just be some guy!!!! It’s really not helpful to pathologize every little quirky trait you have!!

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Alistair 🗡️ @seriousmooonlight.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

FYI you do NOT need a real email or zip code to fill this out!

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I think being on social media on my phone is the worst thing I am doing to myself at any given time

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“A one day blackout won’t do anything” ok but what have we got to lose by trying? We will save money. Some people will say “hey, that wasn’t as hard as I thought” and get pumped to participate in longer future boycotts. Some folks will think “huh, I guess I CAN cut back on shopping!” It will help!

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Call to action: Economic Blackout on February 28. #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #Autogenocide

ECONOMIC BLACKOUT
FEBRUARY 28TH
SPEND NO MONEY SUPPORT NO TRAITORS HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS
NO AMAZON - NO WALMART - NO TARGET

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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Opt out tomorrow!

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JEERFROSENSTICK @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Urging everyone who follows me to participate in this 24 economic blackout FEB 28th! DO NOT BUY STUFF FROM MAJOR RETAILERS, OR GAS & FAST FOOD. Shopping local businesses & restaurants with cash is chill. COLLECTIVELY WE HAVE POWER LET'S SHOW EM WHAT'S UP

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Jelly Ultra @ Vernon Retro Mania Nov 7th @jellyultra.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Heya!! I’ve been working hard and the store is now updated 👀 please take a look if you’d like! Lots of restocks and some new items as well 🎉 jellyultra.store

acrylic keychain designed to look like a mini video game disc. Artwork features a lil pink creature riding on a star. Text reads “Korb Air Ride”

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danny! 🐯 @tigerstooth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS! SPREAD THE WORD! 2/2

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’m really proud of how good I’ve gotten at Balatro. Most of the game I figured out on my own, without watching videos or things like that, because I think it’s more fun this way. Today I played hands in the trillions for the first time!

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Masked agents knocking on doors, demanding that residents show IDs, and urging them to snitch on neighbors, while buses wait nearby to disappear people is full-fledged Nazi behavior.

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ICE Agents in Colorado Go Door to Door Demanding IDs and Asking People to Turn In Their Neighbors

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Ppl will be like “don’t listen to x independent musician bc they’re touring with known abusers, boycott their music!” but won’t stop using an app owned by a Nazi trying control the American government

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

ai wrote my son a very impressive resume, and his only work experience is moderating a subreddit about giving yourself diarrhea on purpose

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Ava Ayers @avaayers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

Officers have also struggled to meet their quotas because immigrants are refusing to open their doors when ICE officers knock. The enforcement teams generally do not possess criminal arrest warrants that would allow them to force their way into their targets’ homes. ICE officials say they can’t afford to leave teams of officers waiting around for targeted immigrants to exit their homes.

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’ve been getting VERY convincing ones in Maryland. Easily could fool someone who isn’t savvy to the scams. Fake websites even come up when you google EZ Pass Maryland sometimes.

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Toothworm @toothwormfactory.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Digital art of Laios from Dungeon Meshi in a parody of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, with the text “The Very Hungry Adventurer” replacing the original title. He is crouched on all fours.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

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nat / bird king @ play my yuri vn @birdking.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

hey katsu-goers i'm seeing a lot of reports of people having "food poisoning" which is very likely norovirus based on the current rates! noro is incredibly contagious, is difficult to disinfect (needs bleach), and lasts up to 2 weeks on surfaces. here's some infographics from the cdc

norovirus spreads from fecal/vom particles--> mouth contact (gross) which can happen really easily if you're touching contaminated surfaces or sharing bathrooms with others! wearing a mask really helps prevent you from inadvertently touching your face before you can wash your hands.

to prevent spread, be sure to wash hands for at least 20 seconds. hand sanitizer doesn't work well on noro.

to disinfect surfaces you need bleach. bleach bathrooms after infection and avoid sharing a bathroom while sick.

you can remain contagious for up to 2 weeks after symptoms subside. refrain from using public bathrooms at all during this period, if possible.

flush with the lid closed.

wash laundry separately in hot water.

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I hate the phrase “be gay, do crimes” because I think my cats have seen that phrase and now that’s all they do

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Coey! @coeykuhn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

. Blue star ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

*YouTuber voice* hey guys welcome back to my food review channel. Now this next one a lot of you have been requesting, even my mom wanted me to try this. This week we’re going to be taking a dive into something called: broccoli

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I’ve been dying to see Stand Atlantic live but ooooof driving and parking in DC and paying $85 for a standing room show….. hmmmmmm

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Imagine you’re a silly little guy playing goofy hunky boys on Disney channel then you’re on succession

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Chronos' Weave @fuckmelikea.dog · 24/01/2025

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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

My old roommate’s cat needs medical help! Share if u can and send money if u can!

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🦇 SCARE-sha 🦇 @spacethey.gay · 04/02/2025

new website! spacethey.gay for all your sticker needs! here are a few of my fave stickers that are available right now! :3

A white rectangular sticker with the word ACAB in red in the NASA worm logotype style

A white rectangular sticker with pride flags made up of lines crossing over each other, made to resemble the london tube map

A blue circular sticker with a red swoosh and white stars. The word TRANS in a font similar to NASA is in the middle. Made to resemble the NASA Meatball icon

A circular sticker. It is a recoloring of the Apollo 15 mission patch, in the trans pride colors. The text around the edge says "THE MOON IS TRANS AND A LESBIAN" and in the center is a snapshot of the lunar surface and three delta swooshes in the trans colors in front of it.

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TatertownUSA 🔜 Katsucon @tatertownusa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

One thing that’s cool about being fat and getting further along in my self acceptance journey is seeing people begrudgingly order salads and shit and I’m like damn that sucks, this giant stuffed crust pizza fuckin rocks

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Atelier Alyssa ⭐💫 @alyossan.art · 06/02/2025

"I'm cringe but I'm free" is a catchy meme phrase and all but it's also 100% true. Life is a lot more fun when u can just openly enjoy weird shit you like without worrying so much about peer pressure or what other ppl will think. Why live ur one precious life so beholden to other ppl's opinions of u

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5ever @5everband.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Can this go viral on the butterfly app?

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sierraplusultra ☆ @sierraplusultra.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

korok chao 🍃

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Elin Winkler @doronjosama.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Day 2 of #28DaysOfBlackCosplay2025 features Regeta's Con Adventures casual Banjo Kazooie cosplay! Check out his IG, he's working on some indie game goodness these days. #28daysofblackcosplay #CosplayIsForEveryone #poccosplay Reposted from regetas_conadventures on IG!

Regeta's Con Adventures Cosplay dressed as a casual Banjo Kazooie.

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Megu 🔜 NYCC @stardustmegu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It's #28daysofblackcosplay let me introduce myself! I'm Megu and I'm a Black, Plus Sized, Lesbian & Disabled Master Level cosplayer from NYC! I make my cosplays as well as compete, won awards & judge cosplay competitions! Black cosplayers who are also apart of multiple marginalized groups exist! 💖

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025

“I know there’s some black girl, so many black women watching me right now. And I wanna tell you, you can do it. Anything is possible. Don’t allow anybody to project any stereotypes on you” — Doechii accepting her first #GRAMMYs award.

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025

‘Alligator Bites Never Heal’ by Doechii wins the #GRAMMYs award for Best Rap Album.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 09/11/2024

Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies: “What a weird thing to say” “Do you hear yourself right now?” “You shouldn’t say shit like that to people” “I won’t let you talk to them that way” “That’s a disgusting opinion to have” “Shut the fuck up, dude”

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✧ MidnightPursona :: 🔜 ASC FurCon 2026 ✧ @midnightpursona.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Happy #28DaysOfBlackCosplay — I’m Kalika, stage name MidnightPursona! I’ve been cosplaying since 2009-2010! I’m a seamstress, makeup artist, crafter, thrifter, etc. I’ve built a community and safe space for people who need it, especially people like me: Queer, Disabled, Black, Plus Sized, etc. 💖

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Tiffany @milkcircus.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Lolita Collective launched a gofundme. Their landlord rented their space to a new tenant without telling them so they have to suddenly change locations last minute. The space provides a positive physical space for our community so any help is appreciated #egl www.gofundme.com/f/help-lolit...

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Donate to Help Lolita Collective Move to a New Home!, organized by Suzanne Nelson

Help Lolita Collective Find a New Home! After over a year of serving as … Suzanne Nelson needs your support for Help Lolita Collective Move to a New Home!

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