iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Chiem Balduk @chiembalduk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Wat een verhaal: 'Radicale klimaatactivisten' die ruim 270 auto's beschadigden en met Groenen-stickers beplakten, bleken in werkelijkheid door Rusland aangestuurde 'amateuragenten'. Bedoeld om afkeer tegen de Groenen te vergroten. Verhaal van Spiegel: www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

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(S+) Hunderte Autos beschädigt: Deutschlandweite Sabotageserie offenbar aus Russland gesteuert

Auspuffrohre mit Bauschaum verklebt, Robert-Habeck-Sticker auf Scheiben gepappt: Was wie das Werk radikaler Klimaaktivisten aussieht, soll nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen auf das Konto russischer Auftraggeber...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

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Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Tech giants have used their social media & advertising monopolies to manipulate our behaviour for profit at the expense of privacy, open markets & democratic debate. As this study suggests, giving the same actors control over AI will make matters much worse. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI tools may soon manipulate people’s online decision-making, say researchers

Study predicts an ‘intention economy’ where companies bid for accurate predictions of human behaviour

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Joris Oddens @jorisoddens.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Vandaag lanceren we de website Goetgevonden, waarmee je kunt zoeken in alle besluiten van de Staten-Generaal van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden (1576-1796). Goetgevonden is wereldwijd de krachtigste zoekmachine voor historische teksten die ooit is gemaakt. Je vindt ons via goetgevonden.nl!

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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Why did Silicon Valley turn right? During stable times, institutions shape people's understanding of their interests and alliances. In crises, certainties crumble. This creates opportunities for political entrepreneurs armed with new ideas to reshape how people understand their interests.

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Why did Silicon Valley turn right?

The "pounded progressive ally" thesis has limits

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What can Americans learn from Yoon Suk Yeol's less-than-a-day dictatorship? snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...

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Dictators for a Day

South Korea and America

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Dit kwam ik net tegen in het boek 'Welvaart in zwart-wit' (2000) van C.J.M. Schuyt en Ed Taverne. Blijkbaar werkte oa het CBS al in de jaren zestig aan een classificatie voor milieuvervuiling:

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature

A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...

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Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'

A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Je kunt nu nog tekenen! Straks niet mee. campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...

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Stop de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ik reken op een grote opkomst, morgen: collega’s van alle faculteiten, van alle universiteiten in Nederland. Acties zoals deze tonen aan dat er nog steeds solidariteit bestaat, en dat wetenschappers zich betrokken voelen bij álle vormen van het verwerven van kennis.

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Rodrigo Fernandez @fernandezamsterdam.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🔴 Monopoly Power and the cost of shareholder compensation The trend of increasing shareholder payouts is particularly notable among the top 1%, highlighting the intersection between monopoly power and financialisation a thread🧵 www.somo.nl/taking-stock...

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Taking Stock: 50 Years of prioritising shareholders - SOMO

More information?

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Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

quite the cover from @politico.eu

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NRC @nrc.nl · 20/11/2024

De eerste versie van de 'Human Cell Atlas' is er, een gigantische database met beelden en beschrijvingen van alle cellen in het menselijk lichaam. Hiermee zullen wetenschappers allerlei ziekten beter begrijpen, zo hopen de makers. buff.ly/3Z0mDIg

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Het landschap van alle menselijke cellen in kaart

Geneeskunde: Met de beschrijving van alle cellen in een mensenlichaam zullen wetenschappers ook allerlei ziekten beter begrijpen, zo hopen de makers van de Human Cell Atlas.

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is an interesting website that amongst others has a 3d visualisation of a 20 percent random sample of a scientists’ network on Bluesky (of 39,030 scientists).

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Fascinating stuff. In an interview from 1957, Dutch futurologist Fred Polak predicted that in the year 2000 thanks to automation, we would only have to work 2 days a week (around 10 hours).

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Fascinerend. In een interview uit 1957 voorspelt futuroloog Fred Polak dat we dankzij automatisering in het jaar 2000 nog slechts 2 dagen in de week, circa 10 uur hoeven te werken.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I have been waiting for @hannahritchie.bsky.social to run the numbers on this question: What’s the impact of artificial intelligence on energy demand? www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-...

IEA projections for slower and faster growth of data centre use shown as relatively small in context of world energy uses

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 15/11/2024

Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

What is public and what is private on Bluesky? - Posts and likes are public. - Blocks are public. -Mutes are private, but mutelists are public lists. - Your mutelist subscriptions are private. - Invites and invite trees are private.

A screenshot of What is public and what is private on Bluesky?

Bluesky is a public social network. Think of your posts as blog posts – anyone on the web can see them, even those without an invite code. An invite code simply grants access to the service we’re running that lets you publish a post yourself. (Developers familiar with the API can view all posts regardless of whether they have an account themselves.)

Specifically:

Posts and likes are public.
Blocks are public.
Mutes are private, but mutelists are public lists. Your mutelist subscriptions are private.
Invites and invite trees are private.

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Gavin Anderegg @gavin.anderegg.ca · 15/11/2024

I wanted to try and collect my thoughts about Bluesky in one place. I think Bluesky is fascinating, but I also worry about many parts of it. If it becomes the new "Twitter", I think I'm OK with that, but I'll be very quick to cut the cord if it ever starts sucking. anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/m...

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Maybe Bluesky has “won”

November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I...

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 16/11/2024

Het is niet de taal die Schoof in de steek laat, maar het kompas

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Het is niet de taal die Schoof in de steek laat, maar het kompas

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I have made a very important MUST-HAVE extensive starterpack with the most essential people to follow on Bluesky! go.bsky.app/8hgBJ4Y (purely accidental it also includes me)

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Naar idee van @chrmeijer.bsky.social. Citaatje uit mijn onderzoek dat ook vandaag de dag gezegd had kunnen zijn: “Het is daardoor dan ook gekomen, dat de eerste veel gesmade automatie-brain-boys van de nieuwe elektronische generatie allengs sleutelposities in het Pentagon zijn gaan innemen.”

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

En nog even ter introductie: Meer informatie over mijn PhD Onderzoek is hier te vinden: www.ru.nl/onderzoek/on... En de dossierpagina over het project waar ik als onderzoeker bij het Rathenau Instituut aan werk is de volgende: www.rathenau.nl/nl/dossiers/... Laat weten als je vragen hebt etc

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Privacy Rules | Radboud Universiteit

This project combines iHub's value-driven approach to studying the societal impact of digitisation in the Netherlands since the 1970s.

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Apparently it is possible to search for starterpacks. Very useful! (or maybe this is common knowledge, sorry I am a newbie here) - blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Tijs Sikma @tijssikma.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Een cartoon van The Guardian gaf mij het laatste zetje om toch maar een Bluesky account aan te maken. "Bluesky seems nice (very earnest)" - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Leaving Twitter? Here are some alternatives to checking an online Nazi bot sewer every 20 minutes | First Dog on the Moon

Plant a tomato bush then lecture it on how it should grow tomatoes

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