iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Hell yes it is a great framework stop making @toniasutherland.bsky.social increasingly relevant, world.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026

“The installation, unveiled in February 2024, allows guests to ask Douglass questions through an iPad. Using a closed database of Douglass’s autobiographies and speeches, the artificial intelligence generates responses based solely on Douglass’s recorded words.”

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Massachusetts museums use AI to bring history to life - The Boston Globe

As the 250th anniversary approaches, museums and historical tours around Massachusetts have evolved to incorporate modern technology like artificial intelligence in their tourism.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 08/05/2026

"Being a single mother is hard enough [let alone] being a single mother and having a spouse in prison.” Mass incarceration has a ripple effect, causing trauma for the entire family.

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I’m Free, but I’m in Prison

The Economic Impacts on Mothers of Having an Incarcerated Co-parent

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Tonia Sutherland @toniasutherland.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

There are a lot of competing—but aligned—interests. Keeping the files quiet, oil, armageddon. Big men avenging their sense of injustice. Rubio in Cuba. Bibi’s Greater plan. AI companies deploying tech in the military. A holy war for Evangelicals. Everyone is trying to get what they want out of this.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

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Senior Correspondent, Politics

WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The ayatollah that came into power in 1979 died nearly 40 years ago.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18/02/2026

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

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How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI? - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/02/2026

The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The first three articles: • harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives • Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure • @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The issue gathers scholarly, curatorial, and critical work across digital humanities, critical AI & data studies, artistic research, feminist and decolonial theory, examining the entanglements between AI imaginaries, machine learning, and archival theory, practice, and power.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Edited by @ktmac.bsky.social, myself, @toniasutherland.bsky.social, Caroline Bassett, Eun Seo Jo & @louravn.bsky.social Ravn, this issue brings together one of the first collective efforts to articulate an archival turn in AI research.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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AI & Archives

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

gofundme.com

Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante

Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2] redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/

Screenshot of class website, a grid with an image embodying the theme of each week.

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Archiving The Black Web @atbw.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Applications now open for Web Archiving School fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Apply here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/

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Apply – ATBW

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Tina Sherman @tinashermannc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died from complications related to childbirth. She leaves a husband and newborn that need the support of her village. If you are able, please consider joing me in donating. www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...

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Donate to Honoring Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM, organized by Nichole Wardlaw

Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died fr… Nichole Wardlaw needs your support for Honoring Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM

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Princess @themultiplemom.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

You don’t have to want kids or even enjoy being around them. But it’s also worth unpacking why kids simply existing, learning, or having unmet needs reads as “annoying,” “unlikeable,” or “bad behavior.” This collective discomfort with noise, need, & vulnerability is why many ADULTS are struggling.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

nytimes.com

Live Updates: As Venezuela Projects Defiance, Rubio Says U.S. Will Use ‘Leverage’ to Advance Its Interests

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.

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HyperboLEE @hyperbolee.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

If you vote BY MAIL, the rules have changed. Please SHARE. youtube.com/watch?v=4F8F...

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USPS changing its postmark process

YouTube video by NBC10 Boston

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/01/2026

“Fueled partly by American tech companies, governments around the globe are racing to deploy generative A.I. systems and training in schools and universities.”

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Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 02/01/2026

I really think we are just not at all prepared for the tsunami of social harm that "AI" is about to dump on us.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

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This School Board President Took Her Oath on a Stack of Contested Books. Here's Why

The school board for Central Bucks County, Pa., has been at the center of divisive political debates.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Our Constitution (Article VI) expressly forbids any “religious tests” for holding public office, so it would be impossible for a Bible or any other religious book to be “required” for swearing in.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It’s easy to be cynical about the media but entire GENERATIONS of mostly not-famous journalists at places like CBS and the WaPo spent their whole careers doing the work that created the credibility those places had which made them important enough for self-serving billionaires to decide to ruin them

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Bald-Headed Demon 😈 @such-a-frknlady.blacksky.app · 05/12/2025

i’m really glad food delivery apps don’t do year-end recaps. lmfao

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

An AI prompt says “long stockings a red headed girl with braids sticking straight out”

Four sexually suggestive images of a Pippi Longstocking type in various states of undress.

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 06/12/2025

I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/12/2025

“The government has responded by arguing that the president's power to oversee the executive branch under Article II of the U.S. Constitution essentially overrides that core civil rights law, Nemer's attorney said.” They are gonna ask SCOTUS to gut what’s left of the Civil Rights Act

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Fired worker sues government in a case that could upend civil rights laws

A fired immigration judge says she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 02/12/2025

Older people now make up 5x as much of the prison population as they did 3 decades ago. Turning prisons into “makeshift nursing homes” is one of the nation’s most wasteful, morally bankrupt experiments to date.

Graph showing that in 2021, 15% of people in prison were 55+, a 5x increase from 1991.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized. You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too. www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...

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Interactive AIDS Quilt

The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...

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Tonia Sutherland @toniasutherland.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I was delighted to talk with Dr. Joy of Therapy for Black Girls about tech, digital afterlives, and healing through Black Memory Work. Give it a listen! therapyforblackgirls.com/2025/11/19/s... #TBGU #TBGInSession #TherapyForBlackGirls #PodsInColor

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

huffpost.com

If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP

Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Mixtapes given to one's romantic interests or received from suitors had strange titles like (as pictured here) "Psychomorph," "Andrea's Hostage Tape," "The Moo Tape," and "Don't Lose Your Temper," because everyone had to act somewhat disinterested.

A photo of a Napa Valley case holding 100 cassettes circa 1990, many with homemade covers.

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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...

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In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates

BY AFSHAN JAFAR We have recently seen accelerating legislative and political attacks on faculty governing bodies at state institutions, including legislation recently enacted in Indiana, Ohio, Utah…

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 22/11/2025

On this day in 1865, Mississippi authorized local officials to identify minor Black children who were orphans and “apprentice” them to white “masters or mistresses."

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Nov. 22, 1865 | Mississippi Authorizes 'Sale' of Black Orphans to White 'Masters or Mistresses'

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 21/11/2025

While U.S. families struggle through an affordability crisis, mass incarceration still costs taxpayers $182 billion a year. That's a lot of money that could be spent on communities instead of cages.

Flow chart showing that mass incarceration costs $182 billion each year

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