iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 12h

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 12h

How do we sue them for this?

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 13h

We agree—this is a great plan!

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Front and Centered @frontandcentered.org · 06/10/2026

Gathering was one of 19+ across WA organized by @wa-air.bsky.social to advocate for a state-level #moratorium on #datacenters before next legislative session. Demonstrations were scheduled in Spokane, Walla Walla, Moses Lake, Olympia, Tacoma, Cle Elum & Bainbridge Island. @troublemakers.bsky.social

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Wraithe @wraithe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OK, it took 30 hours to do it, but I finally managed to create Agentic systems to play all my video games for me Now if I can just create some agents to ride my motorcyle for me and drive my car through some winding Mountain roads, I can get back to my life’s work: Working myself to into a grave

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Slowly filling with rage as I think about how none of the people who blocked another solar farm last week are going to say a damn word about the asthma factory reopening by my kid's school.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Across the state, folks have come out to call for a moratorium on the energy, water, job, & quality of life vampires called "data centers". “Silicon Valley’s motto is ‘Move fast and break things’ … and legislators are slow to catch up,” says @evansutton.bsky.social. Stop Big Tech bullying NOW.

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Protests in Seattle, across WA call for pause on AI data center boom

At least 19 protests across the state called for a moratorium on big data centers, amid a slew of concerns around AI, privacy and resource consumption.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 04/10/2026

The scariest straight line you'll see all day, via @financialtimes.com no less

Global sea level rise has a accelerated during the past decade

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Getting ready for our 10/4 day of action for a statewide data center moratorium in Washington! Find your closest action and join us! @wa-air.bsky.social @troublemakers.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Overpass banner sign that reads

Stop AI data centers

Overpass banner sign that reads

Moratorium now

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a bad bill—bad for environmental justice, bad for climate, bad for humans. Some good people are fighting for it b/c they don't believe we can get better, but straight up, it's a bad bill. Sometimes we have to fight like hell for better options; it's the only way we get them.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% this. Error-prone products that also happen to set the world on fire, not by error but by absurd design.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Worried or fed up? Sign up! actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Data Center Moratorium NOW! Day of Action: October 4. Washington AI Resistance.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In person hearing TODAY at 6pm, virtual public comment hearing at 6:00 p.m. on October 7!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

If a "climate tech" company is pivoting to servicing the needs of a generative AI industry that specifically hungers for fossil fuels, how on Earth is that still "climate tech"? That is petrotech - and we should call it that, when it is that. techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/t...

The pivot has helped many climate tech startups land fresh funding from investors. Total venture deal value has risen for four consecutive quarters, cresting the $14 billion-mark in the first quarter of this year, according to the most recent available data from PitchBook. It’s the best fundraising environment for climate tech in the last few years, with most of the deal value driven by sectors boosted by data center construction, including the built environment, grid infrastructure, and dispatchable energy that can be turned on or off when it’s needed.

Ultimately, the undercurrent at New York Climate Week was that the data center party won’t last forever, but it might last long enough to help startups build durable businesses. Once that happens, they can refocus on the carbon-cutting mission they were founded to pursue.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to write a letter with little more than these words and send it to every elected official on the planet.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is sort of the mostly unspoken factor. If this is true, and it seems to be at at least some level, then the data centers really aren’t infrastructure. They’re more like fuel. And then the economics I think just fall apart.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again, for those in the back! (Whole thread well worth reading.)

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

YCSTA: “We have a small amount of billionaires and political insiders who have made it impossible to feel confident about the future,” he says. “They’ve destabilized our ecological system. They’ve destabilized the political order.”— @wewill2026.bsky.social

wired.com

The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet

Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is how you please your two bases (with overlap): deeply insecure men and fossil fuel executives.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026

Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Big Tech IS shady. Resist, and send a message to officials and hopefuls by planning a data center moratorium action for October 4! We need YOU to fight for this world with us: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Poster with three guys in dark trench coats that say Sam, Elon, and Dario, with larger text that says Big Tech is Shady, Resist AI.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(And it should go without saying that that's only ONE of their problems.)

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Data centers are the biggest threat to the planet since cars and trucks.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Front and Centered @frontandcentered.org · 24/09/2026

We are doing a HAPPY DANCE because the Washington State Supreme Court overturned I-2066! 👯‍♂️ Overturning I-2066 frees us up to pursue clean energy as planned, not old legacy fossil fuels. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... @climatesolutions.org @sierraclub.org @kingcountywa.bsky.social

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Absolutely this.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So very much right now that's worthy of middle-of-the-night wakings...

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Powering data centers with renewables is merely ONE demand of many that we need to make. Extraordinary resource use requires extraordinary regulatory juice.

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my first intense encounter with corporate PR was during the frac boom, when companies made it sound like you were a naive dunce bc we’ve done this exact thing for decades — while failing to comment on scale and key differences. Same thing w AI now, w data centers getting orders of magnitude bigger

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Salt Creek Regrets Opening Bsky @saltcreekbrews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People are going to ask to hire this crew near their local data center

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Hold the HUMANS accountable for what their systems do. The humans' companies and individual humans themselves.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have you planned YOUR anti-data center action yet? We need Washington State to declare a moratorium so that we can decide under what circumstances—if any!—data centers benefit our communities. So our legislators need to hear us LOUD AND CLEAR. Join us on 10/4.

actionnetwork.org

MORATORIUM NOW: WA Statewide Day of Action to Stop Data Centers

We're coming together across Washington state on October 4 to make sure our leaders receive the message: we demand a moratorium and real regulation of data centers and AI that puts people first.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

'We missed the 1.5c target so that means it's too late to stop climate change' Ah, we missed the 'zero road deaths' target this year. What a shame. Time to take the hummer out, squeeze my eyes shut and smash the accelerator in a pedestrian zone. Come on people, let's make some sense here

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 16/09/2026

"an ankle monitor for your mind" needs to immediately break containment and enter the vernacular

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every day, this administration is traitorous to all that's decent and good.

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