iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mallika @mallidharmaraj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🩵🩵🩵 so grateful for your mentorship and review of this work & thinking. and hello blueskyyy, excited to share this article which is an outgrowth of my MPhil dissertation tracing flows of surveillance across the Indian Ocean. dm me for a PDF!

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Your thoughtful response is appreciated :)

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We've exhausted everything to find Ahmed help, but we don't give up. Please help him eat, stay housed, find legal help, and get the necessary documents to be able to work. Please support Ahmed. 54/250 BY SUNDAY: chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

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Help survivor Ahmed get back on his feet

Ahmed is my best friend and colleague, and I am running this campaign on his behalf. Ahmed F is an art therapist, educator, and student. Since being displaced from Gaza in 2024, he's been striving to ...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Also hold the date. The fifth(!!!!) Alchemy Lecture will be on October 29, 2026 at York! 5-8 pm. Audra Simpson Thandi Loewenson Lorenzo Pezzani Torkwase Dyson. ScALE Registration and links to come.

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I really do end the essay with a story of a goat born w/o its two front legs who learned to move around like a kangaroo; morphological changes confirmed up autopsy, b/c of the cacophony of awe and weird wonder it represents. There’s more to life than another listicle of the bad things

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ciberpoder.net @ciberpoder.net · 14/08/2026

"Between a love letter and a quarterly report." Aquesta frase la firmaríem nosaltres sobre ciberpoder.net any rere any... Mantenir viva una revista de tecnocrítica independent és exactament això, amor i números que no quadren.

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ciberpoder.net — cultura tecnopolítica

Cultura tecnopolítica. Escrivim sobre el poder que es juga dins de les pantalles.

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Vetting against cosmopolitanism to ask who you are in relation to the story you’re claiming to tell anchors us but also earns animosity. There’s convenience in sleek minimalist design that doesn’t dirty itself w/ the particulars of less trending contexts but clean hands and empty heads has no hope

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

These experiences of seclusion, shattered families during the crack epidemic, thumbing books on Harlem’s 125th street tables between shea butter and essential oils that went on to inform Logic(s)’ model, where the researched are now the researchers.

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I share what it was like to come of age in behavioral modification centers where reading and writing were banned. “Before behavioral psychologists encoded social media with nudges, Pavlovian notifications and engagement loops, modernized residential schools implemented token economies.”

Making eye contact with or verbally commenting on a child in the quiet room or spread-eagle in 5-point restraints as we navigated the corridor could get you points deducted or placed into something called a
"Training Setting" where you were banned from speaking or ding anything besides sitting for at least 24-48 hours. Before behavioral psychologists encoded social media with nudges, Pavlovian notifications and engagement loops, modernized residential schools implemented token economies, There are other types of programs in the industry based on 12 steps and wilderness programs but the vast majority are behavior modification centers predicated on some version of a token economy. The way it was implemented within

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Perhaps this deserve a less esoteric introduction. Weaving memoir with an analysis of technology, automated decision systems and AI more broadly. This is something between a love letter and quarterly report on where Logic(s) has been and where it’s going.

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Really enjoyed this book. Does a very good job of linking babbages engines to the history of neural networks while problematizing our assumptions of the mental/manual divide

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 10/08/2026

new ai skeptics reading group email, this time with more updates and stuff than usual(!) specifically, i've decided to lay out my plans for the next several books, so read on

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[AI Skeptics] Techno-Negative, chapter 6

Hello! We're reading Techno-Negative by Thomas Dekeyser and continuing with chapter 6: "Exodus: Phobia and (Techno-)Rationalism in an Epoch of Planetary...

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Eye of the master is really good. Will def check out the other two that I haven’t read yet :)

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Needed to be silent for a while but sharing a piece meditating on my life and Logic(s). Got locked up with sheep and re-discovered awe and wonder in goat missing its two front legs that learned to move like a kangaroo. logicmag.io/2026/meditat...

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Meditations on Life and Logic(s)

This essay is part memoir, quarterly report, love letter and mourning.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026

“A US judge in New Mexico on Thursday ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest ruling against the company over child safety.”

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Meta told to pay another $567m in New Mexico child safety lawsuit

A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it has harmed children.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 07/08/2026

might be common knowledge, but some people block channels that use AI in thumbnails. youtube has an option to "never recommend this channel again" and i only ever use it when a channel's thumbnails are all AI i hope someone can convey to aspiring youtubers that it'd be good to grow out of this ASAP

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026

FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.

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Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"

Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Asmarom Legesse’s anthropological study of the Booraaana Oromo informs Wynter’s conceptual sketches of black studies even earlier in Do Not Call Us Negros (1990) but the way she places it in relationship to street tasks in NHI was really generative re: appraisal of black indigineity

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I began from the juxtaposition of Tupac’s ‘92 talk at a Malcom X Grassroots Banquet and Wynter’s NHI in ‘94 because I wanted to trace variegated shifts in black ecological salience and in turn bifurcation in how technology was/is differently conceptualized by black folks, crack era to the present.

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Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

re-emerging from the depths of a monastic reading journey and hoping to reconnect with whoever crossed from the other side to here.

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