iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h

The leak of hundreds of thousands of mails from within the far right German AfD is a huge scandal. Nazi salutes, racism, sexism is now revealed. Don't forget the AfDis MAGAs best friend in Germany, who Elon Musk and Tr*mp championed.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 7h

Provocative new preprint examines 14 published meta-analyses claiming AI improves student learning and concludes... Not a single one provides a valid basis for its claims, citing widespread methodological flaws. osf.io/preprints/ed... Watch a webinar from yesterday about the findings:

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Presumed Effective: The Manufacturing of an Evidence Base for AI-in-Ed Through Flawed Meta-Analysis

YouTube video by MIT Teaching Systems Lab

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 12h

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

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𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 🎨 @hensbreet.art · 10h

“AI” companies presenting their software as having “personalities” is what started this whole “is it conscious” bullshit. That was a choice. Remove that presentation layer and the software is no less capable, but still just software.

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Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines - MIT STS

From the author of the prescient best seller and classic Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle, comes an urgent warning about how our ever-increasing reliance on human-like AI chatbots is…

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 11h

At first this seems uncharacteristically gentle for @olivia.science but then, as you stop and ponder, it kicks in. That first quote "we are directly or indirectly paid to read". You just have to add "paid to read [more than our employer gives us time to read]"

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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 11h

yeah the reality is quite a few "liberals" think trans women are men and agree with the fascists on this issue, and are using the permission structure of "electoral necessity" to declare that they consider trans women men does this mean the battle is lost? No. But it does mean the battle is on

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 11h

and dems—clinton said a lot of stupid shit but was never an idiot, there was a reason he was saying it here too, new labour played for the tabloids, but realised that wasn't a governance strategy in itself now it really is brain rot all the way down

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D.R. Bartlette @drbartlette.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly. The Tea Party was astroturfed specifically to rile up the racists, crazies, & rubes. It just transitioned into MAGA, and the racists, crazies, & rubes took over.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11h

Tbf I think the nonsense for the rubes, Machiavellian capitalist imperialists in the backrooms was a genuinely good model of Bush II and that's when I came of age so I think I just over indexed on my childhood.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11h

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 13h

Worth A Try tbh

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bleh @communist-ratito.bsky.social · 13h

this is called a general strike and historically it works really well, but the government will literally pull out all stops to try and kill you if you get close to organizing one. i'm still trying tho.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14h

That’s why if anyone offers the state of the economy (which is definitely not good by the way if a country is like 38 trillion dollars in debt) to me as a metric for the overall State Of Things, I know that they are trying to grift me or they are grifting or on the take somewhere. Or stupid.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14h

When we talk about the state of the economy we must remember that an economy that’s decoupled from material conditions of citizens has no basis in reality & thus becomes a useless metric for evaluating the health of a government. And that’s the exact scenario that corporatocratic kleptocracy creates

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly right. Mediocre white men love AI for this very reason. They can't do the work but need the praise and are unwilling to learn. Can't learn Photoshop can't even learn Paint. Can't learn how to write an interesting sentence, can't make a joke. Outsourcing being a person.

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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 12h

*queer. sorry. typing with shaking hands

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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 12h

very few queet people in their 20s-30s in the bulk of gamer demographic that did not experience their first “canon” foundational queer romances in a BioWare rpg. devastating. just absolutely devastating.

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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 12h

and as always all my love and support to my industry friends at BioWare, formerly or still right now. I’m so sorry this happened to any of you at all

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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 12h

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

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who’s asking? @lorehunting.eurosky.social · 9h

I have generally never used AI because I have never seen a usecase for it—because every task I could use AI for is a task where a major goal is *my learning*, not just 'task done' (even for seemingly menial tasks). this is not standard thinking anymore and it makes me really sad for academia.

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who’s asking? @lorehunting.eurosky.social · 9h

unforch most people in STEM-academia seem perfectly happy to let an AI do most of their jobs so long as they get credit. I think part of it is the mindset that results are what matter rather than process or growth, and part of it is STEM peeps are bad at understanding social issues but don't realise

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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 9h

Like, sure, I think that it's harmful to let a machine do your literature review because doing literature reviews *is how you stay current with your field*, but apparently it's just a given that most people would prefer an AI do that, if my colleagues are to be believed?

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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 9h

It is definitely more than a little maddening to be in a tech-adjacent field at the moment, even if it's within academia, because I'm surrounded by people who are genuinely excited about generative/agentic AI, and it's like...am *I* the one who's out of touch? Is there something I'm not seeing?

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 11h

With these latest stats - 110 GWs of gas-fired power on private grids under development - you can see what the fossil fuel industry and Big Tech love the permitting reform bill. bsky.app/profile/kost...

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 11h

@michael-thomas.bsky.social on what's arguably the most significant trend in US energy: rapid buildout of gas plants at data center complexes. Time to jettison assumptions that energy developers will sit in interconnection queues, or that gas plant developers will wait for combined-cycle turbines.

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Data Center Developers Have Announced More Than 100 GW of Their Own Power Plants

The growth of these power plants forced us to rethink how we track them

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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 9h

Is this how it’s going to be now? Keep everything private? Discuss nothing, don’t release stages in a larger programme of research. Because someone out there has AI, no original ideas of their own, and no sense of appropriate behaviour.

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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 9h

A good friend, a very serious algebraic geometer, is having his work from the past decade swooped upon by a person with AI; said person is pushing out AI-generated proofs of the parts my friend exposed to the world. Fortunately not everything was revealed, but this is utterly gross. #MathSky #LLM

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 9h

I'm out here sweating in the theory mines, discussing gender and race and tech, and these chucklefucks just tweet it out.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h

About 7 years ago I went on a campaign to convince people that the CIO role was about to become the most powerful de facto academic officer at the university; should be subsumed to faculty governance. The LMS was their opening gambit, then brand cohesion & centralized syllabus databases. Now AI.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

even more urgently bsky.app/profile/the-...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.

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Vance Defends Ramaswamy Ad Featuring Acton’s Mother Despite Backlash

The vice president backed an advertisement featuring Democrat Amy Acton’s mother, who has been estranged from Dr. Acton since her stepfather was charged with child rape.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 8h

it's fast on screen, but as Ketan points out in the thread, the ad *explicitly shows him telling copilot to copy the other guy's model*

screenshot from the ad shows text being entered into copilot that reads "Analyze Daniel's model in the a..."

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 8h

The idea that you can tell this thing to make your work MORE BETTERER and not only will it do it but everyone around you will be amazed at how effective you've become at your job... again, none of them would give a fuck, they'd all be wrestling with semi-functional MORE BETTERER bots of their own.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 8h

In reality everyone in this office would have already sat through a dozen meetings on the need to embrace AI tools and they'd hear about the fucking things 20 times a day. They'd all have the same button to push. They'd know exactly how this doofus cleaned up his graphs. They wouldn't be impressed.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 8h

I'm like 90% sure the company behind this ad is Panay Films - Andrew Panay (CEO) is a big hollywood producer (wedding crashers, hot tub time machine etc) www.linkedin.com/posts/panay-... lbbonline.com/news/microso...

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Microsoft Copilot Sees 30M Paid Seats, 100% Growth | PANAY FILMS, INC. posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Microsoft challenged us when they handed us an incredible product like Copilot to market. The software spoke for itself, but how could we speak to the people who really needed it? How could we connect...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10h

@edzitron.com frequently asks on his pod 'what does it do', and I think a few years into this whole thing, we got a good answer for that now

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10h

The amazing thing is that he isn't getting Copilot to do it from scratch - it is very much the direct plagiarism thing I have been talking about!!! bsky.app/profile/keta...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10h

Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

A seedy looking business guy with a shit beard and bad haircut

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10h

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 8h

Sure, this perfectly encapsulates our current complete degradation of the concept of professionalism, but beyond that it also represents one of the huge lies of genAI pushers-- the idea that it can be your secret little advantage nobody else ever has to know about. 🧵

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 16h

I'm late with the warning this year folks: but October slide is here! Be cognizant that your interactions on social media may not be taken the way you mean, and take frequent breaks, yourself! See below.

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 13h

Oh boy, how I’d like to do literally anything other than worrying about (what other people do with) AI. But other people refuse to turn their brain on, and they do stuff with AI. ☹️

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Beth Howard @june-6-bug.bsky.social · 14h

Oh. Apparently the 1800s also had tech bros, as clocked by none other than Ada Lovelace

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

Postscript: bsky.app/profile/chan...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/10/2026

I am horribly disappointed by how American physicists have embraced the anti-intellectualism & anti-humanism inherent to the notion that people can simply be replaced by an algorithm built through theft and labor exploitation and it seems no lessons have been learned from the Oppenheimer era at all

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/10/2026

It is not in fact our generation’s job to be the last group of physicists who know how to do things, you fucking dodos. We don’t just hire students to make our research go. We hire them to pass on knowledge and secure humanity’s ancestral inheritance.

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