iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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vass @vass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

more precisely, copyright is a tool for turning creative labour into intellectual capital, which can then be bought and sold like any other capital: that is both WID and what it was designed to do, right? which in no way contradicts what you said, but i think the how is important

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words @words.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

was thinking about this yesterday when I wasn't able to access the full text of a folklore classifier index because copyright and then again when the obscure history of media book was "unavailable to borrow" nobody is being helped by this system

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Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it @zaraza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So like. There's a thing here. AI opposition has recently been what I'm gonna call a "populist catchment" for the Western left. Anti-AI sentiment is primarily left-ish, BUT, being driven by underlying economic dysfunction, it's wider than the leftist umbrella. Good, right? Except... Steve Bannon.

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vanagonfan 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇬🇱 @vanagonfan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can agree or disagree with this argument, but I do want to note that pre-AI, any opinion on the free flow of culture and media that wasn't as totalizing as this one would have gotten you pelted with rocks on Tumblr.

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Shawn Connolly @divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it literally exists to be staffed with people who are GOOD AT EXPLAINING THINGS TO THE USERBASE IN A WAY YOU DEMONSTRABLY ARE NOT It's basically the equivalent of "sure we pay a mechanic but when he tells me I don't need to replace my air filter I just do it myself because I know better"

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Shawn Connolly @divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is useful context and also absolutely indicative of why this is a mess because the only reasonable conclusion I can draw from what's stated here is "when Aaron wants something posted and the comms team doesn't, he just posts it himself" and, like WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A COMMS TEAM FOR

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Flower Shop @flowershop.zo.space · 03/10/2026

a tumbleweed practicing

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TWISTED CUM FREAK!!!!! @wrenwhite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this part about what's considered "adult" was enlightening. i was wondering why I could post nudity on tumblr without issue UNTIL I drew a fat woman, then suddenly it got auto flagged as mature. so fat people are now "adult." just great.

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Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026

FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is why if one experiments with this brave new world, I recommend local models. ktlog.corpuscollusion.net/archive/2026... Does not solve the IP theft issue which may be okayish for software trained on Apache licensed code. But does keep OpenAI from seeing your prompts.

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overriding defaults

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

“Tech is inherently political” is not just about ideology, but about power, too. Yielding technological improvements to the adversary will have predictable outcomes. I’m really worried it will lock in power centralization in a way that will be impossibly hard to reverse. It’s already happening.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ffs bernie

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it @zaraza.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The media clearly isn't, because nowhere can I find a list of what systems rely on this data center in particular... ...but Wikipedia sez Equinix signed a contract with US CBP in 2018 so if you want to grind their bones to make your bread, honestly I'm cool with that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinix

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Equinix - Wikipedia

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This rules!

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yuyuko@glass-mountain-system @asriel.balloon.moe · 12/09/2026

We've gotten nothing from this and unfortunately this IS life or death for him. He is, at best, slowly dying of gradual onset diabetic shock. I barely slept last night

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is a good piece, and also a very good time to remind people that what DHS is up to is a feature, not a bug. The feds have a *very* long history of spying on/targeting leftists. The Trump admin is turning up the dial on that as far as it will go.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11/09/2026

As soon as the attacks occurred on September 11, 2001, we designed this poster and began circulating it. We knew the attacks on the United States didn't come out of nowhere. And as the patriots waved their flags, we knew that it wouldn't be long before there were hundreds of thousands more dead.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/your-leaders-cant-protect-you

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 11/09/2026

Anyway, happy 9/11. If the towers see the plane's shadow you get 25 more years of security state.

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A bot, definitely Russian or North Korean 🔞🦊 @dykemoonblade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You say "I dunno, it just really feels like a lot of the popular AI backlash is eerily similar to job-anxiety racism" and people call you insane for that take and then everyone starts calling the computers racial slurs and a year later the president is telling his constituents that AI is immigrants

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 08/09/2026

If you look at the 2020s MAHA and RW wellness space, and ask "how much of this movement encourages me to eat a Cow Product?", it's a bit of a shock, to some people. Collagen, Bone Broths, low/no carb diets, all the red-faced HGH users, etc.

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If we don't build housing the data centers win

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Brandon @childlessbrandino.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The way to test it is to say “ok great, we agree on no data center for this plot of land. What about a new high-density mixed-use housing development?”

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Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it @zaraza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I feel like this connects to what a lot of people who like it AND a lot of people who hate it are getting wrong basically We are acting on the same priorities, incentives and motivations as always, just amplified.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The media, which quickly picked up much slighter signs of aging in the previous president, ignores all this. It's inconvenient, maybe even scary to think that a man who can order nuclear war is so dissociated from the responsibilities the voters have given him. But here we are.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The content of many posts is disturbing. Nazi-like uniforms for Space Force. Dark spaces through which he strides menacingly. AI-generated, highly inaccurate maps. Obviously erroneous claims. An unstable woman, who writes love letters to him helps him post.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The US president has been posting all day, sometimes in rapid succession, on the website owned by an associate whom he allowed to tear up large swaths of the government last year. You might think that the president has other things to think about, like an unresolved war in Iran.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

I say this at a time which I don't yet have the capacity to organize ground resistance against vendors of corporate AI surveillance and weapon systems being deployed in the name of productivity and progress. This is a real global scale threat and those who use AI systems day to day can help us win.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

If you're truly serious about fighting AI, and you can't find an institution to align yourself with, message me privately. I have homework for you. Otherwise, I don't want to hear judgements about people using AI for their work. No, it can't be justified. Neither can having a phone. Do the work.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

If you're truly serious about fighting AI, reflect on why you're spending so much time and energy building walls against strangers online. That time would be better spent organizing with each other to hold the line at towns halls and schools targeted by AI vendors funded by the tech oligarchy.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

There's a ground game we should be mobilizing to fight against corporate AI, and one of the most important, accessible fronts is at the local and municipal levels. City council and school committee meetings. Stop fighting online so we can actually stop corporate AI takeover of our communities.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

That is to say, people who are for and against the use of AI tools are both needed in the fight against the people pushing this technology on the masses at the cost of the economy, the environment, and lives. And right now we're stuck in-fighting with each other instead, as intended by the AI cult.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

This is at a time in which we need to be building coalitions to fight back against corporate fascism and take back our local and national governments so we can begin to rebuild the institutions we've lost and renegotiate social contracts.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

"Cancel culture" is one of the social phenomenon latched onto by foreign actors to manipulate us towards our current geopolitical situation. Patterns of outrage and moral ostracization prevalent on social media creates increasingly isolated pockets of "morally pure" ingroups with no political power.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

These AI fanatics (connected to Curtis Yarvin and friends) pioneered strategies and tactics that became the standard for Russian population influence operations around the US presidential election two years later, which are widely documented including in US congressional records.

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Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at · 07/09/2026

I'll take it a step further. In 2014 someone in the superintelligent AI community told me that the way to save humanity from an AI apocalypse was to usher in a fascist US state. The strategy was to start a culture war by exacerbating gamergate and targeting people of color in fandom communities.

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Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it @zaraza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

READ THIS THREAD. If you know or care for me, trust me enough to believe me when I say I have seen the pattern with my own eyes. The surveillance state is killing us, the slop discourse IN ITS CURRENT FORM is a psyop to keep us from resisting it.

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 07/09/2026

At risk of coming off as hyperbolic, I daresay this is the single most important thread I’ve seen posted on here. Naming the problem is not solving the problem, but naming it is the first step.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

a lot of this going around the last few days

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

they don't give a shit about teenagers this is nothing but surveillance we need to stop tolerating surveillance practices and technologies

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Mrs. Reach / Mrs. Curio @reachartwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is the world in which jungle, d&b, vaporwave, just large swathes of the techno and EDM and IDM landscape don't exist, the world in which huge swathes of rap are eliminated, the world in which you can no longer create parodies of people, the world in which disney makes Even Fewer Gay People

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Mrs. Reach / Mrs. Curio @reachartwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

but furthermore: i can promise you that you don't actually want to live in the world where you need someone's permission to transform their works because that's actually *more* restrictive than our current world, which, thank god, has the fair use doctrine + transformative works as a legal category

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Mrs. Reach / Mrs. Curio @reachartwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this absurd watering down of consent from "a thing that determines whether or not you were sexually assaulted" to "you asked permission of the IP owner if you could so graciously use a crumb of mickey mouse" is not only stupid its also extremely offensive and i don't understand how it became popular

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turnerofwheels @turnerofwheels.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

one of (a few) things that made me initially suspicious of anti-ai groups ~4 years ago was anti-trans comments sent to trans accounts who used ai, often sounding like the alt-right. the broader left's refusal to acknowledge the scale and engage with the influence of these groups changed my politics

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Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it @zaraza.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is the conversation no one's been having, including me because I didn't want to accidentally direct more harassment to anyone. But basically please consider that Computers Knower is, historically & presently, THE financially viable transfem profession, & ~75% of computers jobs involve AI now.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the whole "a bunch of people get excited at an excuse to bully a trans woman off social media" phenomenon is a very real one, and - based on who keeps getting the short end of that stick when there's some AI-adjacent controversy on here - a real problem with the hardline anti-AI crowd on Bluesky

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

Y'all have no idea how relieved and happy I was to hear Lundy Braun's name and WORK mentioned, let alone to hear her voice. Lost a real one when we lost her. Read Breathing Race into the Machine

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 29/08/2026

The spirometer, used to help doctors diagnose lung disease, had a so-called race equation built into it. It was drawn from assumptions about the anatomy of Black people that were false and based on “science” traced back to American slavery. Why are hospitals around the US still using it?

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A “race equation” baked into a standard medical test is hurting Black patients, but most hospitals are still using it

A standard medical test with racist origins is cutting off Black patients from needed treatments. Why do hospitals still use this harmful test today?

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Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it @zaraza.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Downgrading an album: music has a moderate stake in children

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