iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

abby cole @abbycole.net · 06/10/2026

- a little pdf library of the open access books and papers i've downloaded and curated to share with everyone - more to come....

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 06/10/2026

some things on my list: - a place for my essays and articles but with the goal of creating each one as a visual essay/unique experience rather than just a blog post - a place to start logging my physical media collections (vinyl and dvd, including the dvd menus??? bc i love dvd menus so much)

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 06/10/2026

an update on my website: i have made amazing progress and have a working version of an obsidian-powered wiki now--i have so many other things i want to add before i can consider it a complete 1.0 version but i'm already so proud of how much i was able to teach myself so far :')

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 03/10/2026

bro so many spam accounts keep following me like what is this ew

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

i do admittedly love my ipad but for entertainment and studying more than productivity .... although that's why the foldable iphone seems even more like a useless idea LOL it already exists guys

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

am realizing bluesky already jumped on this joke LOL probably why the number of fruit-related posts

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

among the posts about the apple event are posts debating the best apple varieties (which i feel is a great time to mention my favorite website of all time: applerankings.com)

applerankings.com

Home - Apple Rankings by The Appleist Brian Frange - Comedian Brian Frange

The industry-standard, definitive, inarguable guide to ranking and reviewing munching apples. Curated by comedian Brian Frange.

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

unrelated but as i'm just reading updates by searching the word "apple" i'm realizing the audience of fans of the apple FRUIT and its cultivation developments is extremely active

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

that's an ipad mini.....

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

i'm so curious what the actual adoption rates are for the AI features apple added in a while back...i never activated that on my phone and i cannot imagine a majority did. i saw someone comment about genmoji not even getting used and yeah, i have never seen a single genmoji now that i think about it

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

like instead of reading the room and releasing a simplified low tech phone they're like "yeah what everyone wants is MORE tech!!"

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

all these new ai features are just making me want to stop taking my iphone with me everywhere LOL

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

apple launching a giant (ugly and impractical) folding phone at the beginning of the dumbphone wave is crazy

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 09/09/2026

did apple not see the insane backlash to meta glasses as being pervert glasses? like what customer are they targeting with the apple watch being able to listen to everything around you....nobody wants this feature except fuckin weirdos!!!!

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 04/09/2026

it's embarrassing to admit this because what's an ~intellectual~ who doesn't write but hopefully i can come back soon with a positive update on this front 😭 god help me

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 04/09/2026

the worst part is that i know i can, and probably it would be better than what i wrote in undergrad because i've studied and read so much more than i had then but something in me is CERTAIN that whatever i write will be ass

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 04/09/2026

it's been 7 years since i've written an academic paper and even though i've been researching and reading constantly this whole time, i haven't actually written a research paper...and i can't seem to get myself to do it

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 04/09/2026

going to be honest I'm having such a struggle to overcome that barrier of doing the research to actually write—i'm so overwhelmed by everything i want to write about that i'm just frozen in fear

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 01/09/2026

i'm hoping to make use of subdomains for the various kinds of websites i need or want, like portfolio.abbycole.net and garden.abbycole.net it's gonna be great

portfolio.abbycole.net

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 01/09/2026

i've been so obsessed with the indie web and creative personal websites plus i've been procrastinating making an editing portfolio so i just bit the bullet

portfolio.abbycole.net

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 01/09/2026

new handle because i bought my first domain :')

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 30/08/2026

the amount of ways people can waste their time is awe-inspiring

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 29/08/2026

Two things are true at once: I am grateful for the undergrad experience I was able to have, and I wish it could have been different. abbycole.substack.com/p/on-college...

abbycole.substack.com

On college, self-education, PhDs, and missed opportunities

Two things are true at once: I am grateful for the undergrad experience I was able to have, and I wish it could have been different.

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 27/08/2026

but then again i don't think i would care so much about fixing it if i didn't see so much potential in this thing

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 27/08/2026

honestly even i'm surprised at how much i still love the internet as a concept despite how garbage it can be lately

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 27/08/2026

one thing is for sure: I would not want to be a kid nowadays

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 27/08/2026

and this is all besides the fact that we have absolutely destroyed kids' options for third spaces and socializing why does everyone want to just take away kids' last remaining space to be themselves when they already took everything else?

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 27/08/2026

it seems obvious to me that the real solution involves regulating #dataprivacy to then reduce dependence on ad revenue to then place less importance on algorithms because algorithms are the root of everyone's problems, not just kids' and teens'

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 27/08/2026

so many of these child safety tools assume a kid or teen has a parent who gives a shit about what they do on their phones, and unfortunately I'm 99% sure many if not most don't know and don't care

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abby cole @abbycole.net · 27/08/2026