iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 19h

Not just an alert, this is a _pageable_ alert

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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026

And yes I was reacting to that crazy thread. I'm not scandalized, none of this shit is special. Nothing about this scene has any veracity, even the things that happened. These are unserious, careless people and their lives are empty. This iteration has a bubble! How unnew that is, too.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026

We really need to stop analyzing and pathologizing AI bros and the the crazy that comes out of the the Bay Area. They're assholes. Bog standard, just assholes. Selfish cunts. You never need more than two syllables to describe these people.

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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Automation, AI, learning gamification, XR/VR/AR info overlays/guidance, maybe some other methods, all lead to substantial cognitive offloading, and therefore lead to deskilling/p-zombification/whatever you want to call it. Quite convinced.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.

Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News.

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 28/09/2026

I wrote the "how to navigate Legistar" guide I wish I'd had years ago when I started doing #NYC policy advocacy, complete with warnings about subtle bugs. Along the way, I point to #CivicTech tools intro.nyc and legislation.support, with explanations of what they can and can't do.

A screenshot of Legistar's page for Int 0078-2026, with red boxes around the file number, name, event history, bill text tab, and Alerts.

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861511&GUID=05BA3489-38FD-436D-9B55-B35A46A6CD96&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=1429

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day!

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week we learned that the Irish government has proposed weakening Europeans citizens' fundamental right to privacy to favour AI companies. We also learned this week that 83% of Irish people under 25 want stronger government regulation of AI. Who *exactly* does our government work for?

AI: EU Member States plan "digital expropriation" of Europeans in the interest of Al companies
Artificial Intelligence / 21 September 2026
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAl, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data "in the context of Al" should automatically be lawful.
There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens "in the context" of Al. Schrems: "Under these proposals, the profits of Al companies would trump European's fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans." All this is happening despite the key figures of Al corporations actively warn about the enormous risks associated with their own products.

Transport costs and mental health also remain prominent concerns.
More than seven in ten adults believe Al will make it harder for young people to find secure employment over the next five years, while 83% support stronger government regulation of Al.
Just 17% of young adults said they believe the Government is doing enough to support them through the cost-of-living crisis.
"These findings should serve as a wake-up call," said Grace McManus, Policy and Campaigns Manager at NYCI.
"Too many young people feel that the chance to build a secure and independent life is slipping out of reach," Ms McManus said.
The polling was conducted by RED C, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,010 adults, including a cohort aged 18-24.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 23/09/2026

Here's the second part of my essay on how to actually get security work done at your company when you've decided to start a security program: www.structures.systems/blog/how-to-... Please give it a repost so the folks who need it can find it. :-)

lnkd.in

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 22/09/2026

Historical question — why did we as an industry decide that penetration tests needed to be outsourced, but that we didn't need outsourced application security tests or code reviews in the same way?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Higher velocity = more good" is a misunderstanding premised on the idea that every piece of work on your Jira board is there because it adds value in some way. Once you understand that the majority of developer tickets are actually negative-value, you will become enlightened.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 21/09/2026

Given the degree to which we have failed to stop climate change (esp. with the AI bubble and the expanding Ukrainian-Iranian war), when does our responsibility shift from our survival to trying to leave the least bad parts of our cultural and political heritage to the survivors of the great dying?

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if you want a thriving arts scene, the single most important criteria is that broke ass artists MUST be able to afford to live there and rent studio space. if you don’t have that, your arts scene is dying, man

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

just a periodic reminder that sex worker rights, trans rights, and abortion rights are all the same issue. you’re either for bodily autonomy, or you’re against it.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

jerthorp.me

LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026

Universal systems literacy is the educational challenge of this century, in the same way that statistical literacy was the challenge of the 20th and written literacy the challenge of the 19th. We are unfortunately on track to do no better in this century than previous ones did in theirs.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026

So, now that the EU "KIDS" act has passed, is @signal.org going to leave the EU if forced to identify their users? Asking for several hundred million friends.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/09/2026

something is only a “culture war issue” to you if you think it’s not about you; otherwise it’s just “politics” or (maybe) “life”

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

fixed it

management can never be held accountable

therefore management must never make a management decision

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 17/09/2026

That moment when you're making breakfast and you want some fruit but the fruit bowl is empty and then you remember that you have plums waiting in the fridge and to go over and open the door and...

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 16/09/2026

In case you missed it, I've got a new essay out for executive teams (and anyone else involved in a new security program) who are trying to figure out how to organize their engineering efforts so their security programs succeed. More to come!

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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well this has utterly broken my brain, not least in terms of experimental design www.cell.com/the-innovati...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 14/09/2026

Jace is a trans guy with late-stage Huntington's disease who came to Finland seeking asylum. He's now unable to move and needs 24x7 care. He's being deported back to the US on a Finnair light at 08.00 EET on the 15th. No arrangement for care has been made, and he will die in the US customs line.

Letter to Migri explaining the laws that this deportation breaks and demanding explanations about medical care and safeguarding.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 14/09/2026

It's been a while since I've written anything serious in public and it's high time I fixed that. I have a few things planned, but I'm interested in hearing from folks about what you'd like to read from me. Some of these essays will be on my consulting blog; others will be about personal projects.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026

Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 13/09/2026

Has anyone in the EU tech policy space considered just making it illegal for services to charge more for MFA, SSO, audit log streaming, and break-glass/split privilege accounts? If y'all are serious about improving SME security, that's an easy win. #EUTech

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 13/09/2026

I just finished Rodrigo Nunes's book Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal. It's the most useful piece of political writing I've read this year. It's theory-heavy, excavating the history of left organizing, its failures, and the theory that drove them beforehand and tried to explain them after.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 13/09/2026

There's that special feeling as the air gets crisp and the leaves start to turn and you realize it's time to start making plans for the fall of civilization.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 11/09/2026

You spend code to buy features; it's a liability and ongoing expense, not an asset. Similarly, you spend features to buy utility for users — assuming your business model involves doing useful things for actual people and not just tricking people into giving you a rentier monopoly position.

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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11/09/2026

I fear the real, veritable role of individual self-interest as an ingredient in positive society-wide outcomes is poisoned by people who think they're being effectual in blind selflessness guided by vibes instead of direct personal outcomes. It's all zero-sum thinking that cannot coexist with utopia

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 11/09/2026

Favorite bluesky+masto clients?

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 11/09/2026

Finally got around to actually making an account here, uh, three years after I got an invite?

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 11/09/2026

Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first.

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