iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 7h

oh, Suno v6 pro et al can make infinite bands that are two or three specific people with beautiful souls singing in A+ harmony and sometimes there's a banjo? and you can see them in real life at small to medium-sized venues? and they do funny stage banter and they love each other? oh dang!

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 17h

I wasn't going to do this because I turned into the kind of adult who plays one new PC game every five years (the last ones were The Witness and Heaven's Vault), but if it's nine games that help explain Why I'm Like This more broadly, I can do that...

Heroes of Might and Magic III
Myst
The Journeyman Project III: Legacy of Time
The Neverhood
Pokémon Red Version
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
SimCity 2000
The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System
Sid Meier's Civilization II

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 22h

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I went to the "founded in the 1920s by utopian Dewey stans" type of alternative school through sixth grade, and that definitely shapes my specific horror @ This Shit. Kids don't need AI, they need to go down to the creek and touch a bug.

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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brandi Carlile just announced a little all-requests no-phones tour in smaller venues, and it's *killing* me that I can't afford to go to one of the Port Chester shows (mainly in terms of money, but also energy, risk of getting sick right before Christmas, etc.).

Brandi Carlile Burn the Setlist! The All Request Tour

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Delco is in the relatively mild "outdoor events are canceled but indoor events aren't" part of the nor'easter path, so I'm gonna go to some indoor events. 😬☔🌧️

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Music theorist friends, where the Music Theory Spectrum style guide says "Block quotes should have a 1/2-inch left margin and a 5-inch right margin," they don't really mean 5-inch right margin, do they? skinny little block quote running down the page? What do they mean?

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In grad school, I heard stories that the Yale composition department would line up prospective DMA composers up against a wall and demand they sing examples by different canonical 19th century composers (like, "sing the theme to a slow movement from a Robert Schumann symphony")

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

look at us doing the thing 💗😅

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not *the* coolest sunset on my TL by far, but I'll take it!

Orange sunset behind some suburban trees.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The discourse just dredged up a memory of when I was trying to apply for jobs as a new college graduate in, uh, 2008 (I didn't get one, and then I went to grad school) and I kept reading advice online saying most people still won't hire women who wear pants to the interview, so don't risk it.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I lucked out with my home search and got the first place I made an offer on (@ 5.625% this March), and I would have been way more unhinged through the whole process if I'd known it was *this* now-or-never. 😨

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Am I Pragnent? @am-i-pragnent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

[Q] where can you watch friends online for free?????? [A] Why are you trying to spy on your friends? [2008]

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Steve Jay from Weird Al's band, Cameron Ralston from various bands (I've seen him with Bonny Light Horseman 4x & will see him with Hiss Golden Messenger in November), Paul Kowert from Punch Brothers and Hawktail and both times I've seen Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Kristen Turner @kristenmturner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

T minus 5 days before my book is officially released! It's about opera and popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century in the US seen through the lens of the period’s citizenship debates—increasing segregation, women’s suffrage, and immigration.

Book cover with five images of performers from the early twentieth century

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't know if I approve of bands putting "Philadelphia" on their tour promo graphics when the show is actually in Delco. I just saw one for a concert at the theater across the street from my elementary school. That's not in Philadelphia, it's in the sidewalkless woods. It was a 19th-century mill.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes my job is just moving hyperlinks that are on "this" or "here."

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've gotten a couple concert promo emails that include the, uh, Hans Zimmer arena tour, a thing I would really rather not know about

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I moved to a walkable town on a 90-degree day in May and have mostly stayed inside before sunset since then, but I just put on a SWEATER and walked to the LIBRARY and did some FOCUSED WORK at the LIBRARY. 🍂 🍁 📚 🏆 Unfortunately, however, I saw a Cybertruck.

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Andisheh Nouraee @andisheh.com · 23/09/2026

I’ve spent 10,000 hours being annoyed at Malcolm Gladwell so I’m really good at it.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re: Jensen Huang not knowing his address and thinking that's fine: That's Gender, and I'm staring at the wall a little about how we're making "men don't need to know or remember things, it's beneath them, men's brains are for Big Thoughts" culture Worse.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

today ezra klein interviews nvidia ceo jensen huang about AI and when klein asks how he feels about AI making kids dumber huang responds that he doesn’t know his own address and it’s never been a problem for him.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am imagining this line as an Ask a Manager question

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Friends whose music taste overlaps with mine and who, like me, don't live in or near San Francisco, do you know about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass live stream (October 2–4)? The full schedule came out today, and I put *eight* sets on my calendar. 🤯 hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2026-2/

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What’s your fake starwars academic paper

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

15-minute Wawa line and wider trolley doors without steps would fix me (I am aware that I should not rely on anything that depends on the state government getting its act together re: transit funding to fix me)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The X/4chan Institute for Incel Equality at Bryn Mawr" is still the one that sends an actual chill through me. 💀

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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

when you fall for a parody of a right wing thing you’re not legally required to say “ok but it doesn’t really matter because it *could* be true” you can just admit you got got and try to be more discerning next time. I’ve done it and survived to bring this message to you now

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Mike @professorberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking for creative solutions: I have a 7th grader who has never been in orchestra before and would love to play the violin. Problem is their right arm has been amputated above the elbow. They don't have or regularly use a prosthesis. It's not something the district can supply, nor outsource.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just walked by the Delaware license plate MMMBOP

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

torn between "show me all the weirdly good polls, sickos_yes.jpg" and "no! keep the weirdly good polls away from me, I need to prepare myself for disappointment!"

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I like the "tell me *later*" specification. You don't want your friend's first art museum experience to involve getting taken aside for questioning because they pointed at a piece of art and said "I would steal THAT one! 😀"

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Am I Pragnent? @am-i-pragnent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[Q] Does anyone know this song? Here are some of the lyrics: I don't want the world to see because I don't think they'd understand, when everythings made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am. It's sung by a male, if that helps. [A] Iris by the Goo Goo dolls [2010]

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

today the US Sec of Health and Human Services said “chemtrails” on front of a crowd that immediately applauded him for it, in case you were wondering where we’re at right now

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“for those of you who don’t know me” has gotta be one of the best things you can say in a delco accent

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'oh so you want china to beat us' bro what the hell do i care leave me to the humble life i am trying to build for myself

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel like I should get a copyediting bonus point or something when I catch an "in pubic" (as I just did). 🏆

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm looking through the Kennedy Center YouTube channel for videos of my faves (oh, you know, no reason - they'll stay up forever, right?) and found a whole 2003 Nickel Creek performance where they're all babies but Chris Thile specifically looks like every white guy I went to high school with. 😂

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Millennium Stage June 29, 2003 - Nickel Creek

YouTube video by The Kennedy Center

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