iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 08/09/2026

I've looked at literally thousands of online event listings over the past year and a half and now I have Opinions™ about how they should be structured, perhaps you would be interested in these if you also run events or you just enjoy a slightly exasperated blog post phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-09...

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things I wish every event organizer would do for their event listings

Hello yes, I am aware that it’s been almost a full year since the last post. This is largely because running Show Up Toronto and writing a newsletter for it every week takes a lot of time and energy. ...

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 26/08/2026

LLMs are not abstractions, they are not analogous to compilers, and anyone claiming otherwise is being basically dishonest about the basic nature of computer programming

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/09/2025

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

every three months, somewhere in the world, an indie game maker accidentally recreates quaker silent worship while trying to come up with a new 1-page TTRPG.

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mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 22/06/2026

I really think the only reasonable response to the increasing prevalence of 996 in the tech world is to organize for a 20 hour workweek with no reduction in pay. They are trying to move the Overton window for working hours; let’s drag it the fuck back.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 31/03/2026

Wherever *I* get my podcasts? I get them from a mossy glade where the Forest Spirit roams, like everyone else

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 21/03/2026

If you're doing 50 of anything in a month (in this case reading papers) when it would previously have taken a year, it's essential to interrogate whether or not these are still qualitatively the same activity. They might be! It's in no way guaranteed.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

A very simply drawn cartoon of a very round and green smiling frog squatting down and holding a ouija board. The background is blue and the text reads ‘fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts’

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 07/03/2026

"hey lads bet you've not thought of this" <posts central question in philosophy that has been studied for thousands of years>

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 06/03/2026

g-d save me from the demonstrable impact that could ever be titled "where things stand with the department of war"

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 28/02/2026

Adjacent to the previous post: the chatting with recruiters app being the same as the aspiring consultants browbeating groupthink app is similarly draining.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 22/02/2026

an llm couldn't write this

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 21/02/2026

this game feels like childhood

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 15/02/2026

I'm reading a bunch of variously historical texts recently and it's striking in the current information climate how much care is taken over the provenance of particular manuscripts and translations and what a necessary – and increasingly discarded – part of knowledge production that is

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

"my agents are producing software solutions at such an unprecedented rate that I worry we are existentially changing our relationship to production" ok? im producing fond memories with my cherished friends every day but your thing sounds cool too.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 13/02/2026

Weird day in the High Court, huh?

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 11/02/2026

this fundamental lack of curiosity - or even oblivion to the possibility of curiosity - has been one of the most stressful parts of my engineering career to date.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 11/02/2026

with love and sincerity: if you don't have a profound, lived acknowledgement of the selfhood of the least consequential and most repulsive people in and around your life, you should not be going looking for it in machines.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 09/02/2026

a necessary precursor to a good old fashioned drafts amnesty

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 05/02/2026

You're absolutely right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor. * I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong. * The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me. * I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 05/02/2026

occasionally clicking through PhD postings and being sad that rigorous criteria intended to eliminate bias shake out as "made specific life choices from a comparatively stable position at twenty one"

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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We've written to the UK Govt, urging them to fully investigate Lord Mandelson's links with US tech giant Palantir. Palantir was a client of Mandelson's lobbying firm, and has been winning a growing number of contracts with the UK public sector. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn

Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 04/02/2026

tired: years of daily meditation and retreat practice wired: nirodha samāpatti through gear acquisition

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 03/02/2026

plenty to pick over here, but from my own perspective: "no going operational or maintenance needs"? people really think the second law doesn't apply to them

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 02/02/2026

something that concerns me immensely about large generative models (arguments about utility and desirability aside) is the conflation of technical precision with quality. meaning matters. more.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 30/01/2026

I understand the sentiment that this is the least capable that a tool will ever be, *if* you own the tool. if it's remotely deployed, you own neither pricing, nor decisions on capability tradeoffs.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 29/01/2026

oh my timeline isn't very sunny, apologies. I'm working on some genuinely interesting and optimistic things but they're Not Ready Yet.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 29/01/2026

the most striking thing about this for me is how much of this pain was avoidable if PwC had spent some of their £4.1M on precisely the skills and considerations that STEM is constantly prioritised above. (source: mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...)

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 28/01/2026

I wish government tech policy and research didn't read like my A Level textbooks from the mid-2000s

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 28/01/2026

government skills hub is going well

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

AI fanboys: I'm putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of my life, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 26/01/2026

historically I concerned myself primarily with the fields I supported by working on software – this worked pretty well. increasingly it feels like whatever the field, the cross-cutting patterns around attention and monitoring and such are inescapable even when the purported goal is noble.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 25/01/2026

I'm not of the opinion that everyone must comment on everything constantly to show that they care – meaning arises in difference and if you're always "on" nothing is important – but the culture of silence in my reasonably broad linkedin network is alarming

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 21/01/2026

if you're posting remote roles (thank you!) and require international travel for conferences, retreats, etc, it's more important than ever to be specific on where that travel is to. borders have always been a variable barrier to participation and that's intensified over the past year(s)

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 21/01/2026

had cause to use figma for something outside of corporate single-sign-on land for the first time today and it's so frustrating to be funnelled into an open text prompt interface. even a link beneath the hero to "create a blank artboard" would have felt like minimal friction

blank project page for "figma make". the view is dominated by an input box for an LLM prompt. a top level menu is open, showing the three levels of menu navigation required to create a blank design file.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 20/01/2026

pushing through my discomfort to post mundane ethnographic observations about software and embodiment. timeline is toilet.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 20/01/2026

camping desk space at my partner's studio (complete with external keyboard and mouse) and I'm struck by how different the embodied experience is from using my laptop (even with external monitor) at home

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

"Most people are not going to be better than the systems around them" is a decent operating assumption.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 13/01/2026

I don't see this happening _soon_ but I do see it happening. (please)

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 13/01/2026

Our statement concerning the decision to not grant interim pay relief to the member's fired by Rockstar. We remain confident in the strength of our case against Rockstar Games and we reiterate our firm belief that Rockstar broke the law when it summarily dismissed 31 union members.

Workers protest outside Rockstar North in Edinburgh on Friday January 9th.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Me in 2025: Don't use AI note takers in meetings because they can lead to unchecked errors and unfair and discriminatory outcomes Me in 2026: Don't use Grok in military planning unless you want to accidentally start a war Not a fan of this rate of change

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We'll be publishing our full report from the hearing tomorrow afternoon (UK time), but needless to say, there's an awful lot of additional context to understand about what happened here. This is a really tough outcome for the union's members, especially those who were in the UK on work visas.

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 12/01/2026

omg please! there's so much low-frequency noise at the root of the average repository show me the entry-point to the project. (I would also flatten / eliminate a whole bunch of directory-based organisation, but that's another story)

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 12/01/2026

writing #threads on a platform where I've not properly established a peer group is nerve wracking and feels a lil solipsistic, because I'm necessarily "in dialogue" primarily with people I haven't met yet

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