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

even "distraction" understates it, I feel it's not simply that it becomes harder to evaluate the core idea, it can even become impossible to identify it at all we perceive through difference / hierarchy and being *told* what to focus on only goes so far vs base perception

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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 · 02/03/2026

excited to see this classic return on the butterfly website

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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 · 27/02/2026

LIFT ing the moratorium for those sick green GAIN s

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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

Are you familiar with Pip Decks? They function in approximately this space for me, granted they're lower variety. Also came across Intuiti cards recently (which are explicitly tarot-adjacent) but my second hand pack is still in the post, so nothing to report as yet.

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

I've been stress testing this analogy with a friend for a lil while (re: divination more broadly) and I think there's a lot of mileage in it. The kicker being that I picked up a cheap tarot deck to get familiar with it. The entire f'n thing (booklet and all) was LLM/diffusion generated.

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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 · 15/02/2026

(it's low because it's fuckin' spenny and I try to buy it en masse elsewhere when it's on offer)

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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 · 12/02/2026

which scotland are they living in !

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

even the ideas that have come from inside the house are clone stamped until fully divorced from any of the original motivation

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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

seeing people afford courtesies to computers that they aren't affording each other is, in the most literal sense, maddening

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

a baseline acceptance of good intentions is (mostly) fine when it comes to design patterns and saas providers. it is not fine in matters of de/humanisation.

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

there's certainly *an* element of "I saw epistemic justice in a dive bar before the label signed them" there, but it goes beyond that. it's imported questions into the workplace whose assumptions are so completely taboo to challenge because they touch on philosophical or even spiritual concerns.

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

I've struggled immensely over the past several years with the way that seemingly innocent conversations around automation have invited people to sidestep fundamental questions of being and knowing in a way that I've felt genuinely crazy bringing up in professional settings

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

the foley for audiobook clown shoes must at least be fascinating

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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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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 06/02/2026

I guess setup / teardown cost also matters. if it's cheap to open and close incredibly rapidly, isolation is asymptotically negligible

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 06/02/2026

depends on how the seal works. assuming it's entirely isolated once closed, a cubic meter isn't a lot of space to fit a long-running fuel source slow down is super useful for medium term media archival and storage of anything organic (e.g. donor organs, medicines, and food)

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 06/02/2026

If you're targeting a single platform and not concerned about portability of either the artefact or the learning, Flutter (w/ Dart) or Swift might also fit the bill. I've not used either in anger, but they seem to import fewer Modern Web assumptions

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 06/02/2026

the way this tweet just drove a truck through my skull like some zen koan

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emma // eibhleag @hopping.rocks · 06/02/2026

Learning at least a bit of something browser-adjacent is probably the entry price. Dioxus is pretty good for being able to write _everything_ in Rust if you want to avoid an additional language, but I couldn't swear to how much I'm leaning on my past React / DOM experience there.

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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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