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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

X: The hallucinatory Bespoke Realities generator that all the politicians and journalists happen to be on

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

on my way to get the Spider Cup for the quite large giant Oregon house spider (literally their name) that was chilling on my bed this evening I encountered another, larger giant Oregon house spider strolling across a wall and had to nab that one first

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

I was reading Blindsight and making my youthful bad decisions in 2006, none of you can scare me in any way that matters 🤷🏻

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Serving multiple different YouTube videos from the same URL in the name of yet more A/B testing is another lil lurch toward total information chaos, huh

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

My grand unified theory of this moment, after a few months of intense and variously high-stakes engagement with various corporate and public systems, is that pretty much nothing works. We just have each other.

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 30/09/2026

The most difficult challenge about hosting Atmosphere accounts for researchers is... deciding how to define "researcher". This is a big topic that we want to be transparent about and get community input on. More below from @mathewlowry.eurosky.social:

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Of course placing my mom’s obituary—dodging the “AI rewrite” features that kept popping up as I did so—subscribed me to four marketing newsletters and added an unwanted solicitation for memorial trees to the end of the obit. Of course it did. Hellscape.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

There is obviously a whole body of scholarship pointing in this direction so forgive me for saying something so obvious but the media needs to treat tech executives like the leaders of hostile governments because that is exactly what they are

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 29/09/2026

This is an exceptionally clear presentation of New Mexico’s exceptionally clear findings that Facebook wantonly and intentionally deceived the public in regards to the theft of their data and the incentives to promote and profit from hate speech on the platform. Tap in, scroll down.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026

AI is a normal technology entangled with a normal demon. Leaving aside intentional use to make bad things worse, the former is going to produce normal accidents (some of which will be extremely bad) and the latter is going to continue making people lose their minds.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026

One of the many things things about hospice people is they don‘t blink when you say things like “I also have to do long-term planning because my mother is basically Wile E. Coyote and it may be that she is unkillable and will outlive us all.”

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

Please consider setting aside a few minutes to actually read this, start to finish, rather than letting posts about headlines guide your sense of what happened.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

oh my god I think they had a claude write their statement

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

look, the part of my brain that is in charge of punctuation is doing something else this year

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

“Highly resistant to this sort of thing for any one of many possible reasons” turns out to be way up there on my “factors that encourage me to trust you” list.

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

hey so I think I just found the best video on youtube youtu.be/3LGdFKIXr9I?...

youtu.be

song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar

YouTube video by Solaris

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

if you're looking to join our community and be hosted in canada by a queer-run cooperative, you can sign up for an invite here: northskysocial.ca/apply

northskysocial.ca

Apply to join Northsky — Northsky Social

Request an invite to Northsky, an AT Protocol community.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

we just had the highest number of migrations in a single day that we've ever had! over 100 people claimed their invites and moved onto northsky today! 💚💜

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

a thing about following so many weirdos who hold opposing positions on the robot situation while all hating Less Wrong is that I am going to have to mute the word “sex” if I want to keep my sanity

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

This is correct and when I eventually get got for some dumb thing please do not be weird on my behalf

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

I don't remember exactly how my first post-undergrad landlord's pest control business wound up associated with an ancient silly personal domain name of mine (I did some emergency tech fix for him but idk idk) but I still get a very specific kind of pest-related b2b spam and it's still always funny

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

I think this is a good safety conversation to have, fwiw, we do not have to address Roko nor his basilisk or other culty scenarios. There are plenty of basic humans-being-crap things to worry about, starting with law enforcement being awful. AI doesn’t even have to be good to make that worse.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

I wish it were totally irrelevant, but my childhood in variously batshit apocalypse cults seems to have been useful preparation. The thing I would like to convey to more normal people is that apocalypse cults have so much gravity because they produce a tremendously relieving clarity of purpose.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

“Listen,” said the lady at the elderlaw office where I was making an appointment, ”I think the worst thing ever to happen with computers is ChatGPT.” (I find “computers were a mistake” to be the best icebreaker for all my calls with The Ladies Who Run Things, who spend lady-years fighting them.)

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026

It's had a lot of near misses in the DOGE era, but in the last few hours, the new head of GSA's Technology Transformation Service removed all of the open source community contributors from USWDS's github org.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

I reply to almost nothing I see bc I don’t know how helpful this kind of response could ever be but uggggghhhhhh

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

my fresh Signal install on my phone now crashes on open* lol. I set it up during the ongoing awful family events and I guess didn't set up paid backup, so now I have notifs on my phone but chat only on my desktop until…forever? it's fine. this is all fine.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

every morning after the schoolbus steals the child Beowulf gets on her bed to have a sulk

A tragic, tragic dog with variously long black fur, a tail that doesn’t match the rest of him, and a depressed expression crammed into a corner filled with pink and lavender velvet cushions.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

the 1-800 elderlaw advice line for [state redacted], which was I guess decomissioned but is still published on various third-party websites, is now a lead-gen line for a scam operation targeting seniors

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

I feel like devs who find LLMs transformative in a good way would have a better time and get further with people if they took seriously the possibility that software engineering (which always involves a lil bit of Larping As Computer) is not all that much like most other meaningful human pursuits. 🤷🏻

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

anyway growing perennial collards remains my best call of the year

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

super simple risotto, andouille collards on top with both toasted and pickled peppers on that, I will not be taking questions at this time

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026

@catacalypto.bsky.social Cat Signal! Just finished Esoteric Ebb w our almost-13yo (loved it) and might need a less ultra-texty palate cleanser before diving into, like, Roadwarden or something. Any recent faves to recommend?

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026

guess who has two thumbs and just scored three novavax appointments at costco for tomorrow morning 🤞🤞🤞

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's incredibly hard to run a big internet thing in a welcoming way while also being a poster, full stop. A few people are built for it, most of us are not.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026

I fill out new healthcare forms and talk to new people every day right now and I have to report that many good people’s brains are just not working very well.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026

on the other end of this curve, I bought a zojirushi* drip machine with a timer in 2020 when I was working 80-hour weeks and losing my mind and let go of all my fussing and every morning my machine elves have made coffee for me and I am so happy

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026

“as Claude as my witness, I’ll never write software again”

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

wow, big news in everyone's Settings > Privacy and Security menu!

bsky screenshot with the new "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" setting checked.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

may I also say that the “exclude me from Discover” setting is as wonderful as I had hoped it would be, thank you, yesssssss

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Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 10/09/2026

We're pleased to announced that @atmosphereconf.org organizing is underway! We hope you'll join us in Europe, in late April 2027! In the meantime, you can subscribe to get updates and read about our initial organizing team.

news.atmosphereconf.org

AtmosphereConf 2027 Organizing is Underway

The conference will be held in Europe in late April 2027

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

This was also extremely bad for all the rest of the people on twitter.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

My work rn is busy and interesting despite remaining immersed in the gnarly consequences of the internet. But the need to maintaining equanimity through fluctuating emergencies in even just the logistics part of parent-in-hospice between work and parenting is producing some weird states of being.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

It’s true, you got me, when I wrote yesterday that I would “never sleep again,“ this was actually a kind of lie we sometimes tell in order to make other people laugh.

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