iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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All right get ready for a big 🧵 of starter packs of niche communities and interests whatnot because YOU CAN DO THIS TOO FOR YOUR NICHE COMMUNITY! Starve that fucking fascist site. Get your people out. Make some starter packs to lure them and reward them once they get over here. You can do it!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1h

idk man I think losing the ability to not roll around in every gooey chunk of bait for dunks is a short path to losing the mandate of heaven

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

Used up my whole year‘s quota of one (1) “please react like this and not like that” post doing this, probably not worth it. Mods please suspend me if I go into the red.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

What if instead of rushing to respond to Gruber’s “X is a delightful place for people who are fun and not weird downers” bait post with the much-desired engagement we just made a little face and kept walking. Could we try that, as a treat.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

I’ve been kinda goth since I was like nine, so I don’t think I’m coming at this from a mortality-avoidant POV but the American fixation with hyper-consumerist displays of multiple giant plastic skeletons during the death holiday seems a little on the nose

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

As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

news.berkeley.edu

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And all the next day Toad read poems to his seeds.

Toad stands on a rock, reading poetry to his seeds.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Piranesi says the world and the epistemic bubbles we actually live in are prisons and but also liberation, that the terrible limits on cognition imposed by [religion, science, devastating illness] are also protective freedoms, that amnesia is salvific but makes us brutally vulnerable to abuse.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Absolutely why I am working in this space, and trying to pursue clarity that is also liberatory. Gotta try.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

It’s been a few weeks since my mom passed and as someone who just loathes feelings I am really not having a great time but so far I am only taking it out on B2B spammers who keep trying to sell me, like, commercial waste hauling or weird machine parts

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Flipboard @flipboard.com · 07/10/2026

In a world of oligarchs, algorithms and AI disinfo, the best defense is the same one as it's always been: people who care coming together. If you're a journalist or passionate about your state and local politics, volunteer as a @graze.social feed watcher here: midterms.graze.social#join

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

Calling my election nerds from the SRCCON years and beyond! This looks wildly interesting.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

all those people who wished to live in interesting times, I think we line them up and push them off the Scandinavian cliff now

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I cannot get over that this happened. And to a book that I very much would have liked to read. It is WILDLY depressing that it happened at Oxford University Press.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Something truly ghastly happened to an online friend's excellent and very human book last month despite all his best efforts and the idea that we should give some huckster more chances at publication when he's still claiming "the too-charming AI made me make mistakes" just fries my brain

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

“But here’s what I didn’t count on. This was a book about Truth, and the old standards of proofreading and fact-checking didn’t hold up to AI’s fast-moving ability to replace facts with believable fictions.“ Sir.

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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

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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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