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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

I mean they are doing that with AI as well, but the scale changes—up for some things, down for others. Out goal should be that no one has to live through that. Until then there is no pure choice here.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

Yeah I think smaller is usually better, just not the only thing we need.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

I wish the people arguing this understood that AI-less moderation was performed by those same people or ignored, permitting atrocities before the classifiers got better. I think it is better to exploit fewer people, and to keep improving our tech alongside the kind of mod practice Blacksky runs.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

this tech is a mess for all kinds of reasons and also it is working better for moderation than what we had before and I will bite that bullet every time rather than accept the end of the social internet 🤷🏻

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

people arguing against any AI in moderation either don’t understand the scale (which companies have been crap at explaining!) or they’re rooting for a world with only either small group networks or unmoderated, ultra-dangerous hellscapes (from the *relative* safety of AI-moderated platforms)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

for years, my sole completely pro-AI position has been “AI is essential for ethical content moderation, actually, and we need to get it much righter asap” and there has been so much progress on this

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 5h

This is kind of bananas (appreciative)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7h

Thinking takes so many goddamn words and I always have to throw half of them away

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7h

I look forward to seeing what it will do with ascii bats from the Usenet days

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

It feels very public health–coded, to me. Popular reports on thing 1, subsequent analysis on thing 1a, then more analysis on thing B.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10h

I guess if your party leaders are more afraid of the DSA than of your opponents' commitment to the revocation of rights, the end of research, and mass violence ad death, adopting a commitment to actual people power would be off the table. But I am just a person.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10h

This framing is frustrating bc a.) you can absolutely do forward-looking celebration if your game is real progress and not consultant-brained status quo and b.) the idea that harnessing "the full potential of the internet" = Making More Content! is just deadly. www.chaoticera.news/p/opinion-th...

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Opinion: The Danger of a Good Night

The head of a Democratic Super PAC warns that a potential “Blue Wave” shouldn’t give her party too much comfort heading into 2028

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11h

(I've had to rely heavily on dictation software to heal up an RSI and it feels amazing to be able to be back at the actual keyboard for a few hours a day. My thinking is a lot better when I type rather than dictate, despite years of trying to make my talking brain smarter.)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11h

someone was snarky about it with me a couple of weeks ago and I am still mad

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11h

Also, when I'm focused and not juggling nine projects, I can write *a whole lot of words* at a time. That is what decades of writing a lot of words will do! When I produce a long document it is because I ran out of time to edit it down, not because I squeezed a robot. 🌬️

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11h

Gotta say, it's very annoying to have been a Markdown head all these godforsaken years and now have people act like I've generated (manually written) material because it's formatted using the most common human-friendly markup standard rather than a PDF.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11h

I guess it's unclear to me how many facts on the ground we really have, which is why this is so messy. We need data we don't have. But my guess is that off Bluesky and tech forums, the initial "bombing the DCs killed all the twitter bots" narrative is the one that got the most attention by far.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12h

Crush this behavior, too. 🔨 bsky.app/profile/kash...

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12h

What's the parallel you have in mind with the inauthentic behavior?

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 23h

Aaaaand *scene*

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

I used the phrase "Give Lina Khan a chainsaw and a heroic dose of PCP" a while back and had to pause for a little while to savor the mental image

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 22/10/2026

Pick one social platform giant and one AI company and hang em up on the city walls, watch the rest suddenly remember how to be governable.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 22/10/2026

And I'm sure I should care more about the future effects on new networks of big judgments against Meta right now, but right now Meta needs to be starved, staked, decapitated, and buried at the crossroads. Make them a warning.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 22/10/2026

When I say "crush them" I don't mean "Left Authoritarian Ban Them" I mean crush this. Give Lina Khan and all her nerds the big sticks and send her out there. bsky.app/profile/jess...

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

Delta's decline is sort of the ghost force underneath this stuff, maybe

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

Yeah, perverse incentives (engagement) clearly make this so hard for people who would otherwise delete and retract, and then a lot of post-hoc justifications just…appear. Community notes is the right answer at a systems level, despite being nontrivial and quite bad at some things.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

I think @vortexegg.com’s “participatory make-believe“ is a really useful concept here. “Belief” means a lot of things.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

stg the Naomi Klein Substack is going to have been the thing that put me over the edge

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

You are a bot who speaks without being spoken to.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

Democracies letting platforms carry on as imperial powers is the same thing as surrendering to infinite permanent gerrymandering and election interference and just telling people to vote harder every time to keep up.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

Somewhere away from "We'll just win elections and make the big platforms behave!" and "All that matters is winning so we should just use whatever platform gets us the most eyes!" there has to be a recognition that Meta/TikTok/YouTube/X are permanent thumbs on the scale until we crush them.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

Yeah, I don't think I'd go as far as "enjoyable," but much better. I have arthritis that is pretty sensitive to pressure and the new fleet seems to really help for the long legs at higher altitudes. Nice to be able to bend my knees when I get off the plane!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

Delta was my domestic go-to for like 20 years but they were *so* much worse for me this past two years on the routes I need. (I don't do transpac anymore, but I do try to fly euro airlines for transatlantic.)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

Like—I am at the point where I will book a 49-min connection at ORD with them (which is ludicrous) and trust that they will make it work. Witchcraft?

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

I was trying to tell @fjord.style that it was *actually* good and useful and the only theory I could come up with for how is that they sacrificed some junior devs and put them in the foundation stones. Like, no one has good apps. No one! I hate apps. And yet.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

Their app…works? Every one of my many flight legs arrived on time or (mostly) early? Changing flights was really easy when an emergency happened?? It’s very strange.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

I upgraded my mute to a block this morning

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