iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 24m

Rivetting talk by @robin.berjon.com introducing the ATmosphere to a room full of people fed up with the state of the web at #disinfo2026 "A private foundation should not be the one providing public infrastructure, it's time for the absentee states to step up"

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16h

HYPERSCALE tells the full story of the data center buildout and the backlash it’s facing. It’s out in just two weeks — but I need a favor! If you’re planning to buy it, it would make a huge difference if you place a preorder. Get your copy today: bookshop.org/a/18331/9798...

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Hyperscale is out in two weeks!

Preorder your copy to get the full story on the AI-fueled data center buildout

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 11m

If you're in Vienna and interested in the open web, I can *highly* recommend coming along to @atproto.wien meetups! The first three have been really fun, and we're starting to get a really awesome local community going 🦦

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 1h

Honestly Heather I was thinking of you when I wrote this, and how *so many of us* who dare to speak in a small public way about anything are targeted and stalked by these fucks. The brilliant @katemanne.bsky.social term "himpathy" articulates how care and concern are directed to male aggressors.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 1h

Mostly it's just annoying - the guy himself is deeply unwell. But I draw the fucking line at the hand-wringing enablers who are 'just trying to help'. Yes. Who? (tk u. x)

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 1h

You *know* he's convicted of stalking women. You've *read* the deranged letters you add as attachments. And you still think you're doing the right thing in sending them on his behalf to a woman you don't know? Two now from the same clergyman. I have gone fucking nuclear. Go White Knight elsewhere.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 1h

I and other *very slightly* prominent women have been the object of a mentally unwell man for years. I get off lightly - just infrequent emails, calls, texts, as he's barred from comms. But what REALLY GETS ME is the gullible men who believe his sob stories and EMAIL ON HIS BEHALF. WTAF MEN?!?!

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Mick Fealty @mickfealty.bsky.social · 5h

1/ In August 1969 a gang of loyalists, fresh from burning Catholic-owned pubs in Belfast, walked into my mum's bar and asked if the town had any. Her Protestant customers said no. Eight in ten were, ours included. They called the men a taxi. 🧵

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 4h

Informative and practical article from my lovely newsletter provider, @buttondown.com It punctures myths about email - the protocol is decentralised but the providers certainly aren't! - and explains some pitfalls of that consolidation (gmail, spamhaus) along with why things are how they are.

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Email isn’t decentralized, and that’s fine

Email is open, but deliverability depends on a few big inbox providers. Why we traded some of email's decentralization to fight spam, and why that's fine.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 4h

+1 Notaries are all process and zero actual due diligence. total theatre and, ok, I am clearly the product of a common law country, but they're a total rent-seeking holdover from the worst instincts of civil law jurisdictions to tick boxes and ignore real world facts.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 5h

It's such a bizarre slogan to put on top of ... supplies used to reduce the symptoms of police tear gas.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 5h

The reactions are so telling. Between that one and a six minute national radio segment yesterday on 'should we blame the parents?'...

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 18h

At the risk of giving Mistral a tiny amount of free publicity, Le Chonk is by far the best name given to an AI model

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 17h

OpenAI are parasitic scum. As Wikimedia says; “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” These are DDOS attacks by a corporation's software doing exactly what it was designed to do. Why are we not seeing criminal charges?

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 21h

+1 Mine is less completely US-centric.

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 23h

"it not only helps discover tools in categories like maps, social media, transportation or archiving, but is also designed to help researchers learn how to use each tool by providing in-depth descriptions, common use cases and information on requirements and limitations for each toolkit entry."

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22h

Google Reader was a tragic loss, but I will note that Feedly has been a competent replacement.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 23h

To put some detail on this, on France Inter a student leader said kids in some Parisian lycées have no working toilets and need to go home to look after period stuff. One girl said she gets constant UTIs from not being able to go. Pretty shameful stuff.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 23h

At a tiny Kerry festival last month we met a friend and daughter. They said before the Bird family-run amusements at the Rose of Tralee open each year, they invite the SEN school nearby to enjoy them first. They slow down rides, quiet the music, and Mr & Mrs Bird welcome each child to the fair.

Outdoor colour photo of a tiny beachside amusement park on a cloudy, blue-sky day. There is a pink, yellow and green carousel for toddlers, and behind a green plastic palm fence a small covered boat-ride for little kids. Mountains and sea are in the far distance, and a big clouded but still blue sky.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 23h

For several years our family Christmas gift-list kept mistakenly including a random guy. A couple of years in, he replied, made a couple of good (or at least warm) jokes. We did cut him out (mostly) after that. After offering to adopt him. It's been 10 years and we still miss him.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 23h

The Nobel prize in physics 2026 has been awarded to Prof Francis Halzen, a Belgian particle physicist, who turned an enormous block of ice at the south pole into a detector for ghostly particles called neutrinos that reach Earth from outer space. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Nobel prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen for south pole work on neutrinos

Belgian physicist praised for work on the IceCube detector that observes the ghost-like particles in Antarctica

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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ambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ll be honest, I couldn’t really face the thought of thinking more about the situation we’re in, but impulse bought it, and of course I was wrong: It’s actually really helpful to have it laid out so clearly. It takes the weight of analysing where we are and why off your mind.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes I know/have known a few of these guys as well. All of them engineers. When that training is put to keeping curiosity open it's a super-power.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

twas the Online Safety Act brought in by Tories and implemented stupidly by this government. equal opportunity idiocy!

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh yes, this coming up in just under a month! I'm halfway through Nonesuch at the moment and of course it's flippin' amazing.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Very much enjoying this chat and butting in to say yes, the DM issue is UK weirdness about age verification. gah!

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

ha!! thank you! I've been lax about it for a while but trying to get back into once a month. here's the most recent one: buttondown.com/MariaFarrell...

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Maria Farrell's Newsletter: A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Internet rewilding, technology, and our many possible futures. Dog pictures, always.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

I've *almost* finished replying to the lovely replies to my last newsletter on (writing about) internet rewilding, so it's time for another. Coming later this week, so if you'd like to receive it please subscribe. Pupdate and bookchat included (albeit I'm in the 2nd Great Reading Drought of my life)

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Maria Farrell's Newsletter: A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Internet rewilding, technology, and our many possible futures. Dog pictures, always.

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Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On Wednesday, the Protopian Prize announces our inaugural winners! We're excited to finally share these new voices. Join us for readings and interviews about imagining reachable, liberatory futures! luma.com/7dsq7uh2

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Protopian Prize - Online Winners Showcase! 🎉🎉 · Zoom · Luma

What if the future isn't doomed nor perfect, but it's genuinely better? Join us for a live reading and conversation celebrating the inaugural winners of the…

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R Del @delexical.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When was the last time you were in a forest? Plan to get into a proper forest now. The colours are good, so is the sound of rain dripping through. And then there are all the weird fungi having a great time.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm really surprised the Greens seem to have had no defences against entryism, a key spoiler tactic of the extreme left for, what, over a century now? In addition to the antisemitism the straight up un-seriousness of not locking the front bloody door is staggering.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

gorgeous little one! what a soulful gem he is.

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We have nearly 1500 names now. Last day to sign

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

" Each year we write off more territory as not worth the bother — Oxford Street and Leicester Square, then Camden Town and Clapham, Borough Market and Shoreditch." So true!

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Jessica Francis Kane @jfkane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mon dieu! FONSECA has been shortlisted for the 2026 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etrange! Merci to my glorious translator Mona de Pracontal and French publisher Éditions de la Table Ronde.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

oh! I will. and thank you.❤️🙏

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

oh WOW! that is amazing. and I've heard him say in interviews that winning the Goldsmiths Prize pretty late in his career (and presumably now this shortlisting) have made a big difference to him. in career terms and also artistic vindication, which I felt very unguarded and generous of him to say.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

we're old enough to remember when disintermediation was the play!

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

I felt, watching the other judges' reactions, that it wouldn't. but who knows?! we can all dream.

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