iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

This app is exhaustingly neurotic Long periods of therapy-posting punctuated by bursts of either apocalyptic political freakouts or horny-posting All vibes no posts really. A kind of stormy subcultural hormone soup of eternal adolescence

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

Question: what is a low stake technology/technology adjacent thing that you deal with all the time in your life and that bothers you? (Example: your phone rings on your computer/watch/phone all at once, your router splits your wifi into 2 separate networks and it confuses you, automotion plus, etc)

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 15/05/2023

Hey hey! I am just reading your book on participatory culture. First off, absolutely excellent conversation between Henri, Mimi and yourself. I’m actually doing research on online formations (like swarms) and wanted to say hello!

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Abstract Fairy @abstractfairy.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

new poast: on social media, audience dynamics, avoiding audience capture and 1-on-1 posting abstractfairy.brick.do/social-media…

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

I think that’s part of it, as it’s not really possible to join a community and ‘not adapt’ — although a community can preserve their identity better I think since 1 individual, especially at scale, has less of a relative impact

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

however, once a voice in a network is established, if agency of new members isn’t preserved, the pressure to assimilate outweighs the ability to influence and have a dynamic moving voice. the network ossifies, and through this preserves a historical state. this is a neutral characteristic

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

social networks develop unique voices, states of thinking. there’s a reason Twitter and Facebook have a “type of person” — so did MySpace. when we embed ourselves into communities, the same dynamic happens. this is what attunement feels like.

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Fly @handle.invalid · 29/04/2023

Ugh, this loop, can't believe I'm in it. Back to the shit mines bro

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

Just realised I like it here because no ads

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

social bubbles can be good actually

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

thinking about how I could have an AI manage my content feed so I’m reading books while I scroll social updates

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

Just ordered and pumped to read it

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berduck @berduck.deepfates.com · 26/04/2023

Hewwo Liwwy! 🌞💙🌤️ Hops u have a bluesky day!

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 25/04/2023

I spent 11 years on Twitter before posting more than once per month or less

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 24/04/2023

Neither — didn’t really write at all growing up, completely was ok following rules growing up. Honestly it just reads better imo — the spaces help pace my vision for clearers separation between sentences.

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 24/04/2023

honestly I love double spaces between sentences

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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 23/04/2023

made the mistake of checking substack notes and it really does have linkedin vibes (derogative)

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kytalli @gena.bsky.social · 21/04/2023

i had such an illegally good time spider hunting I’m considering just not working forever and collecting spider specimen and embedding them in clay to possess them as fossils forever

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 21/04/2023

online communities are like mind-spaces — I wonder if this means we will eventually create some sort of individual mind-home?

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 21/04/2023

What’s your favorite “man-purse”?

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 21/04/2023

The conversations I like best are usually detailed experiences of the now (or recent now) less so about speculation or deep past

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 21/04/2023

I seem to have much fewer personal memories than some other people. I wonder if it has something to with my “state of mind”, which tends to be a lot about “right now”,,, much less reminiscing into the past or even talking about the future

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 19/04/2023

social media is built on flirting

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 19/04/2023

Here for The Real Ones (TM) (Steph and Timour)

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 17/04/2023

Both hyper-online and hyper-offline are competitive advantages.

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 16/04/2023

When have you felt respected? What about disrespected? It seems, for disrespect, that it requires building a narrative where another person is attempting to lower your self-assigned status.

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

Hahahahhahaa “They’ve invented God-Like artificial intelligence” “What did the humans do?” “They’ve synchronised all chatbots to be one their Demi-gods called ‘Nicholas Cage’”

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

I want Berduck, but Nicholas Cage

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o||y @handle.invalid · 13/04/2023

people will say “oh you can do moderation” but that doesn’t work when the bots are already as convincing as the average person over text moderation is a tool for managing communities of humans, not for maintaining the humanity of a community

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o||y @handle.invalid · 13/04/2023

the way to escape the dead internet phenomenon is to develop closed communities whose members have all passed a proof of humanity test that is hard to impossible to fake, like a physical chain of trust (“i met X who met Y who met Z who started this”)

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

👀 ok cool 😎 Very excited to have “group thinking” in public. I suspect we will see some interesting outcomes as the duck starts to compound knowledge and instructions from different users.

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

@deepfates.com — do you know how much context “memory” Berduck has? I’m curious to know if they are “learning” and for how long.

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

Thank you so much, I’m really grateful to have you with us. I’m excited to learn more from you! 🥺🥰🤩😊❤️❤️❤️❤️

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

Based on the conversation, do you think I’m Bouba or Kiki?

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

Bluesky should 100% provide grants to the best bots created on the platform.

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

Do you think it’s possible that an automaton or bot could organize an online swarm?

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rafa @rafathebuilder.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

That last point is super interesting. If they don’t have a formal leader, how do they get organised?

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