iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 5h

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 23h

The "AI is coming for jobs" narrative contributes to a scarcity mindset that destroys worker solidarity. I think we can look at anti-trust, tax policy, regulation, consumer protection, labor rights, and rights to housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without mentioning "AI" at all.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 22h

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 27/09/2026

Hey! This Friday, come join me and Hillary Hartley, co-founder of 18F, the US government's first digital service, former Deputy Minister and Chief Digital Officer for the province of Ontario when we chat about, uh, how people work. It'll be great. Register here: calendly.com/verylittlegr...

Come join Dan's chat with Hillary, co-founder of 18F, the first digital services team inside the U.S. government, and former Deputy Minister and Chief Digital Officer for the Province of Ontario. Amongst other things.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 29/09/2026

I gave a talk last week about tech billionaires (we really don't like them) and how to fight them (labour organizing, it's always labour organizing). Come take a 9-minute break from producing shareholder value and watch! Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for inviting me for #WalrusTalks 🍁

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Jenny Zhang: Workers Can Take Back Tech

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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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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/09/2026

I am not ready for... 7 months of constantly being cold 😭

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m glad I know such a wide range of fucking weirdos

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Called my pharmacy to make an appointment for October 26 and they told me that, a) I was the first one to call them, and b) I’m too early to make an appointment. I guess I’ll have to call every week until I can get one! news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love these snippets into the history of our city. #ldnont

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 24/09/2026

The idea behind this handbook is that having better conversations about technology leads to better decision-making about technology. lesscomputer.ca/the-proposal/

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sent a few postcards from our trip to Montréal last weekend, and this one is my favorite.

Postcard of a cartoon smoked meat sandwich holding a cartoon pickle and can of cherry cola on a black background

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Making it impossible for anyone outside Canada to know what time it is here is an important part of reinforcing Canadian sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Closed up the pool for the season this morning. For us, that’s the official end of the summer and the start of the fall.

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mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 22/09/2026

Every time I get an email from an “AI” inviting me to their new platform, not only do I block/report, I also put a hex on the human who released it into the wild. You’re gonna have toes growing out of your ears and everything you put in your mouth will taste like soap. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 22/09/2026

“AI is less a ‘revolution’ than a smoothing agent for incumbent powers.” – Ricky D’Andrea Crano (2025)”

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Allowing the most powerful segment of society to opt out of public services inevitably makes public services worse. This is why the existence of private schools inevitably makes public schools worse. A simple fact that seems hard for many to admit. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...

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Private Schools Are Bad for Society

The starting point for any honest discussion.

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This Fat Mom Bikes @vocame.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Where’s that venn diagram? I hope the residents of #ldnont realize that voting for tax freezes also means voting for services freezes. We won’t get any resolution to homelessness, addiction, or even the additional police you think you need (you don’t) without additional funding.

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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Ms. Rachel thing is instructive because ppl just vaguely talk about her being antisemitic so as to avoid articulating her original offense: daring to feature in her videos a 3 year old whom the IDF blew the feet off of

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” - Goethe

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am enormously sad for people who will develop as fans without the opportunity to be bitterly disappointed or deeply exhilarated for *no rational reason* at all. No money on the line, no insults in the comments to throw around, just the inexplicable but enduring experience of *fandom itself*.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is, actually, patriotic to to critique your government.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Collapsing the vastness of the open web into a handful of social media sites was a mistake.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 14/09/2026

every few months I have reason to send Ricki Heicklen's collection of unparalleled misalignments (e.g. "butt dial" and "booty call" are composed of synonyms but are not, per se) to someone and I get to look at what's been updated since and it never fails to delight rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 14/09/2026

less computer

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Any Human Ever: over 100,000,000,000 people have ever lived — here you can map out the story of one of those people. Worth playing around with: anyhumanever.com

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Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Keep seeing people online getting their COVID/flu shots, but I’ve talked to my doctor and dozens of pharmacies in this city and all of them say they won’t have anything until Thanksgiving. Am I missing something?

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Miso-marinated salmon, corn orzotto, and a bottle of Chablis in the sunshine. Ending the week off right.

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mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 10/09/2026

One of the things I often think about with my clients is, how can they make their waged work subservient to the rest of their lives? And nearly always, the answer is to practice their art: everythingchanges.us/blog/energy-ma…

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Energy makes time | everything changes

One weird trick for hacking the space-time continuum.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Blogs so didn't suck at scale that they, arguably and defensibly, ate the news environment and publishing. We are still living in the age of the blogger, present company included. To be clear. Your influencer/independent journo/networked politico etc etc -- blogging.

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is fascinating: walzr.com/kids-trends/ “Kids shape culture, and their drawings show what captures their attention.” My daughter is obsessed with drawing rainbows and mermaids right now. Interesting to see how trends in drawing change.

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Kids Trends

Twenty years of childhood, one drawing at a time.

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting the :/ in https://

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 08/09/2026

I've looked at literally thousands of online event listings over the past year and a half and now I have Opinions™ about how they should be structured, perhaps you would be interested in these if you also run events or you just enjoy a slightly exasperated blog post phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-09...

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things I wish every event organizer would do for their event listings

Hello yes, I am aware that it’s been almost a full year since the last post. This is largely because running Show Up Toronto and writing a newsletter for it every week takes a lot of time and energy. ...

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Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just as “no white after Labour Day” is antiquated, so is the idea that #publicjoy ends with summer. Find a tree-filled walking route & watch the leaves turn. Get an art gallery membership. Scan your local library’s special events. Wear vibrant sweaters. Schedule walks with friends. Stay outside.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Don’t often get out to see live music (mostly because our only babysitter is 15 and needs to be back home at a decent hour) these days so it was a delight to see U.N. Jefferson play tonight. They are so good live.

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Instead of lowering flags to half mast for Dolly, they should reinstate vaccine mandates. They should invest in public health. They should walk back discriminatory LGBTQ+ policies. They should stop banning books and fund libraries. That’s how you honour her legacy.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026

it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The vast majority of people want to be kind. Never let anyone dissuade you of that.

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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