iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 14h

"Communities" don't exist online anymore imho, only herds

Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 14h

Localized decentralization, offline community-building, deconveniencing, reskilling and relearning to feel/channel our full range of emotions are existential necessities at this point. It's literally a matter of ease vs agency, babes

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 14h

and as the markets go into liquidation mode, the first commodity they'll focus on will be user data (behavioural & biometric) by way of intensified capture systems. Algorithms and devices will become more granularly adaptive, everything will pivot to capture. Free will will become fully marketized

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 14h

I hope the people getting excited about the AI bubble potentially bursting are also staying aware that the tech corps most likely to survive the bust (NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon) are set to hold more global power than previously fathomable

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

but I can actually remember the experiences very well, they're just stored within the context of a child's mind experiencing them, who had only potent emotion and imagination to interpret the experiences. When I remove the "stories" of those memories my identity feels more resolved.

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Adding to "recreate and edit on recall": we subconsciously layer temporal context and narratives over our memories as well. I used to believe I couldn't remember my childhood – my memories didn't resemble family photos or stories –

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not tracking the alcohol content in my homemade wine because, a) it's none of my business, and b) if there's one place Jesus should be taking the wheel, it's there

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How does individual identity persist within a culture defined by algorithmic capture? What parts of a person stay unique to themselves when their lives become extensions of a marketized system?

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's like their ability to receive irl information is suspended by a predetermined matrix where anything unsanctioned just can't land. Every response refers back to the platforms somehow, every event or idea they mention or describe has already been consumed and validated by their feed

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After enough distance from social algorithms (Meta's especially) the eeriest thing is speaking to a friend who still uses those systems heavily and realizing they *sound like an algorithm*

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Probs one of the biggest weakness of any ideological belief system is that it can be easily deciphered algorithmically, and from there just as easily predicted, mimicked, mutated and propagated.

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being lulled into ever-chiller synthy wave on Spotify as a form of algorithmic cognitive capture lol

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow this whole time I've been texting like a public relations person. This is terrible news

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Left my comms career a few months ago and just now like "wait I can just text how I TALK?"

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our communication systems have been marketized by the platform economy, and in these systems emotional divergencies are expensive. We are being emotionally flattened for the benefit of capital.

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A nonprofit employee participates in workplace wellness programs that emphasize mindful emotional regulation above all else, the subliminal message being that emotion carries a negative cost, so they flatten

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A health practitioner employed by a private platform spends her hours answering queues of faceless texts, no physical signals to stir her duty to care/empathy, so she flattens

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A university administrator responds like a robot because his workplace system treats him as such and he knows emotion will generate situations his depleted state can't afford, so he flattens

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Impossible for men to know this but to everyone else the siren song of mermaids is actually just off-key Camptown Races

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ALSO "No one is immune to emotional influence (0% immunity), yet the system doesn’t collapse into affective chaos." Oh so emotionally intense people hold tremendous social power? Interesting interesting mwhahahaha

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today I learned about "The Neuroticism Paradox" that shows "emotions propagate with a reproduction rate comparable to measles" and that "volatile individuals, not stable ones, might be the true drivers of collective affect." WELL WELL WELL arxiv.org/pdf/2510.160...

arxiv.org

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bringing laser pointers to my job interviews

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So we just gave up on laser pointers then??

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Been hydrating too late at night lately so this past week all my morning dreams have been the typical apocalyptic "we need to evacuate ASAP" but with the added twist of "right after I find a BATHROOM"

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Telling this caterpillar in its cocoon that it doesn't have a growth mindset.

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think people would be more intentional about the noise they consume if they could actually hear it

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If I could do tech stuff I'd make a social media feed where every post emitted a tone with key and volume set according to post attributes like positivity/negativity and novel/derivative, and then every time you opened your feed it would sing at you

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Brutal insult to Garfield how dare u!

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's wild to me that any academic can label something "feminist" without themselves being judged as radical/patriarchal, but someone using the word "patriarchal" in almost any context implicates the user as radical/feminist

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why do we label anything outside of formalist practices "feminist", without also labelling the formalist practices themselves "patriarchal"? If collaborative, relational, noncompetitive practices are by default "feminist", doesn't that implicate formalism as their patriarchal epistemic counter?

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Jewish Orthodoxy was virtually unanimous in its opposition to Zionism when it first arose. It was considered secular heresy." He also cleanly demonstrates it "was seen as giving a moral legitimacy to imperialist interests in the Middle East". That curriculum is def propaganda, yikes

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Plus the claim "by the late 1800s, many Jews supported Zionism" is super false? Tony Greenstein's Zionism During The Holocaust presents documentation of its perception as a fringe movement, "the antithesis of the Orthodox belief" in the late 1800s

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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stay focused: Nothing about the Investment Summit prohibits investors from "Buying Canadian" - Canadian long term care, childcare, doctors' offices, day surgeries, apartment buildings, as a tsunami of private equity forms. How about some rules to prevent that? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

thestar.com

To save Canada, Mark Carney is courting foreign money. He’s risking an ‘investment invasion’

The care economy is looking tempting to foreign investors but that mustn’t be used as a reason to privatize sectors like health.

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

and you look so at peace about it

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

People can ideologically barricade themselves all they want, but at some point a corporate-controlled entity (ie: an OS that's just an agent) will tap the existential tripwires in your brain, and if you have zero experience preserving your cognitive agency in its presence, yikes babes

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I agree. I refuse to adopt commercial LLM tech but I still engage with it intermittently to test my priors and build my understanding/resilience. I worry that the people who blindly reject it are making themselves extremely vulnerable

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Data visualizations are getting so cool, for instance look at that cloud, or my hands

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You can follow the discourse and go insane or you can become irrelevant and live peacefully

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

3 parenting wins: My kid lives in Halifax now and she texted me for advice on going out alone (!) She texted me while she was out telling me all about how cool the scene there is (!) She texted me the next day telling me what a great time she had (!)

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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I spoke to CTV News today about my latest investigation into the fleet of websites trying to influence what AI chatbots tell voters in the upcoming referendum in Alberta. First time on TV so was pretty scary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0p...

youtube.com

Who’s behind fake sites sending Alta. separatism disinformation to AI chatbots? | Deception Decoded

YouTube video by CTV News

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's like a weighted blanket for the brain (doesn't feel heavy though) – a level calmness, no numbing, feelings remain intact, the nervous system's disordered fires just chill. And none of the THC side effects like scattered memory & brain fog. This bodes very well

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've used CBN/THC and it was okay, but I get anxiety hangovers from THC and obvs can't drive on it, but wowowow CBG might be the game changer. Non-psychoactive yet interacts directly with CB1 (central nervous system) endocannabinoid receptors – you can def feel it, but it isn't a high

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My first week returning to university blasted my overactive nervous system and I was starting to feel super anxious about my ability to manage BUT THEN just today I tried CBG/CBD oil (uFEELu Calm Drops) and holy shit what a game changer

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The more I see "protein" marketed the more I feel like we're sliding into one of those dystopias where it could be benign protein or horrifying protein and no one would know either way

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also it really bothers me that the discourse is still so enchanted with the risks of "AI" when the more urgent and present threat is monopolistic and malignant corporations. Like their shadows have become so normal we can't see them anymore

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Saraghargh @saraghargh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We know those corps wouldn't stop at needling into psyches and bending realities if it turned a good profit. I don't think the existential tech discourse is grasping how vulnerable the masses already are to this era of rampant user manipulation

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