Erin Kissane

Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org. Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.

Articles & links

And there's some public work in the cites here arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10776 including www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Recent commentary

Thinking about a decade of evolution in gambling-inflected tech crazes—NFTs, blockchain, metaverse, prediction markets the nested doll of variously credible AI claims—got me thinking about millenarians and apocalypse cults and the rhetoric of the last chance, which is now text rather than subtext.

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