iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Happy Departure Day to all who celebrate!

The Guilty Remnant from The Leftovers hold up signs reading "STOP WASTING YOUR BREATH!"

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

David Ellison holds up a pie chart reading "Make It 2012 Again Through Science or Magic"

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Girls | Limited Run Announcement | HBO Max

YouTube video by HBO Max

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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 12/10/2026

🔴🟢 Today, we launched gdpr-omnibus.eu/ – a website, where we ranked more than 1,000 amendments to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive. ⁉️ This sheds light on which Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are fighting for people's privacy, and which want to reduce it.

The picture shows a ranking of the "privacy score by group" in the European Parliament. The ranking is based on an analysis of the amendments that Members of Parliament have made to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive in the Digital Omnibus.

The picture shows a ranking of the privacy score of select Members of the European Parliament. The ranking is based on an analysis of the amendments that said Members of Parliament have made to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive in the Digital Omnibus.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Cyberattack on French supermarkers. Someone remotely took over refrigeration controllers and made them to defrost. Target temperature set to 50°C. Millions of euros lost. France spent years debating food sovereignty to depend on a firmware update? www.bfmtv.com/economie/con...

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INFO BFMTV. "Extrême gravité, inédit et inacceptable": une cyberattaque frappe les frigos de Leclerc, Intermarché et Super U, les dégâts seraient considérables

300 magasins Intermarché et Netto, et moins d'une centaine de magasins U ont été touchés ce lundi 12 octobre par une cyberattaque visant les systèmes de régulation frigorifique du fabricant danois Dan...

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 01/10/2026

Before diving in, just for giggles, Ireland currently holds the rotating Presidency of the Council but their proposed compromise text is so spectacularly bad that their own AI Minister won't even admit to it being their proposal. mu.social/profile/toni...

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EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#ECJ #AG Medina: The right to erasure under the #GDPR may, in principle, apply to personal data contained in baptismal registers #DataProtection 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

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https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-10/cp260139en.pdf

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Dario @drspnvc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tik pred premijeru novog filma Alejandra Gonzáleza Iñárritua, prisjetimo se najboljeg početka recenzije njegovog Birdmana.

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Ponor 🍉 @ponorette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ma ajmo još malo plakat nad mladim dečkima i kako su nam oni danas u krizi muževnosti

While they sexually assaulted her, she alleges, a message was sent to a frat house Snapchat group called Chi Phi Actives that stated there was “free pussy upstairs”

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This meme also useful for discussing all the Cupertino guest stars.

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Ponor 🍉 @ponorette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ne morate podržavati štrajk koji ide odozgo prema dolje. jebeš to sranje, to nije štrajk. Štrajk ide odozdo prema gore. HDZ gamad i želi da nam bude bed reći da smo protiv jer je to antiradnički. Antiradnički je instituciju štrajka, najvrednije što radništvo ima, uništavati u korist elita. FUJ.

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Ja izvadila bicikl za sutra, jebeni HDZ.

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Toliko mu se svidio onaj live da smo uzeli albumy.

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Novi bakeoff, prva torta je s Guinnessom i čokoladom, @drspnvc.bsky.social je zalijepljen za ekran.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Popila dva red bulla, sad bih mogla tako slatko zaspati.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Film Crit Hulk @filmcrithulk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Zach Kregger's RESIDENT EVIL is so much darn fun. 90 minutes of tension, screams and, laughs. But much of the functionality is both the simplicity of its aims and the core of if its conceit. Wrote about it all here: www.patreon.com/filmcrithulk...

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Zach Kregger's RESIDENT EVIL, Video Games, and You! | Film Crit Hulk

1. A DOG THROUGH A WINDOW It's 1996. I have a Sony Playstation. I watch my neighbors play a game that interests me greatly. Granted, they're

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Žao mi je prodajne agentice HTa kojoj sam maloprije vjerojatno zagorčala život pitanjima o osobnim podacima :(

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a sociologist, can confidently say, this is not an ethical experiment.

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I had students approach me just today saying they appreciate my firm and justified stance on this (as I have a 10-min argument about why I don't want it in our classroom, and why they shouldn't either). Fight it. Some students will back you, and they are rejecting it too. Don't just roll along.

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's "cognitive surrender". We don't need it in class. Reject it (at least in much, if not all) #humanities #education. We do not need it. We were doing well without it. Reject it. It's a total myth that *everyone* uses it. They don't. #HigherEd #Teaching www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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M̗͚̽ͭa͇̽̊ṱ̠o̳͈v͕ͦi̱̥ͥl͙̞͒k͈̟aͯͤ @matovilka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Link is here: qprinstitute.com/pdfs/Forever...

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A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

@kresosz.bsky.social smiluj se ovom napaćenom narodu, hoće li i kad biti paradajza u Mrkvici kraj Tvornice?

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Ako dobijem još jedan email bacit ću mobitel u zid, idem si naručiti par knjiga for my mental health.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

icymi I wrote a little ode to “Jupiter Ascending,” a very important film, in Saturday’s @newyorker.com Daily newsletter

"Jupiter Ascending" (2015)
There's just so much more nonsense than sense in the Wachowskis' magnificently insane space epic. The story, I guess, is about a beautiful Earthling toilet-scrubber catapulted into interplanetary political intrigue because she's a perfect DNA match for a recently-deceased galactic oligarch—but you're doomed if you go looking for coherent plot. Better to absorb this masterpiece as a high-production-value tone poem: Channing Tatum as a canine-spliced rollerblading bodyguard; something involving really hot siblings in a regeneration hot tub; Eddie Redmayne doing oh, so much ACTING; and something happens with bees? Whatever. It's all enormous and gorgeous-looking.—Helen Rosner, staff writer

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Libby Hill @libbyhill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bodies are so fucking weird. Weight is so fucking weird. Aging is so fucking weird. Human existence is a nightmare.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is doomscrolling bad for you? A meta-analysis of 42 studies (N=46,912) finds that consuming short-form videos is linked to increases in inattention & impulsivity; reductions in working-memory span & self-regulation; elevations in anxiety, depression & stress; and a surge in addiction symptoms.

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google couldn’t wait to kneel before Trump. Apple is resisting—for now

Google Maps incorrectly labeling Lake Ontario as “Lake America”

= News from Google
Aug 29
The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States.
Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see "Lake America," those in Canada will continue to see "Lake Ontario," and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.
in the U.S.
What Maps users will see
in Canada
in the rest of the world

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The word “Cambridge" appears 45 times in the $17 billion Meta child-harms settlement, notes Jason Kint. Buried inside: a $459,293,017.80 payment resolving Cambridge Analytica claims across at least 46 states and two territories.

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The $459 Million Cambridge Analytica Reckoning Buried in Meta's Teen Safety Settlement

Tucked inside the landmark settlement is another settlement, writes Jason Kint.

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

Zna li netko ima li Krešinih paradajza u Mrkvici?

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

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Ana Zečić @alitaisonfire.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

Išli smo pogledati Your name jer je došlo prvi put u kina radi 10. godišnjice filma, i dalje najkompletniji Makoto Shinkai film, predivno, 10/10.

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