iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

19278172044

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

joemag @joemag.games · 09/06/2025

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

Map of LA neighborhoods with a small red circle near the edge of DTLA

7260922566

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I think the interesting thing - and the point which can't be made enough, alas - is that it's a tool designed to confuse people who don't understand how the tool works (the opposite of classic UI design, right?) That is not something that can be shrugged off for a mass market tool.

511220

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

6234911686

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Jonathan de Santos @desamting.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

"The High Court said it found that Duterte and petitioner Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa 'failed to establish a clear and unmistakable right for the immediate issuance of a TRO'."

052

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Tarantadong Kalbo @tarantadongkalbo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ang laban ng Nexperia Workers ay laban nating lahat! Tumindig para sa nakabubuhay na sahod at karapatang mag-unyon! Sumama sa pakikibaka ng uring manggagawa! ✊🏼 #ReinstateNexperia4 #NexperiaWorkersOnStrike #StandWithNexperiaWorkers

073

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

RJ City @rjcity.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It’s up and holy fucking shit. 🤼▶️ youtu.be/X-xYplgSBzo?...

1820333

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Apex Legend's French VAs all refused to come back and provide their voices for A.I. training to replace them. www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/1F... I cannot begin to express how truly and deeply I want these anti-human, scum fuck, corporate ghouls to lose their jobs. *Minimum.*

131494595

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Halaylah @halaylah.com · 24/02/2025

I've been screaming this for years.

"Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.

"If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.'

"We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.

"And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."

6077842734

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Space Colony Studios @spacecolonystudios.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It's been an incredible launch and people are *loving* Gun-Dog, but don't take our word for it, we have: 🚀 220 reviews on Steam - 'Very Positive' 🚀MetaCritic score of 79 🚀Open Critic score of 78 This weekend's a great time to board the Gun-Dog with 10% off! store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/...

store.steampowered.com

Save 10% on Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog on Steam

Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.

613844

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

MEINOS KAEN @meinoskaen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Honestly, this kind of survey was doomed from the start because romance and sexy plots are still seen as inherently bad so a lot of people do NOT share in public that they like them, even for anonymous surveys.

051

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/02/2025

"UX storytelling should be persuasive, empathetic, and spark imagination. Future child iterations should focus more on context and narrative structure and less on cheese snacks and Band-aids."

buff.ly

The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible

Not only am I VP of Reproduction for this household, but I’ve also been the end-user of this Small Child for over three years now. I’m going to giv...

06610

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Jonathan de Santos @desamting.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday accused a fellow government agency of 'red tagging' the poll body, as it even as it issued a new policy prohibiting discriminatory and harassment acts during the campaign period for the May elections." malaya.com.ph/news/nationa...

malaya.com.ph

‘Comelec being red-tagged by fellow govt agency’ - Malaya Business Insight

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday accused a fellow government agency of “red tagging” the poll body, as it even as it issued a new policy prohibiting discriminatory and harassment acts d...

034

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Morgan Shaver ⚔️ @polwingedhussar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Nightdive uses real people to help remaster and preserve classic games with its KEX engine, often collaborating with the original game creators to ensure the final product remains faithful to the original. An AI upscale/port with 0 thought put into it is not "preservation".

8633180

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Another reminder for those who still seem to have not understood: Chat programs do not “look up” information and then repeat it. They write plausible language in answer to a prompt based on their data set. References will use real people, journals & words from titles, but will not truly exist.

171294439

Paolo Chikiamco @anitero.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#njpw #njnbg After all this time. Finally. The "G" in IWGP stands for:

030

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Witch Hat Atelier has good politics.

Tetia receives words of encouragement from an older lady, telling her, "The people that restrict your learning only seek to control you."

2484643024

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. The Memorare-Manila 1945 monument, located at the Plazuela de Santa Isabela in Intramuros, Manila commemorates the hundreds of thousands of known and unknown Manileños killed by Imperial Japanese forces as they defended the city.

The Memorare-Manila 1945 monument, located at the Plazuela de Santa Isabel in Intramuros, Manila.

056

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Micah @rincewind.run · 08/02/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

10757186

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

joyannc.bsky.social @joyannc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Alternative Alamat edited by @anitero.bsky.social 5/5. It took me more than a year to finish this book, not because it was a hard read, but because I never wanted it to end. The Alipin’s Tale by Raymond Falgui is my favorite but there isn’t a lackluster story in this collection #books #philippinelit

031

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So. There are a number of issues with this list of words that can now get a scientific grant application spiked at the National Science Foundation. And one is because the word “bias”, in all of its forms, is often used in the text of work that employs statistical methodology, especially Epi.

1114839

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Jaster @jaster.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just saw this in a chat. And I think I'm gonna wear way more 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ items again. Don't let them make you afraid. Show them we still stand together. Against them.

Sticker decal on a lamp post. It reads:
I don't wear rainbow colored items to tell you who's in my bed. I wear progressive pride items so the family acriss the street knows they are safe. So the couple in the restaurant know they aren't alone. So the boy who sees me notice him looking at dresses knows I won't judge.
I wear because you make them hide.

4283582968

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Another filthy morning here, so it's certainly a day for The Best Cartoon:

A cartoon drawing of a moray eel, depicted here as whie with black spots on it against a red background. The eel has a speech bubble saying 'Death is Inevitable'. Below a caption reads 'Memento Moray'. Artist: Gemma Correll, '15.

11622173

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Fact www.wired.com/story/video-...

2871175

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Until Then ➡️ gamescom 2025 @untilthengame.com · 28/01/2025

🦋 Until Then is nominated for Outstanding Video Game at the 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards! 🏆 Congratulations to all of the nominees! 🥂 Full list here: bit.ly/4arPQBd 🗓️ The 36th Annual #GLAADMediaAwards are set to take place in Los Angeles on Thu, Mar 27th. #GLAADAwards #untilthen #untilthengame

14717

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

When I watched Crazy Rich Asians, I wasn’t as enamored as other Asian American folks. “The only Filipinos in Crazy Rich Asians are the invisible domestic workers cleaning their Crazy Rich bathrooms.” Pan-Asian identity has us sharing a common cause in the diaspora, but that’s not the case in Asia.

1216

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/01/2025

*raises hand Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?

271791423

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

RJ City @rjcity.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It’s up and it hurts. 🤼▶️ youtu.be/pT0_7DQV_YY?...

2123240

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Nana Moon { game dev } - WISHLIST BATHORY @moonana.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We have created a patreon to help ease our current situation, if you personally wouldn't like us to give up on our dreams, please help finance us and let's fight capitalism together. Share this. My patreon: www.patreon.com/c/moonana

patreon.com

Get more from Moonana on Patreon

creating Video Games and Pixel Art

6264216

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/01/2025

"Customers only care about one thing: barely functioning AI crammed into every facet of their lives. We all know this. That’s why anybody who’s anybody has slapped AI onto their product. AI phone, AI refrigerator—if it doesn’t have AI, what the fuck are we even doing?"

buff.ly

Our Customers Demand Terrible AI Systems

We’ve been banging our heads against the wall, trying to think of the new “it” thing our customers want. At one point, somebody suggested improving...

720673

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Okay I'll admit I burst out loud laughing at this one

A sign for "Mega Man Twitter, formerly Mega Man X."

100221054405

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.

103128565046

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Cord Jefferson, quitting Instagram, sums many things up: “I don’t need Instagram to be a haven for free speech for the same reason I don’t need a Jamba Juice or a Hooters to be a haven for free speech.”

4452651017

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/01/2025

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

buff.ly

I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes

I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...

4437531176

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Qichin | Bard Vtuber @qichin.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Notch is a racist. Notch is a misogynist. Notch is a homophobe and transphobe. Do not give Notch your support. Do not give Notch your money.

6537771788

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Arlie Coles @arliecoles.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Same goes for every story about "it planned and schemed to override its own programming!" or whatever. Just because words come out does not mean they correspond to anything or accurately describe anything under the hood at all.

311625

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

16962515726

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Mae 美妍 @atfruitbat.myatproto.social · 03/01/2025

Deeply creepy move on the part of Meta. The vibes are horrible. Like something out of a horror movie, and especially with a side of actual POC, or queer folks, or queer POC getting replaced by bots that are presumably supposed to puppet identities in stereotyped/stereotyping or superficial way.

34916

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

“Do not make the Torment Nexus,” say the authors. “What a great idea, a Torment Nexus!” say the VCs.

en.m.wikipedia.org

There Will Come Soft Rains (short story) - Wikipedia

46214

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Mao Mao! @maotenno.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The ouroboros chokes on its own tail.

3207

Reposted by Paolo Chikiamco

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/12/2024

Something about this has really got to me. It is just such a slap in the face - this is what we're worth, is it? Arguably the largest connector of human beings in the world, flooded with literal friction between each and every one by a billionaire addicted to growth. Death cult shit. Disgraceful.

1123098562