iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

at what point do elected officials in some country decide these people are Taking The Piss and show them what actual laws can do to their freedom of movement and finances

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Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️ @floramerigold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...

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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming

Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026

What does it mean for the probability to be five percent? Well, that’s five percent. But six percent? Well, that’s still five percent. Four percent is also kind of five percent. Three percent is two percent. And two percent is basically impossible.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

California's ballot proposition system is not *only* a rent-seeking venue but it is largely for rent-seeking disguised as unmediated democracy

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

was literally just referencing this—the “who is having the most fun, the player, the designer, or the computer” question—earlier today. it’s such a core concern when making something heavily systemic or relies a lot on procgen

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cyberpunk anime was years ahead of its time, man

AD Police tshirt which features an image of an android over the text "the year is 2027 & boomers have destroyed the city."

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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*Raymond Vermeulen @crapcyborg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apparently Microsoft has some overly broad patent on generative game narrative. I *think* it only explicitly covers LLM models doing this shit which our field has done for decades. Please nemesis system LLMs out of game narrative ok thanks www.cheathappens.com/microsoft_pa...

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Microsoft Patents AI System That Rewrites Game Stories In Real Time For You

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

IPs are the golden goose, and not the people who make them, except for the IPs we have, which are worthless and should be trashcanned

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surasshu @surasshu.com · 22/09/2026

100%!! unless you KNOW the devs are getting residuals i dont think there's a moral argument for buying games over pirating. publishers and platforms don't deserve your money. just support patreons of devs or buy their free tech demo from itchio or send them $100 on kofi

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"

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Retire in peace

McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

None of that is "empirical evidence" unless and until the public (and independent, non-AI-enthralled scientists) can review all inputs (including all training data, prompts, etc) and all actual outputs. >>

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

This is almost precisely what Emily was saying when OpenAI had claimed that got-2 was "too dangerous to release" circa 2019-2020 so that you understand how long we've had to fight the press performing propaganda-as-news services.

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 13/09/2026

"Our AI upscaling is nothing like Nvidia's". Describes an architecture which is essentially how early versions of DLSS operated. Yes they're technically not the same, but I do enjoy watching companies try to avoid suffering the same heat as Nvidia despite using the same core technologies.

"Our networks are not generative, so they're not from the same nature as the latest DLSS model," he says. "Our networks are convolution type networks, which means that they don't imagine anything, they don't create anything, they just kind of know what things need to look like. So we've trained our networks on real content, but we have also trained them in a way on data sets which allow us to actually make our networks open and public. So all of our networks, our resolution networks, our frame rate generation networks, all of those networks are public and open on GitHub and on Hugging Face.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If the proposed slow down in AI development by frontier labs ends up restricting access to open weight models instead of focusing on the guardrails and penalties for not keeping track of your swarm of AI agents then we’ll know this was all about their IPOs.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

today in cultural decline gambling eclipses arts and entertainment combined film box office $8.87B recorded music $11.5B live music $18.51B books $14.6B museums $16.4B add it up: $70B less than half of the $166B Americans wagered on sports fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

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Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

no you see, having a really obvious track to follow makes sense for Wolverine, who's a master tracker. also it makes sense for a sherlock holmes game to have really simple puzzles, because he's so good at them

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Party House physical card game Kickstarter launches next week! 🏠

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

median white collar AI user: these tools allow me to streamline labor-intensive, already largely commoditized aspects of my work median AI lab press release: we're making astounding leaps. in the past few weeks, we avoided constructing several bioweapons

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Incredible stuff. Even if you've bounced off of A Sharp's previous games, this is worth checking out. And, if you loved KoDP/Six Ages, then get to this immediately.

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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 10/09/2026

In response to today’s Nintendo Direct, Sony has announced -1 video games.

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Robert Brookes 🌿 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Terada's art proves how hard a Dark Souls vibed Zelda game would go

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The union contract covers 1,900 employees across the Microsoft subsidiary. Notably, it also gives laid off workers the right to be "recalled" into open positions across Blizzard bargaining units within 14 months of their termination.

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Anne Stickney @shadesogrey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This actually frames it a bit differently in my mind too, oddly enough

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srrrse @without.boats · 09/09/2026

The way the discourse is all about Navier-Stokes but the actual result is not discussed at all reminds me of Fran Lebowitz’s bit about how at Christie’s people don’t clap when the Picasso comes out but do clap when someone pays 50 million dollars for it.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

all the seniors who need money to start their own sustainably-run company are getting told there isn’t money for a ‘lifestyle business’ or that things like Callisto Protocol ruined their chances even tho it cost a billion dollars more than one normal videogame

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 09/09/2026

i don’t know the terms or the teams but “can we give you a month’s worth of salaries for your team of four to make a game in one month and also can we have half of it when it’s done 🤪” is fucking crazy dog

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You cannot placate fascists because they have neither a ceiling nor a floor. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

You’re the sensible centrist government watching this take place.

The far right pulls off votes to independents and fringe parties from you, the very sensible moderates whose managerial capitalism has actually caused the degradation they ascribe to foreigners.

But they’re small enough in number that you dismiss them, and continue with the self-same policies which actually impact their voters’ lives.

Next time, they do well enough that you take notice. It is at this point you enter the spiral that has redrawn the electoral map of the Western world for the past decade.

You say you recognise ‘legitimate concerns’ and take a tougher line on, say, refugees.

You accept the far right’s entirely false premise that immigrants increase crime, that the housing crisis is due to migrants rather than your own bad policies, or that foreigners are swamping the health service, rather than holding it up with their bare hands in the face of your own drastic underfunding of the system.

And you become less popular. You, the sensible moderate, continue to slide in the polls against the very parties whose policies you were trying to steal.

A sizeable number of your own base are appalled, and you have failed to impress a single racist.

Because everywhere, from France to Germany to the Netherlands to the UK, as with Fanta and its supermarket imitators, it turns out people prefer the original to the copy.

You’ve driven away your traditional base, while sanitising the racism of the far right for low information voters, who now consider them more reasonable.

You have moved the sensible middle position toward the far right — where you now stand, boxed in, by the ghouls you’ve just baptised as moderates.

And the slide continues. Because you cannot placate these people. You cannot reach an end.

Round up every refugee in camps and they’ll want the next cruelty.

Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they’re an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it has to be challenged.

And now it’s too late, because you thought that you — and you alone! — would be the first centrist to steal the fascist’s lunch by agreeing with them rather than fighting them with every fibre of your being.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What's the point of having fuck you money if you're never going to say "fuck you"?

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

[wistfully thinking of the legendarily grinds-labor-and-dreams-to-dust world of hollywood] i wish games was like this

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Brannon Boren @brannonb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Film and TV companies also want the staffing of film and TV without the unions.

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Democracy Vibe · by NoMAGA @democracyvibe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The missing piece is bargaining power: unions can turn “furloughed until funding appears” into enforceable notice, severance and recall terms. Without that floor, publishers keep the upside while workers absorb every launch gamble.

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