iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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populism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge

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Sargoth (discursively endogenous feliform) @longersky.com · 10/11/2024

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: an unintended side-effect of employers doing everything in their limited powers to avoid being labeled as employers, I can not legally claim to be affiliated with any of them. I do however have the keys to a worryingly large nr of buildings

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The crisis in tech is ultimately a crisis of intersubjectivity. I'll bang this drum forever but I consider AI tech of this sort as arising from the historical logics underpinning social media, attention economy, influencing, etc down the line instead of some new, bespoke thing all its own.

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TEAM SCHEISSE @teamscheisse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

wir könnten uns um schöne dinge kümmern

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

As Canada is learning (the hard way), the "art" of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: "renege": pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 1/

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 31/08/2026

programmers believing they're special boys whose ability to write a for-loop means they're able to understand every other field of study better than its actual practitioners has been a disaster

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𝔻𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕔 🇨🇦 @dominic.tech · 28/08/2026

Un guide intéressant et complet des alternatives techno hors États-Unis.

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hello, I recently came across your content, I love the way it mixes themes and ideas. Would you be open to a brand collaboration for a new app that teaches children how to smoke?

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Swiss Game Hub @swissgamehub.com · 27/08/2026

More talks and speakers will follow soon, so stay tuned for more insights into the first Gamespace Conference in Zürich! Get your ticket now and join us at the Gamespace Conference!

eventfrog.ch

Gamespace Conference 2026 in Zürich | Science and technology

Event on 08.10.2026 in Zürich. Gamespace Conference: 2 days connecting Swiss game devs with international publishers & investors. P

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/08/2026

The reason why procgen in games is, as we like to say, a great way of getting twice the content with four times the work is that you can't fight Shannon's laws any more than you can fight the laws of thermodynamics. You can't give the audience more information than you were willing to put in.

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Swiss Game Hub @swissgamehub.com · 24/08/2026

A wild HUBiter has appeared! 🪐 Meet HUBiter, the newest member of the Swiss Game Hub! Our Hub Member Fabian asked us if we might have a new home for this giant Jupiter after it had to make way during renovations at Grand Casino Baden.

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Zürich at least took the last one seriously

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Jank @jank.cool · 20/08/2026

Death to the self-playing game. www.jank.cool/death-to-the...

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Death to the self-playing game

You auto know better

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thinking about this quote as it regards the strange creatures we find emerge from enough language collected in a dense enough nexus.

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Swiss Game Hub @swissgamehub.com · 31/07/2026

We’re happy to share the first program highlights for the Gamespace Conference: Publisher Sessions with Pro Helvetia, New Game Plus 2 with UZH’s DSI, and a BIG Testing Night on Thursday evening. Program: gamespace.ch/program Submit your project: forms.gle/71eZJCgHbgJP... Tickets: short-url.cc/1uW4m

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 02/07/2026

Here's some of the outer gatefold art & credits. I can smell it. I can taste it.

Digital clay sculpture for the Caves of Qud vinyl release. Intricately depicted ruined arch of Grit Gate. Credits underneath.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

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Panel 1:
Three guys are sitting in a car. Blue Guy is driving, Purple Guy is in the passenger seat. Yellow Guy is in the back.

Blue Guy yells at Purple Guy “You ruined the WHOLE DAY. Why did you invite HIM?”
Purple Guy screams back “Well excuse me for not wanting our friend group to turn into an echo chamber!”

Panel 2:
A Log flume photo you get at theme parks. Blue, Purple, and Yellow Guy are sitting in the front of the log. There is a Nazi in the back to provide BALANCE and HEALTHY DISCOURSE

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

hybrid set with @domenig.bsky.social Searching new ways to connect my art, music and writing and got inspired by @stvulture.bsky.social yesterday :) #art #music #electronic #jungle

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tante @tante.cc · 29/06/2026

"Might they say no? Of course. But they might also say yes. We’re broken. We gotta keep shit simple. No complex planning. No calendar bullshit. No ranges of dates. No pencilling shit in. We are very much in “Get in loser. We’re doing crimes.” territory." How to stay friends

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Swiss Game Hub @swissgamehub.com · 25/06/2026

Tickets for the Gamespace Conference 2026 are now available! We’ve just announced our first speakers for the Gamespace Conference! Check them out on our website! More speakers will be revealed over the next few weeks. Get your ticket and find all the latest information on our website: gamespace.ch

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 19/06/2026

Not just rocket engineers, but this same mode of self-mythologizing is rampant in software engineering across the entire tech industry, deeply enculturated by the PR of the tech companies, VC and founder networks, etc. The virtuous pioneers of cyberspace.

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We also finally made an updated version for @lauflauf.games that showcases all our projects. Check it out: lauflauf.games #indiegames #gaming #portfolio

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All Projects | lauflauf

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Also, I finally made a new small tiny website for myself, which just lists all the stuff i do and have done: basilsutter.com It runs on pure html and will never break, take that, death of the internet. #portfolio #gamedev #essay

basilsutter.com

Basil Sutter Portfolio

Portfolio of Basil Sutter, designer of games and interactive media.

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I have written another @lauflauf.games newsletter! This time about summer weather, finally turning systems into content and about the web I have never experienced but feel a strange nostalgia for: mailchi.mp/442bc7deba94... #gamedev #interaction #art

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14 - Welcome to Heaven

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 16/06/2026

i am more of the view that it's impossible for LLMs to be used for automation myself

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BedWords @snacklesbian.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

ya can't learn to swim in a library

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"Expanding a boundary is the wrong phrase or framing. This is more like cooking or gardening. We do new things and experiment to find what we care about, to find new things to share with other people, and to remind ourselves that nothing is static and that we can define the future for ourselves."

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Another good reason we (also we as developers and designers) should oppose tracking and unnecessary data collection as much as we can. this world we are in finds ways to turn this data into malicious things

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 11/06/2026

we spent like thirty years arguing about whether games with guns were the problem when it is actually games with any sort of social tracking component. the most violently offensive game in the world has less blood on its hands than pokemon goddamned motherfucking go.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/06/2026

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Did you know that in Zurich, Switzerland, there was a space where more than 160 indie devs (including @strayfawnstudio.bsky.social and Blowfish) worked together? It's called the @swissgamehub.com and Sam from @lauflauf.games was kind enough to show me around. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

«Der Denkfehler… liegt darin, dass Menschen keine Hühner sind. Es wurde nie beobachtet, dass ein Huhn zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Futter frisst wie ein anderes, zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Platz beansprucht und zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Dreck macht.» www.woz.ch/2623/gastbei...

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Gastbeitrag: Menschen sind keine Hühner

Die SVP verspricht Nachhaltigkeit, doch ihre Initiative würde das Gegenteil bewirken, schreibt der Klimaexperte und Geflügelhalter Marcel Hänggi.

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

mailchi.mp/23c3449d6939... Yesterday we wrote another edition of our @lauflauf.games newsletter! It's about the morra project, progress in Castle Come and our visit to amaze :) #indiegames #amazefestival #gaming

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

it works, the new renderer is bug free! to catch folks up on the experiment, this is a zero polygon renderer which uses a heightmap raycaster similar to comanche. it's a single pass with terrain + n bookended pairs of layered geometry, so you can do overlaps.

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Really pleased to announce we @lauflauf.games received the Migros Storylab grant for early prototype development for our new project "Hand Anthology". A game about migration, cultural legacy of games and Switzerland. storylab.migros-kulturprozent.ch/projects/han... #games #indiegames #gaming

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Hand Anthologie – Migros-Kulturprozent Story Lab

Hand Anthologie Format: ComputerspielRegie & Drehbuch: Samuel Vonäsch, Basil SutterProduktionsfirma: lauflauf GmbHAuf der Suche nach: Co-Produzent*innen, Finanzierungspartner*innen für Dreh und Postpr...

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The Doctor @nthdoctorwho.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Wonder how long it'll be before they remove the option to disable remixing

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Björn Ottosson - making Island Architect @bottosson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Working on the dynamic water system for my cozy building game Island Architect! Think about where water should come from. Should it rain every now and then or should you directly place water sources? More thoughts in 🧵 #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame

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Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Another lauflauf newsletter up in the ether. We write about new features for Castle Come us12.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema... #gamedev #indiegames #gaming

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12 - For lost weeks

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In a great short essay, @robhorning.bsky.social has some sharp observations on the same phenomenon: «AI slop clips often latch on to news stories and try to show viewers what the news would be like if it could be stripped of its context and presented as maximally engaging to an individual user.»

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Evidence as content

on generated images about news

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