iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Brian Cremean @bcremean.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Grief is a ball in a box. On the anniversary of his passing, the Ball is a little bigger today. I got shit to do, but I still miss ya Big Guy.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never played World of Warcraft? [JACK SMITH]: Correct [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you farming gold in Eversong Woods! [SMITH]: That is Elden Ring, sir.

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[P] These dudes think about dick way more than most gay guys I've ever known.

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BumbleBre @bumblebree.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally made it to #michrenfest with the fam! And Ferdinand! Fun and ale was had.

A woman in an explorer type outfit with a large purple and white dragon draped across her shoulders. She holds a beer aloft.

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Brian Cremean @bcremean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Having just learned this, I'm going to assume the two had an altercation at some point and President Petty Bitch thought he was being clever

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this

special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Dave Birkett @davebirkett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What happened to the C on his helmet?

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Jinti is Making Passive Notice Checks @jinti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

y'all should push for Universal Basic Income 'cuz artists that aren't stressin' over rent and groceries and taxes all the time WILL draw freakier, more unmarketable shit

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

I do not think anyone has to leave twitter for bluesky but I do think everyone has to leave twitter

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

they know. they know! no sugarcoating, even! so fucking tell them!!

one question of the survey, with 9 checkbox options:

What concerns, if any, do you have about AI-assisted manga translations? (Select all that apply.)
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1. Lower overall quality
2. Loss of respect for readers
3. Loss of respect for creators
4. Character personalities changing
5. Cultural references being mistranslated
6. Less work for human translators
7. Ethical concerns
8. Legal concerns
Other: (I typed in: environmental concerns, worse than a fresh human translation)

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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🌊 Kamome || カモメ 🌊 @kamomehex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

These days more than ever

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Brian Cremean @bcremean.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey, Sports fans. Why we settle for "Armchair Quarterback" when "Couch Coach" was RIGHT THERE.

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Auntie Lotus 🌼💜 @lotusenta.gay · 30/08/2026

Hate-watching is still watching. Any views validate the existence of it. This includes pirating. Yes, they can tell when you pirate, and can use those numbers. Just fucking don't.

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𖤐Pyro Panda𖤐 🏳️‍⚧️ @pyrocard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Steam AI disclosures are great 1. I know not to buy their game 2. I get to read their attempts to say they ethically used AI. "No, see we only used it to make some assets and then a HUMAN came in and made it good, so you can't be mad" An artist could've done it all in the first place you asshat

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community 🩵🩷🤍

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Stefscribbles @handle.invalid · 21/08/2026

elephnat

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Shout-out to libraries. Where else can you just chill outside with a 4yo as you pretend to be magic fairies careening about a large grassy area, then pop indoors for air conditioning, coloring pages, and benches to read four books in a row that you then get to take home, no charge? Libraries rule.

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

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MELFIST @lordmelfist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

057 - Cryptid As a kid, looking out of the window from the backseat of your parents' car, you probably daydreamed of a figure running alongside your vehicle, somehow keeping up by foot at ludicrous speeds, often performing outlandish acts of parkour to pass obstacles. The Shadow Runner is very real.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

what did soundgarden know and when did they know it

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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you stream, you may wanna toggle this off. Not that it probably matters cos these cunts will train their fascist machine regardless. But figured you'd like to know, at least.

screenshot of twitch settings and how to navigate to the settings that disable AI training

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

SKY NEWS: “Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” SKY NEWS: “He says you’re full of shit.” ABDUL: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” 🔥 🔥 👀

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

EVERY DAY I WAKE UP

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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Herr Wozzeck @herrwozzeck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I and many of my friends stream on Twitch. I say, *absolutely the fuck not*. Friends who stream on Twitch, there is a comment thread here where you can make your voices heard: twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... This is the *least* they can do.

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Brian Cremean @bcremean.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

First ever #TPK that I've been apart of. At least we went down swinging against the BBEG #dnd

A screenshot of the portrait of a character on D&D Beyond with the indication that the character is dead.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 01/08/2026

The fact that this feature ever saw the light of day is unequivocal proof that the people endlessly cramming AI into everything aren’t spending even 1 second asking themselves if what they’re doing is a good idea.

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