iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

What kind of GM are you? I'm sort of nomadic tent city multitudes of psychedelic mushroom people GM.

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I recently installed a new browser and had the rare experience of looking at #YouTube without my normal algorithm - or any browser profile or cookies or anything installed. It was really disturbing and very, very right wing. At least a dozen of the top videos it suggested were attacks on feminism.

110

Reposted by Ben Green

Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized

We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024

27851291

Reposted by Ben Green

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

6138733684

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One would think that whatever the POTUS calls "the ban on the free press" would be summarily overturned by the SCOTUS, but this is America so it probably will be allowed to stand and all the media companies affected will pay him a million dollars and promise to kiss ass even more.

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love this idea, so I'm starting today: MTV hasn't been about music for a couple of decades, and algorithms shape every recommendation the systems give us with little room for Day 1 #MusicVideoTime youtu.be/fTsWKl4zFGY?...

youtu.be

STORES

YouTube video by Ross Bryant

121

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI industry experts who call the risk of human extinction from AI is "serious but manageable" usually say the risk is 2.5-5%. Imagine you had a magic 20-sided die that let you name any real world problem and on a 2+ it was fixed, but if you roll a 1, EVERYONE dies. No sane person rolls that die.

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"You gave us billions to create this technology that we've known was civilization-ending dangerous for decades, and now that we've made it, it definitely might be.... so you should give us billions more to be sure that we keep making it even more dangerous, but responsibly now because arms race!"

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The #IHRA Working Definition of #Antisemitism, by conflating the "Jewish right to self-determination" with the "Jewish right to an independent ethnostate", is itself antisemitic bc it presumes that unlike all other ethnicities, Jews cannot have a right to self-determination without ethnonationalism.

100

Reposted by Ben Green

NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory uncovered a new class of cosmic objects: 84 “hypersoft X-ray sources” scattered across six different galaxies, including Andromeda and the Pinwheel galaxy!

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Alabama/M. Muhibullah et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk

423355

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the low-key hilarity of "Massive Attack On Pentagon Page 14 News"

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've had a Gamefound account for a long time. I just noticed that I misspelled my own name. In other news, I put the compost bucket in my trunk. The next day, I noticed the car smelled *terrible*. I didn't know why until my wife opened the trunk and asked why the compost bucket was in there.

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What if labyrinths and mazes could be a GM tool? How can we use invisible games tethered to strange details to structure psychological horror? Can Uno be terrifying?

A classical labirynth with the U-turns numbered and 4 quadrants colored red, green, blue, and purple. The center is numbered 17 and contains all 4 colors swirled together.

A woman is playing Uno. She's got 3 cards in her hand while she plays a Wild Draw 4. Her eyebrows are raised and mouth is open like she's saying "aaaaaaaah!" Truly terrifying

020

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hearing Trump talking about trade makes it so obvious why he's filed for bankruptcy so many times. How can a guy who spent 50 years pretending to be a businessman not understand that US companies importing goods isn't bad for US companies. They already wouldn't be doing it if it was bad for them.

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Now that Elon's X Groks, does that trump the use of grok the way Trump trumped trump? Because I feel like it does and just don't like either word anymore. I didn't really go for grok in the first place, but as a table top game designer, getting icked by the word "trump" has been obnoxious.

120

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I miss when AI generated images was just experimental hallucinogenic weirdness we could all laugh about.

Probably a woman at a restaraunt, but her head and the background are an urban street scene and her arms turn into packs of small dogs getting scritches where they meet the table. She has buildings for eyes. She's wearing an open long sleeve shirt made of multi-exposed photographs of children playing. Her eyes are buildings.

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

All those people crying about "erasing history" when Confederate slavers' statues came down are all up in arms right? RIGHT!?

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

people gotta support each other doing cool stuff or no one will be able to do cool stuff.

0123

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think there's potentially a valid reading of the Tao Te Ching that it was an early attempt to describe fractal geometry and Chaos Theory.

TheyreTheSamePicture.meme

The pictures are a yin-yang and part of the Mandelbrot set.

020

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

TBF, if everyone on Earth turned into a bear - bear body, bear mind - the world would be way better off, and most people would probably be ok with it.

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

TIL that typing chrome://flags/ into your #Chrome address bar gives you a (pretty huge) list of experimental features #Google has opted you into trying without asking! You can disable ones you don't want. I used it to disable the shitty new #Android Chrome AI focused UI update. Search "bottom bar"

000

Reposted by Ben Green

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is a real letter that President Trump’s aide sent to him.

2028065

Reposted by Ben Green

Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. What a thread. The only time I thought about 4 dimensional beings in Ross in RPGs was when I saw them as antagonists in a Mage: the Ascension book. I thought they were too complicated to include. But this is crazy and weird and fun! Very wow!

021

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I just noticed that my #Google storage plan has been "upgraded" to a Google AI plan that includes that storage I already had, but is now more expensive. It's no longer an option to buy just the storage.

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a critical component missing from antiques roadshow.

063

Reposted by Ben Green

Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In 76 days the American public is going to learn the monsters they elected are simply going to refuse to leave. Vote! But prepare for what comes next. He has assembled a private Army, permanently settled the national guard in D.C. and has reinforced the White House. Why? Use your brain.

2274

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat t t t t t my kids gonna lose it over this

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My 12 year old found a jewel case for a CD and spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out how to open it. It was pretty bizarre to watch him completely flummoxed by this piece of totally obsolete design from not that long ago.

010

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In Kelo v City of New London (2005) the SCOTUS ruled that eminent domain can be used to transfer private land to another private entity as long as the local government's development plan claims that doing so will help the community. Historically, this has been used to give land to corps but...

100

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The commentary on the source material and historicity at the end adds to the context of the beautiful music and poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Mn...

youtube.com

Love Song Sung in Ancient Egyptian | Leiden Lyre (:

YouTube video by Siamun

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If every computer on earth was fried, the world would be better off.

000

Reposted by Ben Green

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.

hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com

How to limit unauthorized AI use in the classroom

A handy rule

17355103

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I know nothing about Jack Reacher, but algorithms saw it was my birthday and I'm a white guy, so I'm getting served a lot of clips and they're all "Reacher teaches bully/thug/smug asshole/evil boss/etc a lesson" where he watches them stoically until they back down or he beats them up. Is that it?

110

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The tax laws necessary to implement a national wealth tax already exist. All that's necessary is to extend the application of existing law. #WealthTax #TaxTheRich

1. A U.S. person whose combined assets are valued at or above $100 million on any day of the tax year must—

a. pay real estate tax on all property equal to the highest combined state and local real estate tax rates on any such property that they owned at any time during the calendar year.

b. file Form 8621 as if each directly or indirectly held stock they own as if it was a Passive Foregin Investment Corporation (PFIC).

010

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@ctnguyen.bsky.social are you the same C.T. Nguyen that wrote "The Score"?

100

Reposted by Ben Green

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026

“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...

5653742441

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In 1966, education researchers selected about 20% of the students at random from 18 classrooms and reported to their teachers that they were "showing unusual potential for intellectual gains". 8 months later, those students' IQ scores had significantly increased beyond the average for their classes.

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In 2014, the @latimes.com reported that Border Patrol agents were intentionally stepping in front of cars and positioning their hips on the corner so that if the vehicle moved, they could claim the driver tried to run them over in order to justify deadly force. www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...

latimes.com

Border Patrol's use of deadly force criticized in report

An independent review of U.S. Border Patrol shootings criticizes the agency for 'lack of diligence' in its investigations and suggests that agents' tactics sometimes create a pretext to open fire.

12426

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@harry-mack.bsky.social do you ever catch yourself rhyming in conversation without meaning to?

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@aspenideas.bsky.social has been reputation washing for billionaires and executives for decades. I wonder if the workers who had to import that title into the website, make the programs, and set up the space were pissed, or if they let themselves believe they were talking about someone else.

110

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I don't know what either of these are supposed to mean, but they captivated my imagination on the way home tonight.

isthisabird.meme

Me, making this meme

This meme

Is this art?

A terminator, skinless, glares redly at you from the future.

"Don't let the perfect be the enemy" it says across the top.

"of the good." it says at the bottom.

010

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family didn't pass down the skills, traditions, and passions of their musical heritage FOR 600 YEARS so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable". www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfE...

youtube.com

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Live at WOMAD Yokohama 1992)

YouTube video by Real World Records

000

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Small potatoes fry easily" a phrase a tax client just made up talking about why the IRS cares about such small potatoes. I love it.

010

Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

What if squirrels and other animals that bury seed caches aren't forgetting them, but are purposefully burying more caches than they'll need to collect? Has anyone studied whether squirrels recognize that they planted the seed that sprouted into a plant or tree?

120

Reposted by Ben Green

Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 29/04/2026

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

331432456