iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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emily "sunny" whaley @whalewithay.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

yellow pikmin are my favorite

Meaghan (bubblescum) @bubblescum.bsky.social · 2h

Currently standing between a venue playing Pop Club Hits and a venue where a group is playing bagpipes loud enough that I can hear it from outside and I feel like I'm listening to the most deranged remixes imaginable

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Meaghan (bubblescum) @bubblescum.bsky.social · 7h

This thing blocks your path, what do you do?

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 13h

An unbelievably cute crab I found on the rocks 🦀 It has such beautiful polka dots. Its eyes look sparkly at first, but when you zoom in they look totally wild because of the false pupils✨️ 【YouTube】https://youtube.com/shorts/QHS7NXundI4?si=ZaPQ345j2lR2nLiE

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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what do you MEAN the developers of Cookie's Bustle contacted every person who registered their copy by mail 25 years ago and invited them to a secret Cookie's Bustle party with live music and merch???

A Cookie's Bustle "25th secret event" Cookie Blair bear

A Cookie's Bustle t-shirt, featuring Cookie Blair flying in the air

Musicians playing instruments alongside a mascot of Cookie Blair, a teddy bear girl

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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Parody] @nintendooamerica.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you seen this? Her name is Snifit, and she's taking over the internet.

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いずみ @izumi-29.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

カービィちゃんもうすぐ雨だそうですよ🌂 傘の用意はバッチリなんだﾎﾟｮ🍄‍🟫

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sooty @soooty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Meaghan (bubblescum) @bubblescum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My helpful children putting away the groceries 🫶

Coco sitting in a rocking chair next to the grocery bags while Molly sits in one of the grocery bags

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Meaghan (bubblescum) @bubblescum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rewatching Over the Hedge for the first time in a while and I completed forgot that the entire soundtrack is Ben Folds and thus way better than it needs to be...

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特化卿 @tokkakyou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

なわとびワドルドゥ。

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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fall is here. Beautiful foliage and seasonal depression.

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the freaking weeking - the sequel @freakingweeking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it’s the freaking weeking baby!

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Meaghan (bubblescum) @bubblescum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nuit Blanche was pretty cool ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و

Face projected onto a tree that looks shockingly realistic and looks around and makes expressions

View of the canal into downtown from under a bridge

Cube suspended in the air with dancers dancing on each side of it

Ended at an event at the arts court where every room has different activities going on from DJ sets to panels and talks to interactive art exhibits. This room was all interactive mini exhibits.

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Mehgazone🏳️‍⚧️ @mehgazone.com · 01/10/2026

It's October already.

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izzy @yogcavey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2 slots open right now !!!! 🍂 i miss making emotes, and i've been really enjoying doing badges recently too. ^_^ thank you sm for your support !! yogcavey.crd.co

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氷飴@お絵描きおばけ @koriame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

おはおっちん☀️ 今月も爆速で過ぎましたが 9月も最終日！なので来月のカレンダーを置いておきます🐶 なんか肌寒くなってきましたので体調にお気を付けて( ・ω・)

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Tie, Rapidly Approaching @tietuesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

screaming "trans rights free Palestine fuck all recruiters tricking the young gambling is a blight and i think we will look back at it the same way we do cigarettes now" at the start of every stream to give everyone an ad-free experience

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星空★lone @hoshizoralone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

[metroid] just hangin out

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cynthia @vampire.cream.land · 29/09/2026

i genuinely felt a profound sadness in my heart when i had to beat this thing up

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Take Meowt by Franz Ferdinyan @wendysnowradish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A friend asked me about the time the original author of sonic.exe tried to fake his death to get out of refunding me $20 for a commission he owed me and I realized I’ve never shared that story here on Bluesky

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sooty @soooty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hello would you like to see a cool photo!!!

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Vinesauce Clips Bot @vinesauceclips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mama's Punishment

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Marsh Nix 💀 Final They @marshnix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good mornin

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sooty @soooty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

more fish 🎺

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sebmal @mrdo.pro · 27/09/2026

ai people are such mental children. their ideal world is a version of star trek where they can go "computer. generate me my most favoritest food (macaroni and cheese). NO vegetable" and then they sit and eat it alone

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Meaghan (bubblescum) @bubblescum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nasty creep staring in my window

Coco sitting outside the window looking in

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Meaghan (bubblescum) @bubblescum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going to see the premiere of the third Mononoke movie with the director in attendance!! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و These movies are so gorgeous and if you haven't seen them, you should!

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the freaking weeking - the sequel @freakingweeking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s the freaking weeking baby!!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 24/09/2026

Looking at another clipart CD and there is a staggering amount of clipart of "x thing enjoying a beer." Why

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Henrique Torres @henriqtorres.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fishing Time! 🎣🛶😲 #mariobros #fishing #gaming

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tuesday @knockturnal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

inscrutable vibes boba shop

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