iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

oh you made the computer sound like a guy? it can summarize answers really fast? well life-giving liquid just falls out of the sky and a delicious tomato can just appear magically out of dirt. id say "but your thing is cool too" but id be lying. your thing is dumb as fuck compared to a tomato

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026

“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Intelligence is not a universal solvent. It doesn't fix everything. The people pushing these ideas only believe this is true because they desperately want it to be true. They want the world to be much, much simpler than it actually is. But we live in a complicated world, and that's a good thing.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reading to children isn't a "sometimes" activity. It's every day. It's multiple times a day. It is a fundamental task of parenting. The fact that there is not one, but apparently many tech buffoons trying to wriggle their way out of this basic responsibility is frankly enraging. Their poor kids.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was not a billionaire, because multi-millionaires who are good people like her never get past that last finish line. Not when there are kids who need books to read and sick people who need vaccines.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 18/08/2026

New images from ‘DUNE: PART 3’. Cinematography by Linus Sandgren (‘La La Land’).

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Charlotte Tracey @ctraceywrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Did you know taking out books from the library helps the author? The payout isn't as much each rental as buying, but it does help. Did you know you can take out a bunch of books at once? Did you know you don't have to read them all? It helps the library too by having their stuff more in rotation.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/07/2026

Happy Friday everyone, as promised, here is my personal theory on this. I think Redwall takes place in our world, after an apocalyptic event of the nuclear variety caused rapid but varied growth of all animals, including humans, leading to our extinction and their mental development. Okay? 🧵

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Collecting all the Trial Separation of Monkey Island™ pieces in one place. You can purchase them as prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora... I'm all fan arted out after this.

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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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WotSeries ❤️📖📺🤞 @wotseries.com · 28/07/2026

Rob (@malkiertalks.com) is making a WoT documentary, the full journey of the show, told through cast/crew interviews and the people who made it. There's a GoFundMe set up so fans can help make it happen. Chip in if you can 👇

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Donate to Turning the Wheel - A Fan made Wheel of Time Documentary, organized by Robert Malkier Talks

"Every Age leaves behind stories. Some become legend. Others … Robert Malkier Talks needs your support for Turning the Wheel - A Fan made Wheel of Time Documentary

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Chicago rn

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Couples Counselor Lady (formerly Voodoo)

A curvy woman sitting on a huge wicker chair and having a smoke.

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Our amazing, talented staff went all out for THE ODYSSEY🐴 Trojan horse by Instagram.com/isa.fav.makes Lobby mural by Instagram.com/thecheapsoap Handpainted marquee lettering by Instagram.com/yooyooblue Now Playing, presented in 70mm! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ghost Retired Pirate LeChuck

Bearded zombie pirate enjoying a can of grog while fishing.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Thank you, thanks for coming. Yeah so I'm Murray the demonic comic and the first one who notes I'm not standing up gets their puny soul consigned to oblivion everlasting, bwahaha

A talking skull sitting on a bar table in front of a makeshift brick wall.

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I resent that a large chunk of my adult life has been dominated by news about this asshole. I wish for a life absent his malign presence. And despite the apparent lack of object permanence among the electorate, I believe I’m in the clear majority of people who feel that way.

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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"I'd kill for my child" okay but would you put aside your preconceived notions of gender or sexuality for your child? would you apologize to your child when you're wrong? would you tell your child they can be whoever they want to be, and mean it? your child doesn't need more killing in their name

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capnmrly.bsky.social @capnmrly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Post the: Last movie you saw 🎬 Last game you played 🎮 Last show you watched 🖥 Last song you listened to 🎶

Treasure planet 2002, “12 years later” from the OST

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the world does not need any more LOTR adaptations. the 2001 trilogy, flawed though it was, was lightning in a bottle and will never be captured again. LOTR does not need to be an endlessly fruitful "IP" franchise. let it rest on its laurels and make new things instead.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

You can purchase the Trial Separation of Monkey Island™ pair o' prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora...

Elaine Marley from the Monkey Island series kneeling on top of a cannon getting ready to blast something to kingdom come.

Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series, decked out in an ostentatious uniform with perversely large epaulettes and a ludicrous cape. He's standing on top of a skull-shaped rock.

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 08/07/2026

New poster for ‘DUNE: PART 3’. In theaters on December 18.

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!

Hand drawn text reading: Oh no! ANOTHER HIDEOUS GENERATIVE AI FLYER
Looks like they:
-don’t care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-devalue human artists and creativity
-lined a billionaire’s pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-want everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
HOW EMBARRASSING

The text image from the other image in this post, printed six times to fit on mailing label stickers when printed

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

it’s so weird that we’re not all on the same page about minding our business and being normal about sex and gender. it’s so easy to just fucking chill out. just not my business, babe. no problem!!!!

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Sloan @serious-sloan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 25/06/2026

Fun fact: Today is also a great day to support your indie bookshop. (And not just because a certain online mega-retailer is having its annual sale, but because indie bookshops need our support all year long to thrive.)

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Even if we lived in a post-capitalist utopia with universal basic income, generative AI would still be a technology that should be rejected. We don't need it! Everything it can do can be done better by a person. It's a mostly useless technology with extremely high environmental costs.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Every time I see AI all I see is "stealing has been revolutionary. You can just steal, I steal, and I'm excited to steal from you! Wait, you don't? You haven't tried stealing yet? Oh buddy it's revolutionary!! You can just take shit!! I mean it'll collapse the economy but it's quick and cheap"

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KIMBLY NOT HERE TRY VENMO @k1m.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Your AI flyers look fucking stupid

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Let's watch some movies📽️🎟️🍿 Curtains Up This Month On Music Box Theatre’s Highly Anticipated 3rd Screen blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/18/c...

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Curtains Up This Month On Music Box Theatre’s Highly Anticipated 3rd Screen

The new 98-seat theater screen will open to the public June 26.

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(DO NOT SPOIL ME ON WEIRD ROUTE) MilkyWay @curlysquare.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;

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Nashies! YouTube Cooking Show 😺 @nashiez.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I rewatched Temple of Doom and it's SO different from its reputation it made me realize what a bizarre and inaccurate afterlife this movie has had?

the rousing opening number of Anything Goes from Temple of Doom

the Kali temple sequence from Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones stealing the Shankara Stones

Indy trying to threaten to drop the Shankara stones over the side of a ravine

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

🚨 Final order cutoff for INTO THE UNBEING library edition is this Monday 06/15 🚨 Get those pre orders in this weekend!

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playslashwrite @playslashwrite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Happy 45th birthday to our favorite nazi puncher! 🥳

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capnmrly.bsky.social @capnmrly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 90s - Stargate 00s - Treasure Planet 10s - Man from UNCLE 20s - Dune pt1

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Laptops don’t improve outcomes. iPads don’t improve outcomes. AI doesn’t improve outcomes. What improves outcomes? More and better trained teachers!! Smaller classrooms! We’ve KNOWN this FOREVER

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

WHAT DAY IS IT

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Smaug - painted for MTG x the Hobbit Watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches It was an incredible privilege to paint Smaug, my favourite dragon in the entire fantasy genre. This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast

A sleepy Smaug curled around his hoard, burying himself in it. His eye opens as he senses movement, as Bilbo hides behind a golden pillar.

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John Tedrick @tedrick-art.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Smaug the Magnificent New artwork for Magic the Gathering's upcoming The Hobbit set. AD Aliana Rood Copyright Wizards of the Coast, 2026.

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