iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you don't understand what's important about studying language, or power, or history, or politics...I really don't care how what theorems you've proven or how big a bridge you can build, anything you do to help humanity is an accident.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Any other narrative designers get frustrated by the lack of mechanical diversity in our dialog interfaces? Most interfaces boil down to some form of option selection, and the ones that don't are usually doing nlp

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I usually hate being right about technology and political predictions, but sometimes it's really funny

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If you cannot be asked to verfy your sources ESPECIALLY in a young field, you should not be doing research The entire point is to be in conversation with previous work and build upon it If you can't handle that, you are not doing research

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"It's bullshit that my building needs to have a foundation under it. Requiring basic diligence is fascism"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This bookcase has clocked me too well not to be suspicious

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 28/02/2026

A thing I am kinda fixated on these days is thinking about how the incentives of virality and social media make for hundreds of people auditioning to be the smoothest on ramp between “inchoate feelings” and “vicious ideologies”. and many don’t even know they’re doing it, at least consciously.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/02/2026

I cannot think of a funnier or more appropriate summary of the state of the news industry in 2026 than “the Onion has more subscribers than the Washington Post” please help make it happen

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is a (deserved) critical hit to his legacy so hard I've been dealt splash damage.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"landmark study" proving a thing that you can figure out by *Checks notes* having a baseline understanding of how ai works.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Most of the videos I've put on YouTube took a year to make and almost all of them have just gotten a couple hundred views. I wouldn't have kept it up if I wasn't compelled by the craft, but even for those who are and still put it down despite that-I get it.

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

if you are interested in having a deep relationship with art of any kind, you owe it to yourself to start engaging with it the way Stacey describes here, you will have a much better time with every piece you come across and learn a ton in the process

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here. From my dissertation:

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes
I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen
the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are
Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me.
"Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation
to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque
to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines.
We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes.
It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn
by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

No you cannot determine which drugs are safe and effective with machine learning. You cannot. It will not work. People will die.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

New video on YouTube, making a return to longform content! As with every election, conspiracy theories have been floating around the internet about the 2024 election being hacked in trump's favor. What's plausible? What's bunk? And what concerns does it raise about modern elections?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025

Directly downstream of recasting college as a work credential than a site of learning.

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Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 07/05/2025

This is spot on, re chatGPT cheating in college. A lot of the moral panic aspect focuses on the tool itself, as if that's the entirety of the problem. And while it isn't great, the widespread usage is definitely a symptom, not a cause, of wider rot in what the education system does to students.

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Swolesome is tired 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @swolesome.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The “ceasefire” was an inauguration PR stunt.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

When you practice such that the everyday becomes divine, sometimes you theology gets tangled enough that the showerhead looks like G-d

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Fuck toll roads, I'm determined to make it into Ohio tonight out of sheer spite!

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm doing some writing on disinformation right now, and the most important take away is not necessarily that we should be more critical of false information (even though we should) It's that we should be more critical of how that information is affecting us.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

58. If you want to understand the nuances and complexities of content moderation and online free speech, talk to Palestinians, sex workers, and abortion access advocates, rather than white led “tech accountability” orgs whose position is basically “censor all the bad stuff and leave up good stuff”

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SporkyPop @sporkypop.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Me and the other Leftist at work when management decides to be unreasonable and talk down to the other employees who don't know thier workers rights.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It should be illegal for car manufacturers to build them with touch screen interfaces

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 15/01/2025

Nothing is more effective as a game walkthrough than an enormous plaintext document from gameFAQS dot com.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 09/01/2025

Remember that if you run a portable generator, do not run it indoors. Keep it outside. The carbon monoxide will kill you.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Last March it cost me $5,000 to find out I didn't have appendicitis 👉😎👉

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I still have a few irons in the fire that I'm really excited about, but it looks likely that I'll be kicking off 2025 with a job search. If your team could use a narrative-y, systems-y designer (with S-tier soft skills & procedural narrative XP) for either an IC or lead role, let's chat!

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Wow yeah weird how "billions of dollars [and] painstaking preparation" to prevent a problem... Solves that problem sometimes?

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We're gonna be coming in strong when the legislative session starts next month

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Tennessee Equality Project @tnequality.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Some photos from tonight's legislative preparation meeting in Nashville. Thanks to all who attended! People from Davidson, Williamson, Putnam, and Cannon Counties joined us.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Blue sky really is starting to feel like old Twitter now that I'm reminded what it's like to open the app and see my entire feed flooded by people unilaterally mad about a singular Bad Moderation Decision by the platform

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The best part of writing (or any creative work) is going back to your old projects and thinking "wow I wrote that? Damn, I really cooked with that one"

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I almost forgot that despite campaigning I also published a piece of games writing at the beginning of the year Hard to say if it's my favorite essay I've written, but it was definitely the one I had the most fun writing! @critdistance.bsky.social #TYIVGB youtu.be/m3SEgn4Gehw?...

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Dialectics of Go

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm writing a whole essay on the outer wilds, but one of my favorite things about it is that the entire community has collectively decided we're not telling you shit come back with a warrant

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 27/11/2024

At this point I’m convinced one of the key failings of the Democratic Party, institutionally, is that they don’t believe in or stand for anything. Every position is for sale and every value can be compromised.

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cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"henway" is the comedic predecessor to "Deez nuts"

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