iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 17/08/2026

Reflecting on the National AI in Research Survey. On substance, any "are you okay with using AI for assessing [X]?" question is a mirror of "are you okay with using a metric for assessing [X]?" We already use - and/or oppose the use of - scalable decontextualised shortcuts to judgement.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 13/08/2026

Interesting argument. The one thing I’d add is that maintains exploration/exploitation diversity needs to be a mandate for production and consumption, else we still drift to monoculture. Cf European content mandates forcing streamers to show minimum % regional content.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 05/08/2026

Has anyone in #intrinsicmotivation or #sdt worked on frustration over ceasing intrinsically motivated activity? Like, a toddler screaming bloody murder when they have to leave a swing. It's SO obvious, but I don't recall ANY model or explanation why stopping a fun activity is aversive.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 31/07/2026

When they work well, design schools, MBA programmes, incubators and accelerators seem to all embody one idea: that intelligence is collective. That the instigator/creator/founder is a high momentum sponge in a hypertrophic advice environment.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 04/07/2026

Solstice Saturday First steps alone, swings, tantrums Sleepy, hot, and glee #haiku

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 02/07/2026

Less than two weeks to apply. If you are a recent/soon-to-be PhD looking to work on games and adolescent wellbeing, do reach out!

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 13/06/2026

I feel one part of successful adulting is to be able to compartmentalise space for joy: to be able, in a strict time/space window given by outer demands and under ongoing stress and disaffection, to fully let go into an activity that gives you joy.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 08/06/2026

We have 2 job openings – full time, 2 years – on adolescent digital wellbeing and games data in @nballou.bsky.social's Kaleidoscope lab @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social: * research associate (postdoc): www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... * research assistant: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 05/06/2026

2026 Post-GenAI Student Supervision [Student] Prompts PPT into existence [Supervisor] Critiques PPT [Student] Records and prompts critique to generate new PPT [Repeat] In this loop, the student reduces themselves to a replaceable data entry worker who doesn't run/test their own internal models.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 17/05/2026

Science is one of MANY systems where the values and best practices we communicate differ widely from actual practice, everyone knows but nobody talks about that gap on the record, and everyone collectively maintaining that tension does essential work to keep the system running as is, POSIWID-style.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 09/05/2026

Jubenshacon: Jubensha is Alibi for socialising/mate-finding with people in a third space.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 09/05/2026

Jubenshacon: here’s one for the Nordic Larpers: Quingganben or emotional scripts. Including player briefings on “how to cry beautifully” during a scene. 360 romance design.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 09/05/2026

Jubenshacon: David Middleton comparing Jubensha and escape rooms. Can’t help the TTRPG vibes of “it’s like improv, but on the table with rules.”

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 09/05/2026

Jubenshacon thoughts: this repeats the TTRPG GNS triad as Puzzlism, Dramatism, Narrativism. And the cold start problem of „how to play this?“ when nobody is there yet to model and guide playing culture.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 03/04/2026

I thought I was „good at travelling.“ Now with kid and older parents, I realise I was just playing on Easy.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 27/03/2026

As an #HE educator, if you wonder, “when will COVID start to end?”, it is 2038: that’s when the first cohort enters uni whose development was not impacted by locked down nurseries, schools, and unis. #UKHE

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 20/03/2026

The thing is the *entire internet* is different now than it was a decade ago (and, largely, not for the better). All of this is interrelated and there's no going *backwards* only forward. So work for a better future, don't angle for a return to an idealized past.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 13/03/2026

High-tech anti-modernism: When the people who make and sell high-tech embrace anti-modernist postures – beard, bible, biceps. (Out of ... masculine self-loathing?)

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 05/03/2026

Eventbrite has turned the simple 3 minute act of filling a web form into a 30 minute rage-quit session of having to wait for and undo useless AI-pregen "work saving magic" to then struggle and fail to get "responsive" JavaScript from hell to register and save an image and text description.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 26/02/2026

Unsolicited PI advice: never put a student on the critical path of any software development project that others will rely on.* *Unless they were a software developer in their previous career.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 22/02/2026

@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social say, to brush up on my knowledge about the (women‘s) parlour game etc prehistory of TTRPGs, what should I read? Quick public access resources preferred

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 19/02/2026

On Saturday at 3 PM ET I'm going to be streaming a game I haven't thoroughly played since the mid-90s -- Cosmology of Kyoto, the early game that blew Roger Ebert's mind with the possibilities of an "open world." Also you can get molten metal poured into your ass and out of your mouth! Be there.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 20/02/2026

Fancy diving into the cultural impact of pen-and-paper RPGs? Then join James Bennison, @adders.blog, Esther MacCallum-Stewart and myself for a chat in Brighton's Wagner Hall on April 21. Details 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dice-t...

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THE DICE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Dungeons & Dragons and the Role Playing Revolution : A Celebration of the History and Legacy of RPGs

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 10/02/2026

🎓 PhD Studentship: 3.5years, fully funded: Come build engaging multi-platform data collection tools for digital wellbeing interventions with me, @nballou.bsky.social, @martidisi.bsky.social at Imperial College. Application deadline Feb 26, full details here: bit.ly/phd-digital-...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Jobs! The Autotelic Interaction Research Group is looking for (1) creative practitioners and (2) theory researchers to work on "Autotelic Creative Artificial Intelligence" (ACAI): (1) PhD in Creative Practices (2+2 years): lnkd.in/dPBG47rM (2) Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years): lnkd.in/dMisM_bf

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 17/02/2026

3/3 rejected research bids in the last weeks, aka there goes last year’s summer. Not bitter, just reflecting on the reviews: the funding system seems to have quite the limited appetite for uncertainty from novelty and ambition — or I have too large an appetite for them.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 16/02/2026

We create emotional worlds for children we seem to universally value and embrace. When and why do we decide these are not worlds worth aspiring to and realising in our adult lives?

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 06/01/2026

There is no way to safety-engineer LLMs (especially in “agentic” form) in the same way that you cannot safety-engineer general purpose computing. You intentionally afford practically infinite use cases. If anything, they are less safe because they lower the expertise barrier to doing stupid shit.

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Noah… @noahspringer.com · 05/01/2026

🚨Calling all new media scholars🚨 If (and I emphasize if) a 2nd edition of the New Media Reader happened to be in the works, what additions would you like to see? What do you think could be excised? @docmofo.bsky.social @n-w-f.bsky.social @psssssssss.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026223227...

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 05/01/2026

Listened to @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy's great 39C3 keynote "The Post-American Internet." He remains one of the true hopepunks: modelling to me how finding concrete opportunities for action and charging us with hope is probably the most effective activism today. pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

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Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 05/01/2026

"AI should augment not replace humans" has become a meaningless trope that is and can be happily slapped onto any AI replacing/degrading human work initiative. So what is an effective retort and/or move to a more productive stance? Just, "Can you specify what that looks like in this context"?

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 03/01/2026

Spring cleaning of a former business travelling, long time Mac user: when you find yourself in possession of no less than nine now obsolete Mini-DVI to VGA/DVI dongles …

Picture of nine stapled white Mac mini DVI dongles

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 02/01/2026

A lovely gentle and accessible dialogue on the limits of computationalism.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/12/2025

I used to say on Twitter, back when I was on there, “don’t retweet anything that you wouldn’t pay to promote”, as a way of trying to explain the value of algorithmic amplification. Instead, I learned a lesson about how much people really do want to subsidize and amplify things they pretend to hate.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/12/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Research is the MAGIC TIME on any project where I get to go have fun and explore. And 100% what you are looking for are the surprising and amazing details and textures that you could never make up

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 08/12/2025

This kind of “automating the science pipeline” discourse, apocalyptic or utopian, takes as given the upside promise of foundation models, and doesn’t grant symmetry to the downside: if AI can exponentially automate science, it can also exponentially automate undetectable scientific fraud.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Full post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

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Please, don't automate science!

I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...

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