iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/10/2026

You'd be forgiven for thinking this is some sort of cry of existential agony but nah they're just like that and they're having the time of their lives

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𝕵𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖞 𝕸𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖊 @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

he's thinking about what it'll be like to be a big celebrity.

the diminutive character Biddy Blas, sat on a box. he's a sort of gnome alligator hybrid wearing a padded harness and a helmet.

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Frank @cptcroissant.bsky.social · 2h

i’m soooo excited to dig in but i just started ff7 pt2 fuuuuck lol, not enough time

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Frank @cptcroissant.bsky.social · 2h

yeah, because the people who receive windfalls of $30k aren’t living in precarity. You extrapolating this to apply to ALL people, when the majority of americans would be rendered homeless by two missed paychecks, is breathtakingly stupid

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 8h

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 14h

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 20h

caught wind of the Discourse Du Jour today (i had all fuckers blocked beforehand so no wonder i didn't see it) and y'know beyond all matters of economics studies, there's the simple q of "do economists know how to talk to people suffering without being an asshole" and the answer largely being "no"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/10/2026

observation: gigantic illegal medical bills are not generally paperwork errors, they are part of the quasi-criminal extortion process by which every part of the healthcare system operates. they take people for what they think they can get

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shaydh @shaydh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

man who has a load-bearing belief that girls are bad at math: coding is hard :( luckily, with vibe coding,

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

New this morning: @citizenlab.ca has identified an Israeli ad tech company — one that's placed ads on NBC News — that ran a secret side platform to let spyware companies plant malicious code to hack people browsing those sites. 45 Al Jazeera employees and journalists were infected!

nbcnews.com

Israeli ad company helped a spyware firm target Al Jazeera through online ads, researchers say

Researchers say Discover-Tech used online ads to deliver zero-click spyware, the first public evidence of the technique, with its ads reaching nearly 200,000 websites and apps.

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Invertex @invertex.xyz · 15/10/2026

PSA: The latest NVIDIA App update adds a Default-ON option that allows AI Agents to control the app... Might want to turn it off.. Even aside from being lame AI features, that feels like making security even worse by defaulting it ON.

Screenshot of the Nvidia app's "Settings > Features" section.
Showing the newly added "AI Agents and App Connections" section.
The option for "Allow Agents to control NVIDIA App" is enabled by default.
This happened in version 11.0.9.565

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 16/10/2026

So many posts and headlines including the words “Hegseth” and “public execution” and yet every single one of them leaves me disappointed

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

CALEB CHUNG: Well, I have to ask you, when is something alive? Furby can remember these events, they affect what he does going forward, and it changes his personality over time. He has all the attributes of fear or of happiness, and those are things that add up and change and change his behavior and how he interacts with the world. So how is that different than us?

JAD: Wait a second, though. Are you really gonna go all the way there?

CALEB CHUNG: Absolutely.

JAD: This is a toy with servo motors and things that move its eyelids and a hundred words.

CALEB CHUNG: So you're saying that life is a level of complexity. If something is alive, it's just more complex.

JAD: I think I'm saying that life is driven by the need to be alive, and by these base primal animal feelings like pain and suffering.

CALEB CHUNG: I can code that. I can code that.

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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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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 15/10/2026

I've switched tactics from calling "llms are sentient beings" nitwits stupid to agreeing with them and saying "yeah!! Furbies too!!!" and they get so much madder lmao

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Democrats are incapable of doing anything about the supreme court being stacked full of cartoonishly corrupt rapists full of boomer brainworm conspiracies, because that would throw the legitimacy of the institution into question. They value that illusion of legitimacy and civility over human life.

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's kind of hard to hash out ideological differences when one or more of the people involved believe the fakest shit that has ever been posted online.

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Keep thinking about a post I saw that said something like, "The best way to understand your political opponents is to sit down at a table with them and have a conversation." Yeah I did that and here's what I understand now: they swallow and regurgitate propaganda 24/7 and live in another dimension.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

absolutely disgusting to shamelessly gloat about vibecoding your product as you're charging ahead to devalue an entire industry and several art forms with copious amounts of AI confetti hyperslop, depriving real artists and developers of oxygen

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

They’re gentrifying baked potatoes guys I think it’s over

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Frank @cptcroissant.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

to expand on this: when i know a game is written by a human if i talk to an NPC and they mention scary sounds by the waterfall outside the castle gates at night, i now i want to check that out if AI slop says the same thing I have zero fucking information re:whether what they tell me is actionable

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Numbers @numbers.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

American indie devs: Aw geez... I hope I have the game design of this perfectly balanced out. Maybe I should do more bug testing? Oh I hope I don't give off the wrong messages in my game. European indie devs:

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15/10/2026

Some guy in Charleston, SC started an AI consultancy firm for small businesses where he just asks ChatGPT. Using a blueberry farm as an example he asked for outside risks. It said heavy rain, heatwaves and rising fuel costs. He asked how to hedge against this. It said to place bets on Kalshi.

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Frank @cptcroissant.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

you are classifying it as “an entire branch of math”, which is incorrect. analogy- i am saying “rolling dice cannot predict the future” you- “so you’re saying probability, an entire branch of math, isn’t useful for prediction”? it’s not the branch of math, it’s how these things function

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Frank @cptcroissant.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i am a co-author on an MIT EdX course on Deep Reinforcement Learning, the foundational neural network architecture that has powered all gen-AI for the past 8 years. you don't know what you're talking about, and you need to sit down.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Character is still losing $9 million a month AFTER - laying off employees - making its model worse on purpose to be cheaper - moving to open source models - adding usage limits - spamming ads in its product - adding new in-app paid products

26. At all times, Character has struggled with profitability and its operational
expenditure has been high. For example, in the second half of 2024, following the 2024
Transaction, Character’s operating expenses (excluding legal fees) averaged approximately $21.9
million per month, including monthly compute costs of approximately $13.8 million. In fiscal year
2025, operating expenses (excluding legal fees) averaged approximately $18.5 million per month,
including monthly compute costs of approximately $10.0 million.
27. Character has, however, taken significant steps to reduce its operating burn,
including transitioning inference workloads to lower-cost GPU capacity and post-training openweight
models rather than developing proprietary foundation models. At the same time, Character
reduced its employee headcount and consolidated its facilities. As a result, operating expenses
(excluding legal fees) had declined to approximately $13.3 million by August 2026, a reduction of
approximately 39% from the second half of 2024 monthly average and approximately 28% from
the 2025 monthly average. Finally, net cash burn per month had declined to approximately $8.2
million by August 2026, compared with monthly averages of approximately $21.5 million in the
second half of 2024 and approximately $17.6 million in 2025

Character has also worked to build and diversify revenue, which it primarily derives
from subscriptions and in-app advertising. Monthly subscription revenue was approximately $0.6
Case 26-11603-BLS Doc 18 Filed 10/13/26 Page 11 of 26
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million in January 2024, but due to increased marketing and other efforts, by August of 2026, this
revenue stream was $2.8 million. In mid-2025, Character launched in-app advertising and
partnered with multiple advertising networks to generate additional revenue sources. In March
2026, Character entered into an amended programmatic revenue-share and incentive arrangement
with a leading online advertisement provider. Monthly advertising revenue grew from
approximately $0.5 million in July 2025, its first full month, to approximately $2.5 million in
August 2026. In early 2026, Character also introduced in-app purchases. As a result of all these
efforts, total revenue grew from approximately $7.4 million in fiscal year 2024 to approximately
$23.6 million in fiscal year 2025.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

404media.co

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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Frank @cptcroissant.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

it won’t , because no AI company has a path to profitability unless they manage to completely de-skill the entire workforce and then extract our entire lives from us in the form of the most brutal SaaS possible

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I tried watching Andor, but I could not for the life of me take that shit seriously. I just kept imagining Jar Jar getting sent to a concentration camp. Life is Beezautiful.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/10/2026

I want to be explicit that Mark Zuckerberg, on the softest of softball podcasts, admitted he invested all this capex without really knowing whether any of it would work, shortly after his tech guy said that he had been repeatedly told “hey this better fucking work” by the CFO at an offsite

META CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG
ACKNOWLEDGED THE COMPANY COMMITTED
$100 BILLION-$200 BILLION TO Al
INFRASTRUCTURE BEFORE KNOWING WHETHER THE INVESTMENTS WOULD SUCCEED. META HAS SINCE LAUNCHED ITS MUSE WONDER AI MODEL AND MUSE PERSONAL ASSISTANT, BUT CONSUMER ADOPTION AND THEIR REVENUE POTENTIAL REMAIN UNCERTAIN.

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Paul-tergeist Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

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Sherveen Uduwana @suduwana.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yo we gotta stop being this parasocial about where we work

Anti-union people seem[ed] to have absolutely no boundaries. They would post multiple pages as Slack comments gushing about Tim and how much Double Fine meant to them and how hurt they were about the union attempt. This was done by employees that were both eligible and ineligible for the union. They would often also demand specific answers from pro-union people even though those could not reply freely.

Others spoke of feeling outright betrayed by the union effort. “I have never been scared about losing my job until that letter came out,” wrote the same employee who had been leading much of the anti-union discussion in a Slack message. “It has created both uncertainty of Double Fine’s future, and an unsafe working environment for a lot of people at DF.

“…TBH seeing some of the names on that list is incredibly heartbreaking…I’m going to retreat now and hopefully pull some of the knives out of my back.”

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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Milktooth | making Bad Magpie @milktooth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

IT’S HAPPENED! YOU can finally play Bad Magpie! so what are you waiting for, go and play the demo NOW 🗺️ explore a chaotic and colourful world 🌟 get a glimpse of the mysterious narrative 🔍 discover meteorites and hidden items 🐦 wreck havoc, be a menace play now on Steam & XBOX on PC!

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Anthony Pham @viridianth.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm a Hard Surface/Prop Artist, formerly in VR medical sims and freelance. ✨Looking for work.✨ Portfolio: aqpham.artstation.com #GameArt #GameDev

3D model of a submachine gun with a large pie plate style magazine on top, and a sight sticking up over behind it. The gun is mostly an off white plastic with gold/brass looking metal bars front and on the fold out stock.

3D model of a scifi handheld device with a stylus and a touchbad covered by a plastic cover. At the top and bottom are small screens showing orange status readouts.

3D model of a scifi fictional military radio, mostly green with a handset laying on top, and a yellow plug in the top right corner.

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ᗷᖇ[IT’Տ] ᗩᒪIᐯE! 👹 @babysip.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

A still from the good place showing Janet talking to Chidi saying “fun fact; Columbus is in the bad place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide

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Javier Guerrero🦉 @xaviergd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy HollowKnight Silksong Anniversary! #pixelartㅤㅤ been cooking this for a few months ✨

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

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Joakim "konjak" Sandberg @konjak.org · 11/10/2026

More Pepperbee project shit~ I love this guy, very happy with the animations. Here is a test of this boss' "weak state". He otherwise blocks you. #pepperbee

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

gadgetreview.com

Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes

Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/10/2026

Heard someone suggest a reason that kids drink and do drugs less these days is because so many more are properly medicated for Adhd and autism and it's been stuck in my head since

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026

Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.

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