iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Microscope is probably the most imagination-inspiring game I've ever played. I'm thrilled Ben is ready to publish his second edition.

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 7h

Since people are sharing this, I'll link the fundraisers directly: Shay: www.gofundme.com/f/bridge-the... Lynne: ko-fi.com/lynnemeyer Ivis: www.gofundme.com/f/help-ivis-...

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Missed the Backerkit? We're T-6 days before the release of Designers & Dragons: Origins in stores, on DriveThruRPG, and at the @evilhat.bsky.social web store.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the coolest girl around and I want to be her friend so bad

girlscouts What happens when a pet owner doesn't have the information they need to properly care for a reptile?
Gold Award Girl Scout Sicilia saw how a lack of education could impact reptiles and local ecosystems, so she took action. For her #gsGoldAward project, she created educational videos focused on proper bearded dragon care and shared what she learned with younger Girl Scouts through presentations on responsible pet ownership.
By making reliable care information more accessible, Sicilia created a resource that can continue helping reptile owners make informed choices long after her project. *t
Via: @girlscoutssierranevada

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 30/09/2026

The curse of the English language strikes again.

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 30/09/2026

I think Levi was saying the opposite - it works well so it probably *isn't* AI.

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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👉 Free Art for Three Days 👈 I’m not pointing any fingers...but if you are, then I have made the perfect stock art bundle ^^ Free download for 3 days. Free for personal and commercial use. www.patreon.com/SilverGlass/... or ko-fi.com/s/f9cdee8279 Tell your friends! #ttrpg #stockart #lineart

Shows 8 different pointing hands icons, mostly in fantasy/medieval theme. All made by me.

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 29/09/2026

Whoops, cute little guy deleted all my emails, I am finally freeeeeeeee

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 29/09/2026

Is this the "writing is violence because it makes you feel feelings" (paraphrased) again?

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 29/09/2026

My feed is apparently adjacent to some fiction discourse to the point I have no idea what actually triggered it, but am getting the funny-subposts and nuanced takes.

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"Monster Con" is OUT NOW @monsterprom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

CONVERSATIONS ARE BACK! There's romance in "Monster Prom 5", even if it's not the main focus. There's 8-12 chars who you can bond with, have intimate conversations in the hot springs, and interact with in a "good relationship" event (those that feel like a date). (poll below)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Red Hook Studios @redhookstudios.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Red Hook Studios is #hiring We are currently looking for a Gameplay Engineer to join our team in #Vancouver. Apply here: redhookgames.bamboohr.com/careers/41 #gamedev #yvr

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 28/09/2026

I’m still not convinced Ellipsus’s solution to proving your writing isn’t AI is the way to go, but Pangram’s most certainly is not it. It absolutely has to be up to humans to tell if a story is real or not. That said, please stop AIvestigating random people.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026

i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 27/09/2026

Yeah, I know. I'm one of them. ^_^ I went back to using physical cards because in order to escape "we're going to shove more 'AI' into your phone every update" I now have an OS that doesn't support tap to pay. (I used to do it from my watch as a stop-gap but eh, card's easier)

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 27/09/2026

All locked up with locks and buried deep away?

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OPB @opb.org · 26/09/2026

Opening Saturday in Southeast Portland, Casandra Hanson wants her new bookstore Sahaptin Stories to be a champion of Indigenous storytelling, collecting books from Indigenous authors from the Pacific Northwest and beyond for young readers and adults alike.

opb.org

‘For whatever the community needs’: Sahaptin Stories may be Portland’s first Indigenous-owned bookstore

The Southeast Portland brick-and-mortar opening this weekend centers Indigenous storytelling in a family-friendly space.

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Kat the Lore Mistress @loremistress93.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is exactly the news I’ve been hoping to hear about UKGE, kinda wish they’d announced it on their comms, but this just proves that change CAN happen if you shout loudly and proudly about something. 💛

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 25/09/2026

So later in that thread he got it to connect to a tailscale network so he could ssh into the VM. Which seems...fun.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Rona Altana @ronaaltana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Discord finally confirmed for real when they're rolling out age verification service-wide (tomorrow) and I've not seen a single person make a peep about it

discord.com

Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults

We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 23/09/2026

......oh my gods.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Procreate confirms it has NO plans to add generative AI features to its apps. The company continues to stand firmly against integrating generative AI into its creative tools.

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 22/09/2026

You are very spooky cat children! (They are also adorable. Can cats hear parentheticals?)

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026

"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmg

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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”

“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 22/09/2026

thread*! My kingdom for an edit button.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

13. focusing on people and why people are doing things *does not mean i have to accept how you have defined a process* or agree that LLMs are "good at it"

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 22/09/2026

This whole tread but especially this part. The appearance of doing the thing is not equivalent of doing the thing.

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 21/09/2026

Worth remembering that the Anthropic people are run by Rationalists who believe they are making a machine god so...

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 15/09/2026

The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Depending on what side of LinkedIn you're on, you're going to run across JEV, hyped as the new shit of LLMs. It is not. It's the marketing hype of discriminative models, induced by some folks discovering that frontier LLMs really shouldn't be used for classification tasks (for a bunch of reasons)

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 20/09/2026

If you’re looking for a great Solo September RPG bundle - look no further ⬇️

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ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 20/09/2026

hail mary full of grace, in World Wide Wrestling you turn both heel and face

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Cthos @cthos.dev · 20/09/2026

No kids but she is the same age as two of my cats. 😅

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/09/2026

Everyone trying to sound reasonable like "I'm sure it's useful in *other* people's areas, just not in mine" just say it's not useful in your area and stop

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Joy Content 🏳️‍⚧️🐒 @joycontent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this response is so funny "we have to use ai because our developers are spread so thin it'd be impossible to do it all by hand" okay hear me out maybe instead just don't make 9 pc ports at once??? you could just make one so you're not spread so thin

“One of the reasons I think we are accepting of AI contributions is that our developers are spread thin,” said Jeod in the group’s Discord server. “When Ship of Harkinian began, it was apparently a dream; now, with so many ports and a decade later, devs have come and gone; some don’t have interest in specific games, others have real life to deal with. We always welcome talent, and if you’re willing to learn how things work here, then the door is open.”

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