iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pheebs @clitullus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am watching Eyes Wide Shut for the first time and I just have to say, halfway through, that this is possibly the most tame sex cult ever. I would not drive all the way to New Jersey for this.

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

heck i was trying to decide if i wanted to go this year and this may push me over the edge

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tiny legal piece of my mind wants to hear an argument that she's already suffered the penalty ordered by the court and is therefore free to go

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's like they WANT people to destroy the water lines leading to the data center

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GeekGirlsRule 🦈 @geekgirlsrule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok, so AI being wrong is a feature, not a bug to these vultures.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's okay, you'll grow out of it ;)

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I had to guess: Pokemon asked for additional help from a printer they both share recently, and the printer had to say yes due to some contractual agreement, forcing wotc to delay on a bunch of stuff

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 2026 Golden Cobra Challenge is live! I'm on the organizing committee and I'd be happy to answer questions and/or cheer you on. It's a cool larp contest and often generates interesting, weird, and sometimes excellent games. www.goldencobra.org

goldencobra.org

Golden Cobra Challenge

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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ssssssssss The Golden Cobra Challenge 2026 is OPEN for sssubmissions. Ssubmit by October 15th! www.goldencobra.org

goldencobra.org

Golden Cobra Challenge

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/09/2026

people have been running scam coins like this for like 7 years now, they've only ever been scams, not once has it not been a scam, and everytime someone launches a new one they pretend its not a scam, but it always is a scam. its incredible

hunter biden laptop coin scam crashed immediately

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

I vow to become the naturalist who discovers the skenk and the skonk. (Your mom has already been identified.)

Screenshots of two Wikipedia entries for the animals skink and skunk.

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The theory is that they're trying to compete with Origins

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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MLG @fundeadnotundead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I haven't been able to talk about this for so long, FINALLY ANNOUNCED! Demi is making Maneater 2. If you have time: - Watch this ridiculous trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Y_... - Wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3603000/... This game is really dumb and amazing. 🦈✨

youtube.com

Maneater 2 Reveal Trailer | State of Play September 2026

YouTube video by GamersPrey

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

this book cover really looks like Barbie is a MtG Plainswalker

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Mr. President, all these famous 80-year-olds keep dying and then the entire nation says great things about them."

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I would be really amused by a book that involved fantasy invasive species though

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

PARCL LABS: “As of this morning, 41% of all homes for sale in the United States are undergoing price cuts. There are many locations across the country this morning where it’s over 50% These include but not limited to: San Antonio: 54.38% Austin: 54.34% Dallas: 52.92% Denver: 51.52% Tampa: 51%”

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The secret to creating gold is apparently to recreate a new universe from scratch, then go into that universe and steal it

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I have never been so entranced by a random episode of a show I've never watched

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The METATOPIA 2026 site is now active and accepting registrations! November 5 - 8 at the Hyatt Regency Morristown tabletop.events/conventions/metatopia-2026 We hope to see you all back with us in November!

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CSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god I think I found the video.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Another photo from closer up, showing the water actively coming down from the lights into hastily places dumpsters

Photo of the omni hotel from closer up, showing the water actively coming down from the lights into hastily places dumpsters

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The complete First Exposure Playtest Hall schedule is here! www.dexposure.com/feph_2026_pl...

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 24/07/2026

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...

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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/07/2026

This is the food supply chain equivalent of “[software] is insecure because they put out a lot of CVEs” It’s GOOD that they patch and disclose a lot of vulnerabilities, actually. Who you really need to worry about are the ones who don’t think they have any

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Jill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I woke up late today so I'm just seeing all this (plus the move out of NYC news) but LMFAO at Marvel rewarding admitted liar Cebulski once again by a literal move to Asia. I can't.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian

Zohran Mamdani making a face that makes him kinda look like Robert De Niro

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Pronounce it "the genie" (has an implied "evil")?

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 14/06/2026

Mayor Mamdani has the mandate of heaven

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But Dave Died 10 Years Ago This Very Night @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

you wanna have a waterfall in your game with nothing hidden behind it, that's very a choice you can make. i personally wouldn't anger all my players and possibly spark a congressional hearing, but maybe you've got a good reason, which by the way i doubt

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

B&W 2 was released in 2005, and also pretty great, so I'd take that as well. Though after thinking about it... what I'd really like is for them to make Black & White 3.

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Black & White (2001) from Lionhead Studios, Peter Molyneux. Now owned by Microsoft w publishing rights by EA. It has NEVER been re-released since its publishing - you can't buy it or play it if you don't have the original CDs. It doesn't even need a graphics update, just make it playable!

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Black & White (video game) - Wikipedia

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"I don’t even pause from writing to choose the right word or to verify spelling or a fact. All this can be done when your book is finished." gods I wish my brain would let me do this

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Hating that work uses it so much. Inventing an extensive TPRM questionnaire to ensure it's not training on our data. (And in unserious news, debating converting to Catholicism to get an AI religious exemption www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r... )

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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Apparently there IS something that would make me convert to catholicism

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