iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 9h

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 3h

The only movie I've ever seen on a first date was Waterworld. There was no second date.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think we know the answer to this with certainty and cannot claim too, but you should read this and consider evidence from around the world recently that suggests that even a crushing GOP defeat in November won’t mean voters have rejected them for good.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Here's how to build a wardrobe that lasts 10+ years. 🧵

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The Last Jedi, For Tax Purposes

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/10/2026

any interest I could have in AI as something cool (I have been on computer since the 80s, online since the 90s) has been swiftly eclipsed by its corporate purveyors’ strip mining of what I love (writing, reading) and how I love to do it (good labor conditions for all)

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

OUTLOOK (2025) Acrylic on Canvas - 12” x 9”   All of my Lumen paintings feature a figure struggling to reach the light, against seemingly overwhelming travails. In OUTLOOK we see the moment of breakthrough and discovery, a daunting obstacle overcome. #art

A boy rests on a ledge to peer out an open panel in a huge concrete facade that is divided into recessed rectangles. At the intersection of the concrete support beams, the cross braces rust over. Each rectangle on the wall contains a different shape (circle, hexagon, 8-pointed star) sealed and closing off the view outside. Below the boy, a panel tumbles down as he props his hand on the rusted metal frame. Beyond is blue-gray sky.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

interesting how there seems to be a trend lately in movies about a woman who, like, makes a golem out of mashed potatoes or whatever, and he's still kinder and more fuckable than any human man she knows. wonder what that's all about..........................

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My partner for a few years was from Wisconsin, and through her I learned of the fearsome north woods cryptid the Hodag. Now no laptop of mine feels complete if it doesn't have a Hodag sticker on it. 😄

Photo of the lid of a closed laptop. There are a number of stickers on it, the central one being a Hodag: a green lizard-like creature with yellow eyes, curved horns, tusks, and long claws.

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I figured the supposed bot traffic decrease after the Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers was not the goal of the strikes, but hadn't seen anything pointing to what the actual goal was until this: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

arstechnica.com

Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine

Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"AI gives the poor access to skills that used to cost money to access, so shaming and criticizing them for using it is a form of privilege" is certainly A Take that I have now seen.

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Cab @cabfolio.com · 13/10/2026

Bonjour #PortfolioDay! I'm Cab, an illustrator from Montreal. I dabble in comics, kid lit, cover art and urban landscapes. Not looking for work atm BUT I do have a neat creator-owned online print store. House and facade commissions also open 🏠 Store: shop.cabfolio.com Coms: cabfolio.com/facades

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

ARISE (1990) Mixed media - 20” x 20” I took the opportunity with this commission—an album cover for Sepultura—to experiment and have fun.   #art

A pair of spiky lobster-like claws pull a strand through a human brain. Suspended above, the abstract shape of a body hangs upside down, wavy and transparent. Inside appears to be human faces screaming in horror intermixed with internal organs (intestines and spine). The structure the claws protrude from is an amalgam of body parts, human and otherwise, including a pair of mismatched blue eyes, a deformed mouth full of uneven teeth. A path atop a winding stone wall leads up to the grotesque monument from the green, grass-like-yet-alien vegetation in the foreground. Behind the structure murky water gently ripples.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 12/10/2026

I wrote about what I learned from a year or more of “vibecoding” small, personal projects: Fifty years after personal computers supposedly made computing yours, the activity keeps receding back into the computing priesthood.

theatlantic.com

The Tragedy of AI Coding

AI-assisted software development could have liberated programmers. Instead, it has become the latest way for Big Tech to confine us.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Its the first night of Navratri, the 9 day festival celebrating the life cycle of the Mother Goddess, and of women in general. May Ma Shailaputri, the daughter of the mountains, bless you with strength and tenacity throughout the challenges of your life.

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My man looks like someone with face blindness made a mannequin with Play-Doh

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Put in an order for Tarrant's Realm, the cover to Black Sun Rising. I love the series, and there's a nostalgia angle for me: back in my LARPing days about half my friends were in the Barony of Marentha, which is a Coldfire series reference.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just a reminder that we're offering 30% off prints of Michael's covers for Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury. The sale runs until Sunday (10/11) at midnight. These are all printed in studio and hand signed by the man himself. Gorgeous prints of unforgettable SF art. 🤩 ~ME

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 09/10/2026

You’re right. He’s a fascist. But the conservative movement gives cover, AS IT ALWAYS HAS, to fascists because they share the same social goals. It bypasses the cognitive filters in your brain and leads you to in-group identify with fascists. It’s deliberate.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

THE END OF NATURE II (1998) Acrylic on Canvas - 30” X 48” The second in a series of paintings about our relationship with nature. All the figures are supported by nature, but the support is eroding and in danger of giving way completely if we don't pay attention and nurture it. #art

Slender branching limbs support a rolling canopy of leaves. Atop it stands a mother holding a child in her arms as she stares into the distance. Another girl sits just behind her, partially obscured. The light of sunset casts highlights on the leading edge of canopy and the small family. Beneath the canopy a flock of ravens circle about bare limbs which branch like blood vessels. Contrails criss-cross a sky painted lavender, peach, and pink.

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wait, I have *three* sons?

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Getting all of my tech set up after a move is always the thing that makes me feel like I'm really 'home'.

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TWO WORLDS (1985)  Oil on canvas - 36” x 22”   During one of the Ethiopian famines, I came across a magazine photo of a desert filled with a multitude of crude burial mounds extending off to the horizon. I was struck by the implications of the image... #art #booksky 🪐📚

Seated upon a flat rock with one knee up, a naked man with scraggly white hair and long beard pipes a tune on a human femur. Flesh colored, his ears are bat-like, long and furry, protruding up from the side of his head. An open, upended pouch spills coins down on a blindfolded owl flying past. Unseeing, the owl clutches a rock in one talon. The piper’s perch rests upon a clump of earth floating among smoky clouds, a misty curtain tinted pink and purple like a bruise. Gnarly roots reach out in all directions, probing like woody tentacles. A break in the clouds reveals an arid stretch of land. The flat barren field is dashed with low lines of rock—burial mounds as far as the eye can see. A single figure with shovel pauses in their work with head bowed.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"In a raspy voice, Hastert, once the third most powerful elected leader in the country, acknowledged he sexually abused several boys he coached on the Yorkville High School wrestling team in the 1960s and 1970s." -Chicago Tribune, 4/28/2016 That's not exactly "allegedly".

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

DELIRIUM’S MISTRESS (1985) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 22” Tanith Lee was such a visual writer of fantasy. She gave the artist an inspiring painting concept on nearly every page, offering an inexhaustible supply of fascinating ideas. #bookssky #art 🪐📚

Over the broken ruins of a fantastical city, a raven haired young woman takes flight on the back of a white lion. With golden eyes and azure mane, it spreads majestic raptor-like wings to soar. As she scans the distance, her eyes signal concern. Wind whips her hair back and billows her cloak. The silky fabric evokes magic in its pattern, black trimmed in red with a regal gold-dotted motif. Wispy tendrils of clouds trace powder blue skies, suggesting an upward drift of air current.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“But it’s good for neurodivergent kids” — you know what would’ve been better for me, as a neurodivergent kid in school? Having teachers who understood. Having resources. Having personal attention. NOT outsourcing my brain to something I’d become dependent upon, which is often wrong.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think what is helpful to understand is that a lot of this is cyclical. Unions are fundamentally conservative, in that they seek to conserve past victories (unionization, first contract) and build on them. The Guy who knew how to organize new shops and win is succeeded by Guy, Jr, who is not dad.

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole while eating and discovered that Leslie Fish, composer of the (in)famous filk song "Banned from Argo", passed last year. 😔

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Krizak @krizak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The things AI can be sort of useful for are also things that don’t require the level of scaling (and therefore environmental damage) we are seeing and don’t require theft (because they need bespoke data sets that are carefully created and curated). So their arguments don’t even support the premise.

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ill-boo-mi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

These were three individual pieces I did in 2021. Unplanned, they became something of an accidental sequence. They then prompted me to make the piece in the quoted post, of the pumpkin dance, by way of a conclusion. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, each 95 × 64 mm.

Three small silhouette drawings in black ink. The first is of a sitting fox, looking back over its shoulder at a bird on the branch of a little bare shrub. The second has a playful-looking fox, half-crouched, tail in the air, looking at a bird which has just taken off from a branch. The third shows a fox, surprised, its head drawn slightly back, as it seems to have come upon a pumpkin on the ground, surrounded by its vines. It has a face like a carved jack-o'-lantern.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The number of original, breaking, and investigative stories I publish, as a one-person newsroom with occasional freelancers, consistently dwarfs the output of the multiple full-time reporters the Times has on my beat. Outlets like ours need support, not legacy newspaper campaigns against us.

publicola.com

Support PubliCola - PubliCola

PubliCola is 100% reader-powered! If you like the work we’re doing here, and would like to support PubliCola financially, please…

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you read between the lines of this piece from the Seattle Times' "save print newspapers ONLY" columnist, it becomes glaringly obvious that he opposes changes to the proposed newspaper preservation law because it would open opportunities for small, non-legacy digital outlets.

seattletimes.com

Another complicated WA effort to support local news

A new report urges major changes to legislation proposed in Washington state to save local news, and could derail the effort.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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Andrew F. @droid41.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Portable Doom Pile is the name of my next band.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

RUN FOR COVER (1977) Acrylic on illustration board H. Beam Piper is, of course, best remembered for the Fuzzies of Zarathustra. My involvement with those books began in 1976 when Ace, guided by Jerry Pournelle, repackaged the two original novels: LITTLE FUZZY and FUZZY SAPIENS. #art #booksky 🪐📚

A white haired man stares down a horned and tusked alien boar-like creature as it prepares to charge. Pappy Jack cradles a little fuzzy alien creature in one hand while gripping a laser rifle by the stock with his other. The beast turns intense orange eyes towards the pack of fuzzies that are panicked and looking for cover. The beast’s intentions are clearly hostile from the bristling of its mane to the set of its hooves on the flora covered rise.

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026

75% chance I’m going to bounce off of Control: Resonant but as with all Remedy games I’m going to buy it because I want those freaks to have some walking around money

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