iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I'm a fan of efficient writing but this is in fact too much to fit into one sentence.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 6h

I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love humor that transcends language

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is extremely encouraging to know the Youngs understand Bookshop Girl is an erotic icon. Some things *are* eternal.

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Jacob Strick @jacobstrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Despite everything, you’re still the powerhouse of the cell

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do think a lot of the SV fear / overwhelm response to AI comes down to "they've built a machine that's very good at eating their jobs *specifically*"

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Masamune Shirow was a guy who seemed to be fascinated by guns and swat teams and counter terrorists, but also knew ACAB. So instead of breaking his brain and becoming a weird reactionary he transitioned to doing pinups and porn [please don't shatter my illusion if he is also a weird reactionary]

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am usually in favor of anime following the manga closely, but I do feel for pacing purposes Daemons of the Shadow Realm should have rearranged some events. S1 should have either ended sooner after the Ivan fight or somehow got to the next major backstory info dump.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I listen to country music. I don't know that song either. I absolve you from reacting to that Rolling Stone article.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the main reason i find fantasy lacking as a genre is that there is exactly one fantasy plot worth telling and we already got to it with Tolkien and it is "satan ran across the icy tundra, pursued by the giant spider who wanted to eat all his diamonds"

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 24/09/2026

sure is a nice article you put on substack, the nazi-friendly email platform and blogging service shame you put it on substack, the nazi-friendly email platform and blogging service

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New Washington state point-in-time count data shows that homelessness grew everywhere last year, including in Pierce and Snohomish Counties (adjacent to Seattle's King County)...which is so weird because I was told all the homeless people come to Seattle for the easy living and free drugs??

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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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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going to make countdown calendars for when every city council member's term is up

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am at the point where I might need to stop reading about the Seattle City Council because I am constantly left wondering how can so many successful adults be such absolute morons and it is legit stressing me out.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's FREE👏SHIT👏FRIDAY👏 An absolute classic this week it's 🧹The Witch Is Dead!🧹 You are a magical woodland creature, and your beautiful witch mistress has been killed, and you are about to set out on a murder-revenge adventure in the human lands. Get it here: buff.ly/3J8O2EZ

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The Witch Is Dead - Rowan, Rook and Decard

You are a magical woodland creature, and your beautiful witch mistress has been killed, and you are about to set out on a murder-revenge adventure in the human lands.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hmmm, that mix seems about right

9 manga that shaped who I am grid
3x3 Eyes, Urusei Yatsura, Sailor Moon, Silver Spoon, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Orion, Claymore, Hellsing, Chainsaw Man.

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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.”

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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 Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Worlds on fire, but at least there's a new season of Midnight Diner coming.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

this zatoichi is something else. guy can't see shit and he's still the best swordman in town. gives an incredible massage too. anyway me and a few local dipshits are gonna go take him out, pretty easily i figure

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ugh, shouldn't have announced my promotion on LinkedIn, all kinds of randos now trying to connect. But hey, I got a promotion!

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🐻 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/silly-mood-89564928

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Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 22/09/2026

I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You mean like how Roy Lichtenstein is art, but Jack Kirby is illustration, even though by any measure Jack Kirby is a far greater artist than Roy Lichtenstein?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we should venerate game reviewers who give hundred hour video games a bad review. what makes you think you have the mental fortitude to spend a hundred hours on a thing that sucks ass. most of you can’t be bothered to read more than a headline.

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David Harper @davidharper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I absolutely love Hitman, and I have since I was a kid. So, it was a thrill to put together an oral history of that incredible, and incredibly weird, DC Comics series, with insight from Garth Ennis, John McCrea, the book's main editors in Peter Tomasi and Dan Raspler, and more.

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“There Was Something About Tommy”: An Oral History of Hitman - SKTCHD

Let's celebrate one of DC's weirdest — and best — comics by telling its story.

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Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My friend got a picture of them all together.

Sailor Moon cosplayers in a Mexican themed variation

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tbh they could make THE most revolutionary games imaginable, that’s NOT the beef. The point people on the right miss is it’s not just about performing the right kind of fiction, but who, in the REAL world is materially benefitting from these products. And in this case, I think I’ll pass.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 15/09/2026

ed sheeran does not speak for the Crappy Doofus community. we are not a monolith

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My "I am not complicit" statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.

A screen grap of an article in the independent with a headline reading "Ed Sheeran breaks silence on Macklemore tour drama: 'I am not complicit'.

It also has a picture of him looking a absolute mess, as per, with his arm around Macklemore.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not how I'd describe Midna, but I can't say that's wrong either.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know, it’s not like I’m half-assing this, I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.

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Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner @fablepaint.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Let there be cartoons you don't like. Don't chime in with your two cents about why this or that bad faith argument has a point actually when the bigger debate is clearly less concerned with quality than who's making it and why. Be more skeptical about critique attacking black and queer people.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh, we can just do that? Great news everybody!

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Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

watching THEY LIVE, a 30-year-old movie that frames a homeless camp sweep as an obvious evil conducted by violence-addicted cops

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Gretchen Leigh 🇨🇦 @gretchenleigh.zone · 15/09/2026

In this era when people are interested in games that can run well on lower powered hardware, it is finally time for a revival of Nanaca Crash

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NANACA†CRASH!! - Unofficial mirror site

The original Flash game, Flash not required.

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