iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 04/12/2025

30 years ago today, Netscape announced a new programming language, one that emerged from a frantic, week-and-a-half-long sprint. It ended up sticking around far longer than anyone could've expected.

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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

(holding up the phone to my 3yo) these women sealed the honmoon long before huntrix ever existed 3yo: what are their names me: this is scary spice, there’s also posh, baby, sporty and ginger

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar:

“No way. Why should I change?
He's the one who sucks.”

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/11/2025

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Now's a great time to pick up my girls love mecha novel Star Sword Nemesis for 10% off! Can a true believer in the cause of human connectedness warm the heart of a broken warrior, with humanity's future in space on the line? loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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Star Sword Nemesis by Love Conquers All Games

mecha betrayal girls love in distant space

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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

"Am I being really fucking stupid right now?" is an important question every single person should ask themselves regularly. We all make mistakes but it's a good way to course correct before you do something really embarrassing like getting suckered into thinking a chatbot is sentient.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

You do not have a conversation, because this requires a consciousness to answer back. It does not think, it calculates probability and turns it into words. It is not intelligent, it mimics what its programme calculates a likely response will be. It drives me nuts when execs speak of it like this.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#AmWorking Big businesses: "We do n% of our code with AI now" Me: BUT IT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE! YOU BROKE IT! YOU COMPLETELY RUINED IT! Had this TWICE today with two different kinds of big business software product and I am ready to throw things.

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Littleevil0ne @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

AND THIS IS WHY YOU VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS AT THE STATE LEVEL AT THE COUNTY LEVEL IN ALL ELECTIONS THEY'RE ALL FUCKING IMPORTANT

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/10/2025

Remember when i said we're living in the scariest parts of a Gibson novel thanks to a bunch of dudes who misunderstand Gibson's novels? Well now I want to discuss the verified govt accounts spewing rightwing propaganda— possibly via a bot-run troll farm— & why you should block them for your safety.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 16/10/2025

I can’t be any more unequivocal I only want to read, watch, listen to, drink, enjoy and consume stuff made by people.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

INJ Culbard

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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

In case anyone is wondering I translate NFT as No Fucking Thanks and AI as Arseholes Involved.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/08/2025

As a human who turns an alarming shade of boiled lobster red after roughly 17 seconds in the sun, I will not be participating in the anti-sunscreen movement, or for that matter going outside for any length of time until mid-September at the earliest

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I had to blow up San Francisco to give it a future I wanted to live in. For @48hills.bsky.social I wrote about my new book Automatic Noodle, and how science fiction helps us resist the AI oligarchs who are stealing our city's future. 48hills.org/2025/07/stea...

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Steal this future - 48 hills

We don't need to let the Big Tech oligarchs and creepy cyber-libertarians decide what city—and what kind of society—we want to live in.

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apricot @areyoshi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🎨 i became inspired

fan art of the fetal position pepper from the quoted post, but apricot made it look a little more emotional and wrote on top of it with the caption "I can't take it anymore, I'm at my fucking limit"

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models.

The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

We really need some laws to make sure that if you’re wearing glasses that record video everyone knows it. Legally mandate that if you’re wearing smart glasses you also have to wear a cap with a propeller on it

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The Democrats did not lose the election because of trans people. They lost the election because they lacked the courage to stand up for what is right, with regard to trans people, the innocents being slaughtered in Gaza, immigrants, and everything else.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

how did so many people in the world became hostage to this malevolent dork

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vashíto @vashperado.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

big mermaid 4

art of a gigantic mermaid sticking her head above water to visit a woman in a small motor boat. the woman is reaching out to show her phone to the mermaid.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Do not give this woman a dime of your money. 1. Do not watch the new show. 2. Do not stream any of the movies (yes, that includes Fantastic Beasts) 3. Do not buy any of her books. She has a pen name Robert Galbraith. www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

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J.K. Rowling uses 'Harry Potter' wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

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Matthew Taylor @mat8iou.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

If your product is only viable if it relies on using other people's work for free, then it is not a viable product.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/05/2025

this is so despicable, if we thought the loneliness epidemic was already bad, now we have the richest most powerful companies encouraging loneliness. these tech CEOs want us to only have ai friends

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Mathea @matheasagdahl.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights

"About the fund. The J.K. Rowling Women's Fund (JKRWF) offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women's sex-based rights [...]. It provides women with the means and confidence to bring to justice cases that make legal precedents, force policy change, and make positive contributions to women's lives in the future."

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Top half of image: July 2016 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled: “ignore the prophets of doom: Brexit will be good for Britain”. Bottom half of image: May 2026 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled “From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The caprices of the ultra-elite are a fickle foundation for good work, with funds often yanked on short or no notice as the attention of the billionaires bounces elsewhere or cowardice rears its curly head.

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