iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 23h

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Billy, Garry, Orville @billythecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A Comfortable Man!!

Billy the brown tabby cat is asleep on his back on the top shelf in the wardrobe. Only his tail and his back legs can be seen, with his pink and black beans high in the air.

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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Nineboat @nineboat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Colombo saying "Boy, a fella could go broke with a hobby like this." while standing in a room full of Gunpla boxes

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is IMO something absolutely spot on about the British ruling class not at all recognising that smashing up the state to sell it for scrap and cocaine might be a problem, until it started to somewhat impede their ability to wage a really serious war.

I've spent a few weeks asking people if Britain is prepared for war, among other doom scenarios. The short answer is no and the condensed reason for why that happened is that we spent the last forty years stripping off and selling the most resilient systems in the country for parts.

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Lyric Rain @rainsong.cloud · 26/09/2026

Severely underestimating how trivially easy it will be to add "pervagotchi" to our vocabs right next to "perv glasses"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Sceye HAPS looks like something from Dune.

A huge airship, close to the ground, reflecting the scenery around it

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

hey why is no one talking about the licensing situation with this A24/SCP thing? are they releasing it under the same cc-by-sa license every SCP project is required to have? are they betting creative commons won't hold up in court? seems like the kind of question a journalist should look into idk

deadline.com

SCP Foundation Movie Coming To Theaters In 2027 With A24 Distributing

An SCP Foundation movie is coming to theaters in 2027 via A24. Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios announced the project earlier this year.

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Cube (1997, Dir. Vincenzo Natali) @prototypecube.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"

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Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So almost seven months into the gloriously victorious war that toppled the regime and annihilated Iran, the Iranians effectively control both the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Bab-el-Mandab. That’s phenomenal strategic thinking from the Trump-Netanyahu duo

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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💀Legendary Imposter Elianora ★★★★ @elianora.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As the unofficial "Queen of Clutter" for Skyrim, I approve of this Creation. youtu.be/lwdeKwvsTJQ

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KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.

YouTube video by IKEA UK

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 06/09/2026

Harry Potter and the Refusal to Meaningfully Grow

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MattTS @mattts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some of those that work forces, are the same that block portses

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Two Saturdays, one week apart, same police force. 857 arrested for sitting in a square holding cardboard. 25 arrested at a 150,000-strong far-right march where 26 coppers were hurt. I'm trans. I can see where this goes. So I timelined Labour's journey to fascism 🧵 howyougetfascists.uk

howyougetfascists.uk

A Labour government is walking toward fascism. This is the route.

55 dated entries on policing, protest and the far right in Britain, July 2024 to September 2026. Every one sourced. A warning, not a verdict.

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Noel Is A Man's Name @nobadnoel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A proud father supporting his trans daughter

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The internet was absolutely a mistake but this is one of like five admissible pieces of evidence that it’s good actually

What I'm doing with my life
sometimes sheets can be propped up to be a cave but other times they lie flat like a ground. why is that
I'm looking for
• poposable thumbs
• Tall as counter
• Understanding of locks
• Warms
The first things people usually notice about me i am small enough to use pieces of furniture in different ways that are surprising to humans eg edge of the bed is actually a tiny step for me to use like a borrower
The six things I could never do without cold chickens, heated chickens, small dry pellet chickkens, chickens from a can with picture of cat on it, chickens from the sea (also in can but missing cat picutre on can), chicken from larger animals like beef
The most private thing I'm willing to admit iwill climb on top of you in the night and settle like a tiny rain cloud

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

even now, she's still teaching us

screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)

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SPLATTER @splatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

there are so many good ones!

Crop art by Marta Shore
A duck and a block of ice with the text "C'mon, autocorrect" rendered in seeds and grains

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

But nothing beats the obstetrics textbook wherein one of the authors made his wife do the index, so she slips this one in:

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this is my economy ???

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Argonian cop named Turns-Off-Bodycam

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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1, 2, 3 and 5 I can get anywhere. 4 is why I come here

trending:
1. Natalie Harp's letters to Trump
2. Reports of ICE detaining people
3. Gary, Indiana, lacks power after a storm
4)Debate over "spreadsheet people"
5. Harry and Meghan move back to UK

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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We need more talented cricketers in Iceland. If you can play a bit and have an Icelandic grandparent or fifth cousin, get in touch. If you have even watched some films by Baltasar Kormákur, we will think about it.

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