iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 2h

You want an example of focusing on culture war bullshit instead of warfighting, THIS is it. Hegseth isn't worried about the fact that he's set US policy goals in the Gulf back literal decades, no, he's too busy monitoring soldiers' testosterone levels and reveling in what slurs he gets to use.

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 14h

Great news! We have now created a machine that turns you into Narcissus from hit Greek Myth "Don't Become Narcissus."

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 8h

girl who gets confused because "magi" is in a masculine form (but "magica" is feminine) (it's me i'm the one confused)

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 8h

guy who insists on saying "magical girl madoka the magical" because latin scares him even more than japanese

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 11h

it's not unique to english either. bocchi the rock in ukrainian is apparently called самітниця рокерка (hermit rocker) but i recently spoke to a ukrainian who called it бочі (bochi).

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 12h

getting upset about it is not fundamentally different from conservatives complaining about spanish language options. other languages won't hurt you i promise.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 12h

salman rushdie's 'the satanic verses' contains a reference to a novel that sounded really familiar to me but used the title 'ghore baire.' when i looked it up, i found that it was in fact 'the home and the world.' so this phenomenon exists in other languages and even in highbrow literature.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 22h

is this something people care about lol

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 29/09/2026

i recently got a half decent oled tv and the picture is fantastic (after a little tweaking) but even basic functions like switching inputs requires navigating sluggish smart tv menus. and it has to "update" regularly. also the remote pretends to be a wii mote with gyro controls for some reason.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 29/09/2026

i remember back in 2021 when democrats solved this conundrum by just giving parents money through the expanded ctc and temporarily cut the child poverty rate in half (this turned out to be politically unpopular and was allowed to expire)

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 29/09/2026

i can never remember if he's supposed to be right wing or left wing. he seems to take whatever stance feels the most contrarian. like he was made in a lab to piss people off.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 29/09/2026

jesus christ that guy seems to be on a mission to be as wrong as possible

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ari 💫 @arimelody.space · 27/09/2026

good heavens, she's BLOGGING now?? i've been playing around with migrating to independent, open-source social networks for a while now. the tech is really maturing! but the space is still awkward to discuss. i talk about this issue here, and how it applies across matrix, activitypub, and ATproto.

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communicating open social networks to normies

(or, how communication is hard, most people aren't berry-tasters, and we are really bad at naming things)

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 29/09/2026

good stuff in the new liberal currents piece :) go read it

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

"Let us look at wealth taxes both past and present so we might learn what makes them tick—and why so few places have kept them around." www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...

Tax the Wealthy, Not Wealth

Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 28/09/2026

i have heard it because i have coworkers that listen to that kind of crap and it is completely unremarkable, though i can see why it's popular

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pretty hard to solve for a housing shortage when all your construction capacity is allocated to building data centers. But those data centers will ultimately take the jobs of the people who would have needed homes, so it’s fine.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 25/09/2026

so instead we got "boring mystery box character that's obviously Somebody is actually Nobody" and we got stuck with her as the protagonist

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 25/09/2026

some people in the quotes are saying "anyone can be a hero" as a possible theme for episode 8, but funnily enough jj handed rian a really cool stormtrooper-turned-jedi character that would have fit that theme perfectly, but it didn't Subvert Expectations enough i guess

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 25/09/2026

this goes both ways too. i often enjoy art that i think is trash.

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one aspect regarding retro gaming scenes that genAI has been blazingly efficient at is in trust erosion whether it’s fan TLs, FPGA cores, or recomp scenes, within the past year so much optimism and excitement regarding new projects has been swiftly replaced with doubt and suspicion thank you genAI

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wisp.place @wisp.place · 25/09/2026

did you know theres an atproto radio on radio.wisp.place and that you can self host your own radio as well? tangled.org/okami.mom/si...

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 24/09/2026

i never started using algo playlists. i still have my extensive itunes library, much of which was ripped from cds i own. i have lately started collecting blu rays tho :)

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026

If Elon Musk and half the Tesla C-Suite were currently in jail because Grok spent weeks generating CSAM-on-demand while they memed about it, Altman and the rest might be a bit more cautious about letting their little robots commit share price friendly press releasable crimes.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 24/09/2026

is there a block list that blocks all ai "agents"

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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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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Joe Biden actually made it illegal for companies to make you jump through these hoops. Trump reversed the policy.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Zwei 🍄 @zwei2x.northsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hey everyone, I made a small tutorial video for my friends on how to install the AI Disclosure Warning and SteamDB extensions directly in the Steam APP on Windows. That way, you get those QoLs directly in Steam! Enjoy and pass it along! 💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qQ...

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How to add the AI Disclosure Warning and SteamDB extensions to Steam directly

YouTube video by Zwei 2x

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 24/09/2026

my first was portal 2, even though i played on ps3, i had to make a steam account to play multiplayer with a friend on pc. and so my steam username still has "psn_" in it

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this

special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 23/09/2026

getting somewhere

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 23/09/2026

ok it's not blank anymore

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 22/09/2026

the guys who run into target at 6 am and steal pokemon cards from children are all mad because pokemon is just printing more now

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 23/09/2026

the world is dancing :)

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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 23/09/2026

completely unsurprising these guys were also into crypto and nfts

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Zilla @g.zilla.moe · 23/09/2026

i made a website just for funsies. it's just a blank html file but what matters is that it's public and self-hosted (using a free oracle vm as a proxy, a technique i learned for hosting minecraft/palworld servers) and i own the domain :)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Elon Musk wants child pornography in Minnesota and everywhere else; he sued the state to overturn its law blocking Elon Musk's nudification app.

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