iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 15h

*If you have never heard of "Processing," these Processing artists at Ars Electronica are, like, 110 percent Processing. #CodeArt #Processing #TwentyFirstCentury youtu.be/5Z8N9tghPRE?...

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A Quarter Century of Processing | Ars Electronica 2026: Negotiating Humanity

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 24/09/2026

They may think they’re winning. But they can’t stop us baby.

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

but i kept being told that this wasn't real, NZ weren't actually involved, it was always the "US part of the business" etc etc etc by supporters of RocketLab This is a very significant shift in NZ defense policy, and certainly doesn't lend itself to independence www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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New Zealand agrees to put almost $24 million into military satellite US is building

New Zealand has agreed to put almost $24 million into a military satellite the United States is building.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

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This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Smoking Smoking Cigarette

ALT: Smoking Smoking Cigarette

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is an absolutely brilliant story of how foster care regulations came to be cruel and impossible, and how they were fixed. open.substack.com/pub/eatingpo...

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How to Peel a Banana

Riding the cascade of rigidity to the third horizon

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bitter divorced subeditor at RNZ, much?

Radio New Zealand article with headline: Dunedin man loses $500,000 in 18-year romance scam

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's around 20-odd jobs per data centre.

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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Finally a good election sign! #nzpol

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Menelaus: I been hacked. all my wife gone. please help me.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My god, sack the writers

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

Me (to a little boy beside me in a cafe who is wearing a yellow coat): Nice coat. Little boy: Thank you. It means when night comes I can hide as a star.

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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hindsight is actually how they got Bambi's mother.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally the police have something to go on.

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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz · 17/09/2026

Just leaving this here.

Screen shot of post article with headline “Poll: Chlöe Swarbrick beats Nicola Willis in Economy as voters sceptical of growth plan”. Image photo of Chlöe Swarbrick, Barbara Edmonds and Nicola Willis on a panel.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/14/n... says Auckland council is appealing central government's fast-tracked approval to develop 3854 houses on a flood plain. At the same time, National candidate said poor planning is exacerbating climate related disasters. 🤔 newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/14/n...

Analysis: As a newly appointed High Court judge, Justice Rachel Sussock will no doubt want to enforce her authority on the hearing that begins before her this morning. Because otherwise, Auckland Council’s appeal against the fast-track approval for developer Chris Meehan’s contentious Sunfield community in south Auckland could spiral off in all kinds of directions.

In what could be an awkwardly timed test challenge to the housing projects being shovelled through the Government’s new centralised consenting regime, the council is appealing the decision to approve the 3854 new homes proposed to be built on a flood-plain near Takanini.

It will be watched closely by councils around the country, and also by parties contesting November’s national election – because this goes to the heart of the Government’s abandonment of all pretence of localisation. National was elected on a policy of giving back voice to local communities; the opposite has been true.

After the interview was published this morning, Budd shared it on his Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

Several hours later, he posted again to claim his comments had been taken out of context, saying: “Rest assured, I do believe that climate change is manmade.”

“My comments were specific to what I learned at Harvard’s Real Estate Management Program. There, I learned that poor urban planning is exacerbating climate related disasters. We have evidence of this here in NZ specifically.

“My background is in real estate and that is the lens I was bringing to the conversation. Of course, higher emissions worldwide are causing more climate disasters. You only need to look at our own backyard to notice that.”

Asked by Newsroom about Budd’s comments, Luxon said he had not seen the detailed remarks but welcomed the Whangārei candidate’s clarification.

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PHANZA Professional Historians of New Zealand / Aotearoa @phanza.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Aotearoa History and Heritage Alliance, including PHANZA, has released an open letter on the deeply damaging and far-reaching impacts of proposed cuts at Archives NZ and the National Library. Read the letter at the link below and please share widely. phanza.org.nz/wp-content/u...

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DairymanNZ @dairymannz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No more than a week, in my experience

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Losing My Edge. Radio One 91FM. 12-2pm. www.r1.co.nz/streaming x

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Nic Wise @fastchicken.co.nz · 12/09/2026

Pork. Morepork.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Donated. ✅ Community project ✅ Benefiting a small community ✅ FOR SCIENCE! Some day I hope to go visit and see ... Maxwell's field. 🥁

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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I made an Ankh-Fourpork pizza (with smoked pulled pork, Spanish chorizo, pepperoni, and homemade Italian sausage) for myself. #kai #food 🍕🍽️🍜

A pizza with pepperoni, chorizo, pulled pork, and Italian sausage garnished with herbs and cheese cooling on a wire rack with a microplane grater in the background.

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 12/09/2026

VOTE RURU

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Our power fantasy used to be "what if we could download helicopter piloting, kung fu and hacking into our brains and be able to do all the things". Now it's "what if we could offload working, learning parenting, relationships and friends to the computer so we don't have to do any of the things"

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I mean, he has a point. Why do white people call Tāmaki Makaurau "Auckland"? That's a dead guy who never even came to this country. Not even a harbour, bro. Why do we even draw shapes on maps and put words to them? Words are just flapping meat sounds. Signs don't even have the sounds! Woke madness.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dipped my madeline in tea and it ruined it, proust was a DICKHEAD

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I can't believe the other parties didn't even use free tier ChatGPT to spruce up their one sentence answers.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm an employer. I co-own and operate a company that hires ~40 people. The increased absences this year from flus, directly attributable to policy changes from this government, has been ROYALLY inconvenient to us and to our clients. Time is money, and this year has cost much more than usual.

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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Igor later stated: You may find yourself Living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself In another part of the world

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I would love to see a coherent explanation of what the difference between "permanent resident" and "citizen" is supposed to be. Like, what would a citizen be entitled to from its government that a permanent resident would not? If there's a separate category, is it for separate entitlements?

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is where we are. A homeless man has a stroke that damages his speech and mobilty while sleeping ubder a bridge. So Health NZ discharges him in a hospital gown to a charity not funded to support him. What. The. Actual.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Right? I love that the anonymous troll AI has produced something so absolutely aspirational. I'd suggest the Green Party hire them to design more shit hot merch, but they're already embodying socialist principles and sharing the fruits of their labour.

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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I know I know I shouldn't be amplifying them but I can't help love the slogans on the windows etc

AI generated image from Facebook that has a green and yellow Pak'n'Soviet store with slogans such as Low prices for a brighter collective tomorrow and Food, people, planet, together

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'Kākāpō fuck season' would have made a great band name in 2007

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Rock on, Roseanne Liang! She's (among many other wonderful achievements) the Kiwi director of the Murderbot episode that just won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. gizmodo.com/here-are-the...

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Here Are the 2026 Hugo Award Winners

'Sinners,' 'Murderbot,' and Alix E. Harrow's 'The Everlasting' were among the big winners at this year's ceremony.

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Scott @smadin.net · 06/09/2026

"doing this thing is harmful" "OK but what if I do that thing in a slightly different way" "why are you looking for a loophole?"

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 05/09/2026

In white prison culture you put the number of people you've killed on your hand tattoo

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