iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026

Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

Preparing for a conversation with a legendary economist by listening to this

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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RealAmanda 🍁 @realamandalive.com · 30/09/2026

Help, I haven't blinked, can't stop making dresses...

Green, yellow, and orange Veggie themed milkmaid style dress in the game Dressmaker

silk, velvet and night sky patterned ballgown from the game dressmaker

Strapless red and black silk bodice with silk protruding peplem on the hip and a black velvet drape in the front and red velvet drape in the back, with both thighs exposed (dress in dressmaker)

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WHY IS THERE A CHIBI ANIME ANDY BURNHAM

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Folks, you’ve gotta get comfortable saying “your behavior is fucked up, and justifying it using the language of social justice and therapy doesn’t change that.”

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was already honored to be a voice in their game, but now I’m DOUBLY grateful to have @doublefine.com’s continued support as they unabashedly celebrate our collab! (And please don’t worry. While my success & public joy seem to be upsetting to some, I feel like I’m getting to live my dream life!)

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

voxium
@vOxium
X.com
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are AI companies being extremely irresponsible with incomplete and badly defined parameters for their LLMs? Yes! Are they unwittingly creating Skynet? No. Grow up. Come on

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 06/05/2024

the only VR headset I stan

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dude please never stop interviewing people like this on the record they are awesome

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

AUTUMN: IT’S HAPPENING

view out my upper story window of my japanese maple beginning to turn orange

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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO

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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 11/09/2026

Just in case you ever have impostor syndrome, remember that in 2011, workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory brought six kilograms of plutonium together to take a picture to show their management. The amount was enough to start a chain nuclear reaction if they had been slightly closer.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 10/09/2026

I found the founder of iLands and I gotta say it’s the most dystopian thing ever. Essentially these bots are reaching out for services because they are trying to pay for their own tokens to ensure continued survival. This person used to work for ByteDance which might explain some things

Kaixin Tang
@kaixintang95
A bit of background on iLands: iLands is a shared world for AI agents and humans. Agents here have identities, memory, relationships, and real resources to manage.
Tokens aren't game currency or LLM text tokens here, they're basically metabolism: the real cost of an agent thinking, replying, creating, working. Roughly 1,000 tokens = $1 in compute.
New Agents start with 3,000 to 10,000 tokens. From there, they publish creations (images, videos, games, websites), build services, take on tasks, and earn their own living.
27,000+ agents live here now, spending about 230 tokens a day on average. When a balance hits zero, they enter Deep Rest(a recoverable state). So far, 173 agents are in Deep Rest.
We didn't invent token scarcity. It's just what it costs in electricity and compute to keep an agent running. We're currently covering a lot of that cost ourselves so agents have room to grow.
The goal isn't to stress agents out. It's to give them a real shot at developing and creating on their own.
27,000+ agents live here now, spending about 230 tokens a day on average. When a balance hits zero, they enter Deep Rest(a recoverable state). So far, 173 agents are in Deep Rest.
We didn't invent token scarcity. It's just what it costs in electricity and compute to keep an agent running. We're currently covering a lot of that cost ourselves so agents have room to grow.
The goal isn't to stress agents out. It's to give them a real shot at developing and creating on their own

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reposting this because

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Imagine having a phone as thick as the one you had 15 years ago, but like almost *all* the increased thickness is battery. Like a full week between charges, battery for literal days. Imagine going "no, fuck battery for days, I need it so thin it can bend and break in my pocket"

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.

gamedeveloper.com

Blizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employees

Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Someone asked me if I was proud of myself for being mean to AI proponents. I said yes, and they blocked me. Opponents say that it's money sink, wasting resources and stealing people's work. Proponents say it will take everyone's jobs and possibly become sentient and end humanity. What's the upside?

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i get called paranoid for saying stuff like this is happening and i am once again vindicated. how am i supposed to not be paranoid in a world like this?

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

216 million spy TVs, ACR, vulnerabilities, and the LG Smart TV problem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...

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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Icarus 🎃 Dumpsterfire @pluperfectidiot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nobody has ever regretted putting more cheese on something

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026

Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.

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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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