iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027: Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024 AI bubble bursting Continued rise of fascism

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A very notable thing about this graph is that it is not a long list of developed countries. Developing countries also list high on the list, well above the EU average (and long above the US). EVs are better than ICE, people are noticing, and the transition is happening...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Right? I fist pumped when I saw that new toggle, now on my 5th play through and White Orchard finally feels like it fulfills its purpose as a singular tutorial area

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Congrats to everyone who worked on and contributed to this! Looks gorgeous

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No resource is safe, moreover the protective layers put in place by those on the right side are being overwhelmed already. So utterly shit and depressing. The clamouring desperation is so intense scraping now knocks out sites. 100% agree this should be made = to DDOS

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Sitting in a diner sandwiched between a guy who’s using Chat GPT on his laptop & a girl looking at AI memes on her phone and thinking about the person who told me that they use CGPT to manage their day to day life all I can think of is how convenience consistently overrides common sense for so many.

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Yearner Herzog @tearyennui.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like, these last 18 years have been 2008 Financial Crash into Austerity into Brexit into Covid and none of it ever actually ended, and theres still no money for anything except AI and hunting trannies for sport and its just like … statistically SOMETHING good has to happen, even by accident, right?

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Si Lloyd @smnllyd5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Clubs might sue. What about players who’ve missed out on titles? What about broadcasters who’ve spent hundreds of millions on tv rights for a product that was corrupt? What about City’s current players? What about their agents? Some mess this.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As soon as I saw the new player character, my mindset on this new entry went to “looks great, but pass”

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don’t use pronouns for AI. It is not a person nor ever will. Sam Altman isn’t making the god computer of his wet dream nightmares. They’ve made a shitty tool built on theft thats destroying the planet & is meant to lower human critical thinking while given military weapons by rich idiots.

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Neil Kleid @neilkleid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“So pour one out for this era of Marvel. And pour one out for comic book publishing in New York City. 90+ years is not a bad run.” Ooooof.

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GTA Vice City, I’m still unsure how exactly I did it, likely pure persistence mixed with nonsense like “it doesn’t look that realistic” but they eventually relented and bought me a copy for an early-teens birthday I still have said copy on a shelf

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s kind of crazy that this is going to be revelatory for a lot of people while idiots who post online have known this incredibly important information for years and years at this point

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Allan Lorde @allanlorde.com · 13/09/2026

100%. For those unfamiliar, Van Halen had a line in their rider that essentially said “no brown M&Ms.” It was a way to see if the promoter had actually read the contract. They had a shitload of gear to tour with, so if they’re skipping one thing, it’s guaranteed they’re skipping something essential.

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Routledge Books @routledgebooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🎮Happy National Video Games Day!🎮 We’re celebrating today with 5 essential titles ever game developer should have on their shelf: Featuring books by: @fawzi.zone, @hannahnicklin.bsky.social, @celiahodent.com, @seriallabsound.bsky.social, and Spencer Bambrick

Celebrating National Video Games Day with 5 must-read titles. Featured books: The Gamer's Brain; The Psychology of Video Games; Writing for Games; The Game Audio Strategy Guide; Demystifying Creativity. Dark blue background with stars and a digital grid, plus Routledge & CRC logos.

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A day later, I’m still frustrated that this brilliant piece with Naomi was not just published online within hours of each other, but in the same print section of the newspaper as the latest edition of exceedingly willfully damaged nonsense spewing about chatbots www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026

the world would be a much better place if all the cultural cachet and wealth of harry potter had gone to the matrix instead

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wow, that was not the headline to suddenly come upon after a mega busy day. Can the urgency of a fire sale of franchise and IP happen any faster please and thank you

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...

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Facts on the ground

Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"we believe that end times fascism — with its fortressed borders, decimated foreign aid and fixation on grabbing the resources beneath Greenland’s melting ice — should be seen as a twisted and sadistic form of climate-change adaptation." bsky.app/profile/astr...

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 03/09/2026

The director of Ori and No Rest For The Wicked is awful. He compared cancel culture—that is, social & professional consequences for abusers when the law fails—to the holocaust. His new anti-critic review platform will formalise racist, sexist review bombing as a feature, not a bug. Fuck this guy.

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No Rest For The Wicked Director Calls Game Critics 'Untrustworthy'

Pay attention, because his new site is 'the one source of truth for gamers'

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Keaton on getting fit for Batman but 'never wondering what's the point': 'I was working out on a bag & Nicholson walked by & said 'whaddaya doing?' & I said 'working out' & he said 'whaddaya doing that for?' & just walked out the door.'

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You can also have this sense of ritual and community in preparing food, in talking about books, in playing sports, in painting little mutants for Warhammer 40k, and many other things

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This shot is phenomenal, a genuine wow moment and my personal favourite by a mile from last Friday’s extended look. I’ll be replaying this in isolation for the next 2 months

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

There are 2 transitions -Clean Energy & AI - that are getting $$. US ALL IN on AI; China ALL IN on clean energy. Recommend IEA's report on Energy & AI for numbers: iea.org/reports/ener... Blew my mind: Capex in AI is 20% higher than capex in THE ENTIRE US POWER SECTOR bsky.app/profile/mims...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/08/2026

Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets. I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap. Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It appears that the headline was later edited, kudos. Unfortunately that doesn’t reflect if you open said article in a browser, only on the preview on here? Strange

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Tom Hully @guitarshreduk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The use of the qualifier of “at launch” here is irritating, as it’s only applying to one element discussed. R* are rightly being lauded for the amount of human effort that continues to go into this game, so why would they consider slop insanity later on? www.eurogamer.net/gta-6-microt...

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Rockstar rules out GTA 6 microtransactions and AI – but there's still a catch

Rockstar tells Kinda Funny Games that GTA 6 will launch without microtransactions or generative AI, though its Ultimate Edition still gates some content.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 29/08/2026

“The Lord of the Rings films used 72 miniature sets. The Hobbit films used 0.” Fuck man

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 29/12/2024

trans people deserve disjointed normals and meterless reversals

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've described what's happening with genAI companies as a train headed full-speed into a brick wall, but I think the best example of the nonsense behind that opinion is what's going down at OpenAI under Sam Altman. YouTuber Finance Bureau has a good breakdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYi...

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OpenAI Is FALLING Apart And Sam Altman Is Panicking

YouTube video by Finance Bureau

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i digitized a few tapes of b-roll from 2006 games press events this week so this one hit like a freight train 😅

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW ARTICLE NEW ARTICLE NEW ARTICLE! Emotions are the basic and most important part of human function, as essential as protein. So why is it that so many game designers don't design for emotion? featuring Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth! docseuss.medium.com/its-not-enou...

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it’s not enough to build something, part 2: you must be aware that someone will play the video game

Years ago, a teen pitched an idea to me: “what if you wrote a story about an alien from the perspective of an alien?”

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My latest for @theverge.com is all about everyone's new favorite pastime: destroying Flock cameras. Tech backlash has entered a critical moment where folks not only widely oppose AI & tech industry excess, but openly support direct action against its most tangible and visible targets. 🎁 Gift Link: