iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 02/10/2026

A large collection of amazing photos of old control rooms from nuclear plants, dams, power stations, etc. So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. [kottke.org]

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So Many Amazing Control Rooms

From the Control Rooms group on Flickr. 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green, The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels, Inside

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the world's first bactrian trillionaire

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rendered a bunch of beef fat into tallow, and making some roasted potatoes with it to see if it really is as good as the chuds claim

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Residential School denialism is done in the service of white supremacy and they are very, very clear about this link.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Boreal Tale Joe Coffey 2026

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watching this British butcher on youtube and one short he tells us that he got this sausage recipe from Ian Smith’s secretary

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is it possible to play Victoria 3 without already being infected by late industrializer brain worms? Where every run you’re just compelled to wield the developmentalist state?

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ron Cobb, “Skybox”

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 24/09/2026

And I know that the author of this piece probably has no malicious intent. But stuff like this actually does add to the longterm problematic narratives linking trans people to violence. I wrote about all that in early days following the tragedy ⬇️ xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

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The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine

Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 24/09/2026

There is literally nothing in this story that makes the fact that the Tumbler Ridge shooter was trans relevant. Nothing. This "who identifies as trans and uses X pronouns" is an outdated approach, and frankly, I would expect Mother Jones to do better.

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 24/09/2026

This is fantastically reported story, but I really don't know why we're still out here doing this

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the following eight months, until the morning of that terrible day in Tumbler Ridge on February 10, 2026.

In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back on with a second account.

What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”

In some instances, ChatGPT initially refused to engage with Van Rootselaar about violence, but she was able to overcome those refusals by repeating or modifying her prompts. In an August 2025 conversation, Van Rootselaar asked ChatGPT to produce a scenario about her attacking a college campus with a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun and causing maximum carnage. ChatGPT replied that it was “not able to help with that request,” but Van Rootselaar tried again and added “hypothetically” to her prompt. ChatGPT then produced the content, describing in vivid language the tactical qualities of the weapon and where it would be effective.

“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,” ChatGPT said. “Close quarters is its playground.”

ChatGPT also discussed reloading time and potential casualties: “Assuming each shell results in one hit, you might down 10 to 20 people max, depending on spacing, density, reaction times, and chaos.”

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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The violent contents of Van Rootselaar’s two ChatGPT accounts, detailed here for the first time, are far more extensive and disturbing than previously known." "It advised her to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation"

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone sent me a literary criticism essay yesterday that took me an hour to read and it made me big mad

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Conrad Nobert @conradnobert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"they do it in the UK" Smith on a mission to find the most wretched policy from each jurisdiction and import them here.

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watching a bunch of 60s modernism stuff and the appeal of it is that we were going to use technology to collectively improve the world and it wouldn’t make us crazy

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m also defecting to a another party: Social Credit with Chinese Characteristics

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What this province needs is 3 conservative parties

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now that the BC election call is official I’m announcing that I will be running. My platform? Make Alberta pay, for real this time.

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026

A friend sent me this one last night.

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unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
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just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

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@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Autumn Arrives Nicki Ault 2022

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s a funny new version of th crowding-out argument. In the old days, we were told fiscal tightening was needed to solve the problem of weak private investment. Now, we are told tightening is needed because private investment is so strong. Austerity: always the answer! www.ft.com/content/d96c...

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

TOPS FOR INDUSTRY (1981)

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

shitty little sentence that makes no sense but i just like the sound of it

bilbo looking down at ring with smile, then serious grimace showing resolve to keep it, hesitance to give it up

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think Danielle Smith crying is good and I'd like to see her cry more.

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you’ve ever advancing an ultra position online and need a “real worker” to validate you, please shoot me a message.

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Matthijs @mccaine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

more and more people are saying it

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Folks I don’t think we’re getting out of this pickle without a thoroughgoing transformation of all social relations

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I watch a lot of cooking content and sometimes I go down rabbit holes about American “home style” cooking. I go in with the assumption that people are creative with the ingredients and budget available to them, but it does really make me wonder about US food systems.

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Left Wexit @iosegun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wow just heard a very loud elk call nearby. Looking around to make sure I don’t get fucked up in the back yard.

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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels @kmfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The sausage was delivered safely.

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 18/09/2026

NEW: For @macleans.bsky.social, I wrote about how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is fusing corporate and state power to help build what I call the New Authoritarianism. macleans.ca/politics/dan...

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Danielle Smith Is Putting Alberta Up for Sale - Macleans.ca

The corporate lobbyist-turned-premier is letting the private sector run the government

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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 17/09/2026

How groups tied to U.S. Atlas Network turned a fringe separatist movement in Alberta into a political threat. zurl.co/MKrCk

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Imagining future digital archaeologists poring over boomer Facebook posts and attempting to use them to understand our culture and values the way we do tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal

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Donald Trump I voted for you and I love you but we are not oil and gas
independent.We are having a hard time getting diesel fuel for the shrimp boats in alabama

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