iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

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By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Walking to work I just saw a guy wearing a jumper with "World of Claudecraft" written in that Warcraft font, and I have to apologise to my ancestors for the wave of cringe that just passed back through my whakapapa.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely not my first - I have a Neil Gaiman tattoo. I try to keep it hidden these days.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love that this is a thing that can be asked and granted.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Having just checked, either I got booted immediately or the discord has been nuked.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamnit, I did not need one of my load-bearing parasocial relationships to milkshake duck.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU WANT TO TEXT A FRIEND?

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is 100% going to show up on Last Week Tonight sometime soon.

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 01/10/2026

Kiwibank made a new mascot which is a green anthropomorphic sheep, and for some reason they made it sexy. Then they started sending DMCA takedown demands to both (often pornographic) art of this new mascot _and_ completely unrelated furry art involving original anthro sheep characters

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is what comes of having all those extras...

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Things would be markedly duller without these guys 🐾🍎👑

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not sure any AGI that might possibly be developed in the future would be any more horrified by this than by all the fucked-up shit that humans do to people and animals that can categorically feel pain.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like, I hate the trope of "all externalised homophobia is secretly also internalised homophobia" but in this case... Yeah.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sheldon Eden-Whaitiri making statements against gay bread is the clearest case of projecting I've seen in a long time.

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 30/09/2026

an AI cannot meaningfully be horny therefore an AI cannot meaningfully make music

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She was all wrapped up by the time she returned to work a few months after I was born, no longer burdened with spending her lunchtimes reading the business section of the paper. That was June 1987. She sold pretty much at the top of all her investments, completely by accident, because of me.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After I was born, she realised with two kids, a husband, and a job she wanted to get back to ASAP, she wasn't going to have time to deal with monitoring the stock market. So she spent her maternity leave moving her money into safe, boring long-term bonds that wouldn't require management.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While we were grousing about crap economic policy, my mum told me that I was the reason she was so set in her retirement. How? Well, before I was born she was quite heavily into stock trading. She took pretty big risks and spent a lot of time managing her portfolio.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also every message that just says "give me a call when you can" should conclude with "no one has died or is in imminent risk of death."

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 27/09/2026

A doctored version of the classic IBM or (Bell Labs?) paper title page entitled "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE"

The second half now says: THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST ALWAYS DO THE HACKING HAHA WHAT ARe they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Do we need to make it harder for people to access what money they have when they're struggling to meet their basic needs?" (Oh, and if we want to nationalise billionaires, I do have access to a sturdy wall...)

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This piece by @pervocracy.bsky.social is now 25 years old (please excuse me while I crumble to dust) and it's still one of the best explainers on this subject I've seen: pervocracy.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-...

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"Why does she stay with that jerk?"

If there's one thing I've learned from working in an emergency room, it's that people are terrible liars. Maybe I only think that because t...

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Make it Easy | Kia Māmā Mai @makeiteasy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We love seeing these Electoral Commission Easy Read guides in the wild! The deadline to enrol is Sunday 25 October so if you have not enrolled yet, do so today. You can find information about enrolling and voting in Easy Read and other accessible formats at: tinyurl.com/mr2nwjym

People First Life Member David Corner is standing up and smiling at the camera. He is holding up two Easy Read guides about the upcoming 2026 General Election. One guide is called, "Get ready to enrol and vote in the 2026 General Election: The Easy Read guide to enrolling and voting" and the other guide is called, "Information about the Māori Electoral Option – Te Kōwhiringa Pōti Māori: Quick Guide".

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Still felt like shit for a couple weeks, but not "you could not pay me to get out of bed" shit.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Definitely do - I also got flu recently, and being immunosuppressed flu could literally kill me, but having the vaccine meant it was the least bad flu I've ever had. My temperature never even hit 39 degrees.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have a hankering to watch the Wellington Pride play and drink overpriced beer tomorrow, anyone want to join?

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Any time I got sick as a child my dad would tell me "Put your chin on your chest." It wasn't until years later I learned it was a basic test for polio. Never mind that I was vaccinated, and the last wild case of polio in NZ was in 1977. The fear was always there.

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#nzpol I'd like to report a murder

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyway, shoutout to Mr Dennis, who despite being a trainee teacher and thus only in my class for a few months, still made a big impression on little me for teaching complicated things about the world.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And the social bit - how CFCs got in the atmosphere, why the ozone hole affects NZ more than other places, what people were doing to fix it. Perhaps the reason climate change was sidelined is because it's hard to tell kids we're doing much about it.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This has unlocked a core memory, of being eight years old and doing an extension class that discussed the ozone hole in quite impressive detail. There was the science bit, about what ozone is, what CFCs are, how they interact.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Can say that the only time I was paid per-word was 2022, it was $1 per word. It's all pay per article now, which comes out well for short pieces, but longer stuff... nope.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 16/09/2026

You can submit a video, is all I’m saying.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who the fuck does he think listens to Ed Sheeran's music?

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have to assume they want to process the refunds in the same way they process retail unsold book returns.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Those are some extremely stabby-looking paintbrushes.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Keep in mind Labour's proposed policy here draws on The Australian one, so will meet the same kind of opposition if it looks like happening.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

With an average saucey:nuggie ratio of .1375, we really are talking about egregious levels of sauce preciousness here. Bonkers that the 10 piece nuggie gets a 0.2 saucey:nuggie ratio, but the 40 piece falls to a baffling 0.1. A 0.2 ratio or below should really be considered borderline criminal.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I mean, I quite liked the Fables comic books, but I don't think that's the cultural attachment Winston was thinking of.

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dear everyone listing a fixed term/contract job, please can you remember to include how long the fixed term is in your job ad? Bonus points if you include why a contractor is needed - maternity cover? recruitment cover? project capacity? Yours, Someone who doesn't want to stay longer than 6 months

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dear dude ahead of me in the security queue at the airport, I can tell you are vaping. Anyone who looks at you can tell. What the fuck is wrong with you?

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I will absolutely cosign that managing my ADHD got harder and harder as the internet became more and more available. But also, even without the internet, I had serious impulse-control problems that have been almost completely resolved with medication.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well this mornings news made me panic so I checked my enrollment and I’m still enrolled to vote 🫡 Check yours: vote.nz

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Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yeah, I don't see a lack of dudes around even in the literary circles I occasionally sneak into.

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