iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026

Custom van with 1981 Erol Otus D&D art oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8165098...

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Retroist @retroist.com · 08/05/2026

They locked eyes on the convention floor and it was love at first sight.

A black and white photo at a trade show shows a man in a light suit standing inches from a giant Qbert figure, staring right at it as if fully absorbed. Other attendees cluster around them, but the scene centers on his intense focus on the oversized arcade character.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/04/2026

Steve Jobs’ Fist Bursts Through Grave Clutching Crude Drawing Of Something Called ‘The Octomac’

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 17/04/2026

Getting psyched for #VCFEast this weekend. I will be there signing and selling books—while ogling all the CRTs and blinkenlights, of course. Come stop by! Saturday and Sunday, April 17 and 18, 2026, at the InfoAge Science Museum in Wall, NJ, right by the Jersey Shore: vcfed.org/events/vinta...

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VCF East – Vintage Computer Federation

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-ooh, neat-AAAAAAAAAAAAH

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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James Morton @glesga-grognard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Don't know what the attraction is for AI slop when you have amazing shots of the Artemis mission like this

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

astronauts: *lost contact with earth for 40 minutes* me: jealous

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.

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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 22/03/2026

Just 3 years to go! (Via vox.ominous.net/@occult/1161...)

A funny 1985 depiction about computing in 2029, a woman in a white suit and a metallic teal bob haircut is laughing and shooting colorful rays out of a CD and a diskette into three CRT monitors on a wooden table; a calendar on the wall says it’s March 1st, 2029

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

samsung galaxy note 47 antimatter explosion maximum radius

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 07/03/2026

Feels so great to finally have the complete @jamielendino.com collection! 📚 Excited to dive into the early years of #Gaming Thank you so much, Jamie, for helping us get these on the shelves! 🙏 ♥️ #Booksky #Atari #Intellivision #Colecovision #PCGaming

A collection of seven books about the early years of gaming. They are sitting in a pile atop a wooden table.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 08/03/2026

Thank you for serving as a beacon for video game books—hope you enjoy them!

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 28/02/2026

I almost blew my senior year of college because of it

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 12/02/2026

New book! I am excited to unveil Frenzy: The ColecoVision Games That Brought the Arcade Home. A celebration of a short, thrilling time in video game history centered on this console. Available in print www.amazon.com/dp/1957932139 and Kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0GMXSD4YN #retrogaming #colecovision

The cover of Frenzy, which shows the left third of a ColecoVision console at a slight angle and some fun red digital-ish graphic designy stuff behind it

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 27/02/2026

and what else do you need in life, I ask

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 26/02/2026

Thank you Óscar! My new book about ColecoVision games is now available here www.amazon.com/Frenzy-Colec...

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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 16/02/2026

Great to see @jamielendino.com back with another book to grace the catalogue! Frenzy: The Colecovision Games That Brought the Arcade Home This one explores ColecoVision’s legacy and how it still lives on today. More info in the newsletter ☝️ #ColecoVision #Gaming #Booksky

The book cover of Frenzy: The ColecoVision Games that brought the arcade home by Jamie Lendino. It has a red digital background with the ColecoVision in the foreground.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 14/02/2026

Now available in paperback, ebook (multiple platforms), and hardcover coming in stock in multiple stores as I write this!

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Peter Fletcher @rectapete.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Old school #AtariST emulator for #macOS gets a reboot after a long break. nostalgia.pghsoftware.be

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NoSTalgia 2.0 - Atari ST Emulator for Mac

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Today is the 36th anniversary of the pale blue dot picture. Yesterday we did a journal club about a classic Sagan paper and my grad student BP ended by sharing this video. I’d heard the more polished pale blue dot speech so many times but I find this one to be more human youtu.be/tgQ1PtkZvGU?...

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Carl Sagan unveils the Pale Blue Dot image

YouTube video by The Planetary Society

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 12/02/2026

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Ozma @psychicozma.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 07/02/2026

Love this. In 1999 my friend and I made a 20-foot Atari 8-bit SIO peripheral chain on the floor of my parents' basement (just to see if we could), and then set it up to record music from M.U.L.E., Ultima III, Archon, etc. to DAT. A Win98 PC and PS1 sat idle in the next room. I wish I had a picture.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 07/11/2024

“People who say, ‘Don’t live in the past,’ obviously didn’t own an Atari.” —Benj

Photo of Benj’s Atari 800XL in 2017. Ultima IV is on the screen.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Peter Fletcher @rectapete.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

February 7 is @benjedwards.com annual "Take Your Atari to Work Day". Since the 7th is a Saturday this year, celebrating is encouraged anytime between Friday the 6th and Monday the 9th. Be sure to tag Benj as well as #Atari with your posts.

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Eric Z @zeman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

PCMag is now hiring for TWO roles. The first is for a Writer to cover mobile, and the second is for a Senior Writer to cover mobile. This is the Writer job: www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs... This is the Senior Writer job: www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs...

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We hire only the best and brightest because we know it takes great people to make a great company. We embrace the power of collaboration, have an entrepreneurial spirit and promote a work environment ...

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 03/02/2026

Trying to add a Canon laser printer on Wi-Fi to a new Mac. These are my only choices. Am I in 1988

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 28/12/2025

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Peugeot Quasar concept (1984)

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 14/12/2025

I had a dream last night that I bought a new treadmill, and it was really well made and only $250, but the reason it was so inexpensive was that the company found a way to display continuous video ads within the treads, and it forced you to look down at them and watch commercials the whole time

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 05/12/2025

When this inevitably blows up in everyone’s face Atari has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Peter Fletcher @rectapete.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I want to thank everyone that attended Atari Party today. Such a fun day and lots of amazing friends. #Atari

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