iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ever want a pdf of a man page? Add this to your .zshrc file: alias man2pdf='(){ mandoc -T pdf `man -w $1` > $1.pdf }'

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Should you use USD? A guide for indie developers.

Flow diagram entitled "Should you use USD?" A black capsule shape labelled "START" points to a choice diamond with the question "Was Steve Jobs ever CEO of your company?" The "Yes" side leads to a box labelled "USE UNIVERSAL SCENE DESCRIPTOR (USD)." The "No" side leads to a box labelled "DO NOT USE UNIVERSAL SCENE DESCRIPTOR (USD)."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/09/2026

I've known @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social for years and am delighted his movie is getting traction!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again they have discovered a new cat that looks like an ocelot but smaller AND THEY DID NOT CALL IT THE OCELITTLE

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We don't speak of the third Duran

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jerry Weinberg noted that people will copy sample code out of books verbatim, including comments like “// WRONG WAY! DO NOT USE!”

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New Year’s resolutions: 1) more art that serves no purpose and in mediums and formats that I have no skills in just for fun 4) go back & sabotage myself before I finish building that Time Machine 5) delete 3 2) Handwrite my emails - ) build a Time Machine

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

But where’s the giant headline? It said what we were all feeling.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

D’oh! I didn’t quo the post with the launch date! Circle your calendars, it’s a great game!

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

Nimrod is a Biblical reference. The main thing said about him is that he was a mighty hunter. Bugs calling Fudd a Nimrod was meant to be sarcasm. Instead it *changed the English language* to make nimrod a synonym for idiot.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'd be way more upset about this if AI video actually worked. As it is, knock yourself out, Paul.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@alicefraser.bsky.social Regarding the mourning Trope on a Rope from this week's Realms Unknown: Someone recently pointed out to me that Leia lost her entire *planet*. Everyone and everything she ever knew or loved. Gone. But as a woman, she has to perform the emotional labor of comforting Luke.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@garius.bsky.social I'd love to hear an Untitled History Podcast about MI 1-4 and 7-whatever. All we ever hear about is MI-5 and MI-6.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I tested some of the puzzles in this and they’re great. Really looking forward to playing the full version.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hell, my ancestors just showed up and said, “Nice country. We‘ll take it.”

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The first question when someone brings up AI alignment with humans should be “which humans?”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/09/2026

Thread. As Courtney notes, this last-minute bullshit just means the payout might be delayed so long Anthropic goes bankrupt first. Whoever this person is, they're not helping.

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck

This 11,000-Year-Old Statue from Turkey Shows a Man Riding a Leopard.
Archaeologists Aren't Sure
Why
The strange sculpture reverses a recurring Stone Age motif of humans confronting dangerous predators.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We had to put up with years of "git gud" and "learn to code" from gamers and programmers but somehow "git gud" is not an acceptable response when sloppers insist that they can't possibly create art for their game without AI

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

a Mouse King. is there one under your desk??

drawing of a bunch of computer mice with their all cords tangled together

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Actually, if I’m going to be nuked, I kinda want it to be a surprise.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Never go Mort Walker on a first date.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Gotta push back on that one. Dolly Parton, 80 Tim Curry, 80 … But also, TimCurry, Home Alone 2. Brenda Fricker, died last month at 81, Home Alone 2. … Either one of these patterns could finish like 💋👌.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am not liking where this “rule of three“ is heading.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Even the big IPs are typically big because of a creator. Before Disney was a corporation, it was a dude with some *very* strong opinions. Same with Lucas and Star Wars or Stan Lee and Marvel.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Two groups, both paid by the hour. What could go wrong?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026

There is a color called "olo" that only five people have seen because it involves shooting lasers into your eye to excite only one sort of color-sensing cone. It's apparently a kind of super-intense bluish-green. (add more random facts in the original thread, please)

Text in a vibrant bluish-green that say "This is not olo"

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oooh! How about Timothy Leary’s Mind Mirror? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy...

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Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror - Wikipedia

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

M.U.L.E. An under-appreciated classic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.

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M.U.L.E. - Wikipedia

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Mitch Wells @miatch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The AI industry itself has worked hard to blur the difference between LLMs and ML. So, no wonder the general public has difficulty distinguishing between the two. ML allows us to do amazing things. LLMs are the things that dumb down writing and make you scream at call centers.

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Don Bellenger 𐕣 𖤐 𐕣 @donnotron.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've been wanting chains that are reactive to the player. An earlier sprite-based version had repetition and rotation problems, but I got it working with our custom particle system and now we can render jillions of them on screen. The individual particles also never rotate, great for pixel art!

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Are you aware of CAT YURTS catyurts.com

A brown tabby cat snuggling inside a blue and white cat yurt on top of a green and yellow patterned textile

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This reminds me of my favourite story about Bletchley Park recruitment: Geoffrey Tandy was recruited for his supposed expertise in cryptograms. It turned his expertise was in 'cryptogams' i.e. mosses, ferns etc. (BTW it ended well, as a he became an effective Head of Naval Section VI.)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

anyone who describes themselves as a thought leader should be on some kind of list.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Man, wish I could have been at that auction

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The best HR training I ever attended was led by an ex-Marine. I was the only non-man in the room. We watched the video demonstrating sexual harassment. A young guy piped up, “I just don’t see what the big deal is.” The ex-Marine never raised his voice. He didn’t need to.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I lulled MAGWest into a false sense of security and then hit them with the Math Room

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey, so this game I've been making art for for the last couple of years is out now! It's a comedy with stellar voice acting, which is also a turn-based RPG and dating/time-management sim. Please check it out if you're into - or might be into - funny narrative games with adult & fantasy themes.

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Filthy Houseplant @filthyhouseplant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We’re gonna be at MAGwest this weekend! They should stop sending the invites by pigeon though, no offense. #indiegames #indiedev #art #narrativegame #pigeon #MAGwest Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4038920 Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fil...

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Can someone post the “AI reply” here? It’s machine generated, so it’s public domain.

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Mr. Skeets @doctoraculamd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“For fun, we fed the text of Do Not Invent the Torment Nexus to the Torment Nexus”

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Nightwell Games @nightwellgames.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you're at MAGWest be sure to visit the cool kids' table We may even let you eat lunch with us but only if you trade us your Fruit Roll-Ups

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exodrifter @exodrifter.space · 05/08/2026

it's not "survival of the fittest", it's "survival of the good enough" said the sunfish, while shoveling buckets of nutritionally sparse food no one else wants to eat into its mouth.

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