iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 21h

A very important message from Omer Reingold to our TCS community, especially us (arg, already) senior researchers: "snap out of it." Please, digest, and share. theorydish.blog/2026/09/29/s...

As for depression: the next time you have the urge to lament, or even celebrate, being “the last generation of human mathematicians,” perhaps keep it to yourself. Contemplating the end of your profession from the relative comfort of an established, tenured career is a privilege, and it comes with responsibilities. Senior academics are not merely individual researchers; we are stewards of our field, and we owe our junior colleagues active leadership rather than abandonment.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 12h

A glimpse of Europe's future in low Earth orbit. We've selected two European industrial teams to study the feasibility of a future European-led orbital outpost, exploring how Europe could strengthen its role in low Earth orbit in the post-ISS

Artist's impression of a potential European-led orbital station

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 21h

i've been saying, one path forward for the mid-budget games industry is just... going and making expansions to popular old games. there's a market here. bring back the era of outsourced expansion packs. i'm so serious.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12h

This is promising. The UK could go "all the way" towards rejoining the EU, Burnham tells the BBC. 🚨 EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. The government needs to take us back to where we belong: at the heart of Europe.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“These filings reveal shocking disdain for writers and their work through repeated, intentional decisions to steal books rather than pay for them with full knowledge that their products will destroy the careers of authors. +

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wrong. It’s happening

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 29/09/2026

There is no one better than Ashley at making basic-ass news and previews GENUINELY compelling to read. I do not know how she does it. The most obvious hire in the world.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ttrpgs are a generally myopic field of design and have a small fraction of the creative variety present in other kinds of games, and this is somewhat (although not entirely) due to social pressure and aesthetic standards historically exerted by conservative players, designers, and publishers

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There should be RPGs which are good introductions to the hobby but it makes no sense to make every RPG an introduction. In fact, if we assume our readers understand wtf we are talking about, we can go further with our writing, explore more, push play in new directions.

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Sadie is 🎲 Laying It All on the Line 🎲 @oakleafinsignia.games · 29/09/2026

Storytelling is ancient, and there are so many storytelling traditions that we can use techniques from to be better players and performers. Improv and theatre are not the end all be all for ttrpg storytelling.

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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The split between player/GM and GM'd/GMless hurts our understanding of player roles in ttrpgs, and our design. They are false binaries that we sort games into based on what "feels right," without actually being very useful terms for understanding dynamics in play beyond a base level.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 16/07/2026

Games Not (Only) By Cis-Dudes 🧵 (list in progress I keep on my phone & pasting here) * Apocalypse World * For the queen * The quiet year * Yazeba’s bed and breakfast * Seven part pact * Kagematsu & A single man * Tales of the Fisherman’s Wife * Steal Away Jordan * A Mending * Field guide to memory

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 28/09/2026

I remember when crypto farms were becoming a thing I thought “oh come on, if youre going to spend an exorbiant amount of energy doing calculations at least use the farms to solve cool math problems” and i think the monkey’s paw curled harder than it ever curled

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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week's t-shirt is a very silly joke for fans of linguistics, Ghibli, and milky drinks. #WeeklyTshirt #Ghibli #Boba danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/kiki...

A black spikey shape wearing a red bow and riding a witch's broom.
A blobby shape filled with milk and tapioca balls, with a red spiral stripped straw.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I kinda get why people hate on fussy philosophical stuff, but on the other hand don't you think we live in a time where it'd be especially helpful to have rigorous conversations about things like personhood, meaning in life, the point of art, the point of pure mathematics, & operationalizing ethics?

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paisley nerdywhispers @nerdywhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

look at some of these cool illustrations i did! they were commissions for an Under Hollow Hills campaign! #illustration #commission #ttrpg

Burning Jack, a kind-eyed older gentleman dressed in fancy red clothes.

Willow Briar, a performer in grandiose purple and gold clothing and large antlers.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 28/09/2026

I don't have a blog, I don't do podcasts, but I have thoughts (sometimes), and to put my money where my mouth is I may write something about what I think the values of Theoretical CS are, should be, and where to (possibly) go from there these days. Would there be some interest?

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it is a shame, as everyone knows games are such a hard sell as everyone is so deeply resistant to the concept of games and gaming

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.

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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera

De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.

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EMBL @embl.org · 28/09/2026

A life without UniProt would be like a life without search engines. Many of the things we do with a few taps would take hundreds of hours of research and effort. This is how Emily Bowler-Barnett describes UniProt, the world-leading resource for protein sequence data. www.embl.org/news/people-...

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 28/09/2026

We often get asked what biocurators do so we quizzed our colleague Emily Bowler-Barnett about her role in the UniProt team. We also explored why biocuration is critical to open science, how AI is changing the field & how Emily's dog got her name 🐕

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Saavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey folks—this is doing really well—more than 90% raised!!! But they aren’t there yet! Can you help save the grave of the man who 1st recognized light is an electromagnetic wave??? It’s more than a little shocking this is down to private fundraising, but with your help, it will get done!!!

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

IT'S WORLD TOURISM DAY! I have a book out for the very occasion. (From when I bicycled all over Vietnam in 2023) You can find it on my storenvy! meredithmcclaren.storenvy.com

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Grace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026

Overall I think this is part of a trend of automating things that don’t really need to be automated in an attempt to minimize friction, with the time saved going towards minimizing other types of friction (plan my child’s birthday party!) in the pursuit of (?) and at the expense of others

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Grace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026

disrespectful to have someone talk to an AI without it being clear to them that this is occurring. I wouldn’t have the same issue with someone making an order online eg

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am very often now in rooms with a lot of senior robotics or ML folks and it’s always just men. Men men men. A sea of men. It sucks! We should be very ashamed.

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joao @joao.omg.lol · 27/09/2026

Software engineering has been in a crisis since forever, LLMs are going to push this even further, I wonder when will we reach a breaking point www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-...

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the normalization of inexplicable failures

In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Loads of beautiful stuff and nice artists here, if you’re in central this afternoon!

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MobyGames is keeping track of when companies hire and fire employees. "One of the big things that people are looking for in the games space in the future is a little bit more stability, and keeping people accountable goes hand in hand with that." bit.ly/4AzIMiE

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

Pretty ridiculous that I make indie games but have had to become a clean air advocate

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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 27/09/2026

When I was a young kid reading 1984 I struggled understanding how people could be made to believe literal slogans like "war is peace" or "freedom is slavery", and then I grew up to witness pieces of shit like this guy literally say "evil is good, actually" with a straight face

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Turns out the only unit on campus that is making a profit is central administration. And you're not going to believe this, but that's the unit who gets to decide the formula for how profitability of an academic unit is calculated.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 27/09/2026

When I say "this is not good" let me be more specific: (1) this is not good for academia (destroying the current system before it has a chance to reassess its incentive structure), (2) it is not good for science (flooding the gates with ill-understood results and insightless or badly written proofs)

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Nick Reynolds (he/him) @ncmreynolds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi there folks, while I'm reluctant to spam BSky I'm getting a bit desperate. @uklta.bsky.social is running its next #LARP Cyberpunk: A Life on the Edge next weekend and we've been hit by some crew dropouts that are close to making it non-viable.

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Cyberpunk: A Life on the Edge

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 26/09/2026

The fact that it blew up the way it did despite being called “ChatGPT” and was launched with a tweet like “so i did a thing haha it might suck” speaks for itself

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Jesse Mac @jessemackinnon.com · 26/09/2026

uwu i’m just a little fascist Tamagotchi uwu

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wake up babe it's the afternoon and also a new solo game just dropped for #soloseptember As with all my games, this can be played in a single session of under an hour. You will write your letter. You will make edits to your letter. You will not send it. michellicopter.itch.io/the-letter-y...

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The Letter You'll Never Send by Michellicopter

A short epistolary game to play alone

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

astonishing! unaccountable! it's another episode of DEAD LETTERS! today, it's Evey Lockhart's WET GRANDPA, an ominous river adventure! join us as we discuss poetic meter, NPCs as ethical traps, "conversational infinity," gigging, and the Madonna. come listen! open.spotify.com/episode/6898...

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29: Wet Grandpa

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The Detective's Apprentice @darqwerful.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's lots of AMAZING #thinky games in the event too! Here's some I've played and loved: Chomp Garden s.team/a/4457150 Compress(space) s.team/a/3664840 Desktop Explorer s.team/a/2527160 Duppy Detective Tashia s.team/a/1958800 Funeral for the Sun s.team/a/4088360 HeartLinks s.team/a/1643800

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