iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

FUCK I broke my 1500 day streak on my smart thermostat's daily jumble puzzle. The app is locking me out of adjusting my home temperature now because I'm out of gems. The word was SAVORY.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 07/10/2026

a cool thing you can do when you see something online is be like ah ok then go and do something else

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Outside Mother of the Americas church in Little Village, crosses commemorating immigrants have died in immigration custody or during enforcement actions in the United States

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

you want me to be well informed but you also want me to not act insane so you see the conundrum right

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.

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kerry ✨ @kschwenky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So many cases

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Citizen Slain @shanesheehy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One day you're flush with seltzer and you can throw caution to the wind opening up them bad boys. Then before you know it you're out of seltzer

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The litmus test for instant friendship.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s still crazy to see my first friend’s little sister whenever the six come up. Hell yeah Kat, keep on fighting the good fight.

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empiricalis.bsky.social @empiricalis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We can't control the AI any more! It's out of control!"

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lol the FT printed this hilarious graph again, seemingly in aid of a serious argument www.ft.com/content/9dd8...

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why do they keep letting non-comedies win comedy awards?

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was just told by my boss that my slides/presentation for the investors was amazing. Took an amazing amount of effort to not reply “thanks, I made them myself like a grown up, no AI.”

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/09/2026

"You're an old king from some vanished country." !

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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Saw your man floating ass up in the bog. Undignified

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cool, YouTube is unwatchable from all the ai slop ads every thirty seconds.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

From Evangelical Christians to Rokos Basilisk-pilled AI engineers, it's funny how many people exist out there who are actively trying to bring about the apocalypse. I feel that if you have stated omnicidal intent, it should be automatic grounds for [redacted]

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New stories the past three week: “what on earth could drive the devotion this woman shows the president??”

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

doth your raven even quoth, bro

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

“learn to code” looking pretty silly in retrospect

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 30/08/2026

hiring manager: where do you see yourself in five years? me: fighting in the robot wars hiring manager: holy shit

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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My “We Operate Under U.S. Law” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by the ad.

DC metro car ad:
KALSHI RULE #4
WE
OPERATE UNDER
U.S. LAW

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is what my nightmares are like after I take too much cough syrup

A bunch of YouTubers doing the o face for GTA6

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

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Lord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

idk why do 60 year olds with erectile dysfunction like reading the same article over and over

atlantic article screen cap: WHY DO RICH KIDS LOVE SOCIALISM?
By Tyler Austin Harper

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I love that even my French banking app can say “we’re taking a break right now, you can try signing in later.”

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/09/2025

going to bed is so embarrassing. sorry, my brain needs to watch a movie. please don’t kill me

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

and i sign an order to change it back. nice try.

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Bowen @justanotherwasp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Gotta love the persons using today to finally complain about trump, because of renaming a lake.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

wagging my finger at an anti-car campaign because it doesn't address the root of the problem: capitalism

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