iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 29m

A dragon came to the royal castle and requested an audience with the king. "I hear," the dragon said, "that you have no princess." "So?" "So I propose you adopt me." "You're a girl?" "I could be." "Sorry. But wouldn't that bring more dragons?" The dragon fluttered her eyelashes. "I hope so."

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Seán/Dinmaker 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @dinmaker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Live now to do some more work on this Choose Your own Adventure game! Today we're finally going to bite the bullet and see if I can get a stealth system working... Maybe. Join now at twitch.tv/dinmaker

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erysdren @erysdren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

happy 19th birthday to The Orange Box 🎉

a screenshot of wikipedia showing the original release date of The Orange Box as October 10th, 2007

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Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Transmission #67416 from MENTOR (CONFIDENTIAL) 1. Hadean Palimpsest of Brimstone

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters:

1. Hadean Palimpsest of Brimstone

Actual coordinates: 6.8064° N, 4.7869° W

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026

no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave

two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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ヤシン @inuinukawaiine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

スキマ時間にちょこちょこやってるパズルゲームのキャラが大変かわいいという話 #babaisyou

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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's called fire. Last night, rogue fire agents burned down our rivals. It will burn you. This is inevitable

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

DO NOT trust this "Irish language" podcast. The pronunciation of salmon (bradán) is devilishly bad - it's clearly AI because they give a trashy, fake French accent for no reason. open.spotify.com/episode/6IcG...

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Irish for the Salmon - Bradán Basics

Learn Irish with Fexingo · Episode

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 10/10/2026

The value of your business is in your employees, and replacing them with AI is like replacing the bricks in your home with cards

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1. This software did nothing 'on its own'. The human who approved its programming and release is responsible. 2. These programs are based on scraped government website instructions and millions of illegally obtained novels without any attempt made to distinguish between fact and fiction.

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Desert Bus for Hope 🚌 #DB2026 OCTOBER 23rd @desertbus.org · 10/10/2026

T-minus two weeks until #DB2026! The tip-top training continues.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

reported on something that was really difficult for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons in a lot of different ways.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nah, I actually totally understand the puzzle, but I'm pretending I lack object permanence to fuck up their data collection on purpose. Next week I'm going to spend a whole day acting like I can do basic multiplication, then never do it again.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 08/10/2026

It really whipped the llama’s ass

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🏎️ Doogie "Bsky Hates Trans Women" 2K 🏎️ @doogie2k.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

To say nothing of violence included *by* their jumped up autocomplete. We literally had a mass shooting because of this already! In Canada, a place that doesn't exactly have a ton of them, at that!

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most vindicated anyone has ever been in fiction.

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Wolfgang Baur @wolfgangbaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Going down a rabbit hole at lunch today. I may be some time.

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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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Ghost of Futures Ain 👻 @ainsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They Don't care they just want slop lmao

Reddit post by a user in r/decomps that reads: "Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360) now runs natively on windows, no emulator: static recompilation + a Vulkan renderer. Android is next"

Attached is a picture of the game supposedly running "natively"

Comments from the same reddit post;
User 1: There's literally already a PC port of this game.

User 2: And, unlike most ports from those days, it has zero compromises, it is superior to the consoles version in every way possible.

User 3: And it's always like 5 dollars

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ogre-g 👹 @libidinalspaces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

she's got that joie de leave

A thin, red leaf on concrete. It's on its side such that it looks like a pair of lips

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was on a panel of artists in Worldcon in Dublin in 2019. A LOT of the talk was around the big franchise film, game and comics firms, and I had to point out that these only represent a tiny proportion of all the freelance art jobs. The vast majority of artists will never work for these companies.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 1003: The Orange, by Wendy Cope

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 325: "friends! I crave discourse!" #rerun

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pretty sure The Minister is still pissed off about this. Of course, that’s a prime example of him enjoying feeling powerful, and being annoyed at being told to sod off. Is he the kind of person who’d hold that grudge for months? www.rte.ie/news/2026/05... www.ontheditch.com/patrick-o-do...

RTE News headline: “Minister complained to media watchdog over RTÉ's 'lack of balance'” from Friday, 22 May 2026 21:50, over a picture of Patrick O’Donovan wearing a Healy Rae cap

The Ditch headline from May 22, 2026: “Patrick O'Donovan didn't admit secret call with Coimisiun na Meán about media examination”, over text reading “During controversy over his "sinister" comments about media, Patrick O Donovan didn't admit he had already secretly called a Coimisiún na Meán commissioner to see if he as media minister could trigger a state
"examination" of RTÉ fuel protest coverage he didn't like.”

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KB @kbkarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I first heard of Thomas Midgely Jr. from this. youtu.be/r6tulrx4n-A

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Thomas Midgley Jr.

YouTube video by Bats - Topic

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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aj 🧃 lyse’s wife @fellyse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“…I don’t think the gods listen to people like me.” [ #ffxivart #lyse ]

digital artwork of Lyse Hext FFXIV .
she holds a flag staff/pole, and it flows behind her.

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Letterabcd @letterabcd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

THIS IS SO FUCKING REAL DUDE REJECT HARRY FRAUDER EMBRACE THE TRUE GOATS

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

look I know what we'll do, YOU just help me out by telling everyone about the beautiful entirely handdrawn horse riding and stable management game we're launching on November 4th okay? store.steampowered.com/app/3727090/...

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Horses of Hoofprint Bay on Steam

Horses of Hoofprint Bay is a lovingly hand-drawn 2D point and click barn buildup game. Take care of your horses, train them to build up their strength and confidence, and compete for prize money! Bree...

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TheCursedHat @thecursedhat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

PSA Voiceover: Talk to your kids about Gundam, before someone else does

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