iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

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Kristian Nygård @optipess.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

People are buzzing about a new Hellraiser game. Here’s a related comic!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For four years as tech bros continually tell me that eventually AI music will get better, I have repeated that it’s not about passing a quality threshold—music is a culturally defined activity, not an amalgamation of frequencies

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s been said a million times but saying Suno solved music is like saying you’ve solved soccer by installing a conveyor belt that delivers the ball directly to the net and expecting people to buy tickets

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Charlie Brooker: The Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits is a cautionary tale where people are forced to watch unskippable ads Microsoft: At long last, we have created the unskippable ads from the classic sci-fi episode Fifteen Million Merits

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

there is no future for art or humanity until we surgically extract the profit motive from our economy. unless we abolish this system where good business is unprofitable and naked rent-seeking scams are rewarded, we will be trapped in its orbit forever and the cycle of misery will repeat ad infinitum

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Ken Myrheim @kentilzha.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's Bandcamp Friday! I bought the entire @freezepopband.bsky.social discography, plus some technical death metal, because life without variety is boring.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.

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Barrows @barrows.itch.io · 28/08/2026

Incidentally, what bothers me the most about this algo-speak is that is tries to sneak past people who muted these words. When you use "unalive" or "pdf file" or whatever, not only are you making a fool of yourself, you are also bypassing people's attempts to avoid triggering content.

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Ken Myrheim @kentilzha.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and now Peter Cullen has transformed and rolled out for the last time. Does the Grim Reaper need glasses? Is that why the wrong people are dying?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

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Kristian Nygård @optipess.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Optipess Archive Dive! “TitsMcGee4782”

Panel 1: The Optipess glasses guy sits at a laptop, looking alarmed as two stern-looking men in dark uniforms enter through an open door behind him. A speech bubble from them shouts, “TitsMcGee4782!” The man turns toward them and nervously asks, “Y-yes?”
Panel 2: One of the uniformed men points accusingly at the glasses guy while asking whether, on March 26, 2014, he posted on an IT tech-support forum begging for help with a very specific computer problem. Glasses guy nervously gestures with his hands and admits, “Uh... yep.”
Panel 3: The interrogator asks whether the man then followed up two hours later by saying, “never mind, I figured it out,” leaving no useful information for anyone who might find the post in the future. Glasses guy shrugs and replies, “Maybe!”
Panel 4: The man is shown tied to a guillotine with his head protruding through the opening. His eyes are wide with fear and his mouth is open in distress. A crowd is visible in the background, while a rope hangs along the right side. Someone is about to pull the rope and release the blade.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

These are tough times. But refusing to sell out to Generative AI, transphobia, and fascism is more valuable than anything right now.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ding ding ding ding ding! See also the closely related phenomenon: "If they're making so much money as entrepreneurial/investment geniuses, why do they spend so much time selling tickets to cult-like pep talks?"

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I'm Ozma. I'm a raccoon. @ozmaracc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You can have a many lofty ideals about ai and shit as you want, but end of the day, the city of Corpus Christi is about to run out of water because of that stuff. And like, You personally, as a user, can't opt out of that. You can't decide to not contribute to depriving my blood relations of water.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Mystic Muffin 🎃 @mysticmuffin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Please stop using ai and ChatGPT 🫩 I don’t want any more data centers. Please use your minds, please allow yourself to learn you’re killing people with pollution, killing your mind and making climate change worse

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Ken Myrheim @kentilzha.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Not inside the Trojan horse, they didn't!

A headline from Variety: "'The Odyssey' Conquers B.O."

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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Two guys one cup

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The funny thing is, the chuds hate this version of the Odyssey because Nolan cast trans and non-white actors but if they actually were media literate, they'd hate this version of the Odyssey because it adopts their civilizational frame and then violently rejects *them* and their ideology.

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Marc Deschamps @marcdachamp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

People are desperate for tangible things that can’t be taken away by greedy billionaires. CDs are cheaper and more portable than vinyl, and a greater portion of the money spent goes to musicians compared to the pennies provided by Spotify and Apple Music.

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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Graeme Strachan @gstrachan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Perhaps overshadowed today by the tragic news about Sam Neill, but we also lost another great actor today: Wai Ching Ho. A well-kent face most widely known for playing as Matriarch crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel Defenders shows, and the voice of Grandma in Turning Red.

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Wai Ching Ho, ‘Daredevil’ and ‘Iron Fist’ Actress, Dies at 83

She played crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel series.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 13/07/2026

If people would use alt text, this wouldn't be an issue. Alt text is parsed by the mute words filter so please use it.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

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𓆩🩸Ruby Rocktober🩸𓆪 @rubyrockatansky.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

i will not succumb to despair and i will continue to make art (x5)

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ghoulnoise @ghoulnoise.com · 01/07/2026

if bandcamp layoffs worry you, I'll once again bang the drum for Ampwall. The devs are super nice, the discord is very welcoming, & their app works Better than the bandcamp mobile app (imo) The site's also WAY nicer to use as an artist than bc, even when I had BC premium. strict anti AI policy.

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Ken Myrheim @kentilzha.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You've gardened your last sound.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

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Sarah Karasek @sarahkarasek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What ever happened to the nonbinary gold prospector? They made a fortune in them/their hills.

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Ken Myrheim @kentilzha.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Don't fall for clickbait."

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

You don’t like AI? People didn’t like cars when they were invented either!

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Ken Myrheim @kentilzha.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The Earth is definitely doomed.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The next time a director says bullshit like this, I want the interviewer to ask: "If AI was around when you made your other films, which artists would you have fired?" I mean it. Name real fucking names. Of all the brilliant people you worked with, who do you think doesn't deserve a job anymore?

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