iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 57m

This afternoon's walk

A river with an arched brick footbridge, and green trees along the banks with leaves just beginning to turn to orange & gold are reflected in the still water.

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Com-👻Boo!👻-ter Crimes 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1h

when they cut the security budget so those two doors only have one guard now:

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 2h

Why am I arguing about copyright on the internet like it's Slashdot in 1999

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2h

I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 5h

"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Assistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival Studies

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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Molly Gee @voolala.bsky.social · 2h

Since I hate AI-generated content so much and I talk a big game about how literally any level of human art skill is better than all AI-generated trash, I am putting myself out there and doing #Inktober for the first time! I haven't taken a drawing/painting class since I was 14. Let's fucking go! 🧵

A drawing of an apple done in black ink and colored pencil. A ripe red apple sits on a small blue background on a white page. The words "Inktober 2026 October 1" are written in an arch above the apple. The word "apple" is written underneath it.

Inktober 2026 official prompt list.
1. Apple
2. Relic
3. Miniature
4. Cactus
5. Smack
6. Ogre
7. Panic
8. Stinky
9. Ram
10. Mystical
11. Rescue
12. Toss
13. Flimsy
14. Lady
15. Hooray
16. Gangly
17. Contraption
18. Flightless
19. Confused
20. Lounge
21. Hero
22. Beacon
23. Dapper
24. Bake
25. Fracture
26. Zip
27. Dumb
28. Trophy
29. Tusk
30. Cookie
31. Flex

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 2h

This is what the picture of me holding the fish is for!

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 3h

Afternoon, n.: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning. —fortune(6)

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

You see that thin maroon slice around 9 PM, btw? That's Facebook, which was pretty widely regarded as the previous most successful VC-backed IPO of all time.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Another, non-Claude visualization courtesy the Ritter IPO dataset: using the current Hyperliquid price as an estimate, SpaceX is roughly the size of the total market cap of every single VC IPO, deSPAC, and direct list *post-day 1 pop* from 2021, 2020, 2000, and 1999, adjusted for inflation, COMBINED

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 3h

Oof. I hadn't seen this before.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 19h

The Greens finding a even less charismatic but more pedantic version of the dude in glasses will definitely work.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 18h

# BANNED AND RESTRICTED ANNOUNCEMENT / 09/30/2026 One-card spread: The Ten of Swords is *banned* The Nine of cups is *banned* Another season of pro tarot league is almost upon us. While most formats are thriving, in the fast and degenerate world of one-card we're seeing concerning metagame data,

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Aunty Grassdragon 🏳️‍⚧️ @grassdragon193.bsky.social · 18h

Ten Of Swords banned but they won't even add The Tower to the restricted list? Absolute joke league. This is why Angel Cards are thriving.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 20h

It’s been a while since I went to a show that melted my face off. Wow

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 01/10/2026

How we know a thing matters more than what we know.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 01/10/2026

There is no current technology besides trying to charge it and finding out that can determine if a pharmacist takes my insurance yes we have checked every alternative

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday, he called me to his boat brandishing a whitefish, extolling their virtues. I had to dissuade him from putting it in my kayak, so he promised if I came back today there would be cleaned fish waiting in the back of his truck. I found them this morning. I need to have people for dinner. 2/2

Two whole, cleaned and headless whitefish in plastic. A pound of pickerel (walleye) fillets in plastic.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The fisherman in this boat is 95 years old. We've known each other off and on for years, and reconnected a few weeks ago when he came out of the fog in front of me while I was kayaking along the cliffs. Bob is full of wisdom, stories, and strong opinions and is a strong voice for lake Winnipeg. 1/2

A lone fisherman in a red jacket stands at the bow of 20-ish foot yawl with a large, black outboard motor. He's working his net in the dim blue light of pre-dawn as a small squadron of white pelicans wait behind the boat for scraps.

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⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 21/06/2026

im sure the people who have treated me with contempt when they considered me at all will be proper stewards of a future that will not grind me to dust under their boot heels

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pottery. Do pottery that can later be carbon dated to this specific period and make sure you sign your name bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

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mcc @dryad.technology · 30/09/2026

You stare into the abyss, and the abyss stares back. You poke the abyss with a stick, and the abyss pokes you with a stick back. You gently caress the face of the abyss, lightly trailing your fingers full down its body to where it is most sensitive, most tender, and it

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026

The _logical_ problem with the definition of “Artificial General Intelligence” which defines it as “automating all economically valuable human activity” is that there is a lot of human activity which is valuable precisely and only because it is done by humans

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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Communal aspect is important too. It's often remarked that an artist needs an audience to complement and complete the art, and now it's just as valid to say that an audience needs an artist to do the same. Either of these roles, if replaced by AI, loses its potency.

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John Bate @jflb96.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That’s why people still go to see live music even though we have the perfected studio recordings readily available: the variations are the point

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Those arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026

O'Reilly's Law of the Kitchen: Cleanliness is next to impossible —fortune(6)

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes and it's when the true customer became the investor.

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John Patrick @jstcpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since the collective noun for a group of crows is a murder, would it be right to call this group of crows looking for grubs a murder investigation? At UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada #Birds #Crows #Humor #NaturePhotography

Photo of about forty crows searching for grubs in a series of grassy areas bisected by a path, a driveway, a separated two lane boulevard, all of which cross the picture horizontally. At the right of the picture is a trimmed cedar hedge. In the background are more hedges, some low fences, and leafy trees. At the left of the picture are number of posts with signs for parking restrictions, indicating a bicycle path, and a pair of stop signs.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Before Portal, there was, well, Portal. Activision's 1986 'computer novel' is one of the examples of the kind of entertainment software being developed for the Commodore Amiga in its first year. High concept, artsy, and tapping into the creativity-focused marketing for the computer.

A scan of the box from Mobygames, with an almost completely glossy black cover and the worlds PORTAL and the computer novel tagline at the top. Ghost-like faces can be seen at the bottom of the cover. In the upper centre: an evocative premise.

Homer, A Biological Computer. The Final Link to the Past and the Only Conduit to the Future. But Homer is dying and access grows weaker moment by moment. Will you discover where everyone has gone or will to the doorway to humanity close forever, leaving you totally alone?

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep going to work because if I don’t, civilization collapses, either due to ineptitude from management, or your street becoming a river, your toilet a fountain, or your waterway an open sewer

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026

After due consideration, I have added appropriate product safety information and turned on sales to the EEA and Northern Ireland, so if you were previously interested but held off, now's your chance!

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 29/09/2026

one of my favorite genre of game is "weird things happen in computer" SNAPTIC started a kickstarter campaign & a funny picture of my face is currently a stretch goal. if you want me to write a music for weird thing happen when computer you can make that happen?? www.kickstarter.com/projects/sna...

kickstarter.com

SNAPTIC

SNAPTIC is a physics-based puzzle-platformer that takes place in an offline laptop, and it's up to you to remember the Wi-Fi password.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

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Idra Fallow @idrafallow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you hear a politician talking about saving small farms, just know that they do *not* mean the market gardener selling zucchini and corn at their roadside stand every Saturday. They mean a guy who inherited 500 acres and pays other people to work the land while he goes on hunting trips.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beyond an introductory level, this is also the point of scholarship, or of any other activity that deals in meaning

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026

The thing you have to understand is, these people hate people

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is part of why I push so hard on the Tilly Norwood of it all. we are not asking if an “AI actress” can win an Oscar, we are asking if software engineers can win an Oscar for their woman-shaped piece of software and we have to keep redirecting the word choices back to reinforce that

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a model intends nothing. it cannot mean anything. it cannot be held liable. this means in the obvious first instance that it is not sentient. but, i think, for the near future, much more practically it means that its actions are the responsibility of its programmers. it is not, flatly, an agent

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026

My impression is that data centers tend to employ substantially fewer people than light industrial of similar footprint and use a _LOT_ more power but otherwise basically this. At least they don’t smell like a hog confinement, although the diesel generators sure stink!

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026

@gamersnexus.bsky.social This thought occurred to me while watching your latest video. Would love if you’d get a finance expert on to discuss it

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 30/09/2026

Could someone who is more of a finance head than me explain why these “circular financing” deals that NVIDIA keeps striking aren’t just debt? And should be modeled and accounted as such?

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

there has never been a better time to be on the Political Sickos website that is also the Sports Website

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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fuck the singularity when do we get solidarity

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Idle @hatesnicethings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I bit off more than I could chew because I required adequate nesting material.

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you talked to anyone who knows fanfiction they could tell you the way you replicate Heated Rivalry is to keep the gay porn but put them in a different glamorous high-status hypermasculine profession that ISN'T hockey. They will not consult anyone who could tell them this

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