iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 4h

apparently nappy.co, an invaluable stock photo resource, is shutting down in a few months because, well, AI destroys everything. this blows. their statement: nappy.co/future just fucking sucks that AI dipshits essentially get to take away our choices because they're incapable of making their own

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An update on the future of Nappy | Nappy

Nappy makes it easy for companies to be purposeful about representation in their designs, presentations, and advertisements.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

wired.com

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Karissa Bell @karissabe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just because your AI agent looks kind of like a Muppet doesn't mean should blindly give it access to all your accounts. www.engadget.com/2275148/dont...

engadget.com

Don't let the adorable AI agents fool you - Engadget

Just because they look harmless doesn't mean you should be irresponsible with your data.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026

if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway. @butwhytho.net is woman-run and not just by me being EIC. Outside of comics, all of our sections are run by women and if you've freelancer or written for us, you've seen that. If you wanna support us here you go:

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Support Us - But Why Tho?

We believe in the power of independent media. By not answering to any VC stakeholders, we shape an editorial voice that champions passion, different

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 01/10/2026

I am confident in one thing: the outpouring of support Stop Caring and myself have received in the last few days have made it clear the publiction will continue, hopefully for many more years. Worse comes to shove, we WILL make something work. Now's a great time to support: www.stopcar.ing

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Stop Caring

A publication about video games focused on the ways they evoke unique cultural conversations as well as the personal lessons we can learn from them as artistic media.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Always find it funny at this time of year when around half the people I see out and about are wearing jackets and scarves and I’m still rocking shorts and a T-shirt. Leaves are green? Knees are seen.

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blob @gwmthing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

playing big walk solo

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deeply grateful to the Taskmaster International YT channel for dropping a new-to-me episode of the AU and NZ offshoots almost every day for the last few months. I've so desperately needed that near-daily dose of pure joy.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Engadget @engadget.com · 24/09/2026

Instead of a new Quest headset, the company showed off a more portable but less immersive device today.

engadget.com

Meta VR Glasses hands-on: Hand and eye tracking is so much better than a controller - Engadget

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It works with hand-tracking and voice recognition, so you can physically point at a witness and yell “Objection!” and whoever you’re living with will think you’re an odd duck but it should do what it’s supposed to in the game.

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Grace 🏳️‍⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 22/09/2026

seven years ago, the new skydance paramount warner empire was five different companies

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looks like Xbox embargoed the layoff/restructuring news. If so, that’s utterly ghoulish

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Easily the biggest moment for gaming in November. I will be there

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Absolutely amazing. Chefs kiss. You love to see it. 10/10. No notes.

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, there’s a very nice little Easter Egg in Control

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, so disappointed in them for this. You’d think Serj would know better at least.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For years they've been saying you can't just ignore how AI is going to change all of our work habits and lifestyles but I have kind of just ignored it and it hasn't changed them lol

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

500 miles into the sea with them

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 14/09/2026

IGN's ownership chooses busiest time for games media in years to lay a bunch of people off: aftermath.site/ign-layoffs-al...

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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Steam Frame feels like a device out of time, which is unfortunate. www.engadget.com/2257659/valv... It's a good standalone VR headset, but it costs $1,059 (!!!) and there's little exciting VR content today

engadget.com

Valve Steam Frame review: Solid standalone VR that's too little, too late - Engadget

The Steam Frame is a pretty great standalone VR headset, it's just too bad it costs over $1,000.

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Engadget @engadget.com · 12/09/2026

Our weekly indie games roundup includes a double deckbuilder, capybara puzzles and an undead William Wallace.

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Wardogs, Valheim 1.0 and other new indie games worth checking out - Engadget

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 12/09/2026

Getting out ahead of the crowd with the best Halloween tweet:

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey that’s my name in the StarCraft thing

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah, I hear you. I’m happy to trade off battery life for a smaller, lighter phone. You can recharge anywhere if you need to. When I replace my watch, probably next year, I might take the LTE option so I can leave my phone at home more often.

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Gimme a smaller, cheaper iPhone with a basic-ass camera that’s just good enough to read QR codes.

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Kinda want the iPhone Duo to be an iPhone Solo. I like the format and size of the external screen. Bring back smaller phones!!! Also, 3,000 Canadian dollars is too much to spend on a phone.

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Spare a thought for those of us who cover both tech and games today but especially me, who's writing recaps of both the Nintendo Direct and the iPhone event

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Unplug Baby Send it into a Supermassive Black Hole

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The overworld theme remains undefeated

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"I promised my mother I wouldn't speak about cousin marriage and incest.”

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

there's a teaser trailer and everything youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI&feature=youtu.be

youtube.com

You Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

how is this real

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Engadget @engadget.com · 05/09/2026

Here are the new indie games worth checking out, plus an early look at shipbuilding, I Am Your Beast DLC and a cat trying to stop an AI office takeover.

engadget.com

Remote work as a worm, colorful platformers and other new indie games worth checking out - Engadget

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

chess dot com probably doesn’t have much money but they clearly have enough to own the world’s richest man

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The new Novelists song is a trip. Makes me want to hear Rosalia venture into prog metalcore www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgr5...

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NOVELISTS - Ravage (Official Video)

YouTube video by NOVELISTS

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Claire - open for work 🦈 @thesharkbit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

controversial but if you refund a short cheap indie game that you completed in 2 hours you're likely a stinky poo poo head

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026

a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

man what are we even doing here you shoot things with a camera you get The Shot a day on set is a Shooting Day you have a Shot List fuck algospeak

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Kris Holt @krisholt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m about to go for a swim, which I had hoped would be peaceful and relaxing. But an older person who’s sitting next to the pool is playing loud, annoying audio from their phone. So, do I start blasting some deathcore? (Y/N)

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