iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hello, we remastered this classic PS2 game you like. it looks worse, plays worse and has tons of new bugs. the original file size was 2.4gb and could fit on a dvd. it is now 240gb and won’t fit on your ssd.

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Tony Zaret @tonyzaret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After seeing endless posts on the importance of “third spaces” I finally found one near me - annndddd it was filled with media illiterate normies who didn’t laugh at my Deltarune references. So yeah, I'll stay ‘terminally online’ - at least until this city has more fandom-friendly pickleball courts

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the final scene of this movie is a couple seconds of sean williams scott, david duchovny and orlando jones hocking head and shoulders shampoo. EVOLUTION did get one detail correct about it: if you use head and shoulders shampoo, it will kill you

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fesh pince ebooks @feshpincebot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

LOOK, you BIG EARED FREERF, YOU TAKE YOUR HORNY LITTLE ASS, AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY!

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bro they got james somerton in pikmin

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think it is safe to say nixon is my favourite president to see in entertainment. first of all, he sounds funny. second of all, he looks funny

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit Kojima met Batou

Kojima with Asha Sharma and Batou from Ghost in the Shell

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the problem with playing dreamcast games is: - they’re all awesome - you will never find anything that plays like them again sorry buddy. you loved rent a hero and want more of it? TOO BAD. it’s the only thing in existence like it

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i genuinely think joycons might be the worst controller of all time. like say what you want about the gamecube controller, the xbox duke, etc. at least my hands have never gone numb using them. i’ve played thousands of hours of ssbm and joycons feel like they’re damaging my hands even more

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

God tier Dillas: - Quesadilla - J Dilla - Anthony Padilla

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i thought the industry was already reset by the release of the Ouya so this really catches me off guard

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ChloeCade @chloecade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Are you really an Oshii fan if you haven't seen his two episode stint on the tokusatsu show Keita Sousakan 7? (secretly the most poetic thing put to television)

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it's been years since the Peggle 2 reveal so i'll finally say it: that guy's reaction on stage is legit how it feels to play Peggle

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ALT:

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the only thing that can stop a bad guy with an LLM… is a good guy with an LLM

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Joe Palmer @joepalmerart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Vulcan Raven 🐦‍⬛

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Fassad to the Tazmilly villagers in Chapter 3

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Colin @moxbagel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This week Labyrinth of Cinema podcast covers a bizarre classic (to someone) - Strange Brew. Hang with @lowercasejai.bsky.social @bigbeefs.bsky.social and me to enter the chaos spiral of 80s sketch comedy culture. Links in the reply!

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

all i'm saying is: kumail nanjiani is gonna have to deliver some insane quips in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet to save sony at this point

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

they should keep making The Simpsons forever, not cause i want to watch it, but so TheRealJims can produce videos on it forever

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Meet Marcel Toing. Proud owner of restaurant Ratatatoing. Chef Toing knows the secret of every great chef. To prepare the most delicious meals, you must find the freshest toing.

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's called doing a bad impression of Christopher from The Sopranos, T. It's when you make him say stuff about current events that isn't remotely the way he talks. It’s lit!

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

guns and roses on the playstation 5 be like welcome to the jungle we've got fun

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They Just Got Moo Deng On Hot Ones

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

she live service my hulst because i’m #HERMAN

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i just realised this means there’s gonna be no physint astrobot in astrobot 2… hold me,,, i’m shakign… WHAT WILL I CLAP AT NOW??

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

miyamoto has said in the past that zelda was inspired by his adventures as a child buying nba 2k expansion passes

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ChloeCade @chloecade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

60 years without him today... I can't believe it 💔

Pigmon from episode 8 of the original Ultraman series.
Text reads:
"September 4, 1966, Pigmon, who was popular among the girls, died."

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i got two directs. i got twoooo directs

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BIG LOU @biglou.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

out in the drecking field

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

nirvanna the band the show the fanart

a stylized (semi-cubist) render of the main characters matt and jay of nirvanna the band the show

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Miss Big Tail @taildoll.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Gaming Anniversaries; on this day 10 years ago, an Xbox 360 was sold in Japan.

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

things GTA 6 must let me do in order to be a 10 out of 10: - walk up in the bank - order me some funds - walk up in the strip club - order me some ones - walk up in the gun sto - order me some guns - order some more money - order some more money - order some more money

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

has anyone ever posted this illustration of Neo from The Matrix that Shinkawa drew for one of Kojima's film columns

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I still think about this photo at least once a week.

Robert Woodhead, the co-creator of Wizardry and co-founder of AnimEigo, standing next to Yuji Horii, creator of Dragon Quest.

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this photo on the Wikipedia page for Tokusatsu is killing me

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Satoshi Kon drew this cryogenic capsule in "Akira" (Volume 6, page 262). Reminder: Kon was one of Otomo's assistants on this manga (and the only one to receive a "Special Thanks" credit). x.com/catsuka/stat...

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Early Cartoon Network was hugely inspired by the UPA animator Bobe Cannon. Artists like Genndy Tartakovsky loved his style of movement, studied it and put it in their work. We're looking into Cannon's methods and how they shaped these shows: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-animat...

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