iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Luca

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.

1473931854

Reposted by Luca

Ants Schmants @zippermint.itch.io · 24/07/2026

This reminds me of a youtuber I saw once complaining that Garfield Kart would shut down his computer with a controller plugged in and it turns out the problem was that the most upvoted steam config for Garfield Kart at the time was a community config that bound every button to "Shutdown Computer"

1239101518

Reposted by Luca

Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Music is over" is the mating call of a creature that thinks we sat around a fire 20,000 years ago and invented drums as an investment vehicle

01004191

Reposted by Luca

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

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

74158899

Reposted by Luca

Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's something perverse about this article's framing asking us to sympathize with the billionaires who, we're being shown, are actively trying to hide their money overseas to avoid having to contribute to the economy that made them wealthy.

1965244

Reposted by Luca

Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026

You catch that big video essay last night?

coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler

3732441031

Reposted by Luca

Joanna @purenonsens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

William Hays, linocuts www.theartistsloft.com

15519

Reposted by Luca

Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the future tech bros are dreaming of

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Purple Guy panicking in a room full of flames. He screams “Oh God! I’m going to die!”

Panel 2:
Purple Guy is now on the phone (still surrounded by flames). He yells “Fire Service!! My house is burning down”

Panel 3:
Purple Guy (still burning to death) is now hollering “My address? Shit I don’t know! Lemme check my phone”

Panel 4:
Close up on Purple Guy’s phone screen. It reads: Emergency call detected. Pay £45.50 to view address.

4548251322

Reposted by Luca

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.

58854761499

Reposted by Luca

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

191149444046

Reposted by Luca

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dudes rock, Sunday night edition. (Goodnight)

132089603

Reposted by Luca

Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We can all feel however we'd like to about OOT but the idea that it's just unreal engine slop/has no art style/Nintendo hired this man etc is a bit incurious to me. A) this isn't a realistic world, B) even if it was, realism isn't emotionally neutral (and is art direction!)

20419102

Reposted by Luca

UnnotableFox @unnotablejulz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sybil goes for a walk on the beach #pseudoregalia

142520548

Reposted by Luca

𓆩MissDandy𓆪 👽 @missandydandy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦. 🩶🖤🔷

3151251110

Reposted by Luca

Panic Restaurant (Permanent Deltarune Brain Edition) @panicrestaurant.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

I take zero fucking pleasure in reminding people about this every time, but Lollipop Chainsaw is currently in the hands of some absolute losers and you should not give them your money. You should, however, check out the original 360/PS3 release because it’s a lot of fun! (Source in alt text)

6534891876

Reposted by Luca

eriiiii 🌙 @sereprism.cc · 31/08/2026

same va btw

125177

Reposted by Luca

derv @timm.cool · 28/08/2026

Wenn ich einen Knopf an der Haustür hätte der ein irre lustiges Geräusch abspielt und ich mich jedes mal lautstark beschweren würde wenn den jemand drückt was die Leute nur noch mehr anstachelt, dann würde ich ja einfach den Knopf entfernen.

0161

Reposted by Luca

🌸MurmurLilies🌸 @murmurlilies.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

SayoLara finale prediction

Fan art for the anime series Goodbye, Lara (2026) parodying a scene from The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004). Lara and Mari are standing on a beach, drawn much smaller than normal, gazing up past the frame. Mari is wearing her boxing gloves. An off-screen figure says, "I can take you there!" to which Lara replies, "Who are you?" We then see a low angle shot of a man in swim trunks, rendered in a much more realistic style. Lara's dagger hovers distantly in the sky behind him. "I'm David Hasselhoff," the man says. The scene ends with Lara smiling and throwing her fists up in the air in celebration while Mari holds her boxing gloves over her chest, both shouting "HOORAY!" in unison.

1063771569

Reposted by Luca

Shot One Fighters! @shotonefighters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sybil for the Shot One Fighters X Pseudoregalia crossover by the amazing @jayaply.bsky.social , who has been the lead illustrator on our project. 🌠

154851979

Reposted by Luca

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 26/08/2026

Keighley's disinterest in excluding AI trailers really devalues the whole thing. These events are rarely to my taste, but the experience of watching "ONL" was one of watching slop. Even non-AI games are tainted by the association — we have to second-guess, every time.

253016767

Reposted by Luca

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026

back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry

2967161545

Luca @luca.fyi · 24/08/2026

Dummer Roboter rennt gegen Wand

080

Reposted by Luca

derv @timm.cool · 24/08/2026

das war der aus Joker oder?

3292

Reposted by Luca

Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

me after seeing who the director is in the credits of a movie

112015146

Reposted by Luca

Lux!✨️ @luxlucifer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

oh fuck new video limit means i can upload breaking bad type beat

97107255125

Reposted by Luca

[VOID] @goldenrequiems.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

sick world we live in

388532977

Reposted by Luca

SWZTCH 🔜 HOWL26 @swztch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

on a big walk with you ❤️☁️ #art #bigwalk

73409967

Reposted by Luca

Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

94142983816

Reposted by Luca

Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right

38692682264

Reposted by Luca

Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026

I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam

youtu.be

Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

11573013021

Reposted by Luca

Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I guess it wasn't a dream after all

620847