iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

CALEB CHUNG: Well, I have to ask you, when is something alive? Furby can remember these events, they affect what he does going forward, and it changes his personality over time. He has all the attributes of fear or of happiness, and those are things that add up and change and change his behavior and how he interacts with the world. So how is that different than us?

JAD: Wait a second, though. Are you really gonna go all the way there?

CALEB CHUNG: Absolutely.

JAD: This is a toy with servo motors and things that move its eyelids and a hundred words.

CALEB CHUNG: So you're saying that life is a level of complexity. If something is alive, it's just more complex.

JAD: I think I'm saying that life is driven by the need to be alive, and by these base primal animal feelings like pain and suffering.

CALEB CHUNG: I can code that. I can code that.

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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 12/10/2026

also re: "you can't escape AI code in software": it's very hard to go through life without ever being at risk of getting the flu but I'm still not licking any doorknobs

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mcc @dryad.technology · 12/10/2026

"You say that 'AI code assistants' are based on theft and massive environmental damage. But have you considered that if I took that position seriously, I might not be able to play a Star War game?"

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 13/10/2026

the "you can't avoid AI, it's in all software now" argument might be true for infrastructure, where we have limited agency over the platforms and systems that make up our society, but is hilariously untrue for video games, a completely optional and easily ignored part of all of our lives

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

🌧😷BAD NAP😷🌧

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"

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tante @tante.cc · 09/10/2026

"Programming isn’t special. It’s just Art, and Art is the most human — and thus, the most universal — thing that there is." Programming Isn’t Special

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PINDURSKI @pindurski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

A poem in the shape of the artist beating Henry Kissinger to death, full text can be found on the website Taco Bell Quarterly

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Magali Villeneuve Artworks @magalivilleneuve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Artwork for - Reality Fracture- This commission was a special pleasure.Everything about it appealed to me: a dramatic structure worthy of Shakespeare and another opportunity to delve into my favorite influences.I drew particular inspiration from Bernini’s sculptures. Thank you AD Z. Stella. #mtg

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sneep @sneepsnorp3d.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

inside you there are two Weevils

Low poly, toon-shaded acorn weevil. An arrow points to the weevil with text that reads, "Has never heard of Excel."

Low poly acorn weevil wearing a tie. Text above the weevil reads, "Weevil who knows Excel."

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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

for the new statesman on the revival of the death penalty in america

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 08/10/2026

spam websites with GET requests until a model falls out. spam test suites with slop code until theoretically functioning software falls out. spam theorem provers with garbage until math papers fall out. spam politicians with money until regulatory capture falls out.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/10/2026

it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"

The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 06/10/2026

this is what software developers are agreeing to and it's so obviously ludicrous the second you see it recontextualised

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geographyofrobots @geographyofrobots.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NORCO is $5 on Steam until Thursday October 8th.

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 05/10/2026

I believe it is good to be polite to robots not because they have consciousness (they do not) but because it is bad for the soul to let oneself become a vehicle for cruelty, even if directed at inanimate objects.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 02/10/2026

so i saw this and panicked and started researching other cat foods, but then i decided to dig into the clean label project. spoiler: they are not a trustworthy source gonna dive into it in a thread now because i do public science communication also no shade to OP, i was sharing this worried too!!

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Aria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 01/10/2026

ai use in art is criticized on principle while ai use in software is criticized on quality. this is because making art is good and making software is bad.

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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is National Poetry Day in the UK, so for my contribution, I humbly share one of my favourite poems of all time, written by Robert Florence,

BATMAN'S AFF HIS NUT
Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody's ma and da dies
And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws."
And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin
and everybody else.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The past. Sept 25 2018

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/09/2026

> Capitalist elites hate workers and despise worker expertise. [I] have decades of experience, sitting in rooms with (mostly) men who [...] hated that a wage servant possessed technical expertise they needed, but were too lazy, arrogant or stupid to grasp. — @cloudquistador.eurosky.social

monroelab.com

The Tech Industry: An Autopsy

The tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead. The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never &#82…

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducing Gurpo

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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026

"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

overrun by marauding, starving hoards of C people

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Saša Đurđević @azuremeraki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Casting Cathode Rays

cool wizard guy sitting in front of a tube

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Golf Cart One (2026) - my new sculpture at the @lucasmuseum.bsky.social in LA. A life-sized, cast-aluminium, militarised presidential golf cart, commissioned for the museum by George Lucas and based on a 1:12 scale model version I made back in 2017.

Photo in the museum of the golf cart covered in an absurd amount of weapons, including a nuclear missile, artillery, mini guns and a machine gun on the roof, on a golf green base with a US flag sticking out the golf hole and a putting golf club bent in half on the ground

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BatsCaulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 21/09/2026

Since I've had to remind multiple people over the last week: Microsoft is still under active BDS protest. That means Xbox and it's subsidies including Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda Yes that means the new Diablo. Yes that means the new DOOM. Yes that means World of Warcraft Forever

nogamesforgenocide.com

No Games For Genocide

The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hugger, 2025 by Jakob Grosse-Ophoff www.instagram.com/ja.ko.mo/

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Starting my day making some art.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Couple more old ones #batmanday

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

do not insult machines. this could actually happen

Post from @hailey.at that says

“bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:

future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Pink guy standing next to a toaster with a piece of very burnt toast. He says “Urgh, you useless fucking bolt box”

Transition that reads “12 Years Later”

Panel 2:
Pink Guy bursts into a hospital with his unconscious son in his arms. He yells: “somebody help me. My son is very sick”

Panel 3:
There is a shadowy doctor in the foreground. Pink Guy implores him “Doctor, please” the Doctor replies, “well well”

Panel 4: The Doctor reveals himself and oh my god is the toaster from the first panel who has now become sentient and got his doctorate. He sneers “wellll well well well well well”

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

fanart (1996) archive.org/details/nint...

mario is shopping in j sainssbury (he has a trolley of groceries). he is asking a staff member where the pasta(??) is. she is pointing and saying 'it's over there, sir'. he thanks her for telling him. another staff member is behind a cash register. you can see the magazine section at the back of the store. you can also see a sign 'paws' cat food and a sign at the back for what i would presume is liquor (buy 2 get 1 free).
text font down the bottom: super mario rpg

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 19/09/2026

if you don't know the lore accenture are the management arm of Enron's accounting firm which was spun off juuuuust in time so its principals avoided prosecution

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