iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 29/09/2026

i must warn you: my penis could be too big. the pleasure it gives might tear society apart. our scientists just aren't sure yet

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Marky Wildtype @markywildtype.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really wish "journalists" would do a little bit of work to understand what these companies are ACTUALLY making, not what they SAY they're making, instead of acting as adjunct propagandists for obvious fundraising drives. Tech bros and credulous low-info bosses pose the existential threat.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our government thinks you're a terrorist if you protest this.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fleetwood Mac was a CIA experiment to see if straight people could survive the average queer friend group dynamic

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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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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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I used to want a software engineering job. That dream for me is dying.”

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The same people who said ‘all lives matter’ in response to BLM are now arguing that refugees should be left to drown in the Channel.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 16/09/2026

You know what's kind of funny is that it seems like a lot of people had a good joke about the blandness of Ed Sheeran's music all queued up to go but were holding back because it felt too mean for someone who was just irritating and hadn't done anything bad, and now it's like go time

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They are similar even compared to other bigotries. A small minority group that does well in good times suddenly put in enormous danger through a mix of cynical scapegoating and psychotic conspiracism when times turn bad. Stereotyped as powerful yet weak, visibly different yet hidden among “us.”

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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MattTS @mattts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some of those that work forces, are the same that block portses

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/08/2026

And again, this new "era" of AI was introduced to the public by cretinous money ghouls crowing about how they were going to take everyone's jobs

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/08/2026

People here recoil from AI because it doesn't look like the future. The observable uses for it include: - Scams - Homogenously hideous zero-effort advertising - Making non-consensual porn out of real people's photos - Insanely inflated market capitalization

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.

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Mr. Charlie @mrcharlie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Potato vending machine - 24 hour potato access

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Reform will end ‘something for nothing’ Britain.” - Nigel Farage. He receives £98,599 a year as an MP, yet for more than three months this year he didn't cast a single parliamentary vote or make a single written contribution or speech in Parliament either. But yes, let’s shout at poor people

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Hare Lockwood @harelockwood.com · 05/08/2026

I was so furious about that Channel 4 ADHD documentary that I done a sarcasm.

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Funny innit? The risk of misdiagnosing a single neurotypical person is worth dragging each and every ND person back to the 90s where they were 'difficult,' 'thick' or 'disruptive'

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Why do Master Race people always look like shabby little freaks" is one of those questions which answers itself if you think about it for even a moment

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yvette Cooper confirming that NHS guidance is coming forth shortly banning trans people from single sex wards. She waffles about ‘alternative provision’ but let’s be realistic here, this will massively massively disadvantage trans people’s care. Fuck Andy Burnham

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Nikki Jayne @nikkijayne.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Just seen someone refer to the new EHRC guidance as ‘Section 28 and 3/4’

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Aside from its obvious transphobia, this is easily the most misogynistic thing the EHRC has ever done. Women have to look a certain way or some whacko will demand to see your genitals. Congratulations. What a victory for feminism.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thinking of every trans man and woman, every non-binary person, every butch lesbian, every slightly "unfeminine" (whatever that means) woman, every tall woman, every woman with short hair, everyone affected by this stupid, hate-based, totally misguided new guidance from the EHRC.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 30/07/2026

did you expect a clown posse to be reasonable and level-headed

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/07/2026

Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me

France and Spain are on fire due to climate change, but never mind that, driving is a nightmare for tall people like me – so which cars are best to help back pain?

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Everyone you meet is fighting a war you know nothing about, because the first thing the enemy did was take out satellite and ground-based relays before hitting STRATCOM with combined physical and cyber attacks

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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