iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Auntie Lily’s Mixing Spoon @elletheebelle.bsky.social · 1h

Doing what no one in America is willing to do.

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APirateHat🎨Portrait Painter🖌️OUT NOW! @apiratehat.bsky.social · 6h

During October and Halloween last year I made this dress-up game where you can make a stylish ghost👻 apiratehat.itch.io/boo-uty-salon #gamedev #indiedev #halloween

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SROC | KICKSTARTER LIVE 🌤️ @sunnysideroyals.bsky.social · 17h

A fantasy drama about four messy royal demigods desperate to prove they’re not terrible people by saving the world and passing midterms.... NOW ON KICKSTARTER!!! 🌤️👑

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 16h

NO WARRIOR CAN FIGHT ALONE. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT.

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Mike Castoro @mikecastoro.bsky.social · 14h

“No fatties. No tr***s. No beardos. No weirdoes. No wimps. No radicals — JUST WARRIORS. Diversity is not our strength..” translation: The govt must make sure I’m pretty like they want me, be a total submissive telling me who I can even have sex with while doing daddy’s war crimes lulz fuck off

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16h

Billionaire political spending was about $16 million in 2008. In 2026, it could reach $2–3 billion. Whatever your politics, that’s a staggering shift in who has the financial power to shape American elections.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/09/2026

Fuck it, I'm putting it out there: Optimism October.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 21h

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 16h

this is who owns ModRetro btw

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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 01/10/2026

steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you

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Morbid Forest @morbidforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is nothing more special than a bond between a human and an extraterrestrial entity. Join us today at 9am PST for an action packed out of this world tale- "No One Like Us", written by EM Otero #MorbidForest #horror #horrorpodcast #spacehorror #scifihorror

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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 23h

It’s the Billionaires versus the rest of us. Photo from @thetnholler.bsky.social

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES?

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many men would rather engage in violent fantasy about what they WOULD do instead of doing what they easily COULD.

Threads post from @protextor

“I'd kill for my daughter."

OK. Will you risk social inconvenience by calling out your peers loudly and to their face? Or is that bare minimum real-life scenario scarier than your hypothetical one? 1/2

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

talent is a lie

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Leshen @leshen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good to have a reminder every once in a while. It's easy to do, and the problem is likely to get worse. So make it a habit.

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𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓲 @n-nunes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

let's fucking goooooo

two panel meme of an anime femme holding a sign with a happy expression. in the first panel the sign reads "if our struggle was hopeless their propaganda would be unnecessary" in the second panel they are pointing at the sign and it reads "keep going"

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 26/09/2026

Starbucks is ending their DEI initiatives nationwide. If you’re a customer, BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. If you’re a Starbucks worker, organize your union to protect you and your coworkers before things get even worse.

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Mike Castoro @mikecastoro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There tonsssssss of gambling grifts being pushed on us.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.

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Mike Castoro @mikecastoro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The blame for this cultural stagnation is simple and direct: Spotify.” And we love the payouts we get from it as non-imperial artists, $0.00

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Case Portman @caseportmanaudio.com · 25/09/2026

Hi, I’m Case! 👋 I’m a sound designer who loves crafting sounds from scratch. Recording, tweaking, experimenting and getting my hands dirty. No dang AI generation here! While the digital world gets more “tokens this” and “credits that”, I’m happy keeping things old-school. 💜

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Myth busting about Scotland's 'need' for data centres feat. angry moorhen (Follow us on insta at stopaidatacentres.scot)

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Wendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Make sure you check your registration! SCOTUS gives the Trump regime the green light to kick people they don’t like off voter rolls. Fascism is coming to America, unless voters use their power to stop it at the midterms. #Sheshed www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/p...

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Supreme Court says states can use controversial citizenship data tool for voter audits in win for Trump | CNN Politics

In a major win for President Donald Trump’s efforts to find non-citizen voters, the Supreme Court on Friday said states can use a controversial citizenship data collection tool for reviewing voter rol...

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He sells it for $10 now because other artists are so flabbergasted now that dude made his own software for this and want it too. Not a single question about vibe code Days without me seeing artists en-masse forgetting about "ai is bad" when it comes to vibecoded software that does what they want: 0

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Apostolos K. @koutropoulos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is no reason for a "smart" fridge to exist...Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

So absurd and embarrassing ..."

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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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2dchaos - WISHLIST NECHROMIA!!! @2dchaos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rent is SUPER late, the new rent comes up tomorrow and I really could use some help with it! For a limited time: $35 you get a portrait in the game, $150 a character or your pet playable, $300 a room with it's own puzzles and theme! ko-fi.com/2dchaos

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reminder that Donald Trump, Jr.’s venture capital firm is a major investor in Polymarket. He is also an adviser to Kalshi. Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators are suing states attempting to regulate prediction markets and Trump himself has said the platforms will “thrive” under his administration.

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New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation that puts residents at risk

Prediction market platforms have argued states do not have the authority to govern them because they are already regulat

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Christophe is making Prerolled! @qaqelol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You can get my All-in-One guides and Ready-To-Go cheatsheets for $24 (instead of $30)! You can also get one or the other at 20% off if you don't need both!! The sale will end in 12 days!! itch.io/s/201895/aut... 🍂Happy Autumn!!!🍂 #Godot #GameDev #IndieDev #Tween #Ui #Shader #GodotEngine

Sale cover showing the cover for my all-in-one guide and ready-to-go cheatsheets. Alot of cheatsheets are regrouped at the bottom of the image.

The text reads as:

AUTUMN SALE -20%
All-in-one (interactives guides) + Ready-To-Go (preconfigured & organized cheatsheets)

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Malwarebytes @malwarebytes.com · 22/09/2026

AI assistants like Muse increasingly require permissions to carry out actions like adding calendar events and using connected services. While these capabilities make assistants more useful, they also create an attractive target for cybercriminals, who may attempt to use them for malicious purposes.

malwarebytes.com

Meta’s Muse AI assistant has a zero-day that can turn it into a Mac backdoor

A simple terminal command can hijack Muse and use its extensive permissions to spy on Mac users and control their connected accounts.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 22/09/2026

Here's a list of rpg fan translations that do not use AI! very handy resource

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘Coyote vs. Acme’ has now surpassed $100 MILLION at the worldwide box office. The film had a reported $70 million budget and was acquired by Ketchup Entertainment for $50 million.

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stop naming Dragons after colors, it is lame and unevocative. Be fearless. Name them after food flavours. Strawberry Shortcake Dragon. Chipotle Beef Dragon. Salt and Vinegar Dragon. Quesodrake #ttrpg #dnd

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est. 1997 @molenaide.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

DO YOU REMEMBER

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Trover Saves the Universe' got delisted on all platforms. store.steampowered.com/app/1051200/...

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Fuz - Froggonit free game out now! @fuzgames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I really want more people to find Froggonit 🐸 and I actually considered paying for marketing. But I ended up using that money to pay for the Steam fee to release a free prologue instead! You get a free game to play, and I had fun making it! 🤝 #gamedev #indiegame

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/09/2026

KARL: Do you support Trump banning news organizations because he doesn't like what they're reporting? SCALISE: Look, Biden removed the press credentials from 400 agencies KARL: That's not true. 400 reporters who had credentials didn't reapply. They weren't banned from the WH. That did not happen.

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Mike Castoro @mikecastoro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This articles fantastic :”Ed made a speech about the Macklemore thing and really spoke from his heart. Well, he read from a teleprompter, but that’s the same thing when you’re a robot.” and “Ed honestly thought Macklemore would Mackle less.” - dead ☠️

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