iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10h

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 21h

Blender really should ship with a wasm runtime for add-ons, it would be a perfect fit. The python env is nice but it's very limited, for high performance or custom operations you really need to drop down to compiled code and targeting multiple architectures/platforms really is a pain.

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 22h

you can automate the production of aesthetic objects, but i don't think you can automate cultural movement the same way. you can manipulate it, but that's more dynamic like warfare, territorial capture of attention.

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

imo populism is often misunderstood to have an ideological bent, when it's a general strategy: populist politicians support positions iteratively, based on whatever best satisfies their next win condition. Of course when they encounter that capability in a talking computer, they see it as a positive

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*Should we, maybe, be pondering some kind of moral framework for the way we treat maps of fruit-fly brains *Maybe as a cautious lab rehearsal for what might reveal itself as a big issue some day interconnected.org/home/2026/09...

interconnected.org

A new prayer for the fruit fly connectome

Posted on Saturday 26 Sep 2026. 1,568 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Attention (and at least 256GB unified memory) is all you need

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bike/pedestrian networks don't take 30 years to build. Stop accepting those timelines in your community. The best practices have been proven & they already exist. Safety should already be the #1 priority. The ROI is unbeatable. The timeline is a moral document and it shouldn't be generational.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As a traditional animator, I could do without the antagonistic framing discourse, but driving puppets with prose instructions by tagging the puppet parts with words is genuinely clever. imo the real MVP though is Alejandro Campos' p5.brush library, used here for rendering github.com/acamposuribe...

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GitHub - acamposuribe/p5.brush: Unlock custom brushes, natural fill effects and intuitive hatching in p5.js

Unlock custom brushes, natural fill effects and intuitive hatching in p5.js - acamposuribe/p5.brush

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 26/09/2026

Spent a week thinking about creative coding as a process being different than the coding artists do to achieve tool for a larger artwork and the space in between these since the “utility” coding is “solvable” with AI. 1/?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

"well that's a nice idea but we can't just go and retrain all the models overnight" becomes one more layer on the pile of excuses for never improving things; "we'd have to rewrite so much code" "we'd have to rewrite all the textbooks" "we'd have to change all the road signs"

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*As an art critic, I really like the glitch in slop; slop without any visible glitch isn't even slop, it's just low-rent stochastic-plagiarism

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ironically while the thousand injuries to Toronto since 2010 have had more short-term tangible negative impact on our family's quality of life, they're mostly reversible. Cancelling suburban train expansion / electrification is imo the most permanent destructive action the family has realized so far

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FLIGHT ATTENDANT: is there a doctor on board FRANKENSTEIN: *starts to stand* DR FRANKENSTEIN: *pulls him back down* i think they mean me

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If your first language is English, and you've never sung the elemenopee-free ESL version out loud, I suggest trying it. Powerful systems running below your conscious awareness will start yelling "There...are...four...lights!" the first time your brain gives the order to divide it HIJKLMN-OPQ-RST

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

man saaaame. I just dug this out and it implies that a grain of film is developable after *dozens* of photons hit it

the work of Belloni et al. on formate additions in Sect.
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Although a grain which has received 3-4 photons may be developable, geometric and absorbency factors also dictate that normally grains have to be exposed by considerably more than this threshold number of photons in order to ensure they are developable. In practice, the quantum efficiency of photographic systems is often only about 20%
According to Slifkin (1972) the efficiency of silver

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People like this are our last hope

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Water tower Friend, NE

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Ellie B. Spookypants @brynstar7.xyz · 21/09/2026

I keep seeing this headline come across my feed and I keep thinking of this Calvin & Hobbes strip.

A Calvin & Hobbes strip.

In the first panel, Calvin and Hobbes are looking at a painting. Calvin says “A painting. Moving. Spiritually enriching. Sublime. …’High’ art!”

In the second panel, they are looking at comics in the newspaper. Calvin says “the comic strip. Vapid. Juvenile. Commercial hack work. … ‘Low’ art.“

in the third panel they are looking at a book. Calvin says, “A painting of a comic strip panel. Sophisticated irony. Philosophically challenging. ‘High’ art.”

In the fourth panel they have art supplies Hobbes says, “suppose I draw a cartoon of a painting of a comic strip?” Calvin says, “Sophomoric. Intellectually sterile. ‘Low’ art.”

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Oliver @oliverarts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Does anyone else get unnerved when characters with dot eyes suddenly gain sclera

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My high-school art teacher used to use this one; a mean-spirited reverse Walter Benjamin sort of move. Normally the cultural authority's blessing adds "cult value" that transforms an artifact into art, but here they start by assuming the artifact already holds some cult value, and want to destroy it

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cat has been using voice input to deal with a hand impairment and outlines how she has addressed basically all the things that keep me from using voice input with any frequency. (I currently sound like an idiot when I talk to the computer.) Really good thread.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/09/2026

Teaching Neuromancer this semester, and I'm proud to say that a CS undergrad in my class invented this joke independently

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

in my cosmology we are all inside this inconceivable 4D horse

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 20/09/2026

Italians seem to love gen-AI images. The most beautiful towns are infested with them. Everywhere you look there's some Lovecraftian menu or slop postcard. Admittedly we kind of invented that aesthetic, so maybe it's a form of reclamation?

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026

Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 18/09/2026

It looks like we are launching a new #TOphoto feed for photos of Toronto and the GTHA, folks. I’m alerting @eastcoastkin-ac.bsky.social that this is happening as well. Thank you 🙏 @flyingtrilobite.com for this great idea.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026

Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This post by @lastpositivist.bsky.social remains the single best take on effective altruism

Adding a single principle to utilitarianism ("ok, but no galaxy brain stuff, alright?") and thereby perfecting moral philosophy.

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 17/09/2026

pain is pain entering the body

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brennan @brennan.computer · 17/09/2026

is there a word for the delicious digital proprioception where you know there's a discourse lurking somewhere out there but you've only seen one or two vague references to it so you actually have no real idea, just the shape of some mass drifting past in the fog

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Cycle Fun Montreal @cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

19 kilometres of main-artery bike lanes removed is going to cause accidents and deaths. Nice theat the big newspaper is taking a stance against this madness.

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Globe editorial: Doug Ford should (also) stay in his lane

Removing space for cyclists, which the Premier describes as common sense, looks more like culture-war politics

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Jay Domestic @jay2theworld.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Geese have wings but they’re still like, nah I wanna walk across four lanes of traffic single file, thanks.

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denise🌈 @overrrrrrr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

someone i know found this in their pre-genAI textbook. you can't read this normally any more

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The next move for the Hitchhikers stories was always going to require adding another meta-layer. A book series, adapted from a radio drama, parodying a Philip José Farmer novel, that was an elaborate prank based on a single paragraph in a Kurt Vonnegut novel...

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meetar @fjord.style · 14/09/2026

Some are born morning person, some achieve morning person, and some have morning person thrust upon them

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 13/09/2026

actually ratatouille was the name of the dish, you are thinking of ratatouille’s monster

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