iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I blame Google and Facebook for this at the end of the day but yeah Gannett can eat shit the incremental lift on this stuff is always few percent but these newsroom product managers never account for the sheer descruction these same decisions have on their reputation value in the math

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 7h

I'm well-versed in the conflicts of it all, but you cannot tell me that life isn't better when you can talk to a computer like this

"i think i liked the dimensionality of the beveled G and the stroke contrast of blackletter examples at least somewhat — in the whole lockup, a whispy comic-sans-ass looking glyph kind of sucks" where I'm referring to drawings of past attempts I'd made at solving an anagram design

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frame

Life size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 14h

the SPEED at which I wishlisted this game is something

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

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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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lazyweb, I'm in search of the perfect ambigram of "C" and "N" (or "n") that is it reads as one or the other when rotated.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Schadenfreuding out here about how private-citizen Lewandowski is maybe clutch to bringing certain conspiracy laws down on all their heads, love that for them

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just went on Twitter to see what Jason Yuan thought of OpenAI launching "Dot" and while I was rewarded with a funny video of him pounding shots, I am reeling at the current play: Hivemind. What in the fuck?

hivemind.ai

Hivemind's Constitution

Hivemind's Constitution.

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 17/09/2026

Friends, it's that time of the year: Once again, I'm asking you to help me create another amazing HTMHell Advent Calendar by writing about HTML. The CFP is open until October 3! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.com

HTMHell Advent Calendar

Hello, my dear friends of high-quality markup! We're getting closer to the last quarter of 2026, which means that the HTMHell Advent Calendar is getting closer, too. Last year, once again, you contrib...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s hard to overstate just how great a social evil the new ubiquity of sports betting has become. Companies like Draft Kings, Fanduel, and all the others are a cancer, preying on addicts and seeking new addicts. It also threatens (and is already undermining) the integrity of sport itself.

nytimes.com

At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)

Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

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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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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

long long lonnnnnnnnng spagggghetti #fallingblockjam

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

404media.co

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Working with Fable on a UI implementation where I'm winging everything, I have a newfound appreciation for engineers like @eldar.social who had to navigate building with me through various creative ideation. Or should I say, "You're right to call that out."

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Jhey ʕ·ᴥ·　ʔ @jhey.dev · 22/09/2026

slop grenade™

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Need to start a Weezer diversion program that provides quality power-pop to at-risk zoomers

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 15/09/2026

Artist Cara Esten Hurtle was angry to learn that SFPD deployed drones to arrest people during Pride Weekend. So she flipped the lens, turning drones on a fixture of our increasingly surveilled world: Flock cameras. Read @rahawahaile.bsky.social's Q&A about Hurtle's latest photo project.

coyotemedia.org

An Oakland Photographer Surveils the Surveillance State

Cara Esten Hurtle’s drone-based art project shows the difference between being seen and being spotted.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I truly do not like these complex embeds in my @bsky.app feed with subscribe buttons and multiple font sizes et al

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really gonna fuck with people because I'm using Claude right now to create a workflow to mask and tag like 3000 drawings of people I did with a dip pen across two summers by hand

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not to kink shame but Lurie has an unmatched talent for appointing people and immediately looking like an aloof rich dumbass Obscure Halloween costume idea: I’m the gilded rake that our mayor just keeps stepping on

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have to make a collage and I joyfully let my photoshop subscription lapse. What’s the latest raster app I should look at for effected, montage type work?

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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A wee pocket to store your #doodlemud player out of the way while drawing. #picotron

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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 15/09/2026

The DOOM demo is fascinating

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Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026

i don't like that i feel like we're all getting dragged against our will into an all-media all-the-time LessWrong thread, an insanely annoying and disorienting experience that most people do not have sufficient experience or mental preparations to deal with

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...

In a dashboard available to the workers, human reviewers are able to select which “task” they want to take on. Once they click that, they are presented with the real ChatGPT user’s prompt. 404 Media has seen multiple real prompts but is not quoting any of them for source protection reasons. Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

E is for Ernest who choked on a peach

A photo of an open Edward Gorey book, the ink drawing showing a child seated alone at the head of a long dining table. A chair back twice his height. He’s contemplating a whole peach on a plate.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TIL about Amazon Sidewalk, what a ridiculous company. Now to invent a device that emits 500Gb of iot traffic

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had this idea from reading the elizabeth holmes mouse post and then I couldn't do anything else until i painted the idea to completion

It is a cartoon mouse, like Jerry from Tom and Jerry, shaped like a wedge of cheese presumably because it has eaten a wedge of cheese. The mouse has Elizabeth Holmes' face. The mouse is saying "Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that."

Nathan Fielder, looking into a fridge where the mouse has eaten a cheese, says skeptically "Okay. Alright."

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How this shit’s about to hit

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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 08/09/2026

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This feels like a bad idea for traffic

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/09/2026

Chili is an airport security specialist, which means that there absolutely is canonical terrorism in the Bluey universe.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The new Onimusha game is hitting so hard out the gate, I’m in love

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 03/09/2026

You asked, and the unknowable has answered the call: 🚨 KEEPER is coming to PS5... TODAY 🚨 All available platforms will receive two more Keeper updates today: PSYCHEDELIC MODE (a wild new way to experience the game), and a sweet price drop across all platforms!

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matt @matt.evil.gay · 03/09/2026

TLDR:

"CAN'T BELIEVE IM ALREADY NOSTALGIC FOR CORPORATE MEMPHIS AESTHETIC, AFTER ONLY A FEW MONTHS OF SMALL BUSINESS AI SLOP POSTER AESTHETIC"

background filled with both corporate memphis photos and ai slop posters

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Jay Annelli @vorthosjay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The world is terrible but I can crush 7 children’s dreams at the same time now

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I was today years old when I found out that the Mandarin that the American English expression "gung ho" is based off of literally means "industrial cooperative". I am passing this information along in the hopes that someone will write the thinkpiece that this deserves en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho

en.wikipedia.org

Gung ho - Wikipedia

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

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