iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17h

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 16h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026

this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love how this tech can be counted in hours old and already stories of data breaches and doxing. But yes let’s underpin the global economy on such things cos you can’t stop the future and the bottle is smash open on the floor cos your day drunk on ai.

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some news... 1. If We Tolerate This sold just shy of 5,000 copies in its first two months. Thanks to everyone who has read, responded to or shared the book so far. 2. If you haven't yet, it's only 99p on kindle for the whole of October. Get involved! www.amazon.co.uk/If-We-Tolera...

The cover of "If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable", which features the title plus an illustration of a frog in boiling water.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'SI' stands for 'Slop Intelligence', pass it round.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Next time I've done a shit job of something, I'm just going to tell people it's too dangerous to show them. The PowerPoint that I threw together last minute could actually pose a risk to humanity at large

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine you are participating a light bit of dogging in a quiet farmers field in the Cotswolds & the next thing happening is the President of America is claiming credit for catching you in the international news & there’s now a photo of you on every major news outlet in the world?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find the best way to not let myself get too down by the influx of AI is, find things that do not use AI. Celebrate it and share it! There's still so much of it, everywhere.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

S i g h .

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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I need an artist for graphic design work: 1) For Maraoke: Poster design for now & future. Creating a template that we can rework + reuse, FUN 2) For a game: think future-retro aesthetics, old arcade cabinet flyers, COOL Budget is small but non-zero. DM / stemail at google's popular email service.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

londondaily.com

Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Nick Holliday @nickholl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My son was humming along to a Haydn piece on the radio note for note! I was super impressed and asked him how he knew it.. Roblox 🤦‍♂️ at least it introduces them to varied music I guess

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Genuinely - *genuinely* - thought this was a @theonion.com headline. Holy shit.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026

It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.

arstechnica.com

FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Proscribing Patriot Platform isn't going to stop this. National Action were proscribed 10 years ago. The State cannot stop this. What stops this is co-ordination between local journos, OSINT researchers, mainstream antiracist protest groups, and militant antifascists willing to defend communities.

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Tasselfoot @tasselfoot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Most of the game submissions we receive these days are AI. That sucks. If you are a dev with a non-AI web-playable game/demo and want 10,000 people to play it, submit to mygame[at]armorgames[dot]com! Possible licensing up to $250 as well!

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Nick Holliday @nickholl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anybody else had licensing issues when running Quadremesher for #blender after updating to macOS27? :-/

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"snow angel" or the "angel of death," is the rare imprint left by an owl as it swooped down to catch prey

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i'm thinking we, as a species, lost the plot. don't know where. but if we're talking about AI rights while the rights of trans people, pregnant people, immigrants, and Black and brown people are daily eroded, we messed up somewhere.

theguardian.com

Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Flock is trying to recruit ARTISTS on job recruiting sites. I saw this while helping an artist friend look for part-time jobs and nearly vomited. “Visual storytelling” — What in the Leni Riefenstahl is this shit?

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paddysbooks @paddysbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Looks like they’ve been having fun in Canary Wharf.

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"we're reaching the limits of how much the same four companies can shuffle money between themselves to stay afloat - time to start leeching funds from taxpayers"

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

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Laura Lico @lauraivylico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

From September 8th, 2015. One of my animation tests for Quill’s first-pass rig. Seems fitting for today. 😢 Goodbye, little girl.

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Nick Holliday @nickholl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Really sad to hear the news about @polyarcgames.com closing 😔. Such charming worlds they’ve created and I’ve had the pleasure of immersing myself in 😿

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Harvey Newman @harveynewman.com · 11/09/2026

New video is out. I cancelled all my Adobe subscriptions last month and it took me over a month to get out of one. Then I looked at Blender's numbers and realised the small players are the ones paying for our subscription fatigue: youtu.be/RbozswKeJTo

Only 1 in 200 Blender Users Pays Anything. That's a Problem.jpg

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Lindsey Wailes (looking for work!) @linwail.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another set of animations from Immortal: Gates of Pyre. This little cutie is the Quitl! He's just a lil guy.

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Harvey Newman @harveynewman.com · 11/09/2026

Premiering at 1:30pm UK. In a room with 200 Blender users, only one pays anything to the Blender Foundation. Autodesk made $7.2 billion last year. Blender made $3 million. Free is getting expensive. Join me in chat: youtu.be/RbozswKeJTo

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Only 1 in 200 Blender Users Pays Anything That's a Problem

Harvey Newman on YouTube

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.

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🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open @sitaart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just a little Chaka

An illustration of Chaka my leshy, with a red poncho and an evil little smirk.

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Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In both writing and drawing, the struggle of capturing an idea on paper (or screen, or whatever) and how that struggle *changes* the idea is the art. Ideas are easy, the final work is an artefact. The struggle is the art.

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DANIELPEMBERTON @danielpemberton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trailer just dropped for the amazing Alex Gibney documentary MUSK… First chance to hear a bit of my score too 👇 deadline.com/2026/09/musk...

deadline.com

Watch The Teaser-Trailer For 'Musk,' Alex Gibney Documentary on Elon.

Watch the teaser-trailer for 'Musk,' Alex Gibney's damning documentary portrait of the world's richest man, Elon Musk.

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