iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

CALEB CHUNG: Well, I have to ask you, when is something alive? Furby can remember these events, they affect what he does going forward, and it changes his personality over time. He has all the attributes of fear or of happiness, and those are things that add up and change and change his behavior and how he interacts with the world. So how is that different than us?

JAD: Wait a second, though. Are you really gonna go all the way there?

CALEB CHUNG: Absolutely.

JAD: This is a toy with servo motors and things that move its eyelids and a hundred words.

CALEB CHUNG: So you're saying that life is a level of complexity. If something is alive, it's just more complex.

JAD: I think I'm saying that life is driven by the need to be alive, and by these base primal animal feelings like pain and suffering.

CALEB CHUNG: I can code that. I can code that.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Again: don’t get complacent. Polls look great, but polls don’t vote. Ignore this shit and vote like we’re down by 3%

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

These companies are really helping us tighten up our video game budgets aren't they, we should thank them

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CONTINUE Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The guru, @serrels.bsky.social, giving a solid run down of what we're all about with another guru, @plante.bsky.social. Great conversation. Give it a listen.

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our future A.G. wearing his Bruce Springsteen T-shirt at the Power to the People Concert. ✊

Photo of Jack Smith at the Power to the People Concert.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But what I can’t wait to are the uniforms!

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, it's true lol. If you ask the Trump administration's new stupid America.gov chatbot to "play Minecraft" it goes completely insane. Just tried it.

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Berry 🍇 @nyamukoneko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

namco museum 2

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rae @rae.wtf · 27/09/2026

my #fallingblockjam game is live! it's the rootin'-tootin' puzzler for all you cowboys at heart thanks to @mixolumia.com for putting this on (and for the idea 💖) play it now — for FREE! — on your personal computer, or your #playdate. and hey, let me know what you think! raewtf.itch.io/loop-lariat

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Loop Lariat by Rae

Link those lasso-bits, and round up them outlaws! Yee-haw!

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh neat, we're doing the underground railroad again

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 18/09/2026

what if we kissed in/found the fastest route through the mirror's edge house

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

these teams have long running institutional knowledge of the franchises they work on and don’t make every new installment with a team of underpaid juniors being bossed around by clueless suits

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"

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Retire in peace

McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Someone once broke it down like this: Educated is knowing who invented the first umbrella Intelligent is knowing how an umbrella is constructed Smart is knowing to open it when it rains

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

None of that is to say don't complain: complaining (combined with effort) is one way things improve. But jeez, the level of pessimism is concerning for me. It's OK to have hope!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Politics scares me right now, but the world has recovered from far worse politics repeatedly in the past. There are so many good trends right now and many of the bad ones are fairly fixable (i.e. via more open immigration)

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orinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It could happen tomorrow

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Julia Wertz @juliawertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi, it’s your mom here with a public service reminder. My State Farm bill was almost $200 over what it should be, so I called, but they couldn’t explain it. I think they implemented an AI billing system and it glitched. So FYI- always check your bills, but especially during these cursed days

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is what happens when you repress everything for 40+ years straight and then release over a single weekend

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The video game industry has always been volatile (I published Press Reset in 2021!) but the skeleton key to understanding the current state of things is this: Big games now cost 10x to make what they did 15 years ago but most do not generate even close to 10x the revenue. Simple as that

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

tired: it's mahhhhhvel, baby wired: it's powahhhh stone, baby

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

aw nertz I wish I had played any Resident Evil *at all*. but... I do love cool art & fun... 🤔

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hi, yes hello. Would you like to play a game featuring Wolverine that's more than just Fine as most of today's reviews suggest? HAVE I GOT THE GAME FOR YOU! www.theverge.com/23490255/mar...

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Marvel’s Midnight Suns is an unexpected triumph of tactics and friendship

Unfortunately, you can’t romance anybody.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On the current game of "this open corruption is really bad optics, and I wish he'd stop" www.smbc-comics.com/comic/that-t...

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - That Thing

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Christie @kjerstiekeland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hell yeah

A white van with a big photo of a reddish orange fish on the side. Under the fish, it says MEAT WITHOUT FEET

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Look we all know there's a large swath of Tekken players who are in it just for the wall breaks, now imagine a game whose arenas are entirely these, all chained together in a scripted event like it's a freaking Uncharted level

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Or power stone 3 Or power stone 3 Or maybe even power stone 3

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Dan @danielthemaniel.com · 08/09/2026

This part is crazy. Every paragraph is worse than the last. Perhaps I was naive, but I didn't think OpenAI capable of being this dishonest.

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Jonathan H. Liu @jonathanhliu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Got to see Coyote vs ACME yesterday and it was fantastic. Here's my Etch-a-Sketch tribute!

Etch-a-Sketch drawing of Wile E. coyote, frowning, holding up a sign, which is a pocket Etch-a-Sketch drawing that says "It's a limited number of signs"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/09/2026

So not only blatantly racist but also pissing off every living actor, great job, Paul

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

related: starting to get real pissed that the HBO Max poster image is just Guy Gardner (from the Superman movie), who has yet to appear or even be mentioned on this show

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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

MEMO From: X To: Ya Subj: It

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can We Squeeze Them? Yes, We Can!

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*me watching the latest ep of Lanterns* oh, this is a show that's gonna get real? I'M HERE FOR IT

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ooh, will have to check that out, I always had assumed it was straight-up Hotline Miami but I can see why this would've resonated better with them

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maddie raspberry ★ @othatsraspberry.com · 26/08/2026

magic cereal is the official snack of peace walker

big boss in a tux pouring mountain dew into a bag of doritos: "i call this *magic cereal*"
paz watches on in disgust

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

YOU. KEEP. TAKING. THE. WRONG. 80. YEAR. OLD

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 26/08/2026

Men only want three things

I'm holding a blu ray triple feature of the thing (1982), the thing (from another world), and the thing (2011), in front of shelves of other disc based media

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Noah Mittman @nmittman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

oh damn they nailed it -- it's a mixup in a newborn ward

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11/08/2026

Okay this is very funny.

r/ClaudeAl
u/iRefactor • 8h
Claude watermarking our work is unethical and disgusting
Philosophy
Join
I gave the instructions, context, decisions, and countless refinements, claude was the tool.
If Claude starts watermarking the code or anything else it generates, what exactly is it claiming credit for?
By that logic, my internet provider should watermark everything we do. The operating system should watermark everything Claude creates, the compiler should watermark every binary we build.
And eventually Claude or Anthropic should open source everything so that one can tell what exactly Claude did
They are tools and infrastructure, so is Claude.
The final output comes from countless prompts, thoughts, instructions, decisions, corrections, subscription fee and refinement and what not. The model helped execute that process, if Claude wants to provide provenance, fine. But branding the output because we used its tool is ridiculous, considering it's ultimately the people's decision to go with which text, code.
You din create the work, I gave you the instructions to create the bits.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 17/08/2026

This is the real deal about racists - they truly actually believe that non-white races are "taking over" institutions when in reality they're barely able to exist in places of power

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