iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Watching Dead Heat and this almost feels like a Naked Gun bit.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If they always threw knees like that perhaps they’d have kept the Falkl

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

40 years ago... BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/06/2026

“…its most severe and widespread heatwave on record—an oppressive force made hotter by carbon pollution and less bearable by repeated failures to prepare for it.” rare capsule description acknowledging both human-caused pollution and human-caused inaction?

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‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?

Scorching summer of 2003 triggered first efforts to deal with the problem but heatwaves still have devastating impact

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm not sure how so many people have managed to forget that if we cook the planet, we cook ourselves. Guys, we're on the planet. The one that's cooking.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 12/06/2026

Breaking news: Derbyshire Police has launched a criminal investigation and removed an officer from frontline duties over allegations of use of AI to "create evidential material in a number of cases": as.ft.com/r/46862d95-f...

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Criminal investigation launched into alleged use of AI by police officer

Derbyshire Police says officer probed over allegations of perverting the course of justice

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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#Widow'sBay with the single funniest scene I have enjoyed in months.

Matthew Rhys dozing in a recliner before a very unwelcome visit.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned

I can summarize that for you

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

its so funny people are still like "actually the economy is better than how it appears" and the average millennial retirement plan is to strap a bomb to your chest

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/05/2026

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

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fox noises (spooky) @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Fucking stop using fucking Spotify just fucking stop. There are no excuses. If you're an indie artist and you prop up Spotify because you think it helps you you're part of the problem. Stop using it to listen. Stop using it to host your music.

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Rhiannon Kagoe @rhiannonkagoe.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

the making of a Jill sandwich ✨ #ResidentEvil

watercolour painting of the sandwich lady

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

People prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs. In a new paper (n=7,227), we found that people enjoyed interacting with sycophantic AI chatbots more than interacting with neutral chatbots or “disagreeable” chatbots that challenged their beliefs.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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Pope Leo: Literature must be a 'school of fraternity and peace' - Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV sends a message to the Turin International Book Fair, taking place this week in the northern Italian city, reiterating that literature ...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Always worth remembering: ChatGPT isn't a tool, it isn't a companion. It's a product -- and everything you type in that box is data you are sending to OpenAI.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

yes. correct.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the largest drops in nhs waiting lists on record, which no one will now hear about. Opportunity cost from all the leadership turmoil www.england.nhs.uk/2026/05/heal...

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NHS England » “Huge moment” as the health service hits 18-week target amid half-a-million waiting list drop

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

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The Prince, The Paedo, The Palace, and the “Safety Tech” app – Hi, I'm Heather Burns

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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop) Call of Cthulhu Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Alien Mythras

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noodle @noodleawesome.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

If I hear one more youtuber sputter out an "I hope I'm pronouncing that right" in reference to an easily searchable foreign name I'm going to start lighting people on fire

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my city, my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

sinceyouarrived.world

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

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John in the Mountains of Madden @mathletesfoot.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

ive watched this part like a dozen times now

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Tony Wolf @tonywolfness.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Alan Moore on now.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The range and extent of unlawful behaviour (comtempt of court) by Northamptonshire police to cover up grossly unethical & unlawful conduct is astonishing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BBC obtains Northamptonshire Police video of woman's arrest

Nadine Buzzard-Quashie speaks for first time about her

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Darya @daryam.com · 27/04/2026

Oh god, Horse Armor is within the Ask Historians 20 year rule for historical content 💀

Post on r/AskHistorians which asks: The Horse Armor DLC for TES 4:Oblivion is often cited as the first popular DLC and Microtransaction that set the video game industry down it's patb to where it is today. Is this accurate, and how was the Horse Armor DLC received at the time?

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

“The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from AI by a factor of more than 100” 🤯 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

Revised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency

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Pat @pizzasuplex.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

People here are being really shitty, including at fellow journalists who might have been startled just a moment before biting into a big fully dressed hot dog. Journalists who may have reflexively squeezed the bun and sent the sausage sailing across the room into the delicate champagne tower

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Turning a big dial that says "joking about it" and constantly looking back at the FBI for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm thrilled to announce "Global Samurai I" - a special issue of Japan Review, featuring 11 open-access articles and with a wonderful cover by Tetsuya Noguchi. This research feeds into and builds upon the "Samurai" exhibition now on at the British Museum 1/12 nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp/search?searc...

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

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