iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 05/10/2026

Elm 0.19.3 is out today! ✨ elm-lang.org/news/another... ✨ Check out the roadmap for the next few releases too. We are preparing the compiler for some exciting improvements and features 😊

Rough road map describing what to expect from the next few releases.

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merman1974 @merman1974.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s depressing to see how many homebrew games for old computers and consoles are now resorting to AI art - especially for loading screens/cutscenes. Get a pixel artist who CREATES something . Oh, and while we’re at it, stop all these “Claude” ports of games. Code it yourself or don’t bother.

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They just won’t stop giving me reasons to keep my Xboxes skipped streak running. I can keep this up forever at this rate.

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not that anyone should engage in the comments but there’s another bug/feature where, if you’re entering a comment and the video changes, the comment will go on the next video.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 02/09/2026

We have fucked around for a decade and now we're finding out. Net Zero by 2050 was predicated on reductions starting from 2016 – instead we've *increased* emissions every year since. We're are now so far behind the 8-ball, no one in power seems to get how truly bad the situation has gotten.

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Everyone that uses it needs to convince themselves that it was necessary, or maybe even righteous, and objections are just frivolous or theoretical.

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Ojiro Fumoto @moppin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Truly honored to be compared to one of the GOATs

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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 18/08/2026

Acadia is out today! Bringing the benefits of Elm to SQLite and PostgreSQL: - Friendly error messages - Custom types for precise column data - Simple module system for easy reuse Check it out! acadia.engineering/blog/rethink...

acadia.engineering

Rethinking Database Programming

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Free, no in-app purchases, and no tracking. Wow.

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Pita @pita-m.com · 16/07/2026

I've just set up the pre-launch page for a potential KS campaign for my little RPG. Any 'Notify me on launch' clicks are deeply appreciated. \o/ Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pit...

A pixel art landscape featuring an ancient fortress...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Although honestly, starting an indie-oriented strictly 100%-no-AI engine might be a valuable effort to service people looking for that, although it might be redundant if AI collapses in the next year or two.

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Just Jackie @doesnotcare.lol · 20/06/2026

They want you to rent cloud computing from them. It’s all a grift.

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Days until your grey beard is long enough to pull off a sick Gandalf cosplay?

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Nice. Did you skip CDs on the go, or just didn’t hold on to the player?

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Cat 🌻🌾 Tbubs 🔜 2000AD @tsundernova.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

An update from Scottish Greens. Please use this tempate to write to Fife council and get this UGLY BEAST outta here!! greens.scot/stopfifeaida...

greens.scot

Stop the Fife Mega AI Data Centre

Stop the Fife Mega AI Data Centre -

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

More like edible particleboard than shredded wheat I would say. Eating it is tricky. Once the milk touches it, there’s a 30 second window to eat it while it turns from “too crispy” to “too mushy”. But the texture during that short while is sublime.

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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is the data centre they're planning on building 10 miles from our home... It will use the same amount of energy in a year than half of Scotland’s households, or 20% of Scotland’s total energy use. aprs.scot/auchtertool-...

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Peter Mulholland is also working on an Amiga USB-C PSU. No website that I’m aware of but I’ve seen pictures on a couple of Discords.

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

If a nontrivial amount of typing or file handling is required, you want to compare prices or switch between apps or tabs a lot, or it’s likely the mobile versions of the websites will be borked, then it’s time for the actual computer.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It’s quite something that in the UK it’s still illegal under almost any circumstances to rip a legally owned CD to your computer, and yet the government is trying very hard to push back against the idea AI companies that ingest and regurgitate all creative work ever should have to pay for any of it.

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I hope the FOSS nature and competition from rival distributions will discourage the enshittification of Linux.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 13/01/2026

Do you have mental health and money problems? Then I really need your help at the @moneyandmentalhealth.org charity. Real world feedback on how to improve things is core to what we do, to up to help out go to moneyandmentalhealth.org/community/ . Thanks, I look forward to working with you

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Robocop 3 on Amiga already had polygons on top of pre-rendered backgrounds. I imagine a flat-shaded RE would be very possible, especially on AGA machines. www.mobygames.com/game/20121/r...

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Screenshot of RoboCop 3D (Amiga, 1992) - MobyGames

ED209 (in cutscene)

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Yes, sorry for jumping the gun there.

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I don’t envy you! Even one word can have lots of meanings in context! Shit Good shit Total shit The shit Cool shit Hot shit Holy shit Crazy shit Shitshow Dogshit Batshit Bullshit Rocking horse shit My kind of shit

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NamaTakahashi @namataka.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sometimes I see reviews that use strong slang that sound insulting at first, but actually mean something positive. If I don’t know the slang, I get confused about whether they’re praising or criticizing the game.

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Because I didn’t have half an hour to watch the video at the time. Should I have waited? Probably. Did I need taken to task about it? Perhaps not. Taking the post at face value it sounded like some reasons to reject AI weren’t being addressed. I have since watched the video, if it helps.

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

What about The Leek, suggesting the breaking stories are leaks

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I’ve not read or watched the discussion yet, but there are plenty reasons to consider AI to be unethical, regardless of the utility of it. Environment, plagiarism, consent, etc. I’m not disputing any points being made though.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just credit fed the Mikado Star Blade cabinet until I beat it and, presentationally, god damn, it might still just be the coolest fucking video game Namco ever developed. It cost me all of 400 yen to hit the end; if you ever see one of these yourself, just pony up and play it all the way through.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17/10/2025

i could actually kind of respect if AI boosters said that one of their biggest issues in 2025 was to demonstrate or prove the worthiness of all of the apparent costs and harms of LLMs and of "AI", but this derision for people not knowing enough is really contemptible shit.

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Gendered Intelligence @genderedintelligence.co.uk · 17/10/2025

Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women. The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence. Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Background with cream, blue and yellow curved shapes with purple text over it, reading "Not in Our Name

Over fifty thousand cis women have signed an open letter rejecting the false narrative that trans women are a danger to women.

Add your name"

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Optimal Phonetic Alphabet: Aye Bee Cue Double Ewe Faze Gnome Heir Isle Jalapeno Know Lieu Mnemonic Noel One Phase Queue Right See Trite UFO View Write Xanadu You Zsa-Zsa

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