iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sick as a dog

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Newsom is NOT for the people.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

was it because of the tweets or unrelated

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah this Cornell thing is like a mass disabling event for survivors. I am fine, I *was* fine. But now it's in the zeitgeist again so I get to be reminded of my own college experience, something I hadn't thought about in decades, on a daily basis.

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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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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

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Morgan Lea @morglea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Little disappointed in ANN's headline here. Tsuda's point was still made, and Japan has now made it very clear that actor's voices do, in fact, belong to them. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules

Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark Japanese verdict to protect publicity rights

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 01/10/2026

FWIW this is just a bog standard publishing agreement that renews every few years. Take Two has the same agreement with Sony and Nintendo to publish games on their platform for example.

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🦇 Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there's even a rabbit meme for this

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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chihuahua thing

Comic about Basil the puppy saying; "Sometimes I get asked; "Basil, what the hell are you? Some kind of abhorrent abomination?" Close! I'm actually a Chihuahua mix!" with example pictures of Chihuahua mixes

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/09/2026

More like Kaze yes Klonoa

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Japanese volleyball player Rui Takahashi came out as gay on Tuesday, saying he wanted to help others struggling with their sexuality in a country where openly LGBTQ+ athletes are extremely rare."

japantimes.co.jp

Japanese volleyball player comes out as gay in rare case

Takahashi said his brother Ran, who is a hugely popular star with Japan’s national volleyball team, helped him come to terms with his sexuality.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

no matter how badly donald trump loses the midterms he will never lose them as badly as he has lost canadian elections

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Steam - starting in early 2027, the discounts & events section will move away from curated placements scheduled by partners/Steam team to something more dynamic and personalized for each user steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

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こっし～ @cossy55.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

雨が降ったら、意図せずして開かれた近所の猫たちの総会

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billion

The Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.

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Rick @combattlerrickv.exportaud.io · 28/09/2026

Newtype January 1994

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They cited nobody, and I wondered what kind of a monstrous sociopath would welcome this. Folks,

While the Trump administration is framing the policy as “accountability” for higher education, and _some are welcoming the move_, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary.

Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
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This seems like a reasonable idea with precedent from
Obama's education department.
The government shouldn't be in the business of encouraging
people to take loans they won't be able to repay.
(IN The New Republic © @newrepublic • 18h
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don't make
enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social
work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit
the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Line @linesonwhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something deep inside me told me I should draw Donkey Kong today.

A four panel comic titled "Hours, Bananas, Doors."
Donkey Kong awakens staring at himself in a mirror, then stares down at his hand as he notices a strange watch on his wrist.
Staring at his wrist, the watch turns out to be one of the numbered bracelets from 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors from the Zero Escape series. It's Junpei's bracelet. For some reason.
Peach then asks a confused Donkey Kong, "Donkey Kong? Have you ever heard of the Parallel Banana Theory?"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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Just Marcy! @marcille.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As someone working in higher ed specifically in the topic of writing/literacy/etc., the AI and crush push on students *is* real but also the students *do not care to learn.* I really am not trying to 'the kids are wrong' but my students are 9/10 actively uninterested in learning. Why? well, V

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 26/09/2026

They fraudulently got ... nothing.

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I did not make the list😭😂

Child’s list of his favorite things in Japanese. Among other things I lost out to chocolate, clocks, a potato and the number 67.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.com

NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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It's Fantastic! - Arcade scans and translations @itsfantasticac.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Instruction manual illustrations, for the Saturn version of Puyo Puyo Tsu.

All About Series Vol. 13 - Puyo Puyo Tsu (Apr. 30, '96), pg. 72

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We? Bitch YOU do the messaging for Democrats, and it’s always “be more like Republicans.”

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Foreign babies were 2% of all newborns in 2018. In 2025, the figure rose to 3.3%. The prefectures with the highest rates of foreign newborns are Gunma (7.5%), Aichi (5.3%), Chiba (5.2%), Saitama (5.2%) and Gifu (5.2%). www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Graphic accompanying Nikkei article. Top is a map of Japan, with prefectures coloured according to the percentage of foreign babies among newborns. Four categories are over 5%, 3-5%, 1-3% and less than 1%.

Lower left is the breakdown of nationalities in the foreign population as of 2024, showing the main four. Chinese top at 25.4, followed by 16.8 Vietnamese, 11.5% Korean and 9.1% Filipino. Remainder is all other nationalities.

Lower right is the graph showing percentage of foreign babies among newborns along with the annual totals.

Percentage of newborns by prefecture. Gunma easily top at 7.5%, Aomori bottom at 0.3%

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

this is the story of the midterms I am not sure I have ever seen a more demoralized republican electorate, and the more irregular trump voters we can get to disconnect from the political system entirely the better

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it’s really cool that somehow the media environment is so broken that the average legacy newspaper’s primary incentive is to become Kiwifarms

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 24/09/2026

Discord ban in the Philippines lasted for just one day because they forgot everyone including government agencies rely on it.

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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look at my cat

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/09/2026

There is no plan aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

master chief looking sad (even though he has a helmet on and you can't see his face; it's the body language, I think)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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