iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 3h

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

Oh we're deep into Harlan Ellison territory now.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social · 19h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (done traditionally with diluted inks! just did a quick gradient map at the end)

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 03/10/2026

New copypasta just dropped

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HODAG RPG @hodagrpg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some Strings Attached Cinderella Smile 2025

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Hexagnome @sixsidedgnome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have you not Claimed the Sun yet? drivethrurpg.com/product/573023/he-who-claimed-the-sun DAYS-ARE-GETTING-SHORTER-SALE: For a few days, my latest OSE module is even cheaper than usual, along with all my other adventures ! (Cy_Borg, Mothership) drivethrurpg.com/publisher/20057/hexagnome

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When the One God's faith washed over the world, the Old Gods of the forest fought back. They fought back with fire, with blood and with ice, and with every season. And they lost. Last night, the cathe...

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Late night team! I need YOU to make some noise about Cinderella Smile. It's an asymmetrical gothic horror TTRPG where you're courtiers trying to fend off a wedding before it destroys the land. It's got stuff like lying about your dice and it's full of that art. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rod...

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Cinderella Smile

Stop the wedding, save the kingdom. TTRPG.

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh god, fuck, just look at that thing. Incredible Artists, turns out, a good thing

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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miki / comms open ❤️ @outerdog.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

wizard with short hands but don't worry he's got other magic hands coming out of his pocket

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blob @gwmthing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

playing big walk solo

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 01/10/2026

As @timnitgebru.blacksky.app correctly points out, mines are the lethal autonomous weapon precedent we should consider. The "AI Arms Race" is deployment of land mines "on a Napoleonic scale"; @redunley.bsky.social on the failure of arms control leading into WWI historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

When war broke out in August 1914 even these limited agreements soon fell by the wayside. The Germans, unsurprisingly, considering their position at The Hague, used mines from outset of the war with little regard for their impact on neutrals and non-combatants. The British situation is in many ways more remarkable. There is no doubt that opposition to mines was strong within the British government, the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, described them as ‘a hellish device’. Yet within weeks of the outbreak of war the Cabinet was discussing the use of the weapons specifically to target neutral vessels, and by October 1914 Asquith ordered their deployment ‘on a Napoleonic scale’.

Edwardian society was almost unanimous in condemning mines as illegal and unethical due to their autonomous nature, and the danger they posed to non-belligerents. Despite this, arms control failed. In large part it did so because mines were cheap and effective, in exactly the same way that their far more developed LAWS cousins promise to be. Beyond this arms control depends on trust and accountability, and autonomous weapons from mines forward invariably offer a degree of plausible deniability. The failure of arms control at the Hague Conference was in a certain respect irrelevant. The fact that militaries across the major powers expected their opponents to deploy mines in a future conflict ensured that they developed and planned to use the weapons themselves.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 30/09/2026

the defining games story of the last decade is when the dead cells team got a bunch of positive press for being a workers co-op but then the game was a huge hit and so they made a private company for all the new employees to scale up into while the “co-op” remained about ten people large lol

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the pigs' revenge

Let’s show these
farmers what’s
what! Start a
trending topic,
hogs!

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

flying capybara

painting of various capybaras: one being abducted by an ufo, one with butterfly wings, one with dragon wings and a cape, one mixed with a bee and one mixed with a bat

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onion person @junlper.beer · 29/09/2026

openAIs next product is going to be a gun that shoots you in the head so your agent can live your life for you

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey everyone! I'm so excited to announce this! If you like the D&D 'walkthrough maps' I've done over the years, I'm proud to present my new book... DUNGEONS! ILLUSTRATED MAPS OF CLASSIC DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ADVENTURES, coming from Ten Speed Press on April 27, 2027! (1/4) #dnd #ttrpg

"Dungeons!" book cover showing the exterior of the Tomb of Horrors, in a nighttime swamp, surrounded by red-eyed monsters. A group of stick-figure adventurers stands with a lantern preparing to enter the tomb

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Jake Lawrence @timecowboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it’s sword time

A young woman with a DIY looking mechanical arm holds a glowing sword out in front of her, the blade looks like its made from some kind of energy. Shes wearing a leather jacket and a cape. She seems serious but is probably cool if you get to know her.

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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Washroom" Painting study

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s

Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face

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Micah Ulrich @micahulrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hero. Ink drawing from 2024-ish. #art

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."