iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026

Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...

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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN

A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How it started/how it’s going

Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in Utah

BREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/09/2026

It's outrageous that an American company is laying off hundreds of steelworkers, breaking their promise even after being offered financial support from the federal government to weather the tariffs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Hamilton steel plant to lay off hundreds of workers as U.S. tariffs prompt 'survival' move | CBC News

Steelmaker Stelco Holdings says it's idling some production at its Hamilton plant in response to U.S. tariffs.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Vote Loomis | Keanin Loomis for Mayor @voteloomis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Statement from Keanin Loomis on the Stelco layoffs. #HamOnt

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 28/09/2026

The MongoDB CEO is going to lead an AI strategy team at Meta. Mongo is the textbook success of "Zero friction and slick marketing beats good engineering discipline". From a technical standpoint? Very different. From a marketing standpoint when selling AI to software-dev clients? Same space.

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a moron in a hurry @w0hq.org · 27/09/2026

The Grammy for Best Record is officially called “Best Record Aside From Dragula”

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 27/09/2026

well of course, the weird lesbians feuding in a rural massachusetts town is of far greater national significance than a group of men at one of the ivy league schools drugging and raping a woman and the school reducing the punishments for most of the men

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 27/09/2026

Oh yay my ssd is reporting 0 bytes I long for the sweet release that only death can bring

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 26/09/2026

So, keeping score: - Stopping burning filthy sulfue-rich fuels caused global warming becuase it reduced cloud albedo. - Doing a war for oil in the Middle East reduced global warming because of Hormuz. 🙃

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 26/09/2026

Welp, rather than giving in to my urge to argue on the internet, I've decided to focus on hobbyhorse project. I've finally caved and paid for AI coding service... but didn't want to support evil, so I've bought €10 of @greenptai.bsky.social running a Chinese OSS model and we'll see how this goes.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 26/09/2026

But I was reliably informed that Biden was just as bad about immigration.

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new PBO report confirms adding new tax brackets for the wealthiest 0.3% would raise over $1 billion a year. Instead of selling off Canada’s strategic public assets like airports, we should be asking those who have benefited most from our society to contribute their fair share.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026

Every day we get closer to this:

Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 26/09/2026

Why does smell like kielbasa outside?

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 26/09/2026

Everyone is surprised to learn that a giant swarm of 40kg hornets is really loud.

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bike lanes on Adelaide yesterday morning. Over a dozen cyclists taking up the same space as one or two cars.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 25/09/2026

Aw sweet, new man-mad horrors: Opus can make JS animated videos that actually look pretty good. And to be clear, it's not just Midjourney dreaming out pixels, it's programming all the vector graphics, like writing an SVG raw, or making a flash video in actionscript. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-h...

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Claude Pop - I'm Upping My P(Doom)

YouTube video by OtherReality

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 25/09/2026

Slapped together a new banner for the #lemmy World News for Canadians sublemmy that I moderate. imho Lemmy is one of the few #Fediverse products that really does live up to its private counterpart - it's a better Reddit than Reddit, but traffic is lower. lemmy.ca/post/71424778 #canpoli

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Graeme MacKay @mackaycartoons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, it has come to this. My editorial cartoon in the Sept. 25 Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...

This two-panel political cartoon by MacKay contrasts past and present U.S.-Canada relations using scouts. In the top "THEN" panel, an American and a Canadian scout stand in a bright landscape, respectfully saluting a "BE PREPARED" monument. In the gloomy bottom "NOW" panel, the monument's trophy is bound by a red "MAGA" hat, and a newspaper at the base warns of a U.S. attack; instead of saluting, the two boys face each other in defensive, confrontational stances as the American asks, "WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?" and the Canadian replies, "ASK YOUR PRESIDENT."

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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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Victims of Capitalism Support Account @victimsof.capital · 25/09/2026

I think Macklemore is a prime example of the need to separate the art from the artist. His politics are good, but his art is terrible

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

WHY WIOULD JOE BIDEN DO THIS???

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We let national immigration policy be thwarted by the median council votes in Toronto and Vancouver and it's nuts to me that's not how this is understood.

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Pl 🌻 An 🌻 Xty @planxty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this started from the OG Rallymon, so there's kinda fewer sketches.

Working sketch of Rallymon Derby Mode, a character from Binary Break. A mix of black linework and blue digital pencil sketches, it combines the original Rallymon artwork and the changes she undergoes when in Derby Mode. Rallymon is a bipedal chimera rabbit digimon that skates.

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Paul Fagan 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @paulfagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On Sunday evening, a former Canadian Military soldier named Sean Ward drove his truck up to a full synagogue during prayer and opened fire with a shotgun. Canada has a known problem of giving military training to white supremacists who later commit violent acts. But no one is talking about that.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 22/09/2026

While I'm an incrementalist liberal, this is fundamentally what the liberal political establishment fails at (both here in Canada and in the US). Governments need to engage problems loudly and visibly and rewrite policy or fire people when failures happen. wiki.c2.com?KillYourDarl...

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 22/09/2026

> increasing tolls on larger passenger vehicles Higher tolls on wankpanzers LFG. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*adding “belarus potash” to the long list of phrases that dominate the news for a couple of days before never being mentioned again*

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 22/09/2026

One always lies and the other always tells the truth. You may ask one question.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 22/09/2026

"Hey hold this candy while I go help people who think you should have an owner."

GWBush quietly giving candy to Michele Obama.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They were cool with the racism, sexism, bigotry, corruption, dismantling of social services and common decency, burning every ally, shooting American citizens in the face in the street, the insurrection, Trump being besties with Epstein etc etc. But once the price of gas got too high it was over.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

hmmm Sam Altman reminds me of a certain other dystopian business exec obsessed with the illegal procurement of Hugging Face

Paul Reiser's slimy business executive character Carter Burke in the movie Aliens

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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 20/09/2026

I think Will Stancil basically has oppositional defiance poster’s disorder and that it’s a condemnation of this website that this has led to him in the last several years into assuming a ton of plainly just rational and correct positions

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is SO HARD to get people to believe the FACTS about this because they're so freaked out by the lies.

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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 17/09/2026

whys he look like Wplace

Ed sheerans tattoos, just messy and all over the place

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 10/09/2026

Cereborzoi

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 21/09/2026

3 years ago, I took the @wtyppod.bsky.social "more rigid" thing to heart and secured my dog fence gate with 1/8" threaded rod. It snapped in winter. @donoteat.bsky.social was right. Learned my lesson: I've upgraded to 1/4" stainless. If brute force doesn't work it means you're not using enough.

A simple black metal fence post with a peg latch and two lengths of 1/4" threaded rod tethering it to the vinyl siding with stainless nuts.

One of the rods is visibly bowing.

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