iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 16h

Yape - Darién Gap - Panama 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/48nMVupuaRJj... 4K link : i.imgur.com/VVb9t2U.jpeg More about the Darién Gap on Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3...

A satellite picture of a dense rainforest landscape, a brownish river is meandering through it from the top left to bottom right. A small village is place on the side of the river.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 03/10/2026

Let’s be very clear: there is value in automating tedious and repetitive and dangerous tasks; there is value in delegating certain work to our machines that can do the work tirelessly and much faster.

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Urban sprawl around Dallas and Fort Worth - Texas - USA 🌎1. maps.app.goo.gl/VE8pt3uGREEP... 🌎2. maps.app.goo.gl/7mA59jVC9JF9... 🌎3. maps.app.goo.gl/9G5eQyKXtbGZ... 🌎4. maps.app.goo.gl/i3AhnZiFFe9m... 4K links : imgur.com/a/MdSMoOs

A satellite picture of neat rows of identical houses with black rooves aligned in identical streets.

A satellite picture of neat rows of identical houses with black rooves but some streets are straight and other are curved.

A satellite picture of very similar houses all aligned in nearly identical streets with a few curves here and there.

A satellite picture of lots of similar houses aligned on streets following an artificially organic pattern to spread their similarities.

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cité des Étoiles by architect Jean Renaudie - Givors - France 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/uspZSGnkVsef... 4K link : i.imgur.com/1XKHWvW.jpeg More on Wikipedia (Fr) : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%...

A satellite picture of a small town near the south of France with typical orange tiled rooves. In the middle of the picture is a very densely packed grouping of star-shaped irregularly placed buildings. It is place upon the side of a green hill on top of which we can see ruins of a castle.

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Murmansk Oblast - Russia 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/1wq1kKQzfLta... 4K link : i.imgur.com/xyW8xqb.jpeg

A satellite picture of a river tightly meandering through a deep green forest. On the left side of the picture, a swampy area with colors ranging from yellow to orange-brown. A few clouds are visible on the picture.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 19/09/2026

🔭 A Zodiacal Night Image Credit & Copyright: Neelam and Ajay Talwar (TWAN) ap260919

See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download
the highest resolution version available.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 16/09/2026

Contemporary artificial intelligence is to cognition as artificial sweeteners are to good nutrition: full of misleading hype, distracting, and when misunderstood and misused, dangerous to one's well-being.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 15/09/2026

🔭 A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Arnaud Mariat ap260915

A blue sky has a light cloud crossing the middle of
the image. Two crescent objects are visible through the
cloud, a large faint crescent in the center and a brighter
crescent above it.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I endorse this statement

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Evan Maple VO @evanmaplevo.com · 08/09/2026

this image is unfortunately going to be useful for a long while

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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can't with these zoom ins. Inspirational, sure makes me sick a little, yeep Induces feelings of insignificance, definitely youtube.com/shorts/CWb2n...

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Zoom into N44 ✨

YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#SciArtSeptember 2: violet A recently described specimen of Sinopterus dongi showed, for the first time, evidence of iridescent colour in pterosaurs. There were also traces of horizontal stripes on the soft tissue crest. The Mesozoic world is getting more and more colourful. #SciArt

Painterly digital portrait of an iridescent purple pterosaur

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

China 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/ABQt6feZya73... 4K link : i.imgur.com/HYxUt98.jpeg

A satellite picture of a road going diagonally from top to bottom of the picture. It is surrounded by fields forming a kind of herringbone pattern around the diagonal. Some small villages are placed around the road.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 05/09/2026

🔭 Chasing the Moon's Shadow Image Credit: NASA ap260905

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

North Korea 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/zJXxAQ16Cgyy... 4K link : i.imgur.com/ZO14DL6.jpeg

A satellite picture of some type of aquaculture ponds forming a tight grid pattern in blue tones.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 01/09/2026

🔭 A Plane Lunar Eclipse Image Credit: Paulo Ferreira ap260901

The Moon is seen in front of clouds but with part
of its lower left being unusually dark. On the upper
right, a foreground airplane appears flying into the disk of
the Moon.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Took a break from my Deus Ex release order playthrough after I finished Invisible War to play 007 First Light. Kinda funny both games suffered a bit of an underwhelming ending that really tarnished my feelings toward the games. Both I was really enjoying and the ends were both kinda rice cakes.

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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Great thread here that everyone should read but this bit quoted right here is the most important. Keep creating, keep doing your thing the way you do it and the way that makes you happy.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/08/2026

Also even within articles stating AI is overhyped and a massive bubble people still say stuff like “while I don’t dispute the transformative potential of AI” or “AI will obviously one day change everything” like they’ll be shot without the disclaimer

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Salt marshes on the shore of hypersaline lake Afrera - Ethiopia 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/qcaKrtv5SuDs... 4K link : i.imgur.com/luvIjK0.jpeg

A satellite picture showing on the right, a bright green hypersaline lake and on the left, some small irregular salt marshes and some grey and black irregular textures from old lava fields.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Saturn, Dione wide-angle [updated] - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/owLWh

Natural color view of Dione transiting Saturn's disc. Nearly edge-on rings are visible below.
Image taken on 22nd September 2005 with the wide-angle camera. Distance was 803 000 km, phase 43 degrees. This image was taken simultaneously with the narrow-angle one and shows the wider scene with Saturn's giant disc dwarfing Dione. Rings cast dark shadows upon Saturn's northern hemisphere which is notably bluish.

* Fixed the processing a bit to make the colors look more natural.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 16/08/2026

🔭 Milky Way over Yellowstone Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Lane ap260816

A landscape image shows a starfield above a lake.
Part of the lake is evaporating into the sky on the
right. The arch of the Milky Way Galaxy curves overhead.
It may look like the evaporation is creating the Milky Way.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Popocatepetl volcano - Mexico 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/Doxnt33KBknW... 4K link : imgur.com/a/ZdB1RqT

A satellite picture of a volcano crater emitting a small plume of smoke. The sides of this crater are barren and show tones of brown, and reddish grey.

A satellite picture of th bottom of the volcano's slope, showing vegetation that is climbing the crevices

A satellite picture of a zoomed-in zone of the crater, a rocky barren solidified lava field, with it's flow that is frozen and solidified.

A satellite picture of a zoomed-in zone of the crater, a rocky barren solidified lava field, with it's flow that is frozen and solidified, with a light coating of smoke over it.

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

as long as games — in any genre and on any platform — continue to be seen as toys and tech products instead of (gasp) works of art or culture, we will be haunted by these no-nothings. And even then. Some of it is up to us to stop referring to our life’s work as “content”, maybe? Just sayin’.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"It’s not just that the crystal is old. It’s that something this small and this fragile-looking has outlasted almost the entire physical Earth it formed on. Continents have assembled and broken apart, oceans have opened and closed, and entire mountain ranges have risen and eroded"

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Pete @peterwelsh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Spot the... Jumping Spider Difficulty: hard (maybe very hard) It's very visible... it's just very small. #parkdaleurbanwildliferefuge #jumpingspider

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Dan @danferguson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

On the lookout for some atmospheric jungle/dnb artists to include a range of tracks in a new small game I'm working on so get in touch if you or anyone you know produces in this style! Don't send me AI music pls i will cry

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Industrial toxic mud from the Muruntau Gold Mine - Uzbekistan 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/V1Ge9ZhNdFp5... 4K link : i.imgur.com/gUCFdh7.jpeg

A satellite view of some abstract textures caused by deposits and resembling marble patterns in grey, white, blue and a touch of red.

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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Behold! These are the sharpest images of the sun's surface ever obtained, and they reveal something *wild*: never-before-seen whirlpools of plasma called Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities that are fundamental to solar energy flow. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spec...

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Spectacular images reveal never-before-seen whirlpools on the sun

Strange whirlpools of plasma seen in the sharpest images ever captured of our star help explain the deep origins of Earth-threatening space weather and more

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’m so glad you brought up the luddites, because,

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Moisés Jauregui-Sanchez @moisesjauregui.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Bajo nuestros pies viven los colémbolos globulares, seres de hasta 5 mm que habitaban la Tierra antes que los dinosaurios. Con una fúrcula que los dispara ante el peligro, reciclan nutrientes en el suelo y su cutícula inspira la biotecnología. Maestros de la supervivencia de 400 millones de años. 🪲

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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Im not sure what I'm seeing here but I love it

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/08/2026

It’s bad enough that it tries to flatter you by telling you you’re asking such good and insightful questions. But desperately egging you on to try to make you spend more tokens is just gross. Like if every time you ran a mass spectrometer it tried to upsell you on some more advanced analysis.

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Fields and landscapes between Fresno and Bakersfield - California - USA 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/LWS7DCXF4dia... 4K link : imgur.com/a/BfY7X0V

A satellite picture of a small city surrounded by grids of fields and orchards all neatly aligned

A satellite picture of details of some fields displaying a variety of colors and gradients resembling an abstract painting

A satellite picture of a dense grid of fields, ponds and a few urban areas, all tightly packed and aligned with each other

A satellite picture of the grid of fields being broken by a river, disrupting the orthogonal lines. A diagonal road is crossing the image in the opposite direction

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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Quote with a ridiculous movie you think people should watch.

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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. (this is easy)

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Stormy

ALT: Stormy

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Craig B @mutillidae.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've been working on a better setup for capturing focus-stacked images of immature insects in alcohol...and it's working well. 🙂 #NaturalHistoryCollections #Macrophotography #FocusStacking #Psephenidae #APennyForYourThoughts

Ventral view of a water penny larva (Psephenidae) against a black background. The six legs, antennae, and the feathery gills are all clearly visible—and would be well protected from above when the larva is clinging to a rock underneath the water.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28/07/2026

🔭 Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes Image Credit & Copyright: Gonzalo Laserna Vargas ap260728

A pair of snow topped volcanoes are seen in the distance.
A background starry sky is seen behind them, with a red filamentary
nebula looping around that appears to connect the two tops
of the volcanoes.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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