iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

One of those days where every interaction is just fundamentally insulting and they keep fucking showing up for no reason. At some point you just gotta go, "Ah, so we're doing that now, huh? Interesting, interesting."

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ghoulnoise @ghoulnoise.com · 02/10/2026

Deeply disturbing police brutality against an anti AI protest in Montreal, Canada a few weeks back. At this point, if you use AI and LLM, save the little white justifications you make to yourself. This is what you align with, like it or not. williamwilsonphotography.substack.com/p/montreal-p...

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Montreal Police Beat and Hospitalized a Photojournalist (me) at an Anti-AI Demonstration

I was diagnosed with a concussion, lacerations and swelling. Police have opened an investigation into the incident.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 29/09/2026

The cozification of agentic slop is just astoundingly desperate. They're already under scrutiny for these things frying peoples' brains when they were just text. Now they're creating infantile imaginary friends in a way that previously only tertiary services did.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 28/09/2026

Unsolicited spring rolls from San Fran. It's unfair of this person to accidentally text this to me specifically.

An image of pretty decent looking spring rolls.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 27/09/2026

Horrific problem I've discovered lately. The more great artists I follow, the more stuff ends up in my feed from great artists I haven't followed yet.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 25/09/2026

This is a normal step in working on an IRL Kei truck project, right?

It's Donkey from Shrek sitting in the frame of a Suzuki Carry.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 25/09/2026

Is threads all reddit tier relationship drama or is it just being weird about what it filters into Instagram? I barely use insta, but every time someone pings me or something over there it sends me randos I don't know talking about dating shit without fail.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 25/09/2026

AAA's marketing / sales people should, unironically, be put in prison for the amount of horseshit they spam my house with that is designed explicitly to look like it is in some capacity an official government document of some sort.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 23/09/2026

Got a fun new scam email at work yesterday, trying to convince me that my ChatGPT sub failed to bill. (Work is Google aligned.) So now I've got theft, a bunch of interactions where I gave up fighting google search and let the Gemini integration answer wrongly, and a scam as my AI experience corpus.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 22/09/2026

I'm sorry man, even if BDS wasn't a thing, the idea that I would ever give Microsoft another cent is just pure obscenity at this point. This is a level of dysfunction and cruelty that only the industry's worst boondoggles have ever approached, and they're raising the bar on a daily basis.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 18/09/2026

Ah... The Blood of Dawnwalker gleefully used the slop bots and I missed it entirely... cool. Cool cool cool. It's great that engaging with anything is like navigating a minefield of people willing to casually exploit their peers.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 18/09/2026

Lol, come on man. This is so fucking disingenuous.

No, the comments here are responding to the Bluesky post (few people on here actually read the articles), which is framed differently than the story and is therefore careful to mention that they're Polish

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 17/09/2026

I know that there's undertones of the same stuff that makes cop procedurals nonsense in the broader category of thrillers that touch in the same area, but man I appreciate a show that's just like "here's all the dumb, childish, cruel ways governments are fucked up".

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 16/09/2026

I've been tinkering with Google AppSheet for a project for the makerspace so we can make it easier to purchase supplies internally for members, and it remains wild to me how much harder to understand literally every low code / no code thing is to do than it would be to just code it.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 15/09/2026

Love going to the IRS' useless website and having it fail at every form of nonsensical verification it attempts to collect.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 15/09/2026

The further I get into The Blood of Dawnwalker, the more I feel like they're way too heavy handed on the time stuff. It makes engaging with the world feel bad on a constant basis. Like I have 5 days worth of skill upgrades... that I just can't justify using. From a design perspective that sucks bad.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 12/09/2026

Four months of back pain from no discernible injury of any kinda is enough thanks. Kindly just fuck off please.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 11/09/2026

I see everyone is normal posting today.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 06/09/2026

Excuse me. Hey. Excuse me. Hi. Um why is there a Lightning McQueen behind this band at Monza? What the fuck is going on?

The unhinged visage of a cartoon car with a face somehow made real.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 06/09/2026

The Blood of Dawnwalker: While I still like the idea of the time mechanic, the implementation is very scattershot. Wildly inconsistent. IMO, the little meter at the top just kinda lies all the time, as do all the markers indicating time passage.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 04/09/2026

Spent all day trying to figure out what I need to do for driveshafts in my kei truck and it's like a whole field of engineering created by people who hate going into any detail about anything and are okay with the idea of something totaling a car because they winged it.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 04/09/2026

Working at a school is like "what if office politics were an engine lathe and everyone was trying to push you into it all the time".

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 04/09/2026

I don't think I'm enjoying some of the design decisions in The Blood of Dawnwalker, but with Spiders gone I'm glad someone got to make them.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 03/09/2026

Pretty cool how you can't tell if the thing that's broken is specific services or all the internet, or whether it's a massive attack or an intern's slop code accidentally making it into a commit by an engineer who is on work week hour 50 by noon on Thursday and won't get off until Saturday night.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 03/09/2026

Honestly, have been around people who use AI casually, I... still can't imagine it being useful for anything. The most useful thing any of the AI search things have ever done is interject a bit of jargon I didn't know on some niche topic that then lets me use a normal search to better ignore them.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 03/09/2026

Why is it suddenly 5 bajillion degrees outside when I need to do the brakes on my project car?

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 03/09/2026

The industry writ large isn't crashing these greedy clowns have just burnt everyone out on their cynical infinite money printers and run up against the inevitable walls of relying entirely on the nonsense concept of fidelity to sell games.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 31/08/2026

Surely someone's made a short or a tiktok or whatever that's a dude making this face and then immediately just getting wailed on.

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charlee d. bryant (@ɢᴇᴛ.ᴠᴇɴᴛ) @getvent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

soundscape of young green martian playing with PVC pipes (based on the original comic by dralphabet on tumblr)

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 23/08/2026

Shout out to Blume Studios here in Charlotte for charging a good chunk of money to host a local indie "festival" and then not visibly posting "no re-entry" anywhere and handing out wristbands and letting me walk out to take a guitarist from one of the bands home and not letting me the fuck back in.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 21/08/2026

I was watching GitS and got a ChatGPT add that could only be made by a sociopath. It's just an old lady talking over the AI assistant for 30 seconds issuing commands and it's absolutely insufferable to watch. Like nails on a chalkboard.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 21/08/2026

It's very exhausting to have your coworkers advocating for your job to get better and your life to improve only to have someone with either -10 critical thinking skills or the attitude of a toddler block it, ensure you stay so broke you can't live on your own, and make everyone's job harder.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 21/08/2026

Is there intention in the scale of everything in South of Midnight being jacked up? Every time I convince myself there is, enough things will look normal that I question it again, then stuff looks so off I think it has to be intentional two seconds later.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 21/08/2026

So I bought a kei truck and the first thing I'm learning is that Suzuki, at least, just said fuck it we ball and threw the type of lock you'd use to keep people out of like a metal lathe's gears or a toolbox onto the truck as the primary lock cylinder.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 20/08/2026

Green light instant honkers are the only people who should experience a carceral state.

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TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This podcast clip contains one of the most devastating pieces of video ever captured. listen to bst.png with me and @demilardner.bsky.social

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 14/08/2026

I have finished Ghost of Yotei. It's generally likeable, but I hope Sucker Punch does something else. I like their games far more when they don't have such tight design limitations, and I think Yotei struggles to figure out what to do with itself in all the same ways as Tsushima.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 13/08/2026

Inadvertently turning my life into a roguelike by leaving my phone and laptop charger at home today.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 10/08/2026

The repost thing is such an interesting conundrum. On the one hand, I absolutely have people I want to follow who spend all day reposting their own stuff to the point it buries other people and I wish they'd stop, but also those people do sometimes post other peoples' stuff that I want to see.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 09/08/2026

I'm not sure why you need to put "appearing" in this, when that was penalized after the game. This footage doesn't exist for the screeching hate machine to sensationalize if the WNBA does anything to reign in the general chipiness every time Clark is on the floor.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 09/08/2026

Addendum: it's easier to pay the artists and craftsmen when your economic system isn't entirely structured around a small group of people who mostly just go to lunch and sit in a board room getting a bunch of extra money for doing nothing constantly.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 08/08/2026

It'd be neat if my brain could be something other than an autonomous anxiety factory for like even a single full week. It's very exhausting to be constantly negotiating with myself over stuff I have no reasonable reason to be anxious about.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 07/08/2026

I think this is smart messaging if he doesn't believe this, but if he believes it sincerely, it's very dumb. Much of the existence of capitalism has resembled the moment we live in currently, and it's spent the last 80 years extricating itself from a series of restraints forced upon it.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 06/08/2026

I'm not sure why the cost of healthcare wasn't enough of a con for these freaks, but now actually getting treatment for shit is just getting scammed over and over and over and over again until they think you can't take it anymore and do the minimum possible.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 05/08/2026

I will continue to use Inkscape because the other tools' developers hate Linux, but it's very funny to me that people will choose to die on the hill of usability when sometimes you have to add a random shape for no reason to get the shape builder tool to work. Feature's 3+ years old now.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 04/08/2026

Lmao, Ghost of Yotei is so funny in the broader context of games. It embraces mythical Japan more than Tsushima and is better for it. While Assassin's Creed Shadows rejects that entirely, despite its previous entries, and is uniformly worse for playing it straight.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 03/08/2026

Finally getting around to Ghost of Yotei, and man... it really seems like just cheating the player is the in vogue way of designing combat these days. If you build a game that relies on attack telegraphs, and you break the rules you set for that, it's just less fun.

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Rocketpunches @rocketpunches.cc · 03/08/2026

Pro-tip, don't put your arm down on top of a 500F soldering iron. Sucks.

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