iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 17h

In one of the most remarkable exchanges with the interviewer, he describes himself as both "more pessimistic" about the possibility of escaping power, because of its capacity to auto-regulate by yielding pleasure, and "more optimistic" about the inevitability of transformation of existing power 8/

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 17h

At our Foucault conference last month @danlor.bsky.social and I screened a little-known Foucault documentary produced by a Swiss TV network in 1978, MICHEL FOUCAULT: STORICO DELLA VERITA ("Historian of Truth"). 1/ www.rsi.ch/archivi/Mich...

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Michel Foucault: storico della verità - RSI

Ritratti, 1. febbraio 1978

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 23h

Got a press release for Neal Stephenson's new company (AI UGC stuff of course) and its premiere project is...Pride & Prejudice in Fortnite through UEFN.

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Whenere - SSO Platform

Centralized authentication and user management platform

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

tough day to be a proper noun

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

cooked sickos coming up with new segments while their loyal fans cry out, “where is queenwatch?”

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As a game thinker, personally, I'm not interested in distinguishing games clearly from other kinds of behaviors and activities. I'm interested in finding and learning from the games that are hiding, unidentified, unrecognized, unacknowledged in the other things we do.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.

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Ticky🏳️‍🌈 @drac.at · 02/10/2026

I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we've been, and where I hope we're going

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The Silent War for the Soul of Software - drac.at

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 01/10/2026

jay is a dear friend who deserves your support, not to mention her patreon containing an immense amount of amazing game design. I count myself lucky to be able to support her, if you haven't already check it out and consider joining as well! (Then read the draft of 7pp and talk about it with me)

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this book is good! come learn the terrible truth that tennis balls are a microcosm of technological modernity and they weren't bright yellow until 1972 when you had to see them on a color tv. the world you know is a web of strings and gauze and anything can be changed at any moment

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 30/09/2026

AI crash caused by every Trump-aligned AI corp (ie all of them other than, tenuously, anthropic) desperately trying to retrain their models to say "superintelligence"

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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tiered success isn’t the greatest innovation of Apocalypse World. It’s not even the part that makes it work. The moves are what make it work. It’s not a single system of 2d6 with different mechanics, it’s a constellation of subsystems - moves - that just all use 2d6 as their randomizing agent

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

talking to rahm is like sex, it's bad. right? it's boring and bad and a waste of four minutes. right? it's like that for everyone? right?

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the crown made it so for a second i thought his name might be "mm, rat king"

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the great wheel of the year turns. the season of the overstuffed tote bag has ended. the season of the overstuffed jacket pocket has begun.

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

call it "contagious" if you want but you're describing an infohazard and, well,

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

incidentally I think this kind of stuff is actually part of why "cult" isnt the most helpful term (apart from the usual religious studies grumbles). however you define rationalism (as a scene, as an ideology, as a professional network) it is so much more flexible than you think.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

really hope that the message people take away from all the EA sex parties stuff is "don't import inherently coercive real life employer/employee or mentor/mentee dynamics into your edgeplay kink spaces" and not "THEY DO THE IMMORAL KIND OF SEX DISGUSTING"

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

pick a relevant research topic and you’ll never have a stress free news cycle in your life

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

telling myself 5 years and 11 months is closer to 5 than to 6

Abou Farman, On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience. The cover art is a photo of a light switch taped in place.

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my sriracha mango lunch experiment was unfortunately a failure

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a “girl” dinner? i prefer to think of it as a “che” dinner … because i’m the one eating it!

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

okay i only got 7/10 but it was a spiritual 9

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

janine will tell you and lori will tell you

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jess @jessfrom.online · 24/09/2026

not knowing your address or phone number isn't AI brainpoisoning it's personal assistant brainpoisoning. it's "you have too much money and do not engage in the realities of navigating our society" brainpoisoning.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 23/09/2026

Healing movie. We're going to walk out of the theater transformed. New blood, new skin, everything

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

YES i deleted and reposted this an hour later. the jank phrasing was killing me every time somebody liked it.

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

queer rights so imperiled that i genuinely think if you brought out those penguins today they’d accuse the zoo of grooming them

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if leadership says it's okay, it's safe, to care about a minority group, they'll care about them and if leadership says otherwise, they'll switch to 'well unfortunately we just gotta be pragmatic' so much of 'pragmatic' politics is people who are afraid and conflict avoidant wanting to feel savvy

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a lot of them it's not even conscious or disingenuous, intentional hypocrite shit. their ideology in the moment is determined by "leadership knows best" that mixes in with a deep need for safety and comfort, an absence of tension, so they move to whatever feels like a 'safe' viewpoint to have

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Dutch 🌻 @possummom420.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I place one card face down and end my post

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

In many cases the tools do exist but a cultural decision has been made on all sides to pretend that you do not see them. Did you know you can write scripts to process data in Google Sheets? Did you know Applescript is still a thing?

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Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com · 20/09/2026

Wizards. Magic. Pressures of masculinity. A venerable pact. A tolling bell of mortality. You'll find all these and more in Seven-Part Pact, an ambitious, revolutionary TTRPG experience from the creators of Wanderhome. Make your late pledge today! 🪄 bit.ly/sevenpartpactks #stevejacksongames

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

write something, edit it. read it aloud, edit it. share with your friends, edit it. share with your partner, edit it. sleep on it, edit it. final pass, edit it. send it off, edit it.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 19/09/2026

Of all the ways I imagined Google Scholar going up in flames, being made inaccessible from university IP addresses due to AI-driven scraping wasn't at the top of my list.

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

forever mourning the time i spent as a library page. unmatched podcast time.

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