iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I'm too talented to need shortcuts" goes so fucking hard.

youtube community post from Huggbees that discusses why he does not and will not ever use AI in his art

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

88 hours after stealing all the fucking notes of the human beings who did all the actual work, and putting their infinite data centers on the problem. $1 million is nothing to them but they just gotta take a hot one on even just one regular guy. This is what I mean when AI's all just stolen valour

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

more than anything, i think we’re all learning that people who spent their professional life learning how to talk to computers were completely unprepared for a situation in which it appears that the computer is talking back

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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

思い出のなかに居る

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this takes an incredible amount of character, not just to give it up, but to admit all of this. This guy has more guts than any AI fuck by a mile, and maybe more than us too. People who've managed to escape AI usage are invaluable towards convincing others to do the same.

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Yoshitura Yamamoto @yoshiyamamoto.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Bath - done. Time for deal with the prophecy. 2/5 #deltarune #ralsei

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Shareholders are suing big tech execs for taking on the massive legal risk of training AI on copyrighted work without permission, and I’m so here for it news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/big-t...

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 17/06/2026

They shouldn’t feel stupid, they should feel afraid of getting their fucking faces smashed in for wearing a wire.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 17/06/2026

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

Edd Coates talking about the game ui database being scraped

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abby (spooky) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

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strawb ♡ @renobamitsu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"what if my art is ugly or bad?" what if you were someone's favorite artist. what if someone was inspired to become an artist because of you. NEVER stop posting your art!!

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 09/06/2026

As someone who used to work on licensed comics (Rugrats, Cartoon Network etc) it absolutely blows my mind that stuff like this is going out on official products. We'd get dragged over the coals if a spot colour was one Pantone reference out. Now? Sure, Donald has seven fingers. Why not?

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apofiss @apofiss.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Midnight sunset🌅✨ ...wallpaper goodies available, link in bio! (• ⩊ •マ

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hank hill @freshgarlicknots.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 02/06/2026

don't trust your brain after 9pm especially after 10pm seriously don't after 11pm 12am go to bed

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

fucking florida?? what?? like that's great but FLORIDA?

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/05/2026

I like that Charlotte Brontë was basically telling a soapy saga about how the world is a hard and complicated place and sometimes Shit Happens, and Jane Austen is just like, “I’ve met the worst and simultaneously most boring people you can imagine. Hunker down, let me tell you all about them.”

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/05/2026

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

savethearchive.com

Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!

The news isn’t getting preserved in the Wayback Machine anymore because major media outlets are blocking it.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 22/05/2026

*gets on soap box* *grabs megaphone* STOP FUCKING TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY ARE OR ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FUCKING CREATE IF WE WANT TO WORLDBUILD HUGE WORLDS, WE FUCKING WILL YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ OUR BOOKS "Readers don't want so much worldbuilding." NO, FUCK YOU, I DO WANT ALL THAT WORLDBUILDING

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The 1% have stopped even pretending to care. Everything is totally fine for them and never won't be. The rest of us will be incrementally priced out of homes, necessities, healthcare and food and they do not care. We have solutions at our disposal. Now is the time to start implementing them.

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average Sakamoto enjoyer🐉🍙 @monkhazard.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The tags on this Tumblr post really sum up how I feel as a writer about the current state of fandom, and my increasing lack of motivation to write & share fics

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I love this essay very much!!!!

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Djamila Knopf @djamilaknopf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I painted a sleepy cat under a ginkgo tree! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

a traditional painting showing a cat sleeping under a ginkgo tree

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Seren🌷 @ieafy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Pea flower, gouache (there are two mantises in this painting 🙂‍↕️)

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Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

quick sketch for a commission ☀

a pixel art sketch of a beach scene at sunset or sunrise, the sky is filled with orange purpley clouds with a bright yellow sun reflecting on the ocean

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

it only works if you're clicking the link, so if you wanna be super nice go to the artists links and click on it to go to their shop 🫶. and etsy sellers, update your links if you're not using this format.

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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ Shop update 10/24! 👻🧡 @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️🌸 [ #tdov #cuteart #trans ]

An illustration of my OC, Egg the Trans Raccoon (a blue, pink & white raccoon with a trans-flag-striped tail) laying down and looking at a small flower. They’re also wearing a flower crown in the colors of a trans flag. The illustration is soft and it says “grow into your best self” over Egg.

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沁 @loika.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

a forest, twice broken

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/03/2026

Yeah, kids not being able to hand write because typing, but then they can’t touch-type because tablets or read critically because of chatgpt or solve problems because of openai or read images because of midjourney does make me concerned about the future a little

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Mazie @sillyartcollector.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If you’re Canadian, PLEASE sign this petition to have endometriosis classified as a disability!!! Living with this incurable disease is horrible, it’s debilitating, it’s even humiliating sometimes. Please give us a break. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

ourcommons.ca

Petition e-6929 - Petitions

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”

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Hey! Monster Boy @heymonsterboy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Every day there are horrors But Every day people are falling in love Every day people are creating joy Every day people are saving each other in ways great and small We can save this world together

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SamiTheAnxiousBean @samitheanxiousbean.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

HAPPY "THE WHOLE PLOT OF THE ZERO ESCAPE GAMES STARTS TODAY" DAY the one and only that will be watch out for snails

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