iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kate W. @katesmiscellany.bsky.social · 8h

Making progress! Now that I know everything fits, I'm making detailed models to replace the basic stand-in shapes, beginning with the turboshafts.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 15h

Last week I stumbled across a once-classified report from 1971 that listed the actual times for SLBM attacks and warning systems. What hooked me from the onset was that all the times are listed in *seconds*. This week for DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I try to unpack all that a bit...

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The speed of war

The short times of nuclear warning and attack (1971)

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📐 Maria Picassó Piquer @mariapicasso.com · 18h

⚫️ Sigourney Weaver

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An important corollary to the Surf Dracula tweet that I think should be talked about more, now that we're basically inundated with these types of shows, is that most of them don't get renewed, but even the ones that are don't turn into the weekly adventures of Surf Dracula in the second season.

Screenshot of a tweet from user @topherfluence: "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get ot see him surf for 5 min in the finale"

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026

sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While we’re endorsing disaster media, this episode features @donoteat.bsky.social’s finest performance as “paranoid federal gay naval explosives crimes investigator” youtu.be/ofqbBRfsvgg?...

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Well There's Your Problem | Episode 202: USS Iowa Turret Explosion

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Great Tolkien Reread meets "The Uruk-Hai" today, our first close-up view of Orcs (and our first Merry and Pippin POV chapter). This is an opportunity to talk about how Tolkien humanizes his most problematic invention, and where he stops short. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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The Great Tolkien Reread: The Uruk-Hai

"Merry and Pippin Captured by Orcs" by Inger Edelfeldt Neither Pippin nor Merry remembered much of the later part of the journey. Evil dream...

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Rad | 🇮🇩 | Commissions OPEN @cigaradd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been busy with IRL stuff and building a long term plan for my illustration career, so I curb my time doomscrolling here. Here's a quick Michael Burnham painting as a proof that I am still posting here ✨ #StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery

stylized illustration of Michael Burnham from Star Trek discovery against yellow background

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Things that come out of the grass

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You ever have that thing where you're reading a book and you can do the lift for suspension of disbelief for the entire fantastical premise of the thing but then you hit one detail and your brain is like "absolutely not"?

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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Saturday for the ages

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HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brb, drafting that squirrel for my meth attack squirrel squadron

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binary phase diagram @phasebinary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

on Feb 2 we will ask Claude if it is conscious if it says no then there will be six more years of AI not being conscious

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Ed @ed3d.net · 02/10/2026

I don’t think it’s that gradual

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Mon 🌻 being alive @madqueenmomo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

IT IS TURN-A KAPOOL

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Real Person @growlerballtorture.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Fact check: true

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Jake Lunt Davies @jakeld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Initial page of sketches I did for B2EMO on Andor (as seen in @philszostak.bsky.social ‘s Art of Andor). Pay attention to the two bottom centre sketches - they are part of the genesis of the final design. More to follow #starwars #andor #conceptdesign #droid #b2emo

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The Edge of Midnight @eomproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The Red Devils" Troops of The Parachute Regiment (Earth Military Command), 2nd Airlanding Division during the Battle of Kobax (2263)

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Tim 🎃wens @attimowens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Never getting over how good these blade-splashing VFX are. Never getting over the imagination behind "Night"'s daring storytelling, and the creative freedom that encouraged it.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The narrative: "Everyone who works for Bluesky hates the site's users! Either they don't use the site or they're constantly melting down at people!" The users:

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

do you love Ann Leckie? do you love Lois McMaster Bujold? have you somehow never read C. J. Cherryh? you have an enormous treat ahead of you in this Humble Bundle! #BookSky 💙📚

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It remains odd to me The Onion has decided the thing to do in 2026 is mislead people about Democrats The DNC and prominent Democrats like El-Sayed! This isn’t even a joke, it’s a poorly controlled reflex

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

capybaras taking a bath in a fountain

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what i think is currently up in the AI space since we're having cost arguments again: selling inference is very profitable, but models are improving so fast that there's no time for capex on model training to amortize, so net at this rate they're losing money which is why they want a cartel

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026

Been there

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

everyone lucked the hell out on the terror attack today where the co-pilot stabbed the pilot, passengers took down the attacker *and* there seem to have been two off-duty pilots who were able to land the plane safely. Could have been one of the worst attacks for a while otherwise.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

soulslikes are not 3d metroidvanias, they are zeldas for tweakers who can no longer handle puzzles

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Only me @onlyme56.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rob's choice of #BirdOfTheDay today is #BestOfTheMonth I think my best was this sweet little #Gadwall taken on 7th September, down by the river but I can't decide which side profile I like best. 😁 #birds

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anthropic's IPO filing apparently warns investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” which is a great sales approach and also, coincidentally, the exact phrase I was told when I brought home this guy.

Sandal, a large fluffy orange-and-white cat, sits upright on a curved cardboard scratcher, staring directly at the camera with a serious expression.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

David Schleinkofer, cover art for Sim City 2000, 1993

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PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An Anna’s hummingbird for the #BokehBirds theme of #BirdOfTheDay Water drops left by a recent rain shower are creating striking white bokeh balls. #birds #nature #photography #ECK #bokeh #hummingbird

A male Anna’s hummingbird is perched on a down curved twig, and on the lookout for rival males with his long bill facing up. In the background is an out of focus vertical branch of a coral tree (Erythrina) with red flower buds and white bokeh balls caused by rain drops.

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A gorgeous Short Eared Owl looking for a tasty vole from a post! 😍🐦🦉 You can buy my 2027 birds calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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