iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 15h

I complain far too much about the midlands when it looks like this.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think the entire public sector slowly grinding to a halt because the minster for public expenditure wants to burnish his hard man credentials for an upcoming leadership bid should be more of a scandal/news story tbh #speirgorm

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Aksioma @aksiomaorg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Face reading, folk statistics, facial recognition. 🧍 Discover the connection in the artist talk 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒-𝑒𝑎𝑡-𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 by #SheungYiu on our Youtube 👁️ youtube.com/watch?v=oNnqaO2TyOA

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 29/09/2026

"Here. At 22:04. When you start into Max Bense, and the numbers start to drop. Could his pat be a Tik Tok video instead?"

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 29/09/2026

Less worried about the students knowing about the stats than management tbh

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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My exhibition Matéria Escura Digital opens at gnration in Braga, Portugal at 16:00 on the 10th of October. The project is supported by DGArtes --- A recepção pública para a minha exposição Matéria Escura Digital está agendado para 16:00 no 10 otubro no gnration em Braga. Projeto apoiado pelo DGArtes

black and white image of light going through several square prisms

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 26/09/2026

Down the rabbit hole now. Beautiful looking machines some of these.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 25/09/2026

Was a lot wrong with Digital Humanities too. did it's fair share of cannibalism. I say this as a lecturer in DH.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 25/09/2026

Amazing. Looks like someone made an Aertel one too with live data form the RTE RSS feeds: aertelnua.com/100

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Teletext

A living teletext service. Key in a page number.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 25/09/2026

Ceefax! Another blast from the past! World’s first apparently www.bbc.com/historyofthe...

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CEEFAX: world's first teletext service

23 September 1974

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 25/09/2026

Tried to explain the Irish reliance and infatuation with Teletext to a student lately and they thought I was making it up. Our ‘digital transition’ began with 90s granddads looking up dog racing results on page 686 hackaday.com/2023/10/13/t...

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Teletext In Ireland, Another Broadcasting Leftover Bites The Dust

Over the years we’ve reported on the passing of a few of the broadcasting technologies of yesteryear, such as analogue TV in America, or AM radio in Europe. Now it’s the turn of an earl…

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 24/09/2026

To run modern CAD on 1970s hardware would have required a data centers worth of 70s era computing power. We can run it on a phone now. Same will be true of current AI & LLMs IN 5 years. We do not need massive data center infrastructures. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-inference...

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Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

These companies are paying to use home servers

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 24/09/2026

I listened to her talk about this once on a rowing machine and almost dislocated a shoulder from anger.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 24/09/2026

They’ve been aggressively uncool for a while now but the boomer-brain Jetsons-level AI discourse is undignified in the extreme.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 24/09/2026

Rather than being a tweet made by a machine and intended to sound human, this tweet was made by a human and intended to sound like a machine.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 24/09/2026

Finally going to try Soul tonight.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 23/09/2026

Lads. I told ye she’s gone off the deep end. Ive been writing about it for a while now. She went so far off the deep end it helped myself and some colleagues structure a beautifully elegant alternative. It started as a rebuttal but is a far more valuable than just more critique. Watch this space:

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 22/09/2026

Stephen Roddy works on displaying #data as sound. This can help translate information when you can’t look at it or can’t use traditional graphic models. buff.ly/ga4OWAi

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Peter Kirn @pkirn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Worth following: publishers are incorrectly claiming payouts on the Anthropic lawsuit, like claiming 100%, or even claiming titles that are reverted/out of print. If you're an author, assuming you already made a claim (that deadline was March), check now -- there's still time to dispute this.

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Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware

In the wake of the widespread errors that have marred the claims process, the deadline to dispute a claim and provide documentation has been extended from 30 days to 60 days (from the day class member...

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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wonderful evening celebrating six artist-in-residence programmes at University College Cork. Particularly pleasing to see @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com recap @alanbutler.info’s tenure as @ucc.ie’s first Digital Artist-in-Residence, generously supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 16/09/2026

So... This is selling out far quicker than expected. I would recommend jumping in if you're jumping in.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 16/09/2026

Things with a 0% probability of happening can still happen unfortunately.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 14/09/2026

They’re apparently great. Like they can very quickly turn it around

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 14/09/2026

As the summer was so very hot here, I had to wear lots of sun screen and avoid the outdoors where possible. Classic pasty red head stuff. I did that so effectively however that I now have a pretty severe vitamin D deficiency. So just lost in a perpetual brain fog and exhausted round the clock.

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Silent Hill 2 Remake: Foggy Street

ALT: Silent Hill 2 Remake: Foggy Street

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 14/09/2026

I've switched gyms unfortunately! The Mardyke was just too far from home for me

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 14/09/2026

I fear I’m in danger of becoming one of those early morning gym types. How I yearn for a simpler life.

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APC Microbiome Ireland @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Irish women can now take part in #ENDO1000. APC Microbiome Ireland at UCC is leading microbiome analysis for this major endometriosis research resource. [NEWS LINK] #Endometriosis #Microbiome #EUMetriosis @endo1000.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @anatneuroucc.bsky.social

Four researchers at an endometriosis research event standing in front of a stylized hexagonal network backdrop with UCC, ENDO1000 and EUmetriosis logos, smiling and wearing coats and conference lanyards.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 13/09/2026

Siri. Ask Chat GPT how to put out an electrical fire.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

Oh yes. With those old tub/bottles of Kandee ketchup if you can get them. I'm there's some knocking around and I doubt they go off.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

If fascism is the cost of streaming 3d audio up-mixes of your favorite 90s hits, then buddy, I'm gonna macarena directly into the meat grinder.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

So yeah. Great for music but possibly the end of democracy.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

But yeah. Centimeter level positioning combined near ubiquitous sensing is...Jesus. You would have to worry about how that will expand the capabilities of a Flock or a Palantir. Serious work needed on the standards and ethics to get ahead of that. Feeling a little ill all of a sudden.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

Actually, the deeper in you get, and putting all the highly speculative AI talk aside, the increased decentralisation of computation out to the network edges seems like an important counterbalance to the cloud-centric data-center heavy practices that emerged in the wake of 5G.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

I know someone is going to comment that it's not the final spec but you know what I mean!

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

The 6G spec is out. I'm working through it this afternoon and it looks BETTER than we had hoped for music. It's almost like they were keeping up with the internet of sounds research ?!? Challenge now is ensuring that this isn't co-opted into surveillance infrastructure. Much work need there now.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

Thanks. That’s just put me right off my lunch.

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

Excellent album, or well.. collection of previously released EPs anyway. All tracks recorded with only a Synthi but managed to conjure a huge sense of scale and variation.

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