iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MintRefresh🍬 @mintrefresh.bsky.social · 1h

I need your help! As we reach the end of the year, what moments from the #Minecraft community in 2026 do you think deserve recognition? Think KurtJMac reaching the Far Lands or ish's civilization event last year.

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Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 1h

Serebii Update: Pokémon GO has unveiled some new changes rolling out in Pokémon GO including warnings when you're about to transfer a 100% Pokémon, and Zygarde Cells as a reward for routes Details @ www.serebii.net

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MintRefresh🍬 @mintrefresh.bsky.social · 7h

The shapes in the ore really feel like Emerald, and for a new ore I'd expect Mojang would go for a new color more distinct from the existing minerals. But if it is Emerald, strange to see that in the Sift. #Minecraft #DungeonsII

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22h

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

stating that Israel is engaged in an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people is a basic fact. It's uncontroversial. It's true.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 22h

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 23h

Boss: "how do we get others on the team to work like this? Like, you're genuinely always giving high-output, why cant others do what you do?" Me: *shrugs* "I know people care about work, but a lot of people dont always see the big picture; i get where we're going, so that helps with what to do :)"

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 23h

At work: Boss: "you're doing so much work, it's like there's 2 of you, good job incorporating AI to speed things up in your workflow!" Me: "I'm not using any AI" Boss: "what." Me: "I have the tools and knowledge to get stuff done, and how to do it. I dont need AI for that."

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JoCat is on his way home @jocat.net · 07/10/2026

I love D&D, and I would want the people who work on it treated well and fairly For a long time and especially in the last few years, the people in the trenches actually doing the work have not been given the proper respect or protections they deserve Please help change that

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MintRefresh🍬 @mintrefresh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ice Caves monolith at the Far Lands! #Minecraft

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MCC Island @mccisland.net · 07/10/2026

Next up: The Cursed Carnival 🎪 Arriving: Friday, 9th October

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🔞🍋🌿ξ๑ˊ ꈊˋ๑Ҙ🌿🍋🔞 | Comms Closed @sourgoat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Actually, why can't mamdani be our president? If other dudes can break every law known to man that should disqualify you for presidency and be president, then it sounds like there are no rules on who can be president. Seems like he has a chance to me.

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Isn't it funny how all the things required to keep the net in a functional state also just so happen to be bad for kids? Torrents, online spaces, the internet archive. All bad for kids! What are the odds right?

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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Description of how the EU Kids Act applies to video games, what it will do, and what it might do

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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All hands on deck! Ross explains how the EU Kids Act could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market! youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g "The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you"

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This could legitimately end Stop Killing Games.

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Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Serebii Update: Pokémon TCG Pocket has outlined some coming changes including a new battle mode to replace Step-Up Battles and a Community Deck feature, coming late October 2026 Details @ www.serebii.net

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May.

Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it blows my mind that these bizarre AI people think “the commons” is just sitting around for them to strip-mine for free

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on wikimedia projects. by selena deckelmann 5 october 2026

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slicedlime @slicedlime.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New Minecraft Snapshot: 26.4-snapshot-3 www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/min…

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Marc Watson @marc-irl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you want to know more about the music of Dungeons II, and how our audio director found the musical identity for a new dimension, check out this new article! www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unironically, this actually worked for the Aurora cape lol It also had the copper cape which I thought was lost to time, so now i just gotta wait for Hero and Twisted to get applied, but that's got plenty of time. Thanks Jingy!

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

isaiprofitable.com thenextweb.com/news/tech-gi... Currently $1.9t in on the books investment and $1.6t (that's been found) in off the books debt using the Enron debt hiding method, with $0.9t ostensibly made back in revenue (much of which is incestuous "pay you to pay me"). So at least $2.6t debt.

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Is AI Profitable Yet?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Actually this reminds me, I successfully redeemed the Copper cape ages ago and still never got it on my account... I'm now legit wondering if I'm doing something wrong lol

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyone remember how long it takes for MC Capes to roll out to Java/Bedrock accounts after accepting codes/doing the criteria? Accessed MCD1 after MCD2 launch - no Hero cape Pre-purchased MCD2 - no Twisted cape (maybe related to Account linking bug) Redeemed Aurora code - no cape I sad :(

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Mousie @mousie.yogscast.com · 02/10/2026

for no reason whatsoever (charity) I need your most out there and most datable "hear me out's" again this year (for charity) please tell me all about your monster smashes and monster slashes (for charity) please share (for charity). you know what to do (for charity) forms.gle/RvJ66GMTC1M4...

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"Hear Me out" Monsters (2026)

For no reason (other than charity) I need some monsters that are a "hear me out". You know what to do.

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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sums up my feelings.

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Billy Hurley @billyhurls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no McTry. There is only:

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Jesse Cox @jessecox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Heard about Alan Wake or Control and thought "I would love to know what those games are about without being spoiled"... Why this video that I certainly am not trying my hardest to push on you might just be the thing that helps! :P youtu.be/ZJfyys3e9L8?...

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What is the Remedyverse? Control Explained for Beginners! (Spoiler Free)

YouTube video by Jesse Cox

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Nelly @nelly-bean.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

hate how people are judging the sift despite the fact we barely saw anything for it in vanilla, we actually have no clue what's coming and I think that's exciting

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cool explanation! I'm also in that weird boat for my own job within our Product team - able to float between the apps we have, so they put me as Product Operations to help oversee how stuff works/doesnt work w/ customers I definitely want to pick your brain further once more release dust settles :)

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Marc, you dont have the blub as your pet? For shame :p lol Question with the items/areas though - since you're one of the POs for MCD2, do some functionality fall outside of your "area of expertise/responsibility" to make things exciting for those who helped develop it to still find things?

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tired: "man, I cant wait till Mojang announces the first snapshot that shows off the Sift! It'll be great" Wired: "go back to April Fools snapshot for 2024 and look at how many things from the potato dimension relate to what's been shown in MCD2, we've seen and played it already" I'm not crazy

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Mat Pat Game Theory: It's Just a Theory

ALT: Mat Pat Game Theory: It's Just a Theory

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not even 10 hrs in and haven't beaten any of the Illager High Council, this stuff is nutty lol

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Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Serebii Update: The Pokémon GO World Space Week event is now starting to roll out. Runs from 00:00 local time on October 4th through 23:59 local time on October 10th Details @ www.serebii.net/pokemongo/ev...

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Marc Watson @marc-irl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As with all games, I would recommend not looking too hard at filenames and dev names. Ideas change or are abandoned over the course of multiple year projects. Only player-facing names are “correct” because to scramble the game’s insides by updating all references could be a disaster for a launch.

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billyK_ @thebillyk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I stand corrected for the best sounds in MCD2: It's Fire Aspect tier 3, and the Corrupted Beacon firing @marc-irl.bsky.social, the sound designers for this game were absolutely cooking, so much praise to them for their hard work!

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Friday Night @fridayyakuza.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday at last…

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Adrian Brightmoore / The World Foundry @theworldfoundry.com · 01/10/2026

Hey @marc-irl.bsky.social ! Dungeons 2? It's great. Well done to everyone involved

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Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Serebii Update: Pokémon GO is to add Minior, appearing at various Meteor Showers starting with the Orionids from October 19th through 24th Details being added @ www.serebii.net

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