iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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You can pay for this with a credit card, but don't dare think of commissioning art of consenting adults having fun sexually, credit card companies (and PayPal) will de-bank you. Our systems are so screwed up. :/

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 12h

When “knowledge work” is often women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color, and immigrants making disproportionately more than they would in other fields, and people like Peter Thiel are mad about that constantly, the investment in putting us all out of work is worth losing money.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a fucking cult. “When you curse it hurts Jesus” bullshit.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Social media was a fucking mistake and most people should be doing either much less, or much more intentionally 🫠

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tech education/literacy is honesty so terrible right now. It feels hard to not blame smartphones as a root of everyone starting to believe computers are magical and unknowable

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/09/2026

honestly lost so much respect for so much left media over the past few weeks seeing how eagerly they’ve jumped on sensationalist bullshit claims from tech industry cultists. not calling out the nation specifically; they’re basically all at it.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/09/2026

“What is most important, however, is to affirm that AI is different. … It is another form of intelligence with a mindset all its own, and there is zero evidence that it views humanity’s well-being and survival as a priority.” wtf is left media doing echoing this cultist doomerism?

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How AI Could Kill Us All

Mapping the pathways to human extinction.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol in fairness look how many of our Democrats support this shit. A center-left PM is more or less equivalent to them

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It wasn’t “an agent” and it didn’t fucking “go rogue.” OpenAI hacked a foreign government and should be sued to death. Someone should go to prison.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many people who are correctly upset about the world have no energy or skills or motivation, and boy howdy it is apparently a human impulse to scream at people who have those things/make an actual, positive impact that could be better according to people who aren’t helping.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Much in how the most annoying people online can be solved for with “this person gets off on being yelled at,” you can solve for some of the most annoying (sometimes well-meaning) queer people via “This person doesn’t like a thing, and is not willing to do any work toward changing the thing.”

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In case you hadn't heard, ICE has been ramping up activity in the South Metro and is snatching people from cars and leaving abandoned vehicles on the side of the road, at gas stations, etc. At least two abductions in Savage this week. Carry your whistles. Stay alert.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What if Polygon still, idk, paid for sufficient staffing so someone caught this dog-whistley nonsense before they could make themselves look ridiculous.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah I extremely disagree with the OP as a programmer who doesn’t use AI and sees a field of people who either know they’re miserable or think it’s great and are working more/are still miserable. But like. Computing made jobs and genuinely improved life. But then rich people got ahold of them 🤷‍♀️

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Honestly can’t stop thinking about this essay, both in the context he meant it and others. If you want life to be both convenient/less effort and better: it can’t. Pick one. “But effort is creation. There’s no creation without it.” johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

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Writing Should Hurt

On our relationship to pain and creativity

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“But what if I have to talk to my neighbors or someone breaks into my car or there’s more traffic or my taxes go up or I have to explain it to my kids” Observe the fucking shape of the world, please. Please look at what other humans endure and tell me the thing is too much for you.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Significant change requires: changes. It will almost certainly be uncomfortable, inconvenient, scary, and expose you/others to risk. It is just like that, I do know who needs to hear this.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i need meta to die in my lifetime

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I look forward to hearing from everyone about how MPD participated in and encouraged fraud. Would love to hear pro-policing council members attest to their role in fraud fraud fraud fraud. Cannot wait for the way people have talked about fraud recently to be used when talking about MPD.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More like the gas of priceoline

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Me getting published in the LA Times for being mediocre at my job and saying the next president should send us all free weed

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Who is possibly willing to work for this person

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Toby Buckle” is the second most British-sounding thing on the planet, right behind this analysis.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I understand what happened. It’s a chat interface connected to an exploit list, it’s not revolutionary, similar things have happened in other CTF competitions with hacking software run by people who didn’t give a shit. Problem sure, that novel not really.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it’s so great and normal that Steam is randomly censoring games like this for no reason, at the same time as they’re blasting “HENTAI VS FURRY FEST” banners all over the front page, which takes you straight to full-frontal nudity in one click

a banner proclaiming it to be Hentai Vs Furry Festival 2026, with some very busty ladies, lizards, and foxes glaring competitioningly at each other from the sides of the screen

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Disabling airdrop has also solved some honestly bewildering networking problems on my Mac

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I took this way too literally at first read, as if someone is chucking chicken sandwiches at cis people, laughed, re-read, and then sadness resumed haha

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am. And I enjoy it. That’s the combo of reasons that people are in a field, ideally. What the fuck is wrong with people

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Listen I’d pee wherever people want for universal healthcare. I’d have the wrong fucking letter for ending houselessness. I absolutely do not think random cis people would tolerate similar injustices for those stakes, lmao

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Minnesota needs better gender care, and more qualified doctors and surgeons who can offer it. As more people move here, the already strained systems we have are becoming even more so. I’m going to get a hat that says “Don’t get trans healthcare from the Mayo” I STG.

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spooky october name @dormin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I keep asking cis people which of their right they're willing to give up in order to elect a democrat and they never answer me

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There isn’t a 1% chance. There is no chance AI becomes sentient or “escapes containment” and becomes self-directed or any of that bullshit. It simply won’t happen because that doesn’t make any sense, on account of reality. Meanwhile, it absolutely is currently accelerating climate change.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There aren’t, though. The 10% by 2020 figure comes from AI goons.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’d like everyone on earth to listen to the first 10 minutes of this podcast, because I need “I’ve been to Square Whirled and Nick Offerman didn’t know you” to mean something

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey his side is that I may hurt women because I am a freak.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think the things people say should happen to me should happen to them, and wow they don’t like that.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

god i just realized that next year september 11th falls on friday the 13th. gonna be awful

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 13/09/2026

the way many of you motherfuckers talk about trans women is downright evil. blackpilling stuff honestly

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

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Writing Should Hurt

On our relationship to pain and creativity

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026

i dont know how to get this through to the true believers but i simply do not want to ask a machine to do my work for me. i dont want it to communicate with other people for me. i dont want it to plan my vacations or make my agendas or anything because all of that IS my life

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026

you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Steve Jobs predicted that cities would be built around the Segway.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not to mention inevitable lawsuits from artists/musicians who have been ripped off. Meanwhile: way more lucrative and easier to make than games are the many SaaS companies that could be replaced by AI-gen code/one-time pay products. A thing supposedly coming any day, and yet no sign yet. Hrm.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is a deeper entrenchment of "if you bother to learn how this works, you'll get left behind, just buy it from us," only it's way more expensive than Unity, lets you elude even more knowledge than game engines do, and will produce an even less maintainable, less performant result.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As an English lit major who went back to school for CS because I liked programming, I graduated in 2019 with a bunch of people who had no idea how to use a debugger or vital VS tools, but all agreed on encapsulation/C++ templates good, global vars bad (cue game programmer laughter)

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This feels roughly on track with the advent of modern Unity/Unreal vs. before them 🤷‍♀️ a few games amongst the many coherent looking examples will have a breakout, and it will be made by someone who would have spent the same effort using things that already existed (but with hallucinated art/music).

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