iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2026

I knew that Casey Newton was becoming ever more annoying about AI but I didn’t realise that he was properly losing his mind in the process www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 11/08/2026

sir a second reporter has hit the Luxon resignation beat

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/05/2026

it's going to become a superintelligent artificial god any day now

a screenshot showing how Google AI thinks "blueberry" is spelled "bluberry"

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 21/04/2026

I for one am thrilled that this dude looks likely to lead National during the election

an unredacted photorealistic portrait of Christopher Luxon

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 07/03/2026

No AI could achieve this magnificence

A drawing of scrambled eggs with ketchup (not blood)

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 07/03/2026

the new owners of this masterwork and I are hatching a plan for what to do with this painting when Luxon is rolled and we’re very open to your horrible ideas

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 07/03/2026

my wip of a cute kakapo in a trucker cap got like 5 likes, I didn’t want to admit it to myself but I know what you sickos really want

Luxon emerges from a ghastly pink wall of flesh

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/02/2026

PSA for those with modern Macs that are running inexplicably slow: check your system for a horrible little app called Logi Options +. It's supposed to make your Logitech peripherals work. What it *actually* does is leak memory like a sieve and use up *terabytes* of read/write

a photo of my computer screen revealing Logi Options +'s absurd memory and read/write usage

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 17/02/2026

what circle of hell is this (there are no new message requests and the ones I have are not unread)

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 10/02/2026

Folks may or may not know that I like to make creative adjustments to Bob Ross-style paintings, resulting in paintings like our friend Moby Duck. I cannot for the life of me figure out what to put in the forest river painting, though. Taking suggestions.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 07/02/2026

Investors, I get the feeling that the free AI money isn’t going to be around a lot longer so please give as much of it as possible to me. I need money more than OpenAI does and I promise not to use it on an AI project Instead I’ll just do more of this sort of thing

A picture of a couple of cockatiels wearing a tiara and one of those Russian hats, respectively

A panting of one of those horrible Labubu things attacking a snowy Bob Ross cabin

Two separate paintings of a dog wearing headphones and a cat eating spaghetti

A poster of a greyhound wearing an LGBTQ flag with the caption “Gayhound”

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 03/02/2026

The thing that always happens happened, because the people who are always wrong were wrong again!

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 02/02/2026

Still does my head in that New Zealand has a Prime Minister who acts and looks exactly like a hairless David Brent #nzpol

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 22/01/2026

RIP Louvre of Bluesky, this would have been worthy

Ben Kuchera
I've been sent brass knuckles, meat, a replica of a human head I had to tear apart to get at the invitation in the brain (that was fun), a weird serial killer box that made it look like someone kidnapped my son. Microsoft once drove the press around in super cars driven by attractive ladies.
@shonen-otaku.bsky.social
What do those have to do with reporting on the game?
Ben Kuchera
You're starting to get it.
shonen-otaku.bsky.social
Get what?

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 08/12/2025

unbelievable. they really *are* using AI to create the new NZ curriculum "analysing and synthesising information from international curricula and related educational frameworks," is just another way of saying "we're turning them all into untraceable hallucinations" #NZpol #kikorangi

Too long for alt text: an OIA response from the MInistry of Education NZ showing AI being used in the curriculum creation process. The most relevvant part is: the Ministry is leveraging Al tools to enhance development processes across the curriculum as a whole, particularly by analysing and synthesising information from international curricula and related educational frameworks. It is important to note however, that Al is not used to directly author curriculum content. Instead, it supports Ministry writers by providing background research, comparative insights and thematic analysis. The ability to process and evaluate research from other jurisdictions efficiently is especially valuable as we work towards delivering a national curriculum that is internationally comparable.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 08/12/2025

lmao sure they have, anything that looks like an ad is definitely turned off, nothing to see here

a screenshot of a chatgpt chat showing how easy it is to get the system to show things that look rather exactly like ads

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 10/11/2025

I will keep trying Social Notes until I make them work. Anyway, if you can see this, go buy a Cats are Comrades shirt www.tworuru.com/product/cats-are-co…

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 06/11/2025

"how many humans can already recognise 22,000 objects in the world" literally everyone

"Parts of machines will supersede human intelligence... Part of it is already here.
How many of us can already recognise 22,000 objects in the world... how many humans can translate 100 languages?" said Fei Fei Li, founder of World Labs, a start-up that is creating "spatial intelligence" in AI by developing humanlike processing of visual data.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 06/11/2025

Somehow always this, over and over and over again

Basil
@LinkofSunshine
People on twitter will really be like
"you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebomb a Walmart

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 27/10/2025

tworuru.com I do a lot of art but the most notable recent piece is probably this gargantuan duck I added to a Bob Ross tutorial painting as part of what I call Project Everybob

It's a giant rubber duck in a lake with a mountain in the background all painted in the style of Bob Ross. It's called Moby Duck

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 24/10/2025

This is what happens when you get AI to write your ad for a humour specialist (Also probably worth noting that $200k an hour is only $416 million a year, i.e. quite a lot less than the billionaires earn.)

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 12/10/2025

If I come across someone screaming “FIGHT ME!!!!” in real life I take a wide berth and when I see it here I just casually block them

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read.
Don't Bet Against Bari Weiss

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 12/10/2025

Desperate to listen to this guy’s podcast

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 29/09/2025

Bluesky hates art, videos, and anything that isn't a screenshot of a Tweet of some new deranged Tr*mp stuff, but I am going to keep posting my art videos / mini-essays out of a curious mixture of love and pure spite #art

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2025

I painted the weird lights you see when you close your eyes (they’re called phosphenes)

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 21/09/2025

POV you committed to a 30 day drawing challenge you don’t have time for but still don’t get distracted from the important things

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 11/09/2025

Lil landscape I did as part of a commission, you could have one too from tworuru.com

An image of a sunrise of a location in Midwest America. Acrylic on canvas board as a commission for a client.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 10/09/2025

If you are struggling with the Horrors today may I suggest this video of me painting a soothing Oklahoma landscape while enthusing about paint thinner

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 08/09/2025

I’m thinking of starting a print club, for all the art I’ve ever made (lots) and all the art I’ll make in future (ideally much more). Options for both email and real-mail. What do youse reckon? A reminder: this is the variety of stuff I make.

Whole bunch of paintings I’ve done from left to right a spaceman steering at a ring around the planet he’s standing, on a cat, a communist cat, a sunset, a tomtit wearing a top hat, Christopher Luxton in some kind of flesh nightmare, two cute kids in a portrait, Vincent Van Cow, and a skyscraper sized rubber duck floating on a lake

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 07/09/2025

rereading all of Aubrey/Maturin and Post Captain is the most remarkable book - Jack and Stephen, through misunderstanding, end up chasing the same woman - matters come to a head; a duel beckons, but - a daring action; Stephen saves Jack from blood loss - and fills the cabin with 60,000 bees

too long for alt text, but essentially Stephen fills Jack's cabin with a hive of 60,000 bees that promptly begin escaping. page 387 of Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian for the interested

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 04/09/2025

Folks, I can now reveal that the Trump/CoC economy has come for my job. Another job has not yet forthcome so now would be an extremely doubleplusgood time to commission yourself (or a loved one) a painting. Here is a very small selection of what I can do

A whole lot of art in a whole lot of styles. From left to right we see a realistic-ish spaceman staring at a planet, a photorealistic cat, a communist cat, a watercolour sunset, a tomtit wearing a top hat, a nightmare portrait of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, a nice portrait of two kids, a Vincent Van Cow, and a skyscraper-sized rubber duck floating in a Bob Ross lake. All artwork is by me, Josh, and I can be commissioned at tworuru.com

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 04/09/2025

They will. I would be happy to help! Here is a little sampler of the - I'm being conservative here - *wildly* varied art I make. All these paintings/pictures are by me.

It's a collage of nine pictures of paintings that I've done, including a realistic space landscape, a photorealistic cat, a communist cat, a watercolour sunset, a little tomtit wearing a hat, a nightmare portrait of Prime Minister Chris Luxon, a nice portrait of two kids, a Vincent van Cow and a skyscraper-sized rubber duck floating in a lake.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 19/08/2025

Just fantastic that this stupid, barely rates as a joke, AI slop bullshit continues to get more traction on this absurd website than the work of any nz artist I know and keeps getting reposted into my timeline just to rub it in

Hideous ai slop poster featuring a bunch of things that aren’t birds to serve a joke that isn’t funny

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 18/08/2025

Anyway I made this guide for the perplexed with my own shitty human hands just now If you’re enjoying or even mildly chastised by this salty thread find me and share my work, I am tworuru on pretty much every platform

A sarcastic flowchart guide for when to share AI art where all answers amount to “no, share human art instead”. There’s a drawing of what could be a duck in the middle

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 16/08/2025

A threat: If this gets 10k views or 100 comments on any platform I will read the entire Communist Manifesto as an audiobook bedtime/sleep podcast If you don’t want this, don’t share it #politics #nzpol #soci

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