iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Slim @sl1mskull.bsky.social · 9h

New York will be mine 🦇

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 3h

Time to fly..

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Andrew @digitalcantina.com · 3h

That’s C2E2 figured out. Just need to get the under suit and Aberrant built. Hoping my hair is grown out enough, I think I have time.

A photo of myself in the FBC Surplus Uniform poncho

A photo of myself facing away in the FBC Surplus Uniform poncho

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tbtx @twobittactics.bsky.social · 4h

Candlelight 10.01.2026

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やすうらやか @15delicious.bsky.social · 9h

朽木ルキア

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 20h

the IP rush was driven by faith that a culture is just a pile of Stuff, and if you own that stuff, you own culture. the AI rush is driven by faith that if you can automate the creation of stuff, you can automate culture.

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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 5h

she's too scared to wake her up

An artwork by Spindle of the characters Ev, dozing off drunkly and sleeping on Jaq, who really needs to pee but is too scared of her boss to wake her up

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Ticcy - ɴᴇxᴛ ᴄᴏɴ: y/con nov @ticcytx.bsky.social · 5h

Hello, my name is gay panic, nice to meet you!

Haruka Tennou flirting, and Makoto Kino having a crisis
#myart

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 9h

Cops are not there to help you when you’ve been viciously violated: exhibit 1,000,000,000

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hotcyder @hotcyder.bsky.social · 9h

Hi folks, suffice to say I'm ending my creative partnership with Jacob Geller in light of recent news. Best wishes to everyone affected.

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YMR // 🎮 7.56 evercold waiting room @ymr18.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

quick Venat in somewhat Amano style ( I tried ... ) [ #ff14 #ffxiv #ff14art #ffxivart #venat ]

quick messy sketch of Venat from ff14. i tried to depict her in Amano style. she is looking right at the viewer with a fierce look

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 30/09/2026

i don’t know what to do about any of this really, it’s all macroeconomic shit. the money is gone and it is not coming back. but it has meant that as things get more desperate these tensions have exacerbated. a lot of the advice can feel like ‘how to ensure you’re the one in the lifeboat’

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 30/09/2026

every time i see an article about how the future is small, agile core teams backed up by contractors i feel a wave of deep depression. sustainability for me not for thee

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 30/09/2026

so much discussion is framed through the lens of how to navigate the downturn and remain sustainable, which is how you experience this if you’re own a business. but that’s not what it’s like for normal people. what it’s like is there was a job here. it’s gone now. guess i’ll die then

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 30/09/2026

one big tension in game dev and media spaces as the economy happens to all of us is that even most well intentioned discussion and advice takes the capitalist perspective by default, which is not actually helpful to all the displaced and desperate workers

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julesnaleb.bsky.social @julesnaleb.bsky.social · 10h

mushroom/lichen biome (inktober 1)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10h

"you'll probably have to fight robots over concert tickets and booking appointments" we already have this problem?

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Tora ⭒₊☾⋆ @torastora.bsky.social · 10h

Kyriel 🦋 Commission for Geminiswede on #VGen #ffxiv #art #aura

Illustration of Geminiswede's Au'Ra, named Kyriel. She has dark pink hair, fair skin and white scale patterns on her face, arms, chest, horns and tail. She's dressed in a black corset with blue lace details and a black belt with blue gems on it. She's also wearing black lace sleeves. The lighting is moody, and the background is dark. Blue butterflies are flying around her, she's holding one in front of her with her finger.

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 12h

Happy October! Let the spooky season begin!

A black-and-white cat dressed like a ghost in a white cloth, sitting between two orange Halloween buckets

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삐라따 PIRATA @pirata.bsky.social · 17h

dagger doodle

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maq @crab-milk.bsky.social · 21h

some close-up shots i worked on :'] i'm so tired lol

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Shivvy 🎃 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

sad to say i ugly cackled at this

AI slop of a renegade bartender or a bar patron, it’s unclear from the background, touching her forehead in some white girl gang sign or similarly unknowable gesture as she pours pee into her mouth from a clear glass (looks to be 8oz).

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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cyra COMMISSIONS OPEN @o314e.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ah this metric of judging if the concept is good after showing it to my friends never disappoints

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/09/2026

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I walk through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI. youtu.be/u4pr23MWMM8?... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI | Better Offline

YouTube video by Better Offline

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 17/09/2026

I just want to celebrate how incredibly bad of a journalist you have to be for your own 'news' website to be forced to replace an article you wrote with a 1300 word listicle explaining eight detailed reasons how your entire article was fabricated by your incompetence lol

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it’s me AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I need generative AI because I don’t have any artistic talent or resources” one of my clients has done DIY bookbinding out of a paper lunch bag and shoelaces in order to house the poetry he’s writing and he’s literally in a jail cell, get good

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🧛‍♀️🐺Marceline🔥🪭 @marceline2174.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

P.26 - P. 27 available on P✨️

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 30/09/2026

Smiles and looks up to the sky. We are honoured to be a part of LudoNarraCon this year, next to all these amazing indie narrative games 🖤

Prove You're Human Key Art in LudoNarraCon 2026 Frame! LudoNarraCon will be October 8-15 this year.

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SpilledTe @spilledte.com · 30/09/2026

Just popping in to say thank you for the support on BSKY!! I've been very inactive on socmed in general but always appreciate everyone who takes the time to engage with my art... thank you 🥺 Feat a lil watcher for the 1k celebration bc I miss her 💠

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/09/2026

This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

Cannot insist you listen to this enough, this conversation condenses everything going on with AI and its wider economic effects tightly. One of the best in the show’s history.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

The greatest secret in finance is that nobody knows what they’re investing in and another is that a lot of the “very smart people” with “lots of data” base their powerful “financial models” based on extremely simplistic scenarios, many of them as obvious as “growth continues as it always has”

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cyra COMMISSIONS OPEN @o314e.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

every time i show work in progress to my clients and they don't choose the CyraSpecialGreenTintedOverlay option for their piece i get a tiny bit sad /jk

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

genuinely useless to give this number without defining A) what run rate means and B) what period it refers to

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 29/09/2026

PSA: We know that many of our fans in Europe would love to get the Deluxe Edition. While we can’t offer it on the EU/UK store due to production constraints, the American store is available to ship worldwide. Thank you for understanding and hekki grace 🙏 www.fangamer.com/products/100...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Per Reuters, Anthropic has $252 billion in non-cancelable compute obligations across Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and $161.2 billion in Broadcom TPU lease obligations that are "largely non-cancelable". Truly insane. $413 billion in non-cancelable contracts. www.reuters.com/business/ant...

The company said it plans to spend at least $111.1 billion with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google, $110 billion with Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab and $31.4 billion with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab under long-term infrastructure service obligations over the next seven to 10 years "regardless of ⁠usage."
Anthropic is separately carrying about $161.2 billion of Broadcom (AVGO.O), opens new tab-related equipment lease obligations that are largely non-cancelable, according to the prospectus. Anthropic filed for an IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June but its paperwork has not been publicly disclosed.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the filing.
The company said it committed to pay Google between April 2026 and July 2033 and Amazon between May 2026 and April 2036.
"If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference," the company said, adding that similar terms apply to its Amazon agreement.
It added its commitment with Microsoft of $31.4 billion between November 2026 and May 2033 "is non-cancelable except in the event of Microsoft's uncured material breach."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/

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kanda @kandaem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

making stickers and bookmarks today!! 💌 twitch.tv/kandaem

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billion

The Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

If you have the Anthropic S-1, please message me at ezitron.76 on signal, i will protect your identity

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