iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I have no desire to grasp your craven outlook!" Oooh Theodora Fire Emblem has given us a great line to throw at insufferable "debate me" bros

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 20/08/2026

Fix code review bottlenecks by doing like private torrent trackers and only allowing people to get their PR reviewed if they reviewed enough PRs beforehand to keep their ratio high enough.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no good use of generative AI because the technology was built on theft of creative labor. If that position surprises you from an artist whose life's work was scraped and used without permission to train trillion dollar technology, educate yourself. www.michaelwhelan.com/faq/#digital...

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

a teacher once told the difference between an amateur and an expert is an amateur flukes into their best work while an expert can repeat their best work and you understand how to repeat your best work by studying your flukes. learn to stop relying on luck by studying how to control your canvas

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

it's crazy to me people still insist ai for research is reliable when we now have an Hbomberguy video's worth of evidence that its unreliability is tanking Hank Green's career

Thumbnail of a video uploaded to youtube titled Hank Green is using ai but Knitters aren't surprised, by Adelaide Ordell

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I see a lot of very smart people saying stuff like “we have to acknowledge AI is getting better and it’s not going away” to which I always ask who’s paying for it? Because there’s two eventual scenarios.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/07/2026

finally got a link to share with people who try and say "oh you DON'T LIKE AI??? what about ALPHAFOLD!!!!" as if it has anything to do with any of this AI capex

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Verbed Noun @verbednoun.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

So proud of Codeberg for taking a stand.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

From the perspective of a cynical AI investor, the question isn't, "Can AI do your job?" The question is, "Can an AI salesman convince your boss that an AI can do your job?" 23/

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Had a thought of God having to attend an annual dinner where he's lightly roasted by global religious leaders before He does a tight 10 minutes of funny comebacks.

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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Riddler being a laid off game developer is maybe the most prescient thing in the entire series

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/07/2026

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

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Dan Hopper @danhopp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One guy talking to himself

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There's a moment in Spirited Away I talk about almost every talk I give. Chihiro puts on her shoes & runs to the next scene. There is no technical, budget, or business reason this should be so lovingly specific. It ONLY costs money and ""wastes"" time to see her tug on the heel and tap her toes

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Don't make your own engine" is a lie propagated by Big Engine. You should absolutely make your own engine, just tailor it to your own game. Your game doesn't need 52 thousand combinations of shaders. You don't need state of the art lighting. Just put the pixels in the bag bro and call it a game.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

in the end the logical conclusion of capitalism would entirely eliminate the profit-sapping wages that workers need, making them into either slaves or replacing them with automation, merge all companies into one so nobody has a choice but to pay them to survive, returning to the time of feudalism...

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

because he was extremely successful in fulfilling his short term purpose! he eliminated costs by destroying everything in progress, brought in revenue by writing it all off as tax credits, and devalued the company so much that it got bought by a bigger company leading to huge payouts! capitalism!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Black and white image of Martin Scorsese raising his hands with a caption in big bold letters that says "ABSOLUTE SLOP".

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 03/06/2026

I AM IN THIS VIDEO AND I DO NOT LIKE IT.

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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 01/06/2026

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

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Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED

State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Shipshapes for a cancelled animated project. A recurring theme.

Pencil/digital concept sketches, ramshackle ships made from scavenged bits and pieces

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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

John Berkey's classic 1986 cover to the 'National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe,' by Roy A. Gallant.

A giant orange plume follows in the wake of a white spaceship with a surrealistic amount of levels to it. Another spaceship is behind it.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This pretty much sums it up: 1/2

Alex Prompter
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Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I also don't mind the "bubble." When I watch ESPN I don't feel cheated because they don't give time to people who don't like sports to talk about why I'm dumb for liking sports.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

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Verbed Noun @verbednoun.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

ballmaxxing is tanuki appropriation

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Verbed Noun @verbednoun.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Actually, Baby Yoda was the doctor’s name.

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Open Secret Alien @opensecretalien.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

As my old Irish granddad told me when he found out I was getting bullied, a bully will cherish his memories of hurting you, unless you hurt him back. Then his own hurt is all he'll remember. It's not the nicest way to live, but it's served me well.

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"If you use Claude you're poisoning Memphis" is probably the simplest argument against it I've seen yet Yeah sorry mister checkmark dude I don't want to hear about your solar panel fantasies because Anthropic made it very first that they're totally okay with poisoning Memphis, it's that simple

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/05/2026

"A lot of the time, it’s not even grown-ups making up the stories. It’s done by AI. AI is a fancy robot that writes like a college freshman on Adderall who is using filler to hide the fact that he hasn’t done the assigned reading."

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Mommy, Are the Inspirational Stories on LinkedIn Real?

“Oh dear. I left my laptop open, and you read a LinkedIn post from an ‘Entrepreneur, Change Agent, Futurist, Success Enabler, Innovator & Investor.’ And ...

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Bess Pallares @besspallares.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Ask ChatGPT for directions to fuck off

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

what's annoying about the "it'll happen anyway" or "you can't stop [X]" logic is it forces the discussion as a black/white binary and ignores the psychology of deterrents. "some things will never stop happening" is not mutually exclusive with "make it easy for those things to happen more often"

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Jacob deNobel @denobel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Love this beat in Star Trek where Khan whacks a guy so hard he blows the crotch out of his pants

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

my latest for @theverge.com is about something i’ve been hearing constantly: Gen Z hates ”AI”, and many young people are deeply resentful of the jobs, schools, and institutions that are now pressuring or forcing them to use it.