iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 21h

a very good boy

ink drawings of a fluffy dog named Chaussette in my sketchbook

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my strategies for dealing with debate perverts remains unmatched

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

why do so many podcasters end their little ads with "I love you guys!!!" i do not want to be loved by a podcaster that is my nightmare

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

seen on my porch this morning

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Eileen Kai Hing Kwan 🦇 MCM London @whereiseileen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Icarus and the Sun 🌞🪶🕯️🪽 (I’m hoping to find time to finish the collection and draw a Medusa and Theseus and the Minotaur as well 💛)

My illustration of the Greek Myth Icarus and the Sun. This is the moment Icarus realises his doom due to his arrogance. He’s flying upwards towards the Sun, depicted as a woman’s face with sun rays as long trailing hair. His wings have large melted droplets of wax and feathers are falling away into the ocean below him. He cranes his neck upwards toward the Sun’s face, she is crying for him, their lips almost touch before his incoming death.

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just "locked picture" on ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #25 and I can't believe we're already two years deep on these incredible books. I also can't believe how hard we're about to step on the gas, even though we're two years deep. These anniversary issues are freakin' major, y'all.

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #25 gatefold cover, featuring Wonder Woman fighting Absolute Cheetah against a montage of every character to appear in the series so far, drawn by Hayden Sherman and colored by Jordie Bellaire

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.

Suki, a Japanese woman with long blond hair and a round resting bitch face (complimentary x10000), wearing a light purple tank top and a pink leather lace up chaps-style pants. She sits on the hood of a hot pink 2000 Honda S2000.

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hope everyone has a Hussein

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 27/09/2026

I am being driven totally insane by people talking about "AI" ("ask AI", "AI uses a lot of water") without having a working definition of what they are actually referring to

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 27/09/2026

human discernment and oversight needs to be part of any automation for it to function and to not do harm and LLM chatbots explicitly intend to remove human discernment and oversight from the process of information gathering and decision making

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 27/09/2026

unfortunately, synthetic output aesthetically resembling human language or reasoning is not that and does not seem to have a useful application EXCEPT if your use case is obfuscating functionality and, indeed, the very nature of human language and reasoning

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 27/09/2026

machine learning assisting with pattern recognition and mathematical problem solving in extremely large data sets has been useful technology already for literally decades. this is ostensibly under the umbrella of "AI" but I do not think "AI" is a useful term because it obfuscates the functionality

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 27/09/2026

I think we need to start differentiating about what people mean when they say "AI" because it's really not a useful catchall term in an information environment where most people, including journalists charged with informing the public, cannot technically define what these programs actually do

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.”

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

oh we’re just letting waymos on the freeway now I guess

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Soulbot @soul-bot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is an important thread. Honestly had no idea this was even a thing (very very bad one too). Worth a quick read to see how the tech bros are trying to use obfuscation through misdirection to try to make sure the public doesn't really know the kind of harm that AI actually can cause.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

bless every single person who has to Experience Working With Me, tbh, but right this second bless @gofrankgo.bsky.social especially

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

how does that NYT tv list somehow feel like it has both too much and also not enough recency bias at the same time

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m so mad at Drake for being such loser that he needs the Degrassi fandom to take his one and only shot at crawling out of the grave Kendrick put him in because it means we can’t even! Enjoy! New Degrassi! Merch!!!!!!!!

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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 22/09/2026

American chums! It is just THREE WEEKS until the #WorstManOGN is out for you! But also, delightedly, it is the day I get to announce that we are ALREADY sold out at supplier level (this will not affect current preorders) and have gone back to print in time for mid October!

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

illustration, gamest mook vol. 39: snk illustrations, magazine (1996) archive.org/details/snki...

a red brown haired woman, looking directly at you, wearing a green top with a striped grey cat cuddling up, asleep in her arms/resting against her chest/shoulder.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is good; it'd be nice if people took a broader view of solidarity, but, you know, whatever gets you there

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...

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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

illustration, technopolis, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/tech...

a cat, wearing glasses, at a computer with its head turned back, saying something in japanese (about thinking).

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So far so good

WIP ink drawing of Kirby’s The Demon, fanged mouth agape, skulking forward, tattered cape billowing behind

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Parchmentscrollinensinainciusol @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This screenshot is from the article from which I learned about Three Cueing, the teaching method that is literally teaching kids not to read and calling it literacy. It's simultaneously horrifying and infuriating.

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Petra Erika Nordlund @pepurika.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My family says i'm bullying minister with my drawings but i'm only trying to learn how to draw cats....... It's not my fault he looks like that...

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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats

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Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN

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tonči zonjić @tozo.today · 17/09/2026

thursday plan: eight things (that seems like a reasonable number)

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Love to extol the virtues of cooking at the end of the day to help give me healthy mental distance from work and then immediately go to Trader Joe’s and buy a mountain of frozen food. 😌

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

not stanford prison experiment 2

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 14/09/2026

A cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and they want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way. www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...

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They want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way

Read to the end for Braden’s Infinite Tour Of Italy

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

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https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-in-dangerous-hands/

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

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