iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Anyone ACTUALLY restored a sticking/squealing tape? My original CPC Dizzy has lost it's mojo. I see reccomendations about using silicon lube, but also warnings not to! :( @breakintoprogram.co.uk ?

452

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 29/09/2026

What with all the flock debacle going on over in the US, I do wonder to what extent UK average speed camera sets (anpr by definition) are mineable. We have a (generally) much better national relationship and trust with the police as a country (though of course issues exist).. and no VC involvement.

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 28/09/2026

Girl at work just described care bears as "wow this is like old white people labubu"

010

Reposted by Lee Benfield

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Public pressure works. The Cornell 7 drugged and raped a student for seven hours. They offered her up for “free” to their entire frat house and the school made them write an essay about it. They must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Jane Doe’s courage will help secure justice:

abcnews.com

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

620863

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 28/09/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

A blue sky with a wooden bridge in the foreground. The middle span of the bridge is missing.

000

Reposted by Lee Benfield

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.

19595893522

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 25/09/2026

Followed a link, ended up on the other place, and I can't get this advert out of my head.

An advert. A woman is playing a sudoku rip off. The phone's screen is facing away from her so we can see it, therefore she is playing agains the back of her phone.

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 24/09/2026

NGL, one thing LLMs in language are good for are the questions I wouldn't bother a teacher with....

Why does italian flip at 17? Were the Romans secrethexadecimalists?

No, the Romans weren't hexadecimal. The boundary comes from word erosion in late Latin, not from any base-16 counting.

Classical Latin built its teens

differently. From 11 to 17 it put the unit first and fused it with -decim: undecim, duodecim, tredecim, quattuordecim, quindecim, sedecim, septendecim. But 18 and 19 were subtractive, duodeviginti ("two from twenty") and undeviginti ("one fı wenty"). So

Latin had its own oddity at the top of

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 23/09/2026

Spent a while with claude yesterday tracing some 8 bit screen rendering. It got so amazingly confused. Patched an emulator to track instructions and then claimed "THE CODE IS WRITING ITSELF FROM NOWHERE, THERE MUST BE A HIDDEN MASTER PROCESS". No, it was... loading from disk?

130

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 21/09/2026

Oh god #controlresonant physical release is 15th oct. Digital 24th sep. This is going to test my physical obsession. May have to go offline for a month.

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 18/09/2026

AI generated porn? That's the real choade bearing problem.

001

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 18/09/2026

Ok I can't stand slop but this is cute.

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 16/09/2026

Wow. This sounds like a great idea. If only a country I know had had this kind of deal, it would have been insane to walk away from it.

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 15/09/2026

I never studied linguistics properly, I've only just discovered the clitic. My wife will be so happy.

010

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 14/09/2026

Linguistic twitch that niggles. Elision comes from Latin. But Apocope comes from Greek.

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 14/09/2026

Question : Am I the only person who had to give up on metaphor:refantazio because I got so pissed off with being told about the age of a new king drawing near?

Pawn shop meme with the two guys fighting about the age of a new king drawing near

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 14/09/2026

Really looking forward to the 2030 release of Starcraft:ghost

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 13/09/2026

I have never seen so many astronauts in one place. (And a WHOLE LOT of fox jumpers!) #comiccon winchester #rocky These guys were particularly dedicated.....

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 11/09/2026

Ummmmm isnt this how independence day started?

A bold purple cloud in a dark but sparsely cloudy sky

000

Reposted by Lee Benfield

Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

👁️ Researchers found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, & feeding it to LG's ad arm Unplug the internet and it saves files until network restored. LG says its TVs don't record conversations. Evidence begs to differ. 216 million in homes /Braiinsforge

691408795

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 10/09/2026

I think I've got this Nextdoor: complaining about dog poo and drivers to people who aren't there and aren't listening. WhatsApp groups: complaining about bonfires and strangers to people who aren't there and aren't listening. Good to have a clear delineation.

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 10/09/2026

Once again I am asking where my Steorn Orbo is.

000

Reposted by Lee Benfield

LogrusUK @logrus.uk · 08/09/2026

#LogLoads64 The Goonies Still one of the best "kids" movies ever made, how can the #C64 game hold up? Well, it's an arcadey platformer that isn't without its charm. I just enjoyed it. For a 1984/5 game it has bags of nice features and looks and plays pretty well. Better than a lot of the time.

The iconic (is it really?) building from The GOonies, the restaurant / cafe place? Is it? HEY YOU GUUUUUUYS!

3296

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 07/09/2026

So Claude just dissed me.....

Yeah, this is a great terrible idea. Let me lay out how I'd ......

Feasibility

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 07/09/2026

I got fed up with DuoLinguo hardly ever having any hard mode questions, which means not enough practice, which means consistently being wrong, so I dun dis to help me get my Italian endings right. leibnitz27.github.io/ittutor/ (Pairings are often nonsense, but I believe grammar is accurate!)

300

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 04/09/2026

For amusement. I have to be honest, I was expecting to unlock the secret "Ah, you're actually English" ending. I guess I know which bits I could hide out in.

020

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 03/09/2026

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion the worst bit of AI assisted coding isn't the code. People (at least for now) check it, make sure it's half sane. The worst bit is the utterly fatuous, bloviated, pretentious and inaccurate comments the LLM leaves all over the place.

010

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 02/09/2026

I have just realised...... subnautica on the switch kinda sucked because no mouse. But switch 2.... MOUSE. Right, I know what I have to try......

000

Reposted by Lee Benfield

Andrew Eisen @andreweisen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"No reasonable consumer thinks they own a digital game when they go to the PlayStation STORE, select BUY GAMES, put one in a SHOPPING CART, press PURCHASE and get an email that confirms the TRANSACTION with a RECEIPT listing the GAME," disingenuously argued Sony, pretending it's monumentally stupid.

251041198

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 01/09/2026

Well played Paul Smith, though an 8256 rather predates windows......

An amstrad 8256 in a window display at a Paul smith shop with window text stuck on that says "windows update"

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 31/08/2026

Starting to think I may need to admit a problem

About 3 cubic foot of cables. Many ancient.

210

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 26/08/2026

I can't be the only guy feeling vaguely dodgy while searching for "whorehouse" on all my streaming services. #ripDollyParton

000

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 26/08/2026

STOP. TAKING. THE. WRONG. 80. YEAR. OLDS.

000

Reposted by Lee Benfield

The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Aww, this was the perfect blend of adorable and hilarious. Classic TV moment.

532369509

Reposted by Lee Benfield

okie (they/them) @okie.gay · 25/08/2026

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

21113462634

Reposted by Lee Benfield

Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 25/08/2026

I hadn’t heard the news yet, but I had a lock screen notification from the family chat, just my sister saying “The world will never be the same without her.” No link, no context, but I still knew exactly who she was talking about and what must have happened. That’s how powerful she was.

1528

Reposted by Lee Benfield

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

100268206330

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 25/08/2026

The 5 simpsons lines I've said the most oh no! Beta The goggles they do nothing! Thats unpossible Mmmmm sacrilicious Money can be exchanged for goods and services

020

Reposted by Lee Benfield

Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...