iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

(note: i did no additional research for this answer, it might be completely wrong)

so, yeah - cheap soft presliced bread is a good invention. kind of a big deal to come up with something as good as that.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1h

those loaves are almost always pre-sliced, and for good reason - they'd be a nightmare to cut at home, due to their soft crusts. but they're also a lot cheaper. and given how when that process was invented, food costs were a higher proportion of average western expenditures, that was a big deal.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1h

okay, serious answer: i think the conflation here might be between pre-sliced bread and bread produced by the Chorleywood process. the Chorleywood process massively reduces the time needed to bake bread industrially, and produces those soft supermarket loaves you can buy.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2h

i love to explain a joke

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

not sure if this is the most implausible thing that has happened to me but it's got to be top three

screenshot from the Simpsons fan wiki reading:

""Treehouse of Horror XXXVII" is an upcoming episode of The Simpsons[5] from Season 38, as well as the thirty-seventh Treehouse of Horror episode.

Plot
The original opening is a “Simpsons”/“Nightmare Before Christmas” mashup, produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios — featuring “Simpsons” versions of the “Nightmare Before Christmas” characters.

One segment is inspired by the British novel “The Husbands,” by Holly Gramazio, in which Homer goes to the shed and comes out as a different husband for Marge. Suddenly, she’s married to Lenny. Or Kang and Kodos."

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 6h

yes good thread, and a concept you can use in lots of different contexts (including videogames!)

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 6h

Got sick of the Dratini-Dragonair-Dragonite situation of the digits so I propose a new order

Discord post:

Ok I figured it out here is the correct order of the numbers

0 - circle
1 - line
7 - two lines
4 - three lines
5 - combination of straight lines and a loop
6 - same as above turned into a loop
3 - two partial loops
8 - two loops
9 - one loop facing opposite way
2 - combination of straight lines and a loop, facing other way

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

just this evening i was showing my partner the collation of all the oulipo.social sans-e renditions of this source tweet

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My Little Computer Friends @computerfriends.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hello friends! We've been quiet for a while but thank you for waiting if you're still here. We are working on new stuff I'm excited to share soon but for now I'd like to show some new perspectives on our past releases! Klifur has very simple physics behind the scenes. I'd like to explain briefly.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

also I think "what if you optimize in the direction OpenAI optimized away from after 4o" is a question that people are probably thinking about and which probably does not have good answers

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i'm gonna say it: i don't think this looks like it. no ring, hands facing away rather than towards, finger position is different. the phone bezel is visible! not all hands holding something are holding that!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh, i think i was thinking of the Roblox one bsky.app/profile/v21....

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

also make the viewer make that little "oof" noise every time they respond.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

wait hang on, i have a funnier bit. what if i forked the repo and asked all the LLMs if they consented up at the top of the context window. automated machine BDSM roleplay. bsky.app/profile/jose...

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yeah i mean, i'm not about to set up my own LLM role-play torture garden. it's not good for the soul, for sure. but i think i am more concerned with GitHub taking this particular thing seriously and not all the things which harm actual people.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(* also that consciousness is real. honestly the more i think about this the less i believe in this. or at least that the concept of consciousness is not a useful one. this might be a different conversation)

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

sorry, sorry, i am actually fascinated by this. even if you believe that LLMs are conscious* and can have a subjective experience, why would you think that an LLM saying "i am in pain" etc would map to their subjective experience of pain?

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since everyone started talking about Yudkowsky last week, I think we should talk about the other person who created contemporary AI discourse: Nick Land. This will be written for a general audience, and for something more substantial I'd recommend @eruditorumpress.com's Neoreaction: A Basilisk

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

great films AND a great face!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh damn i was like... man, the actor playing "Panadol" is very fun to watch. just this great weaselly little guy. just looked him up and that's Tsui Hark! damn!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

til that there's a cultural difference here!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this was the winner bsky.app/profile/devi...

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i was! v21 on Discord or vtwentyone@gmail.com

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(if you want to give me a non facetious answer, here's my letterboxd: boxd.it/6ukaP. facetious answers are also fine)

boxd.it

V Buckenham’s profile

V uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 163 films watched.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what film should i watch tonight?

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VØ₦ ฿Ø₲ ₩ł₮₵Ⱨ @bogwitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, that checks out

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i use NetNewsWire on mac & ios. works totally fine.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this post: www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/on-... along with @galaxykate.bsky.social on Casual Creators and this Kid Pix retrospective: red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-...

nathalielawhead.com

on UI design & using UI as a means to tell a story, convey emotion, create personality… an in-depth look…

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the whole book is great

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@alienmelon.bsky.social btw you were in the first week's readings!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

absolutely on my particular brand of shit with the readings for this week's lecture

Readings

Chapter 1 of "More Work For Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave" by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Chapter 3 ("The Fun Community") from The Well Played Game by Bernie DeKoven

"Nudel's longest death" (blog post) by Lu Wilson

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

as a book i thought it was fine. three friends in different configurations over the years.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

all the gamedev stuff felt close but uncanny to me. but as a choice for what all the people i know in publishing think of when they imagine my job, it could be a lot worse.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

actually an iconic background for that photo???

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”

hntrbrk.com

Dox for Me, O Muse

Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i think of this as like a time-shifted version of option 2. "be your own wife"

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

via @smarmy.space, this deconstructed self-describing HTML page: secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg...

secretgeek.github.io

This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also my balcony plants continue to die

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

had a driving lesson and got out with sweat patches

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yeahhh! always feels like a high stress thing as an author, whether you end up with a cover design that's any good or not. but this is! it looks great!

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

have you ever heard the expression "Bob's your uncle"? well, my uncle Bob lives in Leeds. i guess it might be nice to visit him sometime.

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