Yates Buckley
@yates9.bsky.social
Founder of UNIT9 | Bridging Creativity & Tech | Substack: https://yatesbuckley.substack.com/ | Fiction, Neuroscience, AI, Future, Game Design
Interesting review: www.polygon.com/stellar-cafe...
I convinced a VR café full of AI NPCs to party on Epstein island and free Luigi
And I didn't have a very good time
www.polygon.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Interesting review: www.polygon.com/stellar-cafe...
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Happy New Year! 🎆
As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks.
GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar
See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/
Thread and more science below 🧪🪶
As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks.
GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar
See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/
Thread and more science below 🧪🪶
January 1, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Happy New Year! 🎆
As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks.
GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar
See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/
Thread and more science below 🧪🪶
As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks.
GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar
See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/
Thread and more science below 🧪🪶
I am sharing a short piece of bio-fiction from this last summer. Its been an odd year but actually personally a lucky year, I am grateful for it.
It includes experimental LLM Game and some of my ideas in this space.
open.substack.com/pub/yatesbuc...
It includes experimental LLM Game and some of my ideas in this space.
open.substack.com/pub/yatesbuc...
Five Fifty Five (and the Tricky Trickster LLM Game)
A short story about waking up at five fifty five by the sea and how lucky this is. The article spills into noting there are five kinds of pure LLM Game types including a Tricky Trickster LLM Game.
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December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I am sharing a short piece of bio-fiction from this last summer. Its been an odd year but actually personally a lucky year, I am grateful for it.
It includes experimental LLM Game and some of my ideas in this space.
open.substack.com/pub/yatesbuc...
It includes experimental LLM Game and some of my ideas in this space.
open.substack.com/pub/yatesbuc...
Reposted by Yates Buckley
Fishing 🎣 fleet for squid 🦑 with red light is now so gigantic it is visible from space.
December 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Fishing 🎣 fleet for squid 🦑 with red light is now so gigantic it is visible from space.
Reposted by Yates Buckley
Time for a thread of my favourite records from 2025. Might go on a bit. Not in order, but Bitchin Bajas' Inland See is maybe the album I played most in the past 12 months (along with the boot of their show in Glob in October) 1/ bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/inland...
Inland See, by Bitchin Bajas
4 track album
bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Time for a thread of my favourite records from 2025. Might go on a bit. Not in order, but Bitchin Bajas' Inland See is maybe the album I played most in the past 12 months (along with the boot of their show in Glob in October) 1/ bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/inland...
The strangest thing is these releases are so disconnected from user benefit… maybe its not the platform but the value ecosystem?
The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’
The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.
wrd.cm
December 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The strangest thing is these releases are so disconnected from user benefit… maybe its not the platform but the value ecosystem?
Christmas Lights & Special Relativity (Bonus Educational LLM Game)
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Christmas Lights & Special Relativity (Bonus Educational LLM Game)
Me and my Uncle setting up Christmas lights slide in to an introduction to LLM based Educational Games, with an example for Special Relativity: a model for future LLM Edu Games.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Christmas Lights & Special Relativity (Bonus Educational LLM Game)
substack.com/@yates9/note...
substack.com/@yates9/note...