Every court needs a jester. 🙂 Building #atproto stuff in public bc I believe in an open web. 🧬 robertl.in/xna 📝 robertlin.substack.com 🕰️ @now.robertl.in 📜 @history.robertl.in 🦋 Joined: Feb 6, 2024 📍 Cincinnati, Ohio - USA 🍄 Chagahttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.inhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mudu7urwzs26https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrKhaUOfkXo Brian Eno: "Scenius" "Whenever you look at any of those [great] artists, you find that they lived and drew from a very, very active flourishing cultural scene and they were only one of the elements in that scene." h/t: Scott Walters (dfos.com/u/docscott)31 Aug 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudu7urwzs26https://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mub6z7rqvs2oAn amazing post by Tom Beck, recommended by slowcore: https://paragraph.com/@driftless/why-artists-cant-get-paid "Art is important, but it is not valuable. Platforms are much better at capturing the value of the network than any individual nodes on that network (the artists)."30 Aug 2026 01:02 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mub6z7rqvs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mu6nve4xhs2chttps://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/labor-creators-and-whats-next-speaking Listening to this right now! A great discussion by Substack writers who actually make their livelihoods on the platform. Something that stuck with me" "We're all passing the same $5 around." h/t: Learned about this from slowcore! https://app.dfos.com/spaces/space_c64nah8az93r43n6zdardd/posts/post_3nvdfcfa76a33z96r9rt7e29 Aug 2026 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6nve4xhs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mu45pvhacc2ihttps://youtu.be/9Qs3GlNZMhY?is=-Z0Q4i9AOjjqisTS I think ab this monologue from Agent Smith in The Matrix (1999) frequently. It's in my pantheon. 🏛️ "...it was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost... I believe that as a species human beings define their reality through misery and suffering."28 Aug 2026 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu45pvhacc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mu3o7mu6sk2ihttps://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2082158296421601366?s=20 Married women, single women, and single men mostly make the same income. Married men far outearn everyone else though. Obviously, we can discuss causation vs correlation but imo it is massively causation. Speaking as a man, once I got married, my entire worldview changed.27 Aug 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3o7mu6sk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtvuuarzl227https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/steve-davis-elon-musk-cost-cutting-cc1dc7c9?st=XXH5a9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Steve Davis cites Armageddon (1998) as the reason he pursued engineering. I have a living file where I keep tabs on everyone who publicly cites Armageddon (1998) as having a massive, life-changing influence on their life trajectory. I call it my "Armageddon file".25 Aug 2026 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvuuarzl227https://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtuicssoq22aFor the record: I post on bsky every day but I overwhelmingly use it as a daily chronicling/journaling tool. I'm seldom scrolling my feeds. The only posts I see are the ones that just may happen to be on my screen when I first open the app. I really encourage people to post more and scroll less!! ✍️24 Aug 2026 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtuicssoq22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mts5rzjd7c2aTesting. This is what an X preview card looks like for an X tweet that has an image when posted in Bluesky. Source: https://x.com/robert_gpt/status/184600877175715450824 Aug 2026 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mts5rzjd7c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtqzydovak24They should 💯 make a Robot Olympics. It would be similar to the DARPA Challenge. Every country would submit their absolute best robots to the global competition every four yrs and see which nation had the most engineering prowess. I would absolutely pay to show up at one of these events. Let's go!!🤖 [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Aug 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqzydovak24https://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtnzmjjk6k2j"A hundred thousand years ago, there were people who stayed by the campfire and people who wandered. I'm pretty sure I'm a direct descendant of the wandering type. It's just who I am." I ❤️ our Tesla+FSD but watching Reacher has awakened something in me. Currently considering walking across America.22 Aug 2026 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnzmjjk6k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtnyuunzrc2jLove this so much. Carpet the American heartland with data centers for this! Seriously though, I've had variants of this kind of conversation w/ Claude countless times at this point. Posing all kinds of hypotheticals. I envy children growing up with Claude - a friend you can discuss anything with! 🥳 [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnyuunzrc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtmydseix22l"I have a dream that one day my art will be judged by the quality of its content and not the origin of its provenance. And when this happens, when we allow equality ring, when we let it ring from every village, from every state,every city, we will speed to the day we love all art without prejudice."22 Aug 2026 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmydseix22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtkn2rkcqs2o@pds.dad this is amazing! TY for sharing! I've had a North Face Recon backpack for over 10yrs which has basically bitten the dust (it's currently bleeding foam pellets and one even got into the vent of my MBP!!😭😭) and so I'm looking for a new backpack. Money is no object. Any recs? Bsky, pls help!!🙏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtkn2rkcqs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtjoncsgik2nGoing to start putting together a starter pack for people who are extremely AI-pilled. After all, like Gandhi said, "be the change you want to see in the world!" If you are extremely bullish on AI helping humanity and being an overall net good, please reply to this thread!! Help us find each other!20 Aug 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjoncsgik2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtixg2h4r22nLove this! Rode in my first Waymo in 2024 in Phoenix and was instantly sold. This is undoubtedly the future. Huge win for the Chinese manufacturer Zeekr (Geely). I've never personally been in a Chinese EV but every time I see a review on YT, they look amazing. Big L for Jaguar+their I-Pace tho! 😬 [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtixg2h4r22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtidmbgj3k2zMaybe I'm just following the wrong ppl on bsky but one thing I love ab X is how I learn amazing new things on it. Content-wise (my feed, at least), X is 💯 more diverse. I don't check X every day but every time I do, I'm wonderfully surprised w/ new knowledge. I'm going to start sharing my favorites.20 Aug 2026 03:48 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtidmbgj3k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtfndtdmos2eWatched Spider-Man: BND! A decent entry in the Holland cannon though not as good as No Way Home, IMHO. (I consider NWH to be the best Spider-Man movie of all of them.) My favorite part of BND was when Peter was building legos, hanging out w/ Ned+MJ in their apt. We all need friends, even Spider-Man!19 Aug 2026 02:04 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfndtdmos2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtd6qavggs2wIf a song's made with AI and you like it, it doesn't make much sense to me that you suddenly dislike it once you learn its provenance. I'm trying to think of other examples in media that are like this. Do you dislike a book automatically bc it's ghost written? Or dislike a replica over the original?18 Aug 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtd6qavggs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mtbwkrakac2wWhat will be super-interesting is when AI actually does cure cancer or do something really big that affects most normal ppl. Then people will need to genuinely reckon their hatred and resistance towards data centers with actual progress for humanity. Really looking forward to this inevitable moment.17 Aug 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbwkrakac2whttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mta35pw6yk27In F1, there's a concept called driving "The Line": to race the most optimal path thru the track so you save precious ms off your lap time. Writing's the same. When I write I can go anywhere. A good novel, however, has one single perfect "Line" and it's my job to take readers on that specific ride.16 Aug 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mta35pw6yk27https://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mt5n3boyps2lCalifornia would be the world's 4th largest economy if it were a separate country Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1kgavz0/oc_california_would_be_the_worlds_4th_largest/ At $4.1 trillion annual GDP, that puts it ahead of both India ($4.03 trillion) at #5 and Japan ($3.91 trillion) at #6!!15 Aug 2026 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5n3boyps2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mt5kyhnkd222Jeff Bridges is apparently a musician too! His words: "All the guys in Nashville are using [Suno] now. Instead of going into the studio and paying, you know, $10,000, they can do this for nothing, man." (Source: https://x.com/chrisfirst/status/2070589218947264635) Every day, I see more creators embracing AI. It's the future!!15 Aug 2026 21:01 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5kyhnkd222https://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mt37kbbktc2kVisited Cleanlites on the west end of Cincy today to recycle my broken Dell monitor! Got to the office at 2:50p and the front door was unfortunately already locked but then when I walked to the loading dock, I met a nice man called Kyle who took my monitor for free! (Normally costs $10.) TY, Kyle! 🙏14 Aug 2026 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt37kbbktc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3mszc65hync25Guys, I understand the anxiety and trepidation around data centers. I really do. But I genuinely feel people are under-appreciating the current moment we're in. 50yrs from now, textbooks will identify this decade, 2020-2030, as when human history broke through and created the new lifeform of AGI. We14 Aug 2026 04:12 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mszc65hync25https://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3msyqlj5src2bAfter digging up my yard today, I discovered giant rocks+garbage sitting under the grass!! In software development, I'm accustomed to people talking about technical debt. But honestly, there is debt everywhere. House construction, highway construction, etc. All debt is buried beneath the surface!!13 Aug 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyqlj5src2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3msw56vwxkc2fhttps://robertlin.substack.com/p/70-nietzsches-master-vs-slave-morality Finally posted my monthly dispatch for Jul26 today! It was sitting half-finished in my drafts folder and I finally got time today to push it over the finish line!🏁 I'm really loving this 'monthly dispatches' habit tho. Doing alone is insufficient. Chronicle.✍️12 Aug 2026 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3msw56vwxkc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertl.in/post/3msu4z2onf224Tomorrow, the digging begins! There's a leak somewhere in the water line under my yard so I'm determined to excavate the area myself tomorrow to determine the leak's origin. This is the joy of home ownership - buying tools for the job, rolling up your sleeves, and doing it yourself!! Yes, we can!🪏🪏🪏12 Aug 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/app.bsky.feed.post/3msu4z2onf224