Robert Lin

Hi Vale! As someone who has been a massive proponent of "build in public" I held your belief for so many years. But large-scale scraping by the AIs has changed everything for me. I'm not interested in just being fodder for the LLMs. Recently I've been getting into dfos.com by @metalabel.bsky.social

@github.com I think your infra is currently down? My GitHub Pages deploy this morning has been stuck for 17min! (Usually finishes in <1 min!!)

robertlin.substack.com/p/71-goodbye...

www.youtube.com/shorts/wxpk8... "I don't go out. You would not like my life. I live alone. Sometimes, I'm like, 'Hello, hello, hello!' just to make sure my voice still works. I take away all distractions. I'm 33 years old,I would love to have a family, I'd love to be married, but it didn't happen."

youtu.be/9eQUtOQXYgQ?...

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escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/become-a-s...

"In all honesty, though, anyone who lacks that level of arrogance is unlikely to become a novelist." - Murakami

dfos.com 🎩 @metalabel.bsky.social

blog.metalabel.com/dark-forests... Dark forests and the new internet

As a time capsule art piece this is interesting! #25YearsAgoLive x.com/25YearsAgoLive

The end of the human internet

Synchronicity. If the Universe wishes you to succeed, then it will conspire for you to succeed. Novelist as a Vocation by Murakami.

We should stop thinking about software as anything other than getting the computer to do what we want it to do for us

Murakami on novelists 😂 "Almost all [novelists] live under the assumption that 'my way is right while virtually all other writers are wrong'."

gm!

Received my Osprey Nebula 32L today! (REI is currently offering them on sale!!) Ty, @pds.dad for the recommendation!! Love how it looks and looking forward to trying it out!! 🥳🎉 (I'm currently contemplating walking across the country Jack Reacher-style and this is the backpack I would use!! 🎒🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶)

rayne fisher-quann quoting the famous Walter Benjamin line: "Fascism sees its salvation in giving the masses the ability to express themselves in lieu of granting them their rights." It's so true: everyone's expressing themselves 24/7 every day nowadays but none of it is going anywhere.

youtu.be/v0BiDmPloBs?... Can a Camera on Every Corner Make Us Safer? | Garrett Langley | TED

youtu.be/0BaDQCjqUHU?... Derek Sivers is an absolute national treasure. Currently relistening to this. "Useful, not true" 1. Almost nothing is objectively true. 2. Beliefs are placebos 3. Rules and norms are arbitrary games that can be changed 4. Refuse ideology. Choose ideas, not ideology

little heaplet: was I a good object? gc: NO. little heaplet: :( gc: I AM TOLD YOU WERE THE BEST

you call yourself designers ?? this is what real design looks like.

Bluesky team, please take all financial and team resources dedicated to Attie and redirect them to Community Notes. Make no mistakes, do a breakthrough. I believe in you!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrKh... 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)

An amazing post by Tom Beck, recommended by slowcore: paragraph.com/@driftless/w... "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)."

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/labor-crea... 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! app.dfos.com/spaces/space...

youtu.be/9Qs3GlNZMhY?... 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."

x.com/cremieuxrecu... 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.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 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".

For 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!! ✍️

Testing. This is what an X preview card looks like for an X tweet that has an image when posted in Bluesky. Source: x.com/robert_gpt/s...

They 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!!🤖

"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.

Love 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! 🥳

"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."

@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!!🙏

Going 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!

Love 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! 😬

Watched 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!

If 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?

What 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.

In 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.

California would be the world's 4th largest economy if it were a separate country Source: www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau... 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!!