Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’ve done a deep dive into the comp. sci. and there really are magnitudes better and more efficient it can become. So I’ve realised that this is the new world and as a professional software engineer I must adapt to it’s suckiness. Moving in the direction of advisory tho to minimise career impact. 010
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yeah until about a year ago I thought it was all BS. Then it started proving it *could* be useful as a tool with intense supervision etc. Now it’s unfortunately quite good and useful as a tool - though fortunately the FOSS world is slowly taking over. 100
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nah you can already run local models on a (powerful) laptop that are better than the frontier from 6 months ago. Unfortunately AI is not going away. The corporate bullshit capitalistic hell version of it will though, at least for normal civilians. The horrors of military AI are already unfolding. 110
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kinda makes sense given the well-known phenomenon of people trusting machines because they are ‘logical’, because most people don’t understand how software works, inherent or explicit biases in design etc. 010
Reposted by Oscar RobinDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 7040141581
Reposted by Oscar Robinheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts 122264808
Reposted by Oscar RobinJan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient. 81035215
Reposted by Oscar RobinJoachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics. 9835308
Reposted by Oscar RobinToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn waves a Palestinian flag on stage while urging fans to speak out for Gaza: “Don’t forget this—ever. Stand your position. Don’t ever be neutral.” 3996482941
Reposted by Oscar RobinDel @del.art · 20/09/2026When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1. 201739409
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I find it annoying whenever reviewers etc (especially those I like) say stuff like ‘I can’t believe they got this running on the PS5!’ as if it’s some horribly outdated hardware. It’s still more powerful than most PC gamer machines. 120
Reposted by Oscar RobinA.J. Wilden🏳️⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message" 52144965761
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Lmao wtf why would they not support original campaign, seems like a ludicrous penny-pinching decision 111
Reposted by Oscar Robindr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/09/2026im inclined to agree with the techlords that AI is dangerous. again, not because it's alive but because they're insisting on putting it in positions where it can hurt people, leaving aside the promised jobpocalypse they're promising us. chimp with gun 151026135
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Totally agree and I’m astounded that Nintendo gets away with half-assing most of their games so easily. 010
Reposted by Oscar Robindaryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com... 2845511916
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ioniq 5 is legitimately just technically superior, it’s the more premium model. The EV5 especially is kinda the problem child of their lineup as it has many issues that, for example, the cheaper EV3 doesn’t even suffer. 000
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sure is. I swear it’s being astroturfed everywhere too. 110
Reposted by Oscar Robinandy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...) 8379822139
Reposted by Oscar RobinBlessing Adeoye Jr. @blessingjr.com · 02/09/2026My biggest problem with this is that a certain section of the audience believes a good review is one that conforms to the general consensus. Somewhere along the line people really lost the idea that not only can they have a different opinion on a piece of media, but differing opinions are exciting. 1122925
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sure! So websites are actually really simple fundamentally. HTML says what’s there and CSS says how it should look. You can thus write a simple one yourself with a small amount of learning, but you’d still need hosting. I’d recommend just using Wordpress as its free, easy and portable. 110
Reposted by Oscar RobinNash @radiodeadair.com · 29/08/2026Nope. There is no animus. You're playing with an automated algorithm that's being assigned too many privileges with outcomes based on probability. That's like "shit I lost control of this giant bolder I was rolling down a crowded street, it must be magic." 231057301
Reposted by Oscar RobinJames McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 30/08/2026The Lake Ontario/Lake America thing is a profoundly stupid version of it, but in millions of other subtler ways, we are force fed American values and American ideas about the world, because American companies like Google control the internet. 761586342
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Yeah I’m the deeply technical and thus unproductive sort lmao 010
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026CoMaps is pretty cool tbh. UX is a bit janky but the data from OSM and extras is excellent and it is super functional. 010
Reposted by Oscar RobinKendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people 59220537586
Reposted by Oscar RobinJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7243894011284
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Yeah it’s classic Ubisoft to be this weird and dumb 010
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Meet the sherrin!static.klipy.comWestern Bulldogs AFL FootyALT: Western Bulldogs AFL Footy 000
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The movie’s writing sucked, so I guess that tracks. 000
Reposted by Oscar RobinMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20338811724818
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Got added but it doesn’t work on Steam Deck, just hard crashes on attempted launch :( 100
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Tbh I think it will be a bit better than that (and more reliable than even current frontier models) and running on integrated NPU and ~1GB of RAM, eventually. The industry has been slowly realising that more focus and optimisation yields better results faster and cheaper. 000
Reposted by Oscar RobinHauntit Quine 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Just so I'm clear, if you phone up Rowling's helpline, you are at risk of having your phone call tweeted out to her 14 million odd followers for a ridicule party? 343716889
Reposted by Oscar Robinceej @ceej.online · 13/07/2026we are witnessing a company who thought they invented the ham sandwich realizing in real time that they sell ham, bread, and mustard at the grocery store 182156291
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Yeah honestly I’m not a big pixel art guy but something about varying monochromacy makes me drool hahaha 000
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Lmao he really doesn’t want to accept that he was/is wrong 010
Reposted by Oscar RobinSami @samitron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU 6843471295
Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It’s people with zero skill being like ‘wow I can make things!!!’. Kinda like actual game devs when they’re first learning except more arrogant and less fun. 000
Reposted by Oscar RobinShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Nick Wright had what I thought was the best take about replay which is we are using 21st century tech to officiate rules created 100 years ago and specifically designed for the naked eye and I dunno if it even makes anything better except we now argue about camera angle and light instead of plays 1031030
Reposted by Oscar RobinJean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Sure Microsoft may have fired thousands of people and gutted its games division but at least it had more money to pour into Copilot, the 4th most popular AI, a product nobody wants or likes except rich executives, that is constantly losing horrendous amounts of money 91483448
Reposted by Oscar RobinRichard Meredith @rtm223.me · 06/07/2026This is not a dunk on Ben because he's 100% right, but as an industry we've known this for a LONG time. When Embracer and XBox (and others) went on their little recent shopping sprees, a lot of us remembered previous cycles of consolidation -> destruction and were very worried about the future 1143
Reposted by Oscar Robin🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out 7453201308