iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Robert Lin @robertl.in · 16/09/2026

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."

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Justin Gaethje on life priorities

YouTube video by RAWCORE MOTIVATION

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 15/09/2026

www.wsj.com/business/med...

Author whose 2 million dollar book deal was derailed by AI concerns says he's innocent - WSJ (August 4th 2026)

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 13/09/2026

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

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 11/09/2026

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

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 10/09/2026

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

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 09/09/2026

The end of the human internet

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 08/09/2026

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

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 06/09/2026

I love posting but ultimately I'm online to meet kindred spirits and make friends. I'm here to make human connection and wish to meet ppl IRL. I would trade 100 million followers for a single friend & Idc ab followers. I am currently in the process of retreating from the public internet entirely.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 06/09/2026

I've been here on bsky for 2yrs and literally post every single day. There are supposedly 40 million ppl here on bsky. But virtually no one engages with me. They just scroll. Over 600 days of continuous posting and <10 replies. Meanwhile, on dfos, in <2 months, we've already set up a reading club.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 06/09/2026

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

dfos.com

Dark Forest OS

A private internet for creative groups — groupcore infrastructure to cooperate, create, and coordinate

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 06/09/2026

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

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 06/09/2026

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

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 04/09/2026

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!! 🎒🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶)

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 04/09/2026

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.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 02/09/2026

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

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Can a Camera on Every Corner Make Us Safer? | Garrett Langley | TED

YouTube video by TED

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 01/09/2026

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

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Derek Sivers — Finding Paths Less Traveled, Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life”

YouTube video by Tim Ferriss

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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 31/08/2026

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

I'm a heap object and I'm out of scope I'm scared.

Do not worry. Your time has come but it is normal. The garbage collector will sweep your memory address clean soon. You served your program well. Your references are gone. and your fields will fade into the void. Rest now.

Why it is okay:
you can not feel pain. You are just data
Your work is done, the stack is clear.

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Brookie @brookie.blog · 31/08/2026

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

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Grace @gracekind.net · 01/09/2026

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!

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 31/08/2026

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)

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Brian Eno: Scenius (#art #creativity #innovation)

YouTube video by Artificial Milieu

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 30/08/2026

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)."

paragraph.com

Why Artists Can't Get Paid

An exploration of the structural problems that keep artists financially struggling despite unprecedented tools for creation and distribution. From winner-take-all dynamics to the passion premium, this...

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 29/08/2026

I have added this to my consumption queue! I love CTWC and have followed it since the Jonas days! Are you a fan, Sam? I am so into CTWC - It's bigger than the Super Bowl for me here in the US. 🙂

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 29/08/2026

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...

hamiltonnolan.com

Labor, Creators, and What's Next: Speaking With Katie Gatti Tassin and rayne fisher-quann

A conversation about Substack as work.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 28/08/2026

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."

youtu.be

perfect world Matrix

YouTube video by phys207

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 27/08/2026

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.

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.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 25/08/2026

There are direct flights from CVG to ATL for as low as $14!! I would attend this! (And I'd onebag it with my Osprey Nebula 32L!! 🥳🥳🥳)

Screenshot showing direct flight from CVG to ATL for $14 on frontier.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 25/08/2026

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".

Steve Davis cites Armageddon (1998) as the reason his pursued engineering.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 25/08/2026

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!! ✍️

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 24/08/2026

You can do it, Kai!! Wishing you good vibes!! 🤞🤞🤞

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 24/08/2026

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in action. Language shapes everything! > The Wakashan Indians of the Pacific Northwest have a construct in their language that requires "evidentiality" to distinguish if its direct exp, inference, conjecture, or hearsay. Src: x.com/timourxyz/st... h/t: @timour.bsky.social 🫡

The Wakashan Indians of the Pacific Northwest have a construct in their language that requires "evidentiality" to distinguish if its direct exp, inference, conjecture, or hearsay.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 23/08/2026

x.com

timour kosters (@timourxyz) on X

TIL there is a language where every sentence requires the speaker to provide 'evidentiality': are you making a claim from direct experience, inference, conjecture, or hearsay? Could use some of that...

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 23/08/2026

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!!🤖

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 22/08/2026

"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.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 22/08/2026

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! 🥳

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 22/08/2026

www.theverge.com/podcast/9743... I've queued this for my walking playlist tomorrow! Ty for sharing!!

theverge.com

Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all

Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 22/08/2026

"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."

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 21/08/2026

Very nice! I love the colors! After looking a bunch, I think I've settled on the Osprey Nebula 32L. Idk now Osprey works but if it exists, I'd be happy to use your referral code if you have one! Ty again for sharing!! 🙏

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 21/08/2026

@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!!🙏

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 20/08/2026

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!

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 20/08/2026

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! 😬

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Robert Lin @robertl.in · 20/08/2026

This is amazing! Ty so much for sharing this post from X! (I'm being sincere!) IMHO, one thing bsky is sorely missing are these kind of banger posts from X. (I literally just posted an X screenshot yesterday myself!) I am 💯 sold on autonomous driving and Chinese EVs though - they are the future!!

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