Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026We went down the wrong timeline in the simulation. We can get back to a better timeline (who’s to say if it’s the “right” timeline) but it’s gonna take some real weirdos to build that machine 120
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Definitely Sweetums and possibly Thog (maybe only on the mother’s side) 030
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026@wormbuxx.bsky.social did you know this was going on at the bad place? 110
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 15/02/2026But is "I've hooked the synthetic text extruding machine up to other systems that take that text as input, checks the results, iterates on it, notices mistakes , iterates more on it until successful, and impact the world" close enough to "The synthetic text extruding machine knows how to use tools"? 100
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I guess the question I’ve been struggling with since that Dario Amodei essay is “Is a stochastic parrot who knows how to use tools different than a regular stochastic parrot”? Like, a parrot might not understand things, but a parrot who knows how to shoot a gun is a different situation, right? 241
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Public Service Announcement: DO NOT MAKE OUT WITH YOUR DOPPELGÄNGER. They will strangle you to death to take your place in the world. Be safe out there kids 010
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Batty Daddies are natty baddies, word to Cincinnati 010
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025New distracted boyfriend meme just dropped (77 years ago) 090
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025It depends on the age of the child. 4-8 you can get away with $1-$5. 9-10 is gonna run you $10-$20 for your Gen Alpha sophisticates 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025I remember hearing something once about the right wing adopting the Pepe frog because of its connection to Kek, the frog-headed Egyptian chaos god. The chaos of the Trump administrations make much more sense to me in that context. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kek_(my...en.wikipedia.orgKek (mythology) - Wikipedia 010
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Just to get it out there: Knicks in 7. I believe in Brunson. 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025You said AI would become a “world-destroying sociopath”, I’m saying children are the ones who have traditionally become sociopaths. Some have made the world a worse place. But nobody’s destroyed the world/humanity yet, despite thousands of years predicting a new tech would do that/allow that 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025You’re saying new tech will take over the world and destroy it. I’m saying our children will take over the world (and could destroy it, too). Neither of these statements are new, but mine has always been true while yours has yet to come true, despite being said about countless innovations. 200
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025And “this will be the end of the world” has been a prediction made by countless people before you, all of which have been wrong up until now. Maybe someday it will be right, but it hasn’t been yet. 100
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Your “literally” beef is with Merriam Webster, not me. But all technology adoption follows a predictable pattern en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...en.m.wikipedia.orgGartner hype cycle - Wikipedia 110
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Is your point here against AI or against Capitalism? Because I agree with Capitalism being at the root of a lot of where AI is going wrong now, but that’s hardly the fault of the technology 100
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025What applies to both children and just-invented tech is expectations. If we expect the worst, we’ll probably get it. If we work on making it into something ethical and productive, we could get that, but it’s never guaranteed 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025As a parent you can have an idea across “broad predictable averages” what your kid will turn out like. You could even have other kids sharing the same genes and nurturing environment. But ask parents how many of their kids turned out like they thought they would. 100
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025The idea of a technology that can make decisions for humans is indeed new, and scary. AI is a big deal. But it’s still really early in its development, and at a point where most new technologies run into resistance before becoming reliable parts of everyday life en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...en.m.wikipedia.orgGartner hype cycle - Wikipedia 100
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025That’s fair. But it’s also an argument against children. They could grow up and fail and become horrible people who make the world a worse place. The idea is you could raise them to be better people and make the world a better place. This is why I think Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is about AI 100
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025“Work” is doing yeoman’s work in that sentence. You think everyone saying AI could have benefits is trying to pull off a scam? People see things differently, especially when they have experience seeing positive applications of the technology. 100
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner... Consider you may be in the trough of disillusionment. It’s a valid position but it does happen every time a new technology is introduced.en.m.wikipedia.orgGartner hype cycle - Wikipedia 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Literally every new technology is derided for a while as being bad and not as good as what’s already there. “A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds” Twain. AI boosters might be looking at future potential while AI critics focus on current failures. 530
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Bushmiller deploying the seldom-used triple dash 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Happy 80th Birthday to a true New York legend, Walt "Clyde" Frazier! Certified, Bonafide, Deified: that's Walt "Clyde". And it's not just for the Hall of Fame run as a player, his role as the constabulary of vocabulary on Knick broadcasts inspires me EVERY GAME! The absolute GOAT #Knicks 020
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Landry Shamet Laundromat Sheets. Tenacious cling meets silky smooth feel. #CallMeLandry 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The sexual politics of this one (when you consider how hot Elmer is for Bugs in drag) is intense. And the punchline does a masterful job of rebutting the “I identify as an attack helicopter“ line right wingers would use decades later… if you really identify as that, go fly a few missions 010
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I went to a party once at the house at the woman who wrote this! She had a bunch of framed pictures of family on a drawer and I noticed amongst them was a chimp. When I asked about it I got quite the story 110
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025YO MC PAUL BARMAN JUST DROPPED A RECORD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A GROUNDHOG TERRORIZING MASTA ACE'S GARDEN. Sorry for shouting but I thought you'd like to know because it's important. mcpb.bandcamp.com/track/ground...mcpb.bandcamp.comGroundhog Trap, starring Masta Ace, by MC Paul Barmantrack by MC Paul Barman 030
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025@mrdavehill.bsky.social Hey Dave! I saw you last night at Gene’s! Wanted to apologize for breaking NYC etiquette and waving hi because longtime fan/read your autobiography/ tangential friend connections and then didn’t introduce myself… I got embarrassed, didn’t mean to be a creep! 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This thread adds a real “Wages of Fear” element to Grape Ape which haunts me 🧵 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Or, hear me out here, you might be describing the Flintstone’s Bedrock, like their iconic record player 000
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025I’m waiting to see how much you charge for the time of making your own pizza 050
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024I’ve seen AI give great responses it wasn’t specifically trained on. I think some bad outliers of content are convincing designers every output is bad. Scarier: most outputs are pretty good, and getting better quickly. A tool we need to learn how to use and regulate rather than dismiss, IMHO 210
Reposted by Robert SosinMoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled 8-17, 2001 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont… 1645
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024The fact that this still makes me hungry despite my anger is a real testament to pizza 010
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024This is the kind of forward thinking innovation that made men eat lobster for the first time. $3 Hot Sauce advent calendars are the bottom feeders of the Christmas Tree Store ecosystem 🦞 110
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Professional opinion: You might have some gremlins (not the mogwai variety but more the Bugs Bunny 1940's military tech problem causing ones). They're somewhat endemic in the Pacific Northwest. They will get tired of you after a while, just hold tight and try not to give them too much attentionmedia.tenor.combugs bunny is tied up in a cartoon with the words classics on the bottomAlt: bugs bunny is fighting a gremlin with the words classics on the bottom 010
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024For the extra credit: This was the stuff that weirdly moved me, these gorgeous canvases made of reclaimed floorboards 021
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I tried to write “Theaster Gates” but autocorrect would not accept I was not trying to talk about “Theater gates”. Loved his show at the New Museum in 2023 110
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024This beardo looking away while everyone else is enraptured by the famous actor killing the president and leaping to the stage clutching a knife… what was that dude looking at instead? 010
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024My research has turned up the name “Null Island”, but I wonder if “{} Island” could also work 🏝️ 120
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Is that the horse latitudes, because you’d need a horse to get you out of it if you got stuck there? I thought that was more of a whole band around the globe rather than a what3words point… 100
Robert Sosin @robertsosin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Is that where the equator meets the prime meridian? 100
