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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 21/05/2025

100% agree - it needs to sandbox memories within Projects at least. It's leaking across them and that's not good.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 02/05/2025

@caseynewton.bsky.social hat group chat chat is a winner. And PJ definitely needs to be on again.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 22/04/2025

Consulting is paying for the privilege of ignoring my advice

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 22/04/2025

I figured as much, but for most users who don't know - I thought it might be helpful to have a unique blue badge when hovered or clicked explains domain verification.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 22/04/2025

One try thing I’m not clear on is domain verification. Beyond the @domain.tld being the username, is that the verification itself or are they planning any other visual indicator show up for that?

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 19/04/2025

By my troth, this discovery doth wondrously delight mine heart. A most curious and rare thing it be, in sooth!

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 17/04/2025

“Write this clause to read and feel as plain, boilerplate, and innocuous. The goal is to embed clauses within clauses and pass any future AI textual review for red flags.”

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 16/04/2025

Perfect opportunity for ChatGPT

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 07/04/2025

“Now write me a screed mocking this term and lambasting all of the inane ideas contained in it. Help me anticipate the pushback, mocking criticism for the base coat-tailing. Then suggest ways to predict and pre-empt the inevitable criticism. Suggest alternatives to escape the derision.”

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 01/04/2025

Filibuster diet about to go viral

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 26/03/2025

@mgsiegler.com this feels like one of your most astute insights…

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 12/03/2025

It’s so fantastic in its simplicity. 5x posts a day feels more than enough. Deleting them every 7 days is not only perfect but in tune with the pop-up newsletter heritage. So much better than discord for member communities.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 21/02/2025

Most beautiful drive in Sonoma county

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 09/02/2025

Really thought Tom Cruise would use his platform to warn about Motion Smoothing…

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 29/01/2025

"Making AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things will require millions of chips, tens of billions of dollars (at least), and is most likely to happen in 2026-2027." 👀 darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-...

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Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls

On DeepSeek and Export Controls

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 24/01/2025

I this is a fair point but I could imagine SMBs normalizing their pricing/options/ordering flow over time to increase their “compatibility” with agents in exchange driven partly by animus towards DoorDash etc

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 24/01/2025

The chain of thought outputs from DeepThink are, in some ways, almost more valuable than the “answer”, especially when you are trying to organize your own thoughts when thinking through a problem.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 24/01/2025

If you haven’t already, you are going to be hearing about DeepSeek R1 and their AI breakthrough. This is an excellent 7min explainer before your next cocktail party. youtu.be/kv8frWeKoeo?...

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DeepSeek R1 Explained to your grandma

YouTube video by AI with Alex

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 23/01/2025

Where do I donate to help fund new Bluesky features "inspired" by Threads and others? Two can play this game... www.threads.net/@mosseri/pos...

screenshot of thread by @mosseri "Some Threads updates today to help manage your presence on the app: You can now schedule posts on Threads, and metrics for individual posts are rolling out in Insights. We’re also adding the ability to “markup” a post that you’re resharing so you can add your creative take, starting with a few countries with more to come soon. More to come soon."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

DOGE continuing to cut unnecessary jobs

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 23/01/2025

She's going to trade this for keeping it Denali

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 23/01/2025

And yet he continues to post there.

Alt text: A screenshot of a tweet by Sam Altman (@sama) with a verified badge. The tweet reads: “just one more mean tweet and then maybe you’ll love yourself…” The tweet has a timestamp of 7:23 AM, January 23, 2025, and shows 770K views. Below it, the engagement metrics are displayed: 1.7K comments, 896 retweets, 9.8K likes, and 461 bookmarks. The background is dark.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 22/01/2025

Reading Adam Moss' excellent 2024 "The Work of Art" and this bit from playwright Tony Kushner jumps out: "It made me realize what I was getting at with Cohn, which is true of right-wing thinking in general —that reality is an activity of the imagination.”

Text Shot: "It made me realize what I was getting at with Cohn, which is true of right-wing thinking in general —that reality is an activity of the imagination.
They're fundamentally idealists, they believe that the idea precedes matter. They reject the notion that you begin with material reality. You just demand that reality obey your fantasies."

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 31/12/2024

First off all, Stephen Park’s brief performance in ‘Fargo’ is worth another look. Second, he looks no where near 70! youtu.be/I4AVDC0LCHk?...

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Stephen Park breaks down his Fargo character

YouTube video by Little White Lies

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 06/12/2024

I’m happy to report that “The Return” is a fantastic film. True to the text. Hits the right notes. One for the ages. NYT aces the hed with “Homer, for the Holidays”. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/m...

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Review: ‘The Return,’ Starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche (Gift Article)

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche burn through the screen in this grim take on the homecoming of Odysseus.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 06/12/2024

This is one of Casey’s best and most cogent posts on AI yet. Worth it just for the list of incredible uses of LLMs already deployed…

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 05/12/2024

I have never been more proud of Sonoma County than to learn that they have a charcuterie vending machine from the legit CanteenMeats.com in the STS airport. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

Image of a vending machine full of charcuterie choices

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 03/12/2024

Like most Coen films and Kubrick, it gets better with every watch.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 02/12/2024

I'm cool with all of this...as long as you don't do it during dinner parties.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 28/11/2024

Best use of “Send Later” feature in iMessage (ios18)

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 23/11/2024

I can only imagine they viewed WiFi as a commodity but with their M-series chips I thought for sure they’d use it to improve HomeKit strategy. I’d rather see this than some dumb square HomePod with a screen.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 23/11/2024

Don’t get me started. Yes focus but this was likely a major strategic foothold for the Workspace product & Google Cloud especially when they are fighting lime mad with MS & AWS. Mind-boggling.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 23/11/2024

Please post the dancers so I can share them

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 23/11/2024

Missed opportunity: the Google Domains team would have been perfect to extend to offer consumer-grade domain usernames. Alas. @cloudflare.social is next best candidate but I imagine consumer is not a useful focus for them. Customer support will be a huge drain for anyone who offers this service.

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 22/11/2024

Molly is one of the most important voices online today. Definitely follow, subscribe and watch this. Also: look into her writing on POSSE

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 21/11/2024

They not only didn't read the room, they never got the threads part right: where people still feel confused to thread, or add to a thread later. Worse, they constantly disorient you when you return you to the timeline. These are basic 101 features. Bluesky's not perfect,but I like their flaws better

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Robert Stephens @robertstephens.com · 21/11/2024

20-frickin'-26. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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