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Rob J.

@robjaniii.bsky.social
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Manager - AV Engineering at NBCU. Make all sorts of things in the physical world but really want to make virtual worlds

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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Gotta give this a go
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 10/10/2026
However, I also assert that we are perhaps generations away from making that manifest: we lack the proper architectures to address these exquisite properties of the mind, and furthermore, we don't even have a sufficient understanding to lead us us to even ask the right questions to design them.
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 10/10/2026
Contemporary frontier models are not conscious.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wait wut?!?!
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I really thought I'd be better at this
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/10/2026
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BARF LORD Was the first thing I saw
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And never had enough for base upgrades. It just feels like there was a bigger game hiding in there. I did have fun though so overall I think it worked. Now back to my first Deus Ex play through and started Mankind Divided last night. Serious vibes opening up that game.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Never used the med bay. It feels like there might have been a time when the operation quests may have taken more cycles so you would have characters unavailable but they scrapped it at the last minute. Economy was a little weird too. Like I could never get enough stuff. Always short on gear...
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Finished Zero Company last night and have thoughts. It was fun and all but the end was a bit underwhelming both in play and story. Great VO, looks lovely, but the performance was not great on a PS5. Also wasn't very challenging. I never really needed to hire or use additional operators and almost...
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Was just thinking about this game the other day. I could live on the motor sound fx alone. Just me on an island and a 16 hour recording of motor sounds.
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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yape - Darién Gap - Panama 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/48nMVupuaRJj... 4K link : i.imgur.com/VVb9t2U.jpeg More about the Darién Gap on Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3...
A satellite picture of a dense rainforest landscape, a brownish river is meandering through it from the top left to bottom right. A small village is place on the side of the river.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does this exist for copilot, asking for a friend
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 03/10/2026
Let’s be very clear: there is value in automating tedious and repetitive and dangerous tasks; there is value in delegating certain work to our machines that can do the work tirelessly and much faster.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How your email finds me
Empty space suit floating distant from space station with earth on the left sode
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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Urban sprawl around Dallas and Fort Worth - Texas - USA 🌎1. maps.app.goo.gl/VE8pt3uGREEP... 🌎2. maps.app.goo.gl/7mA59jVC9JF9... 🌎3. maps.app.goo.gl/9G5eQyKXtbGZ... 🌎4. maps.app.goo.gl/i3AhnZiFFe9m... 4K links : imgur.com/a/MdSMoOs
A satellite picture of neat rows of identical houses with black rooves aligned in identical streets.A satellite picture of  neat rows of identical houses with black rooves but some streets are straight and other are curved.A satellite picture of very similar houses all aligned in nearly identical streets with a few curves here and there.A satellite picture of lots of similar houses aligned on streets following an artificially organic pattern to spread their similarities.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess I'm not surprised
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I gotta go to that place again
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.
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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cité des Étoiles by architect Jean Renaudie - Givors - France 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/uspZSGnkVsef... 4K link : i.imgur.com/1XKHWvW.jpeg More on Wikipedia (Fr) : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%...
A satellite picture of a small town near the south of France with typical orange tiled rooves. In the middle of the picture is a very densely packed grouping of star-shaped irregularly placed buildings. It is place upon the side of a green hill on top of which we can see ruins of a castle.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So freaking dumb
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have we decided yet that the subscription model does NOT magically work?
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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Murmansk Oblast - Russia 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/1wq1kKQzfLta... 4K link : i.imgur.com/xyW8xqb.jpeg
A satellite picture of a river tightly meandering through a deep green forest. On the left side of the picture, a swampy area with colors ranging from yellow to orange-brown. A few clouds are visible on the picture.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 19/09/2026
🔭 A Zodiacal Night Image Credit & Copyright: Neelam and Ajay Talwar (TWAN) ap260919
See Explanation.  Clicking on the picture will download
the highest resolution version available.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Consultants consult because they can NOT do. There is nothing more irritating to me in any industry than a lazy fucking consultant
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 16/09/2026
Contemporary artificial intelligence is to cognition as artificial sweeteners are to good nutrition: full of misleading hype, distracting, and when misunderstood and misused, dangerous to one's well-being.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 15/09/2026
🔭 A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Arnaud Mariat ap260915
A blue sky has a light cloud crossing the middle of 
the image. Two crescent objects are visible through the 
cloud, a large faint crescent in the center and a brighter
crescent above it. 
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I endorse this statement
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yep this was the thing that was gonna lift the ratings
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Used to release cool stuff because it was necessary to compete. Now with a bottomless pit of money the only thing that comes is filth. Man I hope all these dudes get bored with this so we can have our toys back
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's all just marketing
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Evan Maple VO @evanmaplevo.com · 08/09/2026
this image is unfortunately going to be useful for a long while
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I freaking love them
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I can't with these zoom ins. Inspirational, sure makes me sick a little, yeep Induces feelings of insignificance, definitely youtube.com/shorts/CWb2n...
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Zoom into N44 ✨
YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#SciArtSeptember 2: violet A recently described specimen of Sinopterus dongi showed, for the first time, evidence of iridescent colour in pterosaurs. There were also traces of horizontal stripes on the soft tissue crest. The Mesozoic world is getting more and more colourful. #SciArt
Painterly digital portrait of an iridescent purple pterosaur
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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
China 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/ABQt6feZya73... 4K link : i.imgur.com/HYxUt98.jpeg
A satellite picture of a road going diagonally from top to bottom of the picture. It is surrounded by fields forming a kind of herringbone pattern around the diagonal. Some small villages are placed around the road.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 05/09/2026
🔭 Chasing the Moon's Shadow Image Credit: NASA ap260905
See Explanation.  Clicking on the picture will download
the highest resolution version available.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😃🌟🎉 Chatbots glitching and down!!
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Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok Are Down on iPhone and Web
It is apparently not a good day for AI chatbots, as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are all down or experiencing issues for many users. OpenAI's status page acknowledges issues across ChatGPT and Codex, whi...
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Imagining 3 devs frantically trying to prompt their way to a solution and getting nowhere.
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Disaster Girl Meme: Pirómano
ALT: Disaster Girl Meme: Pirómano
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I live in lua for work once you get over it's little intricacies it's fine to work with especially with the performance trade off
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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
North Korea 🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/zJXxAQ16Cgyy... 4K link : i.imgur.com/ZO14DL6.jpeg
A satellite picture of some type of aquaculture ponds forming a tight grid pattern in blue tones.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 01/09/2026
🔭 A Plane Lunar Eclipse Image Credit: Paulo Ferreira ap260901
The Moon is seen in front of clouds but with part
of its lower left being unusually dark. On the upper 
right, a foreground airplane appears flying into the disk of
the Moon.  
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Took a break from my Deus Ex release order playthrough after I finished Invisible War to play 007 First Light. Kinda funny both games suffered a bit of an underwhelming ending that really tarnished my feelings toward the games. Both I was really enjoying and the ends were both kinda rice cakes.
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Takes me away
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Rob J. @robjaniii.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Best thing I've heard about this game all day
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