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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 07/06/2026

my solution to gerrymandering US House districts is to reapportion representation to the 2456 HUC bioregional watershed subbasins. 1 representative per subbasin. its ya boi

rainbow color coded map of 2456 hydrological unit subbasins across America, titled "The United Subbasins of America"

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 23/03/2026

Hoping to finish reading these three books before classes start again in a week It’s ya boi

Person standing beneath a large, sprawling tree in a sunny park, reaching up toward a thick branch while a dog sniffs the ground nearby. Apartment buildings and grass are visible in the background. Overlaid on the image are three book covers: The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior (bright green, pink, and black design), Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (black cover with red text listing multiple contributors), and Vector Media by Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert (cloudy, atmospheric cover design). Text on the image reads: “Performative Spring break Reading list!”

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 14/02/2026

If anybody has a copy please forward to Lance at robotson dot media It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 06/02/2026

Productive misalignment It’s ya boi

Two diagrams juxtaposed: the Speculative Futuring ‘Cone of Possibilities’ (Dunne & Raby) showing nested, orderly layers of possible, preferred, probable, and plausible futures expanding from the present — paired with Anthropic’s misalignment scaling diagram, which uses a nearly identical cone shape but dissolves into tangled, divergent reasoning paths as model intelligence and task complexity increase. The visual rhyme suggests the tidy futures cone is an idealized version of what is actually a chaotic branching process.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 21/01/2026

Type of shit I be on It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 02/12/2025

open.spotify.com/episode/5Dzx... McKenzie Wark on Disintegrator podcast! I can’t explain why this is so interesting to me but I am compelled to share, it’s ya boi

Screenshot of the disintegrator podcast instagram account post about their interview with McKenzie Wark

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 13/10/2025

Added some new merch to the it’s ya boi webstore. shop.robotson.media it’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 15/09/2025

This is the textbook for a class I’m taking this fall. About to get into some conceptual design Futuring type stuff. One of the assigned projects is to come up with like a speciative design manifesto type thing, which I am looking forward to, though it may stretch my imaginings It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 13/07/2025

planning the next two years of my life, hopefully its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 12/07/2025

Wow Marc Andreesen is really just an aggrieved cornfed white guy now huh archive.is/2025.07.12-1... It’s ya boi

"My cohort of citizens," he wrote, had once been willing to accept diversity policies as the cost of prior bigotry in American society,
"even though the discrimination was now aimed at us," according to the screenshots.
"The insanity of the last 8 years and in particular the summer of 2020, totally shredded that complacency," Andreessen added, apparently referring to protests and discussion of diversity after the death of Floyd. "And so now my people are furious and not going to take it anymore," he wrote.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 05/07/2025

What’s the move tonight. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 27/06/2025

I chopped down a tree to generate this and a photo-retoucher went out of business in the process Its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 24/06/2025

John Oliver is ripping me off Its ya boi

John Oliver sits at a news desk on Last Week Tonight, gesturing mid-sentence. Beside him on screen is an image of Oscar the Grouch dressed in a red ceremonial robe and hat adorned with Illuminati-like symbols—eyes inside palms and a glowing triangle on his hat—emerging dramatically from his trash can against a cosmic background.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 23/06/2025

I went to vibecamp and recorded some brief interviews with different guys who variously had their own podcasts and substacks and other interesting things to say, sometimes even about the futurist stuff I asked Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7CXs... Or go to Neomania.net It’s ya boi

Me with my laptop harness at a campgrounds holding a microphone hooked up to my MacBook

Lance Robotson stands smiling in sunglasses, holding a drink in one hand and wearing a laptop strapped to his chest with a mobile podcasting rig. He’s dressed casually with bright red sneakers. Next to him is a Vibe Camp event flyer titled “Come Talk On My Podcast,” inviting attendees to participate in impromptu futurism interviews. The flyer explains that Lance is collecting short audio conversations for a Neomania podcast episode and includes a media disclaimer affirming that only people who give explicit permission will be recorded.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 14/06/2025

Bratton on the Artificiality podcast recently argues that LLMs represent a kind of redistribution of expertise, a transfer of intellectual capital from the global north to the global south- (an inversion of the standard extraction critique) artificialityinstitute.org/benjamin-bra... it’s ya boi

Screenshot from the Artificiality podcast episode “The Platypus and the Planetary” featuring Benjamin Bratton. The highlighted text reads:
“Another way we may come back to look at this is that the training of LLMs and the transposition of LLMs into essentially the means of production available as a monthly prescript, subscription, or for free, for some form of models, will be the largest transfer of intellectual capital from the global north to the global south that could have happened during this time by this transference of general intelligence as a kind of construction.”

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 05/06/2025

I’m about to go sicko mode It’s ya boi

A promotional email from LinkedIn offering a one-month free trial of LinkedIn Premium. The message greets the recipient by name (“Hi there, Lance!”) and thanks them for being an active member. There’s a prominent blue button labeled “Retry 1 month free.” A disclaimer below notes that after the trial, charges will apply unless canceled.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 05/06/2025

I used AI to make this on my phone and I’m am not amshamed!!!! If you want to block me for that then go amhead!! It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 05/06/2025

incredible to be compared to the founding cybercultural weirdness magazine/ strange nexus of MONDO 2000. well done to @concept.country by the way if you're near the bay area this Sat. you should go to this thing @rusirius.bsky.social and friends are doing! grayarea.org/event/come-t... its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 01/06/2025

I desperately want to become the product. I desperately wish to be seen as a critical Internet researcher. I desperately need to exist as a virtual intellectual. Sadly I have no Substackable thoughts It’s ya boi

A sleek, minimalist gray book cover titled “Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual” by Morgane Billuart. Geometric, wireframe vector glyphs orbit the names Geert Lovink, Joshua Citarella, Alex Quicho, and Sophie Publig—schematics of information flow or a clandestine protocol. The design evokes a user manual for intellectual self-commodification in the age of feedback loops and algorithmic subjectivity

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 29/05/2025

this is hitting me so hard rn. I need to get into this “reza” guy. From disintegrator podcast’s Pete Wolfendale episode; open.spotify.com/episode/5GWJ... it’s ya boi

Screenshot of a podcast episode titled “31. Incarnation (w/ Pete Wolfendale)” from the podcast Disintegrator. The screen shows a transcript excerpt discussing the philosophical notion of “rational inhumanism.” Highlighted text reads: “The purpose of rational inhumanism is to kind of find that thing within humanism, which is taking itself beyond it, this kind of revisionary vector of transformation.” The discussion references critical posthumanism and critiques of transhumanism:

So like rationality has reformatted the ape, right, into us and can potentially continue to keep doing that, stripping away things that we previously considered to be essential. It's a kind of practical corollary to the theoretical notion of revision, is that not just can we revise our theoretical
understanding of the way the world is, we can also revise our understanding of ourselves and what we should be. So the way in which Reza sort of describes this is the human is less of a substance than a vector.
The purpose of rational inhumanism is to kind of find that thing within humanism, which is taking itself beyond it, this kind of revisionary vector of transformation. This is basically the truth in the critique, the critical posthumanist critique of transhumanism. Critical posthumanists will basically say transhumanists are still kind of too humanist, and they're right.”

Cover art for the Disintegrator podcast episode “31. Incarnation (w/ Pete Wolfendale).” The artwork features a petri dish containing a red organic structure resembling a hybrid between a circulatory system and a neural network. The word “DISINTEGRATOR” appears twice — upright at the top and upside down at the bottom of the image.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 27/05/2025

Why are millennials the strongest supporters of AI development? Thesis: bridge generation that remembers worlds before and after the primacy of internet and mobile/ubiquitous computing technology. It’s ya boi

Screenshot of an Axios article highlighting AI polling results. The bolded stat says 77% of Americans want companies to slow AI development to get it right the first time. A bullet point shows only 23% prefer faster progress despite potential mistakes. A highlighted line notes that support for slower AI drops to 63% among millennials, but rises to 74% for Gen Z. The article argues most people reject the “AI race” mindset.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 26/05/2025

La Chinoise (1967), Jean-Luc Godard It’s ya boi

A sparsely furnished room with two red-upholstered chairs, a small round table, a fireplace, and a blue door. On the wall is a painted slogan in French: “Il faut confronter les idées vagues avec des images claires,” with English subtitles below reading: “We should replace vague ideas with clear images.”

Two people stand in a white hallway with green and red trim, facing a wall where a revolutionary slogan is painted in black block letters. The French text reads: “Une minorité à la ligne révolutionnaire correcte n’est plus une minorité,” with the English subtitle below: “A minority with the right ideas is not a minority.” Two wooden chairs sit beneath the text.

A promotional image for Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film La Chinoise. On the left, actress Anne Wiazemsky looks contemplatively to the side, while on the right, Jean-Pierre Léaud stares directly ahead, aiming a red-handled fencing foil. The background is a vibrant red curtain. Below, a film summary describes the movie’s plot: middle-class students form a Maoist cell in Paris and move toward violent revolutionary plans. A vertical film poster features stacked red books and a woman aiming a gun, with red paint dripping from the top edge.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 23/05/2025

Looking at my dog: “You capitalist dog!” It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 23/05/2025

I don’t get how these little bastards make it so you can make like any image with just a bunch of waves. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 22/05/2025

diagram of McKenzie Wark’s Vectoralism framework- the “something worse” that comes “after capitalism”: borisanthony.net/diagrams/wha... It’s ya boi

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Diagram titled “Socio-cultural Dynamics between the Eras of Commodity Economy: Pastoralism, Capitalism, Vectorialism”, interpreting McKenzie Wark’s idea that “what comes after capitalism is even worse.” The x-axis shows socio-economic history progressing rightward; the y-axis represents increasing abstraction in ownership and control, from physical land (bottom) to capital, to data and vectors (top).

On the left side of the chart are class categories by historical mode of production:
• Farmer (bottom left, physical land, toil)
• Worker (above Farmer, industrial labor)
• Hacker (above Worker, in information era)
• Landlord (above Farmer, owns land)
• Capitalist (above Landlord, owns capital)
• Vectorialist (top, owns/control data and vectors)

The upper classes (Landlord, Capitalist, Vectorialist) are shaded in black and aligned vertically, representing continuity of power, wealth, and inherited control. Lower classes (Farmer, Worker, Hacker) are shaded in gray and aligned diagonally, reflecting discontinuity between historical stages and vulnerability to upward corruption.

Text notes emphasize:
• Top classes share tacit cultural knowledge and inheritance.
• Bottom classes lack continuity and can be co-opted into elite structures.

Credit: Boris Anthony, 2017. Attribution notes Wark’s definition of “Vectorialist” as those who control information and its means of distribution.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 21/05/2025

Good morning wonderful Bluesky folks! Been thinking about how I need to post more often here. Hope you have a great day! It’s ya boi

A graphic compares the energy usage of AI-generated tasks: 15 text prompts (29 Wh), 10 image prompts (12 Wh), and 3 video prompts (2,832 Wh). A bar graph visually emphasizes how video generation dominates, consuming 98% of the total 2.9 kWh. The accompanying text criticizes this framing, likening it to blaming a pack of gum for a $315 restaurant bill, and argues for clearer communication about which actions actually drive high energy use.

A screenshot shows an energy usage estimate for producing a traditional 5-second professional video with 5 people (director, camera operator, 2 actors, lighting/audio tech), working 3 hours each. Assuming 200 watts per person, the total energy used is 3,000 Wh (3 kWh), already over 3 times the AI-generated video estimate—without accounting for additional gear like lights.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 18/04/2025

Why [do] the things we find beautiful undermine power? It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 09/04/2025

“we can buy up cheap land in the salton sea, mine lithium for our (intimacy companion)bots, build the Futurist Compound out of shipping containers” Please illustrate this scene in a tall format, photo, no grain, 8k render, award winning photography, Pulitzer Prize journalist article, it’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 09/04/2025

Hell yeah. Jason Edward Lewis et al cooked here back in like 2018. I remember they were also leading the indigenousfutures.net working group for Indigenous AI- before the ChatGPT moment. Post-Chatty, these questions are even more salient, but it seems like there is less work on them now. it’s ya boi

A screenshot of a passage titled “Making Kin with the Machines.” The text discusses the challenge for Indigenous epistemology in understanding cyberspace—described as an archipelago of websites, social media, virtual environments, and smart technologies—and how these exist alongside the physical territories Indigenous peoples claim. It raises the question of how Indigenous people can reconcile embodied experiences of land with disembodied virtual experiences and how to claim virtual spaces as their own.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 25/03/2025

In "La Minions," the classical episteme implodes as multiplied bodies supplant both sovereign and artist, collapsing representation into recursion. The gaze, now fragmented across yellow forms, reveals power's circulation without center or authority. it's ya boi

A digital art parody combining Velázquez's "Las Meninas" with Minions. The original painting's dark, somber interior is preserved with its back wall, ceiling, and doorway where a figure stands in the background. The foreground is filled with numerous yellow Minion characters in blue overalls replacing the royal subjects and attendants from the original masterpiece. A blank canvas is visible on the left edge of the frame.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 20/03/2025

We did it Joe. Anora is a Disney Princess now It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 17/03/2025

I no longer support current thing It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 11/03/2025

My proposal for revitalizing the DNC’s chances in 2028: a genetically accelerated program to create a fully mature, artificially leftist Trump clone. its ya boi

A photoshopped image of an AI-generated Grok meme featuring the face of He Jiankui, the controversial CRISPR scientist, in a lab coat. He is holding a glass jar containing a small, artificially created baby with the face of Donald Trump.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 09/03/2025

Note to my future self It’s ya boi

In the style of ransom note letters cut out from different sources: “I HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU WELL”

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 09/03/2025

I have posted The-Meta-structure-of-a-Knowledge-Manifold.png, thus your argument is invalid its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 05/03/2025

its funny that "what's that got to do with the price of eggs?" is like an old timey slang you might see in some old tv or movies that means basically, well that's non-sequitor. but now it's highly relevant to basically everything that's happening politically today lol. its ya boi

billy zane from twin peaks saying "what exactly does that have to do with the price of eggs?"

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 26/02/2025

Just had a cursed thought It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 23/02/2025

from episode 4287 of Steve Bannon’s Warroom podcast, at CPAC here is seen talking to Adam Villarreal, who brags about evading being wanted by the FBI in connection to J6. He credits an “underground MAGA railroad” for helping him evade apprehension. From: warroom.org/episode-4287... It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 22/02/2025

I’m starting a research unit It’s ya boi

A stack of books and a deck of tarot cards on a wooden table. The top card is the judgement card from the HEXEN 2.0 deck by Suzanne Treister, which features an illustration of the word ‘ETHICS’ in a plant form textured font. Below it are three books: ‘Capital is Dead’ by McKenzie Wark, ‘CCRU Writings 1997-2003,’ and ‘All Media is Training Data’ by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst. The selection suggests themes of media theory, philosophy, accelerationism, and speculative research.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 20/02/2025

Here’s some More slop About the vector episteme It’s ya boi

Caption for this screenshot: “The vector episteme transforms how knowledge works. Instead of words having fixed meanings in dictionaries, they exist as points in a mathematical space. Their meaning comes from what they're close to, not what they represent.

This isn't just a technical detail - it's changing how we think. When we interact with AI, we engage with a system that understands through patterns and probabilities, not symbols or experiences. It's a fundamentally different way of making sense of the world.

As this way of organizing knowledge becomes dominant, we're moving toward a hybrid understanding where human experience blends with machine patterns. This shift is as significant as the move from oral to written culture, reshaping what it means to know something in the age of artificial intelligence.“

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