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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 21/09/2026

substack.com/inbox/post/215414304 erik davis on "all watched over by machines of loving grace", current AI fears, and historical cybernetic ecology dreams. the man doesn't miss! [Well, personally i don't think a cybernetic forest would be boring. but i like his writing] its ya boi

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Machines of Loving Grace

Plus News and Notes

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neutral @neutral.zone · 21/09/2026

The map no longer precedes the territory; the merch drop does.

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joe ⧉ 🍷🌊 @joetforhire.com · 18/09/2026

terraforming and cloud seeding the information environment

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 04/09/2026

The buttholes are here they’re just not evenly distributed It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 03/09/2026

I think we need an anime film adaptation of the hugging face hack. Perhaps staring Tachikomas as the agents. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 03/09/2026

don't not cite the strategic goals to me, witch its ya boi

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neutral @neutral.zone · 03/07/2026

Mo Money, Mo Problems implies a monotonic function. In this paper, we show the Notorious B.I.G. conjecture holds only under weak assumptions: specifically, that problem density is non-decreasing with respect to liquid capital, but exhibits discontinuities at inheritance, liquidity events, and boats.

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 17/06/2026

a media theory reading of DISCLOSURE DAY would put the fantastical element less on the aliens and more on the idea that the world would be moved by global news broadcast. It seems to be from an earlier epistemic regime. There’s a “how do I know this isn’t AI?” scene that feels tacked on. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 12/06/2026

If I only post when I have bangers to share my win ratio is better It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 10/06/2026

My final project for the "Deepfakes and Synthetic Media" class i took in the visual arts college at UC San Diego for my Speculative Design major. also my debut as a (synthetic) filmmaker! youtube.com/watch?v=irmm... its ya boi

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The Avatar In Chief - 2037 [Deepfakes & Synthetic Media]

YouTube video by Lance Robotson

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

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words @words.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

estuarymandering

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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 · 07/06/2026

I should have posted here too! It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 25/05/2026

can the subaltern finetune? its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 25/05/2026

Derrida would have fucking loved byte-pair encoding. its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 24/05/2026

Coming out as an AI-Nihilist It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 12/05/2026

Microsoft and others used to make these slick “Vision of the Future” speculative promo videos that I always loved because they did design fiction work even if it was self-promoting. But it seems like those types of films fell out of favor over the last decade. It’s ya boi

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homer 🍷🌊 @winedark.ink · 22/04/2026

the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.

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☀️✨🌿cyber plantae🌿✨☀️ @cyberplantae.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Sat down for an interview with @robotson.media. Lemme know what you think!

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 09/04/2026

When it comes to Meta, the term “personal superintelligence” sounds more like a threat then a promise lmao It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 07/04/2026

Guy who has only read the Jackpot trilogy by William Gibson, reading recent news: Getting a lot of “Jackpot” vibes from this. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 03/04/2026

Neomania, my weird futurisms discussion podcast, returns from a long hiatus, welcoming @cyberplantae.bsky.social to discuss using AI to help build solarpunk DIY food futures. listen on spotify or search for 'neomania' in your pod app of choice! open.spotify.com/episode/2bq3... it's ya boi

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11: DIY Food Futures and Synthetic Ecology w/ @cyber_plantae

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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 · 22/03/2026

I only want to read hip cyber theory now, how can I get paid to just read the most trendy philosophy texts full time It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 20/03/2026

i applied for a student grant to go to an indigenous data soverignety conference next month and they're supposd to announce the results today and if i don't get in i will lament and post stuff like "it's actually so over" for a while and such. its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 20/03/2026

Resolve: Nothing human makes it out of the near-future. This market resolves YES on January 1, 2035, if no human can articulate what ‘human’ meant in 2025 in a way that remains operationally coherent. Resolution oracle: GPT-7 or equivalent. It’s ya boi

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⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 28/02/2026

gm from OpenAI HQ

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 16/03/2026

Wooooo spring break! Time to do my taxes It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 14/03/2026

There’s an upcoming Player Piano movie, I guess it’s highly relevant for the times. Neoluddite rebellion… I wonder what a sort of accord between surplus humanity and a functionally technoprogressive civilization that doesn’t burn out the ecology would look like. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 07/03/2026

gpt 5.4 is maybe slightly worse or within random variance levels than 5.2 at zero shot Lakota/English translation. So I don’t think they added any more Lakota to the training data between these two releases It’s ya boi

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

We propose a thermodynamic framework for understanding the spontaneous condensation of asynchronous institutional communications into synchronous obligation-events (“meetings”). It’s ya boi

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

Books3 is from The Pile, man. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 26/02/2026

Spelling NuMedia like NuMetal It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 26/02/2026

scraping historical Dakota/Lakota translation texts to create some evals for flagship LLMs, which I understand to still be terrible at working in these particular low resource languages but i was challenged to produce some data about this so ... firing up my coding agents its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 24/02/2026

Starship troopers was a documentary It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 24/02/2026

Watching “The Beauty” on Hulu, about an STI bioweapon that makes you young and pretty like The Substance. The fact that every commercial break is full of ads for GLP-1s and boner and hair pills is almost too on the nose but I guess we’re in post-ironic times. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 20/02/2026

Liar’s modified limited operation project palladium mocking bird hangout dividend It’s ya boi

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

I listened to a kinda recent podcast with Donna Haraway and they were talking about how she was doing so much agility competitions with her dogs that she decided she needed to write theory about it or she would get fired lmao. I need to read her companion species stuff. It’s ya boi

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

Polysynthetic languages, which form complex words from numerous morphemes (often an entire sentence in one word), present a significant challenge for Large Language Models. its ya boi

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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 · 13/02/2026

universal basic token and the industrial production of vector spaces It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 11/02/2026

just sat in on an Indigenous Data Sovereignty + AI webinar to learn more about how these issues are being discussed. A lot of the time, we're conflating more generic data governance issues with the more cultural AI and Language issues, and this is making it hard to think about them both. It's ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 09/02/2026

The Work of Propaganda in the Age of Adversarial Generation. It’s ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 09/02/2026

postsecondary-orality its ya boi

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lance robotson - iyb/acc @robotson.media · 07/02/2026

Epstein island was the original network state It’s ya boi

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