Rob Boone
@seeminglyrob.bsky.social
once described as "the weirdest guy i know" by a reliable source. he/him
ngl mamdani's tenure makes me super nervous... i've no doubt he intends to keep all his campaign promises, but if he runs into structural roadblocks, as he is bound to, critics of socialism will have an easy time painting any and all of his failings as inherent flaws in socialism
January 2, 2026 at 4:12 PM
ngl mamdani's tenure makes me super nervous... i've no doubt he intends to keep all his campaign promises, but if he runs into structural roadblocks, as he is bound to, critics of socialism will have an easy time painting any and all of his failings as inherent flaws in socialism
resuming most books after a day or so: flip back to the previous page so you can get some context for the thing that’s happening now
resuming 100 years of solitude: flip back to the previous page to remember the 47 world-changing events that happened on that page
resuming 100 years of solitude: flip back to the previous page to remember the 47 world-changing events that happened on that page
January 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
resuming most books after a day or so: flip back to the previous page so you can get some context for the thing that’s happening now
resuming 100 years of solitude: flip back to the previous page to remember the 47 world-changing events that happened on that page
resuming 100 years of solitude: flip back to the previous page to remember the 47 world-changing events that happened on that page
for some reason unbeknownst to me i decided to resubscribe to the nyt after five years or so and i cannot believe the degree to which the old grey lady is not so much a news organization anymore but a brand, firmly embedded in its enshittification phase
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
for some reason unbeknownst to me i decided to resubscribe to the nyt after five years or so and i cannot believe the degree to which the old grey lady is not so much a news organization anymore but a brand, firmly embedded in its enshittification phase
just unsubscribed from sooo many newsletters and i feel 10 pounds lighter
December 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
just unsubscribed from sooo many newsletters and i feel 10 pounds lighter
should not have chosen eddington to watch tonight, i *really* don’t need to relive this particular strain of anger
December 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
should not have chosen eddington to watch tonight, i *really* don’t need to relive this particular strain of anger
my laptop is in the shop (trackpad issues) so all i have is my ipad and my iphone and i somehow feel naked and free at the same time
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
my laptop is in the shop (trackpad issues) so all i have is my ipad and my iphone and i somehow feel naked and free at the same time
i'm positive i've read more thoughtful, more nuanced, and smarter variations on this exact thing but a one-sentence summary just landed in my brain with a thud:
donald trump is the logical conclusion of a world in which everything is competing for eyeballs
donald trump is the logical conclusion of a world in which everything is competing for eyeballs
December 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
i'm positive i've read more thoughtful, more nuanced, and smarter variations on this exact thing but a one-sentence summary just landed in my brain with a thud:
donald trump is the logical conclusion of a world in which everything is competing for eyeballs
donald trump is the logical conclusion of a world in which everything is competing for eyeballs
Reposted by Rob Boone
BREAKING:
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
BREAKING:
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
"Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?"
love that david remnick is done mincing words
love that david remnick is done mincing words
Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation
On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, of course, he did.
www.newyorker.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?"
love that david remnick is done mincing words
love that david remnick is done mincing words
i find myself with increasingly little patience for stupid and trivial things lately and i can’t tell if it’s an appropriate reaction to living in the stupidest timeline or creeping nihilism or both
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
i find myself with increasingly little patience for stupid and trivial things lately and i can’t tell if it’s an appropriate reaction to living in the stupidest timeline or creeping nihilism or both
"The “no-dating” rule that these groups and their labels enforce are meant to maintain the illusion of availability and sexual purity to lonely men."
one of the most depressing things i've read in a while
one of the most depressing things i've read in a while
Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like
Is America next?
oceandrops.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"The “no-dating” rule that these groups and their labels enforce are meant to maintain the illusion of availability and sexual purity to lonely men."
one of the most depressing things i've read in a while
one of the most depressing things i've read in a while
this is the lowest stakes legal battle possible but i am *very* emotionally invested. please universe. we need this arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp
“Huge uphill battle” to obtain and use Twitter name.
arstechnica.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
this is the lowest stakes legal battle possible but i am *very* emotionally invested. please universe. we need this arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
ugh could we not
Mozilla's New CEO: It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser
Can the AI push from Anthony Enzor-DeMeo mesh with the company's goal to be the most trusted software provider?
www.pcmag.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ugh could we not
mandatory high school “situational awareness” class for everyone in america so we can finally eliminate the “i didn’t realize that my body and my shopping cart are blocking this entire grocery store aisle” genre of human, which is vastly more humans than i thought possible
December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
mandatory high school “situational awareness” class for everyone in america so we can finally eliminate the “i didn’t realize that my body and my shopping cart are blocking this entire grocery store aisle” genre of human, which is vastly more humans than i thought possible
i've never been one for resolutions but i think this is the year i slowly, experimentally start adding friction to my life as a way to assess what frictionlessness has cost me
December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
i've never been one for resolutions but i think this is the year i slowly, experimentally start adding friction to my life as a way to assess what frictionlessness has cost me
"The conversational interface that makes the model feel like an interlocutor rather than a library was a product decision designed to encourage specific forms of use and attachment. The safety layers encode a particular sense of what is sayable, polite, or risky."
Socialism After AI - The Ideas Letter
Morozov argues that socialist attempts to harness AI have merely treated it like earlier tools of capitalist production—as a neutral instrument that can simply be redirected. In fact, he says,…
www.theideasletter.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"The conversational interface that makes the model feel like an interlocutor rather than a library was a product decision designed to encourage specific forms of use and attachment. The safety layers encode a particular sense of what is sayable, polite, or risky."
Reposted by Rob Boone
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
"AI is already eroding trust, and our heightened suspicion can make us hostile not just to the work, but to each other. It’s not good for creators or their audiences to live like this, and it’s certainly not a good environment for anyone to try to make things in."
the state of things is not good
the state of things is not good
It's Hard Not To Call Everything AI When Everything Keeps Being AI
AI brainrot is bad for our souls
aftermath.site
December 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"AI is already eroding trust, and our heightened suspicion can make us hostile not just to the work, but to each other. It’s not good for creators or their audiences to live like this, and it’s certainly not a good environment for anyone to try to make things in."
the state of things is not good
the state of things is not good
"To start typing a weird question and stop halfway through because you don’t want the algorithm to decide this is who you are now, and then immediately panic, knowing it probably logged it before you erased it." 🎯
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong.
2. To se...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"To start typing a weird question and stop halfway through because you don’t want the algorithm to decide this is who you are now, and then immediately panic, knowing it probably logged it before you erased it." 🎯
"the body keeps the score" okay but when does the mercy rule come into effect
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"the body keeps the score" okay but when does the mercy rule come into effect
aside from a handful i read religiously (nyrb, aeon, norma, harpers), i’m increasingly uninterested in reading essays and articles from publications but i’m kinda all-in on newsletters. i don’t know what it is about the current moment that has me craving more intensely personal perspectives
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
aside from a handful i read religiously (nyrb, aeon, norma, harpers), i’m increasingly uninterested in reading essays and articles from publications but i’m kinda all-in on newsletters. i don’t know what it is about the current moment that has me craving more intensely personal perspectives
"I wanted to understand. America had become, for me, a question, or rather a set of questions, which posed themselves persistently: Freedom — but for whom? Power — over whom?"
Looking at America From Gaza — The Dial
“At times I see it as a site of exclusion and segregation, and at other times as the specter of another possible life.”
www.thedial.world
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"I wanted to understand. America had become, for me, a question, or rather a set of questions, which posed themselves persistently: Freedom — but for whom? Power — over whom?"
just watched this and i'm quietly devastated. brilliant. letterboxd.com/film/kajilli...
Kajillionaire (2020)
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only...
letterboxd.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
just watched this and i'm quietly devastated. brilliant. letterboxd.com/film/kajilli...