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Welfare³ advocate | Speculative Design @ UCSD (BA ’27) | exploring futures & saying “it’s ya boi” | https://robotson.media
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Added some new merch to the it’s ya boi webstore. shop.robotson.media

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October 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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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

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Speculative Everything, by Dunne & Raby
September 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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It’s ya boiiii
Diagram with three overlapping circles. Top left circle (blue) = “Biotechnical Embrace (Good)” with text “Clinical pull & affective attachments.” Top right circle (green) = “Political Economy of Hope (Petryna)” with text “Global circuits of capital, regulation, inequality.” Bottom circle (red) = “Immortalist vs Deathist Debate” with text “Ethical horizon: Should we seek immortality?” Where the top circles overlap is the phrase “Shared terrain: Hope as obligation & resource.” Title at top: “Intersecting Frameworks of Medical Hope & Ethics.”
August 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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ten tickles

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July 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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planning the next two years of my life, hopefully

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July 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Wow Marc Andreesen is really just an aggrieved cornfed white guy now huh archive.is/2025.07.12-1...
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"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.
July 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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What’s the move tonight. It’s ya boi
3D avatar of Mark Zuckerberg in a metaverse VR setting with the Eiffel Tower behind him. A caption reads “what’s the move tonight? anybody got addy? or coke?”
July 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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I chopped down a tree to generate this and a photo-retoucher went out of business in the process

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June 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Live for all time. We say no to death as fate. We want to live long—no end. We want to bring back all who did not want to die. Go where you want. Life should spread and grow. We do not like walls or claims. All should roam as they wish, through all space. Be what you want. Change is life. All things should be free to grow, to shift, to turn into new forms. To not change is to die. If you want to. It’s your pick. Do as you wish. Let all have these rights too.
June 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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John Oliver is ripping me off

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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.
June 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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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

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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.
June 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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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.”
June 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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I’m about to go sicko mode

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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.
June 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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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!!

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June 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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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...

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A neon cyberpunk-style flyer with a magenta digital map of the United States overlaid on a purple grid background. The headline reads “COME TO THE GULF OF DELIRIA” in large, glitchy, blue and yellow text. Below: “A GATHERING OF THE CYBERCULTURE TRIBES. MUSIC BY R.U. SIRIUS & PHRIENDZ.” Additional text lists speakers: Bart Nagel (Mondo 2000), Mark Pauline (SRL), Bean (D’Cuckoo), Naut Humon (Recombinant Media), Rudy Rucker (Cyberpunk author), Linda Jacobson (VR), John Law (Cacophony), V. Vale (Re/Search), Cindy Cohn (Electronic Frontier Foundation), John Sanborn (video visionary), Cintra Wilson (writer/performer/cultural critic), and Lee Felsenstein (Original Hacker). Event details: “GRAY AREA 2665 MISSION ST. JUNE 7 7PM S.F.” Website links: mondo2000.com and grayarea.org/event/come-to-the-gulf-of-deliria. Decorative elements include a cybernetic target symbol over the Pacific Northwest and a stylized triangle “S” logo.
June 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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OODA loop is satanic
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June 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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memento amemei
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A digitally altered image mimicking the iconic Polaroid scene from the film Memento. In place of the original photograph, the Polaroid displays a heavily edited, AI-generated portrait of U.S. Vice President JD Vance. His facial features are exaggerated to appear cartoonishly infantile: enlarged eyes, chubby cheeks, and a small mouth, giving him a grotesque, baby-like appearance. He wears a makeshift crown resembling a paper hat. Beneath the photo, the handwritten caption reads, “DON’T BELIEVE HIS LIES.” The image satirizes Vance’s political persona by combining cinematic reference with distorted imagery to question his authenticity.
June 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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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

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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
June 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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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.
May 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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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.

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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.
May 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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medicard 4 all. its ya boi
A black circular button featuring a distorted, wrinkled, and sagging wojak meme face, evoking exhaustion and decay. Below the face, the caption reads in lowercase: “healthcare pls.” A bleak, darkly humorous take on the healthcare crisis.
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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La Chinoise (1967), Jean-Luc Godard

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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.
May 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Looking at my dog:
“You capitalist dog!”

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May 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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
May 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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diagram of McKenzie Wark’s Vectoralism framework- the “something worse” that comes “after capitalism”:
borisanthony.net/diagrams/wha...

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Alt Text: 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.
May 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM