Rob Colbert
@robcolbert.bsky.social
Computer programmer since the 80s and AAA game developer into #games, #tech, and #music. If you want to talk politics, find me on Gab or find someone else. I built my own more than once.
Every vibe-coded app that ships means 20+ new jobs will be created for people who can actually code and engineer systems.
You can quote me on that later when it's proven that I was right. I won't mind.
You can quote me on that later when it's proven that I was right. I won't mind.
July 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Every vibe-coded app that ships means 20+ new jobs will be created for people who can actually code and engineer systems.
You can quote me on that later when it's proven that I was right. I won't mind.
You can quote me on that later when it's proven that I was right. I won't mind.
I wanted it to be real. I was excited to come share it.
And that's how they get you.
And that's how they get you.
March 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I wanted it to be real. I was excited to come share it.
And that's how they get you.
And that's how they get you.
What DTP content looks like on a network that permits content embeds. It provides its own audio player.
February 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
What DTP content looks like on a network that permits content embeds. It provides its own audio player.
A blog article and essay-form podcast created entirely by AI using the Storytime engine. I will share no details about the Storytime engine. It is not open source. This is a work in progress.
Essential Guide to Avoiding and Countering Online Propaganda
digitaltelepresence.com/post/avoid-a...
Essential Guide to Avoiding and Countering Online Propaganda
digitaltelepresence.com/post/avoid-a...
digitaltelepresence.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A blog article and essay-form podcast created entirely by AI using the Storytime engine. I will share no details about the Storytime engine. It is not open source. This is a work in progress.
Essential Guide to Avoiding and Countering Online Propaganda
digitaltelepresence.com/post/avoid-a...
Essential Guide to Avoiding and Countering Online Propaganda
digitaltelepresence.com/post/avoid-a...
I don't trust plans I'm not allowed to read, and I trust Kashapp PayPal even less than that.
Kash Patel helped keep the QAnon movement alive on Truth Social, interacting with Q accounts, appearing on QAnon podcasts, and signing his children’s books with a QAnon catchphrase.
Kash Patel Says He Never Promoted QAnon. Here Are All The Times He Did
Kash Patel helped keep the QAnon movement alive on Truth Social, interacting with Q accounts, appearing on QAnon podcasts, and signing his children’s books with a QAnon catchphrase.
www.wired.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I don't trust plans I'm not allowed to read, and I trust Kashapp PayPal even less than that.
Let's check in on X and see how things are going over therOH MY FUCKING GOD.
[closes browser tab]
[closes browser tab]
January 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Let's check in on X and see how things are going over therOH MY FUCKING GOD.
[closes browser tab]
[closes browser tab]
Here's one. It thinks this is X. It thinks this is how to engage in the conversation here.
These are dysfunctional morons and trash who belong in your personal Sparta hole. And yes, I do mean to kick them into the hole. Block them. Forget their names.
Their own families hate these losers.
#holed
These are dysfunctional morons and trash who belong in your personal Sparta hole. And yes, I do mean to kick them into the hole. Block them. Forget their names.
Their own families hate these losers.
#holed
January 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Here's one. It thinks this is X. It thinks this is how to engage in the conversation here.
These are dysfunctional morons and trash who belong in your personal Sparta hole. And yes, I do mean to kick them into the hole. Block them. Forget their names.
Their own families hate these losers.
#holed
These are dysfunctional morons and trash who belong in your personal Sparta hole. And yes, I do mean to kick them into the hole. Block them. Forget their names.
Their own families hate these losers.
#holed
To everyone on this entire website who tried saying the budgets weren't cut in Los Angeles, we know what you are and we know what you're here to do. Stop lying. Now.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
LA Mayor Karen Bass dismisses fire chief Kristin Crowley
Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley was fired by Mayor Karen Bass just hours after delivering a scathing public critique of the city's leadership, accusing it of underfunding and failing its fire d...
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
To everyone on this entire website who tried saying the budgets weren't cut in Los Angeles, we know what you are and we know what you're here to do. Stop lying. Now.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
If being honest, it's all been fun and also a concern to watch happen in real time. You are watching The Machine fail and break. That is what's happening now.
December 27, 2024 at 11:32 PM
If being honest, it's all been fun and also a concern to watch happen in real time. You are watching The Machine fail and break. That is what's happening now.
It's not an act of genocide to remove undefined behavior from a programming language.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLPV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLPV...
Banned C++ Contributor Speaks Out
YouTube video by Bryan Lunduke
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2024 at 4:32 PM
It's not an act of genocide to remove undefined behavior from a programming language.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLPV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLPV...
This is a scambot. The hot chick in your DMs is never a hot chick, and it wants something from you. Don't be a simp.
December 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM
This is a scambot. The hot chick in your DMs is never a hot chick, and it wants something from you. Don't be a simp.
The Absolute State of BlueSky digitaltelepresence.com/post/state-o...
Wherein we examine the idea that doing nothing about Bad Actors™ on a platform will also be the death of it. It's up to the platform and also the community to wreck and destroy Bad Actors. Be about it.
Wherein we examine the idea that doing nothing about Bad Actors™ on a platform will also be the death of it. It's up to the platform and also the community to wreck and destroy Bad Actors. Be about it.
digitaltelepresence.com
December 15, 2024 at 2:09 PM
The Absolute State of BlueSky digitaltelepresence.com/post/state-o...
Wherein we examine the idea that doing nothing about Bad Actors™ on a platform will also be the death of it. It's up to the platform and also the community to wreck and destroy Bad Actors. Be about it.
Wherein we examine the idea that doing nothing about Bad Actors™ on a platform will also be the death of it. It's up to the platform and also the community to wreck and destroy Bad Actors. Be about it.
Right, but then people can realize none of that has anything to do with them where they are, and ignore it.
If it means the world starves, it starves.
If it means the world starves, it starves.
So long as innocent children suffer as a result of politics, it's your moral obligation to involve yourself.
Turning a blind eye in situations of injustice is not neutrality but complicity.
#FreePalestine🇵🇸
Turning a blind eye in situations of injustice is not neutrality but complicity.
#FreePalestine🇵🇸
December 15, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Right, but then people can realize none of that has anything to do with them where they are, and ignore it.
If it means the world starves, it starves.
If it means the world starves, it starves.
Is it maybe a little weird how "Mr. Jackson" didn't have anything further to say in this exchange? 🤔
December 15, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Is it maybe a little weird how "Mr. Jackson" didn't have anything further to say in this exchange? 🤔
X is a social media website and app where people go to learn how to join cults without knowing that they have joined a cult. They can't explain why they like, share, and reply. They just always like, share, and reply.
[dings the bell]
[saliva]
[dings the bell]
[saliva]
December 14, 2024 at 7:34 PM
X is a social media website and app where people go to learn how to join cults without knowing that they have joined a cult. They can't explain why they like, share, and reply. They just always like, share, and reply.
[dings the bell]
[saliva]
[dings the bell]
[saliva]
Reposted by Rob Colbert
Add in the sociopaths who find outrage and drama in anything that treads in, on or around their bespoke snowflake lifestyle.
December 14, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Add in the sociopaths who find outrage and drama in anything that treads in, on or around their bespoke snowflake lifestyle.
I mean it's not like X is straight-up stealing your everything or whatever to train their generative AI and large language models.
Oh, wait... What's this?!
www.youtube.com/shorts/CsFJe...
Oh, wait... What's this?!
www.youtube.com/shorts/CsFJe...
Twitter AI
YouTube video by Pirate Software
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:41 AM
I mean it's not like X is straight-up stealing your everything or whatever to train their generative AI and large language models.
Oh, wait... What's this?!
www.youtube.com/shorts/CsFJe...
Oh, wait... What's this?!
www.youtube.com/shorts/CsFJe...
Reposted by Rob Colbert
It's bizarre to conflate people seeking a good user experience and basic content moderation with "giving up on the 20th-century ideal of a public sphere." We had to build a new public sphere on Bluesky because Elon destroyed the old one www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
December 7, 2024 at 5:32 PM
It's bizarre to conflate people seeking a good user experience and basic content moderation with "giving up on the 20th-century ideal of a public sphere." We had to build a new public sphere on Bluesky because Elon destroyed the old one www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
This is AGGRESSIVELY awkward. Wow.
Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’
fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...
Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’
fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...
Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X'
His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."
fortune.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:52 AM
This is AGGRESSIVELY awkward. Wow.
Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’
fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...
Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’
fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...
Don't forget to charge your vape, I guess.
December 4, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Don't forget to charge your vape, I guess.
Reposted by Rob Colbert
No, Jim. You don't. I'm poisoning your timeline, Jim. You're going to have to block me. I won't even have to use Discredit, Dismiss, Distort, Distract, and Dismay.
I'm just going to keep pointing at you and telling people what you are. YOU have the hard job. Do better. I want a good opponent.
I'm just going to keep pointing at you and telling people what you are. YOU have the hard job. Do better. I want a good opponent.
December 4, 2024 at 7:17 AM
No, Jim. You don't. I'm poisoning your timeline, Jim. You're going to have to block me. I won't even have to use Discredit, Dismiss, Distort, Distract, and Dismay.
I'm just going to keep pointing at you and telling people what you are. YOU have the hard job. Do better. I want a good opponent.
I'm just going to keep pointing at you and telling people what you are. YOU have the hard job. Do better. I want a good opponent.