Rob Raffety

Host of Raff’s Brain 🎙 — my playground for goofy stories, real-life adventures, & experiments in how openness, creativity, & tech can bring people together.

[Rob Raffety @RobRaffety]

I'm fascinated by AI text-to-video tools, particularly #Veo3. Eager to test, learn, and experiment further.

Here's a playlist to the AI vids I've created thus far:
https://t.co/vZ5SF7wQG7

Follow along! This tech is 🍌🍌🍌!

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@TheRealCrowhuck @VinnysCorner1 Otis Nixon nice pull.

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@VinnysCorner1 Zane Smith
Marquis Grissom
Pedro Martinez
Larry Walker

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

82 years ago nearly all of the men on the first few boats that landed on the beach in Normandy were dead before days end.
Sit here with that for a while.
Look at them.
Really look at them.
Look into their eyes.
Many of them are boys, they are someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s sweetheart someone’s father.
They never came home.
And every privilege, every convenience, every freedom and every little thing that you want to bitch about you have because of them and they paid the ultimate price for you to have those freedoms. #dday #FreedomIsNeverFree

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Catch more of Adam’s work on Substack:

https://t.co/TwNTcrvtSC

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I find @AdamThierer’s writing on tech policy incredibly compelling. His recent post on X motivated me to create this silly cartoon to capture its spirit. All errors are mine.

[Adam Thierer @AdamThierer]

I see the idea of AI socialism is back in the news again today.

I’ll just reiterate what I’ve said here many times before: The idea of nationalizing AI – whether “hard” (complete govt ownership) or “soft” (equity stakes) nationalization – should be rejected in all its forms. It does not matter whether AI nationalization is being pitched by Bernie Sanders, national security hawks, or AI companies themselves – all flavors of AI socialism are poisonous and must be stopped.

Nationalizing AI, or even treating AI like a regulated monopoly or public utility, would have the same deleterious effects (and then some) that we have seen in countless other historical case studies. The entire history of nationalization and utility-style regulation is one of capture and cronyism, diminished innovation and consumer welfare, and censorial controls on speech in the case of information and communications technology (ICT) markets. Our nation would lose its competitive advantage in computation and algorithmic innovation if we took this disastrous path for AI. AI would become a Technology of Control instead of a Technology of Freedom.

Below you will find some journal articles and essays I’ve authored on the ugly history of soft nationalization and regulated utility economics and politics in the ICT policy world. We must not repeat this disastrous history with AI.

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What an epic day it was.
#letsgopens

[1986-92 Pittsburgh Pirates @1992Pirates]

OTD 6/4/92:

On a rainy day, Bryan Trottier, hoisting Lord Stanley’s chalice over his head, turns the tarp into a giant slip‘n slide for #Pittsburgh #Penguins #StanleyCup   celebration at Three Rivers Stadium 🏟 .

#LetsGoPens    #LetsGoBucs    #Pirates

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Here we go! 🍿🎬😱

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“Nothin’ to show but this brand new tattoo…” 🎶

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Behold the duality of man.

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CHECK OUT the full article here 👀
https://t.co/jeN43U2ILf

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Inspired by @AA_Millsap's latest piece in @thedailyeconomy.

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@garyvee Dialed-in.

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New @penguins jerseys look tight !

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No so fast!! HT: @CodeH1975

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ChatGPT 🙌

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I guess I’m not a local. Still happy to be here.
#OBX #DuckNC

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Music, too:
https://t.co/GBxc1qNwHi

[Jeff_synthesized @JeffSynthesized]

We’re all large language models.

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With today’s victory over the @Cardinals, the @Pirates lowered @cobrown’s odds of winning a pricey steak dinner to 65%. The Buccos need to sweep the remaining 6 games for me to win the bet. Stranger things have happened.

https://t.co/Tzpxk1n1SI

#letsgobucs

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Here’s hoping @StephenKing & @RealJamesWoods settle this like professionals. Cat’s Eye 2 practically writes itself.

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Quitters Inc. 2026: helping celebrities quit political posting through increasingly aggressive Community Notes.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Woods finally has seen the light. He’s talking about Trump.