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Dan Slimmon

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Techno-pessimist podcaster techblows.net

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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Guillotine Part 2! Find out what illustrious Lord of the Rings star witnessed France's last public execution (it's probably the one you think!) [Part 1] techblows.net/26 [Part 2] techblows.net/27 [YouTube] techblows.net/yt #deathpenalty #techhistory #capitalpunishment #podcast #technologyblows
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Technology Blows | The Guillotine: Grandfather Clock of Death (1/2)
In celebration of Bastille Day, enjoy this 2-part episode on the guillotine. Find out:How a death penalty abolitionist became the namesake the world's most famous execution machineWhat makes the gu...
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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tech bro billionaires have no business coming into our communities to profit off the suffering of our homeless neighbors. But Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is doing just that. Our report details the connections between Lonsdale, anti-homeless laws, prisons, & surveillance tech. buff.ly/qY38875
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's 🇫🇷 Bastille Day!! 🇫🇷 So pop your headphones onto your precious, still-attached head, and listen to Episode 26: the guillotine! [web] techblows.net [youtube] www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djcd... #technologyblows #france #bastilleday #podcast #techhistory #capitalpunishment
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you see a brown bear, run away, if you see a black bear, raise your arms and go ape shit," – or whatever, maybe the other way around. Never bothered to memorize it, cause my plan if I see a bear is to immediately shit myself
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
To capital, opposition to AI datacenters is all “anti-tech extremism.” Nobody is anti-technology. Technology’s cool. It’s “eat the rich” not “eat the servers” www.wired.com/story/us-law...
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Ticketmaster: how a company that does nothing came to own everything techblows.net/22
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
many times i have threatened to write a book titled Screw Innovation (everything we have now is shit) about making things that WORK. apple health app could definitely be a chapter maybe i’ll get well enough to start this year
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Reminds me of the time Pope Francis went on Rogan to pump Dogecoin
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Yale has further been accredited by the Federation of Ramen Slurpers and the National Council of Bong Scholars.
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
(Sundar Pichai whispering audibly into the sleeve of his regalia) gemini: does “cheugy” mean smart
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Catch the newest episode of Technology Blows right this instant: Podcast: techblows.net/20 Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Y-... #llms #elonmusk #xai #grok #podcast
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Technology Blows | Grok: Elon's Truth-Seeking AI Liar that Became Hitler
Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Join me and my guest Matt Johnson to find out:What Grok has in common with turn-of-the-20th-century tsarist propagandaThe 3 Jew...
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
v excited to spend the next 23 hours and 60 minutes online
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
she blisnded me… with sciesnce
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
THIS SUCK'S LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETON VERY TIRED AND OVER STIMULATED "FEELS LIKE IM A KID AGAIN" TOO BAD I HATED THAT SHIT!!! TOO BAD I HATED EXISTING AT THE WHIM OF A BUNCH OF DIFFRENT PEOPLE THAT DIDENT REALLY LIKE ME, UNDER THREAT OF COMPLETE DESTRUCTION BY OUR OWN GOVERMENT, AND OTHER GOVS, ECT ECT ANY WAY DA REST OF DA TEXT "COMPLETELY POWERLESS, NUCLEAR ANNIHILIATION THREATS, NO ONES HELPING, CONSTANT IMPENDING FEELING OF DOOM, FANTASIZE ABOUT LIVING IN 1800S OR 2300S ANY TIME THATS NOT NOW, THERE MAKING A SUPER MARIO MOVIE" WELL HOPE YOUR HAVEN A GOOD DAY AND KICKEN A$$ AND MANIFESTING JUST 1 LUCKY BLOOD CLOT IN 1 UNLUCKY GUY COULD BE ANYONE DONT SAY WHO JUST THINK ABOUT IT ALOT AND REALLY HARD - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Nancy Pelosi: I'm done! Me: oh HELL YEAH!!! (pulls confetti string) Nancy Pelosi: … with these Republican antics! Me: ah. (stares crestfallen at confetti-strewn living room)
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
There's this myth that automated spam detection is hard because spammers are all very clever masters of disguise. No. Spammers are stupid as a shoe. They have dog shit for brains. Automated spam detection is hard because the line between spam and "legitimate" marketing activity is a fiction.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Emotional idiots selling intelligence to regular idiots
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
he'll yeah #technologyblows #design #chrysler
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Disturbing, yes. But slow down AI investment in the States and soon it'll be the Chinese forcing Kenyans to watch them shit arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I'll trust them when Altman goes on Instagram and takes a big bite of a Hellfire missile theintercept.com/2026/03/08/o...
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OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI says Americans shouldn’t worry about the ethics of its new Pentagon contract. You’ll have to take their word for it (and Pete Hegseth’s).
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 03/03/2026
When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides. NOT A JOKE
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The Verge @theverge.com · 05/03/2026
Why platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket want so badly to be seen as sources of news, instead of anything-goes casinos.
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Prediction markets are playing a dangerous game
The fast rise of Kalshi, Polymarket, and other prediction markets is running headlong into gambling regulations, and now the industry is using the news media as its shield.
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Marty, everyone #technologyblows #marty #podcast #robots #supermarket
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's my sad duty to announce that Jim Taylor, president of Arby's, has passed away after eating an entire Arby's Italian Beef Dip Sandwich in one freakish bite and shitting himself into the sky. He's with the angels now
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
techblows.net/19 This week's episode of Technology Blows is for the New Englanders! Marty is a fully automated dipshit that wanders around the Stop & Shop getting in everyone's way and posing for selfies. Sometimes it hugs a cancer kid. #technologyblows #marty #stopandshop #retail #robotics #podcast
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
if all we're gonna do is trade gen-AI copypasta all day… why can't i just go home?
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Back on the floor! #xai #grok #technologyblows
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"Virtual reality hat" patented by Facebook in 2019. Not sure what the guy in Fig 15 is doing but he should definitely not be allowed within 500ft of a school #vrgaming #virtualreality #meta
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
it's not the worst thing AI is doing but: i love cat videos so much and it's so annoying that people are posting ai cat videos now
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 29/01/2026
This generation finally has its own version of Tyson Homosexual.
“Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials”
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
drunk driving is illegal, so when you see the cop car light up behind you just hurl yourself out the driver's side door of your moving vehicle so you are no longer driving. congratulations: you just beat the system.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
FUCK ICE - SHIRT AT dashare.zone - dashare.zone ADMIN
SHIRT BY DASHARE.ZONE THAT HAS A SKELITEN FLICKEN THERE MIDDLE FINGER AND IT SAYS , "PIECE OF SHIT RACISTS WEARING TEMU MILITARY COSPLAY WHO WERE ALL TOO DUMB TO BECOME REGULAR COPS, THATS PRETTY FUCKEN DUMB, FUCK ICE" - dashare.zone ADMIN
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
snow crash
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 25/01/2026
Hello I’m the ubermensch, my one weakness is whistles
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026
There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
AI is going great
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"The old Trek is dying, and the new Trek struggles to be born; now is the time of Doctor Pulaski.” – Antonio Gramsci
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
hear me out #devops #iac #terraform #cod
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Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
OUT TODAY: Cookies: How Ad Platforms Steal Your Mind (Part 2)! Dive into the mind-boggling infrastructure that Google et al have built to do reprehensible things with your data, like sell it to ICE techblows.net/14 #privacy #browsers #webprivacy #advertising #podcast
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
techblows.net/13 Episode 13: Cookies: How Ad Platforms Steal Your Mind (Part 1) The web didn't have to be this way. Friend-of-the-pod CJ Horton joins us for a look at cookies: the completely reasonable web protocol that became host to the parasitic ad industry. #privacy #cookies #browsers #podcast
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
SoundHoundAI came to CES 2026 to show off their AI Agent building software. I caught one rep explaining to a team from Coca-Cola how their agent taking orders for Burger King can be programmed to "push" specific product lines or even sizes of beverage, altering the menu display if needed.
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Technology Blows @techblows.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Kalshi and other prediction markets are poised to become powerful tools of fascism www.tiktok.com/t/ZThNRUL4B/ #podcast #technologyblows #fintech #fascism
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Kalshi and other prediction markets are poised to become powerful tools of fascism https://techblows.net/12 #kalshi #fintech #fascism
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