Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026It'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 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Ticketmaster: how a company that does nothing came to own everything techblows.net/22 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Reminds me of the time Pope Francis went on Rogan to pump Dogecoin 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Yale has further been accredited by the Federation of Ramen Slurpers and the National Council of Bong Scholars. 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026(Sundar Pichai whispering audibly into the sleeve of his regalia) gemini: does “cheugy” mean smart 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026v excited to spend the next 23 hours and 60 minutes online 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Nancy 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) 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Marty, everyone #technologyblows #marty #podcast #robots #supermarket 110
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026It'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 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026In 2019, this murder suspect looking for alibis took a selfie with Marty the Stop & Shop robot before visiting a friend I just want everyone to know: you show up at my house and say you just took a selfie with Marty the Stop & Shop robot, I'm calling the cops www.documentcloud.org/documents/66... 100
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026it should be illegal to put software in anything that need to work www.autoevolution.com/news/bmw-rec... 001
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026These square brackets are really holding this sentence together 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 03/01/2026If you've ever worked at a grocery store with a patrolling robot (e.g. Stop & Shop, Woodman's, Giant, BJ's) I'd love to talk to you for a piece I'm writing. Please DM me or email dan@techblows.net #supermarkets #retail #automation #technologyblows 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 01/01/2026By carefully studying the history of Keurig, I have discovered the secret Fighting Baseball name of every Keurig CEO * Actual name 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Dragging myself sentence by sentence through this retail psychology research paper. Current strategy: pronounce every occurrence of "OOS" (out of stock) as "ooze" www.emerald.com/ijrdm/articl... 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025(handing a bag of red ants to the photographer as he boards the elevator up to this photo shoot) You know what to do. 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 08/12/2025TIL Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays" www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/b... 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 06/12/2025mom: We have Game of Thrones at home [the Game of Thrones at home]: 020
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Just posted my first Kalshi market idea - here's hoping it gets picked up! 🙏🙏 kalshi.com/ideas/posts/... 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025At Nalgene, we believe representation matters. 👨🏾🦽🚴🏻🧗🏿♀️💖 And that's why all of our models are members of the Moonwalking American community 010
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025You know what I hate? These fuckin things I just tie a few bags to the loop on the leash. Pros: (1) You can see how many bags you have (2) There's nothing for the bags to roll up and get stuck in(3) You never accidentally pull out 2 bags and have to try to shove the second bag back in the tiny hole 111
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Fish knowers: help me out. what kind of fish is this woman holding? And does it look especially large for a fish of this kind? 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Nothing says "I'm ICE!" like getting arrested for sex trafficking minors www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne... 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 14/11/2025ancient roman water politics… makes you think #technology #classics #water 043
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Watching Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" (1944). Everybody's speaking in the mid-Atlantic accent, but they're in the middle of the Atlantic so it's appropriate 100
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025They seem kinda mad about how much of their work was discarded in building Clippy 😅 Lumière put a lot of effort into trying to guess *whether* a user needed help at the current moment… Clippy not so much 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Just finished reading this fascinating Microsoft Research paper from 1998 about "Lumière," a project which directly informed Clippy. It presages many modern difficulties with automated help agents and AI systems arxiv.org/pdf/1301.7385 100
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Fantastic news: the tech industry has reinvented "quietly succumbing to censorship," with the modern twist that now you get to pay a fee to them 100
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Dog got my 5-year-old's toy. Had to tell her, "It's okay, the giraffe is just shedding its neck" 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025* have a brilliant idea * go to write it down ah shit. damn 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 18/08/2025ah, the joys of researching via old PPT files on the Wayback Machine 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025What is it with fucking mathematicians. They always have to turn all the goddamn numbers into letters 100
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025When I die, I want to be buried in a tomb just like this, with a gigantic bust of Karl Marx on top 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 22/07/2025what the fuck is the value-add here? if i meant "terrifying" i would've written "terrifying" 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Apparently Thesaurus dot com and I have differing concepts of "659" 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025How did we ever accept that 80 MHz of bandwidth around 2.4 GHz was an acceptable amount for like, almost all short range consumer radio applications? "Oh we'll just use frequency hopping" They have played us for absolute fools 000
Dan Slimmon @danslimmon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025in case you were disconsolate about the fact that products only get worse and not better, good news: Dr Pepper has dinosaurs on their cans now. Kickass!! 000
