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Dave Smith

@davidmarksmith.com
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Happy Family Guy, Technology Guy, Atlantic Canada Guy. —Can you spot the bridge in profile photo?— ⬆️⬆️

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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 29/09/2026
"The tour, called “Le goût du paysage” (roughly “a taste of the landscape”), was put together by Papillons. That’s the Quebec company behind the RechargÉco fast-charging network, which it operates across Quebec and #NewBrunswick."
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 29/09/2026
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Paul Simon & Chevy Chase - You Can Call Me Al
Alt: Paul Simon & Chevy Chase - You Can Call Me Al
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 28/09/2026
"Bass Solo, take one"
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 25/09/2026
Meanwhile ...
twin versions of commander Data saying "Shields or not, All your base belong to us."  their badges have Claude code and OpenAI logos.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 25/09/2026
Millennials reaction.
Starfleet Cadets with arms crossed, demanding "Lower Shields, Begin Wealth Transfer"
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 25/09/2026
Boomers after reading just 4 paragraphs of this article. macleans.ca/longforms/th...
The Great Generational Rip-Off
Boomers are hoarding Canada’s wealth. Millennials are fighting for scraps. A radical case for redistribution.Captain Picard yelling "Shields!"
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 23/09/2026
The ads are a revenue stream for Canada Post. Like a digital version of physical flyers stuffed in a mailbox.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 19/09/2026
How would you describe your social media reach? (if you feel like describing it)
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T-Rex Head Wobbles, Jaw Falls Off
ALT: T-Rex Head Wobbles, Jaw Falls Off
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 19/09/2026
Costco??
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 19/09/2026
Friendly Giant album cover. Jerome, Friendly Giant and Rusty
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 19/09/2026
No one talks about how Rusty and Jerome were also GIANTS.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 19/09/2026
Ditto
The Friendly Giant Band.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 13/09/2026
ISWYDT
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 11/09/2026
The Waltons family posing at the dinner table.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 07/09/2026
bless the heart of chainsaw guy* cranking it at 8am on Labour Day Monday morn. * _I_ don't know it's 100% a guy, but _we_ all know it's a guy.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 07/09/2026
Attribution glonce.com/niklas-gruhn...
glonce.com
Niklas Gruhn coins 'meat proxy' for blindly relaying AI output
Niklas Gruhn has a new term, meat proxy, for people who copy and paste AI output straight to their peers without reading it first. Simon Willison shares it and argues the fix is simple: read, understa...
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 07/09/2026
A clever term for our AI related lexicon. sfisms.org/meat-proxy
sfisms.org
Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 05/09/2026
* I stopped listening when it triggered my GenAI spidey sense.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 05/09/2026
Our exchange here is talking about distinct concepts. You are focused on the message. I'm focused on the medium. The medium (which appears to be GenAI ) is shit. The message is in the ear of the beholder. * If the message was not created by Clinton(as sold), it is by definition misinformation.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 05/09/2026
... the zone with sh!t" cuts both ways.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 05/09/2026
The constant effort to determine if something is real or fake, can be exhausting. It is especially hard to 'measure twice' when the message resonates with one's world view. This new dynamic plays into the hands of those that seek to undermine our social fabric. This is by design. "Flooding ...
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 05/09/2026
*YouTube needs to do a far better job calling out Generative AI production.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 05/09/2026
This feels off. The audio matches the quality of Clinton's voice in the '90s. His present day voice is rough and his delivery not nearly as sharp as it once was. And there's this. ⬇️ *
Screenshot claiming to be speech by Bill Clinton, but attributed to AI.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 01/09/2026
Am I the only one that didn't know Jean Chrétien co-starred with Jack Black's Dad, and Obi Wan Kenobi in this movie? #MovieTrivia
Screenshot of the main actors in the movie "The Bridge Over the River Kwai"
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 22/08/2026
Anyone know of a browser extension that converts Aussie similes into Canuck relevant expressions? Like this gem. "circling the drain like the last chunk from a grogan in a caravan park dunny."
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
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Trevor J. Adams @trevorjadams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sturgeon dreams: How New Brunswick has become a destination for world-class caviar. Read more in this story from the Saltscapes archives.
saltscapes.com
Sturgeon dreams - Saltscapes
Crafting caviar with a conscience An early morning chasing sturgeon on the Saint John River in Carters Point, N.B., is never just about the catch.…
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SuperPhil64 @superphil64.newgrounds.com · 15/08/2026
Bon 15 Août! ⭐️🟦⬜️🟥Here's a thread of french Acadian jams from Atlantic Canada. If you're an anglo marritimer you legally have to listen to at least one Acadian sawng today. Même chose pour les Québecois, faut écouter une toune Acadienne AJD. Kicking off with my daughters favorite LesHayBabies song.
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Les Hay Babies - Soyez fiers (Vidéoclip officiel)
YouTube video by Les Hay Babies
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 14/08/2026
We've all heard of 'drive through province'. "Fly-Over Province" is a new one on me. www.afar.com/magazine/thi...
afar.com
This “Fly-Over” Province Might Just Be Canada’s Best-Kept Fall Secret
With a haunted hotel, cider routes, and maple trails, New Brunswick is a trove of fall foliage and activities.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 09/08/2026
People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me: 8ight 6ix 7even 5ive 3hree 0hh 9ine
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 07/08/2026
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? ... at least one safety pin, in open position, primed to impale the person scratching about for an HB pencil with a smidgen of usable eraser.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 04/08/2026
They only got around to signs and road paint by the second set.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 04/08/2026
Some unexpected entertainment in the neighbourhood today. The city just installed the first of 4 speed bumps on our street. It is (currently) unmarked. To the unprepared, it looks like a shadow from an adjacent tree. Many vehicles hitting it at full speed. Badoom.
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Vilebrequin BMW Jumps Dos D'Ane Speed Bump
ALT: Vilebrequin BMW Jumps Dos D'Ane Speed Bump
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Dannie G @dgodin1234.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Libraries aren't just places for books. They're one of the few remaining free public gathering spots. Community events, workshops, some have social service offices in them. It's not just books. And they run on next to nothing of a budget. Amazing bang for buck.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 01/08/2026
Mashup. Barbara Pratt Claude Picher
Added moose from 
  Orignaux au soleil couchant
  Claude Picher
  1978
to  
  Travelling the Canadian
  Barbara Pratt 
  2017
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 26/07/2026
Beware the stallkers.
A handsome man peers into the camera after dispatching a recent round of craft brewery beverages.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 25/07/2026
Making #NewBrunswick famous for reasons not so good.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 20/07/2026
“It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations, reveal themselves one star at a time” Vivid
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 19/07/2026
"Write a famous quote and your name will live forever" ~Anonymous
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 17/07/2026
"Verify your age" 25¢ a barrel. cc: @deadder.bsky.social
Micheal DeAdder's illustration of four people picking potatos in a potato field as a tractor digs them from the ground. 
Pg 33 of "You might be from New Brunswick If ..."
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 16/07/2026
"going to assume this is outdoors ..." Correct "and you aren't getting chipmunks in the house crapping on your couch" Not yet, but they are very resourceful. "Apparently chipmunks do not like daffodils, alliums, lavender, or marigolds" Good options. Thx!
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 16/07/2026
Deterrence suggestions welcome. (Wrong answers welcome too)
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 16/07/2026
Critter Shitter battle is escalating at the house. #Squirrels #Chipmunks
P1 - They're having a laugh at us.
P2- Who?
P1 -  Squirrels or Chipmunks, Mom read that smelly Irish spring soap would keep them away

P3 - I've never thought about how to spell chipmunks before today
P1  - Proper spelling is shitmunks.

P3 - Why on the couch they have the whole world to poop on and they keep choosing the couch
P2 - For the same reason people put carpet on their toilet seats

P4 - Basterds!
P3 - Proper spelling is basturds
P4 - Oh dang. That is exactly what I was going for! Hmmph

P4 - Much like the squirrel and the bird feeder problem where dad won, I will win! Back to the Dollarstore for more supplies! HahahaPicture of a slice of Irish Spring soap in a tiny mesh bag on patio furniture, adjacent to squirrel droppings.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 14/07/2026
both can be true.
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Loki: Bit of Both!
Alt: Loki: Bit of Both!
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 14/07/2026
I'm sure my family would agree.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 14/07/2026
Same here, but I'm sure it's more of a laughing 'at' than 'with' situation for me.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 14/07/2026
Yup, Using Hollywood accounting.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 12/07/2026
Going the extra mile on branding.
A line of 5 crushed boxes of “Almond Fruit Crunch” on the grocery store shelf.
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Dave Smith @davidmarksmith.com · 12/07/2026
For all the schadenfreudian loving chefs out there. Here's an attention hole to spend your free time while smokin' yer meats. www.reddit.com/r/ididnthave... cc: @andrewofyfc.bsky.social , @realstirfryguy.bsky.social
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