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Ethan Jewett

@esjewett.com
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Progressive, biker, walker, urbanist, reader, gardener, Jewish, SAP Mentor & industry leader, technologist, erstwhile potter. Often sarcastic. Trying to be kind and inclusive. Based in Minneapolis.

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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 22/08/2026
Gave new Siri a PDF of the school schedule for this year and asked it to create calendar entries on our family calendar for days off. And … it worked.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 20/08/2026
When in Europe, always reminded why GDPR was felt to be needed. Every random hotel requires my birthplace, date of birth, passport number, phone, email, fingerprints, DNA sequence, and a recent drug test. OK, maybe not those last three, but the amount of data collected here is ludicrous.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 10/08/2026
Amusing to see financial analysis comparing SpaceX to early American railroads in a positive light. I mean, positive for society, yes. Not so great for investors. 🤣 But by all means, finance the next generation infrastructure build-out!
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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 07/08/2026
"Sophisticated readers can sniff out LLM-generated text, which inevitably hurts your credibility with them"
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 31/07/2026
Listening to Zombie (Cranberries) in the car this weekend. 13 year-old: This is the bad version. Adults: What? 13 year-old: The 2025 remaster. [comparison ensues] You know what? The kid is right. The original version is way better.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 11/05/2026
Apparently the full-court-press of LinkedIn AI-generated support for SAP’s new API Policy is *on*. The AI “influencers” are going for the Sapphire-driven SAP executive repost juice.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 10/05/2026
Just used an em-dash in a message. Had to follow it up with an assurance that it was an organically made em-dash. I’m now anti-AI because I can’t just use an em-dash like a normal person.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 09/04/2026
LinkedIn is even more of a cesspool than it used to be. Wall to wall AI content that is obviously so. It’s a bit depressing when you see people you respect posting AI generated content that has none of their own voice.
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 11/08/2025
ChatGPT Agent mode is proving to be really useful for certain tasks. To the point that I’ve exhausted the Pro allocation. 😬
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
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Jelena Perfiljeva @jelenaatlarge.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you missed my epic SAP EWM talk at ABAPConf in Vienna, the replay is available here: youtu.be/9TblU8tz8_4?... Presentation slides should be shared soon. Here is a taste. :)
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 10/06/2025
The Gödel posts on AI over on LinkedIn are killing me. Great minds over there interpret the incompleteness theorem to imply whatever they please - and specifically that computers (“formal systems” 🤣) can’t think or be conscious. Proof positive that humans hallucinate too.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 27/04/2025
AI/mind spiritualists are all up in my LinkedIn feed. They are so sure that humans are special. I’ve been a materialist for a long time. Human cognition is amazing, even awe-inspiring, but I don’t think it’s special. It has its faults as well as its close parallels in the natural world.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 30/03/2025
Hey, yall thought I was harsh when I said this over the years. I said what I said. Do you still think it's harsh now? Some of y'all think you are somewhat safe but you are not, because you are surrounded by unreliable people. It's better to have a smaller group that will not cash you in.
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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Still a banger: harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 30/03/2025
Polestar 2 (2024 RWD LR) roadtrip observations: 1. Really like the experience of enforced short breaks. I estimate about a 10% increase in travel time. 2. Charging has been a non-issue. Electrify America has been solid and the Tesla adapter works fine if needed.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 07/03/2025
Well, I guess this is one way to deal with existential angst. 🤔
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Jelena Perfiljeva @jelenaatlarge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Someone at SAP: "Yep, great example, totally better than old stuff. Very clear."
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 03/03/2025
@getmozi.bsky.social What would be really nice to help me bootstrap my use of the app (used for 2 months - only 3 people in my network): being able to add people who aren’t on the app. No contact info required - just a name and a city. Help me remember to reach out.
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Jacek Woźniczak @jacekwoz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Playing with #SAPCAP and #HANA database schema changes.
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Jacek Woźniczak - [SAP BTP Chronicles #3] CAP framework and HANA Cloud migrations
ALTER TABLE t ADD (troubles)
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 26/02/2025
I discounted @tailscale.com for a while because @liss.bsky.social was the only one I’d ever heard talk about it, and let’s be honest, many (most?) of his computing choices are kind of weird. But I did try it and it has unlocked a whole toolkit of options for remote computing. Really awesome product.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 18/02/2025
Ok, this is amateur hour. I’d expect nothing more from the owner of this monstrosity, but for the rest of you: 1. Don’t turn the wheels 2. Rock back and forwards to clear a long path 3. Only once you can get up speed do you turn out as you hit the end of the path you cleared
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 16/02/2025
Molly White on the crypto de-banking sham. Really good, detailed overview. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-indus...
citationneeded.news
The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen
Cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 16/02/2025
Backs up my running theory that bankers are at least as dumb as the rest of us.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 10/02/2025
Looks like the national Dems interpreted pleas to do something to stop the destruction as, “Fire up the SMS SPAM engine again!”
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2025
o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation - feed it a codebase, get back a detailed explanation of how specific aspects of it work simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o...
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o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation
I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have [extensive hand-written documentation](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/authentication.html) for...
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 31/01/2025
Exploring working with Ollama and Open WebUI for local LLMs. Finally getting the new Mac Minis fan to spin up. 😀
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 29/01/2025
Silly OpenAI GPT5 theory that also rings true: GPT5 variants have been ready for months but are just being used to distill into smaller models. Won’t be released until after someone else releases competitive models to guard against competitors using it for distilling.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Crypto bros fretting that Trump getting rich off of a meme coin undermines the credibility of the crypto industry is like meth dealers being worried Walter White made their profession look bad.
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Trump’s Crypto Venture Divides the Industry He Aims to Support (Gift Article)
The president’s promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick that undermined the industry’s credibility.
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
All you post-hoc keyboard psychologists who think you can tell from a person's creative works that they're bad actors, shut your lying faces. I know we all have an impulse to make things about ourselves, but, really, this isn't the way. Just stop. There are other ways to grieve (yes, it's grief).
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 15/01/2025
Personally, I’m a big proponent of dumb exercise machines paired with a tablet from a manufacturer you trust. The machine just needs buttons to control things like speed, resistance, and incline, and they are a lot cheaper if you leave off all the software and electronics. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2025
i can think of one word for a dude too scared to say his words with his whole chest
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/01/2025
Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 08/01/2025
All the kids have migrated to the neighborhood skating rink. I guess winter has truly begun!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/12/2024
this is one of the reasons I do not want to leave my current apartment or this neighborhood. I have USI fiber. I pay $70/mo and have for *years* for wildly fast internet that has gone down ONCE in the 8 years I've had it.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 27/12/2024
Repeat after me: victims don't have to be perfect or good to be victims. And harassers are harassers.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 27/12/2024
Back to Mimestream. Mac Mail is just not good enough. Hoping the search freeze issue is fixed!
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 25/12/2024
Slowly seeing a lot of the old Twitter groups I remember at least semi-materializing here. SAP, data and ML enthusiasts, progressives, progressive shit-posters 😬🤣, etc. Nice bonus has been randomly finding a local Twin Cities urbanism community. 🎉
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Can’t wait for the DFL Senior Caucus to get behind this basic disability justice proposal. Seniors should prioritize access to safe, cleared walkways.
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Jason Wittenberg @jasonwittenberg.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
One obvious thing missing from this piece is that the people bitching about the Twin Cities sure do love our high paying jobs and many other benefits that come from close proximity. WI median income: $75,670 MN median income: $87,556 www.startribune.com/new-resident...
startribune.com
Build it and they did come. Western Wisconsin sees big growth after new bridge.
In New Richmond, Somerset and other western Wisconsin towns, a flood of new residents come seeking small-town life.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 21/12/2024
Winter doesn’t have to be a barrier to biking if your city invests in a network of protected, connected and cleared bikeways. 🚲 ❄️
Protected 2 way bikeway cleared to pavement with lots of snow on the ground all around.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 20/12/2024
🚨If you are excited about the Twin Cities Boulevard concept, please help stop MnDOT from eliminating it NOW! Send a letter to decision makers and check the thread below for opportunities to get more involved: actionnetwork.org/letters/save...
actionnetwork.org
Save the Twin Cities Boulevard!
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) intends to remove at-grade boulevard options from consideration for Rethinking I-94. Take action to keep the Twin Cities Boulevard vision alive. Mn...
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 20/12/2024
For the record: Hexagonal Arch ** 2 = Tricontahexagonal Architecture Screenshot from cap.cloud.sap/docs/about/b... #sapcap
Screenshot of SAP CAP documentation about Hexagonal Architecture best practices, guiding users of the framework not to try to implement their own Hexagonal Architecture because CAP already is a Hexagonal Architecture. Ends with the line "... Hexagonal Arch ** 2 = ?"
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the crowing @trillharris.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We have lots and lots of winter bikers here it’s very cool
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 19/12/2024
There are good arguments against these kinds of copyright limitations. OpenAI appears to be making astonishingly clumsy legal, moral, and public policy arguments for some reason. Probably too much STEM and not enough humanities education.
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Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 19/12/2024
I think this is 100% correct and essays, outlines, etc are the right level of abstraction for pedagogy. The thing that gives me pause is that we were damn sure that cursive penmanship was at least as important at one point. We know a lot more now, but if we’re similarly wrong, we wouldn’t know.
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