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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"…a German team built [Kolibri] with the EU AI Act in mind “from the ground up”, and in Aleph Alpha’s own evaluation it scores above every compared model of its size in both languages." Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the Sovereign German... crank.report/2026/10/03/a-german-te…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Large language models were built to talk to people. Jev is built to be called by machines. You give it some context and the exact questions you need answered, and it replies with structured values instead of prose. Because the... crank.report/2026/10/03/large-langu…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"From a technical point of view, the use of NixOS was a key one. Its use of the Nix package manager means that each package is installed in its own directory with immutable and signed contents. That alone means that the setup is incre... crank.report/2026/10/03/from-a-tech…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Today, a designer can generate polished images, presentations, variations, and even entire visual directions in minutes. The ability to produce is becoming abundant—and when production becomes abundant, something else becomes sca... crank.report/2026/10/03/today-a-des…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"People make pages, prototypes, reports, visualizations, and small apps with agents every day. Too often the result stays trapped in a local folder or a conversation. Spacefast closes that last mile: publish the files, get ... crank.report/2026/10/03/people-make…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The relevant question is what the load-bearing seams reveal about the assumptions underneath the conclusion, and whether those assumptions remain intact once the smoking gun is incorporated into the model." Claude’s load-bearing seams Oh so good.

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Every engagement starts with a two-day visit. The team asks business leaders to ignore AI and name the biggest levers in their business. It then works on whichever that turns out to be." OpenAI’s Colin Jarvis says enterprise AI... crank.report/2026/09/24/every-engag…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"It’s not about protecting us from the unlikely sexy apocalypse. It’s about protecting us from the far more likely, and far more numerous, stupid apocalypses along the way." The Apocalypse will not be Sexy

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"A frontier AI lab showed up with a check large enough to make the question “should we sell our users' data?” feel rhetorical. Not “maybe we can anonymize and aggregate.” Not “only if users opt in.” Just: here is the number. The number... crank.report/2026/09/19/a-frontier-…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The playlist features tracks by Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Dizzy, the Bill Evans Trio, Monk, Mingus, and Miles Davis." Two hour mix of the jazz in Haruki Murakami novels Oh this is wonderful.

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Next boring tiny tool I’ve been using Epilogue for a while to keep track of the books I read and finish, and the big list of books I want to read. The problem is I never open the too read books when I’m on Libby to check out my next ... crank.report/2026/08/29/next-boring…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"The problem from skipping laying out the constraints is that you get a disjoint patchwork that randomly prioritizes some interactions over others. AI exacerbates the draw to wackamole design. It encourages prompting “Make X mo... crank.report/2026/08/29/the-problem…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"So the collateral chain is short. A European lender is ultimately underwriting one American company’s continued appetite for compute it does not own. If the lease goes, the chips stay." Lambda inks $1B private debt for Nvidia chip deal This looks like large corps moving the risk.

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Modern coding agents have become so effective at finding flaws that the slightest hint at a new bug can be enough information for them to find it, something Anil has been able to demonstrate using his own agents, switching to ... crank.report/2026/08/29/modern-codi…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"If you expect your students to choose books, ideas and genuine learning over shortcuts and distraction, you must be a bit courageous, too. Return to the basics. Cut through the haze of abstraction, the webs of scholarly terminology... crank.report/2026/08/17/if-you-expe…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Good leaders do more than issue instructions. They share context, explain the desired outcome, set boundaries, and respond to what comes back." The same habits improve my work with AI. A good prompt helps, but a shared working conte... crank.report/2026/08/16/good-leader…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"There are legitimate conversations happening now to explore open source harnesses (opencode/pi) and open weight models at the company in order offset the costs associated with going through a standard provider." I... crank.report/2026/08/16/there-are-l…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Being efficient with tokens doesn’t mean using fewer of them overall. It means making sure the ones you do use go towards the thing you actually asked for." So let’s look at what decides the price of a token, then what deci... crank.report/2026/08/14/being-effic…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"The main object of AI security policy should be to understand this picture and figure out how to minimize overall net harms given AI’s affordances for both attackers, defenders, and victims given surveillance information about both group... crank.report/2026/08/14/the-main-ob…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Why not one agent for everything? This might be pointless, but the main reason is least privilege. Some agents don’t need access to GitHub, deployments, or my calendar. Why increase the blast radius and potential for mistakes if I can a... crank.report/2026/08/13/why-not-one…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Finished reading: Incorruptible Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great by Eric Ries 📚I listened too this one. And now will be the digital version so I can reread and annotate. Will have more formed ... crank.report/2026/08/09/finished-re…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"In this environment, AI is no longer a software selection exercise. It becomes a question of organizational architecture and the ability to connect people, processes, and technology within a unified framework." AI boom forces compan... crank.report/2026/08/09/in-this-env…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss. These machines are immediately accessible over HTTPS, with sensible and secure defaults. You can share your we... crank.report/2026/08/09/exedev-is-a…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"When one of your sessions learns something another session needs, such as a finding, a status, or a decision, Claude passes it along instead of you copy-pasting between terminals. Claude discovers the target with ListAgents and sends... crank.report/2026/08/09/when-one-of…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"The idea that they’re spending serious money on AI tokens to turn PDFs and PowerPoint decks into Markdown only makes me think I’ve overestimated the median intelligence of the people who work there." The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: ... crank.report/2026/08/09/the-idea-th…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"This context influences every step. Strategy and regulation shape business decisions. Customer expectations and established UX patterns shape product decisions. Existing platforms and services constrain solution design. Codi... crank.report/2026/08/09/this-contex…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"The problem with AI voice is not the techniques themselves. It is the overuse of them—their deployment to describe a trip to 7-Eleven with the same rhetorical flourishes once used to send men to the moon." [JFK’s AI Voice - Marginal REVOLUTION](marginalrevolution.com/marginalr…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"The Times is “sane-washing” Trump and Kennedy, working really hard to take dangerous and extreme positions and treat them as reasonable and normal." Sane washing This is so dangerous.

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Cloudflare is simultaneously blocking AI crawlers that harvest content without paying, while building the infrastructure for agents that do pay. That is the dual bet: charge the bots that take, and give the bots that w... crank.report/2026/08/08/cloudflare-…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"We are the companies, labs, and independent builders who develop, research, deploy, or operate agents. Members compare notes on what actually works, find each other, and take on the problems no single organization can fix alone." Ag... crank.report/2026/08/08/we-are-the-…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"The assumption that nonprofits are too set in their ways to respond to a rapidly changing world doesn’t hold up either. The best nonprofits operate like any tech startup: reading market conditions and pivoting to where the n... crank.report/2026/08/07/the-assumpt…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP) has launched a new ‘safety cover’ designed to help users create privacy and discretion should they happen to be reading about potentially sensitive subjects in a public or unsafe setting." ... crank.report/2026/08/05/jessica-kin…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"The engraved Mac Mini is the Patagonia vest of the AI era. The Patagonia vest signalled membership in a financial elite that valued the appearance of rugged practicality over the display of wealth. The numbered Sequoia Mac Mini signal... crank.report/2026/08/02/the-engrave…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"In other words, REST is a set of architectural principles for serving resources, usually over HTTP. It is so ingrained in web development, and so standardized, that it feels strange when we do not see it." What it means for an API to b... crank.report/2026/08/02/in-other-wo…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"We’ve been building a new system for running evals against different models, prompts, and harnesses, with the goal of being able to identify the most appropriate small and inexpensive models for different categories of task." smevals... crank.report/2026/08/01/weve-been-b…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Finished reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚So good that I immediately started the next book in the series. Something I rarely do. The formation of groups, interplay of power, use of AI, and control of the climate make it so applicable right now.

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"We made a different bet. We believed the future of professional AI would require more than general-purpose intelligence. It would require models built specifically for the domains, standards, and consequences of professional work. We b... crank.report/2026/08/01/we-made-a-d…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Something I’ve come to appreciate about MCP is that it’s much easier to reason about agent capabilities and what might go wrong than with arbitrary command execution in an open network environment - the default for most of tod... crank.report/2026/08/01/something-i…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Opposition is not a principle. The political winds will inevitably shift, leaving polarization behind. Building a better web is much more universal. Empowering people to own their identity, publish more freely, form many kinds of... crank.report/2026/07/19/opposition-…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Open models aren’t an experiment or a research project anymore. They’re now running inside the largest companies in the world – Ollama is used by 85% of the Fortune 500 – and it’s just the beginning." Ollama: all aboard open m... crank.report/2026/07/19/open-models…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"The IndieWeb does not invent a platform; it defines a handful of small standards that compose with each other. The official index orders them by age and breadth of implementation." I joined the IndieWeb, here’s what I learned | A... crank.report/2026/07/19/the-indiewe…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"The best thing here is that I prepared Codex and Antigravity to be used as Claude subagents, orchestrated by Fable, using the headless nature of both. Why is it cool? Because tokens are taken from the Codex and Antigravity subscriptions... crank.report/2026/07/19/the-best-th…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"What is already easy for everyone will not create any lasting value for you. I don’t think building a successful startup has gotten any easier with AI. It’s just that certain parts of it have gotten faster. I don’t think speed of codi... crank.report/2026/07/14/what-is-alr…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Two decades of anti-LGBTQ legislation, documented bill by bill." LGBTQ Legislation Tracking Project — LegiAlerts Now let’s map it and put it against other community demographics to see the impact.

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

What Infrastructure Does Civil Society Need? I recently had the chance to look closely at the work of a group of organizations. They were different sizes, working with different communities, over different lengths of tim... crank.report/2026/07/11/what-infras…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"The organization will reportedly serve as both a leadership pipeline for students interested in public service and a research center examining issues affecting democratic governance, including political polarization, the... crank.report/2026/06/30/the-organiz…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Today’s AI boom is unfolding through a highly concentrated ecosystem of hyperscalers, suppliers and private lenders linked by debt and increasingly opaque financing arrangements." AI boom carries with it a big risk All the more r... crank.report/2026/06/30/todays-ai-b…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"[Tyler Cowan] now describes ChatGPT Pro as approaching “the pocket-calculator level” of reliability for many of the ways he uses it. And because he has written online for more than 20 years and recorded years’ worth of public... crank.report/2026/06/27/tyler-cowan…

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Physical media fosters community. Flea markets, record fairs, used bookstores, and game swaps provide spaces for exchanging recommendations, sharing stories, and discovering unexpected finds. These interactions create con... crank.report/2026/06/27/physical-me…

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