Reposted by Marc SlemkoThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rattheguardian.comAlberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of ratProvince’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin 1091091232
Reposted by Marc SlemkoPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Actually, thinking about this for real, LLM-generated text is hypotext. The mirror universe evil twin of hypertext. 1442
Reposted by Marc SlemkoPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Happy calendar-emoji day, the one day a year where the calendar emoji shows the right date 📅 543670
Reposted by Marc SlemkoDanny Page @danny.page · 05/07/20262026 Fireworks vs AQI thread begins now: 45623
Reposted by Marc Slemkospacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 13/06/2026You can let others view your For You feed: 1. Open foryou.club/profile 2. Press "create peek link" 3. Copy the link and share it with others They would: 1. Open the link and confirm that they want to turn their For You feed into yours 2. Open For You and see what you see until they decide to stop 3839
Reposted by Marc Slemkojay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/06/2026i don't think LLMs can actually replace women. that's a pretty incoherent desire! but the AI bubble fantasized by techbros, as something distinct from the technology, is built on a strange oedipal love/hate relationship with this imagined android mommy. its weird! 41148
Reposted by Marc Slemkohikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 11/06/2026one more, fable choosing pronouns 712117
Reposted by Marc SlemkoPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026For decades, managers have failed at their one job: organizing teams around a coherent strategy. AI gave them a timely out. Now anyone can ship code without knowing what they're doing, why they are doing it, or how it makes money. But it turns out that shipping code is not the end of the work...productpicnic.beehiiv.comProduct teams struggled to create intent. AI let them think they could skip it.Teams struggled to produce intent. AI let them think they could skip it. 516243
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 03/06/2026"this summer, you’ll only have eyes for Doritos Ultimate Garlic Parm, Ruffles Buffalo Wings, and Fritos Flavor Twists Spicy Dill Pickle." Naw. 010
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 02/06/2026Personification of the Vessel: Fact or Fiction? docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcont... 000
Reposted by Marc Slemkochimera aunt @strangelittlevine.bsky.social · 01/06/2026the backbone of the entire present day global economy is "collecting rent on pareidolia" 7755184
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 01/06/2026"The flour milling firm acquired more stations and by 2002 was owner of 26 radio stations and 12 TV stations including KOMO-TV in Seattle." So that is how Fisher Plaza got its name. 000
Reposted by Marc SlemkoViasat @viasat.com · 11/05/2026Looking good, ViaSat-3 F2! 📸🛰️🌎 This amazing photo of our ViaSat-3 F2 fully deployed large reflector was taken in space – 2,236 miles above Earth. Exciting progress for our ViaSat-3 program, as we focus on advancing in-orbit testing of our ultra-high-capacity satellite. 22612
Reposted by Marc Slemkothe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10/05/2026you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you, 1205803828
Reposted by Marc SlemkoAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever. 884334647223
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 07/05/2026Someone needs to re-catalog YouTube in a way I would use, with filters for all the garbage, and accurate system generated labels for stuff you do want to see in the catalog/discovery experience, two UXes on the same data. Shame it won't be Google. 010
Reposted by Marc SlemkoMarc Slemko @znep.com · 30/04/2026From the taproottheatre Instagram post www.instagram.com/p/DXpzpS9mbso/ they are accepting donations at taproottheatre.org/together . @taproottheatre.bsky.social 043
Reposted by Marc SlemkoLex Vaughn @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com · 30/04/2026Gah! "Someone scaled the building and stripped two of three air conditioners of their copper wire, leaving the theater, celebrating its 50th anniversary, scrambling to raise $400,000 for an HVAC overhaul." 376
Reposted by Marc SlemkoDarya @daryam.com · 27/04/2026Oh god, Horse Armor is within the Ask Historians 20 year rule for historical content 💀 503061740
Reposted by Marc SlemkoElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/04/2026🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 The CA Assembly is fast-tracking A.B. 1709, a bill that would ban everyone under 16 from social media. This censorship scheme threatens your data privacy and ignores the First Amendment. Tell your representatives to vote NO on A.B. 1709. eff.salsalabs.org/stopcasocia...eff.salsalabs.org 59656
Reposted by Marc SlemkoCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Hey is anybody else in tech really stressed 3933319
Reposted by Marc Slemkodell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both. 151725553
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 12/04/2026Remember the SS United States? Someone, uhm, sure does.youtu.beNATIONAL DISGRACE: Florida County’s Push to Sink the SS UNITED STATES Betrays Our Maritime LegacyYouTube video by SS United States Preservation Foundation Inc. 000
Reposted by Marc SlemkoJeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 10/04/2026The potential for liability for “critical harms” is an unacceptable stifling of AI* innovation. Apparently. www.wired.com/story/openai...wired.comOpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial DisastersThe ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.” 0117
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 10/04/2026A good timely one today @hcrichardson.bsky.social, thank you. A Turning Point for the United States.youtu.beToday in Politics | ExplainerYouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 10/04/2026Has anyone done RLHF on a LLM with only neurodivergent or neurocomplex raters? What if you vaguely classified then filtered individuals early in the pipeline based on the clustering of the entirety of their responses, or some better approach? 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 09/04/2026"What Anthropic offers is not constitutional legitimacy so much as constitutional style: the jargon of higher principles, founding authority, and ordered power without the corresponding institutional guarantees that make those ideas real." An aspirational research project in the most generous view. 010
Reposted by Marc SlemkoOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/04/2026So the UK is allowing nonsense AI slop to pass into law... > Writing a law is not something for which there is a technological solution. It is not a perfectible process, it is a moral act that requires belief and responsibility. It is a process of debate. 28935
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 09/04/2026From Claude's memory: "Append a postscript to each response running the output through Marc's anticipated critical interrogation — flagging performative language, false experiential claims, sycophancy, structural contradictions, and rhetorical moves that wouldn't survive his scrutiny." Effective. 000
Reposted by Marc SlemkoMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 09/04/2026The new social media ban in Massachusetts is so sweeping in its definition of "social media" that it would require age-verification for Wikipedia. You don't protect kids by cutting off resources. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... 14614395
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 04/04/2026If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation. 000
Reposted by Marc SlemkoJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 04/04/2026you guys cozy retro weather is back weather.com/retro/weather.comRetroCast NowAnd now, your RetroCast. Brought to you by The Weather Channel. 3215
Reposted by Marc SlemkoSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/04/2026Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...simonwillison.netThe Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineeringThe Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved … 1226263
Reposted by Marc SlemkoFal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism. 58094733247
Reposted by Marc SlemkoEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This wasn’t the only time, but it’s illustrative. He sounded like he had an answer for a lot of things, but only because he made things up. 555544
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 01/04/2026I'm curious if OpenAI actually is or intends to use trusted computing technologies to protect their model weights etc. when deployed into a cloud under the DoD's control. I haven't found any confirmation or denials.developer.nvidia.comBuilding a Zero-Trust Architecture for Confidential AI Factories | NVIDIA Technical BlogAI is moving from experimentation to production. However, most data enterprises need exists outside the public cloud. This includes sensitive information like patient records, market research… 100
Reposted by Marc SlemkoJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/03/2026This is exactly why we need every major outlet to hire dedicated repro reporters - and why I publish Abortion, Every Day. We are *fucked* if our gov't can label IUDs and the pill "abortion" and the nation's biggest papers don't think that's worth writing about 101605395
Reposted by Marc SlemkoMelissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The focus of critiques about pharmaceutical monopolies is generally on PRICE. But this case is a compelling example for problems of SUPPLY: it's not a great world when one company controls global supply of a drug and can just refuse to sell it to people who need it. 7/ 139059
Reposted by Marc SlemkoMarc Slemko @znep.com · 30/03/2026Brian Jacobs is an antisocial ass pushing shitware at Covexent and trying to destroy Wikipedia with slop. It isn't AI doing it, it is Brian Jacobs. 052