Marc Slemko @znep.com · 02/06/2026Personification of the Vessel: Fact or Fiction? docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcont... 000
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
Marc 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
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
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
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 04/04/2026If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation. 000
Marc 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
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 04/03/2026One of the more interesting non industry specific perspectives on this I've seen recently is in the paper "Some Simple Economics of AGI" (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....). It sets up concepts like Cost to Verify and The Measurability Gap (∆m) and tries to explain and predict based on that model. 030
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 01/03/2026Unclassified commercial bulk data collection has been crying out for attention and legislation for years, as the data included just keeps expanding. 0264
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 27/02/2026Your thread reminds me of this chart from the paper "Large Language Model Reasoning Failures" (doi.org/10.48550/arX...). It doesn't offer solutions, but goes through a good survey and mapping of reasoning versus failure categories. 011
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 26/02/2026Gugusse et l'Automate (1897) English language title: Gugusse and the automaton "Gugusse the clown appears to control the actions of Pierrot Automate, a child-sized automaton standing on a pedestal [...] At the final stroke of the hammer, he disappears." Check out the blog post. 010
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 25/02/2026"To be a lawyer is to be involved in a system of injustice, to take part in the business of violence. I have no intent to stop telling people to “be gay, do crime.” I have nothing but admiration for those who, in the name of justice, dare say: “Fuck the law, fuck the courts, and fuck you.”" 0225
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 23/02/2026This reminds me of the now dead Washington state HB1834 "Protecting Washington children online" which tried to define algorithmic feeds as addictive. See also bsky.app/profile/znep... 1101
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 21/02/2026I was curious what the RFI actually said at this early stage about those requirements, this is the most relevant bit I came across. Sounds like they are thinking a combination of data migration and live API calls to existing systems if I'm thinking about this correctly. Essentially all TBD. 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 21/02/2026A good overview of the history and current state of Grok from @jbbranch.bsky.social I'm hopeful Grok is facing internal headwinds due to it just not being that good, but hard to be confident in these times as top down directives proliferate. 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 21/02/2026This article reminds me of the long history of waves of low/no code tooling over the years. They never end up succeeding that well for long because people keep wanting to build more complicated things as technology and requirements advance, but they are used to successfully build valuable things. 110
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 18/02/2026The whole ChatGPTcomplaints subreddit is deeply disturbing. I don't know where to begin. Ouch. This is the first post I found browsing, I didn't have to look hard. 010
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 17/02/2026Ouch, I guess when they said prices were going up for storage they weren't kidding. Eggs are downright thrifty by comparison. 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 15/02/2026This whole thing is a good read. I've often referred to "cognitive overhead" when working in engineering organizations pre AI to explain why velocity can grind to a halt, but "cognitive debt" resonates more when it is being deliberately created by AI as opposed to developing over a longer period. 011
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 15/02/2026I identify a lot with this blog post and wanted to ramble a bit on it. I am more optimistic for the future though, and what will emerge once this iteration of people piling on because they think they can come out rich, or just get ahead a little bit in a rough world, deflates again. 1134
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 12/02/2026"For many MAGA supporters, participation in the movement does not represent a departure from their moral framework, but an expression of it." I think we have an opportunity in the next few election cycles to durably broaden voter's circles of moral concern, regardless of which party someone votes. 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 12/02/2026WCGW, auto detection has never been a problem ever. From github.com/coinbase/age... 020
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 11/02/2026Indeed, they literally tell the LLM to pretend it is an expert, only it not only isn't an expert it doesn't even have the cognitive or social reasoning, logic or embodied physical common sense of a generic intern. Plus it doesn't learn when you tell it things. From github.com/anthropics/k... 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 11/02/2026"“In carrying out the Raid, the State and Federal Defendants conspired to abuse criminal warrants to conduct a large-scale immigration dragnet deliberately targeted at a large gathering of Latino individuals because of their ethnicity,” states the suit." 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 11/02/2026Are those numbers right? Why does one add to 100 and one not? Are they supposed to reflect this or am I confused? 220
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 09/02/2026Giant 30x50 foot 12th man flag at the old Services Group of America (SGA) building in West Seattle. Background: www.westsideseattle.com/west-seattle... #seahawks 130
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 09/02/2026It is a good story. It does frame new data nicely. I'm probably a bit too weary of inauthentic scoops and Bari Weiss to give full credit where credit is due. It mirrors a lot of very similar stories with slightly different data. I appreciate they ended with this note as well. 040
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 08/02/2026On AI fatigue. This resonates a lot with me, and I've encountered the same issues as a software engineer long before any AI was in the picture. Orgs overloaded with Jr devs, code being written that no one can review properly or understand, dullard management feedback loops making it worse. 183
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 07/02/2026I think of this as I wonder how and where the Republican party will rebuild some semblance of legitimacy after the cult(s). It seems important that they do in a two party system, for the good of the people, the country and the Democrats. 100
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 06/02/2026Some days funny money makes you cry, some days it brings joy and flashbacks to the dot com days. "You bought a WHAT on margin?" 1277
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 06/02/2026Waymo can choose to clear up the uncertainty in what these remote operators do, from where, and how often. They are choosing not to. The headline doesn't seem that unreasonable given that Waymo is the one obfuscating things and there is a lot of uncertainty about the extent of control as a result. 000
Marc Slemko @znep.com · 05/02/2026So much LLM use for software development today is being driven top down by business people who are being promised they can replace their workers with it. This naive approach doesn't sustain open source or closed source software development. Once the bubbles start to explode we will see more clearly. 010