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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 26/09/2026

"So: we’re building a phone."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Actually, thinking about this for real, LLM-generated text is hypotext. The mirror universe evil twin of hypertext.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy calendar-emoji day, the one day a year where the calendar emoji shows the right date 📅

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 06/07/2026

If it can take off again.

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Danny Page @danny.page · 05/07/2026

2026 Fireworks vs AQI thread begins now:

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 05/07/2026

It will be interesting once we have a larger historical corpus of significant bugs that aren't found this way to see what techniques either would have found them if used at the time, or would be found using more recent models, etc. A gauge of development velocity of model versus practice, perhaps.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 04/07/2026

"Begrudgingly, she handed the desperado a gunny sack filled with non-lethal bacon sandwiches and a few boiled eggs."

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 30/06/2026

Gauging is one of the three most important functions of a gas station pump.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 25/06/2026

They have been operating there for years, seemingly without proper zoning or permits. They have been cited for discharging wastewater from washing machines into the lake, and I presume they do the same with water from their hot tubs. I've been confused about how they haven't been shut down.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 16/06/2026

Other times an org really does need infusions of new technology, the right tech in the right place for the right reasons with the right consideration of the broader impacts and costs. I've found that often many people inside the company can't tell the difference.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 16/06/2026

That goal blinds them to every architectural, design and operational consideration because they have their personal north star, sometimes endorsed by management who don't know better, think it is a harmless employee satisfaction compromise, and/or were captured by the hype machine or consultants.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 16/06/2026

This may be a stretch, but the article reminds me a lot of resume driven development. Through various routes you end up with an organization where some people are intent on using a technology so they can add it to their resume and find a new job, then repeat.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

You 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

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i 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!

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 13/06/2026

I hope Stephen Miller doesn't see your idea.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 13/06/2026

It is also uneven across tasks, so the multiplier can change as tasks change. Especially when dictated top down.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

one more, fable choosing pronouns

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 11/06/2026

Ghost kitchens for everyone! All tech is ad tech.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

For 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.com

Product 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.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 03/06/2026

Move fast and break things.

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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.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 02/06/2026

Personification of the Vessel: Fact or Fiction? docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, Vol. 21, No. 3, July, 1990
Personificationof the Vessel: Fact or Fiction?
ALEX T. HOWARD, JR.'
On graduating from law school back in 1950, the first thing the
writer learned from his father, an admiralty lawyer of many years'
experience, was the concept of the personification of the vessel. He
said that without an understanding of this concept, a lawyer would
never be able to understand in rem practice in admiralty.
In 1979, when the Merchants National Bank employed the writer's
firm to enforce preferred vessel mortgages on the dredge General
Gillespie and other vessels in possession of the same mortgagor, the
writer was faced with a challenge to the constitutionality of Supple-
mental Admiralty Rule C.2 The mortgagor cited the United States
Supreme Court cases of Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp.,3 Fuentes
v. Shevin, 4 North GeorgiaFinishing,Inc. v. Di-Chem. Inc.,5 Mitchell
v. W.T. Grant Co., 6 and their progeny, and argued that a vessel was
no different from a truck, a refrigerator, or any other chattel. The
writer assumed that the cases and the texts would clearly establish
the concept of the personification of the vessel, and that the Bank
would experience no difficulty in upholding the constitutionality of
Rule C. However, the writer soon learned that there were very few
modern cases supporting personification, and he became particularly
disheartened by the comments of Professors Gilmore and Black in
'Chief Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama; member of the
Maritime Law Association of the United States.
The writer acknowledges the invaluable assistance of his law clerk, Miss Cecily Kaffer, in
the preparation of this article.
Editors' Note: This article is based on an address given by the author at a meeting of the
Maritime Law Association of the United States at Orlando, Fla., October 23-27, 1989.
2Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime
Claims, Ru…

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chimera aunt @strangelittlevine.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

the backbone of the entire present day global economy is "collecting rent on pareidolia"

Reddit post on r/GithubCopilot titled "Thanking Copilot now consumes 3.5% of your monthly credit allowance"

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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.

Newton Colman posing for a Fisher's Blend Flour ad, 1915

Photo by Asahel Curtis, Courtesy UW Special Collections (Cur1228)

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 28/05/2026

Automatically generated alt text needs metadata indicating as much. Then services like Bluesky can offer the option of automatic generation, and people can choose if and how they consume it.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 28/05/2026

Wonder how much of their target audience is people who would just run agents that will do it in their main account without any safeguards?

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 27/05/2026

Non-stop from Costa Rica in ~10 days. Quick jaunt.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 24/05/2026

When I moved from Canada to the US in the late 90s I was so confused that nothing similar existed.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 21/05/2026

Does this imply the AI era will be over soon?

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 18/05/2026

"You got to shake those treats. You can't ever quit."

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Viasat @viasat.com · 11/05/2026

Looking 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.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 13/05/2026

How large is the subset of people who can't effectively prompt the model themselves for a given task but can use other people's skills to do so?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

AOC 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.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 08/05/2026

www.knkx.org/environment/...

In his forty years of logging, Webster never heard of a group buying out a portion of a timber sale for conservation, but he has no problem with it. He would make $16,000 and give the Department of Natural Resources the same amount.

“My side is pretty straightforward. If you can do that, we can do it. If not, I’ve got to start cutting,” he said.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 07/05/2026

Indeed, when untethered they mimic the voice, but lack the conviction to lie or the grounding to be truthful. The industry is obsessed with untethering them, only to inevitably rediscover the necessity of strict scaffolding.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 07/05/2026

Someone 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.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 07/05/2026

I almost feel sorry for the CEOs. Almost.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 06/05/2026

Full self draining mode.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 05/05/2026

This leads you into an ungrounded personalized echo chamber where the feedback cycle not only shapes every future conversation with the chatbot, but also how the human perceives reality. I'm not sure if this is sycophancy or if sycophancy even exists in this context.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 05/05/2026

One specific product feature that makes this much worse is the memory system. Companies build explicit features to scan every word you input for things to "remember" and then silently use those memories to remix completely unrelated conversations.

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Marc Slemko @znep.com · 05/05/2026

For me, as a user, it is less about tone of a specific response and more about the feedback loop. The fundamental issue is that chatbots are ungrounded and can neither tell the truth nor lie. Without a model of reality or stake in their responses, they eagerly pivot to whatever you engage with.

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