Marc Slemko

"So: we’re building a phone."

Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

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

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

2026 Fireworks vs AQI thread begins now:

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

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!

one more, fable choosing pronouns

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...

"this summer, you’ll only have eyes for Doritos Ultimate Garlic Parm, Ruffles Buffalo Wings, and Fritos Flavor Twists Spicy Dill Pickle." Naw.

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

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

"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.

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

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.

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.

www.knkx.org/environment/...

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.

Seasteading, now without the pesky humans.

From the taproottheatre Instagram post www.instagram.com/p/DXpzpS9mbso/ they are accepting donations at taproottheatre.org/together . @taproottheatre.bsky.social

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Oh god, Horse Armor is within the Ask Historians 20 year rule for historical content 💀

🚨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...

Hey is anybody else in tech really stressed

Rock rock. West Coast of Haida Gwaii.

nonzero 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.

Remember the SS United States? Someone, uhm, sure does.

The potential for liability for “critical harms” is an unacceptable stifling of AI* innovation. Apparently. www.wired.com/story/openai...

A good timely one today @hcrichardson.bsky.social, thank you. A Turning Point for the United States.

Has 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?

"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.

So 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.

From 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.

The 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:...

Zebra.

If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation.

you guys cozy retro weather is back weather.com/retro/

Warning 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...

Cursed python late stage conservosloprot.

The 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.

This 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.

This 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

The 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/

Brian 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.