Dan Slimmon
@danslimmon.bsky.social
Techno-pessimist, leftist, software engineer, podcaster https://techblows.net/
January 21, 2026 at 9:03 PM
In 2019, this murder suspect looking for alibis took a selfie with Marty the Stop & Shop robot before visiting a friend
I just want everyone to know: you show up at my house and say you just took a selfie with Marty the Stop & Shop robot, I'm calling the cops www.documentcloud.org/documents/66...
I just want everyone to know: you show up at my house and say you just took a selfie with Marty the Stop & Shop robot, I'm calling the cops www.documentcloud.org/documents/66...
January 8, 2026 at 1:08 AM
In 2019, this murder suspect looking for alibis took a selfie with Marty the Stop & Shop robot before visiting a friend
I just want everyone to know: you show up at my house and say you just took a selfie with Marty the Stop & Shop robot, I'm calling the cops www.documentcloud.org/documents/66...
I just want everyone to know: you show up at my house and say you just took a selfie with Marty the Stop & Shop robot, I'm calling the cops www.documentcloud.org/documents/66...
it should be illegal to put software in anything that need to work www.autoevolution.com/news/bmw-rec...
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
it should be illegal to put software in anything that need to work www.autoevolution.com/news/bmw-rec...
These square brackets are really holding this sentence together
January 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
These square brackets are really holding this sentence together
If you've ever worked at a grocery store with a patrolling robot (e.g. Stop & Shop, Woodman's, Giant, BJ's) I'd love to talk to you for a piece I'm writing. Please DM me or email [email protected] #supermarkets #retail #automation #technologyblows
January 3, 2026 at 12:59 AM
If you've ever worked at a grocery store with a patrolling robot (e.g. Stop & Shop, Woodman's, Giant, BJ's) I'd love to talk to you for a piece I'm writing. Please DM me or email [email protected] #supermarkets #retail #automation #technologyblows
By carefully studying the history of Keurig, I have discovered the secret Fighting Baseball name of every Keurig CEO
* Actual name
* Actual name
January 1, 2026 at 2:27 AM
By carefully studying the history of Keurig, I have discovered the secret Fighting Baseball name of every Keurig CEO
* Actual name
* Actual name
Dragging myself sentence by sentence through this retail psychology research paper. Current strategy: pronounce every occurrence of "OOS" (out of stock) as "ooze" www.emerald.com/ijrdm/articl...
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Dragging myself sentence by sentence through this retail psychology research paper. Current strategy: pronounce every occurrence of "OOS" (out of stock) as "ooze" www.emerald.com/ijrdm/articl...
(handing a bag of red ants to the photographer as he boards the elevator up to this photo shoot) You know what to do.
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
(handing a bag of red ants to the photographer as he boards the elevator up to this photo shoot) You know what to do.
TIL Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays" www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/b...
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
TIL Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays" www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/b...
mom: We have Game of Thrones at home
[the Game of Thrones at home]:
[the Game of Thrones at home]:
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
mom: We have Game of Thrones at home
[the Game of Thrones at home]:
[the Game of Thrones at home]:
Just posted my first Kalshi market idea - here's hoping it gets picked up! 🙏🙏 kalshi.com/ideas/posts/...
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Just posted my first Kalshi market idea - here's hoping it gets picked up! 🙏🙏 kalshi.com/ideas/posts/...
(seen on r/lotrmemes)
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
(seen on r/lotrmemes)
At Nalgene, we believe representation matters. 👨🏾🦽🚴🏻🧗🏿♀️💖 And that's why all of our models are members of the Moonwalking American community
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
At Nalgene, we believe representation matters. 👨🏾🦽🚴🏻🧗🏿♀️💖 And that's why all of our models are members of the Moonwalking American community
You know what I hate? These fuckin things
I just tie a few bags to the loop on the leash. Pros: (1) You can see how many bags you have (2) There's nothing for the bags to roll up and get stuck in(3) You never accidentally pull out 2 bags and have to try to shove the second bag back in the tiny hole
I just tie a few bags to the loop on the leash. Pros: (1) You can see how many bags you have (2) There's nothing for the bags to roll up and get stuck in(3) You never accidentally pull out 2 bags and have to try to shove the second bag back in the tiny hole
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You know what I hate? These fuckin things
I just tie a few bags to the loop on the leash. Pros: (1) You can see how many bags you have (2) There's nothing for the bags to roll up and get stuck in(3) You never accidentally pull out 2 bags and have to try to shove the second bag back in the tiny hole
I just tie a few bags to the loop on the leash. Pros: (1) You can see how many bags you have (2) There's nothing for the bags to roll up and get stuck in(3) You never accidentally pull out 2 bags and have to try to shove the second bag back in the tiny hole
Fish knowers: help me out. what kind of fish is this woman holding? And does it look especially large for a fish of this kind?
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Fish knowers: help me out. what kind of fish is this woman holding? And does it look especially large for a fish of this kind?
Nothing says "I'm ICE!" like getting arrested for sex trafficking minors
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Nothing says "I'm ICE!" like getting arrested for sex trafficking minors
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Watching Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" (1944). Everybody's speaking in the mid-Atlantic accent, but they're in the middle of the Atlantic so it's appropriate
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Watching Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" (1944). Everybody's speaking in the mid-Atlantic accent, but they're in the middle of the Atlantic so it's appropriate
They seem kinda mad about how much of their work was discarded in building Clippy 😅 Lumière put a lot of effort into trying to guess *whether* a user needed help at the current moment… Clippy not so much
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
They seem kinda mad about how much of their work was discarded in building Clippy 😅 Lumière put a lot of effort into trying to guess *whether* a user needed help at the current moment… Clippy not so much
Just finished reading this fascinating Microsoft Research paper from 1998 about "Lumière," a project which directly informed Clippy. It presages many modern difficulties with automated help agents and AI systems arxiv.org/pdf/1301.7385
November 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Just finished reading this fascinating Microsoft Research paper from 1998 about "Lumière," a project which directly informed Clippy. It presages many modern difficulties with automated help agents and AI systems arxiv.org/pdf/1301.7385
Fantastic news: the tech industry has reinvented "quietly succumbing to censorship," with the modern twist that now you get to pay a fee to them
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Fantastic news: the tech industry has reinvented "quietly succumbing to censorship," with the modern twist that now you get to pay a fee to them
Dog got my 5-year-old's toy. Had to tell her, "It's okay, the giraffe is just shedding its neck"
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Dog got my 5-year-old's toy. Had to tell her, "It's okay, the giraffe is just shedding its neck"