Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they)

I hear this is the new Mastodon is the new Twitter. 🤓 Let’s do this! I’m Magnus. #hamradio KI4OTK, OG computer nerd, #OpenSource geezer, #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #neuroDiverseSquad, SVP Eng in health tech, pretty fly for an AI guy, I have pronouns (he/they). Drive a tiny truck. #introductions

If AI gives a nurse more time with patients but doesn’t improve profit margins, has it failed? Healthcare leaders: where does the saved time go, and who gets to decide? My latest Groktopus newsletter: www.groktop.us/healthcare-h...

Just to say it again... don't trust ChatGPT or Claude with editing or refining prose. This is something Gemini is 1000x better at.

We keep losing the wrong Star Trek actor.

Okay, the wheels are already turning, and I can see that this thread is going to account for a nice chunk of my day today, or rather, what I do with this thread.

If you find most people responding to you don't seem to understand what it is that you said, is that really their problem, or is it yours?

Marissa Meyer is a really mid-executive. There, I said it. But she has historically surrounded herself with good PR people that can keep her name on our minds. So she hasn't really done anything. Again. But here we are talking about her. Again.

What happens when one person can do work that used to cross three departments? And if we stop hiring beginners, where do future experts come from? I explore both in “Your Job, Rewritten.” How AI at work is changing whole job families and team structures.

I love(d) Hermes Agent but TBH it's not been aging well for me. A lot of the scheduled jobs I've set up for it start falling apart when python updates happen. And it seems helpless to repair itself when it runs into this. Curious what open source AI agents are up and coming next gen.

well that's the last thing we fucking need

No matter how much I try to say "show less like this" on my Discover feed, Bluesky rams political memes down my throat. As if this is all anyone can talk about. I know there's got to be more than meemaw meme monsters on this site.

It'd be nice if Reddit had effective means for a community ejecting a subreddit owner who's gone over the edge.

They banned Linux it's so funny

Or create a moderation list of people who do this habitually so that the rest of us can benefit from the filtration.

In this article, I explore the intersection between consumers who use AI agents to reverse engineer and reclaim their smart TV sets and how the big AI labs are starting to take drastic actions (including shutting down accounts of people who do this). What is the impact, and what can we do about it?

Am I supposed to be able to follow who’s who in #DarkMatter?

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

I have my AI agent finding interesting articles for me to read, with one rule: no paywalls. This week it found French-Canadian lumberjacks, strange involuntary reflexes, and the prejudices of early neurologists. That’ll do. Via @bullenross.bsky.social publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ju...

I've been interviewing for this one job for like a month now. Flew across the country for the final interview this week. Was told to expect final answer today. It's now after 11pm. I don't think I'm getting that final answer today, am I?

Why in the year of our gourd 2026 do we still see people posting selfies that are reverse images?

The next paper should seek an explanation for why academic research papers are so hard to read.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

The replies seem to believe that the number one priority in fighting a fire at the library of Alexandria should have been minimizing water usage

I'm not into AI and never use it, but I am gradually finding myself becoming negatively polarized into thinking it's basically fine, purely by virtue of the rabidly anti-AI glonzo types being so weird and annoying about it.

Eventually the hardcore anti AI folks are going to be pariahs. The more of them end up having good experiences with modern tools, the less dogmatic the more their voices will thin out.

Today I learned Denver police still use Harley Davidson motorcycles, unlike the rest of the world, who are mostly using BMW. These guys should be easier to outrun. 😛

When I was laid off from my previous job, I thought I wouldn't be getting back to Denver for a while, but it's only been six months, and here I am, back in town, but for an entirely new chapter. Wish me luck.

NEW: How The Proud Boys Lost Their Name Nearly six years ago, the Proud Boys vandalized a historically black church’s property during the unrest following the 2020 Presidential Election. The case resulted in the group losing the trademark to their name, but it didn’t end there.

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like

If you're anywhere near Raleigh, North Carolina, and looking for something fun and Halloweeny to do, I highly recommend Panic Point. It's always a blast.

We’ve released Letterweave, a small AI model that identifies what an email is for, from receipts and newsletters to invitations and personal correspondence. The model and training dataset are public on Hugging Face. Try it and let us know what you think. huggingface.co/Groktopus/Le...

Really loving #Lanterns!

I've been learning more about video production & vlogging. I should be doing this more for professional content but my heart is pulling me more towards "wandering idiot" content. For shits & giggles I tried making music in Suno for cinematic interludes on the motorcycle. Holy shit, it's good.

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

If you like the idea of Jev but want a self-hosted option, here's a free & open source project I've started contributing to. This lets you host the Laya model, and currently presents a Jev-shaped API contract. I'm working with the maintainer on offering more native Laya-shaped endpoints, also.

Why software engineers and AI researchers are so excited about Jev & Laya right now. And why, if you're a leader with any kind of technology product, you should be excited, too.

Touching grass, getting out in the woods to just talk human-to-human about AI, trust & safety, *earned autonomy*. via @groktop.us

Outtake from @jamesgunn.bsky.social "Man of Tomorrow". This raises all new questions about whether Brainiac is just a smokescreen for a much more existential challenge facing Kal-El in this film. /s

The ADHD TARDIS is broken. Its destination dial has only two settings: Now and Not Now. Turns out, “time blindness” is several different mechanisms stacked up in a trench coat.

So, what is it about Kane Parsons' Backrooms projects and this obsession with the sun? I did some digging, and there are some pretty cool connections going on.

𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. AI can create capacity. Human-centered leaders decide whether workers get agency... https://www.groktop.us/ai-gives-workers-time-back-the-best-companies-give-them-agency/

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 The strongest AI adopters are not simply buying tools. They are changing what human judgment is worth. https://www.groktop.us/hiring-for-judgment/

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗕𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺 The most human AI strategy treats automation as a reason to move people into better work, not discard them. https://www.groktop.us/moving-people-not-replacing-them/

I keep hearing people asking what happens to software engineering when AI is writing and reviewing code. I don't pretend to have all of the answers. But I believe that humans remain critical, even if we have to roll with substantial career path changes.

Spooky season is officially underway. #halloween #eldritch