Dylan Marks
@dylanmarks.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Calgary, Canada - interested in sci-fi, health tech, triathlon, writing, raising awesome kids, fighting fascism. Product Mgr at Amwell Virtual Care.
Trump flew over my house yesterday on the way to G7 in the mountains. If you zoom in you can see the string of army helicopters. Feels icky to have something so ugly marring a beautiful rainbow.
June 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Trump flew over my house yesterday on the way to G7 in the mountains. If you zoom in you can see the string of army helicopters. Feels icky to have something so ugly marring a beautiful rainbow.
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New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
What DOGE gets wrong about tech and government
Lessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
When a girl said hi to me in high school.
Published some notes on Microsoft's phi4-reasoning model, an 11GB download (via Ollama) which may well overthink things... it produced 56 sentences of reasoning output in response to my prompt of "hi" simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/p...
May 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
When a girl said hi to me in high school.
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This was the thing about the 1933 civil service law in Germany, premised on purging non-Aryans…
People like Albert Einstein were ousted
People like Albert Einstein were ousted
we're ten days into this thing and all the old DEI hires are looking pretty good compared to the new regime of white mediocrities
January 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was the thing about the 1933 civil service law in Germany, premised on purging non-Aryans…
People like Albert Einstein were ousted
People like Albert Einstein were ousted
Was running in Tampa Bay today and a long black snake went right by my foot, scaring the shit out of me... If you get bit on the first day of The Year of the Snake, is that good luck? 🫣
January 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Was running in Tampa Bay today and a long black snake went right by my foot, scaring the shit out of me... If you get bit on the first day of The Year of the Snake, is that good luck? 🫣
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” -JFK, 1961
January 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” -JFK, 1961
I loved my Pebble watch. Just a great pixel aesthetic. Would be neat to have something open source and hackable. But I’m pretty locked into Apple ecosystem for day to day (though still prefer my garmin for any outdoor activity).
real talk, would it be unreasonable to preorder six of these:
We're bringing Pebble back!
Eight years later, you still can't beat a Pebble
repebble.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I loved my Pebble watch. Just a great pixel aesthetic. Would be neat to have something open source and hackable. But I’m pretty locked into Apple ecosystem for day to day (though still prefer my garmin for any outdoor activity).
I’m so fascinated by this idea of your gut biome interacting with your brain.
January 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I’m so fascinated by this idea of your gut biome interacting with your brain.
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Out for a run in the mountains and my path took me through a herd of wild elk. Was kind of worried about one aggressive youngster but they were largely uninterested in me.
January 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Out for a run in the mountains and my path took me through a herd of wild elk. Was kind of worried about one aggressive youngster but they were largely uninterested in me.
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There's this potentially weird dystopian cyberpunk future where the Internet Archive loses all its copyright battles while OpenAI wins all of theirs, and our only record of the history of the Internet-that-was is locked up inside the unreliable narration of obsolete large language models.
January 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There's this potentially weird dystopian cyberpunk future where the Internet Archive loses all its copyright battles while OpenAI wins all of theirs, and our only record of the history of the Internet-that-was is locked up inside the unreliable narration of obsolete large language models.
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Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...
Table of contents:
Table of contents:
December 31, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...
Table of contents:
Table of contents:
I’m an Overwatch fan (Lucio main) and am trying out Marvel Rivals during my holiday. This video is about #productmanagement: the Overwatch PMs got pulled into a constant churn of hero balancing, whereas their new competitor simply added a feature that addressed it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiS6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiS6...
Overwatch is Cooked - Why Marvel Rivals Wins
YouTube video by Your Overwatch
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:46 PM
I’m an Overwatch fan (Lucio main) and am trying out Marvel Rivals during my holiday. This video is about #productmanagement: the Overwatch PMs got pulled into a constant churn of hero balancing, whereas their new competitor simply added a feature that addressed it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiS6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiS6...
Best of 2024: In Alberta and Montana, the Blackfoot Confederacy is bringing buffalo herds back to the plains, with dreams of restoring the traditional hunt:
On Blackfoot land, the buffalo roam | The Narwhal
The Blackfoot Confederacy is working toward free-roaming buffalo crossing the border once again — and revitalizing traditional hunts
buff.ly
December 31, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Grain elevators always make me happy… a little piece of prairie legacy. The town I grew up in was the last stop on the railroad north.
December 31, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Grain elevators always make me happy… a little piece of prairie legacy. The town I grew up in was the last stop on the railroad north.
Life hack: weight session at a drop-in gym to reboot during Christmas chaos at Canada’s largest mall.
@westedmontonmall.bsky.social
@westedmontonmall.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Life hack: weight session at a drop-in gym to reboot during Christmas chaos at Canada’s largest mall.
@westedmontonmall.bsky.social
@westedmontonmall.bsky.social
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me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies
December 21, 2024 at 1:18 PM
me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
That was cool! Heh heh
Stoners, let me improve your weekend: Someone uploaded their personal VHS recording of SIX HOURS of MTV's 1994 Beavis & Butt-head Moron-athon on @archive.org with commercials, Liquid TV & misc MTV shows: archive.org/details/beav...
I just quickly scanned it & found this hilariously dorky DOOM 2 ad:
I just quickly scanned it & found this hilariously dorky DOOM 2 ad:
December 21, 2024 at 3:03 PM
That was cool! Heh heh
Topped up my vaccines
of flu and covid, free and easy
at my pharmacy
Skin is burning hot,
a training scene for white blood
cells, forging armour.
#medsky
of flu and covid, free and easy
at my pharmacy
Skin is burning hot,
a training scene for white blood
cells, forging armour.
#medsky
December 15, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Topped up my vaccines
of flu and covid, free and easy
at my pharmacy
Skin is burning hot,
a training scene for white blood
cells, forging armour.
#medsky
of flu and covid, free and easy
at my pharmacy
Skin is burning hot,
a training scene for white blood
cells, forging armour.
#medsky
Still buzzing from the Lake Louise XC ski camp a couple weeks ago. Winter wonderland.
December 6, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Still buzzing from the Lake Louise XC ski camp a couple weeks ago. Winter wonderland.
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In Lyon (France), the bookshop "Le Bal des Ardents", a fabulous place to discover. You could stay hours just watching the beauty of the place. Books everywhere
December 1, 2024 at 7:14 PM
In Lyon (France), the bookshop "Le Bal des Ardents", a fabulous place to discover. You could stay hours just watching the beauty of the place. Books everywhere
Political violence is never the answer, but you can feel the simmering anger and schadenfreude in response to that assassination. Watch out for the blowback from depersonalized, automated healthcare. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI’s error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
arstechnica.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Political violence is never the answer, but you can feel the simmering anger and schadenfreude in response to that assassination. Watch out for the blowback from depersonalized, automated healthcare. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
New healthcare interop law (HTI-2) includes a new exception to allow health care providers to hide a patient's pregnancy status. Makes me so sick that this is necessary to protect a woman's safety, even though it gets in the way of providing the best care. #medsky
society.asco.org/news-initiat...
society.asco.org/news-initiat...
Information Blocking Proposal Helps Protect Reproductive Health Information, Patient Preferences
On October 4, 2024, the Association for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) submitted comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in response to the Health Data, Technolo...
society.asco.org
December 6, 2024 at 8:57 PM
New healthcare interop law (HTI-2) includes a new exception to allow health care providers to hide a patient's pregnancy status. Makes me so sick that this is necessary to protect a woman's safety, even though it gets in the way of providing the best care. #medsky
society.asco.org/news-initiat...
society.asco.org/news-initiat...