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Kevin Marks

@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
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Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

3861 Followers
4586 Following
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Joined April 05, 2017
my website:
https://www.kevinmarks.com
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https://indieweb.social/@kevinmarks
pronouns:
he/him
github:
https://github.com/kevinmarks

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · May 12, 2026
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @fergycool@mastodon.social
@fergycool@mastodon.social what Mac are you running it on? From what I recall (I was working on QuickTime Video capture at the time) the FireWire DMA was tricky to get right and the autofocus noise supression would leave sync gaps in the audio.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · May 04, 2026
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @randahl@mastodon.social
@randahl you should plot that last stacked bar half as wide and twice as high if it represents 6 months rather than 12
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · May 04, 2026
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net
@NewtonMark @wall_e @pluralistic it's doing that in midwinter? What's it going to be like next summer?
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Mar 18, 2026
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @alsvha@sunny.garden
@alsvha @scalzi SludgeFeed or BottomFeed?
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Mar 18, 2026
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @scalzi@mastodon.social
@scalzi devolve or dissolve?
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Jan 06, 2026
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @anguinea@mstdn.social
@anguinea I've been saying coprolite
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Jan 01, 2026
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop @LillyHerself@mastodon.social @jbenjamint@mastodon.scot it adds a bit more friction to the act of taking a screenshot for dog piling use, as you have to maintain unblocked sock accounts to take the shot with.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Oct 22, 2025
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone

Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
www.bbc.co.uk

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Sep 21, 2024
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
@zephoria Ellen wrote about the cultural impact https://web.archive.org/web/20081005032646/http://www.beyondsatire.us/?q=node%2F272
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Sep 21, 2024
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @zephoria@mastodon.social
@zephoria when Randall Monroe came to Google in 2007 it was quite an event https://youtu.be/zJOS0sV2a24?si=MqAEnsxqQ4Mv_oPQ
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Jul 04, 2024
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone

Official exit poll:
Lab 410 Con 131 LD 61 Reform 13 SNP 10 Other 25
Boring
Fun version:
Lab 420 Con 69 LD 69
Then we can have a Labour split so it's
Lab 345 Woke Labour 75 Con 69 LD 69
Woke Labour as official opposition with all committee and PMQ privileges

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · May 08, 2024
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
@VeryBadLlama@mas.to The universe winds down. That's how it's made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. John M. Ford 2003 https://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · May 08, 2024
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @VeryBadLlama@mas.to
@VeryBadLlama@mas.to De Vermis The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days -- Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Feb 18, 2024
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @Gargron@mastodon.social
@Gargron@mastodon.social given that the spam is mainly the same images, could you hash them and use that as a rejection filter?
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Feb 14, 2024
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk this reminds me of danah boyd's thesis on teen publics ~15 years ago “their idea of public is not about all people across all space and all time. They want publics of peers, not publics where creeps and parents lurk.” This is part of the original twitter illusion - that you were talking to the people who you follow, not those who follow you, and not the firehose feed. That created a good normative sense for the most part, but the illusion broke with search and reply notifications
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Jan 16, 2024
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @BelieveinScotland@mastodon.scot
@BelieveinScotland@mastodon.scot how much of that is due to post-Brexit decline of most other food and drink exports though?
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Nov 18, 2023
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
@strypey @siderea @paninid @mastodonmigration Bluesky doesn't yet have the scale where this is a problem. Threads I don't use so can't comment, but I expect they'll have some tooling based on Instagram. Mastodon didn't have this problem of scale and fame initially, and the tooling hasn't caught up yet. It's about where twitter was in 2014, when I wrote this https://www.kevinmarks.com/twitterhatespeech
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Nov 18, 2023
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
@strypey @siderea @paninid @mastodonmigration Twitter had some tools to mitigate this. Originally this was the "only show replies from verified people" aimed squarely at the famous posters to ignore the masses. That's become useless as Ticks on twitter are now parasites. However there are "mute thread", "leave thread" and "limit replies" affordances on twitter that do address this problem of scale of replies that Mastodon doesn't have. Hope that helps.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Nov 18, 2023
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
@strypey @siderea @paninid @mastodonmigration what you are not understanding is the problem of context collapse in replies at scale. When a post takes off, the replies pile up. Lots of them will be the same obvious or clichéd response. As a post spreads further from the people who follow the original poster, the replies lack any context of who is speaking and in what tone, so get less and less interesting to the original poster.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Nov 03, 2023
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @thephd@pony.social
@thephd@pony.social @ids1024@fosstodon.org the other half of this was the QuickTime QA team who built and ran a really deep set of tests across multiple CPU architectures for every commit to be sure that you had used them correctly. That's a bit harder to put into a language standard.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Nov 03, 2023
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @ids1024@fosstodon.org
@ids1024@fosstodon.org @thephd@pony.social I'm getting flashbacks to all the Endian.h stuff we had in QuickTime to deal with all the different processor architectures we compiled to. Which is pretty much how Apple can swap CPU options to this day.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Jul 22, 2023
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @leaverou@front-end.social
@leaverou@front-end.social previously when looking at tags I have found Rosch's prototype theory better than strict hierarchies - the latter has historically been about shelving convenience when trying to locate a single copy. The prototypes are more about "what kind of thing does this resemble?" - experts in a topic will recognise more kinds of things than the general reader. Using tags more loosely can help communicate these different prototypes and help them search elsewhere too.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Feb 01, 2023
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Google: We're no longer supporting the Torment Nexus. Please upgrade to the Torment Pixel.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Jan 12, 2023
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @Meyerweb@mastodon.social
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social see also https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks/109671433057680076
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Nov 05, 2022
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @klillington@mastodon.ie
@klillington@mastodon.ie see also http://guidetomastodon.com/
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Oct 29, 2022
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @Danhon@mastodon.cloud
@Danhon@mastodon.cloud you missed the rel=me verification built into mastodon - if you link the author's byline page on the website to the mastodon page and back, you get a green tick ✅ in the mastodon profile. This can also verify other non-mastodon urls.
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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone · Jun 30, 2020
Kevin Marks
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

xoxo.zone
Replying to @mattl@xoxo.zone
@mattl hi there, are you using indieweb sync tools?
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