JD Desmarais
Director of Pre-Sales, ProTech Services Group · Memphis
Twenty-four years in infrastructure. I run AI models on hardware I own, I like teaching people to use them, and I think AI is a tool, not a companion.
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AI news A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot.
Memphis Service member killed in rappelling accident before college football game.
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More on the HubWebsites blocking AI agents in growing number
Multiple reports indicate websites are starting to close their doors to automated AI agents accessing their content.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robotThe Verge
- Investing in the public benefitAnthropic
- Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” accessArs Technica
- Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shippingHacker News
- Inline rendering with document.currentScriptSimon Willison
- Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehousesHacker News
- Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sitesThe Verge
- web-edit 0.1a2Simon Willison
- Websites are closing their doors to AI agentsThe Verge
Who's driving
I've worked in IT since 2002: network manager at Bellevue Baptist, systems engineer at ProTech Systems Group, datacenter and capacity planning at FedEx, and now pre-sales at ProTech Services Group. I run Qwen models on a Mac with MLX and LM Studio, and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin for edge projects. My wife Amanda and I have taught students at Bellevue Baptist for more than ten years.
Why dice81. Dice was my white 1988 Volkswagen Cabriolet on black tires. 81 is the year I was born. The gauges up top are a nod to its dash.