Jerry Michalski
@j3rry.bsky.social
Exploring trust and multiplayer sensemaking.
@duolingoverde.bsky.social your forced upgrades make me want to quit the app. I really don't want to subscribe to Max, or even try it. but do you give me a way to say no? No. (iOS app on iPad)
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
@duolingoverde.bsky.social your forced upgrades make me want to quit the app. I really don't want to subscribe to Max, or even try it. but do you give me a way to say no? No. (iOS app on iPad)
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Google Earth is surfacing its 3D timelapse feature. These animations use satellite data to show how an area has changed from a higher vantage point. You could find the average surface temperature or tree canopy coverage in a given area. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Google rolls out Street View time travel to celebrate 20 years of Google Earth
Google Earth wowed everyone 20 years ago, and it’s still pretty cool.
arstechnica.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Google Earth is surfacing its 3D timelapse feature. These animations use satellite data to show how an area has changed from a higher vantage point. You could find the average surface temperature or tree canopy coverage in a given area. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
And now they're all sold out.
Is it impossible to source these ethically in quantity? Seems like a great way to raise funds for Bluesky.
Is it impossible to source these ethically in quantity? Seems like a great way to raise funds for Bluesky.
June 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
And now they're all sold out.
Is it impossible to source these ethically in quantity? Seems like a great way to raise funds for Bluesky.
Is it impossible to source these ethically in quantity? Seems like a great way to raise funds for Bluesky.
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Bill Atkinson, one of the most quietly revolutionary minds in computing, has passed away. His creations — QuickDraw, MacPaint, and especially HyperCard — transformed not just the Mac, but how I thought about computing. A thread 🧵… 1/9
June 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Bill Atkinson, one of the most quietly revolutionary minds in computing, has passed away. His creations — QuickDraw, MacPaint, and especially HyperCard — transformed not just the Mac, but how I thought about computing. A thread 🧵… 1/9
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As someone who got to know a LOT of so-called conservative legal intellectuals, there are a bunch of people who claimed that they were just against tyranny and big government who are extremely silent in the moment.
April 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
As someone who got to know a LOT of so-called conservative legal intellectuals, there are a bunch of people who claimed that they were just against tyranny and big government who are extremely silent in the moment.
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Big Journalism is still doing stenography instead of showing the reality of the Trump regime's headlong race into fascism.
At TechDirt, @mmasnick shows how journalism could work if it located a spine.
www.techdirt.com/202...
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At TechDirt, @mmasnick shows how journalism could work if it located a spine.
www.techdirt.com/202...
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Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters
In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…
www.techdirt.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Big Journalism is still doing stenography instead of showing the reality of the Trump regime's headlong race into fascism.
At TechDirt, @mmasnick shows how journalism could work if it located a spine.
www.techdirt.com/202...
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At TechDirt, @mmasnick shows how journalism could work if it located a spine.
www.techdirt.com/202...
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Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
April 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
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It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved.
* very unconstitutional
* very unconstitutional
April 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved.
* very unconstitutional
* very unconstitutional
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Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
April 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
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Perhaps Trump is secretly a degrowther.
April 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Perhaps Trump is secretly a degrowther.
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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!
March 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!
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Dear Secretary Rubio,
Hi, Tufts professor here. As someone who was on campus during the time in question, your claims about what Rumeysa Ozturk did bear no resemblance to reality. So did you just revoke her visa because she co-authored an anodyne op-ed that never mentioned Hamas?
Sincerely,
DWD
Hi, Tufts professor here. As someone who was on campus during the time in question, your claims about what Rumeysa Ozturk did bear no resemblance to reality. So did you just revoke her visa because she co-authored an anodyne op-ed that never mentioned Hamas?
Sincerely,
DWD
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Dear Secretary Rubio,
Hi, Tufts professor here. As someone who was on campus during the time in question, your claims about what Rumeysa Ozturk did bear no resemblance to reality. So did you just revoke her visa because she co-authored an anodyne op-ed that never mentioned Hamas?
Sincerely,
DWD
Hi, Tufts professor here. As someone who was on campus during the time in question, your claims about what Rumeysa Ozturk did bear no resemblance to reality. So did you just revoke her visa because she co-authored an anodyne op-ed that never mentioned Hamas?
Sincerely,
DWD
TIL about Two-Eyed Seeing, a way of blending Indigenous and Western perspectives: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Eye...
March 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
TIL about Two-Eyed Seeing, a way of blending Indigenous and Western perspectives: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Eye...
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It looks and sounds different too: less “centering” of “intersectionality” and more economic populist working-class anger at the rich. Which could bode very well for its growth and success. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
The Defiance is Spreading
Anti-Trump/Musk protests are expanding, with the next two weeks heading towards a crescendo.
open.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It looks and sounds different too: less “centering” of “intersectionality” and more economic populist working-class anger at the rich. Which could bode very well for its growth and success. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
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Himes: "As far as I can tell, we're now on team Kremlin ... the president's chief Russia negotiator, Steve Witkoff, is repeating Russian talking points and participating in a mad cap Signal chat about an attack on Yemen while inside Russia."
March 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Himes: "As far as I can tell, we're now on team Kremlin ... the president's chief Russia negotiator, Steve Witkoff, is repeating Russian talking points and participating in a mad cap Signal chat about an attack on Yemen while inside Russia."
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Yesterday I fell down a rabbit hole the size and shape of @j3rry.bsky.social Contrarian series of posts. Two resonating most by feathering into my existing work: John Taylor Gatto (jerrymichalski.medium.com/contrarian-j...) and Christopher Alexander (jerrymichalski.medium.com/contrarian-c...) posts
Contrarian: John Taylor Gatto
Kids are naturally curious. Why do we stamp it out?
jerrymichalski.medium.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yesterday I fell down a rabbit hole the size and shape of @j3rry.bsky.social Contrarian series of posts. Two resonating most by feathering into my existing work: John Taylor Gatto (jerrymichalski.medium.com/contrarian-j...) and Christopher Alexander (jerrymichalski.medium.com/contrarian-c...) posts
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IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.
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They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.
BREAKING: The US Justice Department is examining whether student protests at Columbia University over the genocide in Gaza violated federal terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said today.
March 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.
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March 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
