Jack Vaughan - USA
jackvaughan.bsky.social
Jack Vaughan - USA
@jackvaughan.bsky.social
I used Twitter for technology and science research and comment. Glad to be here. Kind of goofing around for the time being.
Dust-driven Vortex Cascades Originating At Water Snow Region: A Pathway To Planetesimal Formation astrobiology.com/2025/04/dust...
Dust-driven Vortex Cascades Originating At Water Snow Region: A Pathway To Planetesimal Formation - Astrobiology
The origin of observed planetary systems, including our solar system, as well as their diversity is still an open question.
astrobiology.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This land is your land this land is my land from the Redwood Forest to the Gulfstream Waters! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/r...
Peter Yarrow’s Manhattan Duplex Is Listed at $4.44 Million
The estate of the singer, one of the three in Peter, Paul and Mary, is selling his Upper West Side apartment, “a hub of music and art and culture and activism.”
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Elon can't spend all his time in Washington he has a company to also un into the ground! youtu.be/igYHXGpbam4?...
Trump Aggressively Attacks 1st Amendment, Elon Musk Wants Out of DOGE & MAGA Minions Do Dumb Stuff
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
youtu.be
April 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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A recent talk from UMass's excellent AI x Democracy conference - my thoughts on how media has shaped the democratic public sphere and what the politics of a public sphere mediated by AI might be: ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/24/a...
AIxDemocracy: What are the politics of AI? - Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman on the politics of the public sphere, and how embedding past behaviors in AI may give a conservative bias to an AI age
ethanzuckerman.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Will Lockett really hates El*n M*sk. So take with grain of salt. That said. He is dedicated in his research. "Starlink is doomed" [which is linked to below] touches on the Reverse Midas touch that seems to touch everything El*n M*sk touches. wlockett.medium.com/starlink-is-...
Starlink Is Doomed
Every bit of Musk’s empire is crumbling.
wlockett.medium.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Author: AI can assist — but it should never replace you. medium.com/write10x/the...
The Only 7 Signs of AI Writing You Need to Remove in Your Text
Never be accused of using AI again.
medium.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
MORNING NEWS: Dow Nears the Worst April Since 1932 | AFTERNOON PRESS CONF: Trump says he has no intention of firing Fed Chair Powell
April 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Tales from the Classic Con Crypt: Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Blame Powell for Any Downturn
April 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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"We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law.”

#WeekendRead -my new essay on HUAC, how it operated over its 30 year history, & how industries, academia, & individual targets eventually fought back.
New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 year history of witch hunts & blacklists.

It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that today

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
April 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Day has returned: Joe McCarty's a'drooling and a'smiling in his grave... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship
How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
So broad was the impact of Galvani’s work – and along with it the idea of electrical animation – it made its way into the mind of English writer Mary Shelley, forming part of the inspiration for her novel Frankenstein. - Lindsay, Grace. Models of the Mind
April 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Huge rabbit rescued from kill farm is now therapy bunny, drives mini truck
April 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Trump will unpave the road to the Hall of Fame unless Pete Rose is named a Saint.
April 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Before taking office, Mr. Trump said he would end the war within “24 hours.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...
Rubio Says Trump to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Talks if No Progress Soon
“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed meetings in Paris.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
www.iotworldtoday.com/quantum/nasa...
The project is a collaboration between NASA and several quantum-focused startups, including AOSense, Infleqtion and Vector Atomic.
NASA to Launch Quantum Gravity Sensor for Earth Observation
NASA is preparing to launch the first quantum sensor to measure gravity from space. The mission aims to transform how scientists observe the invisible forces that shape Earth's surface and subsurface.
www.iotworldtoday.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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This picture may haunt me to the end of my days.

It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.

An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky
April 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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❗We are sounding the alarm—DOGE seems to believe they have the authority to investigate any nonprofit organization with federal funding.
April 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Intel to sell controlling stake in Altera chip business to Silver Lake techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/i... via @techcrunch
Intel to sell controlling stake in Altera chip business to Silver Lake | TechCrunch
Intel on Monday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51% of its Altera semiconductor business to Silver Lake, a private equity firm.
techcrunch.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM