Jeff Clark
@jeffc666.bsky.social
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software
and gadfly to myself
software
and gadfly to myself
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The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
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🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds!
Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder 👇
Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder 👇
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds!
Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder 👇
Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder 👇
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Reminders (while raking) of the amazing creatures in the leaf litter. Restoring functional and locally-appropriate leaf leaf layer so important!
DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar
DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reminders (while raking) of the amazing creatures in the leaf litter. Restoring functional and locally-appropriate leaf leaf layer so important!
DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar
DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar
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We need a civilian knowledge corps. A wide-scoping open-ended civil society initiative for legitimizing, supporting, and leveling up independent and peripheral knowledge work, everything from journalism to scholarship to librarianship, so we can maintain a continuity of our ability to know things.
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We need a civilian knowledge corps. A wide-scoping open-ended civil society initiative for legitimizing, supporting, and leveling up independent and peripheral knowledge work, everything from journalism to scholarship to librarianship, so we can maintain a continuity of our ability to know things.
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Whenever there’s a headline like this the disgust & outrage that shld be a natural response is muted by a widespread fear that to speak out wld be to show naïveté & lack of appreciation for art. Look at this instead like Trump slashing NEA, like a fool slashing a painting he hates. It is anti-art.
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Whenever there’s a headline like this the disgust & outrage that shld be a natural response is muted by a widespread fear that to speak out wld be to show naïveté & lack of appreciation for art. Look at this instead like Trump slashing NEA, like a fool slashing a painting he hates. It is anti-art.
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Kudos to those who chose to leave their leaves this fall. May your yard have an abundance of fireflies next summer. ✨
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Kudos to those who chose to leave their leaves this fall. May your yard have an abundance of fireflies next summer. ✨
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“Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver and better.”
Must read (and subscribe) from @vermontgmg.bsky.social:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Must read (and subscribe) from @vermontgmg.bsky.social:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver and better.”
Must read (and subscribe) from @vermontgmg.bsky.social:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Must read (and subscribe) from @vermontgmg.bsky.social:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
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Personally, I think off-leash dogs whose owners who have zippo control over them are a much, much bigger problem than, say, urban coyotes.
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Personally, I think off-leash dogs whose owners who have zippo control over them are a much, much bigger problem than, say, urban coyotes.
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The newsletter is out. This week:
- Reconsidering how we use maps to visualize data
- How a mapmaker makes maps
- What maps can tell us about borders and culture
- Using maps to visualize inequality
So, it's about 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬 in other words.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
- Reconsidering how we use maps to visualize data
- How a mapmaker makes maps
- What maps can tell us about borders and culture
- Using maps to visualize inequality
So, it's about 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬 in other words.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
Putting the real world down on paper
This week's newsletter looks at how we use maps. I review a new book on the subject, interview a mapmaker and show how maps can reshape our assumptions about borders. It's all topped off with what I t...
www.howtoreadthisch.art
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The newsletter is out. This week:
- Reconsidering how we use maps to visualize data
- How a mapmaker makes maps
- What maps can tell us about borders and culture
- Using maps to visualize inequality
So, it's about 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬 in other words.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
- Reconsidering how we use maps to visualize data
- How a mapmaker makes maps
- What maps can tell us about borders and culture
- Using maps to visualize inequality
So, it's about 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬 in other words.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
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My concrete alternative is, just as Bluesky provided much of the utility people sought from Twitter, but in a less harmful form, we can create alternatives to Big AI that provide some of the same capabilities, but in less harmful forms. The first steps are socializing the concept itself.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My concrete alternative is, just as Bluesky provided much of the utility people sought from Twitter, but in a less harmful form, we can create alternatives to Big AI that provide some of the same capabilities, but in less harmful forms. The first steps are socializing the concept itself.
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These ancient time travelers have answers to our 21st century problems. Newly discovered landscapes that are thousands of years old offer remedies to climate change and Earth's shrinking biodiversity. Gift link to my latest @washingtonpost.com column. wapo.st/49Rtfzu
These ancient time travelers have answers to our 21st century problems
Newly discovered patches of ancient landscape have somehow managed to survive without being turned into a farm, forest or subdivision.
wapo.st
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
These ancient time travelers have answers to our 21st century problems. Newly discovered landscapes that are thousands of years old offer remedies to climate change and Earth's shrinking biodiversity. Gift link to my latest @washingtonpost.com column. wapo.st/49Rtfzu
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if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
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Michael Fanone: "I hope no American has to experience what I experienced. I've gone from dedicating 20 years of my life to the profession of law enforcement only to become a victim of the DOJ and our criminal justice system and have nowhere to seek relief."
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Michael Fanone: "I hope no American has to experience what I experienced. I've gone from dedicating 20 years of my life to the profession of law enforcement only to become a victim of the DOJ and our criminal justice system and have nowhere to seek relief."
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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I think my Word of the Day email might be trolling the Democrats.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I think my Word of the Day email might be trolling the Democrats.
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throw all the bums outta office
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
throw all the bums outta office
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Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
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Our political system is fundamentally broken. It was not designed to represent the will of the people and it is incapable of doing so today.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Our political system is fundamentally broken. It was not designed to represent the will of the people and it is incapable of doing so today.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
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Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.
But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.