Michael Clerx
@michaelclerx.com
I do sums to learn why heart cells beat. Computational biologist. Biological computer. Sometimes does experiments. Whippet owner. Makes bad jokes. He/him.
2026 is the year when we bring these gains to other fields
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job
January 31, 2026 at 12:25 AM
2026 is the year when we bring these gains to other fields
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Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”
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"Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren."
This article is a very useful reframing of the tired “Europe falling behind in tech” whinge.
Europe has actually build the foundations for socially useful tech, for decades.
What it has not done is attempt to create Empires by extracting cash from that work.
ploum.net/2026-01-22-w...
Europe has actually build the foundations for socially useful tech, for decades.
What it has not done is attempt to create Empires by extracting cash from that work.
ploum.net/2026-01-22-w...
Why there’s no European Google?
Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
ploum.net
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 PM
"Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren."
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I went to the gym for half an hour and now my everything hurts
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM
I went to the gym for half an hour and now my everything hurts
I'm just going to keep pushing this. Shit is on fire. And we didn't even like shit to begin with. But. Somewhere in the world, young people are still in love, and occassionally insanely good at music, and - if you listen - they will let you into their world.
Headphones on. Full album. Enjoy
Headphones on. Full album. Enjoy
Forget all of that. Listen to this
tidal.com/browse/album...
This is such an amazing album. Just someone who's absolutely, unashamedly, in love. But in a profound, not a giddy way. And it's an album, as in, the whole thing together makes sense, the songs elevated by being together. And it's gorgeous
This is such an amazing album. Just someone who's absolutely, unashamedly, in love. But in a profound, not a giddy way. And it's an album, as in, the whole thing together makes sense, the songs elevated by being together. And it's gorgeous
January 28, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I'm just going to keep pushing this. Shit is on fire. And we didn't even like shit to begin with. But. Somewhere in the world, young people are still in love, and occassionally insanely good at music, and - if you listen - they will let you into their world.
Headphones on. Full album. Enjoy
Headphones on. Full album. Enjoy
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So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.
January 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.
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The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
January 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
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ICE now gets over $30B a year with the surge from Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill.
That puts a domestic enforcement agency in the same spending range as major national militaries.
This is an out-of-control, bloated agency getting a blank check from Congress while basic accountability is ignored.
That puts a domestic enforcement agency in the same spending range as major national militaries.
This is an out-of-control, bloated agency getting a blank check from Congress while basic accountability is ignored.
January 27, 2026 at 11:22 PM
ICE now gets over $30B a year with the surge from Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill.
That puts a domestic enforcement agency in the same spending range as major national militaries.
This is an out-of-control, bloated agency getting a blank check from Congress while basic accountability is ignored.
That puts a domestic enforcement agency in the same spending range as major national militaries.
This is an out-of-control, bloated agency getting a blank check from Congress while basic accountability is ignored.
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Serious stuff: “By 2100, global crop yields would be reduced by 11% if emissions rapidly plummet to net zero -- and by 24% if emissions continue to increased unchecked. In the shorter term, by 2050 climate change will decrease global crop yields by 8 percent”, regardless of scenario.
NEW RESEARCH: Climate change on track to slash global crop yields by 24% before 2100.
Like, within the lifespan of your kids.
Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this.
agupdate.com/agriview/mar...
Like, within the lifespan of your kids.
Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this.
agupdate.com/agriview/mar...
Climate change will devastate crop yields
A sweeping new analysis finds that warming global temperatures will dampen the world’s capacity to produce food from most staple crops, even after accounting for economic development and adaptation by
agupdate.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Serious stuff: “By 2100, global crop yields would be reduced by 11% if emissions rapidly plummet to net zero -- and by 24% if emissions continue to increased unchecked. In the shorter term, by 2050 climate change will decrease global crop yields by 8 percent”, regardless of scenario.
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*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor.
Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest".
I got a 1st 🎓
Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest".
I got a 1st 🎓
BREAKING: Reform UK have announced GB News host and far-right commentator Matt Goodwin as their candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election
January 27, 2026 at 4:21 PM
*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor.
Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest".
I got a 1st 🎓
Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest".
I got a 1st 🎓
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Als Frankrijk het kan kunnen wij het ook! tweakers.net/nieuws/24405... #amerika
Frankrijk stapt over van Microsoft Teams, Zoom en meer naar eigen alternatief
De Franse overheid kondigt aan videovergadertools van Amerikaanse leveranciers te verlaten om over te stappen naar het eigen alternatief Visio. Deze nieuwe software moet tegen 2027 in gebruik zijn bij...
tweakers.net
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Als Frankrijk het kan kunnen wij het ook! tweakers.net/nieuws/24405... #amerika
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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So basically we have a solid center left majority under PR, or a knife edge possibility of hard right government under FPTP. The country really can't afford the luxury of political parties' vanity when it comes to electoral pacts.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 25% (+1)
LAB: 21% (+2)
CON: 17% (-1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 14% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 25-26 Jan.
Changes w/ 18-19 Jan.
RFM: 25% (+1)
LAB: 21% (+2)
CON: 17% (-1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 14% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 25-26 Jan.
Changes w/ 18-19 Jan.
January 27, 2026 at 10:17 AM
So basically we have a solid center left majority under PR, or a knife edge possibility of hard right government under FPTP. The country really can't afford the luxury of political parties' vanity when it comes to electoral pacts.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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This has been on the horizon for some time.
It's the culmination of Wakefield and weaponisation of mRNA vaccines by RFK Jr, Malhotra, Malone etc etc...
@independentsage.bsky.social put this out last year. We hope it helps.
Please, vaccinate your kids 🙏
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
It's the culmination of Wakefield and weaponisation of mRNA vaccines by RFK Jr, Malhotra, Malone etc etc...
@independentsage.bsky.social put this out last year. We hope it helps.
Please, vaccinate your kids 🙏
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
January 26, 2026 at 9:28 PM
This has been on the horizon for some time.
It's the culmination of Wakefield and weaponisation of mRNA vaccines by RFK Jr, Malhotra, Malone etc etc...
@independentsage.bsky.social put this out last year. We hope it helps.
Please, vaccinate your kids 🙏
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
It's the culmination of Wakefield and weaponisation of mRNA vaccines by RFK Jr, Malhotra, Malone etc etc...
@independentsage.bsky.social put this out last year. We hope it helps.
Please, vaccinate your kids 🙏
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
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im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse
if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse
if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
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Regression in our nation’s children’s health, due to misinformation.
Why is humankind so determined to re-create problems that we solved, years ago?
Why is humankind so determined to re-create problems that we solved, years ago?
UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake
UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake
UN health body says Britain is one of six countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established
The UK has lost its status as a measles-free country after a rise in deaths from the disease and fall in the proportion of children having the MMR jab in recent years.
The World Health Organization said it no longer classified Britain as having eliminated measles because the disease had become re-established. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Regression in our nation’s children’s health, due to misinformation.
Why is humankind so determined to re-create problems that we solved, years ago?
Why is humankind so determined to re-create problems that we solved, years ago?
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Who called them 'atheists' and not 'a non-prophet organisation'?
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Who called them 'atheists' and not 'a non-prophet organisation'?
With Nicolas Helmek
January 25, 2026 at 11:33 PM
With Nicolas Helmek
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