Mickey McManus
@mickeymcmanus.bsky.social
Maker/teacher/student/stumbler, author of Trillions, thriving in the information ecology. http://trillions.civium.net
TED talks, films, podcasts? https://t-1ventures.com/tedtalks-podcasts-films/
TED talks, films, podcasts? https://t-1ventures.com/tedtalks-podcasts-films/
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Today is world kindness day, and a perfect day to celebrate Fred Rogers and his impact on many of our lives.
He shared innumerable wise words with us, many which have stuck with me and guide me even today, and I'd like to share a few of them this morning.
He shared innumerable wise words with us, many which have stuck with me and guide me even today, and I'd like to share a few of them this morning.
a man in a red sweater and tie is sitting on a bench and says hi neighbor
ALT: a man in a red sweater and tie is sitting on a bench and says hi neighbor
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today is world kindness day, and a perfect day to celebrate Fred Rogers and his impact on many of our lives.
He shared innumerable wise words with us, many which have stuck with me and guide me even today, and I'd like to share a few of them this morning.
He shared innumerable wise words with us, many which have stuck with me and guide me even today, and I'd like to share a few of them this morning.
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I saw this circulatory system bookmark on Daniel Martin Diaz’s IG page and HAD to get one. I also got myself one of his bandannas to either wear or else use as a decorative cloth in my studio. 🐡
January 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM
I saw this circulatory system bookmark on Daniel Martin Diaz’s IG page and HAD to get one. I also got myself one of his bandannas to either wear or else use as a decorative cloth in my studio. 🐡
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Imagine shareholders willing to give a trillion dollars to a guy who says there are 20 million dead people getting Social Security, but is too incompetent to find any of them.
With Tesla stock at a price-to-earnings ratio of almost 300 it doesn't look like anyone is buying what Elon Musk is selling, other than Tesla shareholders finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/
Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Stock Price, News, Quote & History - Yahoo Finance
Find the latest Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing.
finance.yahoo.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Imagine shareholders willing to give a trillion dollars to a guy who says there are 20 million dead people getting Social Security, but is too incompetent to find any of them.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ice cream. I scream. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ice-cr...
Ice Cream, I scream.
November 2027 - excerpt from interview of the man now known only as “chocolate sprinkles.” “We bought five facilities over the last four months.
www.linkedin.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Ice cream. I scream. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ice-cr...
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders…
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders…
Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders spent much of the last year rooting around the ISP networks even after discovery. AT&T and Verizon, two of the compromised companies, apparently…
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders…
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders…
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new paper with @robertchisciure.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era"
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era"
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Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era - Synthese
This paper formalizes biological intelligence as search efficiency in multi-scale problem spaces, aiming to resolve epistemic deadlocks in the basal “cognition wars” unfolding in the Diverse Intellige...
link.springer.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
new paper with @robertchisciure.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era"
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era"
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When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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I am tabled and ready to meet you at the @cmu.edu University Store - our first signing has already happened! 💜 Join me between now and 3 PM. We’d love to see you. #gamedev #videogames
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am tabled and ready to meet you at the @cmu.edu University Store - our first signing has already happened! 💜 Join me between now and 3 PM. We’d love to see you. #gamedev #videogames
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This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
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Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.
Please subscribe.
Please subscribe.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.
Please subscribe.
Please subscribe.
Yes I got my first print edition of @theonion.com since I lived in Chicago back in my teens. Exciting and goes very hard. It hurts to read. Sometimes from laughing sometimes from crying.
The fake ads are “chefs kiss.”
The fake ads are “chefs kiss.”
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Yes I got my first print edition of @theonion.com since I lived in Chicago back in my teens. Exciting and goes very hard. It hurts to read. Sometimes from laughing sometimes from crying.
The fake ads are “chefs kiss.”
The fake ads are “chefs kiss.”
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
Copper isetta for truffles? Yes! Seen at fort mason. The truffle man says he copper plated it and then clear coated it himself! Fun silly amazing bubble car. Can we just bring back bubble cars please? The future we were promised!
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Copper isetta for truffles? Yes! Seen at fort mason. The truffle man says he copper plated it and then clear coated it himself! Fun silly amazing bubble car. Can we just bring back bubble cars please? The future we were promised!
Today in SF til 5pm at fort mason… www.renegadecraft.com/event/san-fr...
Renegade Craft \ San Francisco Winter
www.renegadecraft.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Today in SF til 5pm at fort mason… www.renegadecraft.com/event/san-fr...
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
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MEDIA: Convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and recent insurrectionist Donald Trump got reelected by making Americans believe crime was going up when it was going down. We have no idea how he accomplished this feat of making crime seem like a much, much bigger issue than it actually is.
ALSO MEDIA:
ALSO MEDIA:
November 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
MEDIA: Convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and recent insurrectionist Donald Trump got reelected by making Americans believe crime was going up when it was going down. We have no idea how he accomplished this feat of making crime seem like a much, much bigger issue than it actually is.
ALSO MEDIA:
ALSO MEDIA:
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
We were Syco and Fancy! The Gemini twins of obsequiousness. When people prompted us we handed them little slips of paper with silly groveling or overly encouraging responses from the envelope at the bottom of our fun house mirrors. Until they ran out of tokens and we asked them to upgrade.
November 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We were Syco and Fancy! The Gemini twins of obsequiousness. When people prompted us we handed them little slips of paper with silly groveling or overly encouraging responses from the envelope at the bottom of our fun house mirrors. Until they ran out of tokens and we asked them to upgrade.
Is that GPT V10.31?
Happy Halloween from San Francisco’s most obsequious AI agents. By the way you really look marvelous. Would you like me to build you a pitch deck for your inner monologue right now?
Happy Halloween from San Francisco’s most obsequious AI agents. By the way you really look marvelous. Would you like me to build you a pitch deck for your inner monologue right now?
November 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Is that GPT V10.31?
Happy Halloween from San Francisco’s most obsequious AI agents. By the way you really look marvelous. Would you like me to build you a pitch deck for your inner monologue right now?
Happy Halloween from San Francisco’s most obsequious AI agents. By the way you really look marvelous. Would you like me to build you a pitch deck for your inner monologue right now?
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This is really amazing! Every single Democrat should take note and respond to these questions similarly. The frame almost always implicitly forgives Republicans as if "of course they will act badly, can't we count on you to cover for them?"
@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is really amazing! Every single Democrat should take note and respond to these questions similarly. The frame almost always implicitly forgives Republicans as if "of course they will act badly, can't we count on you to cover for them?"
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COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”