David Y.
@dave220.bsky.social
January blooms! Crazy that it’s January and there hasn’t yet been a frost in my East Portland garden. #gardening
January 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
January blooms! Crazy that it’s January and there hasn’t yet been a frost in my East Portland garden. #gardening
The American Songbook on the Fourth of July 2025 at Conway’s House of Jazz. Clackamas, Oregon
July 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The American Songbook on the Fourth of July 2025 at Conway’s House of Jazz. Clackamas, Oregon
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In the race to power the world, China is far ahead of everyone on clean-energy technology. Its lead is growing fast.
China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
In the race to power the world, China is far ahead of everyone on clean-energy technology. Its lead is growing fast.
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How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality:
The End of Reality, curses of AI, and transhumanism, presenting moral cases against superintelligence.
Bluesky article BASE thread 🧵 (20 min, Aug 2023) 📖🍿🔊 archive.is/9BgzR
The End of Reality, curses of AI, and transhumanism, presenting moral cases against superintelligence.
Bluesky article BASE thread 🧵 (20 min, Aug 2023) 📖🍿🔊 archive.is/9BgzR
How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality
In an excerpt from his new book, ‘The End of Reality,’ the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism, presenting the moral case against superintelligence.
www.vanityfair.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality:
The End of Reality, curses of AI, and transhumanism, presenting moral cases against superintelligence.
Bluesky article BASE thread 🧵 (20 min, Aug 2023) 📖🍿🔊 archive.is/9BgzR
The End of Reality, curses of AI, and transhumanism, presenting moral cases against superintelligence.
Bluesky article BASE thread 🧵 (20 min, Aug 2023) 📖🍿🔊 archive.is/9BgzR
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Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast, addressed sadistic Americans cheering on Trump administration’s ICE raids, touchimg on the draconian nature of ICE’s raids & explaining that these deportations & detentions won’t make lives better for working Americans.
youtu.be/DrbJ_PQw8e4?...
youtu.be/DrbJ_PQw8e4?...
Bill Burr Goes OFF on Idiotic Americans Celebrating Trump’s Tyrannical ICE Raids
YouTube video by The Humanist Report
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June 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast, addressed sadistic Americans cheering on Trump administration’s ICE raids, touchimg on the draconian nature of ICE’s raids & explaining that these deportations & detentions won’t make lives better for working Americans.
youtu.be/DrbJ_PQw8e4?...
youtu.be/DrbJ_PQw8e4?...
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Incredibly concerning, though perhaps not surprising that this where we end up when the US HHS Secretary is endorsing conspiracy theories related to geoengineering and so-called 'weather weapons'.
www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
May 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Incredibly concerning, though perhaps not surprising that this where we end up when the US HHS Secretary is endorsing conspiracy theories related to geoengineering and so-called 'weather weapons'.
www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
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May 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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This is known as a “Holy Ghost”
Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion
https://www.europesays.com/2009702/
Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion Pope Ghosts JD Vance…
https://www.europesays.com/2009702/
Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion Pope Ghosts JD Vance…
Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion - EUROPE SAYS
Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion
www.europesays.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is known as a “Holy Ghost”
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Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid
March 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid
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From her experience working close to Trump professionally, Eileen Workman provides some helpful context and analysis.
take-note.ca/2025/02/13/a...
take-note.ca/2025/02/13/a...
Anatomy of a sociopath — Trump and the GOP dismantled
Social Synthesist and author Eileen Workman provides answers to two pressing questions I have about Donald Trump. 1) Has he always been this abusive and cruel in his business and political dealings…
take-note.ca
February 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
From her experience working close to Trump professionally, Eileen Workman provides some helpful context and analysis.
take-note.ca/2025/02/13/a...
take-note.ca/2025/02/13/a...
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#ProudBlue
Eileen Workman has provided a view of FOTUS that I find very helpful.
Eileen Workman has provided a view of FOTUS that I find very helpful.
March 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
#ProudBlue
Eileen Workman has provided a view of FOTUS that I find very helpful.
Eileen Workman has provided a view of FOTUS that I find very helpful.
Apple bubbled up this pic of my dear Sam. Fond memory of my sweet buddy.
February 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Apple bubbled up this pic of my dear Sam. Fond memory of my sweet buddy.
The Tony Pacini Trio playing “Laura” at Conway’s House of Jazz in Clackamas, Oregon
January 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Tony Pacini Trio playing “Laura” at Conway’s House of Jazz in Clackamas, Oregon
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Scientists running long-term experiments describe watching evolution take off in their labs. Find out what we’re learning about how single cells evolved and how they became complex organisms. This episode is “Going Multicellular” on Big Picture Science. 🧪 🔈
Listen: https://buff.ly/49yZEs8
Listen: https://buff.ly/49yZEs8
December 2, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Scientists running long-term experiments describe watching evolution take off in their labs. Find out what we’re learning about how single cells evolved and how they became complex organisms. This episode is “Going Multicellular” on Big Picture Science. 🧪 🔈
Listen: https://buff.ly/49yZEs8
Listen: https://buff.ly/49yZEs8
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"Few adults play musical instruments at all, and even fewer do so in a group," @mimbs.bsky.social writes. What health benefits might they be giving up?
It’s Never Too Late to Learn an Instrument
You don’t have to be talented for jamming to be worthwhile.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:00 PM
"Few adults play musical instruments at all, and even fewer do so in a group," @mimbs.bsky.social writes. What health benefits might they be giving up?
That’s it for the dahlias this year. Last night was the first hard frost here.
December 1, 2024 at 10:08 PM
That’s it for the dahlias this year. Last night was the first hard frost here.
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www.wlrn.org/environment/... Up to 70% of residents between North Carolina & Florida and a trillion dollars in property could be impacted by the end of the century with just over three feet of sea rise where the water table sits just feet below the surface.
The trillion-dollar hidden threat from climate change: rising groundwater
For the first time, a federal study calculated the risk from rising groundwater on a warming planet. South Florida represents the vast majority of that risk, with about 7.5 million people and $750 bil...
www.wlrn.org
November 30, 2024 at 10:25 PM
www.wlrn.org/environment/... Up to 70% of residents between North Carolina & Florida and a trillion dollars in property could be impacted by the end of the century with just over three feet of sea rise where the water table sits just feet below the surface.
Rudbeckia blooming on the first day of December for some reason
December 1, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Rudbeckia blooming on the first day of December for some reason
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With the help of an eclectic group of writers and editors, The Atlantic has chosen 65 gifts for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love: theatln.tc/8zpjOVFv
The Atlantic Gift Guide
The Atlantic has chosen 65 gifts for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love.
theatln.tc
November 27, 2024 at 6:59 PM
With the help of an eclectic group of writers and editors, The Atlantic has chosen 65 gifts for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love: theatln.tc/8zpjOVFv
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Very informative article on how China can respond to US tariffs — not with tariffs but with export controls that hit US supply chains. Adds to a point I've been thinking about: Trump and co have delusions of economic grandeur 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
China Has a New Playbook to Counter Trump: ‘Supply Chain Warfare’
A series of swipes at American companies show how China could take the initiative in a new trade war, using its economic dominance to exact pain.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Very informative article on how China can respond to US tariffs — not with tariffs but with export controls that hit US supply chains. Adds to a point I've been thinking about: Trump and co have delusions of economic grandeur 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
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One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.
November 25, 2024 at 1:21 PM
One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.
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The hand of Old Croghan Man, a 2000-year-old bog body that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. The man's apparently manicured nails led to speculation that he was not someone who engaged in manual labour.
Based off the man's arm span, he stood approximately 6'6'' tall.
Based off the man's arm span, he stood approximately 6'6'' tall.
November 24, 2024 at 6:30 PM
The hand of Old Croghan Man, a 2000-year-old bog body that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. The man's apparently manicured nails led to speculation that he was not someone who engaged in manual labour.
Based off the man's arm span, he stood approximately 6'6'' tall.
Based off the man's arm span, he stood approximately 6'6'' tall.