Dr. Steve, but on blue sky
@drsteve1663.bsky.social
0.0001% acrylic by weight. Space physics, bikes, coffee, music, etc.
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Wrote about the feeling of living at a literal fever pitch for the last decade, and how every day things somehow get worse but stay the same.
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...
We Live Inside The Shepard Tone
Everyday things get worse, and stay the same
houseofmirrors.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Wrote about the feeling of living at a literal fever pitch for the last decade, and how every day things somehow get worse but stay the same.
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...
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A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template
Your slides are not your talk.
clauswilke.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
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I literally just found out (five minutes ago!) that they have finished shooting Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social and I can’t wait. This is the book that made me come out of the closet and tell people that I loved science fiction, which was unusual for a 20 yr old girl. It’s still unusual!
June 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I literally just found out (five minutes ago!) that they have finished shooting Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social and I can’t wait. This is the book that made me come out of the closet and tell people that I loved science fiction, which was unusual for a 20 yr old girl. It’s still unusual!
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everything's a UFO if you're bad enough at identifying it, everything is fast food if you bring enough fire, everything is filler if you aren't paying attention, everything's a horror story
June 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
everything's a UFO if you're bad enough at identifying it, everything is fast food if you bring enough fire, everything is filler if you aren't paying attention, everything's a horror story
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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Happy Saturday!
April 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Happy Saturday!
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Newcastle decided to be spectacular this morning. Thanks for that.
April 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Newcastle decided to be spectacular this morning. Thanks for that.
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March 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Libra: Although today is not your day, fear not, tomorrow will be worse. Much, much worse. Hoo boy, so, so bad.
March 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Libra: Although today is not your day, fear not, tomorrow will be worse. Much, much worse. Hoo boy, so, so bad.
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Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.
February 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.
The opinions sections in WaPo, NYT, etc. have always had their share of garbage. Now WaPo won't tolerate any opinions speaking against the excess of free markets? Or against the "personal liberties" of billionaires? Fuck that noise.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The opinions sections in WaPo, NYT, etc. have always had their share of garbage. Now WaPo won't tolerate any opinions speaking against the excess of free markets? Or against the "personal liberties" of billionaires? Fuck that noise.
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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Apropos of nothing in particular, I've been thinking a lot recently about a friend's old band "The Kakistocrats"
February 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, I've been thinking a lot recently about a friend's old band "The Kakistocrats"
The Guardian isn't problem-free, but it's probably doing best in the moment out of all the newspapers serving the US. We need government that works for the people, and we need an end to bigotry. Autocracy and oligarchy must be ended.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are on the road for democracy and justice | Bernie Sanders
What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Guardian isn't problem-free, but it's probably doing best in the moment out of all the newspapers serving the US. We need government that works for the people, and we need an end to bigotry. Autocracy and oligarchy must be ended.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
nymag.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
Brian Molko is a gem (and Placebo are all-time greats) and is completely right. Calling out fascists is never wrong.
Placebo's Brian Molko has been charged with defamation for “contempt of the institutions" in Italy after calling prime minister Giorgia Meloni a “piece of shit, fascist, racist” during the 2023 Sonic Park festival.
Placebo’s Brian Molko Charged With Defamation for Calling Italian Prime Minister “Fascist, Racist”
Molko was sued in 2023 for his onstage remarks about Italy’s hard-right government
pitchfork.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Brian Molko is a gem (and Placebo are all-time greats) and is completely right. Calling out fascists is never wrong.
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I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.
www.the-reframe.com/the/
www.the-reframe.com/the/
The Worst and the Dimmest
It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.
www.the-reframe.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.
www.the-reframe.com/the/
www.the-reframe.com/the/
AGU journals don't do this. Nor do they have ai or automation in the editorial and review process (looking at you frontiers).
Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI — without telling editors or authors
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/05/e...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/05/e...
Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI — without telling editors or authors
The Journal of Human Evolution is published by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. All but one of the JHE editorial board resigned last week in the wake of Elsevier rewriting papers w…
pivot-to-ai.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
AGU journals don't do this. Nor do they have ai or automation in the editorial and review process (looking at you frontiers).
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
A New York City doctor said he will continue providing gender-affirming treatments to his patients younger than 19 despite President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to ban such care.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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Here, I said some goofy bullshit about what maybe you can do today. Is it helpful? Probably not! But it's here! For you to ignore or embrace at your leisure.
terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
Here’s What I Think You Do Today, January 20th, 2025
It’s gonna be a stupid, horrible day. We all know that. It’s going to be full of what passes for pomp and circumstance amongst the set of rich tacky dickheads that are about to take ful…
terribleminds.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Here, I said some goofy bullshit about what maybe you can do today. Is it helpful? Probably not! But it's here! For you to ignore or embrace at your leisure.
terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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I've put together a starter pack of accounts related to solar physics, space weather, and space climate.🔭🧪
If you know anyone else who should be included, please let me know, and I'll add them.
go.bsky.app/KKV5kUu
If you know anyone else who should be included, please let me know, and I'll add them.
go.bsky.app/KKV5kUu
November 13, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I've put together a starter pack of accounts related to solar physics, space weather, and space climate.🔭🧪
If you know anyone else who should be included, please let me know, and I'll add them.
go.bsky.app/KKV5kUu
If you know anyone else who should be included, please let me know, and I'll add them.
go.bsky.app/KKV5kUu
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Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.
I remember people saying things like “you can’t fix an empty page” as an explanation for why writing a shitty first draft is better than no writing, but it’s not because it’s easier to edit than draft.
It’s because the act of drafting tells you about the shape of the story.
It’s because the act of drafting tells you about the shape of the story.
This is not just bots. We are seeing more and more submissions by writers with publication records who are almost certainly using AI to create initial drafts and then are trying and failing to edit things into shape.
October 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.
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Nuclear weapons (a good Nobel Prize!) are one of the biggest reasons to vote for Harris over Trump. Here's a thread of articles about the stakes in this election for science, health, environment & more -- in one convenient location for any undecided or unmotivated voters. This is important. (1/7) 🧪
How the 2024 Presidential Election Will Shape Science, Health and the Environment
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris represent very different futures when it comes to science-related policy issues that deeply affect our lives. Scientific American has rounded up the U.S. presidential ca...
www.scientificamerican.com
October 11, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Nuclear weapons (a good Nobel Prize!) are one of the biggest reasons to vote for Harris over Trump. Here's a thread of articles about the stakes in this election for science, health, environment & more -- in one convenient location for any undecided or unmotivated voters. This is important. (1/7) 🧪