joeldg
@joeldg.bsky.social
Technologist, futurist, author, artist, and entrepreneur. I have written a novel, short stories, and I am working on a serial.
Microorganisms are widely developing the ability to break down plastics in the ocean. What happens when the ability spreads and all our plastics get broken down. Just image your car dashboard falling apart, all our electronics. The entire product line in Walmart melting on the shelves!
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Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases with a functional motif across global oceans
Abstract. Accumulating evidence indicates that microorganisms respond to the ubiquitous plastic pollution by evolving plastic-degrading enzymes. However, t
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November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Microorganisms are widely developing the ability to break down plastics in the ocean. What happens when the ability spreads and all our plastics get broken down. Just image your car dashboard falling apart, all our electronics. The entire product line in Walmart melting on the shelves!
I like it!
I like it!
"... If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial."
When is better to think without words?
Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz
October 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"... If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial."
Seeing these around... the black flag seems to be raising.
May 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Seeing these around... the black flag seems to be raising.
I did a distillation Deep Resarch on each of the first two books, then another on the novellas and everything concrete ever said about the final book and then fed it to a state-of-the-art AI to get a detailed outline of the final book.
It's pretty amazing.
It's pretty amazing.
An AI outline for The Doors of Stone
“Dude needs to just get something out there, even if it’s crap. Let ChatGPT do it! Then he can move on with his life.”
medium.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I did a distillation Deep Resarch on each of the first two books, then another on the novellas and everything concrete ever said about the final book and then fed it to a state-of-the-art AI to get a detailed outline of the final book.
It's pretty amazing.
It's pretty amazing.
It's true — and you can point the fingers at the usual suspects for "why" and it always has it's roots in the same thing.
How did childcare in the US become so absurdly expensive?
Families are taking out lines of credit, working second jobs, commuting for hours and forgoing careers. It doesn’t need to be this way, experts say
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's true — and you can point the fingers at the usual suspects for "why" and it always has it's roots in the same thing.
My thoughts how I use Deep Research for literally everything now, and how that, as an early adopter, I can see that this is going to wildly change the way we all use the web.
Everything is going to be different, everything.
Everything is going to be different, everything.
Deep research changes everything.
Or you know … maybe the end of the “web”
medium.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
My thoughts how I use Deep Research for literally everything now, and how that, as an early adopter, I can see that this is going to wildly change the way we all use the web.
Everything is going to be different, everything.
Everything is going to be different, everything.
Let's be honest here. There isn't a chance in hell Trump is going to let mid-terms happen—and, it's going to suck—but by November of next year I predict that we will very much be talking about a Western States coalition to splinter from the USA and likely also a North-Eastern coalition.
March 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Let's be honest here. There isn't a chance in hell Trump is going to let mid-terms happen—and, it's going to suck—but by November of next year I predict that we will very much be talking about a Western States coalition to splinter from the USA and likely also a North-Eastern coalition.
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every single person on this list has misread the political moment so badly that they must be immediately primaried for their own good and prevented from taking a new job that requires more than a first grade reading comprehension level
The 10 Democrats who voted with Republicans just now to censor Al Green:
Ami Bera (CA)
Ed Case (HI)
Jim Costa (CA)
Laura Gillen (NY)
Jim Himes (CT)
Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
Marcy Kaptur (OH)
Jared Moskowitz (FL)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Tom Suozzi (NY)
Ami Bera (CA)
Ed Case (HI)
Jim Costa (CA)
Laura Gillen (NY)
Jim Himes (CT)
Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
Marcy Kaptur (OH)
Jared Moskowitz (FL)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Tom Suozzi (NY)
March 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
every single person on this list has misread the political moment so badly that they must be immediately primaried for their own good and prevented from taking a new job that requires more than a first grade reading comprehension level
... well done
The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway
When your state machines are vulnerable, all bets are off
www.theregister.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
... well done
wow
The Government Knows AGI is Coming | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
wow
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*TRUMP SEEKS TO PUT 443 FEDERAL PROPERTIES UP FOR SALE
*PROPERTIES INCLUDE HHS AND HUD HEADQUARTERS IN DC
Listed properties here: www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...
*PROPERTIES INCLUDE HHS AND HUD HEADQUARTERS IN DC
Listed properties here: www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...
Non-core property list
Learn about our lease cost avoidance plan and its successes.
www.gsa.gov
March 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
*TRUMP SEEKS TO PUT 443 FEDERAL PROPERTIES UP FOR SALE
*PROPERTIES INCLUDE HHS AND HUD HEADQUARTERS IN DC
Listed properties here: www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...
*PROPERTIES INCLUDE HHS AND HUD HEADQUARTERS IN DC
Listed properties here: www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...
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The rare fireblizznado on its way
March 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The rare fireblizznado on its way
I am 100% convinced that he has hundreds of surrogate mothers out there that he has paid and that he is building a small town.
Elon Musk’s Daughter Reacts to Discovery of Billionaire’s 14th Known Child
Musk, who now has 14 known children, has had two new babies revealed in the last few weeks.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I am 100% convinced that he has hundreds of surrogate mothers out there that he has paid and that he is building a small town.
"patrimonialism" it is
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"patrimonialism" it is
refined
Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
refined
Important
Scientists Just Created Shape-Shifting Robots That Flow Like Liquid and Harden Like Steel
Researchers have designed a robotic material that transforms like a living organism. Inspired by embryos, these disk-shaped robots use magnets, motors, and light to shift between rigid and fluid state...
scitechdaily.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Important
I wrote an ADHD noise machine for the mac terminal.
Creating Noise Textures (Brown, White, Pink) in the Terminal
ADHD is an enormous problem for tech workers, so I have written a free color-noise mixer in python (GitHub link below).
medium.com
February 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I wrote an ADHD noise machine for the mac terminal.
Meanwhile, here in the USA, we have prominent Republican leaders who are just openly Nazis now.
February 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Meanwhile, here in the USA, we have prominent Republican leaders who are just openly Nazis now.
Pretty wild
Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits
YouTube video by Microsoft
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Pretty wild
When spending on information security, efficiency = vulnerability.
US military and defense contractors hit with Infostealer malware
Lockheed Martin and Boeing among those affected
www.techradar.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
When spending on information security, efficiency = vulnerability.
So many good points here.
The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
So many good points here.
What does college mean in the age of AGI—When you can have a AGI as a 'perfect' teacher, one that works with you in nuanced ways providing insights and challenges at precisely the time they are needed at the exact level and tone to prime the best response—that are always available and aware of you.
It's Later Than You Think
The starkest view
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
What does college mean in the age of AGI—When you can have a AGI as a 'perfect' teacher, one that works with you in nuanced ways providing insights and challenges at precisely the time they are needed at the exact level and tone to prime the best response—that are always available and aware of you.
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Kendrick Lamar Awarded Nobel Beef Prize theonion.com/kendric...
February 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Kendrick Lamar Awarded Nobel Beef Prize theonion.com/kendric...
This is exactly what they 'claimed' they were against.
Trump’s A.G. Just Did Something So Corrupt She Should Be Fired Already
Note to right-wing “media” and all you fantasists who believe them: This is what judicial sleaze actually looks like.
newrepublic.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is exactly what they 'claimed' they were against.