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Justin Manley
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Writer and programmer.

Science, spatiality, magic, mind.

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Tooze: "China is the decisive variable in climate politics going forward...when I say that China becomes the singular centre of the entire global energy drama, I’m not exaggerating. It’s true. It is the entire fossil game and by far the dominant wind and solar player."

en.ccg.org.cn/archives/88518
Transcript: Adam Tooze at CCG
To the latest event information and expert opinions?
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August 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
just devoured @annaleen.bsky.social's Automatic Noodle in less than 24 hours. Just what I needed 🤖🍜🎯😊 -- soooo on point!
August 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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The MJT is one of the greatest places in all of Los Angeles. I hope they recover and reopen soon (and weirder than ever) lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2025/07/jura...
Jurassic Technology on Fire
I'm late to the news, but a fire of unknown origin broke out at Culver City's Museum of Jurassic Technology on the night of July 8th. Founde...
lacmaonfire.blogspot.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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In a world where more people obsess about their work being inherently meaningful, I hope that you see your job relatively close to the left side of the chart...
June 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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A tale of two cities, Chicago bike edition: On the left is CDOT's map of bike infrastructure on the North Side, and on the right is the South Side. Even without the legend, you can tell that these are two different worlds, with I-55 acting as a border between them
June 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
how it started vs. how it's going on the Elizabeth Line
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
wise words seem obvious once spoken. past me needed to hear this. maybe also present me.
If you don't enjoy writing, maybe being a writer isn't for you. That's okay! Most people are not writers. People become writers because they like to write. Otherwise they do other things with their time. AI will never solve the fact that you do not like to write.
May 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
sometimes I come across a book in a bookstore and think: this was written SPECIFICALLY for me. never more than today, tho:
May 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I wouldn't expect grey, yellow, and red to go together, but somehow the M3 metro line in Milan makes the combo look SO cool. I look forward to any chance I get to ride this line as an opportunity to be immersed in this crazy color world
April 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The London County Council has been defunct since 1965, and this coat of arms hasn't been officially in use since 1986, when Thatcher abolished its successor the GLC. But in some parts of London at least, the seal is still lovingly kept up!
March 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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“Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business…Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive govt funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
learned enough about metalworking this weekend to make a rough-and-ready stand for a corn bulb by welding steel rods together 👨‍🏭
February 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
very underwhelmed by GeoSpy. Just tried it out with a bunch of pics I took when I lived in San Francisco.

I selected these pics to be difficult, but not impossible. They all show public places.

GeoSpy seems almost completely clueless about anything that's not a typical StreetView-type photo.
January 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
London Short Film Festival is back!! Loved the kickoff program of short films from the '90s, especially "Latifa and Himli's Nomadic Uncle" by Alnoor Dewshi player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
January 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I lean forward to get a better view of the painting, but the couple behind me is in the way.
January 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Top exhibitions I saw this year (in no particular order):

Anthony Gormley: Time Horizon @ Houghton Hall (UK)
Gala Porras-Kim @ MCA Denver
Elizabeth Englander, Eminem Buddhism @ Aldrich Museum (CT)
Tom of Finland / Beryl Cook @ Studio Voltaire (London)
Lygia Clark @ Whitechapel Gallery (London)
January 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My top reads this year, in order (yes, I know they're oldies -- but still just as good as ever!):

1. Dante's Inferno
2. The Knife Thrower
3. Life: A User's Manual
4. If on a winters night a traveler
5. Speak, Memory
6. Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
7. Five Ways to Forgiveness
8. Howard's End
December 31, 2024 at 12:45 AM
making a Christmas gift for my mom: a set of David Umemoto's beautiful cut-and-fold paper sculptures

davidumemoto.com/architecture...
December 19, 2024 at 11:48 AM
I thought I was too late to snag an Antistatic Print Object this year bc when I tried to sign up for one, they were already maxed out. But I guess I must have signed up earlier and then forgotten because GUESS WHAT JUST ARRIVED!!!
December 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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What that teacher’s thread highlights is that children are deciding which authoritative voice is more credible and we’re going to lose that fight.

We need to be teaching children how to challenge authority to determine credibility.

ChatGPT can easily be used against itself. We need to show kids.
December 10, 2024 at 3:32 PM
a sizeable chunk of the moral panic around "AI" is about the destabilizing force of AI-generated falsehoods (aka "hallucinations"). but what about the falsehoods AI encourages us to generate ourselves? 🧵>>> a thread (1/10)
December 15, 2024 at 6:50 PM
my mom made a podcast! (at the local public library, no less!)

it's all about the built and designed world, and the first few episodes are about cars + roads. I just learned about how fire trucks shape our experience of the roads, even when they're not out & about

open.spotify.com/episode/0udV...
Traffic Fatalities and Vehicle Design
open.spotify.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:33 PM
lord knows I love a good story about militant nuns (thinking of @nicolaz.bsky.social, @kenfollettauthor.bsky.social, Mark Salzman), so obviously I was VERY interested to see nuns on the front page of the NYT this morn

sometimes reality is more unlikely than fiction

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/r...
These Nuns Were Excommunicated but Won’t Leave Their Convents
The Poor Clares of Belorado, in northern Spain, are digging in their heels in a battle of wills over real estate with the Catholic Church.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:12 PM