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David Staley

@davidstaley8.bsky.social
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Writer, futurist, mark maker, designer, presenter, advisor, provocateur, public intellectual, educator, historiographer, monologist, and "eclectic academic"

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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 3h
Let's talk artificial intelligence, super intelligence, and Romeo & Juliet's bad planning. In @ordinarytimes.bsky.social ordinary-times.com/2026/09/30/b...
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By Superintelligence Word Would AI Be As Sweet - Ordinary Times
As bad as calling souped-up search engines and computing speeds "artificial intelligence” is “super intelligence” is worse
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 7h
Wend #114 | 0:18 🌀 With no hints & no backtracks 🏅 I’m in the Top 5% of all players today! lnkd.in/wend.
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Wend | LinkedIn
Wend is a free daily word search game from LinkedIn. Each day, a new puzzle invites you to connect letters in a grid and uncover hidden words.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 7h
Crossclimb #883 | 0:42 No mistakes & no hints Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ ⬇️ ⬆️ 🪜 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/crossclimb.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 7h
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 7h
One-sentence Future: Caffeine He performed the secret knock and gave the password at the unmarked door behind the bakery, and the barista carded him twice before sliding across a single illegal espresso, the real stuff, the kind that used to be sold openly on every corner in America.
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One-sentence Future: Caffeine
He performed the secret knock and gave the password at the unmarked door behind the bakery, and the barista carded him twice before sliding across a single illegal espresso, the real stuff, the kind t...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 18h
#numble204 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Composition C"
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doctors prescribed the empathizer—a technology that allows one to feel another’s pain—to combat loneliness, but they were quickly used off-label for recreational purposes, with users chasing strangers’ grief, addiction and heartbreak for hours, describing the experience as “finally feeling alive.”
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One-sentence Future: The Empathizer
Doctors prescribed the empathizer—a technology that allows one to feel another’s pain—to combat loneliness, but they were quickly used off-label for recreational purposes, with users chasing strangers...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are concerned about the local environmental and social impacts of data centers, I highly recommend this OSU CURA webinar by Julie Bolthouse from the Piedmont Environmental Council. An eye opening and jaw dropping account of what they are facing in Virginia.
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The Local Impact of Data Centers with Julie Bolthouse
YouTube video by CURA OSU
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#numble203 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pinpoint #881 | 1 guess with no mistakes 1️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 1% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.
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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our own resident @ordinarytimes.bsky.social professional pilot @captainkudzu.bsky.social walks us through US Senator Tommy Tuberville's self-beclowning over furries flying airliners... I still can't believe I have to type that out in the Year of Our Lord 2026
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Tommy Tuberville Lets the Fur Fly - Ordinary Times
Tommy Tuberville launches himself into a bizarre misinterpretation of reality that has no bearing at all on safety or anything else.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My latest "Voices" interview with Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching recipient Guramrit Singh, who studies messenger RNA. Have a listen! podcast.osu.edu/voices-of-ex...
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Guramrit Singh: Deciphering the messages of mRNA | Voices of Excellence
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One-sentence Future: Police Beat “Officers responded Tuesday to three reports of unauthorized dreaming, confiscated a teenager’s unlicensed memory recorder and reminded residents that all neighborhood conversations must be conducted through approved civic-listening kiosks.”
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One-sentence Future: Police Beat
“Officers responded Tuesday to three reports of unauthorized dreaming, confiscated a teenager’s unlicensed memory recorder and reminded residents that all neighborhood conversations must be conducted ...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The only thing that’s changed is the neighborhood itself — bit by bit: columbusunderground.com/can-franklin...
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The Only Constant in Franklinton, is Change - Columbus Underground
It's nearly impossible to define Franklinton based on any particular "snapshot in time", because the neighborhood looks a little bit different every single day.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A much different look than what was last proposed: columbusunderground.com/new-design-u...
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New Design Unveiled for Proposed Apartment Complex - Columbus Underground
The team behind a proposed three-story apartment complex at 610 W. Town St. was back before the East Franklinton Review Board this week with an updated design. The project, from Grateful Development P...
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yup, there’s no full ‘path back’ | Allies will likely for a very long time view the U.S. differently in terms of continuity of international engagement and of likelihood of keeping commitments and following through on promises and threats
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus wants to tear down yet another building: columbusunderground.com/plans-filed-...
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Application Filed to Demolish Former School & Museum Building - Columbus Underground
A historic Franklinton building that served as a refuge during the Great Flood of 1913 is likely headed for demolition. Originally built to hold the Holy Family School and later home to a food pantry ...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Patches #192 | 0:11 🧶 With no hints & no redraws 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/patches.
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Patches | LinkedIn
Patches by LinkedIn. Patches is a spatial logic puzzle where you complete every shape in the grid based on a set of clues.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On Wednesday, we were at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, designing the future of Ohio for the "Future Ohio" initiative of the America 250-Ohio commission.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One-sentence Future: The Carnivore Decrees The regime criminalized veganism and forced subjects to eat meat at every meal, filling the gulags to capacity with those who could not afford to obey the Carnivore Decrees. davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...
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One-sentence Future: The Carnivore Decrees
The regime criminalized veganism and forced subjects to eat meat at every meal, filling the gulags to capacity with those who could not afford to obey the Carnivore Decrees.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In some ways the US's real superpower has historically been to suffer relatively modest domestic political blowback from remote wars, however misguided and costly, until ... now?🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | How Trump’s Iran War May Sink Republican Midterm Chances (Gift Article)
The president might be supercharging what already looked like a blue wave.
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🆄🅳🅹 - 𝕌ltra 𝔻irector 𝕁ester 🎮🎙️📚 @udjester.com · 24/09/2026
HEY YOU!! We're ready with another new episode of Super Mario Bros. 3! It's the second part of our trauma in Pipe Land, as our suffering involving those emerald tubes with biting plants inside still hasn't ended...how much longer til Ludwig is felled? youtu.be/6lh8gQDelUQ
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One sentence Future: Lavalier The compulsory lavalier hangs from every neck, recording and reporting every action and every thought, mandatory for everyone except, of course, the privileged who bask in their privacy. davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...
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One sentence Future: Lavalier
The compulsory lavalier hangs from every neck, recording and reporting every action and every thought, mandatory for everyone except, of course, the privileged who bask in their privacy.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@realinfowars.bsky.social 🙂 Daily Quordle 1704 6️⃣5️⃣ 8️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One-sentence Future: Atmospheric art Scientists concluded that Saturn’s Hexagon and Decagon were monumental works of “atmospheric art,” comparable to Earth’s environmental and land art, although they could not conclusively say who the artists were. davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...
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One-sentence Future: Atmospheric art
Scientists concluded that Saturn’s Hexagon and Decagon were monumental works of “atmospheric art,” comparable to Earth’s environmental and land art, although they could not conclusively say who the ar...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thrilled and honored to be opening and keynoting Weds Sept 23 to discuss US history and #America250 for the Ohio State University Retirees Association 2026 Annual Conference #OSU #historymatters #OSURA oaa.osu.edu/events/keyno...
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Keynote "America at 250 — The Nation, The Founding, and The Ohio State University" by Prof. Christopher Nichols at the OSURA: 2026 Annual Conference | Office of Academic Affairs
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pinpoint #875 | 2 guesses 1️⃣ | 4% match 2️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 5% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Composition A"
Abstract art, in blue, red, yellow with asemic lines
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One-sentence Future: Weirdness American cities elbow each other to climb the Weirdness Index, commissioning eccentric festivals and bizarre architecture and improbable public art and delightfully inexplicable civic rituals, in a vain attempt to leapfrog perennial leaders Portland and Austin.
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One-sentence Future: Weirdness
American cities elbow each other to climb the Weirdness Index, commissioning eccentric festivals and bizarre architecture and improbable public art and delightfully inexplicable civic rituals, in a va...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote about the AI safety panic, where it stands, and how it might unfold: aiandacademia.substack.com/p/ai-safety-...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was interviewed for both of these reports, which appeared in the Columbus Dispatch yesterday "Is AI a threat? What Ohio experts say about worrying AI revelations," www.dispatch.com/story/news/t... "AI is going to change all our lives. Ohio experts explain how," www.dispatch.com/story/news/t...
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AI is going to change all our lives. Ohio experts explain how
To break down how AI is impacting our everyday lives, The Dispatch interviewed central Ohio experts across different industries and specialties.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One-sentence Future: Dive Young people proudly call their neighborhood gathering places dives, meaning impeccable, rare and refined, while their grandparents are baffled by the semantic shift, muttering “kids these days…” davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...
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One-sentence Future: Dive
Young people proudly call their neighborhood gathering places dives, meaning impeccable, rare and refined, while their grandparents are baffled by the semantic shift, muttering “kids these days…”
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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🆄🅳🅹 - 𝕌ltra 𝔻irector 𝕁ester 🎮🎙️📚 @udjester.com · 19/09/2026
HEY YOU!! This week on Bargain Bin Lounge, it's a modern look at a classic, retro vector shooter with a new coat of paint! The old gem from Atari's library, revamped for now-modern consoles, it's Tempest 4000! Let's pump up the jams! youtu.be/WFG_SxXGWeE
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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
⚽️ ICYMI, pics from Wednesday’s win: columbusunderground.com/crew-defeats...
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Crew Defeats Orlando to Move on to U.S. Open Cup Final - Columbus Underground
Columbus Crew have advanced to the U.S. Open Cup final after defeating Orlando by 2-1 on Wednesday night at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Crossclimb #872 | 0:34 No mistakes & no hints Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ ⬆️ ⬇️ 🪜 🏅 I’m in the Top 5% of all players today! lnkd.in/crossclimb.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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