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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A blast from the past: Obama as President taking a question about gun control. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HE... The weird thing is that he seems to be thinking before he answers. What's up with that??

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Cocky MAGA Supporter Tried to HUMILIATE Obama... Instantly Got SCHOOLED

YouTube video by Bluefrontline

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If I were a Democratic Trump, every time the upcoming mid-term Republican convention gets called "tTump-a-palooza," I'd say, "I call it a Trump-a-pa-LOSER!" ...and then would bask in my own proud stupidity.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model autonomously completes Portal in 24 hours — feat cost just $571 in tokens". What's Portal, you ask,and I reply: For shame! And you call yourself a nerd?? Portal is arguably the most perfect video game of all time, that's all. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model autonomously completes Portal in 24 hours — feat cost just $571 in tokens

Astra had to map 3D game spaces and understand the puzzles before it could plan solutions and succeed.

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Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A contemporary reading recommendation for your consideration. "Wired Wisdom: How to Age Better Online," by Professor Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com and Professor John Palfrey @palfrey.org, published in 2025. You can listen to the authors talk about their book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJMZ....

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wait, I think I felt an earthquake and then my chatbots went down. Nope, my mistake. It was just the balance of power shifting.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Q: Why do authors start chapters on a new page? A: It makes it much easier to delete them.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Musical spirograph. musical.toys/toys/spirogr... Time to my becoming a full-fedged elf: 12 minutes. #toys

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Musical Spirograph - Musical Toys

Turning a spirograph into musical patterns

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"What makes an #education educational?" - Another truly thought provoking post by Rupert Wegerif. Beautifully thought and written, as always. rupertwegerif.substack.com/p/what-makes...

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What Makes Education Educational?

What the Challenge of AI Reveals About Education

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I hope they put #Trump's name on the #Kennedy Center, crediting him for rhe renovation, so that new generations will pass by and see how petty this monster was. Also, it'll be a natural place for one-fingered salutes.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Damn! I was just one short of counting to infinity!

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Calling our set of planets circling the Sun "THE Solar System" is awfully solist. There are likely billions of solar systems in our galaxy alone. We should give ours a proper name. Suggestions? (And thus began the 100 years war that destroyed every planet except Pluto.)

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Is there a word for an innovation that makes things worse? @CoryDoctorow's excellent "enshitification" is very close, but feels more at home when talking about platforms or entire services. I mean when an app thinks it has a better idea how to adjust text formatting than every other app in history.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A key to understanding me: Self-doubt is my safe place.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

You can't have Cuba until you finish your Iran. And you've barely touched your Venezuela. Finish your Iran and Venezuela before you even think about having some Cuba. And weren't you trying to save space for Greenland? Where are you planning to put all these countries?

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Here's Jacob Collier and Jahari Stampley sharing a piano: www.youtube.com/@JahariStamp... Stampley playing a single piano. I have no words except listen

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Why aren't the left-leaning mainstream media saying the obvious truth: #Trump pardoned the Jan. 6 traitors and wants the $1.B "#compensation" fund in order to fund his personal Gestapo for the next election. Is that not it?

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Last week for me: Too much going on and not enough happening.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

CAUTION: Negative ear worm ahead: I'm having trouble listening to MS-NOW because I've start noticing that virtually every guest says "Look" at some point in their comment, as in "Yes, but, look, Iran's never ...etc." It's role is subtle. And annoying. I'LL LOOK AT WHAT I DAMN WELL WANT TO LOOK AT!

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Milli Vanilli dropped out of Trump's Rock'n End of Democracy celebration??? Oh no! I'm a huge fan. In fact,in high school I was in a Milli Vanilli tribute band. Easiest gigs ever!

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I've started using cotypist.com, a remarkably good AI autocomplete tool for Macs. It ticks all the right privacy boxes, and as age decreases my typing accuracy, it's a real help. (Yes this is an unsolicited endorsement.)

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Cotypist – Smart Autocomplete for Mac | Type Faster, Write Better

Cotypist: Smart autocomplete for Mac. Type as fast as you think in any app. Save hours, reduce errors, and boost your productivity.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I hesitate to recommend something enduringly delightful, but Ok Go's "This Too Shall Pass" video is even more perfect (cool your jets, nitpickers!) embedded in their educational toolkit site. okgosandbox.org/this-too-sha... #okgo

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This Too Shall Pass

OK Go created this video by connecting a series of simple machines together, to create a single chain reaction machine, timed perfectly to their song. So perfectly in fact, that...

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

So you tihnk the numeral nine is *really* a round thing on a straight vertical line? Scroll through Google Fonts trying to to find one that agrees with your second grade teacher!

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Look, I gave it a shot, but "Howdy and hello! I hope all is wowdy and well-o!" just isn't catching on as a way to start an email. You got something better?

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm looking forward to two years from now, max, when people are saying, "Remember when we couldn't talk with books? We had to just sit there and read them! Unbelievable." #AI

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

So creative that it's unpossible x.com/oo_kk_aa/sta... via @mathewingram

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Scene: Trump completes his cognitive test. The doctor calls in other docs and they all marvel at the results. "First to ever complete it perfectly!" "No one ever got the squirrel right!" Trump publicly brags about this multiple times, demonstrating his cognitive decline. The docs played 5D chess.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Debate topic: We fear computer autonomy because we fear human autonomy

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The email from my friend who sent me this link just said "Wow!". I'm ot going to argue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Oy...

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Claude Opus 4.7: A Song and Advice from AI

YouTube video by AI Simplified

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Do you. like me, enjoy the manly pleasure of chopping wood but are worried about the risk? Join my Kickstarter for my patent pending Butter Axe ™️!

AI-generated image of an axe with completely blunt edge, and the text: The Butter Axe: Forging a new tradition in safely blunt woodworking." (Gemini)

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Take a MERRY GANDER at Virginia's GERYYMANDER!!!! Yeah, I hate gerrymandering, too. But not as much as I hate the death of democracy if the Republicans keep control of Congress by gerrymandering.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Yo, #SNL, I can't wait to see next episode's cold open of Trump & Mamdani leading little kids in "The Wheels on the Bus.": "So this is what the inside of a bus looks like? Momddady, you ought to tariff these things. Big Beautiful Tariffs." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/n...

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Mamdani and Obama Lead Preschool Singalong to Promote Free Child Care

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Come for the music. Stay for the comments section. (via @mathewingram.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#Trump is literally playing one-dimensional chess. For example, after leveling #Iran's civilian infrastructure doesn't remove the Iranian regime, what's our next step? What's left? #1D

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 13/03/2026

EXCLUSIVE - I've just been passed the latest copy from the Papua New Guinea Courier's USA correspondent. Subscribe to my Substack for more! mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-latest...

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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

In a span of 40 minutes, Trump's only consistent message was inconsistency.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

From Academia.edu: "Based on the papers you've read, we think you might be interested in this published article: Nutrient deficiency detection in hydroponic Turkish cucumber using ensemble technique" Dammit! I was just about to publish my findings on that topic! 😒 Twelve years of research wasted!

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Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social remembers Jürgen Habermas, who just passed away, with a learned and thoughtful essay (from his excellent Gutenberg book) about the role of coffee houses and conversations in forming publics. medium.com/whither-news...

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Habermas and his Coffeehouses

An excerpt from The Gutenberg Parenthesis

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My conclusion from an online debate about how to explain the Iran war, officially known as operation Epic Fuckup: Don't ascribe to chaos what can be more easily explained by incompetence.

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Having just submitted my final, copy-edited version of my upcoming book, I am announcing my personal motto as "Tempus omnes corrigit" or "Tempus omnia corigit" (Time edits us all, or Time edits all). (Latin by Claude) beautifulparticulars.com [beta]

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Beautiful Particulars – David Weinberger

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

What's the over/under on #Trump signing our dollar bills with a #Sharpie? (Also, what's an over/under?)

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David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Tracy Kidder, a superb and deeply compassionate writer has died. His works shine a light on the suffering, strength, and hope that is our lot. His work and writing are blessings.

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