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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning #Abq! See you at #BalloonFiesta! We’ll be flying Infinitude, the Flying Fractal from launch spot S2, at the northeast side of the field all week.

Fractal balloon flying against a blue sky

$Looking up directly under the fractal balloon$ $Looking inside the fractal balloon$

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congratulations Roy - very happy for you and family!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every time I’m stuck on a plane with a maintenance delay waiting to take off (like now) I tell myself “Yeay! Hurray for impeccable aviation safety culture!” While my fellow passengers grumble I focus on amazement and gratitude.

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think about this a lot. All of the intricacies of modern civilization, all the invisible systems we blindly depend on could all just.. stop working. Eventually something like this is likely to happen again 😰

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also I love this book by photographer Beth Moon who travels the world taking gorgeous pictures of amazing trees :)

Cover of Beth Moon’s “Ancient Trees, Portraits of Time”

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wonderful! Tania and I went to Northern California this summer and holy cow they have some big old trees up there! (Just read Suzanne Simard’s “Finding the Mother” and “When the Forest Breathes”, which was perfect!)

Woman standing at the base of a giant redwood tree

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hey wow! My youngest just started too, last week. What a ride! Talk about bittersweet… Congratulations / condolences!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yes absolutely, AI could be a positive force in education. I think of human knowledge as a fractal tree, where everyone should be exposed to the basic concepts, but then people could explore any of the branches as deeply as they want; AI could help guide people on their unique journeys

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is what we need. Resilience in the face of government hostility towards science and the planet. Glad to see our real leaders stepping up.

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Except the Second Law of Thermodynamics - alas!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is why the highest leverage, paradigm-shifting work we can do is to teach people to see and appreciate complex systems. Stop pretending we can ‘manage’ the world the way we’ve done, as if there are no limits. Realize we have the ability to create a better world. Unleash the Butterfly Power!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Very excited for the upcoming book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)”! Congratulations Dr Mack!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So incredibly proud of NM and our attorney general for taking on one of the biggest and evilest companies of all time - and winning!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

$89,000 - and in French no less. A lovely excerpt from Baudelaire’s Fleurs du mal

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What are your favorite cities? Mine are: Paris Geneva Copenhagen Florence Porto Beauty counts a lot for me. So do pastries. And bike lanes!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Fantastic! Impressive to see your success in bringing better urbanism to cities around the world, especially European ones. Bravo!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Yup, I knew it :) I loved that sweet poignant beautiful heartbreaking book so much. I’m about to embark on my own bittersweet backroads journey to Montana (from NM) with my freshly graduated daughter. “Dvorak Lived in Iowa” still makes me cry

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Oh wow, this looks like a route @sarahkendzior.bsky.social would take and write beautiful stories about

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Waiting to see how sharp the infringement filters are on this platform…

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Took a little stroll through the forests of Endor (Cheatham Grove, CA)

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Indeed, a thousand years ago there was a great civilization at Chaco canyon, and then the climate changed, the rivers dried up, and the people mostly had to move away…

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Flying home to #ABQ, it’s both scary and heartbreaking to see the Rio Grande completely dry. What will become of us here in the desert?…

Aerial view of the Rio Grande River , with no water.

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Seriously encouraging good news. We need to remember there are actually lots of really good things happening all over too!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ah yes, this fractal perspective explains so much!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Important story to learn about! I’ve assumed and trusted that Wikimedia Foundation was an honorable ethical org. But NO, they will destroy Wikipedia if they keep acting like any other tech company. They must not be allowed to destroy this crown jewel of the internet!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

For those not comfortable with kilometers, the data shows lowering speeds from ~25mph to ~18mph reduces fatalities by half.

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Applied physics! Kinetic energy scales as the square of velocity, so slowing down a little lowers energy a lot, and saves lives. Be like Finland - respect science, value life!

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PonderOsa @rockintheroad.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New Mexico, let's goooo!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live! 1. Pink Floyd 2. Santana 3. Jeff Beck 4. Rush 5. Stevie Ray Vaughan 6. Roger Waters 7. Jethro Tull 8. Paul McCartney 9. Grateful Dead 10. Depeche Mode

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think Dr Sawin is exactly right. Another brilliant and essential thread. Thank you for your courage and sharing your wisdom!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is a tremendously eye-opening thread about the natural leaders of our species - the wise, powerful women, the ones we’ve been blatantly ignoring. At our peril.

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Another great thread by Beth Sawin about how we ought to organize ourselves as a society and species in the complex systems we are part of. We are so smart… and yet so dumb!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I love #SanFrancisco! Riding the BART to SFO, heading home. Grateful to be in a city with working public transit and glad to see how much nicer the BART has become since I last rode it. Wonder how much ridership has increased since gas is now ~$6.50 / gallon here…

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I wanted to like it more than I did. I mean, it was great, and a necessary envisioning of the future, full of important ideas. But he’s just so long winded sometimes, I feel he could use some editing. That was even more so in the Mars trilogy. Maybe I just have a short attention span…

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It feels so good to support EFF! Plus I got a cool bumper sticker, “Do you follow tech policy this closely?” 😂

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Happy earth day everybody! We sure live in a beautiful planet! Let’s keep it that way

Fractal balloon over the river in Telluride Colorado

Fractal balloon over the sandstone formations at Red Rock State Park, NM

Fractal balloon in the snow in the Swiss Alps

Fractal balloon in a canyon outside Tierra Amarillo in northern NM

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I love old flying machines. I love new flying machines. I love how people have been using their ingenuity to solve the dream of flight for ages. Did I mention I’m building a flying machine in my living room?

The author in his living room behind an industrial sewing machine, building a hot sewing, a light green piece of nylon fabric to a purple panel.

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Now is the chance for Eurostack tools to take off. What they really need is adversarial interoperability to ingest legacy data from US based systems. That’s a violation of US imposed trade laws, but since the penalties are… tariffs, so what? Just do it!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Poor Stegasaurus - clearly the coolest - only got 4% :(

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Here in New Mexico I fear for the impact our dwindling aquifer will have on our way of life. Less rain and snow and hotter weather means it’s not replenishing, and in not too long, things will have to adapt - sharply. Not happy about what that looks like, alas.

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I remember it by the lovely line a teacher shared: “You’re not laying down unless you’re fucking feathers” (!)

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Reading the magnificent book “The Beginning Comes After the End” by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about exactly this topic. Its subtitle is “Notes on a World of Change”, and I’m recommending it to everyone I care about.

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Tinker Toys were for cool kids, Lincoln Logs were for losers

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today is the deadline to voice your opposition to the proposed drilling in the sacred Chaco Canyon landscape. Please speak up!

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Jonathan Wolfe @fractalic.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Of all the jobs I do, teaching fractals to kids is one of my very favorites! We’re at Inez Elementary today, inspiring young people with the beauty of science math and art.

$Kids watching a fractal lecture led by Hope Curtis of the Fractal Foundation at Inez Elementary school in Albuquerque NM$ $Kids watching a fractal lecture led by Hope Curtis of the Fractal Foundation at Inez Elementary school in Albuquerque NM$ $Kids watching a fractal lecture led by Hope Curtis of the Fractal Foundation at Inez Elementary school in Albuquerque NM$ $Kids watching a fractal lecture led by Hope Curtis of the Fractal Foundation at Inez Elementary school in Albuquerque NM$

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