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Michael Belfiore

@michaelbelfiore.bsky.social
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Technology writer. Author of books on DARPA and space travel. Dad. Citizen.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A very intelligent framing was presented by a commentator recently calling this “simulated intelligence” which is afar more accurate description. These algorithms are simulating intelligence like climate models simulate a climate. The climate models ARE NOT PLANETS.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Congrats!
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Congrats! Looking forward to reading.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Looking forward to reading these!
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"From the early stages of the war, we noticed that the universities were deliberately targeted. The university has a certain symbolic significance. It brings together all the future talent and potential, whether among students or the teaching staff." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘First there’s the gruelling task of trying to charge my laptop’: a day in the life of a university lecturer in Gaza
As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, the Guardian follows five ordinary Palestinians as they go about their lives. Each tells the story of their day, revealing the terrible toll of the confl...
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you for the reminder that so many of us did not want the (ongoing) War on Terror.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An important story. Thank you for telling it.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Google: Please give more details on what would encourage you to continue your subscription. Me: I am moving my email to a more democracy-friendly provider with a focus on privacy. Google could begin to regain my trust by restoring the proper names of Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico in Maps.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maybe they’ll stay down. Can we dream?
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Way back in 1949, Ray Bradbury published an amazingly prescient short story about the potential of chatbots to drive the user insane. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7...
Illustration by Hannes Bok for "I, Mars" by Ray Bradbury showing a man holding a 1940s-style telephone surrounded by taunting faces.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Will anyone enforce the law in this or any other case regarding ICE?
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 29/08/2026
Live at MapQuest Headquarters:
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have gotten involved in supporting Trump in the first place and I’m very ashamed that I did.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump
British far-right pundit breaks silence on ICE arrest and deportation and says he was ‘really, really terrified’
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I had multiple episodes of phantom braking at highway speed on full self-driving on a recent cross-country trip. I won't be using FSD or even Autopilot anymore.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh, yes. I am of English+ Italian ancestry. The thing is, the culture of a colonized place tends to further that culture across generations and waves of immigration. For example, most of us speak English in the US (although that is changing).
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Love this thread! I’m moving my business email and calendars to @proton.me, which provides a lot for the money, including enhanced security and privacy.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Still many Dutch influences around here.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's a trope, I think, like hitting someone in the head to knock them out. A useful contrivance for moving a plot along.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You are right. I know the Dutch colonists had slaves here in New York, for example.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Not sure what migrations they offer. I've never relied on cloud storage for important docs, so it may be easier for me; I'll just walk away from Google Docs.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That may be, but the trade by England to what became the US is the origin of white supremacy here.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Mail and calendar definitely next for me.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And Google too.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Link, please! I want to see that.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
They are probably referring to the origin of the African slave trade.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Proton has gotten quite good and even includes Docs and Sheets alternatives.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I spent this morning learning how to divest from Google for maps, search, email, meets, music…quite doable, and high time.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Beautiful!
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google can't be trusted as an accurate source of information, as evidenced by its alteration of internationally recognized place names. Switching to MapQuest. Looking for search alternatives.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
They have also retained Gulf of Mexico.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I question whether the Dear Leader has the wits to stay coherent over the length of a post. Whose calling the shots?
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’ve started muting everyone who uses AI in posts.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Let’s GOOOOO….
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Whatever it is you want to do, don’t put it off. We don’t have unlimited time.
Graveyard with grass, trees, and a blue sky.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I guess he found out the answer…
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Scott Edleman—I knew that name sounded familiar. Science Fiction Age editor! Looking forward to listening.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Air & Nothingness Press is what inspired me to write short stories again after more years than I can count. These anthologies about hope at the end of the world and, just, the end (no time-wasting beginnings and middles) look like they’re gonna be great.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not to mention trans people.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
He has dementia. That’s all you really need to know.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Beautiful! Heading to Maumee tomorrow for an overnight stay. It is lovely.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Same here, same year.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's clearly not based on actual value; something fishy for sure. But surely, the reckoning has to come sooner or later?
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And yet, still the stock soars. I don't understand it.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I consider anyone creating or posting AI generated content a troll and behave accordingly. It’s simply not worth it to get into it with them—any more than you would with the AI itself. It’s a cult.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
!?!?
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Why anyone of good conscience is still on that site, I’ll never understand.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wesleyan, now, that’s a school to get behind. The president came out loud and publicly that he would brook no bullshit from the administration and it it was left alone because TACO.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Well, yes. I’ve been following the case of Brown because my daughter wants to go there. Hard to get behind the choice of an institution that caved immediately, throwing trans students under the bus and agreeing to handing over data on everyone.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I've been an actor, a technical writer, a journalist, an author.... Now I'm putting the pieces together to tell stories in a new way. Can you guess what it is?
A desk and office chair with boxes of different sizes stacked around them.
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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Right. We don’t have to tolerate intolerance.
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