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tclark

@tclark.bsky.social
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Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry. #plutoisaplanet It's OK, I have an Astrophysics degree. he/him Repost = Endorsement of post (not necessarily poster) without comment Quote post = Emphasis, refutation, context, or interpretation

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Titan's Northern Lake District - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/2i1QQBq
A mosaic of restored and carefully repaired data swathes captured by Cassini's SAR (synthetic aperture radar) experiment.

Incorporates radar swathes collected during the following flybys: (T-19, T-25, T-28, T-29, T-30, T-84, T-91, T-95 and T-104).
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Ian Regan
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember when grocery and other stores used to have big rubber pressure maps instead of motion detectors for their doors?
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Awww yisss new Fall of Civilizations video is up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP14...
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21. Majapahit - Empire of the Islands
YouTube video by Fall of Civilizations
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merritt @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026
i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*God bless 'em, it feels good to see America's wild creatures happy
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At last. It'll be a nice autumnal 91 degrees here tomorrow.
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Mujib @mujib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
[Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing markets these companies’ products as “superhuman” and, at the same time, helps the companies evade accountability for their actions.]
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Y'know what would slow down AI development? Fines for every instance of copyright infringement equivalent to what the RIAA had courts impose on people who shared MP3s. That one's for free, Sam.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gnomon seems to be the biggest disconnect of quality and notoriety in SF of the last 15 years I can think of. Sure, coming out the same year as the finale of the rightly lauded Broken Earth trilogy by SFF titan N.K. Jemisin didn't help, but I still can't believe it didn't get any major nominations.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Four years ago today, President Biden said, "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID." At the time, we were in the 5th COVlD wave. We're now in the 13th.
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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So this is what they mean when they say, "AI is going to kill us all."
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was. RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system.
Graph of the number of cases and deaths from polio from 1910 to 2022, showing how polio completely disappeared after the introduction of the vaccine -- one of the most important health advances of the 20th century. Data from the US Public Health Services; the Center for Disease Control.
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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"No, it will take too long. Let me sum up:"
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"the largest theft of labor in human history" "LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain" Every poor sucker on the hook for millions because they were sharing MP3s shows that individuals get the unlubed dildo of consequences when Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others just skate.
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Mark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can the media please stop using the word “skeptic” to describe cult members and science deniers?
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Chris Roberson @chrisroberson.net · 17/09/2026
I'm trying and failing to compose a coherent response to politicians who say they "oppose transgender ideology in schools," when the only trans "ideology" that matters to me is that trans people exist, trans rights are human rights, and that these assholes should leave trans kids the fuck alone.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anguish, motherfucker, do you speak it???
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@nebula.tv Seriously, I like the first layout and really hate the second. Please revert or add an option back. Can't we let a good design stay what it is anymore?
Before nebula redesign with theater mode not taking up the whole browser.After nebula redesign with theater mode taking up the whole browser window
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@nebula.tv is it not possible for there to be a point at which a good functional design can be left alone? I don't want "theater mode" to fill the whole browser window. I was happy when it just used the full width. Can I get that feature back?
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SpaceX prematurely sunsetting the Falcon 9 in favor of a vehicle that has never reached orbit and had as many failures as the Saturn V had successes should be treated as a national crisis of both security and science.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@jbum.bsky.social this may be relevant to your interests: the-101-plays-itself.netlify.app#theremin,rho... (not loving the slop header image, though)
the-101-plays-itself.netlify.app
The 101 Plays Itself
A live traffic camera on the US-101 in Studio City, playing itself as music in your browser. Every car that crosses the line is a note.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I suspect media verifiably created before roughly 2018 is likely to be the future's data-equivalent of low background steel.
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qntm @qntm.org · 12/09/2026
terrytao.wordpress.com
A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A24 has put out a lot of horror films, but I contend that the creepiest A24 trailer ever just came out. youtu.be/GGJSRFWALTI
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You Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Crazy that putting a glassy-eyed day-drinking b-tier Fox News host in charge of the post powerful military on earth isn't working out. Who would have thought, and so forth.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fear not, Bob Woodward knows and it'll be in his next book in a year or two.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Among other things, Elon Musk now makes clear his belief that women must be disenfranchised. And he's now the sole source funder of the Texas GOP. Shouldn't Texas GOP candidates who are running with his money be asked about this?
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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fuck you, Google Maps. Fuck you, Apple Maps. Fuck you, Waze. You utter craven cowards. Making the switch.
MapQuest app iconMapQuest map showing Lake Ontario
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And there you have it. Google Maps is calling Lake Ontario Lake America, despite having NO obligation to do so. Cowardly, unnecessary, corporate capitulation.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The dipshit in chief should just call all five of the great lakes Lake America. Why not?
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.
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keven-pittsinger.bsky.social @keven-pittsinger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2026
Fuck the Supreme Court and do whatever it fucking takes to vote in this election. Have a plan and a back up plan because the GOP plan is to keep you from voting.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Your periodic reminder that one in 300 Americans died of COVID, and mostly because they didn't get the miracle vaccine our scientists produced in record time.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You'd better believe it.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So how the hell did Dutch Crunch bread become so trendy? That is some trash-tier sandwich bread and I'm a gracious and forgiving sandwich god.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Unfortunately there really remains no better data stream to follow than your local state's wastewater COVID detection data, and follow trends in actual numbers no indices that can be gamed. At least until the states stop publishing the data.
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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The story of Phantom West right here
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100% #BookSky
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