Mickey McManus
@mickeymcmanus.bsky.social
Maker/teacher/student/stumbler, author of Trillions, thriving in the information ecology. http://trillions.civium.net
TED talks, films, podcasts? https://t-1ventures.com/tedtalks-podcasts-films/
TED talks, films, podcasts? https://t-1ventures.com/tedtalks-podcasts-films/
The Obama Tan Suit | Season Finale of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness
YouTube video by Barack Obama
youtu.be
September 25, 2026 at 3:50 AM
I feel like in solidarity I have to pull out of playing on Ed Sheran’s tour too. I feel like we can all agree on that!
September 16, 2026 at 4:30 AM
I feel like in solidarity I have to pull out of playing on Ed Sheran’s tour too. I feel like we can all agree on that!
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IKEAs marketing team doing a bang up job
September 15, 2026 at 10:27 PM
IKEAs marketing team doing a bang up job
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This is a brave, human thing.
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
September 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
This is a brave, human thing.
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25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
September 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
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My quote of the day
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould
September 10, 2026 at 9:46 AM
My quote of the day
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould
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demonstrating reason and language capabilities in coat hooks alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration
September 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
demonstrating reason and language capabilities in coat hooks alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration
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"Flock Safety says an automated maintenance system mistakenly triggered the reinstallation of license plate cameras that Grass Valley police had already removed after canceling the city's contract with the company."
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www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/v...
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www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/v...
Police remove Flock cameras again after unexpected reinstallations in Grass Valley
Flock Safety says an automated maintenance system mistakenly triggered the reinstallation of license plate cameras that Grass Valley police had already removed after canceling the city's contract with...
www.cbsnews.com
September 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM
"Flock Safety says an automated maintenance system mistakenly triggered the reinstallation of license plate cameras that Grass Valley police had already removed after canceling the city's contract with the company."
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www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/v...
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www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/v...
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“Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. . . They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell.”
—Susan Sontag “The Conscience of Words”
—Susan Sontag “The Conscience of Words”
September 7, 2026 at 11:50 PM
“Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. . . They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell.”
—Susan Sontag “The Conscience of Words”
—Susan Sontag “The Conscience of Words”
Pippen Windfall, a forced evolution experiment to ultimately give the power of personal computing to mitochondria. A bicycle for the mind is how Jobs described the Mac. So let’s give them to squirrels! (On the way down to mitochondria by way of IPSCs and morphogenesis.)
vimeo.com/1223504631/0...
vimeo.com/1223504631/0...
Pippin Windfall Mycotalk Network
Learn about the totipotency utilizing Michael Levin's Inverse morphogenesis now with fungal chemical signaling.
vimeo.com
September 3, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Pippen Windfall, a forced evolution experiment to ultimately give the power of personal computing to mitochondria. A bicycle for the mind is how Jobs described the Mac. So let’s give them to squirrels! (On the way down to mitochondria by way of IPSCs and morphogenesis.)
vimeo.com/1223504631/0...
vimeo.com/1223504631/0...
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Meanwhile, Scientist returnees to China have surged from 31 in 2004 to 1,409 in 2022, totaling nearly 10,000 returnees — more than half from the U.S.
scceichinabriefs.substack.com/p/chinas-sci...
scceichinabriefs.substack.com/p/chinas-sci...
September 2, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Meanwhile, Scientist returnees to China have surged from 31 in 2004 to 1,409 in 2022, totaling nearly 10,000 returnees — more than half from the U.S.
scceichinabriefs.substack.com/p/chinas-sci...
scceichinabriefs.substack.com/p/chinas-sci...
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yes please tell me how can I improve my name with AI
September 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM
yes please tell me how can I improve my name with AI
In Pittsburgh this week and care about artists, art, and a thriving and just society? Join us at silver eye gallery! us10.campaign-archive.com?u=b655f0e233...
This Wednesday — Come Celebrate with us!
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September 2, 2026 at 2:23 AM
In Pittsburgh this week and care about artists, art, and a thriving and just society? Join us at silver eye gallery! us10.campaign-archive.com?u=b655f0e233...
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The people who are putting our servicemembers and country at risk are those who ground our readiness down to the bone with an unwise and unsuccessful war. Not the people reporting on it.
August 30, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Earlier in the summer I suggested I’d do a thread on this gnarly paper. Better late than never. (Yes, it's more WTF biology.) 🧵 /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Subnuclear genome compartmentalization controls bivalent chromatin activity - Nature
Knowledge of the spatial location of a gene is necessary to understand its epigenomic regulation.
www.nature.com
August 30, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Earlier in the summer I suggested I’d do a thread on this gnarly paper. Better late than never. (Yes, it's more WTF biology.) 🧵 /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cuban: I've given money to end Citizens United. I know my next dollar isn't going to change my life. But it can sure change a lot of other people's lives, and that's the way I try to live
August 29, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Cuban: I've given money to end Citizens United. I know my next dollar isn't going to change my life. But it can sure change a lot of other people's lives, and that's the way I try to live
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Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote. [tinyawards.net]
Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.
tinyawards.net
August 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote. [tinyawards.net]
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"Mapped: Each U.S. State’s Top Export Partner" www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-each-...
August 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
"Mapped: Each U.S. State’s Top Export Partner" www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-each-...
August 29, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Every R&D team in 2026
August 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Every R&D team in 2026
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We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
August 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
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i'm gonna put forward a concept i've been explaining to people off and on while consulting for a while, which i hope can usefully and practically show how TTRPG crowdfunders work. i've been calling it (in my head) The Balatro Theory of Crowdfunding
1/16
1/16
August 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
i'm gonna put forward a concept i've been explaining to people off and on while consulting for a while, which i hope can usefully and practically show how TTRPG crowdfunders work. i've been calling it (in my head) The Balatro Theory of Crowdfunding
1/16
1/16
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This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025
57% drop from India alone
catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
57% drop from India alone
catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
August 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."