David Weinberger
@davidweinberger.bsky.social
Writer about how our encounters with tech are changing our ideas and understanding. Long-time affiliation with Harvard Berkman Klein Center. Researcher at Harvard metaLab. Grandpa flush with dopamine.
It's getting hard to keep track, but I believe this is a 4th dimensional snake swallowing itsown tail. www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-...
Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news
Did 47 Alabama newspapers die on a single day and no one noticed? (Hint: No, they didn't.)
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My column in this issue of KMWorld is about the joy of dumb questions, and gets a bit more personal than usual, about my transition from philosophy to tech. www.kmworld.com/Articles/Col...
The Joy of Dumb Questions: Knocking on the Door to Knowledge
If you're a knowledge manager, work on creating a culture that discourages knowledge one-upmanship. Make sure that your knowledgebase has answers at every level of experience and knowledge. And, as a ...
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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.)
Jacob Collier is recording harmonizations live now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArZw...
Jacob Collier's LiveHarmU 5-Hour Harmonisation Marathon
YouTube video by Jacob Collier
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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.
A key to understanding me: Self-doubt is my safe place.
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?
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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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?
Last week for me: Too much going on and not enough happening.
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!
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!
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.)
Cotypist – Smart Autocomplete for Mac | Type Faster, Write Better
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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
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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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!
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?
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
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.
Debate topic: We fear computer autonomy because we fear human autonomy
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...
Claude Opus 4.7: A Song and Advice from AI
YouTube video by AI Simplified
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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.
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...
Mamdani and Obama Lead Preschool Singalong to Promote Free Child Care
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Come for the music. Stay for the comments section. (via @mathewingram.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...
What the fucking fuck??? It gives a new u rgency to the eternal question: What's worse, a stupid evil entity or a smart one? www.npr.org/2026/04/12/n...
Trump claims U.S. will close Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks collapse
After talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed, President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. will "blockade" the Strait of Hormuz.
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