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President of The Long Now Foundation--which takes no sides. In this forum, as a private person, I do take sides occasionally.

Sausalito, CA
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Joined December 2015
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    11 Dec 2015

    I will buckle down to work as soon as I finish reading the Internet.

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    17 hours ago

    The American Revolution’s greatest leader was openly gay

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  3. Retweeted
    Jul 2

    Watch brilliantly cover some of the complexities (and complex personalities!) of genome editing.

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    Jul 3

    Explore the latest updates to the World Database on , including updates from , with the new site Chiribiquete, the largest tropical rainforest national park in the world,

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  5. Jul 2

    Coming out July 10, Adam Fisher’s () book VALLEY OF GENIUS, blends everybody’s first-hand account of what happened in a dense and delightful crowd reminiscence. We all interrupt each other to blurt out the who’s and when’s and why’s.

    What would we call a PC if not a PC? 🤔 The magazine to first print the phrase was btw "Ready or not, computers are coming to the people. That's good news, maybe the best since psychedelics"
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  6. Jul 2

    Combat gear in 2018: baseball cap and sneakers. Unchanged from my day 57 years ago: C130 cargo plane. (For my 5 training jumps, peacetime.)

    Great detail from on a Green Beret A-team fighting ISIS-K in Nangarhar’s Achin district. Embedding remains a valuable tool and ought to provide access like this more often.
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  7. Jul 1

    Places and personal pasts...

    Near Allons, France: a big stronghold of French Underground during WWII: Visited the field where plane of German who shot me down, crashed. German pilot's parachute didn't open. My flight leader, Obie O'Brien, shot him down. ,
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  8. Jul 1

    “Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.”

    A nicely designed & formatted version of 's recent Tweetstorm:
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  9. Jul 1

    Astute lingo—Trump as Putin’s Improvised Explosive Device.

    REALKY WORTH WATCHING. Thanks
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    Jul 1

    Finished Bad Blood last night. (Actually, early this morning - damn you, Carreyrou, I NEED my beauty sleep!) Great story, well told. And all (literally and figuratively) in my neighborhood. Highest recommendation!Amazing how well lying works. Until it doesn’t. (At least here.)

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    Jun 30

    All of these species exist wild today thanks to captive breeding: California condors, European bison, Arabian oryx, scimitar oryx, Przewalski’s horse, Partula mooreanea (tree snail) & black-footed ferrets. Zoos can’t help every animal, but the best are bulwarks against extinction

    “How close environmental romanticism came to allowing a magnificent species to go extinct.”
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  12. Jun 29

    “How close environmental romanticism came to allowing a magnificent species to go extinct.”

    But...in the 80s when the condor project started, the old guards opposed it because it was too interventionist!
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  13. Jun 29

    I think this sets a record for long-now thinking. The trillion-year plan.

    Planning ahead, WAY ahead
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    Jun 28

    I still can't fathom why any environmental group would oppose efforts to replace destructive animal farming with plant-based substitutes.

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  15. Jun 28

    New term: “Sunny day flooding.” High tide plus sea level rise.

    Cities along the Eastern Seaboard of the US have suffered sunny day flooding from seas rising far faster than average. One study published last year shows that from 2011-2015, sea levels rose up to 5 inches, an inch per year:
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  16. Jun 27

    Coastal property now. Stranded asset soon. Then geo-engineering becomes suddenly popular.

    "If you’re a city official in South Florida, this is your nightmare. Once people start to see Florida real estate not as an investment, but as a stranded asset, the real trouble begins." says author
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    Jun 27

    No you’re not. You’re an anti-science front group, complicit in pushing alternative medicine, anti-vaccination and other quackery. Don’t you dare call yourselves environmentalists either. You cause nothing but harm.

    Replying to @mark_lynas @Cornell and 4 others
    Mark Lynas we are a food industry watchdog group writing about food issues and asking for your response to the serious critiques scientists have raised about inaccurate statements you have made
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  18. Jun 27

    How I destroyed the Internet. (By being misquoted, apparently.)

    How the Hippies ( et al.) Destroyed the Internet. A controversial article by on
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  19. Jun 26

    Thread on how anti-nuclear activities are playing out with enormous harm to humanity’s aggregate effect on climate. Climate responds ONLY to aggregate effect. Local or specialized do-goodery doesn’t count unless it adds up.

    1. This is the story of how irrational and paranoid anti-nuclear leaders have, for decades, used fear-mongering, bombings, & even murder to terrify & terrorize the European people into replacing the cleanest & safest form of energy with the dirtiest & most dangerous one.
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    Jun 23

    ⁦⁩ likes to say that whereas *scenarios* about the future have to be plausible in the present, the *actual* future we end up with need not be plausible in the present. The problem today is that the present is not plausible in the present

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  21. Jun 21

    A whole evening looking at some of the range of things that branched out from the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG fifty years ago. (Starts about 6 minutes in, goes for 1.5 hours.)

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