Claire Miró
@clearmirror.bsky.social
Take a second look. Breathe. It only takes a moment to see a little deeper.
Beautiful glittering “peace prize” awards are now available at CVS if anyone wants any. 🥇😉
January 24, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Beautiful glittering “peace prize” awards are now available at CVS if anyone wants any. 🥇😉
Now that ICE is coming for LEOs we’re starting to see concern.
Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce had some harsh words about ICE detaining one of his corrections recruits.
January 23, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Now that ICE is coming for LEOs we’re starting to see concern.
I’m reminded of a Norwegian author in the 70’s who brought his typewritten manuscript to a copy shop for duplication, only to later learn they had mistakenly fed it to a shredder.
As far as I know, he’s still trying to tape it together.
As far as I know, he’s still trying to tape it together.
Mein Mitleid hält sich schwer in Grenzen, um nicht gar zu sagen "Kein Backup, kein Mitleid, AI-Edition".
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I’m reminded of a Norwegian author in the 70’s who brought his typewritten manuscript to a copy shop for duplication, only to later learn they had mistakenly fed it to a shredder.
As far as I know, he’s still trying to tape it together.
As far as I know, he’s still trying to tape it together.
Reposted by Claire Miró
They have an unofficial "Ted Cruz Watch" thing in Austin.
You know that an impending ice storm is gonna be bad when he runs away
You know that an impending ice storm is gonna be bad when he runs away
January 22, 2026 at 1:13 AM
They have an unofficial "Ted Cruz Watch" thing in Austin.
You know that an impending ice storm is gonna be bad when he runs away
You know that an impending ice storm is gonna be bad when he runs away
The caterpillar sheds its skin to find the butterfly within - Donovan
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The caterpillar sheds its skin to find the butterfly within - Donovan
Norway knew what Canada knows and Czechoslovakia knew - if the horse knew its power, it would never be ridden
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Norway knew what Canada knows and Czechoslovakia knew - if the horse knew its power, it would never be ridden
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Translating Davos speak www.ft.com/content/ab4f...
January 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Translating Davos speak www.ft.com/content/ab4f...
Finally! Some things trending up in the stock market where so many other indicators are down
The price of gold and VIX
Oh wait…those aren’t very good signs are they?
The price of gold and VIX
Oh wait…those aren’t very good signs are they?
January 21, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Finally! Some things trending up in the stock market where so many other indicators are down
The price of gold and VIX
Oh wait…those aren’t very good signs are they?
The price of gold and VIX
Oh wait…those aren’t very good signs are they?
Reposted by Claire Miró
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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So, he's trying to do a two-front war with Norway? Minnesota and Norway? Is that his plan.
January 19, 2026 at 7:41 PM
So, he's trying to do a two-front war with Norway? Minnesota and Norway? Is that his plan.
The decade 2020-2029 is brought to you by the letter K
There’s a growing rift between upper-income consumers, who are continuing to spend, and lower-income consumers, who’ve been pulling back.
That’s because asset values have been increasing, which not only allows wealthy people to keep spending money, but it makes them more confident consumers too.
That’s because asset values have been increasing, which not only allows wealthy people to keep spending money, but it makes them more confident consumers too.
How the wealth effect is shaping the economy
Wealthy people have been driving an increasing share of consumer spending over the last year. That’s largely because asset values have been increasing, encouraging wealthy people to keep spending mone...
www.marketplace.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The decade 2020-2029 is brought to you by the letter K
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Great article by Cory Doctorow ( #Enshittification) about why the #AI bubble will be collapsing...
“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“
Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.
Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Great article by Cory Doctorow ( #Enshittification) about why the #AI bubble will be collapsing...
Per poet Piet Hein of Denmark, the US is headed back towards a stronger democracy.
January 18, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Per poet Piet Hein of Denmark, the US is headed back towards a stronger democracy.
Friends, let’s experience the world
When you walk or bike instead of driving, you experience the world differently.
I feel like I am moving through the world as a part of it, not separated from it by my car. I can hear the birds, I can say hi to my neighbors, I can feel the wind in my hair and the sun on my face.
I love it.
I feel like I am moving through the world as a part of it, not separated from it by my car. I can hear the birds, I can say hi to my neighbors, I can feel the wind in my hair and the sun on my face.
I love it.
January 18, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Friends, let’s experience the world
Did Banksy, Warhol, or Duchamp ever eat anything they did not consider art?
What would those three do on encountering #AI #Slop?
What would those three do on encountering #AI #Slop?
At UAF, a student chewed up and spit out another student's AI geberated art about AI psychosis.
www.uafsunstar.com/news/student...
www.uafsunstar.com/news/student...
Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest — The Sun Star - UAF's Student Voice
On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest,” ac...
www.uafsunstar.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Justice - Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty - Benjamin Franklin
January 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Justice - Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty - Benjamin Franklin
If the horse knew its power, it would let nobody ride.
- Norwegian saying
Be strong, Minnesota!
- Norwegian saying
Be strong, Minnesota!
January 16, 2026 at 4:22 AM
If the horse knew its power, it would let nobody ride.
- Norwegian saying
Be strong, Minnesota!
- Norwegian saying
Be strong, Minnesota!
January 15, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Desert blossoms are wild
Checkered White on one of the many Emory's rock daisies on the ridge behind the Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center today (Photos: Sicco Rood).
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Desert blossoms are wild
Kaiser Permanente got an addendaectomy, after exceeding something like a billion dollars of overbilling Medicare through “addenda” in its Medicare Advantage plans
Kaiser Permanente Pays Feds $556M
Kaiser Permanente affiliates have agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for their Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to receive higher payments from the government.
Kaiser Permanente affiliates have agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for their Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to receive higher payments from the government.
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Kaiser Permanente got an addendaectomy, after exceeding something like a billion dollars of overbilling Medicare through “addenda” in its Medicare Advantage plans
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For safety reasons, Clem will not be playing any toe-tapping dance numbers.
January 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM
For safety reasons, Clem will not be playing any toe-tapping dance numbers.
The US is too old to be having a mid-life identity crisis
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
The US is too old to be having a mid-life identity crisis