Michael Belfiore
@michaelbelfiore.bsky.social
Technology writer. Author of books on DARPA and space travel. Dad. Citizen.
@couriernewsroom.bsky.social asks for help in searching this massive archive from the Epstein estate for "something interesting." Some truly horrific accounts in sworn testimony have emerged since this dropped yesterday.
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We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
@couriernewsroom.bsky.social asks for help in searching this massive archive from the Epstein estate for "something interesting." Some truly horrific accounts in sworn testimony have emerged since this dropped yesterday.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Yet another reason to avoid my formerly favorite big box store. And it's not just Black folks who have ditched Target. It's everyone who cares about integrity and fair treatment (of employees, suppliers, customers).
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Forcing its employees to smile won't fix Target's problem
The Minneapolis-based retailer isn’t suffering lower sales because its employees are rude but because it disrespected a significant portion of its customer base.
www.msnbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yet another reason to avoid my formerly favorite big box store. And it's not just Black folks who have ditched Target. It's everyone who cares about integrity and fair treatment (of employees, suppliers, customers).
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Why 'No Kings' protests didn't excite Black America www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Yes. More is needed. Much more. The article suggests boycotts and mass protests that don't just happen on sunny weekend afternoons.
Yes. More is needed. Much more. The article suggests boycotts and mass protests that don't just happen on sunny weekend afternoons.
Opinion | Why 'No Kings' protests didn't excite Black America
Within the Black community, one heard lots of comments suggesting that the “No Kings” protest was not something we should bother with.
www.msnbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Opinion | Why 'No Kings' protests didn't excite Black America www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Yes. More is needed. Much more. The article suggests boycotts and mass protests that don't just happen on sunny weekend afternoons.
Yes. More is needed. Much more. The article suggests boycotts and mass protests that don't just happen on sunny weekend afternoons.
Good reporting from @npr.org on AI-generated "workslop."
"People are using AI regardless of whether it's needed, which sometimes results in more work for their colleagues."
AI can, indeed, do some things well, but you also need to check absolutely everything it does, which adds time to projects.
"People are using AI regardless of whether it's needed, which sometimes results in more work for their colleagues."
AI can, indeed, do some things well, but you also need to check absolutely everything it does, which adds time to projects.
While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code. n.pr/4qmYRCS
Tech CEOs say the era of 'code by AI' is here. Some software engineers are skeptical
While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code.
n.pr
October 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Good reporting from @npr.org on AI-generated "workslop."
"People are using AI regardless of whether it's needed, which sometimes results in more work for their colleagues."
AI can, indeed, do some things well, but you also need to check absolutely everything it does, which adds time to projects.
"People are using AI regardless of whether it's needed, which sometimes results in more work for their colleagues."
AI can, indeed, do some things well, but you also need to check absolutely everything it does, which adds time to projects.
No kings in Minneapolis.
October 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
No kings in Minneapolis.
In Minneapolis. Resistance is everywhere.
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In Minneapolis. Resistance is everywhere.
The energy transition is moving forward, even here in the US. My story on NY’s first floating solar array in @chronogram.bsky.social.
www.chronogram.com/river-newsro...
www.chronogram.com/river-newsro...
City of Cohoes Launches New York’s First Municipal Floating Solar Array, Cutting Energy Costs and Boosting Renewable Power Innovation
Cohoes debuts New York’s first municipal floating solar array, a $7.2M project set to save the city millions while advancing clean energy goals.
www.chronogram.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The energy transition is moving forward, even here in the US. My story on NY’s first floating solar array in @chronogram.bsky.social.
www.chronogram.com/river-newsro...
www.chronogram.com/river-newsro...
Worth the subscription. @katmabu.bsky.social is bringing the fight that the incumbents don't have in them. We need more like her.
"She's betting that voters, above all else, want a brawler."
Yes.
www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...
"She's betting that voters, above all else, want a brawler."
Yes.
www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...
She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress
Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.
www.wired.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Worth the subscription. @katmabu.bsky.social is bringing the fight that the incumbents don't have in them. We need more like her.
"She's betting that voters, above all else, want a brawler."
Yes.
www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...
"She's betting that voters, above all else, want a brawler."
Yes.
www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...
Take it from someone who knows!
They didn’t have MedBeds in Starfleet until well after warp drive was discovered.
October 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Take it from someone who knows!
Reposted by Michael Belfiore
How to Start Your Own Rapid Response Group to Protect Immigrants In Your Neighborhood
The only proven defense against armed masked agents in your neighborhoods is an organized community. After all, no one knows your neighborhood more than you.
@eltragon.bsky.social
The only proven defense against armed masked agents in your neighborhoods is an organized community. After all, no one knows your neighborhood more than you.
@eltragon.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
How to Start Your Own Rapid Response Group to Protect Immigrants In Your Neighborhood
The only proven defense against armed masked agents in your neighborhoods is an organized community. After all, no one knows your neighborhood more than you.
@eltragon.bsky.social
The only proven defense against armed masked agents in your neighborhoods is an organized community. After all, no one knows your neighborhood more than you.
@eltragon.bsky.social
What to know what you can do? This. Peaceful observation and recording and reporting. Extra credit for protest that gums up the works, not just the permitted, unobtrusive kind. Also the backend, out of the spotlight, admin behind all that.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
What to know what you can do? This. Peaceful observation and recording and reporting. Extra credit for protest that gums up the works, not just the permitted, unobtrusive kind. Also the backend, out of the spotlight, admin behind all that.
Reposted by Michael Belfiore
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
My article in @chronogram.bsky.social on America's first municipally owned and operated floating solar power array.
“It’s great for the environment and there’s a savings for the municipality,” the mayor says. “So what’s not to like about it?”
“It’s great for the environment and there’s a savings for the municipality,” the mayor says. “So what’s not to like about it?”
City of Cohoes Launches New York’s First Municipal Floating Solar Array, Cutting Energy Costs and Boosting Renewable Power Innovation
Cohoes debuts New York’s first municipal floating solar array, a $7.2M project set to save the city millions while advancing clean energy goals.
www.chronogram.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My article in @chronogram.bsky.social on America's first municipally owned and operated floating solar power array.
“It’s great for the environment and there’s a savings for the municipality,” the mayor says. “So what’s not to like about it?”
“It’s great for the environment and there’s a savings for the municipality,” the mayor says. “So what’s not to like about it?”
Outrage has its purpose. Sharing information is definitely important. So, now what? What specific action can you take today to help make your community, state, country, world a more humane place?
ICE returns to Kingston, city confirms
KINGSTON, N.Y. — City and immigrant advocates have confirmed reports of the presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) members in as many as four vehicles in Kingston near Van Bu…
www.dailyfreeman.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Outrage has its purpose. Sharing information is definitely important. So, now what? What specific action can you take today to help make your community, state, country, world a more humane place?
Insightful commentary by @pbump.com on the US right’s hostility to renewable energy, including a certain real estate developer-turned politicians’s distaste for windmills visible from a golf course.
www.pbump.net/o/why-trump-...
www.pbump.net/o/why-trump-...
Why Trump 2.0 aims to destroy green energy
Fifteen years ago, American advocates for increasing the use of renewable sources of energy for electricity production offered two central arguments for doing so. The first, obviously, was climate cha...
www.pbump.net
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Insightful commentary by @pbump.com on the US right’s hostility to renewable energy, including a certain real estate developer-turned politicians’s distaste for windmills visible from a golf course.
www.pbump.net/o/why-trump-...
www.pbump.net/o/why-trump-...
Reposted by Michael Belfiore
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
Magic on the Hudson with the Flotsam River Circus.
September 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Magic on the Hudson with the Flotsam River Circus.
Floatovoltaics under construction in Cohoes, NY, from my visit this week. It will save the city $500k/year in energy bills and cut algae growth at the water filtration plant. The mayor: "What's not to like?"
August 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Floatovoltaics under construction in Cohoes, NY, from my visit this week. It will save the city $500k/year in energy bills and cut algae growth at the water filtration plant. The mayor: "What's not to like?"
“Cut to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, to Merrick Garland and the Democrats who shivved Joe Biden, all of them still in denial, none of them understanding that they should be hanging their heads in shame.”
"There’s still time to change course. ICE isn’t gunning down dissidents yet. The MAGA concentration camps are still mostly empty. We haven’t invaded Greenland. World War III has not begun. We can—and must—learn from what didn’t work in Germany & apply that knowledge to the here and now."
Defying Trump: Lessons From 1933 Germany (Part One)
A remarkable book by Sebastian Haffner helps us understand the rise of fascism in the United States.
gregolear.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“Cut to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, to Merrick Garland and the Democrats who shivved Joe Biden, all of them still in denial, none of them understanding that they should be hanging their heads in shame.”
Reposted by Michael Belfiore
After months of cowardly capitulation to this Administration, Paramount finally got what it wanted.
Now it's time for companies, journalists, and citizens alike to stand up and speak out, because unchecked and unquestioned power has no rightful place in America.
I dissent. 🧵
Now it's time for companies, journalists, and citizens alike to stand up and speak out, because unchecked and unquestioned power has no rightful place in America.
I dissent. 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
After months of cowardly capitulation to this Administration, Paramount finally got what it wanted.
Now it's time for companies, journalists, and citizens alike to stand up and speak out, because unchecked and unquestioned power has no rightful place in America.
I dissent. 🧵
Now it's time for companies, journalists, and citizens alike to stand up and speak out, because unchecked and unquestioned power has no rightful place in America.
I dissent. 🧵
Besides spot-on messaging, the Mamdani for NYC mayor campaign is producing great video content. Gives me hope.
“Ask for what actually fixes the problem — and then go out there and fight for it.”
On Monday, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social came to NYC to talk about universal childcare, and why we shouldn’t listen to billionaires who say making life affordable for working families isn't possible.
On Monday, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social came to NYC to talk about universal childcare, and why we shouldn’t listen to billionaires who say making life affordable for working families isn't possible.
August 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Besides spot-on messaging, the Mamdani for NYC mayor campaign is producing great video content. Gives me hope.
We are indeed living in a science fiction dystopia.
I'd been mulling over an essay about reality and AI and politics even while at The Post. Now I've written it. www.pbump.net/o/blurred-wo...
Blurred world
I suspect that history will record 2025 as an inflection point in American (if not world) history, the point at which the promise of a future rooted in universal access to knowledge collapsed under th...
www.pbump.net
August 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We are indeed living in a science fiction dystopia.
“For US healthcare workers devoted to ethical caregiving, our employers, deans, and supervisors are, in general, not our allies and are, instead, often our most proximate enemies in the fight against rising fascism.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again
When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.
www.thenation.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“For US healthcare workers devoted to ethical caregiving, our employers, deans, and supervisors are, in general, not our allies and are, instead, often our most proximate enemies in the fight against rising fascism.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My first day back on Bluesky since someone I followed posted some antisemitic garbage. The horrors being committed in Gaza constitute genocide. Being Jewish does *not* make you responsible.
August 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
My first day back on Bluesky since someone I followed posted some antisemitic garbage. The horrors being committed in Gaza constitute genocide. Being Jewish does *not* make you responsible.