Posts by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AzHjWUpAi7zGINvZMu by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-10-16T22:02:14Z
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The absolute state of conservative Christianity in America
(DIR) Post #AzHplUaaT18TdPdiq0 by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-10-16T22:33:40Z
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Change my mind: Almost all left-of-center political content amounts to: 1) Trump did a bad thing, 2) Fact-checking a dumb thing a Republican said, 3) Making fun of said dumb thing.There is almost no elite interest in analyzing how Republicans won and what institutions we can build to win.The right wing helps its activists build careers and support families through media appearances and jobs programs. On the left, the top shows only invite the same 15 people. Almost no one gets money.
(DIR) Post #AzHplasX5D3V8o58ds by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-10-16T22:34:09Z
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I will be publishing something tomorrow analyzing just how much more Republicans know about politics than Democrats, just FYI.The US left is so extremely passive at the top level. Everyone thinks "someone should do something," but no one wants to actually do it.
(DIR) Post #AzZfr8JShUudaTxWsq by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-10-25T16:07:14Z
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Having been one for 27 years, I can tell you that far-right people almost uniformly have a deep inferiority complex towards mainstream society.They know that their beliefs are either unprovable or disproven. But they want to believe anyway. Thus, they seek to destroy objective knowledge.
(DIR) Post #AzxDJsRod25Z28Pei0 by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-11-05T19:14:12Z
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Wow: Peter Thiel in a private 2020 email argued that capitalism has failed young Americans, and so this is why they have become socialist.This was almost literally Zohran Mamdani's campaign message. The email was posted to Xitter by his VC friend Chamath Palihapitiya.
(DIR) Post #B0RojeMtuHfqbendtw by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T19:16:09Z
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Elon Musk's long-promised lobotomy of Grok has arrived. His chatbot seems to have been ordered to sing his praises in a way that any normal person would find obscene.Grok seems to be required to output that Musk is a paragon of fitness, and one of the most intelligent people in human history. These posts are absolutely embarrassing for him.Source thread: https://x.com/wrotator/status/1990935873018376499
(DIR) Post #B0Rojjwt9uQpuifxBo by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T19:59:42Z
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Musk himself showed the world that AI has become his substitute for healthy relationships with this video he generated of an 3d modeled woman who turns toward the camera and says "I will always love you."He is so cruel and controlling that he can never have things like this for real, despite all his billions.
(DIR) Post #B0Tz25HRyUUh8vbBqK by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-11-21T18:04:26Z
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Yes we should talk about this. Fox was doing at least one story a day about lightbulbs at one point.They are doing the same exact thing with electric vehicles.
(DIR) Post #B0lEAvWRiNQmZlU4x6 by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-11-29T22:57:25Z
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Open source to the rescue yet again as Google orphans older Nest thermostats https://liliputing.com/open-source-project-keeps-old-nest-thermostats-working-after-google-has-ended-support/
(DIR) Post #B0wfKh1rI3eK1ScMDI by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-12-05T09:49:02Z
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Incredible finds from recovered material taken from the asteroid Bennu, which is still in space.Sugars essential for Earth life, a weird gum-like substance, and dust from a supernova.The first two very strongly strengthen the case for extraterrestrial life:https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/sugars-gum-stardust-found-in-nasas-asteroid-bennu-samples/
(DIR) Post #B19PH8afnopo8JfDG4 by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-12-11T18:11:01Z
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The brainworms have gotten to Liam Neeson. He just narrated an antivax crockumentary.Please share so everyone can avoid his schlock in the future: https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro
(DIR) Post #B19tVmvHdpxrtvCpsG by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-12-12T00:48:22Z
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@ryan @PamelaDrew Don't lie to people. RFK Junior is obviously anti-vax. His hand-picked panel just removed the decades-long recommendation to vaccinate babies against hepatitis B https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hep-b-cdc-panel-vote-9.7003999
(DIR) Post #B1YD1zcanDuRwUKIvg by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2025-12-23T05:02:23Z
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Touchscreens in cars look nifty, but drivers everywhere have realized that they're a usability disaster and unsafe.Finally, we have a scientific study backing up what most of us figured out long ago. https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/12/16/video-drivers-struggle-to-multitask-when-using-dashboard-touch-screens-study-finds/
(DIR) Post #B1xmbklPrglBdPEtJA by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-01-05T02:21:26Z
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The idea of building a modern-day "red-brown coalition" isn't just morally reprehensible, it is completely uninformed by history and political philosophy.The project of fascism is to impose violent feudalism. The fact that it occasionally looks anti-capitalistic is a coincidence.Anyone saying otherwise is lying or totally misinformed. Great piece showing the history and context: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fascists-always-come-for-the-socialists-first
(DIR) Post #B256qodllpDuFD9qKm by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-01-08T16:32:16Z
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It's been really unfortunate to see #Markdown become so popular despite its weak abilities compared to Org. Org, which began within #Emacs as a notes syntax, has already solved most of the problems that bedevil Markdown today.If only GitHub had chosen better...
(DIR) Post #B27fxRqAp8K2GpmGVE by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T22:44:39Z
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Is marketing to right-wing incels really this easy?I guess we'll see.
(DIR) Post #B27gXWZsgjTZO6MLBI by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T22:39:56Z
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@anildash Great piece! But as an #emacs user, I have to give a plug for Orgdown as an earlier and more robust minimal markup format.All the incompatibilities of Markdown from today are the result of it not evolving. Orgdown is far more powerful https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown
(DIR) Post #B2Su5a0VXs4BKV5kPo by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T19:52:48Z
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Renee Good and the problem of other minds: The basic questions of politics are mostly about whether all other people count as real, and should have the same rights. Conservatives and reactionaries have their doubts. https://plus.flux.community/p/renee-good-and-the-problem-of-other
(DIR) Post #B2SuBkISCbOoymQTQG by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-01-20T03:46:59Z
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Non-American reactionaries are just as nihilistic and willing to follow the leader as their American counterparts.Everything bad about the leader is false, unless it's verified to be true, in which case it is good.A story in two screenshots from the French far-right activist Nicolas Conquer.ht François Valentin
(DIR) Post #B3E2OqPoPcZB6IHrGq by mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-02-11T22:04:33Z
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If you haven't read this piece about Jeffrey Epstein and the big tech oligarchs, you absolutely must.Epstein's sexual and financial crimes are well-known, but his role as a central node of the techno-fascist oligarchy that runs Donald Trump is the biggest political takeaway from the Epstein files. https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/how-epstein-channelled-race-science-and-climate-culling-into-silicon-valleys-ai-elite/