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Matt Jones
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IT manager for K-12 school district. Amateur photographer. Foodie. Ex-VMUG leader. Geek. PTO hoarding doomsday prepper.
Clearly this medical device company and I have very different definitions of the word "safe" for my personal health data.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Overton window costume but it’s just someone sprinting away
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Gonna tell my kids this is Claude and Gemini.
Star Wars Q&A Book about Computers (1983, art by Ken Barr)
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
These looks have the creativity of a Urban Decay Naked palette. Trixie Mattel x Google Cloud collab when?

workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/10/ai-p...
Google Workspace Updates: AI-powered makeup in Google Meet
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
If you like comedy you have to watch this show. I repeatedly got The Chris Gethard Show / Planet Scum vibes watching it. "Creature, write quote post."
THE LAST EPISODE!!!! im really really proud of this show. We filmed it in my house but we take a trip at the end of this ep with very permanent consequences.
Demi Lardner Dies in This Video * Real *
YouTube video by Grouse House
youtube.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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I’ve honestly never met a Matt I didn’t like. Shout out to all the Matts out there.
August 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
After reading so much about these cameras over months in the reporting from @404media.co, Benn released a video covering them too. Sharing what I learn in my personal and professional circles has really opened some eyes to what's going on around us.
August 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Today at dinner I realized Flo Rida is just "Florida" with a space. Immediate face in hands. 🤦
August 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
oh no
is being perceived a kink??

my brain is like “clock me harder daddy i dare you” all the time and it’s starting to get real annoying
July 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"

www.404media.co/the-astronom...
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Are you flying out of CVG today (Tuesday)? Did you have to remove your shoes at TSA (regular, not pre-check)?
July 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Welp not a whole lot that can beat this. What an honor to meet @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp at the Death Stranding 2 premiere. Thanks for the invite @heathercampbell.bsky.social!
June 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool

🔗 www.404media.co/flock-decide...
Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool
The move comes after internal pressure and 404 Media’s reporting.
www.404media.co
May 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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📣 The rush to add AI into everything is a big threat to privacy, as we've been saying.

MS Recall's screenshotting everything is a (not) great example of exactly why.

So, Signal took steps to protect everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's privacy invasion.👇

signal.org/blog/signal-...
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is a...
signal.org
May 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Pure joy is Richard Ayoade and Paul Rudd eating Whoppers & fries in a Burger King sauna.
May 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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So in a crazy coincidence, my congressional campaign actually reunited my rescue cat, Heater, with her foster mom.

And the footage is just too cute not to share. 🧡🤍
May 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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May 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@themarkening.bsky.social Watched the first Gianmarco video. Great stuff. Glad it's finally up and I felt oddly proud watching you share a unique piece of Cincy. ❤️
April 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The juxtaposition of encouraging the use of generative AI and banning mobile phones in schools is wild. If we trust students with an LLM, why can't we trust them with a phone? Using both require media literacy skills.

www.statenews.org/government-p...
DeWine calls on Ohio lawmakers to ban cell phones from public schools
Under a state law signed last year, Ohio public schools had to pass a policy limiting student device use, though the details were theirs to decide.
www.statenews.org
April 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
For my Cincinnati follows, I made a Yelp collection of the 2025 lineup for restaurant week:

www.yelp.com/collection/c...
2025 Cincinnati Restaurant Week
A Yelp collection by Matt J.
www.yelp.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Why does Jacob have a bigger jar
April 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Less object permanence than an 8 month old child.
Microsoft is the real offender here, but anyone who writes even a news post about the copilot "AI" Quake 'tech demo' without describing how it actually functions (or fails to) it is is doing unpaid PR work.
April 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM