Matt Field
@mattfield.bsky.social
Observer of history, programmer, maker/hacker, ex live music touring, avid hiker, dog father, photographer, cooker + eater of good stuff
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gopher, finger, email using elm, and then the heady days of the very early web via NCSA Mosaic
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netscape navigator came in a box
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I had a six digit ICQ number.
Also I know what ICQ is.
I had a six digit ICQ number.
Also I know what ICQ is.
September 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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If you wondered what Sonderabteilung (SA) means it is "Special Unit" fwiw
The US President has ordered the creation of ”specialized” military units to “quell civil disturbances” in all 50 of our states.
Military units under his personal control.
Deployed across our homeland, in peacetime.
Little time is left to stop this insanity.
Military units under his personal control.
Deployed across our homeland, in peacetime.
Little time is left to stop this insanity.
Trump Orders Major Expansion of National Guard’s Role in Law Enforcement
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If you wondered what Sonderabteilung (SA) means it is "Special Unit" fwiw
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“The president orders the military into the capital on an absurd pretense and illegally seizes control of the capital police force” is not a sequence of events that is remotely difficult to interpret, and it’s disgusting to watch our political and media class pretend to not know what’s happening
i'm kind of blown away by how obvious it is if you're, like, literate. at all. i don't even mean for books, i also mean for movies. i mean that if you have understood things at any point in your life, this is obvious. so it's weird to see people act like they don't understand it
this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital
August 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“The president orders the military into the capital on an absurd pretense and illegally seizes control of the capital police force” is not a sequence of events that is remotely difficult to interpret, and it’s disgusting to watch our political and media class pretend to not know what’s happening
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Do people not remember the exact same motherfuckers saying the exact same things about NFTs?
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Do people not remember the exact same motherfuckers saying the exact same things about NFTs?
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we have to go back in time and kill baby grok
July 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
we have to go back in time and kill baby grok
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
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If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/
Fight ALL the fights
We have nothing left to lose — let’s f**king act like it!
www.thealtmedia.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/
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Vance is credited with ushering in a new era of European solidarity.
Europe United in Belief That JD Vance is a Prick
Attendees credited Vance with ushering in a new era of European solidarity.
www.borowitzreport.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Vance is credited with ushering in a new era of European solidarity.
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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
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10. Smallpox
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6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox
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February 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox
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BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks.
This is leadership.
It’s also unprecedented.
A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
This is leadership.
It’s also unprecedented.
A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
February 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks.
This is leadership.
It’s also unprecedented.
A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
This is leadership.
It’s also unprecedented.
A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
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February 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”
The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
www.404media.co
January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”
The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
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After spending more than an hour on the phone with Microsoft Support, I have learned:
1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself.
2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST.
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1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself.
2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST.
(1/?)
Anyone know how to disable Copilot in OneNote? There's no tickybox for it in the "Options" page, I already turned off "online experiences" or whatever, and when I tried uninstalling the Copilot app, the only change seems to be that I no longer have an "uninstall" option on the Copilot app.
January 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
After spending more than an hour on the phone with Microsoft Support, I have learned:
1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself.
2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST.
(1/?)
1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself.
2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST.
(1/?)
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This is basically what C-3PO did in the original Star Wars movies and everyone was constantly telling him to shut the fuck up
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is basically what C-3PO did in the original Star Wars movies and everyone was constantly telling him to shut the fuck up
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The tech space has done everyone a disservice by clumping machine learning (actually useful), LLMs (jury's out on how useful) and some kind of promised future AGI (almost certainly vaporware) in the same AI bucket, and increasingly sweaty leaders in the space like Altman sure aren't helping
![Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024. Photographer: Kyodo/AP Images
So energy …
Fusion’s gonna work.
Fusion is going to work. Um. On what time frame?
Soon. Well, soon there will be a demonstration of net-gain fusion. You then have to build a system that doesn’t break. You have to scale it up. You have to figure out how to build a factory—build a lot of them—and you have to get regulatory approval. And that will take, you know, years altogether? But I would expect [Helion 20] will show you that fusion works soon.
20 Helion, a clean energy startup backed by Altman, Dustin Moskovitz and Reid Hoffman, focuses on developing nuclear fusion.
In the short term, is there any way to sustain AI’s growth without going backward on climate goals?
Yes, but none that is as good, in my opinion, as quickly permitting fusion reactors. I think our particular kind of fusion is such a beautiful approach that we should just race toward that and be done.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiee7jjkbneuad2nrf4n2muxyl4ud6st5pnnr37b6tqep2nhnyreby@jpeg)
January 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The tech space has done everyone a disservice by clumping machine learning (actually useful), LLMs (jury's out on how useful) and some kind of promised future AGI (almost certainly vaporware) in the same AI bucket, and increasingly sweaty leaders in the space like Altman sure aren't helping
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It’s sad how recently we had nearly the sum of human knowledge available on a device we could carry in our pockets and also watch videos of cats on. And now it’s like trying to get directions to where your friend went from their stoner roommate who just wants to tell you about his guitar amp.
December 28, 2024 at 5:03 AM
It’s sad how recently we had nearly the sum of human knowledge available on a device we could carry in our pockets and also watch videos of cats on. And now it’s like trying to get directions to where your friend went from their stoner roommate who just wants to tell you about his guitar amp.
@denvercoder.com good to see you settled here
November 20, 2024 at 6:41 AM
@denvercoder.com good to see you settled here
BambuLab NO! WD-40👏is👏not 👏a 👏lubricant 👏
September 21, 2024 at 6:03 AM
BambuLab NO! WD-40👏is👏not 👏a 👏lubricant 👏
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he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
September 11, 2024 at 1:58 AM
he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
Thank god for hospitals providing useful care information on their websites
September 9, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Thank god for hospitals providing useful care information on their websites