Matthew Dessem
@matthewdessem.bsky.social
I’m the enchanting wizard of rhythm. I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe.
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Matthew Dessem
@matthewdessem.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Okay. Here are the TV settings you need to get the best picture possible out of an LG OLED. Mine is a C4--on older models some of the names are different. (If I have time some time I'll get the older setting names from a CX.)
I just walked by an actual three card monte game. How is that still a viable con?
February 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I just walked by an actual three card monte game. How is that still a viable con?
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Does anyone know if the Peacock app for Apple TV supports playing video in its original dynamic range and at its original frame rate yet?
February 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Does anyone know if the Peacock app for Apple TV supports playing video in its original dynamic range and at its original frame rate yet?
This is my representative, who emailed me this week about her plans to reform ICE by withholding funds until they agree to a mask ban and promise to start following existing law. It isn’t credible to act worried about Trump trampling fundamental rights while letting the secret police stick around.
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This is my representative, who emailed me this week about her plans to reform ICE by withholding funds until they agree to a mask ban and promise to start following existing law. It isn’t credible to act worried about Trump trampling fundamental rights while letting the secret police stick around.
There is nothing I love more than a prop from some other universe. This is supposed to be the fourth edition (revised and expanded) of a coffee table book about documentaries and Documentary Now! first published in 1975.
Big news for DOCUMENTARY NOW! fans: There's a coffee table book coming out in May, and I wrote the introduction! You can order signed (by me!) copies at the link below. Written by Seth Meyers + cast and crew. It runs 600 pages and includes the complete score to CO-OP. mzs.press/PRE-ORDER-SI...
PRE-ORDER SIGNED Documentary Now!: Fourth Edition (Revised and Expanded) Seth Meyers, Documentary Now!, with Matt Zoller Seitz (Intro)(Hardcover, NEW)
McSweeney's and Broadway Video present the official nearly-600-page comprehensive companion book to IFC's Documentary Now! , including new writing by Seth Meyers , a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-finalis...
mzs.press
February 13, 2026 at 6:38 PM
There is nothing I love more than a prop from some other universe. This is supposed to be the fourth edition (revised and expanded) of a coffee table book about documentaries and Documentary Now! first published in 1975.
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at last someone has the guts to say it
The Epstein Files Contain More Than 38,000 Trump References. Here’s a Helpful Visualization.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald...
slate.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
at last someone has the guts to say it
Great tagline, but I’d much rather watch the movie where a guy has 100 ways to kill and none of them work.
Packed with hard-edged action, hair-raising chase sequences, exotic locales and shocking plot twists, the iconic Charles Bronson stars in this ultimate ’70s crime thriller.
THE MECHANIC is now available to own in 4K UHD 📀: knlor.com/4azgGrE
THE MECHANIC is now available to own in 4K UHD 📀: knlor.com/4azgGrE
February 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Great tagline, but I’d much rather watch the movie where a guy has 100 ways to kill and none of them work.
A good dumb joke is worth a hundred clever ones.
An Incredible Honor: Rihanna Has Renamed Herself After A Sandwich At Her Favorite Deli
clickhole.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM
A good dumb joke is worth a hundred clever ones.
The rest of this article is funny but the idea in the pull quote would unironically improve my department. Next quarter they offer like two 25-person classes with practical skills and hundreds of available seats in classes of pure theory.
"Rather than building courses through faculty expertise or disciplinary knowledge, faculty gather complaints from alums now trying to get real jobs, feed those complaints into AI, and allow the system to revise the course accordingly."
The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™
As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM
The rest of this article is funny but the idea in the pull quote would unironically improve my department. Next quarter they offer like two 25-person classes with practical skills and hundreds of available seats in classes of pure theory.
People keep saying computers will never surpass human intelligence but I’ve been learning to speak modem for thirty years now and I can’t break 300 baud.
February 13, 2026 at 2:48 PM
People keep saying computers will never surpass human intelligence but I’ve been learning to speak modem for thirty years now and I can’t break 300 baud.
Seems like that Blockbuster on Sunset that they converted to a bank would be easier to break into than your average non-Blockbuster bank. Time to return some videotapes.
February 13, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Seems like that Blockbuster on Sunset that they converted to a bank would be easier to break into than your average non-Blockbuster bank. Time to return some videotapes.
Well, I certainly learned more about the gaskets on gas station air pumps than I planned to tonight!
February 13, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Well, I certainly learned more about the gaskets on gas station air pumps than I planned to tonight!
SECAM, man, SECAM. Leave it to the French to have their own extra fancy video standard.
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 AM
SECAM, man, SECAM. Leave it to the French to have their own extra fancy video standard.
Is there enough demand in Los Angeles to support a practice that specializes in cannibal law?
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Is there enough demand in Los Angeles to support a practice that specializes in cannibal law?
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Unless the retreat brings the two dead innocent people back to life and frees the thousands penned up in inhumane detention camps, it does not.
Minneapolis retreat could undercut Democrats’ message as shutdown looms
Minneapolis retreat could undercut Democrats’ message as shutdown looms
The end of the Trump administration's Minnesota operation comes as immigration hawks have pushed Trump officials to avoid caving to Democratic policy demands.
dlvr.it
February 12, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Unless the retreat brings the two dead innocent people back to life and frees the thousands penned up in inhumane detention camps, it does not.
I guess it’s on skeptics to be precise, since AI proponents blur different types of machine learning in an attempt to glue the bathwater to the baby. So: Although they are themselves an interesting thing to study, LLMs are not a useful or cost-effective tool for general education.
February 13, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I guess it’s on skeptics to be precise, since AI proponents blur different types of machine learning in an attempt to glue the bathwater to the baby. So: Although they are themselves an interesting thing to study, LLMs are not a useful or cost-effective tool for general education.
For the first six months or so my friends and I played Axis and Allies, we did not realize that a troop transport was supposed to be limited in its capacity even when it did not move. As a result, we developed an unbeatable "Germany invades Great Britain on the first turn" strategy.
Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours https://theonion.com/exhausted-friends-slowly-realize-they-were-playing-board-game-wrong-entire-6-hours/
February 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
For the first six months or so my friends and I played Axis and Allies, we did not realize that a troop transport was supposed to be limited in its capacity even when it did not move. As a result, we developed an unbeatable "Germany invades Great Britain on the first turn" strategy.
Every dollar we spend on AI is a dollar we could be spending building the donut machine from Homer Price.
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Every dollar we spend on AI is a dollar we could be spending building the donut machine from Homer Price.
Eighteenth century alt text in the Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
![Entry 42122 in the Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. It reads:
A New Flying Machine upon Dr. Musgrave's Plan that moves with
ye same Rapidity as Mr. Moore's Machine without Horses.
[Aug. 2, 1768]
An engraving of the sea shore, with " Bareges" on a distant coast, that of France.
It was to this place that the Earl of Bute departed, Aug. 2, 1768, as illustrated in " The Flight from Dover", No. 4211. In the air is a large "flying machine", or vast pair of wings sustaining a platform, in the middle of which is an air-pump worked by the Devil, who cries:— Now I've got you, Head & all; I was afraid I should have had only the Trunk." This is addressed to Lord Bute, who is seated at ease on the platform, with many bags of money at his side, pointing to the distant Barèges, and saying:—" Waft me to Bareges, or any where but to Tower Hill." Many of Lord Bute's opponents hoped that he would suffer, as they asserted he had deserved, decapitation. On the shore below the "flying machine" stands the Princess of Wales, wringing her hands, and lamenting:—" And art thou fled? so is my Happiness." See "Gisbal", No. 3848. On the cliff is a cow grazing, having apparently broken from a team.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f2sg3ygf633embjv5c6xvybb/bafkreiab2tmjb5iqdhxmiqogkm3jfx6ae3oc2gzqkhd4xxi5dzws2ekm3u@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Eighteenth century alt text in the Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
If you try to get me to invest in the “moon economy,” I’m going to do everything I can to send you to “moon prison.”
February 12, 2026 at 6:50 PM
If you try to get me to invest in the “moon economy,” I’m going to do everything I can to send you to “moon prison.”
Does any library software implement the FRBR model? What I would like, more than a record of physical books, is something that includes the concept of “works.” I am less likely to wonder if I have a copy of a book than I am to wonder if one of those books contains a particular story or essay.
February 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Does any library software implement the FRBR model? What I would like, more than a record of physical books, is something that includes the concept of “works.” I am less likely to wonder if I have a copy of a book than I am to wonder if one of those books contains a particular story or essay.
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leading the fight just a week ago
I have long worked to support local law enforcement and was honored to receive the Major County Sheriffs of America’s Legislator of the Year award.
Our sheriffs play a critical role in keeping our communities safe and upholding the rule of law.
Our sheriffs play a critical role in keeping our communities safe and upholding the rule of law.
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 PM
leading the fight just a week ago
You picked your fight, you picked your victory. Get back to us when the price of a cup of coffee goes down.
Minnesotans stood together, stared down ICE, and never blinked.
February 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
You picked your fight, you picked your victory. Get back to us when the price of a cup of coffee goes down.
Why do wide shots in 16mm films look so shitty? Worse lenses? Inadequate lighting? See e.g., “Totally F***cked Up,” which has decent looking closeups and okay medium shots but gets grainy and blurry any time the camera is further back.
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Why do wide shots in 16mm films look so shitty? Worse lenses? Inadequate lighting? See e.g., “Totally F***cked Up,” which has decent looking closeups and okay medium shots but gets grainy and blurry any time the camera is further back.