Matt Wagner
@mattjwagner.bsky.social
Literary agent specializing in how-to and reference @Fresh Books
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I cannot stress this enough: court case after court case has ruled that AI does not count as an author when it comes to copyright. Any minute now an AI bot is gonna start reskinning and reselling AI slop and the "authors" will have zero legal recourse because they didn't actually author shit.
February 8, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I cannot stress this enough: court case after court case has ruled that AI does not count as an author when it comes to copyright. Any minute now an AI bot is gonna start reskinning and reselling AI slop and the "authors" will have zero legal recourse because they didn't actually author shit.
Yeah, I need to start posting about business here. Haven’t really posted much since I killed my Twitter :)
February 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Yeah, I need to start posting about business here. Haven’t really posted much since I killed my Twitter :)
I have yet another person using my name to contact authors. Be wary!
New #WriterBeware blog post: More gen AI-driven scams from Nigeria, aimed at tricking writers into paying for editing. As with other Nigerian AI scams, they're very roundabout, involving several intervening steps before getting to the editing referral writerbeware.blog/2026/01/30/t...
Two New Impersonation Scams to Watch For - Writer Beware
Impersonation scams in publishing tend to be variations on a theme, since the goal is always the same: to sell you something. In that sense, the scams below, which are aimed at tricking writers into p...
writerbeware.blog
February 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I have yet another person using my name to contact authors. Be wary!
I guess that’s a no then?
February 3, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I guess that’s a no then?
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings.
Get them out of there.
Get them out of there.
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings.
Get them out of there.
Get them out of there.
This is all such bs.
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is all such bs.
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How is this a shock poll? He’s terrible for the economy and everyone knows it. www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
SHOCK POLL: Majority Believe Trump Has Hurt Economy — Just 2 in 10 Say He’s Helped
A new Pew Research poll found that a majority of Americans believe that the effect of Trump's policies on the economy has been to make it worse.
www.mediaite.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
How is this a shock poll? He’s terrible for the economy and everyone knows it. www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
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And just like that, $450 million of YOUR taxpayer dollars down the drain. All for this cruel spectacle that nobody asked for.
apnews.com/article/flor...
apnews.com/article/flor...
Top Florida official says 'Alligator Alcatraz' will likely be empty within days, email shows
A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov.
apnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
And just like that, $450 million of YOUR taxpayer dollars down the drain. All for this cruel spectacle that nobody asked for.
apnews.com/article/flor...
apnews.com/article/flor...
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“On the one hand, a relatively small group of people will retain, and intentionally develop, the capacity for concentration and long-form reasoning. On the other, a larger general population will be effectively post-literate — with all the consequences this implies for cognitive clarity.”
Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“On the one hand, a relatively small group of people will retain, and intentionally develop, the capacity for concentration and long-form reasoning. On the other, a larger general population will be effectively post-literate — with all the consequences this implies for cognitive clarity.”
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I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
July 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
More taxes on Americans.
July 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
More taxes on Americans.
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
May 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
How many books can she have?
May 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
How many books can she have?
Honestly one of the highlights of my life.
May 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Honestly one of the highlights of my life.
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I can’t believe the guy who attacked the Capitol would do this.
April 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I can’t believe the guy who attacked the Capitol would do this.
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Putting a 25% tariff on automobiles and then saying congestion pricing is a "tax on the working class" is actually so funny tbh
April 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Putting a 25% tariff on automobiles and then saying congestion pricing is a "tax on the working class" is actually so funny tbh