Matthew Gault
@mjgault.bsky.social
Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com
Tips: matthew@404media.co // signal: 347 762-9212
Tips: matthew@404media.co // signal: 347 762-9212
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I just picked this one up after listening to @mjgault.bsky.social interview the author on The Angry Planet Podcast.
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Splendid Liberators: Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and the Birth of American Empire
Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and the Birth of American Empire
bookshop.org
February 14, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I just picked this one up after listening to @mjgault.bsky.social interview the author on The Angry Planet Podcast.
bookshop.org/p/books/sple...
bookshop.org/p/books/sple...
Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old suspected of killing eight people and injuring 25 in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada created a Roblox game that allowed players to simulate a mass shooting in a level that looks like a shopping mall, Roblox has confirmed.
Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox
Roblox said it’s “committed to fully supporting law enforcement in their investigation.”
www.404media.co
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old suspected of killing eight people and injuring 25 in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada created a Roblox game that allowed players to simulate a mass shooting in a level that looks like a shopping mall, Roblox has confirmed.
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the future rocks and I'm glad to be living in it www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...
Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars
The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get ...
www.404media.co
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
the future rocks and I'm glad to be living in it www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...
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Straight from the source – hear Outrider fellow @mjgault.bsky.social share more about his latest article on AI and the future of nuclear treaties. 👇
in which @mattkorda.bsky.social explains what he calls 'Plan B' now that there is no nuclear treaty regime
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much...
www.wired.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Straight from the source – hear Outrider fellow @mjgault.bsky.social share more about his latest article on AI and the future of nuclear treaties. 👇
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Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
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had a great time talking with @patrickklepek.bsky.social about parenting, screen time, roblox, and more. Please listen so I can do more mommy blogging on 404 Media www.404media.co/the-screen-t...
The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail
Patrick Klepek on the reality of parenting in the age of Roblox and YouTube.
www.404media.co
February 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
had a great time talking with @patrickklepek.bsky.social about parenting, screen time, roblox, and more. Please listen so I can do more mommy blogging on 404 Media www.404media.co/the-screen-t...
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WH staffer: "As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought
The Wood began to move!"
Trump: *racist noises*
I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought
The Wood began to move!"
Trump: *racist noises*
February 9, 2026 at 3:33 AM
WH staffer: "As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought
The Wood began to move!"
Trump: *racist noises*
I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought
The Wood began to move!"
Trump: *racist noises*
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Apple pie, chocolate chip cookies, and rootbeer floats are popular in America. But not as popular as arms control.
91 percent of Americans support capping U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenal. www.nti.org/risky-busine...
91 percent of Americans support capping U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenal. www.nti.org/risky-busine...
What Do Americans Love More than Apple Pie? Arms Control.
In a political climate that feels more divided than ever, it seems nearly impossible to agree on anything—except, as it turns out, arms control. A YouGov poll commissioned by NTI and ReThink Media…
www.nti.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Apple pie, chocolate chip cookies, and rootbeer floats are popular in America. But not as popular as arms control.
91 percent of Americans support capping U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenal. www.nti.org/risky-busine...
91 percent of Americans support capping U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenal. www.nti.org/risky-busine...
"water and power libels" is a helluva rhetoric construction
Even former Thiel Fellows are starting to realize that the tech industry hebben een serieus probleem
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
"water and power libels" is a helluva rhetoric construction
in which @mattkorda.bsky.social explains what he calls 'Plan B' now that there is no nuclear treaty regime
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much...
www.wired.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
in which @mattkorda.bsky.social explains what he calls 'Plan B' now that there is no nuclear treaty regime
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WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD
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404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts
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Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
www.404media.co
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts
www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
lemme guess. Scared of mechanical Turks? That's always what it is
February 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
lemme guess. Scared of mechanical Turks? That's always what it is
you can always tell who has worked in a bookstore (he is correct)
The thing is that as reading editions, mass market paperbacks (for all the joy I’ve gotten out of them) are pretty rotten. The ideal format for cheap books you can fit in your pocket is more like the old hardback Oxford World Classics, which are the perfect size and don’t fall apart or crumble.
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
you can always tell who has worked in a bookstore (he is correct)
you know your state is doing great when CVS texts you out of the blue begging you to get a measles vaccine
February 6, 2026 at 11:31 PM
you know your state is doing great when CVS texts you out of the blue begging you to get a measles vaccine
nuclear war will fuck ya
I've been on the road this week, and so ended up behind on my posting for DOOMSDAY MACHINES, but I figured it was worth writing up a little something on this, er, PROVOCATIVE vision of the implications of thermonuclear war from 1954... doomsdaymachines.net/p/bananas-fo...
Bananas for BRAVO
An early attempt to visualize the broader implications of thermonuclear war
doomsdaymachines.net
February 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
nuclear war will fuck ya
every time I see Gladwell's name now I think about how he says that Americans didn't really talk about the Holocaust until James Woods starred in a TV miniseries in 1978
February 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM
every time I see Gladwell's name now I think about how he says that Americans didn't really talk about the Holocaust until James Woods starred in a TV miniseries in 1978
How did America become an empire? Spoke with Joe Jackson about his book 'Splendid Liberators' to find out
When Americans Became ‘Splendid Liberators’
America spent most of the 19th century at war with itself.
angryplanetpod.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
How did America become an empire? Spoke with Joe Jackson about his book 'Splendid Liberators' to find out
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one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.
he doesn't know New START expired
February 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
he doesn't know New START expired
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Updated: the DOJ redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein files. Now DOJ tells us it contains a victim's face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image.
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www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...
The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files
While Epstein’s victims endure the fallout of their photos and names being exposed in the Department of Justice’s latest tranche of files, investigators redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa. Now we know ...
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February 5, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Updated: the DOJ redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein files. Now DOJ tells us it contains a victim's face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image.
www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...
www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...