Chris Matyszczyk
chrismatyszczyk.bsky.social
Chris Matyszczyk
@chrismatyszczyk.bsky.social
Currently this. Formerly that and the other at CNET, ZDNET and Inc. Secretive creator of brands. Lots of unpublished manuscripts waiting to be read. Wine Ambassador at Honig Winery.
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May 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker:

Read whatever the hell you want.

I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
April 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Welcome
April 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Standing with Hinton, standing with science.

Please @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7, links enclosed.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Hinton vs Musk
Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
open.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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👇🏻👇🏻
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Wait!

🤯 Do you mean to tell me that a bunch of massively hyped biotech companies haven’t remotely returned on their investments, driverless car are still just geofenced demos, & GPT-5 still hasn’t arrived after two years of hype?

The media did a great job tempering expectations, though, right?
February 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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See here's how to do a headline.

fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...
February 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I’d just like to shout out humans for at least seeing through NFTs as the most idiotic idea possible.
February 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)
A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly "risk-averse" (Kalley Huang/The Information)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
February 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.
February 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ChatGPT ad shows generative AI is totally washed. Impossible to tell what it was the first half until it started saying random prompts like "write me a business plan." Two years in and they don't have a better sales pitch than "summarise this article for me." Washed!
February 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Still hustling those one-drop blood tests even though he doesn’t know how to make them.

Or, um, still hustling those next-gen models.
February 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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This Kara Swisher interview is both revisionist history and empty pablum. Shameful for Ezra Klein and his people to help her launder her reputation as if she wasn't enabling every single one of these guys and literally doing her book tour with them!
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
February 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and
offer them to small to medium size businesses.

Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations .

Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ?

Thoughts ?
February 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions. The Constitution explicitly requires Senate confirmation for anyone wielding significant federal power"
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
www.techdirt.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.
January 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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hey anyone who needs to send flowers in like two weeks, now's a good time to buy them
January 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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DeepSeek took off in part because, in a first, it offered a reasoning model that explains to you what it's doing. Its success shows how little AI product teams have done so far to make their products appealing to normal people: www.platformer.news/deepseek-des...
January 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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‘Phonetic’ is not.
‘Abbreviation’ is 12 letters.
‘Thesaurus’ doesn’t have a synonym.

English has a sense of humor. 😀
January 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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If you don’t need to wear a mask because “God will protect you,“ then why do you need a gun?
January 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

www.ft.com/content/a0df...
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Don’t want to jinx it but I’ve made it to the second round of interviews to be the editor of Pornhub’s new book reviews section. They seem open to my idea of using Christgau’s bomb/scissor emoji rating system
January 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM