Matt Gordon
@gordon.earth
Musician, programmer, tree enthusiast, one of those dangerous radical leftists you've been warned about. Fredericton, Canada.
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Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer.
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
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I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer.
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
1/11
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
1/11
Would anyone in Fredericton be interested in a board game club? Thinking about starting a group that would get together a couple of times a month at a local brewery or cafe to play some games.
September 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Would anyone in Fredericton be interested in a board game club? Thinking about starting a group that would get together a couple of times a month at a local brewery or cafe to play some games.
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OMG emdashes! Am I AI?!
July 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
OMG emdashes! Am I AI?!
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Who was it who said that if the average person in the street knew how money really worked, there'd be riots?
This is your reminder that taxes don't "pay for stuff". They are a financial instrument that the government uses to manage inflation. They can choose the mix of who bears the burden of that management.
May 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Who was it who said that if the average person in the street knew how money really worked, there'd be riots?
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How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News
April 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News
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The specific annoyance of listening to a podcast that you enjoy and find informative until one day they do an episode on something you know about and the entire edifice crumbles
March 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The specific annoyance of listening to a podcast that you enjoy and find informative until one day they do an episode on something you know about and the entire edifice crumbles
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Leavitt says they’ve begun flying deportees to Guantanamo Bay.
This is functionally disappearing human beings.
There is no consular access to Guantanamo, making it nearly impossible for those held there to be represented by their governments.
There is virtually no media access, either.
This is functionally disappearing human beings.
There is no consular access to Guantanamo, making it nearly impossible for those held there to be represented by their governments.
There is virtually no media access, either.
Trump administration says it has begun deporting migrants to Guantánamo Bay
Press secretary says at least two deportation flights to Cuban base of undocumented immigrants ‘under way’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Leavitt says they’ve begun flying deportees to Guantanamo Bay.
This is functionally disappearing human beings.
There is no consular access to Guantanamo, making it nearly impossible for those held there to be represented by their governments.
There is virtually no media access, either.
This is functionally disappearing human beings.
There is no consular access to Guantanamo, making it nearly impossible for those held there to be represented by their governments.
There is virtually no media access, either.
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one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them
time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses
time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses
Ah, yes, I’m sure no prior administration thought to ask how all the payments are made.
February 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them
time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses
time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses
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Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
January 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
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Extremely unfun fact: math like this is one of the reasons the Nazis ended up deciding to build death camps.
They decided it was cheaper and easier to murder people, rather than deal with the logistics of moving them somewhere else after they had been deported.
They decided it was cheaper and easier to murder people, rather than deal with the logistics of moving them somewhere else after they had been deported.
January 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Extremely unfun fact: math like this is one of the reasons the Nazis ended up deciding to build death camps.
They decided it was cheaper and easier to murder people, rather than deal with the logistics of moving them somewhere else after they had been deported.
They decided it was cheaper and easier to murder people, rather than deal with the logistics of moving them somewhere else after they had been deported.
This is so extremely 80's and yet every year it feels more contemporary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Jk...
Bruce Cockburn - People See Through You
YouTube video by ajcgn4
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December 9, 2024 at 6:16 PM
This is so extremely 80's and yet every year it feels more contemporary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Jk...
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"I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power." ⬇️
December 6, 2024 at 7:32 PM
"I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power." ⬇️