Matt Morris
@matthewmorris.bsky.social
A sometime mathematician and software engineer who should arguably have done something else instead.
A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."
A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."
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November 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
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She has a point
September 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
She has a point
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Backing up or uploading the brain digitally is my terraforming Mars, in that I do not believe it will ever be possible and those throwing money at it have a fundamentally limited understanding of the thing they are trying to do.
Hey could we stop doing literal RoboCop shit for five minutes
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Backing up or uploading the brain digitally is my terraforming Mars, in that I do not believe it will ever be possible and those throwing money at it have a fundamentally limited understanding of the thing they are trying to do.
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I wrote about AI this weekend. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...
July 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I wrote about AI this weekend. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...
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RFK JR Announces He Will Just Go Door-To-Door Killing People To Save Time
August 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
RFK JR Announces He Will Just Go Door-To-Door Killing People To Save Time
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They should do like they did with Gerry Adams on the news
July 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
They should do like they did with Gerry Adams on the news
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“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.”
RIP Tom Lehrer
RIP Tom Lehrer
July 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.”
RIP Tom Lehrer
RIP Tom Lehrer
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Brilliant piece (better than the title suggests) on the continued lure of a job at the Indian railways, the tough wide ranging test to get in, the student ghettos & coaching companies that service the millions who want these jobs.
Read it - all the better in print!
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Read it - all the better in print!
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Would you pass the world’s toughest exam?
Thirty million Indians want a job on the railways, but a fiendish general-knowledge test stands in their way
www.economist.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Brilliant piece (better than the title suggests) on the continued lure of a job at the Indian railways, the tough wide ranging test to get in, the student ghettos & coaching companies that service the millions who want these jobs.
Read it - all the better in print!
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Read it - all the better in print!
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Everything is awful but guide dogs are being trained using toy squirrels stuck to remote control cars. And you need to see it
July 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Everything is awful but guide dogs are being trained using toy squirrels stuck to remote control cars. And you need to see it
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I’m glad the Royal Society wrote to Musk, but disappointed that they didn’t have the courage to uphold their own code of conduct, which now looks meaningless.
Don’t ask him to resign, show courage and take the decision yourselves.
www.theguardian.com/...
Don’t ask him to resign, show courage and take the decision yourselves.
www.theguardian.com/...
Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship
Exclusive: Fellows called on academy to act over Tesla owner’s role in Trump administration’s attacks on research
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m glad the Royal Society wrote to Musk, but disappointed that they didn’t have the courage to uphold their own code of conduct, which now looks meaningless.
Don’t ask him to resign, show courage and take the decision yourselves.
www.theguardian.com/...
Don’t ask him to resign, show courage and take the decision yourselves.
www.theguardian.com/...
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I heard some professor put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI! I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children with their homework but my favorite is drawing pictures!"
Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half.
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Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half.
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May 15, 2024 at 3:31 AM
I heard some professor put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI! I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children with their homework but my favorite is drawing pictures!"
Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half.
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Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half.
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If you are inclined to gloat over the death of kids — or the death of ANYBODY — because they live in a place where 6 in 10 voted Trump instead of 5 in 10 or 4 in 10, then I think maybe you’re not here for the hunting.
July 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If you are inclined to gloat over the death of kids — or the death of ANYBODY — because they live in a place where 6 in 10 voted Trump instead of 5 in 10 or 4 in 10, then I think maybe you’re not here for the hunting.
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Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
July 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
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Right, so I was asked to take a look at this headline and as you can imagine, there is a lot wrong with it! 🙄
This was initially published in
@thetimes
and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc
Let’s take a look….👀
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This was initially published in
@thetimes
and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc
Let’s take a look….👀
🧵
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July 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Right, so I was asked to take a look at this headline and as you can imagine, there is a lot wrong with it! 🙄
This was initially published in
@thetimes
and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc
Let’s take a look….👀
🧵
1/26 (1/1)
This was initially published in
@thetimes
and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc
Let’s take a look….👀
🧵
1/26 (1/1)
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📺 New video! 'Location, Location, Location' is 25 years old, and Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer have helped – or hindered – hundreds of hapless homebuyers. Can they keep their frustrations at bay with three more fussy couples looking for somewhere to live?
Location, Location, Location, Location, Location, Location
YouTube video by Bagpuss
youtu.be
June 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
📺 New video! 'Location, Location, Location' is 25 years old, and Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer have helped – or hindered – hundreds of hapless homebuyers. Can they keep their frustrations at bay with three more fussy couples looking for somewhere to live?
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Seriously though I’m a 3L in Australia and I just had a midterm that was “use Copilot to answer this problem question and then fix the answer” and I’m pretty sure the intended takeaway was “never ever use AI as a lawyer”
May 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Seriously though I’m a 3L in Australia and I just had a midterm that was “use Copilot to answer this problem question and then fix the answer” and I’m pretty sure the intended takeaway was “never ever use AI as a lawyer”
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at a place I was working a few years ago we got a trendy manager seagulled into our team and she decided to open a meeting by talking your single best childhood day and my mate Steve went utterly blank eyed and said "I don't talk about my childhood" and she cancelled the meeting.
If someone asked me this question in a meeting, with the stated goal of being productive, I would walk out www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
May 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
at a place I was working a few years ago we got a trendy manager seagulled into our team and she decided to open a meeting by talking your single best childhood day and my mate Steve went utterly blank eyed and said "I don't talk about my childhood" and she cancelled the meeting.
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AI will change everything. Now for a clip from Google's new AI video generator
May 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
AI will change everything. Now for a clip from Google's new AI video generator
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Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
May 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
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Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.