Matt Silas
@matty8r.bsky.social
Cameras @ Pixar. Haiku tools @ madewithmaiku.com. One bride, four kiddos, two dogs, one garden office, and three synthesizers @ home.
The Morning After The Morning After: https://matty8r.micro.blog/2025/11/29/the-morning-after-the-morning.html
November 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Morning After The Morning After: https://matty8r.micro.blog/2025/11/29/the-morning-after-the-morning.html
As much as it might be about the pandemic, Pluribus is a show about AI. A selfless network of all human knowledge ready to assist at any moment. Sam Altman’s dream. Super interesting show. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
As much as it might be about the pandemic, Pluribus is a show about AI. A selfless network of all human knowledge ready to assist at any moment. Sam Altman’s dream. Super interesting show. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.
One of the best things I’ve read in quite sometime. Every Tree Can Be a Buddha
Every Tree Can Be a Buddha
I began at the end. The Chōishi-michi pilgrimage route is an amazing 12-mile trail that winds its way up through the forest from
kottke.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in quite sometime. Every Tree Can Be a Buddha
Finished reading: White Poverty by William J. Barber II 📚this books speaks to this moment with clarity and power clearly articulating how the powerful have divide the poor against each other. Essential read.
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Finished reading: White Poverty by William J. Barber II 📚this books speaks to this moment with clarity and power clearly articulating how the powerful have divide the poor against each other. Essential read.
At the end of most news casts we hear how much the Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed or declined. It would be powerful if in the same segment, a poverty index was read citing the number of Americans living in poverty had increased or decreased from the previous day.
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
At the end of most news casts we hear how much the Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed or declined. It would be powerful if in the same segment, a poverty index was read citing the number of Americans living in poverty had increased or decreased from the previous day.
Essential listening:
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/p...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/p...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Essential listening:
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/p...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/p...
In tearing down the East Wing, Trump asserts he’s outside of history; greater than it. The White House can’t contain him. And he will mold the White House and history to his own liking.
But we must make sure he is within history, that he is a president… one of many… this is why we protest.
But we must make sure he is within history, that he is a president… one of many… this is why we protest.
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
In tearing down the East Wing, Trump asserts he’s outside of history; greater than it. The White House can’t contain him. And he will mold the White House and history to his own liking.
But we must make sure he is within history, that he is a president… one of many… this is why we protest.
But we must make sure he is within history, that he is a president… one of many… this is why we protest.
Currently reading: The Jailhouse Lawyer by Calvin Duncan 📚
October 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Currently reading: The Jailhouse Lawyer by Calvin Duncan 📚
What a constitutional republic looks like: youtu.be/c1tjhZO…
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What a constitutional republic looks like: youtu.be/c1tjhZO…
Finished reading: The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano 📚
A brilliant, moving debut novel; excellent historic fiction about Margaret Jones, a woman hanged for witchcraft in 17th c. Massachusetts.
A brilliant, moving debut novel; excellent historic fiction about Margaret Jones, a woman hanged for witchcraft in 17th c. Massachusetts.
September 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Finished reading: The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano 📚
A brilliant, moving debut novel; excellent historic fiction about Margaret Jones, a woman hanged for witchcraft in 17th c. Massachusetts.
A brilliant, moving debut novel; excellent historic fiction about Margaret Jones, a woman hanged for witchcraft in 17th c. Massachusetts.
Matthew Silas
matty8r.micro.blog
September 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
In real life, nothing is ever “and then one day”, everything is a slow evolving process.
August 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In real life, nothing is ever “and then one day”, everything is a slow evolving process.
Reposted by Matt Silas
Reposted by Matt Silas
If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention.
The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.
All on #July4th too.
The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.
All on #July4th too.
July 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention.
The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.
All on #July4th too.
The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.
All on #July4th too.
Reposted by Matt Silas
Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.
July 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.
Reposted by Matt Silas
Abandoned ice cream carts, fruit, and taco stands. Trucks with broken windows left in the middle of the streets. It’s the new reality ICE has brought to our beautiful city. This taco stand appears to have been hit last night, 6/27 in South LA by Florence and Gramercy.
June 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Abandoned ice cream carts, fruit, and taco stands. Trucks with broken windows left in the middle of the streets. It’s the new reality ICE has brought to our beautiful city. This taco stand appears to have been hit last night, 6/27 in South LA by Florence and Gramercy.