Michael Matthew
@michaelwmatthew.bsky.social
Another old white man worried about the dark time we're in. Southern New Hampshire.
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This will kill people and is no less murder than the boat bombings.
Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This will kill people and is no less murder than the boat bombings.
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Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
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Fascism is using us American Jews as moral human shields, covering its takeover with lies about protecting Jews. They aren’t. They’re pushing Jews into harm’s way, as some Jews become fools & believe it & some non-Jewish antifascists are fooled & believe it. Only fascism profits from this lie.
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Fascism is using us American Jews as moral human shields, covering its takeover with lies about protecting Jews. They aren’t. They’re pushing Jews into harm’s way, as some Jews become fools & believe it & some non-Jewish antifascists are fooled & believe it. Only fascism profits from this lie.
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Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
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Also the scheme lets people pay when they sell or die.
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Also the scheme lets people pay when they sell or die.
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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taranis.ie/datacenters-...
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
taranis.ie
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
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With vaccination, Australia has nearly eliminated cervical cancer. Cuba has a vaccine to prevent lung cancer.
In the U.S., anti-vax Trump Administration cranks are working to bring back diseases that once killed almost 1/4 of all young children. I wonder about tombstone industry bribes.
In the U.S., anti-vax Trump Administration cranks are working to bring back diseases that once killed almost 1/4 of all young children. I wonder about tombstone industry bribes.
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
With vaccination, Australia has nearly eliminated cervical cancer. Cuba has a vaccine to prevent lung cancer.
In the U.S., anti-vax Trump Administration cranks are working to bring back diseases that once killed almost 1/4 of all young children. I wonder about tombstone industry bribes.
In the U.S., anti-vax Trump Administration cranks are working to bring back diseases that once killed almost 1/4 of all young children. I wonder about tombstone industry bribes.
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Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities.
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities.
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
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If you think there's going to be a response to this other than Little Reichstag Fires Everywhere until midterms, you are sadly mistaken. The good news is, people seem to be sick of it.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you think there's going to be a response to this other than Little Reichstag Fires Everywhere until midterms, you are sadly mistaken. The good news is, people seem to be sick of it.
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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I don’t know enough about what K-8 looks like to speculate about what might be happening there, other than the obvious disaster in reading instruction, but I do legitimately wonder if this is the real effect of iPads (and everything associated) on developing brains.
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I don’t know enough about what K-8 looks like to speculate about what might be happening there, other than the obvious disaster in reading instruction, but I do legitimately wonder if this is the real effect of iPads (and everything associated) on developing brains.
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This whole thread is worth reading, but it’s this specific bit I keep fixating on when it comes up in these discussions, in part because it most consistently matches what educators in my life tell me: what is happening much earlier in childhood to set students up with zero executive function?
This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This whole thread is worth reading, but it’s this specific bit I keep fixating on when it comes up in these discussions, in part because it most consistently matches what educators in my life tell me: what is happening much earlier in childhood to set students up with zero executive function?
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Revising my alumni donation condition from “whenever SAE is permanently banned from campus” to “never”.
I am deeply ashamed that the institution where I first started in research has stopped providing healthcare to trans people, explicitly to facilitate the regime’s goal of harming them.
I am deeply ashamed that the institution where I first started in research has stopped providing healthcare to trans people, explicitly to facilitate the regime’s goal of harming them.
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Revising my alumni donation condition from “whenever SAE is permanently banned from campus” to “never”.
I am deeply ashamed that the institution where I first started in research has stopped providing healthcare to trans people, explicitly to facilitate the regime’s goal of harming them.
I am deeply ashamed that the institution where I first started in research has stopped providing healthcare to trans people, explicitly to facilitate the regime’s goal of harming them.
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No human psychology or experience has prepared us for a world where text is authorless, where it can contain errors that have no meaning or discernable reason, that are down to dice rolls in a probabilistic algorithm that happened to come up snake eyes. This is totally outside of our cultural scope
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
No human psychology or experience has prepared us for a world where text is authorless, where it can contain errors that have no meaning or discernable reason, that are down to dice rolls in a probabilistic algorithm that happened to come up snake eyes. This is totally outside of our cultural scope
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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This whole thread.
And I must add, trade school full of nontrads did not escape, so Jes is right that it absolutely isn't a "kids these days" issue or even just in academia. People are not firing on all cylinders. Worse, many don't seem to have noticed the check engine light.
And I must add, trade school full of nontrads did not escape, so Jes is right that it absolutely isn't a "kids these days" issue or even just in academia. People are not firing on all cylinders. Worse, many don't seem to have noticed the check engine light.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This whole thread.
And I must add, trade school full of nontrads did not escape, so Jes is right that it absolutely isn't a "kids these days" issue or even just in academia. People are not firing on all cylinders. Worse, many don't seem to have noticed the check engine light.
And I must add, trade school full of nontrads did not escape, so Jes is right that it absolutely isn't a "kids these days" issue or even just in academia. People are not firing on all cylinders. Worse, many don't seem to have noticed the check engine light.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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If more men learned to flirt from bird documentaries, the world would be a far more interesting place
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If more men learned to flirt from bird documentaries, the world would be a far more interesting place
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I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink
One of the books in my office is 290 years old. It’s still in excellent condition and easy to read. I wonder how easy it’ll be to read electronic texts 290 years from now. I expect it’ll be rather trickier.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.