Matt Jeppsen
@mjeppsen.bsky.social
Sydney-based DoP interested in cinematography, film & video production, lenses, cameras, and all things photography. Twitter refugee.
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
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this business model should be flatly illegal
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
It’s official: EA is going private.
The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
www.businesswire.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
this business model should be flatly illegal
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome
ban it completely
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Some incredible reporting and analysis about Trump's anti-wind playbook landing on Australia's shores.
// by @jessdavis.bsky.social for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation //
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
// by @jessdavis.bsky.social for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation //
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Trump-style 'climate hoax' playbook spreads to Australia
US researchers have tracked how dark money funds a tangled web of climate denial think tanks with vested interests in slowing climate action. And Australia is not immune.
www.abc.net.au
September 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Some incredible reporting and analysis about Trump's anti-wind playbook landing on Australia's shores.
// by @jessdavis.bsky.social for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation //
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
// by @jessdavis.bsky.social for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation //
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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The essential failure of LLMs in the smart home - where natural language processing should shine - is the best evidence that LLMs as a technology simply may not be able to do the things they’re promised
www.theverge.com/report/78717...
www.theverge.com/report/78717...
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The essential failure of LLMs in the smart home - where natural language processing should shine - is the best evidence that LLMs as a technology simply may not be able to do the things they’re promised
www.theverge.com/report/78717...
www.theverge.com/report/78717...
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hi im MrBeast and this is the trolley problem
September 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
hi im MrBeast and this is the trolley problem
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
August 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
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TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:
WIRED:
June 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:
WIRED:
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Impressive. Cooling gel for PV adds about 19 cents a watt, but extends lifespan, increases output, and reduces LCOE.
June 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Impressive. Cooling gel for PV adds about 19 cents a watt, but extends lifespan, increases output, and reduces LCOE.
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Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.
May 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.
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"...the biggest negative impact on drivers’ reactions to hazards came when using Apple CarPlay by touch. Reaction times were nearly five times worse than when a driver was at the drink-drive limit, and nearly three times worse than when high on cannabis."
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...
www.wired.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"...the biggest negative impact on drivers’ reactions to hazards came when using Apple CarPlay by touch. Reaction times were nearly five times worse than when a driver was at the drink-drive limit, and nearly three times worse than when high on cannabis."
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You could argue that conspiracy theories have ballooned in recent decades is precisely *because* these people now have safe spaces online where their delusions are nurtured and shared. In the past, these people would have been told "no" and laughed out of the room before the nonsense could spread.
May 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
You could argue that conspiracy theories have ballooned in recent decades is precisely *because* these people now have safe spaces online where their delusions are nurtured and shared. In the past, these people would have been told "no" and laughed out of the room before the nonsense could spread.
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I knew this wealthy girl who told everyone she worked “in tech” and was “part of a rapidly growing startup” but actually she had no job and spent 10 hours a day moderating a Buffy the vampire message board and everyone treated her like a computer wiz. That’s basically Marc Andreessen if he was cool
April 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I knew this wealthy girl who told everyone she worked “in tech” and was “part of a rapidly growing startup” but actually she had no job and spent 10 hours a day moderating a Buffy the vampire message board and everyone treated her like a computer wiz. That’s basically Marc Andreessen if he was cool
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I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.
April 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.
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People on average seem to have gotten strikingly worse at understanding and reasoning over the past 10-15 years...
Are Human Reasoning Abilities Declining? - Daily Nous
In a piece at the Financial Times (and in a Bluesky thread about it), John Burn-Murdoch, the chief data reporter for the newspaper, goes over some of the worrying findings that might support a conclus...
dailynous.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
People on average seem to have gotten strikingly worse at understanding and reasoning over the past 10-15 years...
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We have reached levels of cringe previously thought unattainable
April 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We have reached levels of cringe previously thought unattainable
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Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists.
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April 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists.
donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
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April 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?
April 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?
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We are all birthright citizens. I wouldn't know how to prove my own citizenship without relying on the fact that I was born in the United States.
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has begun baselessly claiming that birthright citizenship is a massive welfare scam.
Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.
Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.
Stephen Miller Unveils Bizarre New Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Stephen Miller has found a new excuse to ignore the Constitution.
newrepublic.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We are all birthright citizens. I wouldn't know how to prove my own citizenship without relying on the fact that I was born in the United States.
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At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
April 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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in a recent interview George Lucas explained he had Yoda speak in such an odd way so that the audience, mostly kids and young people he assumed, would pay attention, which shows that George Lucas does understand how to communicate to kids and just cared more about having trade disputes in his movie
April 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
in a recent interview George Lucas explained he had Yoda speak in such an odd way so that the audience, mostly kids and young people he assumed, would pay attention, which shows that George Lucas does understand how to communicate to kids and just cared more about having trade disputes in his movie