Matthew Moore
@thewmo-says.bsky.social
Software nerd. Systems, science, engineering and math. Music, piano, food, travel. And politics because ... here we are.
Next week, probably.
December 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Next week, probably.
That feeling of unease is the realization that we are actively manifesting a world that we are not, as humans, built to live in.
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
That feeling of unease is the realization that we are actively manifesting a world that we are not, as humans, built to live in.
One thing that I try to remember is that nearly every person was, for a time at least, a child that somebody loved with their whole being. Sometimes hard to square that with the adults they become. But worth treating people with this in mind - as a default position anyhow.
December 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
One thing that I try to remember is that nearly every person was, for a time at least, a child that somebody loved with their whole being. Sometimes hard to square that with the adults they become. But worth treating people with this in mind - as a default position anyhow.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
Every time I listen to Peter Gabriel’s i/o I’m blown away anew at the engineering and mix. Immaculate.
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Every time I listen to Peter Gabriel’s i/o I’m blown away anew at the engineering and mix. Immaculate.
In keeping with the theme, this year’s developers keynote by Vogels will be authored with AI.
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In keeping with the theme, this year’s developers keynote by Vogels will be authored with AI.
“Queueing at scale; my time at Reinvent.”
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Queueing at scale; my time at Reinvent.”
To the people who dismiss AI as autocomplete, I can only say that sufficiently advanced autocomplete is indistinguishable from AGI.
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
To the people who dismiss AI as autocomplete, I can only say that sufficiently advanced autocomplete is indistinguishable from AGI.
"Your approach controller into SFO this evening will be Steven, father of two; his GoFundMe is RealSteveATC74."
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"Your approach controller into SFO this evening will be Steven, father of two; his GoFundMe is RealSteveATC74."
For everyone worried about the AI takeover (myself included), it is perhaps comforting that enshittification is coming for AI, too, in the form of selling "ads" that no doubt will be subtle and sway AI responses one way or another without being obviously ads.
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
For everyone worried about the AI takeover (myself included), it is perhaps comforting that enshittification is coming for AI, too, in the form of selling "ads" that no doubt will be subtle and sway AI responses one way or another without being obviously ads.
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“Authoritarians always target art first. They do so, because art and history are enemies of the myths a regime needs to survive." From my new TIME piece on Donald Trump’s campaign to defund the arts and rewrite our history. The stakes could not be higher.
Trump’s Campaign to Defund the Arts—and Rewrite History
"The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."
time.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“Authoritarians always target art first. They do so, because art and history are enemies of the myths a regime needs to survive." From my new TIME piece on Donald Trump’s campaign to defund the arts and rewrite our history. The stakes could not be higher.
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More like a topical allusion
lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"
October 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
More like a topical allusion
“We want to reserve the right to rule differently should a different party come into power.”
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“We want to reserve the right to rule differently should a different party come into power.”
A rare sighting of a thoughtful and persuasive essay in the wild. Hopefully it catches the attention of decision makers.
Digging into @anatosaurus.bsky.social's manifesto on Magnestism > Pollingism.
Genius from her diagnosis of what's missing from most 2025 "autopsies" on: why we want to win.
"...to enact the agenda you believe in or, at the very least, blunt the authoritarian assault against Americans now underway"
Genius from her diagnosis of what's missing from most 2025 "autopsies" on: why we want to win.
"...to enact the agenda you believe in or, at the very least, blunt the authoritarian assault against Americans now underway"
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
October 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A rare sighting of a thoughtful and persuasive essay in the wild. Hopefully it catches the attention of decision makers.
Just in: FCC demands Disney remake all Star Wars movies with very different endings.
September 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Just in: FCC demands Disney remake all Star Wars movies with very different endings.
This freedom feels funny.
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This freedom feels funny.
It completely tracks that the biggest technological breakthrough of these times is an algorithm for telling plausible lies.
September 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It completely tracks that the biggest technological breakthrough of these times is an algorithm for telling plausible lies.
Seems like if we just had gun laws for dudes under 30 we’d get 90% of the way there.
September 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Seems like if we just had gun laws for dudes under 30 we’d get 90% of the way there.
Mike Judge found this plot point too implausible.
Kids and the elderly are going hungry and we can’t fund pediatric brain cancer research, but we can afford all this…
September 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Mike Judge found this plot point too implausible.
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I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
August 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's"
Tom Clancy's Inferno
Tom Clancy's Inferno
August 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's"
Tom Clancy's Inferno
Tom Clancy's Inferno
Make no mistake, the people shaping our future as a country right now owe at least some of their dysfunction to James Dobson. It’s hard to overestimate the harm he did to every single one of us.
August 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Make no mistake, the people shaping our future as a country right now owe at least some of their dysfunction to James Dobson. It’s hard to overestimate the harm he did to every single one of us.
Yeah, I mean, what's up with those downtrodden anyway? Why didn't they just, like, do more? 🤦
If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
August 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Yeah, I mean, what's up with those downtrodden anyway? Why didn't they just, like, do more? 🤦
Trump has announced his new commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
August 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Trump has announced his new commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I just can’t even.
Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification'
“If it doesn't exist,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a co-sponsor of federal legislation targeting geoengineering, “then you don't have anything to worry about.”
www.nbcnews.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I just can’t even.