Matt Welch
@welchmj.bsky.social
Little known behavior analyst and recreational swimmer. Not the libertarian Matt Welch or any of the other ones -- I'm talking to you, Matt.
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Hitting all the way over at Belaya is especially impressive, that's really damn far. 🥳
🔥 Because I've not seen it anywhere yet...
Here's a map I made of the 4 Russian air bases that Ukraine hit with drone attacks just now (red stars)
Look how deeply they penetrate into Russian territory. From the Arctic Circle to mid-Siberia, nowhere in Russia is now safe.
Slava Ukraini. ✊
Here's a map I made of the 4 Russian air bases that Ukraine hit with drone attacks just now (red stars)
Look how deeply they penetrate into Russian territory. From the Arctic Circle to mid-Siberia, nowhere in Russia is now safe.
Slava Ukraini. ✊
June 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hitting all the way over at Belaya is especially impressive, that's really damn far. 🥳
Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
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“Parents across the country were shamed by angry liberals into giving their kids ‘woke’ names like Tyler and Justin when they should have been naming them Stonewall and Forrest,” said Trump
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Trump Orders All Children Born Under Biden To Be Renamed After Confederate Generals
WASHINGTON—In an effort to restore what he said were traditional American values that the previous administration had attempted to destroy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday decreeing that all children born while President Joe Biden was in office would be renamed after Confederate generals. “Parents across the country were shamed by angry liberals […]
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March 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“Parents across the country were shamed by angry liberals into giving their kids ‘woke’ names like Tyler and Justin when they should have been naming them Stonewall and Forrest,” said Trump
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Have a written record of society’s collapse.
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January 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Have a written record of society’s collapse.
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Developing critical thinking, patience, resilience, and discipline to dismantle an authoritarian regime is like training for a sport—only consistent effort and dedication yield results. Those without the rigor to advance with calm and discipline exhaust themselves and give up.
February 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Developing critical thinking, patience, resilience, and discipline to dismantle an authoritarian regime is like training for a sport—only consistent effort and dedication yield results. Those without the rigor to advance with calm and discipline exhaust themselves and give up.
Well, of course Assad is reported to be in Moscow. Reassuring to know that some logic still holds up. 🙄
December 8, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Well, of course Assad is reported to be in Moscow. Reassuring to know that some logic still holds up. 🙄
Happy Thanksgiving, Bluesky
November 30, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Bluesky
I've suspected this for a long time. It makes sense from the standpoint of automatic reinforcement. Possibly from the standpoint of respondent conditioning, also. Not the first study to show it.
www.sciencealert.com/venting-does...
www.sciencealert.com/venting-does...
Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Study Shows
Venting when angry seems sensible.
www.sciencealert.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:59 PM
I've suspected this for a long time. It makes sense from the standpoint of automatic reinforcement. Possibly from the standpoint of respondent conditioning, also. Not the first study to show it.
www.sciencealert.com/venting-does...
www.sciencealert.com/venting-does...
Experience since 2014 in Ukraine, and even earlier in the post Russian-Soviet imperial space supports the likelihood of this dark ambition: www.kyivpost.com/post/42613?u...
Kremlin’s 2045 Plan to Divide Ukraine and Reshape Global Power Revealed
The Russian Defense Ministry’s 2045 plan sees the dismantling and division of Ukrainian territory, aimed at securing a pro-Russian global political outcome according to Kyiv Post sources.
www.kyivpost.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Experience since 2014 in Ukraine, and even earlier in the post Russian-Soviet imperial space supports the likelihood of this dark ambition: www.kyivpost.com/post/42613?u...
Good understanding of the relationship between radical behaviorism and behavior analysis gives understanding of how behavior analysis can improve lives. Not understanding the relationship leads means the signal gets lost in the noise.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 16, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Good understanding of the relationship between radical behaviorism and behavior analysis gives understanding of how behavior analysis can improve lives. Not understanding the relationship leads means the signal gets lost in the noise.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Delay discounting -- the behavioral original sin & probably phylogenetic behavior which now appears, ironically, possibly no longer evolutionarily advantageous in the context of global warning.
November 16, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Delay discounting -- the behavioral original sin & probably phylogenetic behavior which now appears, ironically, possibly no longer evolutionarily advantageous in the context of global warning.
I'm wondering if wanting more Trump will end up like this: images.app.goo.gl/SJnpSPDoqFJW...
November 16, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I'm wondering if wanting more Trump will end up like this: images.app.goo.gl/SJnpSPDoqFJW...
Just to be posting something for now, I'm gonna post some of my favorite behavior analytic, and ba adjacent, sayings from time to time. 1st: All behavior is choice behavior. (In the multiple concurrent contingencies sense.)
November 14, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Just to be posting something for now, I'm gonna post some of my favorite behavior analytic, and ba adjacent, sayings from time to time. 1st: All behavior is choice behavior. (In the multiple concurrent contingencies sense.)
When thinking about this election, Paul Volker, Jimmy Carter, inflation, and Ronald Reagan come to mind.
November 7, 2024 at 2:25 PM
When thinking about this election, Paul Volker, Jimmy Carter, inflation, and Ronald Reagan come to mind.
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Always 💖
Don't make me tap the sign
Don't make me tap the sign
November 6, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Always 💖
Don't make me tap the sign
Don't make me tap the sign
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@kenklippenstein.bsky.social is getting a Twitler headache after posting the J.D Vance dossier. So here's an article about it which includes a link to the document. Hopefully he just forgets about that nasty place and decides to spend his time here instead. newrepublic.com/post/186423/...
Elon Musk’s X Suspends Journalist Who Reported Leaked J.D. Vance Docs
Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein was suspended from X shortly after sharing a leaked dossier on Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance.
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September 26, 2024 at 8:30 PM
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social is getting a Twitler headache after posting the J.D Vance dossier. So here's an article about it which includes a link to the document. Hopefully he just forgets about that nasty place and decides to spend his time here instead. newrepublic.com/post/186423/...
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,280,786!
September 27, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,280,786!
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I'll say again, it SURE IS WEIRD *wink wink, nudge nudge, hint hint, cough cough, say no more, say no more* that both the far-right and the far-left are repeating the same line about Putin escalating to nuclear weapons in Ukraine and starting WWIII!
Absolutely wrong-headed argument based on a fallacious assumption of nuclear escalation that hasn't emerged and won't
With tens of thousands more killed and Ukraine’s leverage tanking, those progressives pushing for the war's end may have been right all along.
September 11, 2024 at 8:51 PM
I'll say again, it SURE IS WEIRD *wink wink, nudge nudge, hint hint, cough cough, say no more, say no more* that both the far-right and the far-left are repeating the same line about Putin escalating to nuclear weapons in Ukraine and starting WWIII!
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Musk warned that Grok would offend people because it wouldn’t be afraid to speak the truth.
So far, the people most offended are the right-wingers who were counting on it to disparage minorities, trans women and vaccines. My latest: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
So far, the people most offended are the right-wingers who were counting on it to disparage minorities, trans women and vaccines. My latest: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk promised an anti-‘woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned.
Elon Musk’s “Grok” AI is drawing complaints from conservatives, who say it’s still too liberal. Musk says he’s trying to fix it.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 23, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Musk warned that Grok would offend people because it wouldn’t be afraid to speak the truth.
So far, the people most offended are the right-wingers who were counting on it to disparage minorities, trans women and vaccines. My latest: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
So far, the people most offended are the right-wingers who were counting on it to disparage minorities, trans women and vaccines. My latest: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...