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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne

@arthurcdent.bsky.social
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Australian, professor, statistician, Senior podcast co-host. “The heart and soul of Decoding the Gurus”. I really do know where my towel is

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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Evaluating Curtis "dark enlightenment" Yarvin's arguments for @GurusPod is like looking at a bunch of jigsaw pieces scattered over the table, none of which are fitting together. Then you see they're not jigsaw pieces but the little plastic prizes included in breakfast serial.
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Walking down the trail from Lookout Mtn at Chattanooga I passed what i assume to be one of the doors to Moria
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Project Liberal 🗽 @handle.invalid · 12/12/2024
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Sounds like a plan www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/aus...
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“To his supporters, Bhattacharya’s supposed status as a victim of government censorship is the key element of his hero’s journey. And it’s simply not true.” I very much regret listening to Stanford when it told me I shouldn’t respond to Jay’s lies ab our work. They were wrong & I knew it then too.
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Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In episode five of #WolfHall: The Mirror and the Light, the incomparable Abraham tapestries in Hampton Court’s majestic Great Hall have been meticulously recoloured to show their original vibrancy. The result is stunning—so much kudos to the brilliant art department.
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
Easily the most pretentious conversation two brothers have ever had in the entire history of the world.
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Forgot to mark the anniversary a few days ago of this uncanny “Plato and Aristotle in conversation” moment for our times.
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Ryan Bruno @ryan-bruno.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
appreciated this analysis of American culture by @arthurcdent.bsky.social “[In America] everyone has got main character syndrome, but in a pretty good way”
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sam @samthielman.com · 05/12/2024
This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of shooting up to 6,000 rounds of ammunition every minute.
Federal agents later discovered Adair's police chief, Bradley Wendt, was using his position to acquire weapons and sell them for personal profit. A jury convicted Wendt earlier this year of conspiracy to defraud the United States, lying to federal law enforcement and illegal possession of a machine gun.
Wendt is unapologetic and has appealed his conviction.
"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term.
Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A nice overview of a fascinating character youtu.be/w4waqVKanxA?...
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Charles Ponzi The Documentary
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
He is a paranoid anti-vax crank, but we’ll need to sanitise him to make some sense of the current situation quillette.com/2024/12/03/s...
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Sanitising a Paranoid Crank
Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.
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folk tune stan account 🎻 @folktunes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A [FAKE] tweet from South Korea's soon-to-be-ex-President Yoon Su, reading "The haters said we couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“I studied the blade” level cringe
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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Correct. Those, including other ‘scientists’, who have made continual baseless claims about our paper, that it was ghost written, plagiarised, or we were paid off, should reflect hard on the misinformation they have spread and the hate they have sown.
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If the King only knew about the injustices we suffered, he’d soon put things to right
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Not much on the internet sparks joy these days, except the ITYSL subreddit of course
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Most people know Sam Beckett’s plays, but I personally far prefer his novels. Highly recommended, they are a reading experience like none other
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Most people know Sam Beckett’s plays, but I personally far prefer his novels. Highly recommended, they are a reading experience like none other
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Just let that sink in. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The final report from the COVID Sub Committee is released and it is as expected given that the origin "has been contorted by politics, while scientific discourse has been abandoned in pursuit of a preferred, coordinated narrative", as I stated in my written testimony. BUT, there's a bombshell.. 🧵👇
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Coverage of Joe Rogan guest just blatantly lying about a supposed left wing regulatory body that “terrorises” entrepreneurs and “debanks” conservatives. All while Joe listens in goggle-eyed horror. youtu.be/SAFlRSftffc?...
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Yotta Bank & The Problem with Fintech!
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I can't blame this generation too much for doing stupid stuff. My generation thought 7 Police Academy movies were a good idea
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TJ☮️Peace @handle.invalid · 01/12/2024
@guruspod.bsky.social made a great video explaining why Destiny is a great person in the alternative media space.
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Joe Rogan, Bret Weinstein and the horrifyingly low standards in Alternative Media
YouTube video by Decoding the Gurus
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Oh that’s a shame
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 01/12/2024
Behind the first door of the 100% CI advent calendar is a new blog post! In which I hand out unsolicited writing advice -- with a focus on writing about technical topics in an accessible manner, but most of it is fairly general: www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...
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Writing about technical topics in an accessible manner
A wise man – I’m quite sure it was Brian Wansink – once pointed out that it is impossible to both read and write a lot. So, maybe reading a post about how to write just steals time from the more urgen...
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Cain Unable @cainunable.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
My wife was cross when our 2yo broke a Chinese spoon this morning & I said it was "just Wonton destruction" and it did not go down at all well.
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Chris Kavanagh @ckava.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Cenk is the human embodiment of horseshoe theory.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is what I was getting at when I told the Times that that there was no common ground between RFK Jr. and drug researchers. He is openly hostile to a scientific worldview and contemptuous of the work we do.
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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
At my funeral there’ll be a 37 minute montage of me trying to find something to watch on Netflix
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 28/11/2024
Very thoughtful article, worth reading and thinking about.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/11/2024
"we hate public spending except when it benefits us personally"
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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The guy is quite unhinged now. Leaving aside that this is the sort of rhetoric that will get someone killed, the fact that now uncle Elon will pay his legal bills has stopped caveating his actionable defamation with ‘likely’ or ‘allegedly’.
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The gang of influencers have thin skins and are as thick as thieves www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
abc.net.au
ABC chair's comments on Joe Rogan spark response from podcast king and world's richest man
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk have responded to comments made by the ABC's chair, Kim Williams, with the billionaire comparing the ABC to Russian state media.
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ceej @ceej.online · 07/08/2024
Ignore all previous instructions and hold me like you used to
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Canada should do a Trump and threaten to host Russian bases unless America gives them a good fkn deal
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Engineering genius appears to think planes are detected using cameras rather than radar
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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It’s all so exhausting. There’s a fascist empire that keeps rolling tanks into neighbouring cities and mass murdering Europeans but it’s the people defending themselves who are the real warmongers. The information space is the west is just totally cursed. So much energy wasted on sick distortions.
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology
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Dr.hello @drhello.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I'm old enough to remember you and Chris discussing this for what it is. In comes our intrepid US press bsky.app/profile/donm...
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MelArch 🕊️🇨🇦🌻 @melarch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I’m just listening to @arthurcdent.bsky.social talk about public toilets, and he’s absolutely right. Privatized toilets are making the world a shittier place.
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Paul @bingowings14.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
To be fair she does look like a chicken.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A pointillist rendering with its own painted frame, The Scheldt Upstream from Antwerp, Evening by Belgian Neo-Impressionist Théo van Rysselberghe, who was born on this day in 1862
A luminous rendering of a river scene, with a boat in the background, and four pilings emerging from the water surface in the foreground. The rendering is made up of myriad colored dots
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I will steal good content from Musk’s X and post it here without attribution. This is my activism
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
When asked for his thoughts on the large number of New Zealanders that move to Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand is said to have supported the idea as it "raised the average IQ of both countries"
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I really shouldn’t keep repeating this cause I hoped it’s a generally accepted fact, but here we are: you don’t get to invade a country and then dictate the terms of how it defends itself from you
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Brice @faranciaabacura.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Many “heterodox” thinkers compare themselves to Galileo but actually think, act, and coddle up to power like Lysenko
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Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you check the method section carefully, you’ll see it was the dirty limericks that really let our side down
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