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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 11/09/2026

Opus 4.8 can’t reliably identify my active git branch and coding is supposed to be SOLVED. I’m gonna put my money on the 90%.

A screenshot of a quote tweet between two AI developers.

The original: “The people building Al earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear"

The tweet from the quoter: “Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe Al could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.”

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 05/06/2026

The poor agent was like, “yeah, you have waited too long for a solution” and then I’m forced to pass judgment on only them. You did fine, Shantoya. I hope they are paying you well.

Screenshot of a survey form that only has questions about the agent and not the actual problem.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 22/03/2026

Picked up a new magazine today

Magazine titled “Arfful BLOGGING” with headlines like “Project Blogway” and “Random Acts of Blogging”

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 18/10/2025

Hard to tell for sure, but definitely 10s of thousands of protestors in downtown Denver today.

Protestors in the foreground with the state capitol building in the background

Protestors holding up signs in downtown Denver.

Protestors holding up signs in downtown Denver. There is a “No Kings” sign prominently displayed.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 18/10/2025

Doing our part right now!

A restaurant with a girl reading in the foreground and a “Mustard’s Last Stand” sign in the background. A nice older woman is ordering a huge Italian beef sandwich.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 04/10/2025

It might be a brain injury or [gestures around]. It’s actually been a better-than-usual week for me. If I were more diligent, I would go full quantified-self and try to find correlations between good and bad Bee weeks.

Screenshot of Spelling Bee stats, showing 5 Queen Bees and a Genius.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 23/09/2025

Bad news: I am not in the sky Good news: I am revisiting some college music

Album cover for The Rapture’s album, “Mirror”.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 23/09/2025

Thankfully, this is one of the few things you can undo. If you go to Settings > Safari, the “bottom” option will always show the tab button.

Screenshot from the safari settings screen in iOS 26

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 06/06/2025

I just got a @nytwirecutter.bsky.social email with the subject “7 pairs of white jeans we’re wearing this summer“ and I immediately thought of Joey

Screenshot of Joey from Friends wearing 10 shirts at the same time

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 21/05/2025

I read this as “shits on”, which is more accurate

A phone notification from the NYT that says, “F.D.A. SHIFTS ON VACCINES
The agency said it would demand more data before approving new
Covid vaccines for low-risk Americans under the age of 65.”

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 12/05/2025

I asked Gemini and it was kind of a dick about it.

A screenshot of a questions asked to Gemini AI. Are there apes in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes?
Yes, absolutely! The title "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" clearly indicates that apes are central to the film.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 09/05/2025

Buuuuut they link to it over there -->

Screenshot of the Bluesky footer on the web app which has four links: Feedback, Privacy, Terms, Help

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 05/05/2025

1. They are dumb and have learned nothing. 2. (See screenshot)

A screenshot of text from the article that says…

At the storefront event, a man waiting outside told me he'd booked an appointment for 11:30 but noted he was an hour early and wasn't allowed to come inside yet. He was visiting from Poland and said his boss had attended the party the night before and was "super hyped" about the orb concept. "I don't know if it's gonna be like a worldwide revolution, but I just want to be on the wave," he said.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 13/04/2025

Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 06/03/2025

I wonder if there is a way to quantify the impact of nostalgia on Letterboxd scores? Specifically, I’m trying to understand the shift in scores for Star Wars movies shared in this Reddit post. Maybe a bunch of millennials joined Letterboxd between 2021 and 2023? www.reddit.com/r/Letterboxd...

A graphic showing how Letterboxd ratings of the 9 main Star Wars movies have changed over time. Notably, it shows episodes 1-3 rising by roughly ½ of a star from 2021-2025 and episodes 4-6 dropping by roughly ½ of a star in the same time period.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 10/02/2025

I went down a rabbit hole figuring out whether Robert H. Lurie (namesake of the children’s hospital in Chicago) is related to Jeffrey Lurie (owner of the Eagles). I gave up for a variety of reasons, but I think I found my style icon in Robert H Lurie?

Photo of Robert H Lurie, who is a bald man with medium length hair, a big mustache, large orange glasses, and a suit that makes him look like a child wearing his dad’s clothes.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 17/01/2025

I am trying to see the Brutalist in IMAX and looking at seats for a 10:15am showing on Sunday. It looks like I’ll be joined by 4 fellow movie nerds and 2 completists who have anxieties about fires in theaters.

Screenshot of the interface used to pick seats in a movie theater. Four single seats in center seats in different rows are grayed-out. There are also 2 grayed-out seats on the edge of the centermost row.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 11/01/2025

I saw Hard Truths today and it was EXCELLENT. I do need to have a word with whomever set the genre in Swarm tho.

A screenshot of a check-in at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. I received 5 points for “Your first Comedy Film check-in!”

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 24/12/2024

“You will be visited by five spirits.” The five spirits:

The three members of Ben Folds Five posing against a woodgrain wall

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 21/12/2024

When my sister gets me in trouble even though she started the fight

A diva slams her fists down on a piano during a concert

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 05/12/2024

Trying a Vietnamese spot near us called Golden Banh Mi and it’s quite good! This is a “Pho-Rench Dip”, which is like a French dip fusion sandwich. It absolutely slaps.

A sandwich with beef and greens in a white hoagie roll next to a container of broth. Both are on a slightly messy, white plate.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 03/12/2024

Last week was a good Bee week (and I was queen yesterday, too).

A screenshot of the NYT Spelling Bee Statistics. It shows ranks for last week, with the following Monday-Sunday results: Genius, Queen Bee, Queen Bee, Queen Bee, Queen Bee, Amazing, Queen Bee

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 02/12/2024

Last of my stuffing leftovers get waffled (s/o to Kenji)

A plate of food, focused on an orange-ish waffle covered in gravy

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 01/12/2024

Thanksgiving leftovers hand pie

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 24/11/2024

There is also an experimental feature to enable a threaded view in the bsky app. Settings > Content & Media > Thread Preferences

Screenshot of the mentioned settings page. At the bottom it says “Experimental:
Show replies in a threaded view” with a toggle.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 20/11/2024

post you from a different era Once upon a time I had hair — a lot of hair.

Two teenagers in flannel shirts and long hair, standing on the edge of a suburban street.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 16/11/2024

That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

A fisheye photo of a dog holding a card that says Terriers with two men in the distance behind him

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 15/11/2024

I just showed my son this and now he and his sister collaborated on this.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 12/11/2024

[47 year-old man who got promoted to manager of his BMO branch and has to drive by his ex-wife’s house and see him kiss her new husband goodbye every day]:

Black Mercedes wagon with a black license plate that says “SUCCESS”

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 03/11/2024

Eight years ago I watched the Cubs win the World Series in bed with my family. That was nice, even if it opened a portal to another dimension. I’m optimistic it’s closing on Tuesday.

A handsome man laying in bed, smiling, holding his infant son, with his wife next to him. He was happy.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 20/10/2024

The growth marketers need a break.

Screenshot of an invitation to review a product named “27 GAL CLR/CLR STO” that has a generic image. Side note: I did not buy this.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 03/10/2024

L’Shana Tova, y’all!

Shania Twain at the Grammys with text on top that says “Shania Twova!”

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 02/10/2024

Looking at window.__preloadedData in the browser console, it’s the “collection” that was published on 9/25. The article has a firstPublished value with today’s date. That being said, it is very dumb that was published before the debate ended.

Screenshot of the code in the browser console showing fields related to a collection entry in an array. Notably, it shows that last published date as "2024-09-25T19:10:28.000Z"

Screenshot of the code in the browser console showing fields related to an article entry. Notably, it shows that last published date as "2024-10-02T03:12:04.000Z"

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 22/09/2024

My first Bluesky video is from last night’s Soul Coughing show in Denver. It was a delight to see them live for the first time in 25 years.

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 11/09/2024

“…concepts of a plan”

Thanos from MCU showing off his infinity stones

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Matt Jacobs @capndesign.com · 17/02/2024

Absolutely, team Ruffalo

Screenshot of a NY Times notification with a picture of a middle-aged man in a black swim suit floating in a lake. There is snow-covered brush around the edge of the lake. The caption reads, “Bradley Cooper takes a cold plunge.
Mark Ruffalo feeds pigeons. Here's what stars do when they're off duty.”

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