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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 18/09/2026

Sierra Hull rocking out at Harvest

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 15/07/2026

What do you use to store and organize your photos?

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 06/07/2026

the thing is - it's terrible to see the industry being gutted like this - but at the same time - i'd kinda rather microsoft just fucked off completely. windows is the actual worst, office is also the worst, copilot is garbage.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Scientists anticipate we will hit the Intellectual Property Singularity by approximately 2032, at which point the one content available to the masses will be a single grey cube owned by Disney.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 29/04/2026

People have drug problems because they have mental health problems and the have mental health problems because they're living on the street and they're living on the street because holy crap have you tried to buy a house or rent an apartment lately?

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 29/04/2026

I'm increasing convinced that the solution to a lot of Canada's problems is to build a bunch of social housing and I suspect the drive for that is going to need to come from a higher level of government.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 29/04/2026

People talk about "homelessness" and "housing affordability" as if they were separate issues and it drives me crazy.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 29/04/2026

I haven't seen the Mayoral Forum yet but my hot take is that almost all the issues both candidates talk about are downstream of house prices and I'm not sure how much city council can do about house prices.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 26/02/2026

Is it just me, or does February have five Mondays in every week?

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inkle @inkle.co · 18/02/2026

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 18/02/2026

Only tangentially related but @patrickhwillems.bsky.social said in one of his videos that Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is the movie that the Star Wars prequels could have been, and I've been dreaming of that alternate reality ever since.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/02/2026

I think people who see themselves as very logical are often the very gullible towards anything that plays into their self-image as a smart person. But that's also a common affliction of engineers and, as you point out, engineering doesn't really suffer from the same problems.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/02/2026

My theory doesn't explain soylent though, unlike yours.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/02/2026

Maybe one of your weirder articles but also one of your better ones; it definitely got me thinking. The tech industry attracts various kinds of "misfits" and maybe part of the credulousness comes from there being a lot of people in tech who just want to fit in and never have outside tech circles.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 15/02/2026

On the other hand "objectively more accurate sound reproduction" might not be what you're looking for. Vinyl has that je ne sais quoi. (But my own formative years correspond with the heyday of CDs so, to me, CDs have their own desirability.)

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 15/02/2026

Also CD's can be easily stored on a regular bookshelf.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 15/02/2026

Lots of people subjectively love the sound of vinyl but CDs have objectively more accurate sound reproduction. Another advantage of CDs is availability-any artist selling vinyl is probably also selling CDs but I don't think the reverse is true, especially if you're talking about smaller acts.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 19/01/2026

This is one of those things where, as soon as I read it, I think "why didn't I see this before?"

This is, in short, an honour culture, where engineers compete for glory on the field of open-source software, aiming to be elevated in the eyes of their peers and the industry. It's a culture that would be recognisable to Achilles or Beowulf almost immediately once you got them caught up on the context: the goal is to make a name for yourself that will be remembered for ages to come.

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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 26/09/2025

Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer. I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World. 1/11

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/09/2025

Oh, thanks. I'll have to come check it out.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/09/2025

Or maybe there already is such a group that I don't know about?

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/09/2025

Would anyone in Fredericton be interested in a board game club? Thinking about starting a group that would get together a couple of times a month at a local brewery or cafe to play some games.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

OMG emdashes! Am I AI?!

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 27/07/2025

I was wondering if there was something going on or if it was just random chance. The last three times I've been on Prospect street, my phone says reception is good but I can't reliably send texts or access the internet.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Who was it who said that if the average person in the street knew how money really worked, there'd be riots?

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 19/05/2025

I think MacOS, Windows and Linux all have reputations that reflect what they were like 20 years ago more so than what they're like now.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 19/05/2025

100%. My brother-in-law asked me recently why more people don't use Linux and I couldn't quickly think of a good answer. I think there are lots of reasons why people *don't* use it but no good reason why a "normal" person *shouldn't*.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 30/04/2025

So in the last century increasing computing power meant better (or at least slicker-looking) user interfaces for everything, but in this century the graphics improvements really only show up in games and some other specialized software.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 30/04/2025

And I realized that computers in the 80's didn't have GUIs and in the 90's they barely had the power to run a GUI. But by the early-mid aughts home computers had enough power to run a very slick hi-res GUI.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 30/04/2025

I was thinking the other day about how progress in computing power hasn't slowed much in the last 20 years, compared to previous decades, but it *feels* so much slower. When I was a teenager in the 90s, each new generation of computer felt like such a big improvement.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/04/2025

I mean sometimes the problem is that I, the listener, am too stupid. But often people just haven't thought very hard. The challenge is telling which.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/04/2025

I also remember the time before the web, never mind social media, and I was already then surprised by how often people made arguments that didn't stand up to the slightest scrutiny.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 17/04/2025

I think social media is naturally biased towards people who say more, exacerbated by the way engagement algorithms and "virality" work. Unfortunately that means the conversation is often dominated by people who are willing to spout off about anything.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/04/2025

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 01/04/2025

I also wish politicians, city planners and the media would talk about how, even if *you* don't want to take transit, convincing/allowing *other people* to take transit is the best thing you can do to reduce traffic.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 01/04/2025

There are lots of places in Toronto that are a pain to get to on transit but it's genuinely baffling to me why anyone drives to downtown.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 31/03/2025

As long as we're still using FPTP, I think for any new party to have a chance it needs to be either: 1) more right-wing and/or socially conservative than the CPC 2) more left-wing and/or socially liberal than the NDP, or 3) built around a core issue the way the Greens and Bloc are.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 31/03/2025

I think a centrist party built around consensus building with a platform of reducing partisanship and being "nicer" in parliament would at least have a vision people could understand. But positioning yourself as a centrist party with an abrasive leader like Cardy just doesn't work IMO.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 31/03/2025

He seems to be positioning himself in the space between the Liberals and Conservatives which just isn't a big enough space to support a new party under FPTP. Maybe that could work if he ran on a "big tent" platform of building bridges and negotiating compromises; but that's just not Cardy, is it?

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 15/03/2025

The fact that I *enjoy* being a crotchety old man does not help.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 15/03/2025

One thing I've been wrestling with lately is, while I'm pretty sure the software industry has gone downhill in the last decade or so, I'm in my mid-40's so I'm always wondering if things are really worse or if I'm just getting old.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The specific annoyance of listening to a podcast that you enjoy and find informative until one day they do an episode on something you know about and the entire edifice crumbles

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 26/02/2025

And I say this as someone who moved to Toronto and then back to Fredericton. I don't want Fredericton to "become Toronto" either, and that's why I support these sorts of zoning changes.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 26/02/2025

A growing city that only allows single-family homes in most neighborhoods ironically ends up feeling more "big city" (in a bad way) while actually having lower population density overall.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 26/02/2025

When you don't allow smaller multi-unit buildings in most residential areas, you wind up with giant buildings wherever they're allowed surrounded by an endless sprawl of single-family houses.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 26/02/2025

You often hear people say they don't want their city to "become like Toronto" but this same attitude is a big part of what makes Toronto the way it is.

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Matt Gordon @gordon.earth · 12/02/2025

As a Canadian, my suggestion is that Canada should rename the Gulf of Maine to the new Gulf of Mexico.

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