Reposted by Matt Dunphygeri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 2hMight as well light the Constitution on fire at this point. 591277314
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 2hSometimes a new word shows up and I hate it. For example, "agentic" Pointlander I can get behind though 000
Reposted by Matt DunphyK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is instructive to the conservative notion that the ideal student is completely silent and completely passive, to make them easier to molest 5588
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 29/09/2026Because it's important to keep up with different perspectives, I visit the Drudge Report. Ignoring any Overton Window discussions for the moment, I have to call out the unmistakable influence of @rob-sheridan.com and his visual concepts of corruption and discomfort, all over the site at this moment. 261
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 28/09/2026Anytime you feel weird about selling your art, don't forget that the money is out there, and people want to spend it. And if you can convince someone to pay you for something you created in lieu of paying for a repeat viewing of a Disney movie, you're doing good work. 000
Reposted by Matt DunphyUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142465853
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 27/09/2026Dude starts a thread on ETS about a NIN data set he made for using with LLMs, got attacked over it, and then in a private message to me complaining about that, brought up that Obama was responsible for the bank bailouts and didn't get punished for it. AI psychosis comes in so many weird flavors. 110
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 25/09/2026For years now, my coffee intake amounts to one Areopressed cup in the morning. I used to think caffeine didn't affect me, until I went a few months mostly drinking water. My sleep got better and the headaches went away. Man do I miss having coffee drinks in the evening though. It tastes so good! 130
Reposted by Matt DunphyGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203187965328
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 24/09/2026This morning, I spotted a Cybertaxi while talking to our builders. I've been seeing Waymo cars around for the better part of a year, but I didn't realize Tesla was testing Philadelphia too. Ugh. 020
Reposted by Matt DunphyWorkers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This quote from Jean-Paul Sartre was about antisemites, but good God does it also apply to the anti-trans witch hunt crowd. 12910
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 23/09/2026It makes me happy to see Nathan Fielder hit a stride like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_...youtube.comYou Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24YouTube video by A24 010
Reposted by Matt Dunphylauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026you ever think about how the people who responded the worst to a generational black swan public health crisis have decided the best thing to do is make sure we have more of them 17859103
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 23/09/2026I sometimes wonder who will be around in the future to analyze the confluence of social media and mental illness. The way schizophrenics found a community of sorts around Gang Stalking, or the ability to grow a global audience from rantings that otherwise got you kicked out of social settings IRL. 230
Reposted by Matt DunphyK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We can only lmao 252127247
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 20/09/2026Philadelphia sure does love fireworks. I was hanging outside on Friday when the tell-tale booms echoed across the sky. It really is amazing what kind of pictures you can take from a modern mobile phone. 030
Reposted by Matt DunphyAnnemarie Dooling @travelinganna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The number of new independent newsrooms is encouraging, but we wont survive as little entities. Yet the ways to work together are unclear beyond sharing ideas and tools 011
Reposted by Matt DunphyAnnemarie Dooling @travelinganna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Big publishers have entire jobs that partner with platforms to get their content ahead of everyone else, and jobs that focus on getting grants, even though they are for-profit entities. 111
Reposted by Matt DunphyAnnemarie Dooling @travelinganna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Because the means of distributing information are narrowing, that wealthy class will always have the upper hand in getting their news products out to larger audiences over independent publishers 111
Reposted by Matt DunphyAnnemarie Dooling @travelinganna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The latest wave of media layoffs is extremely disheartening, but will keep happening while the executive class is in control of media. While we give power to execs and creators from wealthy backgrounds, information will always be something to drive revenue and not community utility. 111
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 18/09/2026Today someone from my neighborhood Facebook group reached out to ask if they could hire me to do freelance photography for a big exhibit opening next year. And a friend asked if I would compose music for a big puppetry show being put on in a future Newburgh Fringe Festival. It's a good day. 050
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 17/09/2026Tech Partner: "does 2:30pm EST work for you today?" Colleague: "Sent a calendar invite for 3pm EST" Tech Partner: "Great! Might need another session in case 30 minutes isn't enough" Maybe I'm overreacting but I hhhhaaaaaatttttteeee this 200
Reposted by Matt DunphyWanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Another reminder that piracy is the archive 031
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 15/09/2026Instead of opting out yet again, I replied asking if the business was compliant with CCPA and GDPR "right to delete" legislation and requested they confirm with their security and compliance officer, because this email is me giving formal notification. 110
Reposted by Matt DunphyTamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at. 6072002552
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 13/09/2026@nincatalog.com Check out the detail shots of the ol' faux fur tunic up on eBay: www.ebay.com/itm/31865422...ebay.comRare Limited Nine Inch Nails NIN Faux Fake Fur Tunic Shirt/Sweater New With Tag | eBayRustic tunic with the NIN logo embroidered in black thread on the back of the tunic. The tunic is close to a holy grail as far as rarity is concerned and you almost never on the market. See the last two screenshots of both catalogs referencing the tunic. 010
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 12/09/2026Hearing an unusual plane fly overhead and then going to globe.adsbexchange.com to find out what it is (a T6 Texan in this instance) is still pretty neat to me.globe.adsbexchange.comADS-B Exchange - track aircraft liveADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live - aircraft flight history 110
Reposted by Matt Dunphyderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵 14863191034
Reposted by Matt DunphyRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 12/09/2026Rarely do you have to hand it to Instagram, but they’re having a time in the comments on the official The Three Stooges 9/11 post 46411
Reposted by Matt DunphyMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Baltimore Sun, who canned longtime cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher last year for "ultra-liberal" politics, now runs unauthored AI cartoons showing citizens thanking their mayor for everything he does. editorialcartoonists.com/an-open-lett...editorialcartoonists.comAn Open Letter to the Publisher and Editors of the Baltimore Sun from the AAEC - AAECOn September 4, 2026, The Sun published what can only technically be called an “illustration” it intended its readers to accept as an editorial cartoon. Whatever the intent, the only message The Sun ... 1030682
Reposted by Matt DunphyRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 11/09/2026When cries for war and "revenge" and more military and more security came from the FOX News crowd in parts of the country that hated New York and were under zero threat of ever facing a terrorist attack themselves, NYC was marching in protest in the same streets we mourned in: 0798
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 11/09/2026A fairly obscure band I'm super into is re-releasing their small 25-year-old catalog and remastering it along the way. I'm excited about this, except the first album they've put out is remixed, not just remastered - and it sounds objectively worse. They've sucked the bass out and added saturation 110
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 11/09/2026I'm no genius, but one of the more demoralizing things about being in my 20s through the early 2000s was yelling and making noise about how the government was very obviously doing bad things; watching national media downplay the protests and the opposition, then seeing it all play out badly anyway. 110
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 09/09/2026I stopped wearing a watch after buying my first Nokia phone BACK IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY and I'm never, ever going back. 110
Reposted by Matt DunphyK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026psychotic software is made by psychotic people 0533
Reposted by Matt Dunphyjon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026When I say that Meta doesn't seem particularly motivated to take these videos down, I really mean it: 329636
Reposted by Matt Dunphyjon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i... 431527697
Reposted by Matt DunphyInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You asked, we answered: Now in more colorways! 231812569
Reposted by Matt DunphyEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026OpenAI claimed their model had a breakthrough in a longstanding mathematical problem, but this scientist says that they basically stole his work 9375134
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 08/09/2026Heard a car alarm go off, and when I saw the guy slip out and go for a second car, my instinct was to yell instead of call 911. Maybe I should have called the cops first, but maybe I stopped more damage and theft than if I waited the ten minutes it took for the police to get here. 121
Reposted by Matt Dunphycaroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️ 70149113710
Reposted by Matt DunphyEm, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Please read this whole thread. It’s a very good depiction of how community care looks right now. Please be ready to show the same care. 14706435
Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 05/09/2026Hey, I'm Matt. I've spent my life avoiding becoming a tech bro while doing that kind of work, and stumbled into archaeology as a side quest. In Nine Inch Nails' "The Way Out Is Through" at 2:50, the song explodes with energy. Would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like? 120
Reposted by Matt DunphyElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!jamanetwork.comCOVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory SeasonThis Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o... 17267512669
Reposted by Matt DunphyNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026static.klipy.comLucy Liu as Simone Grove: Clutch ChestALT: Lucy Liu as Simone Grove: Clutch Chest 1131723
Reposted by Matt DunphyRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 03/09/2026If you are somewhere in the Venn diagram of industrial music nerd and graphic design nerd, you might be interested in this book project on Kickstarter. They interviewed me a while back for it so it will apparently include some of my work and commentary. Looking forward to it!kickstarter.comIndustrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a MovementIndustrial music built a visual language as confrontational as its sound—Throbbing Gristle to Nine Inch Nails, told by its designers. 410333
Reposted by Matt DunphyMary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If you think we’re gonna de-MAGAfy the US, or knock down the ballroom or arch, or any of that, take a look at Penn State www.inquirer.com/college-spor...inquirer.comPenn State announces new ‘Paterno Family Football Experience Room’Some are questioning the decision to name an exhibit after the longtime coach who ultimately left the university in disgrace. 171
