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mattaukamp

@mattaukamp.bsky.social
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Writer, podcaster, "journalist", "comedian", cool friggin dude. I host the podcasts Save Your Game zencastr.com/Save-Your-Game and Every Folk Song everyfolksong.xyz.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4h
It's a classic case of privilege dependence discouraging enforcement of rules. “Greek life [alums] are far likelier than their non-Greek counterparts to donate to their institution—with 54% of [Greek alums] donating... as opposed to 10% of nonaffiliated alums.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
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Opinion | Abolish Frats (Gift Article)
As undergraduates, we led a movement to abolish fraternities and sororities. Our story shows how challenging it is.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Mike Lacher @mikelacher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com
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Episode Ivy: A Biddy Blas Tale @episodeivy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Everyone in this story saying “I’m pro-union, but we don’t need one here”: There are 10^x of you at every American company. Literally nowhere is the exception. The fact that you think you’re better than your coworkers IS the leverage that the company is using against you and everyone else.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm not worried about that at all tbh. I think the real threat is that AI is being wildly overhyped and when the bubble pops, the economy crashes. Consumer costs skyrocket and wages drop while billionaire investors become trillionairres.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1000/1 odds that they leaked this intentionally to further the hype cycle.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is more AI hype. The industry feeds on negative feedback as much as positive AS LONG AS it furthers the myth that AI is ultra-powerful. AI is not smart enough to control the entire world like this. Though it does create vulnerabilities and failure points in any system its installed into.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...
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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When did everyone decide on the absolutely horrid term "Spoopy" and why were we not allowed to vote? I would've filibustered against "Spoopy" for 350 straight hours.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I should say, they cant ON THEIR OWN. They need our compliance. We have to stop complying.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They seek to control every single thing that gives us power - Representative Government, Charity, Art, Media, Communication - but they actually literally can't. We are each making choices that allow them to do this.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This growing wealth gap is like a modern form of Feudalism. And, like Feudalism, the power they have over us is an illusion. We allow it to happen because we are afraid of life without the benefits. But we should be more afraid of life with the drawbacks.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They use their power to circumvent Democracy and all other forms of communal decision-making. When the majority says "I dont want this," the Billionaire class says "We dont care."
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look, we cant be completely powerless against the Billionaire class. There are only around 3,000 of them and there are literally 8 BILLION of us.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"And 👏 we 👏 did 👏 nothing 👏 to 👏 stop 👏 it 👏."
Democrats
@TheDemocrats
A pro-Trump billionaire family now controls all of these platforms.
(image of the logos of all the media companies the Ellisons now own)
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Trump reacts to Ellisons' Paramount/Warner Bros. merger:

"Oh! I'm happy about that. It's great. They're terrific people."

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

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David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount.

Assets:

• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network

Film Rights:

• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.
Deadline&
@DEADLINE
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last minute
effort to halt Paramount's merger with Warner Bros.
Discovery, a transaction that is scheduled to close on
Tuesday.
See more details here: deadline.com/2026/10/paramo..
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cowardice. Pure cowardice. Not a single person on Earth was unclear on what Trump meant.
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 07/10/2026
The Kotick news is so dire this part didn’t even register at first. We’re truly entering the Insult-to-Injury era of the American entertainment industry’s destruction.
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed
Kotick's spot on the new board, which was disclosed in a new SEC filing, along vith philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair also joins as a board advisor. "I am delighted to welcome Laurene and Bobby to our Board and honored to have Tony join us as an Advisor," Ellison said. "Bobby led a global…
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
John Fetterman looks like Zach Snyder tried a little too hard to make one of his villains look comics-accurate.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That the largest entertainment corporation in history is deathly afraid of anything experimental and will absolutely destroy a piece of art to preserve their status quo.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Shorter version of the linked article but written by the original authors is here: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/ai-...
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AI is distorting archaeology and flattening Indigenous Knowledge
While artificial intelligence can help archaeologists, it can also spread pseudoscientific claims and false histories, stripping Indigenous knowledge of context, consent and community control, say Uni...
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sadly, the only thing I would ever want tp use AI for is one thing that AI could never do in a million years. And that is tell me what percentage of ironic vs sincere the internet's reaction to a thing is.
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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Obviously having your game erroneously banned for daring to suggest that adults sometimes have sex is an absolute nightmare. Particularly the week before launch! But...I have to admit that playing a vampire in a game deemed "too sexy for Steam" might be the coolest I've ever been.
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Upcoming vampire RPG Nighthawks has been removed from Steam search and delisted in certain countries as Valve classifies it Adults Only: 'It's very bad news for us'
The label "immediately makes the game persona non grata in several important countries like Germany".
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 13/09/2026
We are aware that Steam has classified Nighthawks as an adult game and has excluded it from searches (and delisted it entirely in certain countries). We are working on it. Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier than it actually is.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This was not the case. Before Trump, there had never been a more polarizing president than GWB. Half the country were screaming for the blood of any Middle-Eastern-looking person. Conspiracy theories about the govt being behind the attacks started day one. America was fractured, maybe forever.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Charlie Kirk would've loved 9/11 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
oooh! I knew a S03 was coming but I didn't know there was gonna be a new CLE! @juliaminamata.bsky.social this rules! congrats!
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oop. No thanks. Unfollow :)
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
how bad will sales have to be before Insomniac is like "Fine, we'll put it on Steam."
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's so funny that they made Wolverine a PS5 exclusive, thinking, "This will bring the PC gamers back to consoles!!" and then it's like 3/5*, "Fine", 4.5/10, 6/10, 70%, "Average"
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Puke is already a Halloween Name @puke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cat factory meme, but the cat has a badly drawn Wolverine mask. Text reads: I hope I don't have to insert my claws in any heads today

In the background is the claws in heads factory
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
9/10 - Please Forget.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The President offered voters money to vote for particular candidates. That's so blatantly and extremely illegal and has been since the founding of the country. And he'll get away with it. He's the country's special boy for whom rules do not apply.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How about we make 2027 the year when all game developers (at least the good ones) don't release any new games, so we can all catch up on our Steam libraries? And we don't have to go to work for the whole year either.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
by artist Ginny Robbins
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wtf its like every single one of these guys.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
while milo gets to chit chat on TV with clear access to safety and basic needs, the US is flying untold numbers of immigrants to unsafe countries of origin or other countries where they don't speak the language or know anyone.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.
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Clyde Barnchaser @clydebarnchaser.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In all, 121 people were kidnapped. That’s three busloads.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Jon Ronson: Normal. Likely happy. Well adjusted. Successful. Prestigious. Graham Linehan: Miserable. Angry. Divorced. Unemployed. Disgraced. But sure, its Ronson who has been corrupted by toxic ideology.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
So Hanania is saying that identifying with women in fiction is a necessarily sexual act?? Is he saying he's in danger of getting autogynephilia when he reads The Diary of Anne Frank?
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I went to a Buccee's for the first time a few months ago. They have like 75 different types of sandwiches and not one of them has a vegetable on it.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My 2-year-old daughter just came up to me and asked if Dolly Parton and Tim Curry are doing the Black Panther salute with RBG in Heaven now 😭😭😭😭😭
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Exactly. 79 -> 81. Problem solved.
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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I just simply won't turn 80, then.
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