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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

fake ass MIT "researcher"

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

to be fair, record-breaking losses on digital assets are a terrific way to launder money

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Nice. In spite of the reckless policies enacted by the current administration, many rural farmers likely cannot fathom voting for a Democrat - it's almost counter to their identity. I wonder how we might change this perception in Western Illinois.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Well, then I'm surprised they hadn't implemented nationality-based restrictions.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

surprised they rolled it out as they did without anticipating the need to first enforce jurisdiction-based restrictions. unless it was intentional.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

let's see how that works out, going after *checks notes* the most popular person in America

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

reminds me of haskell for some reason

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

his lack of self-awareness when referencing the "decadence" of society is too much

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

should be illegal for senior citizens to own printers. too advanced tech.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Cheers. "Lock in" was not quite the right term. I think of it as designing my pipelines and processes such that they can easily benefit as more powerful models or agentic patterns emerge. We are certainly spending a good amount of time decomposing those workflows into suitably granular tasks.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Is this primarily about avoid vendor lock-in? What are your other recommendations? I am very much interested, as someone running such an ensemble.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Wikipedia says Mr. Elbridge Colby identifies "as a realist". Mr. Colby also grew up the son of an investment banker expat in Tokyo.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I run thousands of Japanese shareholding filings through a schema'd LLM for activist intent classification, but only after a regex pre-filter skips the 93% that are rubber-stamp boilerplate. I see regex before an LLM call, and I think someone's not asleep at the wheel.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

"I've got loads of gripes...and a product to sell you!"

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is some sort of archetypal projection setup in the service of commerce, right? He's schilling some product, I presume.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

An analyst agent builds investment theses, a skeptic challenges each one with researched counter-points, an outlook agent synthesizes both sides. Point it at a ticker. github.com/matthelmer/kabu-agent www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDQ...

github.com

GitHub - matthelmer/kabu-agent: Agentic research on Japanese equities. Competing analysts produce investment theses from regulatory filings.

Agentic research on Japanese equities. Competing analysts produce investment theses from regulatory filings. - matthelmer/kabu-agent

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

One of my core use-case for LLMs is investment research. I'm investing in Japanese equities. 3,800+ listed companies, most with zero sell-side coverage. The filings exist in Japanese, in a format almost nobody parses. I open-sourced the research system patterns I use. Demo + repo below.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I donated to your campaign more times than I can recall, and would support you again at the drop of a hat. Thank you for standing up and fighting for the good and just.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I will prioritize accordingly, thanks for the tip!

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Would love to hear Paul reflect on this experience

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This man went to my high school (Quincy, IL) and graduated the year above me. IIRC, he was QB of the football team, a wrestler and probably homecoming king, before deploying. Seemed like everyone liked him. Not surprised to see him doing this. I'm donating to him, for sure.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My dad bought a pinto for like $250 in 1991, i wanna say. He told my sister and me it was a "sports car". No fatalities and five years later, he sold it for ~$200.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I'm a simple man, I'll probably die with my "tmux+vim-as-IDE" setup, even with claude code as my daily driver. am i doing it wrong?

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The way he says "For what?", with a very slight smile beginning to form on his face (his tell that he's lying), before he puts on the actor mask...yep, that's the type of guy.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Looking to get one of those "bought this after he went crazy" stickers for my Toyota

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

How were all these early bitcoin aficionados so terrible at encrypting their emails? I'm glad they were, but did they not read Cryptonomicon?

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

fucking crying watching this giant of a man

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Returning from a visit to view Lee's armies in spring 1864, Lincoln's party passed a brigade of black soldiers, who came "screaming, yelling, shouting: 'Hurrah for the Liberator; Hurrah for the President.'" Lincoln was moved to tears, "his voice so broken by emotion that he could hardly reply".

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Where can a honest, hard-working, non-nazi-supporting American park their retirement dough these days without their brokerage turning into a charlatan supporter? Not happy about that, Fidelity.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"kinetic action" is a euphemism for unauthorized, 'just trust me bro' military strikes, right? just to be clear.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This guy needs to show his face in public a lot more.

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Terrific insight. Both his insecure, vertical-oriented worldview, and his subtle attempt at flattery coming through: "you've been so kind, and yes, you do have a little power (but not as much as me)"

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Do you know whether the AI founder was attacked because of his work? I heard about that. It was awful and inexcusable. Was it targeted?

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

why is joe so obsessed with masculinity? curious

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matt @matth217.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Found myself in the top 0.8% of Dwight Yoakam listeners this year. So you could say it's been a good year.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Thought-provoking. Forgive me, but believing things are exactly as they seem sounds like an enormous effort. Reality feels overwhelmingly complex. People get seduced into private myths for the comfort and certainty, even if they are trying _really_ hard. Business models farm that vulnerability..

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Apparently the requirements for positions of leadership were not what the school leaders thought when they took on the job. Cowards. They'd have a whole network of alumni standing with them if they showed a spine, like @katmabu.bsky.social does for Evanston.

matt @matth217.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

we got the ai+crypto double pump going on, writ large